Things to stream

IF YOU HAVE 2HOURS The Kitchen Netflix

Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya and architect turned filmmaker Kibwe Tavares co-direct this dystopian thriller set in 2040 London. Kane “Kano” Robinson stars as Izi, an ex-criminal looking to escape the stifling world of rising house prices, computerised labour and the destruction of the welfare state that have turned the city into a paradise for the uber-rich at the expense of its working-class citizens. When he’s forced to be part of what he believes is one last heist in order to save his son, a chain of events is set off that will change his life and the lives of his neighbourhood, The Kitchen, forever.

IF YOU HAVE 2HOURS The Favourite Netflix

As director Yorgos Lanthimos’s much-hypedfor-awards-season film ‘Poor Things’ arrives in cinemas this week, his previous Oscarnominated, dark period comedy about the rivalry between Queen Anne (Olivia Coleman) and her viciously cunning servant Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) is well worth a revisit.

2HOURS IF YOU HAVE May December Apple TV +

Todd Haynes’s deliciously tone-shifting black comedy drama stars Natalie Portman as an actress shadowing Julianne Moore, a woman who was once the subject of lurid tabloid coverage as the much older partner in a sex scandal involving her relationship with a teenage boy. Twenty years later and the actress’s arrival finds the couple living their not-so-ordinary lives as the parents of teenagers about to graduate. Her investigation, in preparation for an upcoming film of the affair, sets a cat among the pigeons.

IF YOU HAVE 6HOURS Cristóbal Balenciaga Disney Plus

A glossy six-part drama about the life and times of the famously reticent post-war Spanish designer who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the world’s most sought-after and admired creators of clothes for the rich and famous. Starring Alberto San Juan.

IF YOU HAVE 8 HOURS The Artful Dodger Disney Plus

A smart Australian set-period adventure that takes up the story of Oliver Twist rogue Jack Dawkins, aka The Artful Dodger, 15 years after the events of Charles Dickens’s novel. Now living in Australia, where he’s reinvented himself as a surgeon, Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) is on the road to respectability when a visit from his old boss Fagin (David Thewlis) threatens to undo the honest good work he’s done to escape his past.