If you have 80 minutes
Sunday Best – Netflix
The multi-hyphenate writer, editor, producer and director Sacha Jenkins died earlier this year at the age of 53. His final film focuses on the life and legacy of American television legend Ed Sullivan, whose Sunday night variety show introduced the US to musical icons and more importantly, broke racial boundaries long before it was fashionable or accepted to do so.
If you have 2 hours
Happy Gilmore 2 – Netflix
Adam Sandler resurrects his 1996 hapless goofy golfer for a long-awaited sequel that sees Sandler’s long-retired Gilmore returning to the fairway to raise money for his daughter’s ballet education.
If you have 3 hours
The ABC Killer -Showmax
In the shadows of the glowing idealism and promises of the post-apartheid Rainbow Nation, South Africa’s most prolific serial killer Moses Sithole murdered 37 women and a child between 1994 and 1995 before he was finally caught, tried and sentenced to more than 2,000 years in prison. Director Jasyn Howe’s gripping, three-part docuseries traces Sithole’s life, the experiences of the journalists who covered the story and the police who finally captured him.
If you have many hours
Matlock Season 1 – Showmax
The beloved old man lawyer of 1960s US TV is reimagined for a new era in this series that sees Kathy Bates relishing her role in an Emmy-nominated performance as Madeline Matlock, who, in her later years, gets back on the work wheel and joins a law firm where her wily talents help her to win cases and fight for justice for the everywoman.
If you have 8 hours
Washington Black – Disney Plus
Esi Edugyan’s acclaimed and award-winning novel about the adventures of slave-turned- inventor’s-prodigy George Washington “Wash” Black gets a stirring, imaginative screen adaptation, care of creator Selwyn Sifu Hinds and producer and star Sterling K. Brown.
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