Here’s Everything Coming To Netflix, Stan, And Amazon Prime Video In August
Something for everyone!
2019 is whipping past us faster than several speeding freight trains attached to a rocket — but hey, at least we have Netflix, Stan, Amazon Prime and SBS On Demand to distract us from the inevitability of time’s passage!
Yep, though the year might officially be starting to wane, the barrage of content we’ve come to expect from our entertainment behemoths sure isn’t. August is stacked with new releases, including scintillating documentaries, true crime horror shows, and enough reboots to satisfy the most nostalgic of viewers.
To that end, here are our highlights of all that is coming to Netflix, Stan, Amazon Prime Video and SBS On Demand this August.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
The actual best Spider-Man film in the entire spider-universe is the animated Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Honestly, I cannot hype this enough.
In the film, a young man named Miles Morales teams up with Spider-people from a whole bunch of alternate realities to save New York.
It stars the voices of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Velez, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, and Liev Schreiber.
You HAVE to watch this film. YOU HAVE TO.
Where you can watch it: Amazon Prime Video
When you can watch it: Tuesday, 13 August.
Mindhunter Season Two
Mindhunter, David Fincher’s chilling drama about the establishment of modern criminal psychology, was something of a breath of fresh air when it first premiered. Which is a strange thing to say, given that it’s a true-crime show. After all, we’re lousy with content about serial killers — how, in our post-My Favourite Murder world, could anybody reinvigorate one of the most cliched genres around?
The answer, apparently, is by shooting it through with more emotional intelligence and technical craft than the form has seen in some time. The first season of the show was an uncommonly smart, frequently brutal investigation into the criminal mind, anchored by two sterling lead performances, and helmed with precision by Fincher.
The second season, about which we know very, very little, should hopefully be much the same. Expect to see Charles Manson (played by Australia’s own Damon Herriman), chilly locales, and a great deal of murder.
Where you can watch it: Netflix
When you can watch it: August 16
Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance
On paper, there’s no way that a Dark Crystal reboot should work.
After all, the first film was a bizarre exercise in and of itself; a work of puppet magic and fantasy that got by solely on the charm of one Jim Henson, the creator of Sesame Street and The Muppets. Reworking one of his properties without him isn’t some insult to his memory: it’s simply a risky proposition.
Well, by all accounts, that risky proposition is about to pay off. Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the multi-part limited series, looks extraordinary. With a packed voice cast, incredibly authentic and — predictably somewhat horrifying — puppets, and a precisely rendered world, Age of Resistance seems ready to be a four-quadrant hit.
Where you can watch it: Netflix
When you can watch it: August 30
Preacher Season Four
Preacher is one of the best comics of the last 50 years, a sterling work of anti-art that mixes up vampires, priests and God himself into a horrendous, heretical stew. It’s also practically unfilmable — an evil, bizarre monstrosity that resists the simplification that most narrative art needs to work.
Well, maybe that’s what one might have thought before Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogan came along. The pair’s TV adaptation of the comic book has somehow shoehorned in something like a recognisable plot without ever sacrificing the story’s stranger flourishes. This is long-form storytelling at its most demented and inspired; the work of a pair of deeply odd geniuses, soaked with blood, horror, and a character with an anus for a face.
The fourth season is the last, so if you’ve not gotten on this sulphur-smelling train yet, now is absolutely your chance.
Where you can watch it: Stan
When you can watch it: August 5
Mad Max: Fury Road
The 2010s are slowly drawing to a close, and, as the dust settles, one thing is clear: bar a Mission: Impossible or two, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the purest accomplishments in action cinema that the decade has to offer.
One long car chase, filled with extraordinary world-building, unbeatable kineticism, and two of the most understated performances Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy have ever turned in, the years have been very kind to Fury Road. Watch it to have your face melted.
Where you can watch it: Stan
When you can watch it: August 10
A Star Is Born
A titanic achievement in pop filmmaking, A Star Is Born absolutely should have swept the Oscars last year. Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody can fuck right off: neither of them hold a single paltry candle to the elegant filmmaking debut of one Bradley Cooper.
But hey, who cares what those duffers at the Academy think? You can pay your own tribute to the savagely beautiful and upsetting musical by watching it every day for the rest of your life. Which, thanks to Foxtel, you absolutely can and should do.
Where you can watch it: Foxtel
When you can watch it: August 3
None of that’s quite enough for you? Well then, never fear: here’s the full list of everything coming to Netflix, Stan, SBS On Demand, Amazon Prime Video and Foxtel in August.
What’s On Netflix In August:
- Dear White People — August 2
- Otherhood — August 2
- The Naked Director — August 8
- Wu Assassins — August 8
- Glow: Season Three — August 9
- Sintonia — August 9
- Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready — August 13
- Diagnosis — August 16
- Mindhunter — August 16
- Sextuplets — August 16
- Simon Amstell: Set Free — August 20
- American Factory — August 21
- Falling In Love — August 29
- Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance — August 30
What’s On SBS On Demand In August
- The Hunting — August 1
- Back To Life — August 1
- Mums Make Porn — August 6
- Untold Australia — August 7
- Deep State — August 8
- Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation — August 11
- The Curse Of Oak Island — August 12
- Blood — August 15
- Asylum City — August 22
- Riviera — August 29
- 600 Days In — August 30
What’s On Stan In August
- The Handmaid’s Tale — August 1
- The Silver Linings Playbook — August 3
- The Insult — August 3
- Graduation — August 4
- Preacher — August 5
- Life Beyond Me — August 6
- 60 Days In — August 9
- Boy Eating The Bird’s Food — August 9
- Mad Max: Fury Road — August 10
- The Lego Movie — August 10
- Infinity Train — August 10
- The Castle — August 11
- Son of Sofia — August 11
- Million Dollar Baby — August 13
- Doubt — August 14
- Sick of It — August 16
- Don John — August 21
- The Split — August 23
- Hollywoodland — August 24
- Power — August 26
- The Delay — August 26
What’s On Foxtel This August
- In Darkness — August 1
- A Star Is Born — August 3
- What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali — August 3
- Share — August 5
- When Missing Turns To Murder — August 6
- Mum — August 9
- Bohemian Rhapsody — August 10
- Succession — August 12
- Lego City Adventures — August 12
- Paw Patrol — August 12
- Gogglebox Australia — August 14
What’s On Prime Video This August
- Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse — Tuesday, 13 August
- This is Football — 2nd August
- Return to Area 51 — 1 August
- The Terror season two “Infamy” — 16 August
- Ghost in the Shell — 15 August
- Ghost in the Shell 2.0 — 15 August
- Dante’s Inferno — 15 August
- Holmes and Watson — 27 August
- Carnival Row — August 30