After The Sandman and Prey kicked off this month’s streaming with a bang, the list of new movies and TV shows worth your attention is getting longer as we head into another August weekend.
Among the latest arrivals is the new Netflix movie Day Shift, along with Locke and Key Season 3 on the streamer and a handful of new Netflix documentaries. Then there’s Prime Video’s latest comedy reboot, A League of Their Own, and Apple TV Plus’s heartbreaking new medical drama Five Days at Memorial.
Below, we’ve rounded up seven of the biggest new movies and TV shows available to stream this weekend on services like Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney Plus.
Day Shift (Netflix)
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Jamie Foxx leads the film’s cast as Bud Jablonski, a blue-collar father who uses his day job cleaning pools in the San Fernando Valley for his true calling: killing vampires. Snoop ‘Doggy’ Dogg plays Jablonski’s partner, Big John Elliott, and Dave Franco is also Dave Franco’s character.
From martial arts expert JJ Perry (whose stunt credits include Ultraviolet and The Town), Day Shift is expected to be a suitably high-octane affair – although early reviews suggest it won’t be the next Citizen Kane.
Now available to stream on Netflix.
A League of Their Own (Prime Video)
Prime Video’s fast-improving TV lineup gets another boost this weekend in the form of A League of Their Own , now available to stream in full. On the same subject : Netflix is trying to keep its latest subscribers.
The series adaptation of Penny Marshall’s classic 1992 comedy of the same name follows a World War II-era women’s professional baseball team as they navigate rapidly changing American politics both on and off the sports field. Produced and starring Abbi Jacobson in Broad City, the series also stars D’Arcy Carden, Kelly McCormack and Nick Offerman.
Reviews of A League of Their Own have so far been almost universally positive, with some critics considering Jacobson’s adaptation even better than its source material.
Now available to stream on Prime Video.
Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV Plus)
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This eight-episode series is based on Sheri Fink’s nonfiction book of the same name and documents the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at a New Orleans hospital that was flooded with desperate patients. Vera Farmiga stars alongside Cherry Jones, Robert Pine and Cornelius Smith Jr. and is hosted by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Carlton Cuse (Lost).
New episodes of Five Days at Memorial stream every Friday each week, though its first three entries are now available on Apple TV Plus.
Now available to stream on Apple TV Plus.
Locke and Key season 3 (Netflix)
The supernatural drama series Locke and Key returns to Netflix this weekend for its third and final season.
The adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s fantasy comic book series follows a trio of siblings – Kinsey (CODA Emilia Jones), Tyler (Connor Jessup) and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) – who move into their ancestral home, a mysterious mansion full of locked doors, after their father’s murder. and magic keys.
Season 3 finds the Locke clan facing off against a British army captain whose already cruel soul has been further corrupted by the demon from behind the black door. As with most Netflix shows, all eight episodes are available to stream in one fell swoop.
Now available to stream on Netflix.
I Am Groot (Disney Plus)
In 2022, Disney continues its series of strange but welcome animated shorts, I Am Groot, now streaming on Disney Plus.
Set between the events of Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel, this five-part limited series follows everyone’s favorite superhero seedlings on various misadventures across the Marvel Universe. Vin Diesel reprises his role as the voice of Baby Groot, while Bradley Cooper also appears in several episodes as Rocket.
Like Baymax! Before that, I Am Groot is less required viewing and more frivolous extra material for die-hard fans of the characters, but its inconsequential place in the MCU’s elaborate Phase 4 storyline might even be refreshing to some.
Now available to stream on Disney Plus.
I Just Killed My Dad (Netflix)
Most of the features on our list of the best Netflix documentaries deal with a fairly gruesome subject, and I Just Killed My Dad is chief among that number.
This three-parter from director Skye Borgman (who helmed Netflix’s other true crime documentary Girl In The Picture) tells the true story of Anthony Templet, the Louisiana teenager who shot and killed his father in 2019.
I Just Killed My Dad, more of a misadventure than a kesunit, has more twists and turns than hedge mazes, and the mystery surrounding Templet’s decidedly unorthodox upbringing will keep you glued to the screen. Just don’t watch it with the whole family (three guesses why).
Now available to stream on Netflix.
The Princess (HBO Max)
The third of this week’s fact-based selections (we’re considering Five Days in Memorial) is HBO Max’s Princess.
Based entirely on archival footage, the feature-length dive takes a microscope to the life and death of Princess Diana, a royal who faced overwhelming public adoration and intense scrutiny from the establishment she married.
Commissioning Princess coincided with the 25th anniversary of Diana’s death, and the film debuted at Sundance earlier this year to generally positive reviews. UK viewers can stream it on Sky and Now from Sunday.
Available to stream on HBO Max from Saturday and Sky and Now TV from Sunday.
