Stan: quick links
Stan: new this week
Revealed – (22 June)
Documentary. A feature-length documentary about the divisive leader, conservative icon and former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen, and a timely examination of progress, power, corruption, and Joh’s complex legacy.
Starring Richard Roxburgh. Watch the trailer.
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Alone Season 12 (13 June)
Series. In this new season of Alone the action moves across the globe to South Africa’s Great Karoo region. Not only does this mark the series’ first time filming in Africa, it’s also the first time the show has been shot in a semidesert environment. This wild, beautiful and remote location could pose serious new challenges for the contestants.
The Surfer (15 June)
Film (2024). When a man returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the US, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a group of local surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.
Wounded, he defies them and remains at the beach, demanding acceptance. As the conflict escalates, he is brought right to the edge of his sanity and his entire identity is thrown into question.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim and Miranda Tapsell.
From ScreenHub’s four-star review of The Surfer:
As the unnamed surfer of the title, Cage’s vibrantly dyed ginger lead plays a man determined to reclaim his roots after decades away in California, where his accent presumably got lost. Wanting to reconnect with his teenage son (Finn Little) – despite his ex-wife (on the phone) being pissed he pulled him out of school – he hopes to snap up his childhood home, newly on the market.
But the surfer falls foul of the overheated Australian market, forced to beg for more financing with Rahel Romahn’s real estate shark unwilling to buy him time. Read more …
This City Is Ours (4 June)
Series. This City is Ours is the story of Michael, a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime. But for the first time, Michael is in love. Now he sees a future: something to win and something to lose – Diana.
Starring Sean Bean, Saul Dibb, John Hayes and Eshref Reybrouck. Watch the trailer.
Kevin Costner’s The West (28 May)
Series. Executive produced and hosted by Academy Award-winner Kevin Costner, Kevin Costner’s The West: Season 1 is an eight-episode docuseries getting beyond the clichés and myths of the ‘Wild West’ perspectives that capture the spirit of opportunity, adventure and peril through the diverse, complex characters and untold stories that defined the era.
Starring Dane Thrun and Kevin Costner. Watch the trailer.
Mayans M.C. Seasons 1–5 (25 May)
Series. All five seasons of the gangster crime drama that ran from 2018 to 2023, set in the same fictional universe as Sons of Anarchy. Ezekiel ‘EZ’ Reyes is a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the California-Mexico border.
A gifted son from a Mexican family who have suffered under cartel violence, he struggles with his desire for vengeance against the cartel and his need for respect from the women he loves.
Starring Stars JD Pardo, Clayton Cardenas and Sarah Bolger. Watch the Season 1 trailer.
