Disney+ Adds Daisy Ridley Movie

Disney+ has buoyed this month’s slate with the July 19 premiere of the acclaimed Daisy Ridley movie, Young Woman and the Sea.

She plays Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel.

Born to immigrant parents in 1905 New York City, the blurb says she “overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the staggering achievement”.

Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia, Christopher Eccleston and Glenn Fleshler co-star; view the trailer here.

In other streaming updates:

➢ Netflix today released the teaser trailer for the six-part murder mystery The Perfect Family (September 5), which stars Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Dakota Fanning.

➢ Apple TV+ is whetting the appetite for its pending eight-part culinary docuseries, Omnivore, with this trailer. Reads the blurb:

Each episode celebrates the cultivation, transformation, and consumption of eight of the world’s most essential ingredients, including banana, chile, coffee, corn, pork, rice, salt, and tuna, revealing how they serve as the cornerstones of global cultural heritage.

➢ Apple TV+ also has released a sneak peek of season two of quirky workplace thriller, Severance, which streams from January 17.

➢ Setting sail July 24 on Apple TV+ is the first TV adaptation of Time Bandits, starring Lisa Kudrow. Here’s the trailer for the live-action, comedic adventure series created by Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris and Taika Waititi.