ONTD Original: Streaming Services Update for September 2020
New content for your September 2020 home viewing pleasure
Each section will have selections of new content including RT [Rotten Tomatoes] and Metacritic, plus source for full list
Amazon @PrimeVideo
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon has announced its September 2020 Prime Video new arrivals line-up and it's full of movies, TV shows, and originals we can't wait to watch. https://t.co/zSIMlJ8rny
- Collider (@Collider) August 26, 2020
Click for sample of new Amazon selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpQ3G08k48
Another [oldie] of Spielberg’s best, with Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, and François Truffaut
RT 94% Metacritic 90
Gemini Man 18 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbyJignbSj0
Ang Lee’s action thriller with Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong. Didn’t wow the critics but might be worth a watch on streaming.
RT 26% Metacritic 38
Judy 25 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98t7aXRaA6w
Renee Zellweger’s Oscar winning performance in biography of Judy Garland, after which Renee gave a series of many award winning acceptance speeches ranging from normal and sweet to non-sensical ramblings
RT 82 Metacritic 66
click tweet source for the full Amazon Prime Video list
@AppleTV
Apple
Idt Apple TV publishes a monthly list but here’s a new one
Bill and Ted are back to save the world - and to party on, dude. #BillandTed3 #FaceTheMusic is available now on the Apple TV app. https://t.co/DROkLK26py pic.twitter.com/41lPOzuWQT
- Apple TV (@AppleTV) August 28, 2020
RT 80% Metacritic 66
@Criterion Collection
This service has a large catalog of classic films and foreign films
Click this link for Criterion September 2020 listing
Click for sample of new Criterion selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
. The Criterion Channel likes to do themes. In addition to the films at the source link, this month they’re highlighting Documentaries featuring:
. New restorations of the Academy Award-nominated Streetwise-the beginning of a decades-long collaboration between director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and Erin Blackwell that culminated in Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell-and Jan Oxenberg’s wildly inventive family portrait Thank You and Good Night make their streaming premieres
. Contemporary innovators Brett Story and Robert Greene push the boundaries of the form while examining the inequalities that divide American society
The Maysles brothers lead a pack of filmmakers in documenting the astonishing environmental-art creations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
. A career-spanning retrospective puts Agnès Varda’s documentary work in conversation with her fiction films
Duck Soup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEdb0sGfaI
Pre-code Marx Bros version with Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo, based on the original silent film (1927) by Laurel and Hardy
RT 94%
Mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMVT17jFwjM
Albert Brooks comedy drama with Debbie Reynolds playing his insufferable mother
RT 88%
La Ciénaga English: The Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHikpCDL2_I
Argentine, Spanish, and French film that is set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina and portrays the life of a self-pitying Argentine bourgeois family
RT 86% Metacritic 75
click link above for the full Criterion list
@disneyplus
Disney
#Mulan, 'Mighty Ducks' and more are heading to Disney+ this September. https://t.co/tkoRrCrMul
- Collider (@Collider) August 18, 2020
Click for sample of new Disney+ selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Mulan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8FHdFluOQ
Live action version with Liu Yifei as Mulan, and Donnie Yen, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Gong Li, Jet Li
No critics scores yet
Never Been Kissed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPyMf4ROt3Q
Romantic comedy with Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Alias hotty Michael Vartan, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan, Molly Shannon, Garry Marshall, John C. Reilly and a problematic romance theme
RT 55
Bend it Like Beckham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Pt_GMDdGo
Romantic comedy sports film with Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson
RT 85 Metacritic 66
click tweet source for the full Disney Plus list
@HBO
HBO
New movies on HBO Max in September include 'The Invisible Man', 'Midnight Run', and 'The Wedding Singer'. https://t.co/lqi926mTwU
- Collider (@Collider) August 20, 2020
Click for sample of new HBO selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
The Invisible Man 19 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_FJdiY9dA
Sci fi horror film starring Elizabeth Moss, with Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, Michael Dorman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen,
RT 92% Metacritic 72
The Bodyguard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JFRdJTszRM
Whitney Houston the singer who plays a singer who plays kissy face with Kevin Costner the bodyguard that was panned by the critics but hugely popular and was bonkers at the box office
RT 34% Metacritic 38
Fatal Attraction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3oF8Po4qWc
Psychological thriller that covers the white-hot affair between deranged Glenn Close and philanderer Michael Douglas. Justice for the bunny!!!1!!
RT 75% Metacritic 67
click tweet source for the full HBO list
@Hulu
Hulu
If you want to stream #TrollsWorldTour, marathon the #Twilight franchise, or catch the new season of #Pen15 you'll want to check out @hulu this month: https://t.co/6Qa84fcsva
- Collider (@Collider) September 1, 2020
Click for sample of new Hulu selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Mississippi Burning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUtlJwfNEtI
American biographical crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker that is loosely based on the 1964 Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner murder investigation in Mississippi. Starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, France McDormand
RT 84% Metacritic 65
Outbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5povsMKfT4
Not as good as Contagion but why not watch another film about a viral outbreak while we're still coping with covid?! With Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., Patrick Dempsey
RT 60% Metacritic 65
The Terminator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64P4l2Wmeg
The OG with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton
RT 100% (lol) Metacritic 84
click tweet source for the full Hulu list
@netflix
Netflix
From the 'Back to the Future' trilogy to 'The Devil All the Time, @Netflix's new lineup for September is pretty dang incredible.
