Table of Contents
Latest OTT Releases This Week: With Anubhav Sinha’s Netflix series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, the real-life drama features the who’s who of Bollywood as they retell the tense hijacking from December 1999. Also arriving on August 29 is the unusually named dark comedy Kaos starring Jeff Goldblum as Greek god Zeus who runs into three pesky humans. The MonsterVerse film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire also makes OTT debut this week on Jio Cinema as does Lee Daniels’s Netflix exorcism horror film The Deliverance, with powerful performances by Andra Day, Mo’Nique, and Glenn Close based on a real life case. Finally on Lionsgate Play, Samantha Morton returns as Catherine de’ Medici who goes on to become France’s most powerful Queens. What are you planning on watching this weekend?
Only Murders in the Building Season 4 on Disney+ Hotstar
Cast: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Meryl Streep
Release date: August 27
About the series: Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) go out to Los Angeles after a Hollywood studio decides to turn their crime podcast into a film. But back in NYC, the trio has yet another murder to solve in their building. The fourth season returns strong with more laughs and clever hijinks as danger finally hits home for our amateur sleuths. With a bevy of famous faces, the new season delights with another terrific mystery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKyX8rocAB8
READ REVIEW: Only Murders in the Building Season 4
IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack on Netflix
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Vijay Varma, Dia Mirza, Arvind Swamy
Release date: August 29
About the series: Anubhav Sinha’s first foray into web series assembles a star-studded cast to tell the story of flight IC 814 which was hijacked from Nepal. For a week, the crew and passengers were held hostage in different countries as our government tried to negotiate the best way for them to return. The engaging drama series, based on real-life, looks at the pivotal event from all angles, almost as a behind-the-scenes documentary of that harrowing time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dmr5rktfGY
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 on Amazon Prime Video
Cast: Charlie Vickers, Morfydd Clark, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Charles Edwards
Release date: August 29
About the series: More evil and danger lurks in Middle-earth as Sauron (Charlie Vickers) prepares his plan to create more rings in the second season of Amazon Prime Video’s prequel series of JRR Tolkien’s works. The fantasy drama show is set thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books. With familiar characters like Galadriel and Tom Bombadil appearing in the series, the visually stunning series plots out a righteous battle unlike any other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fsBy45YTQ
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire on Jio Cinema
Cast: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens
Release date: August 29
About the film: This sequel to 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong is latest saga in the MonsterVerse; it makes it OTT debut this week on Jio Cinema. So if you missed on out big fight in the theatres, now is the chance to check out the feature’s action-packed sequences involving two of the baddest monsters in Hollywood. The sci-fi thriller also connects with themes of parenthood and introduces a charismatic villain in this iconic clash of monsters.
READ REVIEW: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Stay tuned for more updates!