We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.<\/p>\n
The Westies (Neon, July 14)<\/p>\n
From the 1960s through to the 1980s, the ruthless Irish-American gang The Westies ruled Manhattan\u2019s Hell\u2019s Kitchen. In this gritty series, Oscar winner J. K. Simmons is Eamon Sweeney, the fictional crime boss of this very real and infamously violent gang. Also starring Titus Welliver and Tom Brittney, The Westies traces the gang\u2019s beef with the Italian mafia, and the intergenerational conflict that ultimately swept them into the arms of the FBI. It\u2019d be a crime not to watch.<\/p>\n
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (DocPlay, July 16)<\/p>\n
In Werner Herzog\u2019s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a film 36,000 years in the making, the legendary German director descends into the home of the earliest known pictorial drawings. This \u201cone-of-a-kind art-history lesson<\/a>\u201d that reflects on \u201cthe immensity and fragility of human enterprise<\/a>\u201d is narrated by the inimitable Herzog, and features conversations with the lucky scientists who are given a brief window to study the fading cave paintings. Quite simply, Cave of Forgotten Dreams is \u201castonishingly moving<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The F Ward (Neon, July 18)<\/p>\n Starring Emmy Award winner Anna Friel alongside Ioane Sa\u2019ula, Lola Bond and Dan Wyllie,\u00a0Australian medical drama The F Ward follows a ragtag group of talented but insecure interns. They\u2019re sent to Sydney\u2019s underfunded Pines Hospital, where they must overcome their pasts and their own expectations in a pressure-cooker environment where the stakes are life and death. If you like St. Elsewhere and ER, The F Ward is just what the doctor ordered.<\/p>\n My Father\u2019s Shadow (AroVision, July 15)<\/p>\n My Father\u2019s Shadow is the lauded debut feature of Akinola Davies Jr and the first Nigerian film to be selected for Cannes. Set amidst the turmoil of the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, this deft semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale follows two boys (Godwin Chimerie Egbo and Chibuike Marvelous Egbo) who are briefly reunited with their estranged father (\u1e62\u1ecdp\u1eb9\u0301 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9). Described as an \u201cenchanting film<\/a>,\u201d where \u201cone feels spellbound by its earnest aims and its heartwarming excursions<\/a>,\u201d My Father\u2019s Shadow is sure to pull on your heartstrings.<\/p>\n Lucky (Apple TV, July 15)<\/p>\n Led by Anya Taylor-Joy and from Your Friends & Neighbors showrunner Jonathan Tropper comes the crime-drama Lucky. Unable to escape her dark past, the \u201creformed\u201d con artist Lucky (Taylor-Joy) finds herself being pursued by both the FBI and a cut-throat crime boss after a multi-million-dollar heist gone wrong. Also starring Drew Starkey, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lucky is one for fans of Killing Eve and Black Doves.<\/p>\n Pick of the Flicks: Tenet (Netflix, July 17)<\/p>\n