Time to fritter away the remaining humid days of summer before autumn arrives with the August 2019 offerings on Netflix and Crave TV.
Netflix
1.) Logan Lucky (2017) – August 1st
Two luck-deficient brothers Jimmy, (Channing Tatum) and Clyde Logan (Adam Driver) plan to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway with the help of their deadpan sister Millie (Riley Keough) and safe-cracking convict Joe Bang, (Daniel Craig). The film marked director Steven Soderbergh’s (Ocean’s Eleven) return from his directorial “retirement.”
2.) Friday Night Lights (2006-2011) – August 7th
The football saga of Dillon, Texas and the members of its community, grounded by noble Coach Taylor, (Kyle Chandler) and his wife Tami (Connie Britton) returns to the streaming service – clear hearts, full eyes, can’t lose!
3.) GLOW season 3 – August 9th
The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, corralled by cantankerous director Sam, (Marc Maron) and, are living it large in Las Vegas with their wrestling residency. While frenemies Ruth, (Alison Brie) and Debbie (Betty Gilpin) have cautiously reached a détente, internal and external forces threaten to fracture the group.
4.) Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 (2017) – August 10th
The mismatched, yet complimentary detectives Ward, (Colm Feore) and Bouchard (Patrick Huard) are back, who in the sequel to the 2006 Canadian hit are up against a cart theft ring turned terrorist plot and the most frustrating force of all– the American police force.
5.) Dunkirk (2017) – August 12th
Christopher Nolan’s depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk in the early days of World War II is a technical and visual wonder of a terrifying military retreat, with a surprising timeline and stacked to the gills British talent, from Harry Styles to Tom Hardy to Academy Award-winning Mark Rylance.
6.) Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready – August 13th
Tiffany Haddish pays forward her supernova success in by curating and hosting a showcase of six up-and-coming comedians in this unique Netflix comedy special.
7.) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) – August 15th
Roald Dahl’s classic provided the basis for a world of pure imagination where Golden Ticket winners Charlie Bucket and four bratty children tour confectionery genius Willy Wonka’s (Billy Wilder) chocolate factory and get their “just” desserts.
8.) Instant Family (2018) – August 16th
Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne play a well-meaning, house-flipping suburban couple who decide to foster three siblings (Isabela Moner, Gustavo Escobar, Juliana Gamiz), leading to lots of laughter, drama and compromise – the essential ingredients of family.
9.) The Girl With All the Gifts (2016) – August 23rd
The fate of a little girl named Melanie, (Sennia Nanua) is disputed over by a dissenting groups, (Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine) in a dystopian Britain, where a fungal infection has wiped out most of humanity and birthed a generation of zombie-children who crave flesh but still retain their ability to think and learn.
10.) The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance – August 30th
The prequel television series to Jim Henson’s (The Labyrinth) cult fantasy film The Dark Crystal follows three Gelflings, (Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nathalie Emmanuel) who uncover the horrific truth behind the power of the malevolent Skeksis and spark the resistance to save their world.
Going, Going, Gone! – Titles Leaving Netflix in August
August 1st
Back To The Future (1985)
Back To The Future Part II (1989)
Back To The Future Part III (1990)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Shrek (2001)
Snow White & The Huntsman (2012)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
The Only Way Is Essex (season 18) (2016)
The Only Way Is Essex (season 19) (2017)
August 6th
Jaws (1975)
Jaws 2 (1978)
Jaws 3 (1983)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
August 9th
Baywatch (2017)
Crave TV
1.) Die Hard 1-4 – August 2nd (Starz Programming), A Good Day to Die Hard August 10th (Starz Programming)
The entire yippee-ki-yay action franchise turned ultimate American jingoism text franchise is available binge in one sitting as NYPD Detective John McClane, (Bruce Willis) averts increasingly violent global catastrophes.
2.) My Girl (1991) – August 2nd (Starz Programming)
Vada Sultenfuss, (Anna Chlumsky in her film debut), the young daughter of the town’s widowed funeral director (Richard Masur), comes of age in the summer of 1972 with her best friend Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin).
3.) The House With The Clock In Its Walls (2018) – August 2nd (Crave+Movies+HBO)
Eli Roth (Hostel) blends his horror sensibilities with a Stephen Spielbergian conceit to make a pleasant adventure film throwback. When ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt, (Owen Vaccaro) goes to live with his Uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents die in a car accident, he learns his uncle is a warlock, his neighbor and friend Florence Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett) in a witch and keeps hearing a tick, tick, ticking in the walls of his new, alive home.
4.) Punk – August 8th
The four-part docu-series chronicles the rise of the punk subculture and America and the UK’s most notorious pioneers, produced by Iggy Pop and featuring original interviews from punk legends Johnny Rotten, Debbie Harry, Marky Ramone, Chris Stein and many more.
5.) Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner (1967) – August 9th (Starz Programming)
A staunchly liberal couple’s (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) attitudes are challenged when their only daughter Joanna (Katharine Houghton) returns home early from her vacation with a fiancé, who is a doctor and medical professor, in tow – who is also a black man (Sidney Poitier). The Stanley Kramer film was one of the few films on the Sixties to depict Interracial marriage in a positive light.
6.) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) – August 9th (Crave+Movies+HBO)
Marielle Heller’s sophomore film adapts author Lee Israel’s, (Melissa McCarthy) memoir about how Israel attempted to revitalize her writing career through the forging of letters from deceased literary figures. Richard E. Grant also stars as the flamboyant and tragic Jack Hock, the only person who could stand Israel’s personality.
7.) Succession (2018) – August 11th (Crave+Movies+HBO)
The satirical dramady’s second season continues to examine the highs and lows of the Roy media dynasty, an unholy mixture of the Murdochs and the Trumps. Various Roy family members, (Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfayden, Alan Ruck) plot for control all the while Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is losing his faculties but still sharp enough to be incredibly dangerous.
8.) Creed II (2018) – August 17th (Crave+Movies+HBO)
Adonis “Donnie” Creed, (Michael B. Jordan) must once again grapple with his father’s legacy with the help of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) when he faces off against Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago, in the ring.
9.) The Righteous Gemstones (2019-) – August 18th (Crave+Movies+HBO)
The Christian televangelist complex is hilariously, brutally lampooned in following the lives of the world famous, devout and dysfunctional Gemstone family complex and its father, son and grandson (John Goodman, Danny McBride, Adam DeVine).
10.) On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019-)– August 25th
Kirsten Dunst is a one-woman wrecking crew as minimum-wage water park employee clawing her way to the top of a multi-billion-dollar pyramid scheme that ruined her family.
