Things to stream
IF YOU HAVE 100 MINS
Inkabi Netflix
Norman Maake directs this action drama about a former hitman trying to start a new life as a taxi driver who is drawn back into the dark world of his past when he tries to help a young woman, a witness to a murder. A gritty and violent action thriller that touches on a topic close to the bone in present-day South Africa.
Manhunt Apple TV +
Creator Monica Beletsky adapts the nonfiction book by James L Swanson about the aftermath of the assassination of US president Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the nationwide manhunt for his killer, Confederate loyalist and middling actor John Wilkes Booth. Starring Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone and Lili Taylor, it’s an engaging period drama that, in its focus on an explosive and ideologically divided period in American history, has a gaze firmly fixed on the present.
Time Season 2 Showmax
Jimmy McGovern’s Bafta-winning series about the difficult realities of prison life returns for a second season and focuses its empathetic attention on the struggles of women in British jails. A disparate group of women from different walks of life, arrested for different offences, find themselves drawn together as they fight to survive their time.
IF YOU HAVE 3 HOURS
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Disney Plus South African “Swifties” may not be getting the chance to see their idol in the flesh any time soon but they can enjoy the next best thing as the megastar’s concert film, directed by Sam Wrench and enjoying its status as the highest-grossing concert film of all time, arrives in living rooms for endless singalongs, rewatching and general idolatry.
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War Netflix
Using Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer” as a springboard, this epic documentary series charts the rise of the Cold War in the wake of the detonation of atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, through to its official end in the late 1980s. It also casts an eye into the present to examine the ways in which the battle between the US and the Soviet Union has influenced relations and policies in the post-Cold War era.