Three to watch this week
Air (Cert 12, 91 mins, streaming from May 12 exclusively on Prime Video)
In 1984, Nike claims a 17% market share of global basketball sneaker sales, a distant third behind Adidas and Converse.
That year, basketball talent scout Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) proposes Nike should invest its entire annual 250,000 US dollar budget in one prospect: 21-year-old NBA rookie Michael Jordan.
This high-risk strategy is initially rejected by eccentric CEO Phil Knight (Ben Affleck) and vice president of marketing Rob Strasser (Jason Bateman).
Howard White (Chris Tucker), VP of basketball athlete relations, succinctly sums up the problem: “Nike is a jogging company. Black people don’t jog.”
Unperturbed, Vaccaro flouts protocols to speak directly to Michael’s parents Deloris (Viola Davis) and James (Julius Tennon) at their home in North Carolina.
Queer Eye 7 (7 episodes, streaming from May 12 exclusively on Netflix)
The transformative Emmy Award-winning reality series relocates from Austin, Texas, to New Orleans to meet residents in desperate need of a refresh or a restart.
Design expert Bobby Berk, culture guru Karamo Brown, stylist extraordinaire Tan France, food and wine specialist Antoni Porowski and grooming maestro Jonathan Van Ness rise to the challenge of polishing rough edges of their so-called heroes.
There is sparkle and sass aplenty as The Fab Five cocoon their deserving clients in positivity and celebrate the Louisiana city’s vibrant nightlife and cuisine.
Crater (Cert PG, 105 mins, streaming from May 12 exclusively on Disney+ )
Coming of age on the moon in 2257 is packed with adventure in a family-oriented drama written by John Griffin and directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez.
Caleb Channing (Isaiah Russell-Bailey) was born on the moon and has been raised by his father (Scott Mescudi) in a lunar mining colony alongside three best friends, Borney (Orson Hong), Dylan (Billy Barratt) and Marcus (Thomas Boyce).
Following the death of his father, Caleb is faced with relocation to a faraway planet so he decides to honour his parent’s dying wish and make an unsanctioned visit to a mysterious crater.
The four pals and a new arrival from Earth, Addison (Mckenna Grace), steal a lunar rover and embark on a momentous odyssey into the unknown.
City On Fire (8 episodes, starts streaming from May 12 exclusively on Apple TV+)
The shooting of a New York University student in 2003 in Central Park exhumes long-buried secrets of a circle of friends in a mystery thriller inspired by Garth Risk Hallberg’s acclaimed novel.
The first three episodes premiere this week and subsequent chapters are released on Fridays.
Samantha (Chase Sui Wonders) watches a friend’s band play at her favourite club before she leaves unexpectedly to meet someone.
She never returns and is found on the fourth of July, the victim of a shooting without any witnesses.
Close pal Charlie (Wyatt Oleff ), whose father died in the September 11 attacks two years earlier, promises to unravel the chain of events leading to Samantha’s attack and he links her to a series of citywide fires and a wealthy uptown real estate family.