Streaming in Canada on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Crave, Disney+ and Netflix [May 22-28]

Every week, MobileSyrup outlines among the most notable motion pictures and TV reveals that just lately hit Canadian streaming platforms.

Our ‘Streaming in Canada’ column usually focuses on new content material from Amazon Prime Video, Crave and Netflix, however different companies like Apple TV+ and Disney+ are talked about when related. Premium video-on-demand (PVOD) platforms are additionally honest sport as motion pictures proceed to return to digital early.

Finally, we’ll spotlight reveals or motion pictures which might be made by Canadian firms, contain notable Canadian forged or crew and/or are filmed in Canada.

Amazon Prime Video

Bupkis

Original TV premiere date: May 4th (Peacock in the U.S.)

Amazon Prime Video Canada launch date: May twenty sixth, 2023 (first episode, new episodes each Friday)

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: Eight episodes (round half-hour every)

Playing a fictionalized model of himself, Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live) returns house to Staten Island to take care of some robust household information. The sequence co-stars Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie) and Joe Pesci (Goodfellas).

Stream Bupkis right here. Note {that a} $12.99/month StackTV membership is required.

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Amazon Prime Video Canada launch date: May twenty sixth, 2023 (first two episodes, new episodes Fridays at 8pm ET)

Genre: Animated fantasy-comedy

Runtime: 10 episodes (round half-hour every)

This Gremlins prequel reveals how 10-year-old Sam Wing met the younger Mogwai Gizmo.

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai options the voices of Isaac Wang (Raya and the Last Dragon), Ming-Na Wen (Mulan), B.D. Wong (Jurassic Park sequence) and James Hong (Kung Fu Panda sequence).

Stream Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai right here. Note {that a} $12.99/month StackTV membership is required.

Women Talking

Original theatrical launch date: December twenty third, 2022

Amazon Prime Video Canada launch date: May twenty eighth, 2023

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Mennonite girls plan their future after discovering their colony’s historical past of rape.

Based on the novel of the identical identify by Steinbach, Manitoba’s Miriam Toews, Women Talking was written and directed by Sarah Polley (Away From Her) and stars Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Claire Foy (The Crown), Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter), Judith Ivey (Steaming) and Ben Whishaw (James Bond sequence). It’s price noting that the movie was shot in Toronto.

Stream Women Talking right here.

An Amazon Prime Video subscription is included at no further price with an Amazon Prime membership, which is priced at $99/yr.

The full record of films and reveals hitting Amazon Prime Video Canada this month will be discovered right here.

Apple TV+

Platonic [Apple Original]

Apple TV+ Canada launch date: May twenty fourth, 2023 (first three episodes, new episodes each Thursday)

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 10 episodes (round half an hour every)

Two getting older former finest pals reconnect, solely to destabilize their lives in hilarious methods.

Platonic was created by Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller (Friends From College) and reunites Neighbors stars Rose Byrne and Vancouver’s Seth Rogen, with London, Ontario’s Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys) co-starring.

Stream Platonic right here.

An Apple TV+ membership prices $8.99/month and can also be included in Apple One subscription bundles, which begin at $18.95/month.

Crave

Little Bird [Crave Original]

Crave launch date: May twenty sixth, 2023 (first episode, new episodes each Friday)

Genre: Drama

Runtime: Six episodes (round 45 minutes every)

After being taken from her house in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted right into a Montreal Jewish household at age 5, a younger girl in her 20s appears to be like to reconnect together with her beginning household and heritage.

Based on the historic ‘Sixties Scoop’ interval in which Indigenous children have been taken from their households and put into foster houses, Little Bird was created by Toronto’s Jennifer Podemski (The Rez) and Ottawa’s Hannah Moscovitch (Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes) and stars Misipawistik Cree Nation’s Darla Cantois, Whitesand First Nation’s Ellyn Jade, Thunderchild First Nation’s Osawa Muska (Worlds Ends at Camp Z) and Kitigan Zibi, Quebec’s Joshua Odjick (Wildhood).

Stream Little Bird right here.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

While attempting to juggle college life and crime combating, Billy Batson (Shazam) and his household should take care of a trio of vengeful wizards.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods was directed by David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation) and stars Zachary Levi (Chuck), Asher Angel (Andi Mack), Jack Dylan Grazer (It), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story), Lucy Liu (Kill Bill) and Helen Mirren (The Queen).

Original theatrical launch date: March seventeenth, 2023

Crave launch date: May twenty third, 2023

Genre: Superhero

Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes

Stream Shazam! Fury of the Gods right here.

A customary Crave subscription is priced at $19.99/month, with Starz costing a further $5.99/month. A mobile-only subscription can also be accessible for $9.99/month.

The full record of films and reveals hitting Crave this month will be discovered right here.

Disney+

American Born Chinese [Disney+ Original]

A tenth grader’s efforts to welcome an change pupil thrust him right into a battle between legendary Chinese gods.

Based on Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel of the identical identify, American Born Chinese was created by Kelvin Yu (Bob’s Burgers) and stars Ben Wang (MacGyver), Daniel Wu (Into the Badlands) and, in a reunion from the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and James Hong.

Disney+ Canada launch date: May twenty fourth, 2023

Genre: Action-comedy

Runtime: Eight episodes (round one hour every)

Stream American Born Chinese right here.

The Kardashians (Season 3) [Star Original]

Disney+ Canada launch date: May twenty fifth, 2023 (first episode, new episodes each Wednesday)

Genre: Action-comedy

Runtime: Eight episodes (round one hour every)

The Kardashian-Jenner household is again for extra drama and gossip.

Stream The Kardashians right here.

A Disney+ subscription prices $11.99/month or $119.99/yr.

The full record of films and reveals hitting Disney+ Canada this month will be discovered right here.

Netflix

FUBAR [Netflix Original]

Netflix Canada launch date: May twenty fifth, 2023

Genre: Action-comedy

Runtime: Eight episodes (round one hour every)

Action legend Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator) stars in his first main function in a scripted TV sequence about an undercover mission that will get sophisticated by a father and daughter who uncover they’re each undercover CIA brokers.

FUBAR was created by Nick Santora (Prison Break) and co-stars Monica Barbaro (Top Gun: Maverick), Milan Carter (Warped!), Ottawa’s Jay Baruchel (This is the End) and Aparna Brielle (A.P. Bio).

Stream FUBAR right here.

The Ultimatum: Queer Love [Netflix Original]

Netflix Canada launch date: May twenty fourth, 2023 (first 4 episodes, new episodes Wednesdays)

Genre: Reality

Runtime: 10 episodes (between 30 and 60 minutes every)

Five long-term queer {couples} are put below stress to get married or transfer on.

Stream The Ultimatum: Queer Love right here.

Wanda Sykes: I’m An Entertainer [Netflix Original]

Netflix Canada launch date: May twenty third, 2023

Genre: Stand-up comedy

Runtime: 1 hour

Comedian Wanda Sykes riffs on parenting together with her French spouse, public loos, being uninterested in taking the excessive highway and extra.

Stream Wanda Sykes: I’m An Entertainer right here.

A ‘Basic with Ads’ subscription prices $5.99/month, ‘Basic’ Netflix subscription prices $9.99/month, a ‘Standard’ subscription (HD-supported) prices $16.49/month and a ‘Premium’ membership is priced at $20.99/month (4K-supported).

The full record of films and reveals hitting Netflix Canada this month will be discovered right here.

What are you planning on watching this week? Let us know in the feedback.

For extra recommendations, try final week’s Streaming in Canada column.

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