What’s New on Netflix UK This Week: April 15th, 2022

Director: Todd Phillips
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller | Runtime: 122 Minutes
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zaziie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett. Cullen

The iconic role of the Joker has now seen two academy awards won, the first, a best supporting actor award for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, and the second which belongs to Joaquin Phoenix for best actor in a leading role.

Clown by day, and troubled comedian by night, Arthur Fleck just can’t catch a break in Gotham City. Put down mistreated and disregarded by society, Arthur’s psyche spirals out of control with bloody consequences for Gotham City, as his alter-ego, the Joker, emerges.

Director: Asa Butterfield
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller | Runtime: 84 Minutes
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Eddie Marsan, Robert Englund, Kate Fleetwood, Iola Evans

Taking a step aside from Sex Education, Asa Butterfield takes on a new horror for Netflix.

In her pursuit of claiming an unclaimed $100,000 prize, a broke student is forced to play a 1980s survival game. But upon playing she unleashes a supernatural horror that begins to tear reality apart with deadly consequences.

Director: Judd Apatow
Genre: Comedy, Drama | Runtime: 136 Minutes
Cast: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez, Lou Wilson, Moises Arias

Love him or hate him, Pete Davidson is currently one of the most popular and controversial comedians in America.

At the age of seven, Scott’s firefighter father died, and ever since he has struggled to overcome his grief. Now in his 20s, Scott has achieved very little, spending most of his days smoking weed and dreaming of becoming a tattoo artist. When his mother begins dating Ray, a fireman, like

his father, it forces Scott to face his grief and the first steps needed to move forward with his life.