What to stream this week: Three Kings, Wentworth, The Hour, The Report and more

If you didn’t already know the story of this smart drama, The Report, was true, you wouldn’t have believed a word of it.

From a smart drama with an all-star British cast to an overlooked gem from George Clooney’s oeuvre, there’s a raft of streaming options this week.

SOMETHING HEISTY

Three Kings: Starring Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and a George Clooney that was on the cusp of mega-movie-stardom, Three Kings was also director David O. Russell’s (Silver Linings Playbook) first big commercial hit. A war comedy-satire, it’s set during the 1991 uprisings against Saddam Hussein following the First Gulf War when three American soldiers conspire to make off with Kuwaiti gold. Look closely and you’ll also spot a 10-year-old Alia Shawkat. Watch it: iTunes/Google Play

Three Kings is an underappreciated war satire.

Bottle Rocket: Before Wes Anderson made a name for his idiosyncratic and visually intricate movies including The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Royal Tenenbaums, there was Bottle Rocket, his debut feature. Starring Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson (also in their first feature roles), adapted from a short film the trio had made previously after meeting at university, it’s a rough-and-tumble and charming caper about a group of aspiring criminals looking to pull of a series of heists in Texas. Watch it: iTunes/Google Play

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SOMETHING DRAMATIC

The Hour: Written by Abi Morgan (Shame, River) and featuring an impressive cast including Dominic West, Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai, The Hour was a gorgeously composed 1950s-set British series that intersects the worlds of media, politics and espionage. Revolving around the establishment of a new live news program on the BBC, it it’s both a workplace drama with beautiful people with a dash of conspiracy thriller and a social examination of the decline of empire. Watch it: Amazon Prime Video/7Plus

The Hour is a two-season drama set in the 1950s.

Wentworth S8: The long-running Australian drama returns for its penultimate season – the dramas of Litchfield have nothing on the dangerous women housed within the walls of Wentworth. This season, Marta Dusseldorp joins the cast as a new inmate accused of murdering nine people at a cult/retreat. She’s said to be manipulative, charismatic and smart – in other words, a threat. Watch it: Foxtel Now, from Tuesday, July 28 at 8.30pm

SOMETHING POLITICAL

The Report: If you didn’t already know that the story of The Report was true, you’d never believe it. Based on the arduous investigative process that formed the 6700-page report into CIA torture of terror suspects post-9/11, it stars Adam Driver as the researcher who set out to find the truth of how the American government sanctioned such barbarous acts. It’s gripping, tightly constructed and incredibly suspenseful. Watch it: Amazon Prime Video

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Adam Driver in The Report.

All The President’s Men: Perhaps in the Donald Trump era, Richard Nixon’s crimes look quaint, but there’s still so much power in the Alan J. Pakula drama about how Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) uncovered the Watergate scandal. More than just for inspiring youngsters into journalism careers, All The Presidents’ Men in many ways established the template for political thrillers for decades to come. Watch it: iTunes/Google Play

SOMETHING ABSORBING

Room 104: Ahead of the fourth and final season, catch up on the first three seasons of Room 104, Mark Duplass’ episodic, genre-hopping HBO anthology series. The premise is that every episode takes place within a specific room in a hotel, telling the story of whoever is staying in the room that day. Sometimes it’s a horror story, sometimes it’s a farce and sometimes it’s a rom-com. Guest stars have included James Van Der Beek, Mae Whitman, Karan Soni, Rainn Wilson, Judy Greer, Brian Tyree Henry, Mahershala Ali, Dolly Wells, Luke Wilson and Cobie Smulders. Watch it: Foxtel Now/Binge

Mahershala Ali is among the many guest stars of Room 104.

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The Deuce: The Wire creator David Simon is remarkable at world-building – all of his works feel completely lived in thanks to his almost-anthropological respect for the smallest details. And The Deuce, a three-season drama set in New York City in the 1970s and then ’80s, has that same robust, vividly drawn credentials. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Franco and Gary Carr, The Deuce takes on the complex social ecosystem of the sex trade and the burgeoning porn industry born out of a stretch of mid-town Manhattan. Watch it: Foxtel Now/Binge

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SOMETHING DELICIOUS

Somebody Feed Phil: Phil Rosenthal’s greatest claim to fame was as the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond and now with that syndication money enough to tie him over many lifetimes, he’s turned his attention to the thing he seems to love the most: Eating. The jovial and warm Rosenthal travels the world, sampling delights and brings to the endeavour a wide-eyed wonder you can’t help but find utterly adorable. Watch it: Netflix

No one is as excited about gastronomic delights as Phil Rosenthal.

The Ice Cream Show: Many American light entertainment shows can be grating (they just love loud music and eye-popping graphics) but this 10-part series about ice cream is actually quite amiable. It is what it sounds like, 20-minute episodes in which host and ice-cream maker Isaac Lappert (who looks like a cross between Billy Crudup and Daniel Portman) visits ice cream-related establishments from old-fashioned shops to ice cream trucks. Just make sure you have a tub in your freezer otherwise there will be no satiating those salivating tastebuds. Watch it: SBS On Demand

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