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‘Bad Vegan’, ‘The Adam Project’: Five things to stream now

Worth binge-watching or a waste of time? We weigh in on the latest movies, shows and documentaries

13 March 2022 - 00:00
Tymon Smith Features writer, film and series reviewer
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Sarma Melngailis in 'Bad Vegan'.
Sarma Melngailis in 'Bad Vegan'.
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BAD VEGAN

In the 2000s Sarma Melngailis was the hottest raw food restauranteur in New York, the subject of glitzy magazine profiles and host to adoring health-food chugging celebrities from Owen Wilson to Alec Baldwin. Then she met a mysterious Iraq war vet online who married her, took over her world with his toxic madness and turned it into a hell of fraud, reincarnated dogs and life on the run from authorities. This is her story, told by Melngailis and the people around her who watched it all go so terribly and macabrely wrong.

Where to stream it: Netflix

How much time you'll need to binge it: 4 hours

WATCH | 'Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.' trailer.

THE ADAM PROJECT

Ryan Reynolds stars as a time-travelling fighter pilot who must work together with his younger self and his dead father to heal the past and fix the future in this action comedy sci-fi adventure.

Where to stream it: Netflix

How much time you'll need to binge it: 2 hours

WATCH | 'The Adam Project' trailer.

THE LAST DAYS OF PTOLEMY GREY

Samuel L. Jackson gives a wide-ranging and heartfelt performance in this emotional adaptation of the novel by legendary writer Walter Mosley about a man suffering with dementia who is given the brief opportunity to regain his memories and rectify a mistake from his past. New episodes weekly.

Where to stream it: Apple TV+

How much time you'll need to binge it: 2 hours

WATCH | 'The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey' trailer.

ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

Executive producer Ryan Murphy and director Andrew Rossi use the diaries of the legendary pop artist and father of modern celebrity culture Andy Warhol, which he started writing after surviving a shooting in 1968 and maintained until his death in 1987, as the starting point for a wide-ranging, engaging and intimate portrait of the elusive man behind the mask.

Where to stream it: Netflix

How much time you'll need to binge it: 6 hours

WATCH | 'The Andy Warhol Diaries' trailer.

WU TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA

The Wu-Tang Clan are notoriously “nothing to f***k with” and one of hip-hops most acclaimed and successful outfits. Once, long ago in the crack-infested, dangerous streets of 1990s Staten Island, they were a group of disparate young men struggling with the harsh realities of life for urban black youth in the US who only had their love for music and their talents to offer them a hope of escape. This, in all its gritty and grimy detail, is the dramatisation of their extraordinary story.  

Where to stream it: Showmax

How much time you'll need to binge it: 10 hours

WATCH | 'Wu-Tang: An American Saga' trailer.

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