Bookworm

Bookworm (2024) is a New Zealand family comedy-adventure you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ant Timpson. When eleven-year-old Mildred's mother ends up in hospital, the dad she barely knows — American magician Strawn Wise, played by Elijah Wood — shows up to look after her.

His idea of bonding: drag this bookish kid on a camping trip into the notoriously rugged New Zealand backcountry to hunt for the Canterbury Panther, a creature most locals consider pure myth. What unfolds is less a monster hunt and more two strangers who happen to share a surname learning how to actually talk to each other. Wood plays Strawn as a well-meaning mess rather than a charming hero, and that choice makes the film genuinely work. Stream Bookworm (2024) online on iFILM.