We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.<\/p>\n
This New To Streaming is brought to you by Samsung. Discover the best of streaming \u2013 and see your favourites in a whole new light \u2013 with the Samsung Micro RGB<\/a>.<\/p>\n Half Man (TVNZ+, April 24)<\/p>\n From Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd comes this six-episode miniseries centred around the decades-long relationship between Gadd\u2019s Ruben and Jamie Bell\u2019s Niall, two polar-opposite and estranged Glaswegian men who reunite at a wedding after years apart. Exploring \u201cbrotherhood, violence, and the intense fragility of male relationships<\/a>\u201d their turbulent reunion sets the stage for a \u201cdark odyssey into the heart of male rage<\/a>.\u201d If Baby Reindeer is anything to go by, Half Man will be a bruising but brilliant watch.<\/p>\n My Brother the Minotaur (Apple TV, April 24)<\/p>\n Created by Cartoon Saloon, the Irish Oscar-nominated animation studio behind The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers, My Brother the Minotaur is an \u201cepic blend of folklore, mystery and mythic adventure\u201d<\/a> featuring the voices of rising stars Billy Jenkins and Ely Solan alongside Hollywood stalwarts Michael Sheen and Brian Cox. Following a young minotaur raised by humans, the family-friendly series traces the perilous journey of the part boy and part bull who, with the help of his loyal human brother, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover his mythical origins. Check out the life-affirming My Brother the Minotaur if you and the wh\u0101nau are fans of Over The Garden Wall and Gravity Falls.<\/p>\n K\u014dk\u0101 (Neon, April 21)<\/p>\n Described as an \u201cintergenerational road movie like no other<\/a>,\u201d K\u014dk\u0101 is the first feature from filmmaker Kath Akuhata-Brown (Ng\u0101ti Porou) and the first film to use the original dialect of East Cape iwi Ng\u0101ti Porou. Under the stars of Matariki, the powerful drama follows Vai\u2019s<\/a> Hinetu Dell as a kuia named Hamo who forms an unlikely bond with rebellious teenager Jo (Darneen Christian). As they journey across the motu together, the two confront their past and face their demons in a \u201cdeeply affecting, meditative road movie<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Apex (Netflix, April 24)<\/p>\n The latest film from Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur (Everest, Adrift, Beast) sees the director \u201conce again throw his cast to the elements<\/a>,\u201d as Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton face off against each other in the treacherous Australian outback. The Oscar-winning Theron plays Sasha, a grieving rock climber who becomes ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse with Egerton\u2019s Ben, a sadistic serial killer. Also starring Eric Bana, the pulse-pounding Apex is one for taut thriller aficionados.<\/p>\n The Sunshine Murders (Prime Video, April 20)<\/p>\n Christchurch-born Emily Corcoran is the creator and star of The Sunshine Murders, an Athens-set cosy crime drama. Also featuring popstar Peter Andre and New Zealand actor Whare Mihinui, the offbeat series follows Corcoran as Shirley Rangi, a Kiwi farmer who travels to Greece in search of her long-lost birth father. Discovering that she has a half-Greek sister called Helen who happens to be a detective, Shirley soon finds herself entangled in a string of humorous mysteries and absurd murders. Reminiscent of My Life is Murder<\/a> and The Brokenwood Mysteries,<\/a> The Sunshine Murders is a sun-kissed, blood-smeared dose of escapism.<\/p>\n Pick of the Flicks: Pillion (AroVision, April 22)<\/p>\n