After The Sandman and Prey began streaming this month with a bang, the list of new movies and TV shows worth your attention grows as we approach the next weekend in August.
The latest comers collection is the new Netflix Day Shift movie, which it joined on the Locke and Key streamer in Season 3, and a handful of new Netflix documentaries. Then there’s Prime Video’s latest comedy reboot, A League of Own, and the heart-rending new Apple TV Plus medical drama, Five Days at Memorial.
Below, we’ve summarized the seven biggest new movies and TV shows available for streaming on platforms such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney Plus this weekend.
Day shift (Netflix)
This week’s leader on Netflix is Day Shift, who looks set to please fans of horror movies, silly comedy movies and, um, Snoop Dogg?
Jamie Foxx leads the film’s cast as Bud Jablonski, a working class father who uses his down-to-earth job cleaning a San Fernando Valley pool as an elaborate cover for his true profession: killing vampires. Snoop “Doggy” Dogg stars as Jablonski’s partner, Big John Elliott, and Dave Franco also stars as Dave Franco.
Coming from the mind of martial artist JJ Perry (whose stunt writers are Ultraviolet and The Town), expect Day Shift to be an appropriately high-octane affair – though early reviews suggest it isn’t exactly Kane’s next citizen.
Now you can stream on Netflix.
A League of Your Own (Best Movie)
The fast-growing Prime Video TV list gets another boost this weekend with its own League, which is now available to stream in full.
A serial remake of the 1992 classic Penny Marshall comedy of the same name, which follows the professional WWII women’s baseball team as it navigates America’s rapidly changing politics on and off the sports field. Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson produces and stars, with D’Arcy Carden, Kelly McCormack and Nick Offerman in the supporting cast of the series.
Reviews for A League of Their Own have been almost generally positive so far, with some critics even finding Jacobson’s adaptation superior to the source material.
Now you can stream on Prime Video.
Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV Plus)
Apple TV Plus is no stranger to macabre drama, and Five Days at Memorial seems to be the streamer’s most grim offering.
Based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Sheri Fink, this eight-episode series documents the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in a New Orleans hospital flooded by desperate patients. Vera Farmiga stars alongside Cherry Jones, Robert Pine and Cornelius Smith Jr., with John Ridley (12 years slave) and Carlton Cuse (Lost) as showrunners.
New Five Days at Memorial episodes will be broadcast weekly every Friday, although the first three entries are now available for streaming on Apple TV Plus.
Now you can stream to Apple TV Plus.
Locke and Key season 3 (Netflix)
The supernatural series Locke and Key returns this weekend on Netflix with its third and final season.
Adaptation of the fantasy comic series Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, it follows a trio of siblings – Kinsey (Emilia Jones of CODA), Tyler (Connor Jessup) and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) – who, after murdering their father, move to their ancestral home, a mysterious mansion filled with locked doors and magic keys.
In season three, the Locke clan fights a British Army captain, whose already cruel soul has been additionally tainted by a demon from behind the Black Door. As is usual with most Netflix shows, all eight episodes can be streamed in one go.
Now you can stream on Netflix.
I’m Groot (Disney Plus)
A sequel to Disney’s weird but welcome 2022 animated short is I Am Groot, which is now airing on Disney Plus.
This five-episode limited series takes place between the events of Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel, following your favorite superheroes in various adventures in the Marvel universe. Vin Diesel reprises his role as the voice of Baby Groot, while Bradley Cooper also appears as Rocket in several episodes.
Like Baymax! before that I Am Groot is a less necessary watch and more carefree bonus material for die-hard character fans, but its irrelevant place in the development of the MCU Phase 4 the storyline may prove refreshing for some.
Now you can stream on Disney Plus.
I just killed my dad (Netflix)
Most of the features on our list the best Netflix documentaries it’s about a rather macabre subject, and I just killed my dad is the most important one in this number.
This three-part film by director Skye Borgman (who authored another Netflix true crime documentary, Girl In The Picture) tells the true story of Anthony Templet, a Louisiana teenager who shot his father in 2019.
More like a why than a criminal, I Just Killed My Dad features more twists than a hedge maze, and the mystery surrounding Templet’s evidently unconventional upbringing will leave you stuck to the screen. Just don’t watch it with the whole family (three guesses why).
Now you can stream on Netflix.
Princess (HBO Max)
The third of the evidence-based choices this week (we’re counting five days at Memorial) is The Princess in HBO Max.
Constructed entirely of archival material, this full-length, in-depth footage takes a microscope to the life and death of Princess Diana, Royal, who was met with overwhelming public adoration and intense scrutiny from the establishment she married.
The Princess was commissioned to celebrate Diana’s 25th death anniversary, and the film debuted at Sundance earlier this year and received overall positive reviews. UK viewers will be able to stream this on Sky and Now TV from Sunday.
Available to stream to HBO Max Saturday and Sky and Now TV Sunday.