My month of streaming
September is creeping up on us within the northern hemisphere, and whereas I’m trying ahead to seasonal viewing, I’m going to overlook the summer time months so much. So, earlier than we enterprise into a brand new month and season, enable me to share my August 2025 streaming favorites.
Over the previous few weeks, I’ve accomplished fairly an excellent job at getting via new films which have been on my radar, beginning robust with the cult basic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) on Prime Video. Additionally, motion blockbuster John Wick (2014) and the crime biopic Bronson (2008) all made it into my month-to-month favorites.
It’s safe to say that I made the most of all the best streaming services this month, scouring a number of platforms together with Netflix, HBO Max, and extra. Though I’m not fairly able to put the summer time behind me, I’m excited to see what films September will carry me.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Director: Stephan Elliott
Age score: R
Runtime: 103 minutes
Where to stream: Prime Video (US); Prime Video, BBC iPlayer (UK); Prime Video, Stan (AU)
This notorious Australian comedy is not only a cult basic; It did wonders for bringing LGBTQ+ themes to mainstream film audiences when it was launched. Despite the primary solid not being queer themselves, that does not take away from what the film does efficiently, which is painting queer and trans folks in a respectful gentle.
In Sydney, Australia, drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) know as Mitzi is requested to carry out on the Alice Springs resort. When he decides to take his present on the street, he invitations fellow drag artist Adam (Guy Pearce) and his transgender buddy Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to journey with him throughout the Australian outback in a bus they coin ‘Priscilla’.
On their journey they’re met with tradition clashes whereas performing in native, narrow-minded areas, however after they arrive at their remaining cease, Anthony’s purpose for accepting the gig involves gentle, surprising his journey companions.
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Age rating: R
Runtime: 112 minutes
Where to stream: Disney+ (US); Netflix, Disney+ (UK); Foxtel Now, Stan (AU)
When I told my close friends that I’d never watched Bend It Like Beckham before, I was judged so hard to the point where I set a Netflix reminder when I saw it was coming to the platform – it’s now the reason I feel like I could actually enjoy football.
In this British sports-comedy, teenager Jess (Parminder Nagra) is obsessed with football and dreams of playing professionally, but her strict and traditional family is what’s holding her back – who are determined to find her a husband just like her older sister.
When she meets Jules (Kiera Knightley) she joins an all-girls football team, sneaking out to practice despite her parents’ explicit disapproval. But everything takes a left-turn when her sister’s wedding falls on a match day that could change her future, and Jess is forced to make a very important decision.
John Wick (2014)
Director: Chad Stahelski
Age score: R
Runtime: 101 minutes
Where to stream: Hulu (US); Netflix, Prime Video, Stan (AU)
Despite my sick information and curiosity in motion films, for some purpose John Wick actually stood out to me after I was scrolling via completely different providers. An simple 100 minute watch, John Wick instantly grow to be one in all my favourite titles this month – I do get pleasure from a gripping revenge story.
Former hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is grieving the sudden lack of his spouse, however receives one remaining reward from her within the type of a small pup. However, issues take a flip for the more severe when his former boss’ son Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) and his gang break into his home, leaving him overwhelmed and his new pup useless.
A wrath of revenge takes over Wick, and he units out on a revenge rampage to search out the boys, returning to his violent lifestyle that helped him achieve his standing as the most effective assassins.
Talk to Me (2022)
Director: Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou
Age score: R
Runtime: 95 minutes
Where to stream: Netflix, Paramount+ (US); Netflix (UK); Netflix, Stan (AU)
The manner I see it, Talk to Me is up there with Barbarian (2022) and Longlegs (2024) as among the finest fashionable horror films. Now that it is practically time to welcome a brand new season, I could not resist getting a head-start on this yr’s spooky season viewing.
A brand new get together craze sweeps a gaggle of youngsters, permitting them to speak with the useless and open the doorways to a supernatural realm – all through the use of a mysterious embalmed hand. When finest pals Mia (Sophie Wilde) and Jade (Alexandra Jensen) attend a celebration to witness it for themselves, Mia is left wanting extra when her late mom makes an look, taking the sport too far.
