The best movies new to streaming this August
August is finally upon us, which means that we’re winding down to the last weeks of summer as we head into the fall season. There are so many exciting new releases to look forward to this month, including M. Night Shyamalan's latest horror movie Trap, Borderlands, the Hunter Schafer-starring horror thriller Cuckoo, Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus, and much more.
If you’re looking for the best movies you can stream from home this month right now, though, don’t fret. We’ve done the hard work of separating the wheat from the chaff so you don’t have to, curating a list of the best movies new to streaming this August. We’ve got a classic comedy starring the legendary Leslie Nielsen, the streaming premiere of the latest installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise, an inimitable Paul Thomas Anderson classic, and that’s just naming a few!
Here are the movies new to streaming services you should watch this month.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Genre: Crime comedy
Director: David Zucker
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson
Some comedies are funny because of a precise alchemy of the perfect script and just the right actors. They feel like a one in a million miracle that would be impossible to repeat. Other comedies work because three or four of the funniest people in the world just happened to be friends, and just happened to trick a studio into giving them enough money to make a movie, and you get the sense that just about everything they say is hilarious. The Naked Gun falls firmly into the latter category.
Written by David and Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Pat Proft, The Naked Guns is a parody of police procedurals that involves everything from a conference of America’s greatest enemies, to an assassination plot against the queen, to a few jarring scenes from O.J. Simpson — who was, at the time, mostly known as a very famous football player. The movie is filled with ridiculous and hilarious jokes, but what really sells them is the brilliant deadpan
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