Caught Stealing — Rent or buy from Apple TV+
Director Darren Aronofsky goes back to New York in the 1990s in this stylish heist caper starring Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Regina King and Matt Smith. Butler plays Hank, a one-time pro baseball contender who has a pretty good life tending bar at a New York dive, hanging out with his girl and staying out of trouble. When his punk-rocker neighbour asks him to look after his cat for a few days, Hank finds himself the focus of a motley gang of gangsters looking for something he doesn’t know anything about.
Mr. Scorsese — Apple TV+
Director Rebecca Miller puts 82-year-old American film legend Martin Scorsese in front of the camera for this three-part docuseries that tells the story of the director’s life and seminal film creations with help from its subject as well as his peers, regular collaborators, ex-wives and children. The series presents an artist driven by his passion for the movies from childhood, who has managed to create his own varied and wide-ranging cinematic output, despite the many obstacles he has faced. Sit back enjoy the journey and then get ready to rewatch — with new eyes — all the Scorsese films you can find.
The Perfect Neighbor — Netflix
Made almost entirely using police body-cam footage, director Geeta Gandbhir’s documentary — much talked about and acclaimed on its screening at Sundance this year — follows the escalation of a neighbourhood disagreement in Florida to its fatal conclusion. The big issues are around racism and the state’s “stand your ground” laws, but the ones that hit the hardest are on the micro-level, where the way disputes are resolved leaves children without their mothers and friends grieving.
Annie Hall — Prime Video
With the death of Diane Keaton earlier this week, there’s no better reason to revisit perhaps her most iconic role. Playing a character inspired by her and written for her by her then-boyfriend, Woody Allen, Keaton made her mark as a comic performer with a singular fashion sense as Allen’s charming, complicated and ever-changing love interest.
To Cook a Bear — Disney Plus
It’s off to the cold, bleak fields of 19th-century northern Sweden in this dark period murder mystery series. When the body of a young woman is found in a bog, the local villagers determine the culprit must be a killer bear and set about trying to find and kill the animal before it does any further damage, only to realise that the threat may be a man rather than a beast.
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