We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
Shrek: Kātahi Te Korokē (TVNZ+, June 20)
Shrek has been dubbed into more than 40 languages, but Shrek: Kātahi Te Korokē marks the first time a DreamWorks Animation title has been adapted into an indigenous language. Hot on the heels of several te reo Māori versions of Disney’s beloved animated films, the adaptation is helmed by Tainui Stephens and stars the renowned musician and actor Maaka Pohatu as the titular gruff green ogre and Te Puaheiri Snowden as his wisecracking donkey sidekick. Experience the side-splitting, gross-out fairy tale like never before.
Olympo (Netflix, June 20)
From the producers of the cult-favourite Élite, one of Netflix’s longest-running original shows, comes salacious teen drama Olympo. At CAR Pirineos, a prestigious Spanish high performance sports institute, Clara Galle’s best friend and teammate collapses, leading the star synchronised swimmer to suspect that her fellow elite athletes are taking extreme risks to succeed. A scorching blend of Euphoria and Challengers, Olympo is sure to make a splash in your watchlist.
Heat (TVNZ+, June 17)
With the recent passing of Val Kilmer, and rumours swirling about a long-awaited sequel, now is the time to watch Heat, Michael Mann’s three hour neo-noir crime epic. Widely considered the greatest heist film of all time, the high stakes cat-and-mouse game marks the first time two Hollywood legends ever appeared on screen together. There’s Robert De Niro, a professional thief hoping to pull off one last heist before he retires to Aotearoa and Al Pacino, the Los Angeles police lieutenant tasked with stopping him. Often imitated, never duplicated, Heat is sure to deliver the goods.
We Were Liars (Prime Video, June 18)
Described as a “tragic love story and an amnesia thriller”, the small-screen adaptation of E. Lockhart‘s best-selling young adult novel follows a tight knit group of four affluent teenagers known as the Liars. Set on a secluded Massachusetts island owned by the Kennedy-like Sinclair family, Cadence Sinclair (Emily Alyn Lind) struggles to remember the details of a mysterious accident two years prior. Prompted by the other three Liars to piece together that fateful summer on the island, a sinister Sinclair secret slowly emerges from behind a veil of privilege.
The Waterfront (Netflix, June 19)
From Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson, the Ozark-esque The Waterfront charts the lives of the flailing Buckley family who resort to increasingly illicit means to keep their floundering fishing empire afloat. Inspired by outlandish true events and shot on location along the treacherous coasts of North Carolina (a.k.a the Graveyard of the Atlantic) Holt McCallany stars as the domineering patriarch and Topher Grace as an unnervingly chipper drug smuggler. Set sail with The Waterfront to see if blood is thicker than water.
Pick of the Flicks: The Crazies (2010) (Shudder, June 16)
The 2010 remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 film was originally described as missing a “trenchant sense of connection to our historical moment”, but with recent global events, The Crazies has been given a new lease on life. In a small Midwest American town, a military aircraft carrying a biological weapon crashes, infecting the water supply and turning the residents into blood hungry lunatics. With soldiers blockading the town to contain the spread of the infection, sheriff David (Timothy Olyphant) and his pregnant wife Judy (Radha Mitchell), must fight to survive or be devoured. Aging like fine wine, The Crazies defies the rule that horror remakes never work.
The rest
Netflix
Freelance (June 17)
Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem (June 17)
Kaulitz & Kaulitz: S2 (June 17)
YOLANTHE (June 18)
AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: S2 (June 18)
The Waterfront (June 19)
Olympo (June 20)
Semi-Soeter (June 20)
KPop Demon Hunters (June 20)
The Edge (June 20)
TVNZ+
The Secret Genius of Modern Life S2 (June 16)
Alien Addiction (June 17)
Heat (June 17)
Candyman (June 17)
21 Jump Street (June 17)
22 Jump Street (June 17)
Licorice Pizza (June 17)
Thirteen Lives (June 17)
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (June 17)
Women Talking (June 17)
Samaritan (June 17)
Deep Deception (June 19)
Shrek Te Reo (June 20)
Matariki Mā Puanga (June 20)
Small Town, Big Story (June 21)
The Marlow Murder Club (June 21)
Home Economics S1-S3 (June 22)
Airport Security USA (June 22)
ThreeNow
Boarders S2 (June 20)
Neon
Bugs Bunny Builders S2 (June 16)
The Actress (June 17)
Lost Monster Files S1 (June 18)
Charro! (June 18)
Swordfish (June 19)
Sicario (June 20)
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (June 20)
Sherri Papini: Caught In The Lie (June 21)
No Country For Old Men (June 22)
Prime Video
We Were Liars (June 18)
Promising Young Woman (June 19)
Ace (June 20)
Ground Zero (June 20)
Venom: The Last Dance (June 22)
Disney+
Frozen: The Musical (June 20)
The Incredible Hulk (June 20)
Apple TV+
The Buccaneers S2 (June 18)
Shudder/AMC+/Acorn/HIDIVE
The Addiction (Shudder, June 16)
The Crazies (2010) (Shudder, June 16)
The Stylist (Shudder, AMC+, June 16)
Hell Motel (Shudder, AMC+, June 17)
The Rule of Jenny Pen (Shudder, AMC+, June 20)