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Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry Apple TV
Award-winning documentary director RJ Cutler takes a behind-the-scenes look at the path to global superstardom taken by teenage pop sensation Billie Eilish in the years leading up to her emergence from her parents’ house as a 17-year-old pop culture phenomenon upon the release of her 2019 album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? It’s an intriguing piece of musical biography that makes good use of its personal archive footage to create a picture of a woman who’s a household name but also in many ways still an ordinary American teenager dealing with the everyday challenges of adolescence.
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Soulmates Amazon Prime Video
A sometimes fascinating, sometimes frustrating anthology of stories set 15 years in the future, when scientists have made a discovery that will make the tough decision of who to spend the rest of your life with easier. Of course, matters of the heart are never solved as easily as we’d like and that’s what the six self-contained stories in this series show in their own particular ways. 6
IF YOU HAVE HOURS Behind Her Eyes Netflix
An out-there and sometimes bonkers adaptation of the 2017 bestselling novel by Sarah Pinborough. When a single mom gets a job in a psychiatrist’s office, she starts an affair with her boss that sends her on a journey through a psychological minefield in which she and the audience learn that nothing is what it seems and nobody can be trusted.
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Tribes of Europa Netflix Sometimes predictable but often tooconvoluted dystopian social drama set in the apocalyptic wasteland of 2074. When a global catastrophe ravages Europe and creates a battlefield of warring ministates, three siblings set out to try to change the fate of the continent in the face of terrifying obstacles.
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Dam Showmax
A chilling supernatural local thriller in which a young woman living in Chile returns to her Eastern Cape home to bury her father. When she inherits his farm she finds that things are not what they seem and strange forces are operating beneath the pictureperfect façade of her small town. Wellacted, eerily realised and intriguing, it’s a solid psychological horror that asks some tough questions about the relationships between the past and the present and their effect on shaping identity.