After a slow week, streaming releases have bounced back in a big way, led by the VOD debut of Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster hit Sinners, new Predator anthology movie Killer of Killers, Ben Affleck’s The Accountant sequel, and much more!
SERIES
Doc S1
9 June 2025 – Showmax
Another week, another medical drama series! Unlike most of its contemporaries though, Doc is based on an Italian series which, in turn, adapted a true story. Perennial standout Molly Parker plays Dr Amy Larsen, the chief of internal medicine at a Minneapolis hospital. After suffering a traumatic brain injury in a car accident, she wakes up with no memory of the past eight years. Molly needs to resume her career though, despite the fact that she’s forgotten key moments, including the breakdown of her marriage and eventual divorce, and the massive personal drama that had forced her to push all her colleagues and friends.
Doc was Fox’s best series debut in more than five years, and has already been renewed for a second season.
FUBAR S2
12 June 2025 – Netflix
I made it maybe four episodes into the first season of FUBAR, almost exclusively because I’m a huge fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger and was excited to see him lead his first TV series ever. The problem was that I found just about everything in the show to be terrible. So, imagine my surprise when I looked online and not only discovered that other people were actually liking FUBAR, but they were liking it enough that Netflix had actually renewed it for a second season. And now here we, as Arnie’s formerly about-to-retired CIA veteran Luke Brunner is back in the field after saving his daughter (who he found out was secretly also a CIA field operative, much to his dismay). Now new villains have popped up, including an old flame from Luke’s past who threatens to destroy the world…if she doesn’t destroy his life first.
MOVIES
Predator: Killer of Killers
6 June 2025 – Disney+
When Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey got released in 2022, not only was it one of the biggest surprises during the pandemic cinematic drought, it also breathed new life into the Predator franchise like nothing else before it. With it’s setting in the 18th century as a young Native American woman is forced to face off against the relentless alien hunter, it immediately kicked off a wave of fan ideas about setting Predator stories in various time periods throughout history. And Trachtenberg listened. Predator: Killer of Killers is a new original animated anthology film set in the Predator universe which follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause. But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers.
The Accountant 2
6 June 2025 – Prime Video
It always a little bit laughable when Ben Affleck turned autism into a killer superpower in 2016’s The Accountant. However, the action thriller about an autistic man who makes his living hiding the fraudulent fortunes of criminals – which sometimes means performing an assassination or three – was a moderate success both commercially and critically, and a sequel was announced pretty quickly. Hollywood being Hollywood though, the project got stuck in a bit of development hell as various ideas for it got thrown around, including a TV series and adapting a different, already written movie script, into this one. Eventually though, everybody got their proverbial ducks in a row and here we are. Here, being Prime Video, thanks to the fact that The Account 2 was released by Amazon MGM Studios which means it gets an early streaming release despite hitting cinemas just a little over a month ago. Affleck reprises his role as Christian Wolff who now finds himself compelled to solve the case of a murdered acquaintance. As Wolff starts asking the wrong questions and things rapidly spiral out of control, he is forced to recruit his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax (Jon Bernthal), to help. Together, they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becoming targets of a ruthless network of killers who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.
Straw
6 June 2025 – Netflix
I’m not a parent, but even I know that there are few things as traumatic as being powerless to do anything to help your ill child. In Straw, the new production from Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson plays a single mother whose world unravels in chaos as her day goes from bad to worse to catastrophic as she struggles to care for her ill daughter. Pushed to the brink by a world that seems indifferent to her existence, she’s forced to confront impossible choices in a society that offers her no safety net.
K.O.
6 June 2025 – Netflix
If you’re an MMA fan like I am, then Ciryl Gane should be no stranger to you. The dynamic French striker has been a mainstay in the upper ranks of the UFC, even briefly being the UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion. He hasn’t been very busy in the cage over the last few years though, and that may be because he was off making his first movie. K.O. is a new French action flick that stars Gane as Bastien, an ex-MMA fighter who has lived as a recluse ever since he accidentally killed his opponent Enzo in a professional bout three years ago. When Enzo’s teenage son, Léo (Maleaume Paquin), goes missing in the crime-ridden districts of Marseilles though, Enzo’s widow tracks down Bastien in desperation and asks for his help. Coincidentally meeting and teaming up with Kenza (Alice Belaïdi), a young cop who is prepared to do anything to bring down the new crime lords of Marseille, Bastien sets out to save Léo before time runs out.
