Three to watch this week...
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Cert
12, 126 mins, streaming from June 22 exclusively on Disney+)
Actions have consequences for Dr Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) after he forcibly opened a portal to other realms and allowed otherworldly beings to enter and corrupt our world.
Haunted by nightmares of impending doom, Strange seeks out former Avenger Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) to help repair the damage.
They are joined by fellow sorcerer Wong (Benedict Wong) and a disaffected teenager called America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), who can open doorways between dimensions.
Written by Michael Waldron and directed by Sam Raimi, who helmed the Tobey Maguireera Spider-Man trilogy, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness is an action-packed head trip that ricochets at disorienting speed between different realities.
The Umbrella Academy – Season 3 (10 episodes, streaming from June 22 exclusively on Netflix)
The dysfunctional children of eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) face the consequences of their actions in the third series of the fantasy adventure adapted from the pages of Dark Horse Comics.
Luther Hargreeves (Tom Hopper) and his siblings Diego (David Castaneda), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Klaus (Robert Sheehan), Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) and Viktor (Elliot Page) return home to the present day, convinced they have changed the future for the better and saved mankind.
Instead, they are confronted by a rival clan, the Sparrow Academy, led by Marcus Hargreeves (Justin Cornwell).
These pretenders include an alternate embodiment of their dead brother Ben (Justin H Min), who has no memory of the Umbrella Academy.
The bloodlines must work together to overcome a destructive new entity in the universe.
Spiderhead (Cert 15, streaming from June 17 exclusively on Netflix)
Two inmates of a state-ofthe-art penitentiary question their reality in a hallucinogenic thriller written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, which is based on George Saunders’s short story published in The New Yorker.
Helmed by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, Spiderhead stars Chris Hemsworth as Steve Abnesti, the visionary in charge of a new kind of prison without bars, cells or orange jumpsuits for the residents.
In exchange for commuted sentences, incarcerated volunteers at Spiderhead are surgically attached to devices that administers dosages of mind-altering drugs to moderate their behaviour.
Two test subjects, Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), form a strong emotional bond on the path to redemption.
This connection poses a threat to Abnesti’s grand experiment.