'Banger,' 'Mid-Century Modern' and more: 5 Things to stream this week

Follow the high jinks of an over-the-hill club DJ recruited for an undercover operation and three gay friends dealing with the challenges of modern dating

07 April 2025 - 20:24
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Vincent Cassel and Mister V in Banger
Vincent Cassel and Mister V in Banger
Image: Netflix

If you have 90 minutes

Banger — Netflix

Vincent Cassel stars as an over-the-hill club DJ who is given an unexpected opportunity to take down a younger, rival DJ and return to the top of the scene when he’s recruited by an intelligence officer to be the key man in an undercover operation in this high jinks French comedy.

Vincent Cassel stars in Banger

If you have 4 hours

Mid-Century Modern — Disney Plus

The creators of Will & Grace take an old-school sitcom formula approach to this breezily enjoyable show starring Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane and Nathan Lee Graham as three best friends and “gay gentlemen of a certain age”, who decide to spend their later years living together in Palm Springs where they’re confronted with all the challenges and surprises of the modern dating world.

From the creators of “Will & Grace,”

If you have 8 hours

Teacup — Showmax

There are plenty of scares and chills in Ian McCulloch’s survivalist horror series that follows a group of neighbours who find themselves having to put aside their differences and work together when they’re trapped on a farm and face a terrifying deadly threat lurking in the fields outside.

Teacup follows a disparate group of people stuck on a farm

If you have 8 hours

The Bondsman — Prime Video

Kevin Bacon puts on his zombie-fighting pants in this supernatural horror series where he plays dead bounty hunter Hub Halloran who is resurrected by the Devil himself and tasked with rounding up monsters of a decidedly nastier and more demonic kind.

Resurrected bounty hunter Hub Halloran (Kevin Bacon) gets an unexpected second chance at life and love

If you have 10 hours

Tulsa King Season 2 — Showmax

Sylvester Stallone returns as recently released New York mafia soldier Dwight “The General” Manfredi” exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and intent on showing his rural wannabes how a real crime boss runs an operation.

Tulsa is his for the taking. The hit series Tulsa King returns


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