Arnie’s back, Varun shape shifts while others fight the good fight on OTT this week.
Sukanya Verma lists everything you can watch on streaming platforms this weekend.
Fubar
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: English
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, baby! And this time for small screen. Here’s the deal: A not-quite-retired spy learns his daughter is in the same business as him while getting back for that one last job.
Boo
Where to watch? Jio Cinema
Language: Telugu (with subtitles)
Hiccups, horror, haunted homes come together for chills and thrills in Rakul Preet’s latest, streaming free, on Jio Cinema.
Sirf Ek Banda Kaafi Hai
Where to watch? ZEE5
Language: Hindi
Manoj Bajpayee aces as a dedicated lawyer taking on a powerful godman for the rape of a minor in Apoorv Singh Karki’s courtroom drama.
Bhediya
Where to watch? Jio Cinema
Language: Hindi
A good dose of comedy and action flavours Varun Dhawan’s werewolf adventure, which has a few surprises up its sleeve as well as something pertinent to say about the environment.
Bheed
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: Hindi
Anubhav Sinha asks some tough questions while taking at long, hard look at the plight of migrants at the peak of pandemic in the Rajkummar Rao-Pankaj Kapur-Bhumi Pednekar starrer.
Platonic
Where to watch? Apple TV+
Language: English
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play best friends hilariously reconnecting in the middle of a midlife crisis.
American Born Chinese
Where to watch? Disney+Hotstar
Language: English
Gene Leun Yang’s graphic novel takes the form of an eight-part series blending high school woes and Chinese mythology action blessed by the presence of Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh.
Women Talking
Where to watch? Amazon Prime Video
Language: English
Sarah Polley’s heavy, hard-hitting creation adapts Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel of the same name focusing on the women of a isolated religious community grappling with abuse and faith.
Missing
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: English
A tech-savvy teen takes on the responsibility of finding her missing mom after she goes incommunicado while holidaying with her boyfriend in Colombia in this promising thriller.
Blood & Gold
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: English
Set towards the end of World War II, the black comedy captures the adventures of a German deserter and local farm girl outracing the Nazis in their search for hidden treasure.
Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum
Where to watch? Amazon Prime Video
Language: Malayalam (with subtitles)
The super talented Fahadh Faasil plays a middle-class man from Mumbai visiting his native town in Kerala and the series of feel-good adventures to follow his return trip.
Mother’s Day
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: Polish (with subtitles)
It’s a bloody mayhem when a former special agent takes on ruthless gangsters to rescue her abducted son.
Thugs
Where to watch? Jio Cinema
Language: Tamil (with subtitles)
Falsely framed for a murder and put behind bars, a young man resolves to prison break with a band of inmates in tow.
