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A three-part insight into the life and career of rapper, producer and businessman Kanye West (below). It features previously unseen footage captured over the past 20 years and looks back at his achievements and personal life, including the death of his mother. The programme apparently cost Netflix $30m, so it had better be special. From Wednesday
SEVERANCE
APPLE TV+ THRILLER
Mark Scout (Adam Scott) works at the mysterious Lumon Industries. He and his colleagues have undergone a controversial ‘severance’ procedure: in the office they can’t remember their non-work life, and as soon as they leave work, they can’t remember exactly what it is they do in the office. But then someone claiming to be a former colleague approaches Mark outside the office and tells him that everything he thinks he knows about Lumon is wrong. An intriguing Ben Stillerdirected thriller with elements of black comedy and surrealism. From Friday
PETITE MAMAN MUBI FILM
Another triumph from Céline Sciamma, the brilliant writer/ director of Portrait Of A Lady
On Fire. After the death of her grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly’s parents take her with them when they go to clear the house. Nelly is playing in the woods behind her grandmother’s home when she meets, and quickly becomes friends with, Marion, a girl of her own age who is building a wooden shelter. Marion seems strangely familiar… Twins Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz star as the two girls in this enchanting and moving French fable with a swiftly
revealed fantasy twist. An instant classic about childhood. From Friday
SPACE FORCE NETFLIX COMEDY
The first series of the workplace comedy, from The Office US creator Greg Daniels, about the newest branch of the American military (yes, Space Force is a real thing) received ‘mixed’ reviews but was not without its fans. In the second season, General Naird (Steve Carrell) has five months to prove himself capable of leading Space Force. If he fails, the president will have him replaced. And Naird also has to make swingeing budget cuts. John Malkovich returns as the general’s science adviser. From Friday
SPENCER
SKY STORE MOVIE
If you’re looking for a royal drama in the style of The Crown, keep looking. This arthouse movie with a screenplay by Peaky Blinders’ creator, is more psychological horror than historical saga, as much fantasy as it is biography. It’s an imagining of Princess Diana’s experience of an awful Christmas at Sandringham with the royal family, a few days that leave her on the edge of a breakdown. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but Oscarnominated Kristen Stewart (below) is great as Diana and there’s an evocative score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Available now
THE FRENCH DISPATCH
DISNEY+ MOVIE
Allusive auteur Wes Anderson has delivered yet another wonderfully crafted, idiosyncratic comedy, this time an anthology focusing on three different tales linked by the French bureau of a fictional American newspaper whose staff are preparing its valedictory edition. Owen Wilson (above), Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Timothée
Chalamet, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz and Saoirse Ronan are among the allstar cast in what is an exquisite affair, if not quite up there with Anderson’s very best work. From
Wednesday
KIMI SKY/NOW FILM
Director Steven Soderbergh has said his new film is a mix of the paranoia classic The Conversation, Hitchcock’s Rear Window and David Fincher’s Panic Room. Zoe Kravitz plays an agoraphobic tech worker whose company won’t accept that she has found evidence of a violent crime. From Saturday
ONE MISSISSIPPI DISNEY+ COMEDY
Oscar-winning writer Diablo
Cody and acclaimed US stand-up Tig Notaro teamed up to create this dark comedy, which is loosely based on the latter’s own experiences. Notaro also takes the lead role, playing Tig Bavaro (see what she did there?), a cancer survivor who leaves her job as an LA radio host to return home to small-town Mississippi after learning that her mother is ill. Both series are being made available. From Wednesday