Things to stream
By Tymon Smith
IF YOU HAVE 90
MINUTES
Burton and Taylor Britbox
Richard Laxton’s 2013 film benefits from focusing on a late-period moment between one of the 20th century’s most famous and observed celebrity couples — Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor — during a 1983 production of Noel Coward’s play Private Lives that, thanks to excellent performances from Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, offers a tender portrait of their deep affection for each other in the later part of their lives.
IF YOU HAVE 110 MINUTES
Sidney Apple TV+
Reginald Hudlin’s documentary pays tribute to the amazing life and exceptional abilities of the legendary Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best actor Oscar in 1964, who died in January. With a little help from some of the biggest names in black entertainment including Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry and Spike Lee, Hudlin offers a solid celebration of a man who changed the world for the better.
IF YOU HAVE 3 HOURS
The Real Bling Ring Netflix
They were the subject of a celebrated magazine article and a Sofia Coppola film based on their exploits. Now the members of the notorious Bling Ring gang who made a name for themselves breaking into the houses of celebrities in the 2000s get the full docuseries treatment in this three-part account of their rise and fall that gives audiences access to the original members of the group.
IF YOU HAVE 6 HOURS
Thai Cave Rescue Netflix
The second in a recent series of dramatisations of the story that gripped the world in 2018 when the 12 members of a Thai boys’ soccer team and their coach were trapped for two weeks in a flooded cave. This version is told over six episodes and created by Thai writers and directors and offers a wide-ranging portrait of how the incident affected the boys and their families.
IF YOU HAVE 10 HOURS
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Netflix Ryan Murphy and Evan Peters bring the story of the notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to chilling, Hitchcock-inspired life in this dramatisation which tells the story of his monstrous years of killing from the perspective of his victims and the inept Wisconsin law enforcement agencies that failed to stop him when they should have.