Speak No Evil
9 June 2015 – Showmax
The latest Blumhouse Productions box office success, Speak No Evil is the work of writer/director James Watkins, who also gave us the fantastic gothic period horror The Woman in Black back in 2012. This one is contemporary though, and stars Scoot McNairy and McKenzie Davis as Ben and Louise Dalton, an American couple vacationing in Italy with their young daughter, who meet and befriend free-spirited British couple Paddy and Clara, played by James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi, and their son Ant. When the charming Paddy and Clara invite the Daltons to spend the weekend at their idyllic country estate in Devon, Britain, it’s a dream holiday come true. But what begins as a dream soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. Speak No Evil scored strong reviews when it hit cinemas in September and went on to earn $76.8 million off just a $15 million budget. And if you missed it then, you can now check it out at home.
Deep Cover
12 June 2025 – Prime Video
I have no idea how the release of a new action-comedy starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed, Sean Bean, Ian McShane, and Paddy Considine, with a screenplay by Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, somehow managed to sneak up on us, but I guess that’s fitting for a movie called Deep Cover. Howard stars as Kat, an improv comedy teacher beginning to question if she’s missed her shot at success. When an undercover cop (Bean) offers her the role of a lifetime, she recruits two of her students (Bloom and Mohammed) to infiltrate London’s gangland by impersonating dangerous criminals.
Longlegs
12 June 2025 – Showmax
One of the breakouts of the year, Longlegs took the horror world by storm to become distributor Neon’s highest-grossing film ever domestically, and the highest-grossing indie film overall for the year. This critically acclaimed film also boasts one of the most unnerving Nicolas Cage performances you will ever see as the titular villain, a satanic serial killer who somehow orchestrated several mass murders over decades without even being present for the crimes himself. Maika Monroe stars as Lee Harker, a socially awkward FBI agent with a seemingly supernatural gift for clairvoyance that may be the only person who stop the horrible Longlegs from killing again. As Noelle noted in her review, director Osgood Perkins (son of Psycho horror icon Anthony Perkins) “has a master’s grip on shot set-up and sound to cultivate a relentlessly ominous and uncomfortable mood” resulting in one of the most atmospheric horror films I’ve seen in ages.
VOD RENTALS/PURCHASES
The following movies have recently become available for digital purchase/rental:
Sinners
Purchase: Apple TV – R200
Rental: Apple TV – R170
In a time where it seemed almost impossible for original movies to survive much less thrive in a market dominated by franchises and adaptations, Ryan Coogler has gone and made it look easy. Sinners – which is an R-rated vampire movie set in the American South during the Jim Crow era, to boot – has been one of the biggest cinematic successes of recent years, earning itself incredible praise and box office profits. Profits, which it’s still continuing to make in theatres, which is why it’s a little surprising to already see it available for rental on VOD. I’m not complaining though, as I will happily rewatch this tour-de-force at home, as I absolutely loved it the first time. In my 8.5/10 review, I said that “Bolstered by a game cast led by a double dose of Michael B. Jordan (alongside a breakout performance from newcomer Miles Caton), writer-director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson’s latest collaboration is a genre-bending, awards-worthy thrill ride” which “stands as a commentary on the power of creative artistic freedom to transcend the horrors of our human history, while just also being a bloody good time.”
Novocaine
Purchase: Apple TV – R170
Rental: Apple TV – R45
Does your life leaving you feeling numb? Well, for Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), that is quite literal. Born with the rare condition CIPA (congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis), this mild-mannered and introverted assistant bank manager has spent his whole life playing it safe so as to not pick up an injury he would never even feel. When he finally decides to live a little after connecting with Sherry (Amber Midthunder), a coworker he has been romantically interested in for a while, he finds that he too can actually live a happy life. That is until the bank they work at is held up with the robbers killing their manager and taking Sherry hostage. Impulsively stealing a police car and chasing after the robbers himself, “Novocaine” now finds himself to somehow be Sherry’s best hope of rescue, using his lack of pain to push himself further than any normal pursue would, to crazy effect.
Old Guy
Purchase: Apple TV – R160
Rental: Apple TV – R45
When you’re a contract killer who relies on good aim, then arthritis in your hand is probably not good for your career. That’s the type of problems facing Danny (Christop Waltz), an aging professional hitman in the employ of a shadowy organization who is now staring at a long-overdue retirement against his will. When The Company puts him back into the field to train Gen Z newcomer Wihlborg (Cooper Hoffman), a prodigy assassin with an attitude, he is thrilled to still be working. Unfortunately for Danny, he finds his methods – and entire way of life – doesn’t quite agree with that Wihlborg.