Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video Australia: July 2024

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video‘s Australian library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks: TV

Sausage Party: Foodtopia (July 11)

I must be frank here (Ha aa! Frankfurter! Sausage…joke!) and say that I more or less hated the 2016 adult animated comedy Sausage Party, a film which some critics hailed as a scathing religious satire. While I can’t wholeheartedly recommend this belated follow-up series, you might be the kind of person who cracks up at the idea that hot dogs and buns may be a wry metaphor for genitalia, and that a pita wrap and a bagel might represent Israeli-Palestinian conflict (I’m especially not keen to see how that gag is going to pan out here…). Hey, all power to you! Fire up the barbecue and let Seth Rogen’s juvenile jokes grill away.

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Those About To Die: Season 1 (July 19)

A proper swords and sandals epic, with Anthony Hopkins casting his chilling gaze about the gladiatorial arena as a Roman emperor. This prestigious-looking period series gathers up a bunch of Game of Thrones actors and arms them with ancient weapons, probably not sticking too closely to historical accounts in a battle royale of power and vengeance. The show’s produced by disaster movie maestro Roland Emmerich, with all the sweeping CGI landscapes and haughty proclamations you’d expect of such a project’s script: thumbs up or thumbs down?

Top picks: movies + specials

Twister (July 1)

We’re about to get a sequel to this gusty 1996 thriller, so now’s the perfect time for a rewatch—and boy does it hold up, with a perfectly-paced, special effects-heavy third act that particularly takes advantage of a natural phenomenon’s terrifying, unnatural might. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play stormchasing scientists who can’t bring themselves to get divorced, and only destructive towers of wind, debris, and some unfortunate cattle can bring them back together!

At two hours long, it lacks some of the oomph and mortal stakes of director Jan De Bont’s other iconic 90s thriller Speed, but that film also doesn’t have Phillip Seymour Hoffman in peak loveable slob mode, so…

Space Cadet (July 4)

Think Legally Blonde but at NASA, and you’re on the right track with this lively romantic comedy. Emma Roberts plays a ditzy Florida gal who fudges a few truths on her application to a prestigious astronaut training program, and winds up way over her head on a real mission to the cosmos. A movie built around a big absurd lie like this always builds to that devastating second-act turn, where our heroine gets found out and has to prove herself to the friends she’s made—and with Gabrielle Union, Tom Hopper, and Poppy Liu in the supporting cast, Roberts’ airheaded act has plenty of convincing to do.

Love Lies Bleeding (July 9)

“This movie is a good goddamned time”, I wrote in my review of Rose Glass’ romantic noir, back when I absolutely ate the film up at this year’s Berlin film fest, “especially for the gals who’ve been waiting for a full-blown, gratuitous lesbian K.Stew role like this.” Set in the 1980s, Love Lies Bleeding follows Kristen Stewart’s loner gym worker as she falls hard for a buff drifter (newcomer Katy O’Brian, born for this role), with their codependent romance building into long-buried family drama, steroid addiction, and a bloody body-count.

The movie’s all steam and sweat until about the halfway mark, when our heroines get separated and the drama gives way to bonkers, Coen Brothers-esque comic shenanigans—but oh, what a beautiful mess it all makes.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (July 25)

Has Guy Ritchie fully devolved into a parody of himself at this point? Look at the title of this film. Look at all those buff bros in the image above, all Peaky Blinders-ed up, posing in their suspenders and dorky little hats. It’s about a ragtag group of blokes drawn together by the British military (of course!) to bash Nazis behind enemy lines. Despite my mean jabs, this action romp—which is supposedly based on a true story—should be a blast. Or at least a more smooth-brained version of Inglourious Basterds.

All titles arriving on Prime Video Australia in July

July 1

21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
Blow Out
Downton Abbey
Max Steel
Robocop
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Tank Girl
Twister

July 4

My Music with Rhiannon Giddens: Season 2
Space Cadet

July 5

Mirzapur: Season 3
Temptation Island: Mexico: Season 1
WNBA: Connecticut Sun at Minnesota Lynx
WNBA: Washington Mystics at Las Vegas Aces

July 7

Butcher’s Crossing
Law Abiding Citizen
WNBA: Chicago Sky at Las Vegas Aces

July 9

Captain Underpants
Creed
Creed II
Creed III
Deepwater Horizon
Lego DC Super Heroes: Batman Beleaguered: Season 1
Love Lies Bleeding
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V
Rocky Balboa
Sam Morril: You’ve Changed
The Secret Life of Pets 2