Netflix is dropping titles that are sure to shine all August long, so get ready to check out the best movies and shows streaming now. You can count on Netflix to lead the way with incredible and innovative new content like Netflix Original movies The Union and The Deliverance, in addition to Netflix Original series The Umbrella Academy: Season 4 and Emily in Paris: Season 4, Part 1, and so much more.
All month long, people have been eagerly waiting to see what new titles would be coming to Netflix. From old classics to brand new films having their premieres, Netflix is full of top-notch movies, documentaries, and comedy specials this August, but there were two that in particular stuck out above the rest. Here are the best new movies on Netflix this month.
This August, the shows on Netflix are more exciting than ever before, but two of those titles stand out above the rest. Here are some of the best new shows that Netflix is bringing your way this month.
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At the end of the 19th century, there was a shift when it came to breakfast food. Between the Industrial Revolution and the urbanization happening in the United States, people began to think differently about food and how it correlates with health, Purinton says.
John Harvey Kellogg was one of the people exploring this. He ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium in industrial Battle Creek, Michigan, and believed in the importance of healthy eating. He even published a book on gut health, according to Purinton. He developed many of his own foods to give to patients at the sanitarium, which is how corn flakes came to be, presenting them as a breakfast food for the first time.
One of the patients at the sanitarium was C.W. Post. He was impressed with cornflakes, according to Purinton, and came up with his own ready-to-eat breakfast cereal, Grape-Nuts, leading to Post Consumer Brands, the company behind cereals like Raisin Bran and Honey Bunches of Oats today.
Since cereal had a longer shelf life, it was preferable as a breakfast option to pastries, which expired quickly. This left a gap in the market for a ready-to-go breakfast pastry with a longer shelf life.
At the time, Purinton says, Post was experimenting with food packaging that could increase the shelf life of products and wanted to create a breakfast pastry with a soft fruity filling that could be wrapped in foil and kept for longer. They announced they were going to introduce this product to the market, but needed more time.
Lots of familiar faces. The Saw and the Fast and Furious franchises hit their 10th entry, while Tom Cruise will be looking to repeat his Top Gun: Maverick mega-success with Mission: Impossible movie no. 7. Look out for sequels involving John Wick, The Expendables, Ghostbusters, Creed and Kenneth Branagh's version of Hercule Poirot. Netflix is bringing back hugely popular action flick Extraction and TV detective Luther. Even Magic Mike is having one last ride. And Harrison Ford may be in his 80s, but that won't stop the fifth Indiana Jones adventure swinging into theaters.
We've lost count of how many Transformers movies there are, but there's a new one in 2023. We also return to the world of the Hunger Games and Willy Wonka with new prequels. It's another big year for horror, too: after M3gan was a hit, the Conjuring and Insidious franchises keep rolling, while horror icons The Exorcist and The Evil Dead rise again.
Speaking of sequels and franchises, of course there are a ton of superhero movies. Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp kick things off for the MCU, with the Guardians of the Galaxy in action for a third and possibly final time before newer heroes cross over from Disney Plus for team-up adventure The Marvels. Outside of the MCU, the much-anticipated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse also drops, and we'll see another Venom-style Spider-spinoff, Kraven the Hunter. Meanwhile comic book rivals DC bring back Aquaman and the Flash, and also introduce new face Blue Beetle.
It's not just comics being plundered for the big screen: This year's toy and game adaptations include Dungeons and Dragons, Super Mario Bros. and Gran Turismo. Meanwhile Disney celebrates its 100th anniversary with the new cartoon Wish, theme park-inspired Haunted Mansion and a live-action reboot of The Little Mermaid, not to mention Pixar film Elemental and an as-yet-unknown film in December.
Some of the year's sequels and blockbusters are at least helmed by directors we're happy to see more of, like Nia DaCosta, Steven Soderbergh, Neil Blomkamp and Paddington's Paul King. Indie horror icon Ben Wheatley directs Jason Statham punching a megashark in The Meg 2, while Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 2 have viewers hyped. Zack Snyder also fills in the gap left by the lack of a Star Wars or Avatar in theaters this Christmas with Rebel Moon on Netflix.
Speaking of cool filmmakers, we'll also see original films from Christopher Nolan, M. Night Shyamalan, Taika Waititi, Nicole Holofcener, Kenya Barris, Luca Guadagnino and Adele Lim. And as ever, January's Sundance Film Festival showcases talented indie and up-and-coming filmmakers telling unique and unexpected stories.
But delays are still happening: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the Mario movie, Aquaman 2, Madame Web and The Flash have all shifted in the schedule. Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 have been pushed back multiple times, while delays to Blade have reshuffled phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The title says it all: the true story of a bear that ate a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985. Elizabeth Banks directs Keri Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Margo Martindale and Ray Liotta.
A ghost haunting their new home turns a family into overnight social media sensations, but when young Kevin and the ghost team up they become a target of the CIA. Anthony Mackie, David Harbour, Tig Notaro and Golden Globe winner Jennifer Coolidge star in this Netflix film.
Bobby Farrelly directs Woody Harrelson, Cheech Marin and Kaitlin Olson in the no doubt very sensitively handled story of a former minor-league basketball coach ordered to guide a team of players with intellectual disabilities.
Tom Cruise follows megahit Top Gun: Maverick with this spy thriller sequel. Mission: Impossible 7 has been postponed multiple times, and each time it's moved it also pushes back follow-up Mission: Impossible 8.
Margot Robbie climbs into her dream car as the live-action version of fashion toy Barbie. Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Hari Nef and Will Ferrell co-star in a film directed by Greta Gerwig, who's also co-writing with Noah Baumbach.
Alice Walker's powerful novel was already adapted to the big screen by Steven Spielberg in 1985, but this new musical version instead draws on the 2005 stage production. Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones produce. Fantasia Barrino, Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins, Danielle Brooks, H.E.R., Halle Bailey, Ciara and Aunjanue Ellis star.
Gabrielle Union stars in this Netflix adaptation of Tia Williams' novel, about a 40-year-old woman fighting for a comeback in the fashion industry who risks it all for an intensely lusty secret romance.
An unlikely hero emerges from prison to take on a world enmeshed in corporate greed and eroding spiritual values, seeking revenge from those who took everything from him many years ago. Dev Patel writes, directs and stars on Netflix.
An astronaut sent to the edge of the galaxy turns to the only voice that can help him try to put his life back together: a creature from the beginning of time lurking in the shadows of his ship. Based on the book Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar, this Netflix film stars Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano and Kunal Nayyar.
Netflix presents another adaptation of the Chinese myth of the Monkey King, in an action-packed family comedy that follows a monkey and his magical fighting stick on an epic quest where they must go head to head against gods, demons, dragons and the greatest enemy of all, Monkey's own ego.
Netflix biopic starring Colman Domingo as gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Audra McDonald, Jeffrey Wright and CCH Pounder also star.
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