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I reckon today’s list has more than enough entertainment to keep you busy for the entire weekend. It is a bit heavy on the drama side but it gets balanced out by doccie and even a kids movie which should be enjoyed by adults alike. At least we can buy booze over the weekend!

Remember to check out our top 10 suggestions below as well. You will always have something worthwhile to stream!

Lady Bird
Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks. She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. This movie follows her senior year in high school, including her first romance, her participation in the school play, and most importantly, her applying for college. A solid comedic drama.

The Roads Not Taken
A drama with Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning as a father-daughter duo. A day in the life of Leo and his daughter, Molly, as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future. This is 100% all drama and now smiles., so get the tissues out. It is heart-wrenching to say the least.

Hightown
Buckle up for a lekker crime drama mystery! Set in the world of beautiful but bleak Cape Cod, one woman’s journey to sobriety is overshadowed by a murder investigation dragging her into its fold. Jackie Quiñones, a hard-partying National Marine Fisheries Service agent, has her free-wheeling life thrown into disarray when she discovers a body on the beach – another casualty of Cape Cod’s opioid epidemic. As a result of this trauma, Jackie takes the first steps toward becoming sober – until she becomes convinced that it’s up to her to solve the murder.

Fake Famous
A brand new HBO doccie which eplores the meaning of fame and influence in the digital age through an innovative social experiment . Three people with relatively small followings are turned into ‘influencers’ overnight. It follows an actress, fashion designer and real estate assistant who attempt to become social media influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to boost their popularity. I am intrigued!

Trolls World Tour
Man, I am SO lus for a lekker animation adventure comedy to enjoy with a few beers this weekend. Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake are back for another musical adventure. When the Queen of the Hard Rock Trolls tries to take over all the Troll kingdoms, Queen Poppy and her friends try different ways to save all the Trolls. For those who, like myself, are kids at heart but have grootmens moeny to buy snacks and grootmens drinks.
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Need more streaming goodness? Check out our top 10 list of movies and TV series picks from the Plumlist. It is my to-go-to website when I’m stuck for streaming ideas from Netflix, Showmax and Amazon Prime:

#10. The best series coming to Showmax in 2021 No matter what unfolds on a global level in 2021, one thing’s for sure – there’s an incredible line-up of entertainment heading to Showmax subscribers’ screens. This is the projection for the rest of the year so far – the list will keep being updated as the months go by.	On Showmax (read more)
# 9. Thirteen South African comedy specials to stream online You won’t be able to laugh hysterically in a crowded comedy club anytime soon, but Showmax has stepped into the gap with an ever-growing comedy catalogue, guaranteed to put a smile on your dial, even in the time of Covid.	On Netflix & Showmax (read more)
#8 Six nature documentaries to stream with your kids There’s no better way to share a taste for the wonderfully strange world we live in with the next generation than by bingeing these beautiful David Attenborough and other nature doccies as a family.	On Amazon Prime, Netflix, DStv Now & Showmax (read more)
#7 Nine award-worthy movies to stream in the build-up to the 2021 Oscars Step right up, folks… step right up! It’s time to roll out the red carpets, polish the golden statuettes, “1, 2… 1, 2” the lapel microphones, put the seat fillers on standby, take a moment’s silence for Joan Rivers and get the popcorn ready… it’s awards season!p!	On Showmax (read more)
#6 Twelve Western-themed series and movies that push the boundaries Since their first appearance as silent films back in the late 19th Century, Western movies are a clear and specific genre, with neatly outlined landscapes, time periods and characters, from the lonesome cowboys to the cutthroat bandits; feisty widows in bonnets and pantalooned and corseted working gals in swing-doored saloons.	On Amazon Prime, Netflix, & Showmax (read more)
#5 Springsteen shoots the lights out in Western Stars Western Stars is the title of Bruce Springsteen’s 19th studio album, which was released in 2019 – the year the singer turned 70 years old. One might question the necessity of making a film about it but it’s a rare gift to gain better insight into the music, the lyrics, and the emotions which fill the songs.	On Showmax (read more)
4# Stream the M-Net Sunday Night Movies in April 2021 Those who are subscribed to DStv Premium have these fun movies to look forward to every Sunday in the month of April. They will be ready to stream on the DStv App within 24 hours of airing on M-Net, so you can watch them whenever, wherever.	On DStv Now (read more)
#3 The psychotic ego of Mark Hofmann in Murder Among the Mormons The title of, and the trailer for, this latest three-part Netflix original docuseries is sensationalist and a tad misleading. Yes, there was murder. Yes, Mormons were involved – directly and indirectly	On Netflix (read more)
#2 The real South African story behind the movie Misbehaviour Pearl Gladys Jansen was born in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, in 1950. At the age of 20, she was entered into the Miss World beauty contest, the first woman of colour to represent her country in the pageant. Due to apartheid, however, she competed as Miss Africa South, and was joined by her white counterpart, Jillian Jessup, who wore the Miss South Africa sash.	On Showmax (read more)
#1 Watch: The trailer for Showmax’s first Afrikaans Original, Skemerdans Skemerdans is a Cape Flats neo-noir murder mystery set at the Oasis jazz club, the centre of a power struggle between two brothers, a scorned widow and an organised crime syndicate.	On Showmax (read more)

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Each week we take a number from 1 to 10 from our list of suggestions and put it through a randomizer to choose a trailer to show you. This week it landed on our number 1 spot, “The real South African story behind the movie Misbehaviour“:
In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.: