New releases for your streaming pleasure: May 24-30

New releases for your streaming pleasure: May 24-30

12 new titles from Apple TV+, Netflix, HBO Go and Prime Video

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
New releases for your streaming pleasure: May 24-30

Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!

APPLE TV+

Platonic 

Premieres on May 24

A platonic pair of former best friends approaching midlife (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne), who reconnect after a long rift. The duo’s friendship becomes all consuming — and destabilises their lives in a hilarious way.


NETFLIX

The Ultimatum: Queer Love

Premieres on May 24

Hosted by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, the show follows each unsure couple as they get brutally honest with one another, date other people in an attempt to figure out what they really want and potentially choose another partner altogether. Of course, there’s always the chance they’ll end up choosing themselves, too — and no matter what future is in store, it’s sure to be a wild ride along the way. 

Fubar

Premieres on May 25

When a father and daughter learn that they’ve each secretly been working as CIA Operatives for years, they realise their entire relationship has been a lie and they truly don’t know one another at all. Forced to team up as partners, the series tackles universal family dynamics set against a global backdrop of spies, action and humour.

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Premieres on May 26

This complex portrait of the incomparable Whitney Houston follows the singer's stunning ascent from New Jersey choir girl to international superstar.

Blood & Gold

Premieres on May 26

At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.

Blue Thermal

Premieres on May 27

Forced to join her university's gliding team after a mishap, it’s the last place Tamaki wants to be — until she falls in love with the open blue sky.

Siren: Survive The Island

24 female police officers, firefighters, bodyguards, soldiers, athletes and stuntwomen team up by profession to compete for survival on a remote island.

Agency

Premieres on May 30

A self-made executive navigates the cutthroat world of advertising, stopping at nothing — no matter how calculating — to become the head of her agency. Dramas.


HBO/HBO GO

Margaux

Premieres on May 27

A group of college friends rent a smart house for a weekend of partying. However, they slowly start to realise that Margaux, the house's super advanced AI system, has sinister designs for them. Stars Madison Pettis, Vanessa Morgan, Jedidiah Goodacre, Phoebe Miu, Jordan Buhat and Richard Harmon.

Reality

Premieres on May 30

On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home to question her suspected role in the mishandling of classified information. Based on true events, the film’s dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense and transfixing conversation. Stars Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton and Marchánt Davis.


PRIME VIDEO

Tid Noi

Premieres on May 25

The legendary story of Mae Nak Phra Khanong told through the eyes of Tid Noi, Mae Nak's next door neighbour, who is secretly in love with her.

Bones And All

Premieres on May 31

A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.


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