Enola Holmes 3, the latest instalment in the Victorian-era teen mystery series, premieres on Netflix this Wednesday, 1 July. The film reunites screenwriter Jack Thorne and director Philip Barantini, who previously collaborated on the Netflix mega-hit Adolescence. In this third movie, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) is preparing for her destination wedding to Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge) when a crisis strikes. Dr Watson (Himesh Patel) arrives in Malta to inform her that her brother, Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), has been kidnapped. Mother Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter) trusts only Enola to rescue him.
A Foreign Affair: Satirical Comedy from Billy Wilder
A Foreign Affair, directed by Billy Wilder, airs on Monday, 29 June at 12:55pm on Film4. This satirical screwball comedy from the early cold war period follows American GI Captain Pringle (John Lund) who takes up with a Nazi cabaret singer (Marlene Dietrich) in postwar Berlin. Meanwhile, an Iowa congresswoman (Jean Arthur) watches in heartbroken dismay. The film explores love and tolerance in absurd circumstances.
The First Wives Club: Female Empowerment Comedy
The First Wives Club, a 1996 comedy starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton, airs on Tuesday, 30 June at 11:15pm on Sky Cinema Greats. The three play old college friends who reunite at the funeral of their fourth friend (Stockard Channing), driven to death by an evil ex-husband. Recognising similarities in their own situations, the trio of divorcees seek righteous revenge, culminating in a song-and-dance number to Lesley Gore's You Don't Own Me.
A Cock and Bull Story: Metafictional Comedy
A Cock and Bull Story, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, airs on Wednesday, 30 June at 9pm on BBC Three. This madcap adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th-century metafictional novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman follows a British film crew trying to adapt the book. It marks the first time Brydon and Coogan co-starred as heightened versions of themselves, leading to four series of The Trip.
The Last Tree: Hypnotic Coming-of-Age Tale
The Last Tree, a British coming-of-age film starring Sam Adewunmi as Femi, a British Nigerian who moves from Lincolnshire to London to Lagos in search of identity, airs on Wednesday, 30 June at 1:25am on Film4. Gbemisola Ikumelo plays Femi's birth mother. Writer-director Shola Amoo's visuals show the influence of Terrence Malick, but the emotional insights are uniquely his own.
Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story: Sex and Activism
Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story, produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, premieres on Wednesday, 1 July on HBO Max. The documentary chronicles Robin Byrd, who began broadcasting her weekly sex show on public access television in 1977. She became a local celebrity and LGBTQ+ activist, fighting decades-long legal battles with Time Warner Cable (now Warner Bros Discovery, the documentary's broadcaster). The film explores her pioneering role in New York's open-minded era.
Nosferatu the Vampyre: Haunting Vampire Classic
Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog's 1979 homage to FW Murnau's 1922 silent masterpiece, airs on Friday at 12:40am on Talking Pictures TV. Klaus Kinski plays Count Orlok with pathos, while Isabelle Adjani plays his victim Ellen, caught between disgust and desire. The film features 11,000 live rats and mummified corpses from an 1833 cholera epidemic, creating haunting imagery.
