What’s New to Stream on Netflix for August 2023

Crossing the Streams is our sequence of guides all of the choices hitting the large streaming companies every month. This time we’re testing what’s new to streaming on Netflix in August 2023, together with Killer Book Club, an entertaining reboot of The River Wild, and extra!

Netflix Pick of the Month for August 2023

Look, I’ll be trustworthy. My success charge in terms of making Netflix Original movies my decide of the month sight unseen has been fairly rattling low. I’m an optimist, although, and I refuse to let that deter me when a film seems worthwhile. Which brings us to August’s decide of the month, Killer Book Club (2023). It’s a brand new Spanish horror/thriller a couple of group of horror story followers who begin getting picked off one after the other by a killer clown. There’s so much right here to pique my curiosity, from horror lovers to homicidal clowns, so whereas I don’t acknowledge any of the filmmaking expertise I’m nonetheless hopeful that this tight, eighty-nine minute thriller would possibly simply convey the loopy clown items.

New Netflix Originals and More

Curtis Hanson’s The River Wild stays one of many mid 90s extra well-crafted journey/thrillers, and it’s removed from a movie you’d suppose was in want of a remake. That’s by no means stopped Universal 1440 Entertainment, although, however whereas most of their direct to video revisits are mediocre at finest, River Wild (2023) is definitely fairly darn entertaining. Leighton Meester steps into Meryl Streep’s very huge footwear whereas Adam Brody performs the sociopath beforehand delivered to life by Kevin Bacon. It’s not a direct remake and as a substitute finds its personal story, however the core idea stays as a nasty man ruins a rafting journey leading to a really imply little thriller.

New movies from Poland don’t all the time attain these shores, however these odds are actually growing due to Netflix’s international attain. Soulcatcher (2023) is a brand new Polish thriller mixing sci-fi thrills and motion with its story of a weapon able to turning folks into psychotic killers. A army man units out to steal it after his circle of relatives falls sufferer, and motion beats and homicide comply with. Director Daniel Markowicz’s fifth movie in 4 years, Soulcatcher seems to be a visually thrilling and fascinating time.

Zombies are one of many extra ubiquitous of film monsters partly as a result of they’re low cost and straightforward to provide. Cake on a little bit make-up, and Bob’s your uncle. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (2023) is a brand new function from Japan, and it seems to be a mixture of quick zombie motion, darkish humor, and thrills. The movie is an adaptation of a well-liked manga and anime, and director Yûsuke Ishida is making his function debut with it. Zom-coms generally is a troublesome subgenre to steadiness proper, however right here’s hoping Ishida and mates nail the mix.

A “Friendly” Double Feature

Sometimes competing film studios launch a pair of movies shut collectively which can be conspicuously related. Think 1998’s Deep Impact and Armageddon as a giant, bombastic instance. 2011 noticed simply that happen with the discharge of No Strings Attached in January and the premiere of Friends With Benefits simply six months later. Both motion pictures are a couple of younger, engaging couple who resolve to hang around and bang with the complication of emotional emotions — shock, they find yourself falling for one another anyway. What makes this particularly fascinating are two issues. First, Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman star within the former whereas Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake star within the second. Kutcher and Kunis are a pair! Is that the place the script idea leaked?! And second, every movie tapped out on the worldwide field workplace with $149 million every. That’s a wild coincidence implying the identical precise folks went to see every movie.

The Oldest New Arrival to Netflix for August 2023

Netflix is deserving of quite a few criticisms, and the streamer’s lack of older titles is someplace close to the highest. It’s a website constructed on new content material and comparatively latest motion pictures, however a number of older titles — pre 90s — often sneak by way of. Steve Martin could also be finest identified for 1991’s L.A. Story, however his filmography options a number of extra bangers through the years. Carl Reiner’s The Jerk (1979) was a monster hit on its $5 million finances and sees Martin taking part in a rustic bumpkin who by chance makes it huge within the metropolis. He’s joined by M. Emmet Walsh, Reiner himself, and a terrific Bernadette Peters, and the comedy stays daring, broad, and hilarious greater than thirty years later. Martin commits to the character whereas discovering enjoyable and coronary heart alongside the way in which, and for these lamenting the dearth of studio comedies today it’s a really humorous time.

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