Bronson (2008)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Age score: R
Runtime: 92 minutes
Where to stream: Prime Video (US); Disney+, Prime Video, ITVX (UK)
In my Letterboxd evaluation of Bronson, I described it as “if Wes Anderson did a crime biopic”, and I stand by that. With components of dead-pan comedy and symmetrical photographs, Bronson is certainly one of many extra attention-grabbing biopics I’ve watched, and Tom Hardy is only a gem.
Refn’s crime film offers an perception to one in all Britain’s most infamous and violent criminals, Michael Peterson (Hardy), however extra famously often known as Charles Bronson. In 1974 at age 19, Bronson goes down for seven years after a botched publish workplace theft, however his habits in jail leads to the continual extension of his sentence – and he finally ends up spending three many years in solitary confinement at a few of Britain’s highest safety psychiatrist establishments.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Age score: R
Runtime: 102 minutes
Where to stream: Hulu (US); Disney+ (UK & AU)
I went into watching Little Miss Sunshine anticipating a healthful, pleasant expertise. While a few of my expectations have been met, I used to be not anticipating it to the touch on darkish themes, which solely helps so as to add substance to its commentary on magnificence requirements and profitable versus shedding.
Aspiring magnificence queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) qualifies for the the Little Miss Sunshine pageant, which takes her on a household street journey from Albuquerque to California. This contains her frazzled mom (Toni Collette), failing motivational speaker father (Greg Kinnear), drug addict grandfather (Alan Arkin), depressed uncle (Steve Carrell), and silent brother (Paul Dano).
But, after all, their street journey does not become the journey they’d all hoped for. From automotive break downs to struggling sudden grief, the household are compelled to navigate sudden obstacles to get Olive one step nearer to attaining her dream.
The Parent Trap (1998)
Director: Nancy Meyers
Age score: PG
Runtime: 128 minutes
Where to stream: Disney+ (US, UK & AU)
While I used to be ready for the anticipated launch of Freakier Friday – a sequel I’ve been eager for – I naturally revisited a few of Lindsey Lohan’s finest work, and that after all included The Parent Trap. My rewatch ignited the precise sense of consolation and nostalgia I used to be after, which made my Freakier Friday cinema journey even higher.
Two younger women Hallie and Annie (Lohan) are from reverse sides of the world, however after they meet at a summer time camp they notice that they are equivalent twins, who have been separated at a younger age attributable to their mother and father’ divorce. Before they depart camp, they give you a plan to swap identities.
When Hallie travels to England to satisfy her estranged mom Elizabeth (Natasha Richardson), and Annie goes to California to satisfy her father Nick (Dennis Quaid), they hatch one other plan to reunite their mother and father in hopes that they may remarry.
Finding Nemo (2003)
Director: Andrew Stanton
Age score: PG-13
Runtime: 100 minutes
Where to stream: Disney+ (US, UK & AU)
The must rewatch Finding Nemo got here to me one Sunday afternoon and seeing it for the umpteenth time, it jogged my memory of why it is one in all many individuals’s favourite childhood films – and the most effective Pixar films.
In the Great Barrier Reef, clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) is over-protective of his son Nemo (Alexander Gould), continually warning him concerning the risks of the ocean. When Nemo is captured by divers and winds up within the fish tank of a dentist’s workplace in Sydney, Marlin embarks on a journey to rescue his son, assembly blue reef fish Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) on the way in which.
Together, they encounter a sequence of various sea creatures from sharks, jellyfish, and turtles, however whereas they make their technique to Sydney Harbour, Nemo devises his personal plan to flee the tank.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Director: Johnathan Demme
Age score: R
Runtime: 118 minutes
Where to stream: HBO Max (US); BBC iPlayer (UK); Stan(AU)
After streaming Talk to Me (2022), I used to be hungry for an additional film that will proceed my clean transition into autumnal viewing, so you’ll be able to think about how excited I used to be when I discovered of The Silence of the Lambs was obtainable to stream once more.
FBI scholar and aspiring agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is introduced in to help with the case of serial killer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), who kidnaps younger ladies and skins them. She’s approached by Special Agent Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), who sends her to interview serial killer and former psychiatrist Dr Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), in hope that he may give an perception to Buffalo Bill’s motives and assist the authorities find him.
Clarice races to trace down Buffalo Bill earlier than he murders his subsequent sufferer, however Lecter will not give data for nothing, which means she’s going to actually should earn his belief if she desires solutions.