Monthly streaming guide: What’s new to watch on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney+, Netflix and on-demand

Celebrate Canada Day with a binge watch of several Canadian shows that have recently debuted or landed on streaming services, including Mohawk Girls and Band Ladies. In films, Spike Lee’s Netflix thriller Da 5 Bloods is just what you need to watch right now, while in comedies we’re liking Pete Davidson in The King of Staten Island over Will Ferrell in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Read on to find out what else is worth your screen time.

Streaming television

CBC Gem

• Imaginative, bizarre, gutsy and funny: The razor-sharp Mohawk Girls comes to CBC (7 episodes)
• Late Night in the Studio is trippy, tonally perfect Canadian comedy (5 episodes)

Crave

• HBO’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is a different type of true-crime classic (starts June 28; 6 episodes)
• HBO’S I May Destroy You is unsettling but necessary viewing on consent and sexual assault (12 episodes)
• Perry Mason reimagined for HBO – a grim, heady thriller steeped in the L.A. of the early 1930s (8 episodes)

Highball.TV

• Band Ladies is a wicked delight, ideal for a light binge of short episodes (7 episodes)

Netflix

• Can You Hear Me? (M’entends-tu?) is one rare, raw Canadian drama-comedy (10 episodes)
• Understated jazz club series The Eddy takes a few episodes to find its groove, and then it soars (8 episodes)

Streaming films

Amazon Prime Video

• Hijacked-airline drama 7500: Fasten your seat belt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, it’s going to be a bumpy ride (2.5 stars; R; 92 minutes)

Apple TV+

• Bryce Dallas Howard’s documentary Dads is a sincere look at fatherhood – and a home movie for Hollywood’s Howard family (2 stars; 87 minutes)

Disney+

• Artemis Fowl is a sloppy disaster that will make your kid’s already ruined summer feel five times as long (1.5 stars; PG; 88 minutes)

Netflix

• Spike Lee’s Netflix thriller Da 5 Bloods is powerful, frustrating and exactly what you need to watch right now (3 stars; R; 156 minutes – read our interview with star Delroy Lindo)
• On the occasion of Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, a question for Will Ferrell: Dear God, Will, why? (2 stars; PG; 123 minutes – read our interview with director David Dobkin)

On-demand

• Nasty and slick thriller Becky reinvents the sitcom-safe Kevin James to tremendous effect (3.5 stars; R; 100 minutes)
• Slick Canadian thriller Hammer pounds away with the intensity of a thousand mallets (3 stars; 14A; 82 minutes)
• Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island crowns a new comedy princeling in Pete Davidson (3 stars; R; 137 minutes)
• The Rest of Us is a captivating Canadian drama of people behaving anything but badly (3 stars; PG; 80 minutes)
• Jeffrey McHale’s new documentary You Don’t Nomi strips Showgirls’s infamous reputation bare (3 stars; 92 minutes)
• It’s no wonder race-relations drama Burden took so long to make its way to audiences (2 stars; R; 117 minutes)
• Tonally confused revenge tale Judy & Punch needs a better puppet master (2 stars; 14A; 105 minutes)
• Kevin Bacon horror You Should Have Left is more than six degrees removed from greatness (2 stars; R; 93 minutes)
• Jon Stewart’s Irresistible is toothless, lazy and emblematic of The Daily Show’s shrug-centric satire (1 star; R; 101 minutes)

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