Stan – quick links
Stan: new this week
Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 5 – 12 June
Series. Kanan solidifies his place in the Queens drug business alongside Southside legend Breeze (Shameik Moore), and their alliance sets the stage for a reckoning that will ripple through every player in this dangerous game.
Whether it’s the Thomas family facing the collapse of their reign, Unique (Joey Bada$$) fighting to preserve his legacy or the Mafia maneuvering behind the scenes, many sacrifices will be made. However, nothing will stand in the way of Kanan’s pursuit of power.
Stan: recent highlights
Beast – 4 June
Film (2026). Russell Crowe is commanding as Sammy, the trainer whose relationship with champion fighter Patton James embodies tough love, hard-won forgiveness and the complex bonds between mentors and the fighters they shape.
Beast is a powerful story of redemption, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds of family that pulse through every frame.
From the ScreenHub review:
As Beast joins the hordes of sports-focused action dramas where packing a punch, and landing one, is the noblest deed there is, this new Australian film makes those declarations itself.
Beast might be a mixed-martial arts movie rather than a boxing film, but it loves and embraces the latter’s long-established tropes.
Sometimes those proclamations are verbal, and also thoroughly unnecessary. Before the feature’s climactic fray, revenge and redemption earn a mention, for instance, as if viewers aren’t already keenly aware that this is a flick partly about vengeance and vindication. Read more …
The Running Man – 19 May
Film (2025). In this science-fiction action adaptation of Stephen King’s famous novel (adapted previously with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role), director Edgar Wright leads his cast through a near-future America run by a media network known as the Network. The highest rating program on the channel is The Running Man, in which contestants win big money if they can survive for 30 days while the Network’s five hunters try to track them down.
Starring Glen Powell, William H Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera and Emilia Jones.
Marty Supreme – 15 May
Film (2025). Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a wily hustler with a dream no one respects who goes to hell and back in the pursuit of greatness. This propulsive odyssey from Josh Safdie (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Good Time, Uncut Gems) was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and stars an ensemble cast including Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Tyler, The Creator and Kevin O’Leary.
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars – 8 May
Series. Fan favourite queens from past seasons return to the stage for the ultimate prize: to be crowned in the Drag Race Hall of Fame. The challenges are super-sized, as the queens do whatever it takes to secure their legacy.
Amandaland Season 2 – 6 May
Series. Post-divorce, Amanda (Lucy Punch) finds herself downsizing from Chiswick to So-Ha (South Harlesden), while juggling rebellious teenage children and a difficult relationship with her mother Felicity (Joanna Lumley). But with a little rebrand and help from her loyal friend Anne (Philippa Dunne), Amanda strives to make things work as a single, independent mum.
Half Man – 25 April
Series. Ruben and Niall are brothers. Not related in blood but the closest you can get. One, fierce and loyal. The other, meek and mild-mannered. Inseparable youth. Brought into each other’s lives through death and circumstance, all they have is each other. But when Ruben turns up at Niall’s wedding three decades later, everything seems different. He is on edge. Shifty. Not acting like himself.
Soon, an explosion of violence takes place which catapults us back through their lives, from the 80s to the present day. Capturing 30 years in the lives of these broken men, Half Man explores brotherhood, violence, and the intense fragility of male relationships. After all, when things fall apart, it is sometimes the closest relationships that break the hardest.
Starring Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell. Read ScreenHub‘s four-star review.
