The final season of an American superhero series, a heartfelt romance set in Japan and Taiwan, a hilarious Korean spy caper and a just concluded hit K-drama series – there’s so much worth streaming this weekend, we’d be surprised if anyone ventures outdoors.
If you do leave home, there is an absorbing movie to catch in cinemas about a manipulative teacher and five naive pupils.
1. Club Zero
Set in an elite British boarding school, Club Zero centres on a newly-arrived nutrition teacher, Ms Novak (Mia Wasikowska), who runs a course in conscious eating. Her class covers mindfulness, meditation and cutting down on processed foods.
But there is more to the quietly radical Novak than meets the eye: encouraging five of her pupils to join her cultish underground group, Club Zero, she wants to lead a revolution in which her young charges will survive on no food at all, in an effort to help save the planet.
Club Zero opens in cinemas today.
2. Mission: Cross
Director Lee Myung-hoon’s feature debut is a hilarious, action-packed spy caper that follows a retired special forces operative as he is forced back into action, only to face a greater threat from his unsuspecting wife – a formidable police captain – who knows nothing about his former life.
Taking cues from Hollywood hits like True Lies and Mr & Mrs Smith, the film casts Hwang Jung-min as the domesticated Kang-mu, whose quiet routine as a loyal house-husband is thrown into disarray after he is contacted by a desperate former teammate.
Mission: Cross will start streaming on Netflix on August 9.
3. 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days
Greg Hsu Kuang-han plays Jimmy, a successful video-game developer who suffers a cataclysmic falling out with his work partners. He then chooses to embark on a spot of soul-searching, travelling to a variety of picturesque tourist spots across Japan.
18×2 Beyond Youthful Days is streaming on Netflix.
4. The Umbrella Academy
The fourth and final season of the American superhero drama series drops today to follow up on the major plot twist at the end of season 3: there is a new timeline dictated by the family patriarch, Reginald (Colm Feore), and the siblings no longer have their powers.
Based on a comic book series written by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy’s story – about a group of estranged siblings with superpowers who are reunited after the death of their father – has proved a hit since it premiered on Netflix in 2019.
How will the Hargreeves siblings face their new enemies without their powers? And will they ever get them back?
The Umbrella Academy is streaming on Netflix.
5. Miss Night and Day
Now that this fantasy romcom K-drama has released its final pair of episodes (out of 16), we can say for sure what it is good at and what it isn’t.
Miss Night and Day is streaming on Netflix.
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