If you’re looking to enjoy the last month of winter cosy and warm indoors then you’re clearly going to need premium streaming content to keep you company. This August, Netflix US caters to those searching for a new series as well as those wanting a movie to go with their popcorn. Let’s check out some highlights.
It’s a who’s who of hilarious in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (Season 1). While 2015’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp was a prequel to the original 2001 film, Ten Years Later is set – naturally – 10 years after. The campers and counsellors are back together for the decade reunion they promised one another they’d have. The cast features some of the funniest names in Hollywood including Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) and Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games).
Kicking off its debut season is Marvel’s The Defenders. Comic buffs will be thrilled to have Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones) teamed up and ready to fight crime in the Big Apple. Used to fighting crime alone, the four superheroes will discover whether they work better together.
Atypical is a new series that tells the story of Sam (Keir Gilchrist), an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum. When he decides he wants a girlfriend, Sam and his mother must navigate this new path to independence. Streaming from August 11.
Enjoy an ultra-binge on the mind-bending movie trilogy, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Starring Keanu Reeves (To The Bone) as computer hacker Neo, Laurence Fishburne (Batman v Superman) as Morpheus and Carrie-Anne Moss (Jessica Jones) as Trinity, the original film won Oscars for its incredible visual and sound effects. And here’s a piece of trivia for you. At the time, the movies were credited to The Wachowski Brothers but have since been altered to reflect the transgender writer/directors who now go by the names Lana and Lilly Wachowski. They have gone on to create Netflix Original series, Sense8.
And from prolific creator/producer Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men) and writer David Javerbaum (The Colbert Report) comes new Netflix Originals comedy series, Disjointed. It stars Hollywood veteran Kathy Bates (American Horror Story) as Ruth, a legalisation advocate who finally fulfils her dream of opening a marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles. Assisting her at Ruth’s Alternative Caring are her ambitious son and a team of young ‘budtenders.’ Stream Disjointed from August 25.
For a complete list of titles coming and going from Netflix this August, read on.
Available August 1
A Cinderella Story
Bad Santa
Cloud Atlas
Crematorium (Season 1)
Everyone’s Hero
Funny Games
Innerspace
Jackie Brown
Lord of War
Maz Jobrani: Immigrant
Nola Circus
Opening Night
Practical Magic
Sleepy Hollow
Small Soldiers
Surviving Escobar, Alias JJ (Season 1)
The Addams Family
The Astronaut’s Wife
The Bomb
The Hollywood Masters (Season 1)
The Last Mimzy
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Number 23
The Royal House of Windsor (Season 1)
The Truth About Alcohol
The Wedding Party
Tie the Knot
Who Gets the Dog
Wild Wild West
August 2
Jab We Met
The Founder
August 3
Sing
The Invisible Guardian
August 4
Icarus
Voltron: The Legendary Defender (Season 3)
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (Season 1)
August 5
Holes
August 8
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Season 7)
August 9
Black Site Delta
August 10
Diary of an Exorcist — Zero
August 11
Atypical (Season 1)
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (Season 3)
Naked
True and the Rainbow Kingdom (Season 1)
White Gold
August 13
Arthur and the Invisibles
Hot Property
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
August 14
The Outcasts
Urban Hymn
August 15
21
A New Economy
All These Sleepless Nights
Barbeque
Brad Paisley’s Comedy Rodeo
Donald Cried
Murderous Affair (Season 1)
My Ex-Ex
The Sweet Life
August 16
Gold
August 18
Dinotrux (Season 5)
Glitter Force Doki Doki (Season 1)
I Am Sam
Marvel’s The Defenders (Season 1)
What Happened to Monday
August 19
Hide and Seek
August 20
Camera Store
August 21
AWOL
Bad Rap
Beautiful Creatures
Gomorrah (Season 2)
Unacknowledged
August 22
Lynne Koplitz: Hormonal Beast
Sadie’s Last Days on Earth
August 23
Feel Rich
August 25
Disjointed: Part 1
Death Note
DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge (Season 5)
Once Upon a Time (Season 6)
August 29
Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack
Ryan Hamilton: Happy Face
The Good Place (Season 1)
August 31
Be Afraid
Leaving August 1
10 Things I Hate About You
Justice League Unlimited (Season 1)
Justice League Unlimited (Season 2)
Justice League (Season 1)
Justice League (Season 2)
Babe
Babe Winkelman’s Outdoor Secrets: 2014: Quarter 4
Babe: Pig in the City
Beneath the Helmet
Black Widow
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Electric Slide
Elizabethtown
From the Terrace
From Time to Time
Goodbye World
Horsemen
Hunter X Hunter (Seasons 1-5)
Josef Fritzl: Story of a Monster
Malibu’s Most Wanted
Prefontaine
Russell Brand: End the Drugs War
Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery
Teacher’s Pet
The Delivery Man (Season 1)
The Diabolical
The Heavy Wanter War (Season 1)
The Hunt (Season 1)
The Little Engine That Could
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
The Verdict
Young Justice (Season 1-2)
Young @ Heart
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
August 4
Superbad
August 5
Pelican Dreams
Personal Gold: An Underdog Story
August 6
Human Capital
The Spoils of Babylon (Season 1)
August 9
The Five Venoms
August 10
Dope
August 11
For Blood Moons
Jesus People: The Movie
Patch Town
Two Days, One Night
August 14
Drones
Food Matters
August 15
American Dad (Seasons 1-4)
Changing Seas (Seasons 3-6)
Close Quarter Battle (Season 1)
The New Frontier (Season 1)
Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries (Season 1)
To Kill a Mockingbird
August 23
The Summer of Sangaile
August 24
Gun Woman
August 25
October Gale
Paratodos
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
August 28
Revenge (Seasons 1-4)
August 30
The League (Seasons 1-7)
August 31
Space Warriors
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