Four to watch this week
Extrapolations (8 episodes, streaming from March 17 exclusively on Apple TV+)
The devasting impact of climate change informs an anthology series of eight interwoven stories from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z Burns.
The first three instalments premiere this week and subsequent chapters open on successive Fridays.
In a bleak near future, humanity has almost run out of time to save the planet from rising temperatures and flood waters.
Courage locks horns with complacency as the clock ticks down on mankind’s future and life-altering choices must be made to keep hope alive in the face of destructive environmental events.
The starry ensemble cast includes Meryl Streep, Edward Norton, Kit Harington, Tobey Maguire, Sienna Miller, Keri Russell, Daveed Diggs, Diane Lane, Marion Cotillard and Forest Whitaker.
Filmed on location in and around Sydney, Class Of ’07 is a valentine to the enduring power of female friendships written and directed by Kacie Anning.
Former students of Ridge Heights Catholic Ladies College nervously gather for a 10-year reunion including Zoe (Emily
Browning), who hopes to make it through the evening without embarrassing herself.
Tribal cliques and rivalries are resurrected until the students discover that the rest of Australasia has been submerged beneath a massive tidal wave.
The college’s hilltop location is the only dry land as far as the eye can see.
Faced with the end of the world, Zoe and former classmates including Amelia (Megan Smart) must heal old wounds and rapidly develop survival skills to make it alive to their next class reunion.
Swarm (7 episodes, streaming from March 17 exclusively on Prime Video)
Fan worship veers into dark and disturbing territory in a sevenpart horror created by Atlanta star Donald Glover and Janine Nabers.
Dre (Dominique Fishback) is a die-hard acolyte of superstar pop diva Ni’Jah (Nirine S Brown), who frequently makes headlines with her music maven husband Cache (Stephen Glover).
Although the rent is due,
Dre has reached the maximum spending limit on her credit card buying Ni’Jah concert tickets, to the dismay of her best friend Marissa (Chloe Bailey).
The devoted fan embarks on a haphazard cross-country odyssey filled with dangerous situations, that test her unerring devotion to her musical idol.
Class Of ’07 (8 episodes, streaming from March 17 exclusively on Prime Video)
Marlowe (Cert 15, 109 mins, streaming from March 17 exclusively on Now)
Michael Collins director Neil Jordan reunites with lead actor Liam Neeson for a neo-noir crime thriller based on John Banville‘s novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, which premieres on Sky Cinema and streams exclusively on Now.
Private detective Phillip Marlowe (Neeson) is drawn into the violent underbelly of 1930s Los Angeles at the behest of Clare Cavendish (Kruger).
She hires Marlowe to find her ex-boyfriend and a supposedly open and shut case reveals a cesspit of vice, desire and betrayal.
Clare’s mother, legendary Hollywood actress Dorothy Quincannon (Lange), nightclub owner Floyd Hanson (Danny Huston) and chauffeur Cedric (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) are entangled in the rapidly deepening mystery.