As another week draws to a close, a host of brand-new films and shows are ready to drop on streaming services. So if you’re in need of a quiet weekend, then we know just the thing to keep you glued to the sofa.
With Now – the streaming subscription service from Sky – there is plenty of new content on offer this week. Whether you fancy a gripping Los Angeles-based true crime docuseries, or a gripping Italian-British noir, Now has you covered.
Here are the new films and shows available to stream on Now this weekend:
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The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise
This four-part docuseries offers a new, in-depth peek inside the minds of notorious serial-killing cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono. The pair allegedly impersonated off-duty police officers to lure unsuspecting victims to their deaths before leaving their bodies on the hillsides of East LA during the 1970s.
All episodes of The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise are streaming on Sky Crime with Now.
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The Hanging Sun
Based on Jo Nesbø’s 2015 novel Midnight Sun, this Italian-British noir follows John (Alessandro Borghi), a reluctant hitman on the run after betraying his powerful crime lord father (Peter Mullan). John takes refuge deep in the forest near an isolated Norwegian village where religion dominates, the sun never sets, and local residents seem to be from a different era.
The Hanging Sun is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now.
Ride the Eagle
Leif (Jake Johnson) is left with a conditional inheritance when his estranged mother Honey (Susan Sarandon) dies. Before he can move into her picturesque Yosemite cabin, he has to complete her elaborate, and sometimes dubious, to-do list.
Ride the Eagle is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from January 21.
Alice
Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner, Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash, she flees through the neighbouring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is actually 1973.
Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation. Inspired by true events, Alice traces Alice’s journey through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.
Alice is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from January 22.
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