Here’s Everything Coming To Netflix, Stan And Amazon Prime In July
July is action-packed.
July is almost upon us, which means that somehow, horrifyingly, the year is officially beginning to wane. But hey, don’t be sad that another 365 days are going rocketing by — be glad, for we have been blessed with a bounty of new shows and movies hitting Stan, Netflix, Foxtel, Amazon Prime Video and SBS On Demand.
Yep, we might be collectively speeding up on our jog around this mortal coil, but at least we have a veritable shitload of new entertainment properties to keep us company while we’re doing it. From weirdo superhero deconstructions, to one of the biggest streaming success stories yet, July really does have something for everybody.
Here then is your complete list of everything hitting Stan, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Foxtel and SBS On Demand.
Stranger Things Season Three
Is there any series that reflects the worldwide domination of streaming services better than Stranger Things? The Amblin throwback is one of the biggest hits in the entire streaming landscape, a four quadrant success that has launched a range of tie-in novels, mobile games and aftershows.
With each season, as streaming has become the default way of consuming entertainment, so too has the most prized asset in the Netflix Originals roster got bigger and more gilded. Now in its third season, Stranger Things boasts better production value — and more nuanced, intelligent scriptwriting — than most Hollywood movies.
Let’s just hope that this embarassment of riches doesn’t collapse under its own weight.
Where you can watch it: Netflix
When you can watch it: July 4
The Boys
There’s no person in comics more depraved than Garth Ennis. The enfant terrible of the so-called “British invasion” of the ’80s, Ennis is as bloodthirsty and crude as his contemporary Alan Moore is cerebral, or his good mate Grant Morrison is downright bizarre. And the jewel in the man’s crown of thorns is The Boys, a sex and horror-stuffed takedown of the superhero genre that trades caped antics for the seamier side of a world full of titans.
Now, The Boys has been transformed into a series, and if the trailer is anything to go by, the trademark Ennisian violence and horror hasn’t been toned down one iota. Come for a woman getting obliterated into a pile of bloody moosh by a super-fast superhero, stay for a baby with laser eyes being wielded like a weapon.
Where you can watch it: Amazon Prime Video
When you can watch it: July 26
The Last Man On Earth
When Fox cancelled The Last Man On Earth in May last year, the TV comedy scene lost one of its strangest pleasures. Ostensibly a bizarro sitcom that follows a man (Will Forte, also the show’s creator) as he traverses a world that has been (almost) emptied of everybody but him, the show spurned post-apocalyptic grimness in favour of Monty Python-esque side quests and weird, babbling supporting characters.
But hey, though we might never have been blessed with the deliciously depraved series finale that Forte had planned, there’s nothing stopping you from going back and enjoying the whole surreal lark from beginning to end — which you can, thanks to those folks over at SBS On Demand.
Where you can watch it: SBS On Demand
When you can watch it: July 5
Ash Is The Purest White
If you’ve ever despaired about the deluge of critically-acclaimed international content that seems to just miss Australia altogether, then does SBS have the channel for you. SBS World Movies boasts a bevy of niche and hard-to-find content, from the entire back catalogue of Studio Ghibli to the underseen and underrated Loving Pablo, a dark romance starring real-life couple Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
One of the key watches in that deluge of great stuff is Ash Is The Purest White, the new film from Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke. Imagine the world’s strangest and most beautiful gangster story and you’re sort of on the right track — only sort of though, given that Zhangke’s movies speak in a visual language entirely of their own.
Where you can watch it: SBS World Movies
When you can watch it: July 5
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 July.
What’s On Netflix In July:
- Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room — July 1
- Stranger Things (Season Three) — July 4
- Point Blank — July 12
- Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein — July 16
- Secret Obsession — July 18
- Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee — July 19
- Orange Is The New Black — July 26
- Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It — July 30
What’s On Foxtel In July:
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 + 2 — July 1
- Old School — July 1
- The Wolverine — July 1
- Zookeeper — July 1
- Dance Academy — July 1
- The Silence of the Lambs — July 1
- This Means War — July 1
- A Private War — July 1
- On Chesil Beach — July 1
- Divorce (Season Three) — July 2
- Ice on Fire — July 13
- I Love You Now Die: The Commonwealth v Michelle Carter — July 13
- Snowfall (Season Three) — July 17
- Grand Designs (Season Eight) — July 17
- The Many Sides of Jane — July 17
- How I Caught The Killer — July 18
- Hunted (Season Four) — July 18
- Lambs of God — July 21
- Lawyer X — July 22
- Alone (Season Six) — July 23
- Abandoned Engineering — July 25
What’s On Amazon Prime Video:
- Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween — 1 July
- Elton John: Becoming Rocket Man –1 July
- The Patriot — 1 July
- The Long Dumb Road — 1 July
- Resurrection –1 July
- Camouflage — 1 July
- Justice — 1 July
- Point Blank — 1 July
- Fulfillment — 1 July
- Defenseless –1 July
- The Long Walk Home — 1 July
- Queen’s Logic –1 July
- Rooftops –1 July
- Sweet Talker — 1 July
- Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny — 5 July
- Matoma: One in a Million –8 July
- Michelle Obama: Hope Becomes Change — 9 July
- Alpha — 9 July
- The King of Comedy — 14 July
- Shutter — 14 July
- Sharkwater Extinction — 21 July
- The Boys — July 26
What’s On SBS On Demand In July:
- Through The Fire — July 1
- Lion — July 1
- Rafiki — July 1
- Amanda — July 3
- Ash Is The Purest White — July 5
- The Last Man On Earth (Season One to Four) — July 5
- Robbie Hood — July 5
- Sky Hunter — July 6
- The 12th Man — July 6
- Loving Pablo — July 7
- A Ghost Story — July 10
- Moscow Noir — July 11
- The Journey — July 12
- Swing Kids — July 12
- The Emperor Of Paris — July 13
- Chasing The Moon — July 14
- Sexplora (Seasons One to Three) — July 15
- The Three of Us — July 17
- You Disappear — July 17
- M: A City Hunts A Murderer — July 18
- Mea Culpa — July 20
- Mulan — July 24
- Final Portrait — July 24
- Bosch (Season Five) — July 25
- Knightfall — July 31