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Jake Hackney

The new films and shows out on Now this weekend – April 14

With another weekend comes a brand-new bunch of films and TV shows dropping on streaming services. If you’re wondering what new content you can sink your teeth into this weekend, we’ve done the leg work for you.

With Now – the streaming subscription service from Sky – there is plenty of new content on offer this month. Whether you fancy an animated tale of superpowered pets, or a gripping docuseries recalling one of the UK’s most notorious gangland killings, Now has you covered.

Here is the new content available to stream on Now this weekend:

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DC League of Super-Pets

In DC League of Super-Pets, Krypto the Super-Dog (the voice of Dwayne Johnson) and Superman (John Krasinski) are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack – Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle and Chip the squirrel – to master their own powers and help him rescue the Superheroes.

DC League of Super Pets is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from Friday, April 14.

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The Essex Murders

This gripping three-part docuseries explores one of the most notorious multiple murders in British history, the assassination of the so-called Essex Boys in an isolated country lane, 26 years ago. It’s a case that has sparked countless gangster films, books, and a frenzy of online speculation.

Now, for the first time, this series will go behind the headlines – taking us on a journey from deep in the heart of the nineties rave scene to the hidden world of organised crime. Told through an extraordinary cast of characters from underworld gangsters to police, plus present-day investigators who uncover shocking new evidence, The Essex Murders gets to the heart of a case that is still shrouded in questions and asks whether the right men were convicted of the crime.

The Essex Murders is streaming on Sky Documentaries with Now from Saturday, April 15.

Beast

Idris Elba stars in this pulse-pounding thriller as a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa on a long-planned trip to a game reserve. What begins as a journey of healing turns into a fearsome fight for survival as he and his daughters find themselves hunted by a massive, rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator.

Beast is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from Saturday, April 15.

Hunt

Set in the 1980s, this South Korean espionage action film follows two special agents with the same deadly mission: Find a mole. Agents of the Korean National Intelligence Service, Pyung-ho (Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae) at Int’l Dept. and Jung-do (Jung Woo-sung) at Domestic Dept. are both independently hunting a North Korean mole within the agency.

During the investigation, they come face to face with an unbearable truth and yet must complete their own missions at all costs.

Hunt is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from Sunday, April 16.

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