Check it out: https://t.co/Nw1Mcomdpu
- Collider (@Collider) August 19, 2020
Click for sample of new Netflix selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Magic Mike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEhYnUr0EDE
Steven Soderbergh’s film about the previous irl profession of star Channing Tatum as a male exotic dancer. A lot of hot guys dirty dance. Also with Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Matt Bomer, Riley Keough, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias
RT 79% Metacritic 72
Enola Holmes 23 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0Zf9sXlHk
The younger sister of Sherlock has her own narrative. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and his delicious wavy long hair as Sherlock, Sam Claflin as Mycroft, Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria
No critics reviews yet
The Devil All the Time 16 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIzazUv2gtI
Psychological thriller based on the novel of the same name which follows disparate characters in post-World War II Southern Ohio and West Virginia, including a disturbed war veteran, a husband and wife who are serial killers, and a false preacher. Starring a large ensemble cast with Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson
No critics reviews yet
click tweet source for the full Netflix list
@showtime
Showtime
Showtime serves up a cartoon president, a real-life former FBI director, and the comedic stylings of Desus and Mero. https://t.co/xKaXP45f2k
- PCMag (@PCMag) August 27, 2020
Click for sample of new Showtime selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
21 Bridges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVZDhunTrYA
Action thriller starring King Chadwick ☹ who shuts down Manhattan bridges to find two suspected cop killers. Also starring Sienna Miller, Stephan James, Keith David, Alexander Siddig, Taylor Kitsch, J. K. Simmons
RT 53% Metacritic 51
Carrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuO26oJQLVs
Stephen King’s supernatural horror film starring Sissy Spacek
RT 92% Metacritic 85
The Silence of the Lambs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuX2MQeb8UM
Oscar winning powerhouse psychological horror film with tour-de-force performances from Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Still holds up well.
RT 96% Metacritic 85
click tweet source for the full Showtime list
*Films selected randomly but I tried to include some older movies you may not have seen
Ontd what are you looking forward to watching this month?
Source links with each section
Each section will have selections of new content including RT [Rotten Tomatoes] and Metacritic, plus source for full list
Amazon @PrimeVideo
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon has announced its September 2020 Prime Video new arrivals line-up and it's full of movies, TV shows, and originals we can't wait to watch. https://t.co/zSIMlJ8rny
- Collider (@Collider) August 26, 2020
Click for sample of new Amazon selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Click to viewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpQ3G08k48
Another [oldie] of Spielberg’s best, with Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, and François Truffaut
RT 94% Metacritic 90
Gemini Man 18 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbyJignbSj0
Ang Lee’s action thriller with Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong. Didn’t wow the critics but might be worth a watch on streaming.
RT 26% Metacritic 38
Judy 25 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98t7aXRaA6w
Renee Zellweger’s Oscar winning performance in biography of Judy Garland, after which Renee gave a series of many award winning acceptance speeches ranging from normal and sweet to non-sensical ramblings
RT 82 Metacritic 66
click tweet source for the full Amazon Prime Video list
@AppleTV
Apple
Idt Apple TV publishes a monthly list but here’s a new one
Bill and Ted are back to save the world - and to party on, dude. #BillandTed3 #FaceTheMusic is available now on the Apple TV app. https://t.co/DROkLK26py pic.twitter.com/41lPOzuWQT
- Apple TV (@AppleTV) August 28, 2020
RT 80% Metacritic 66
@Criterion Collection
This service has a large catalog of classic films and foreign films
Click this link for Criterion September 2020 listing
Click for sample of new Criterion selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
. The Criterion Channel likes to do themes. In addition to the films at the source link, this month they’re highlighting Documentaries featuring:
. New restorations of the Academy Award-nominated Streetwise-the beginning of a decades-long collaboration between director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and Erin Blackwell that culminated in Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell-and Jan Oxenberg’s wildly inventive family portrait Thank You and Good Night make their streaming premieres
. Contemporary innovators Brett Story and Robert Greene push the boundaries of the form while examining the inequalities that divide American society
The Maysles brothers lead a pack of filmmakers in documenting the astonishing environmental-art creations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
. A career-spanning retrospective puts Agnès Varda’s documentary work in conversation with her fiction films
Duck Soup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEdb0sGfaI
Pre-code Marx Bros version with Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo, based on the original silent film (1927) by Laurel and Hardy
RT 94%
Mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMVT17jFwjM
Albert Brooks comedy drama with Debbie Reynolds playing his insufferable mother
RT 88%
La Ciénaga English: The Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHikpCDL2_I
Argentine, Spanish, and French film that is set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina and portrays the life of a self-pitying Argentine bourgeois family
RT 86% Metacritic 75
click link above for the full Criterion list
@disneyplus
Disney
#Mulan, 'Mighty Ducks' and more are heading to Disney+ this September. https://t.co/tkoRrCrMul
- Collider (@Collider) August 18, 2020
Click for sample of new Disney+ selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Mulan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8FHdFluOQ
Live action version with Liu Yifei as Mulan, and Donnie Yen, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Gong Li, Jet Li
No critics scores yet
Never Been Kissed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPyMf4ROt3Q
Romantic comedy with Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Alias hotty Michael Vartan, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan, Molly Shannon, Garry Marshall, John C. Reilly and a problematic romance theme
RT 55
Bend it Like Beckham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Pt_GMDdGo
Romantic comedy sports film with Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson
RT 85 Metacritic 66
click tweet source for the full Disney Plus list
@HBO
HBO
New movies on HBO Max in September include 'The Invisible Man', 'Midnight Run', and 'The Wedding Singer'. https://t.co/lqi926mTwU
- Collider (@Collider) August 20, 2020
Click for sample of new HBO selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
The Invisible Man 19 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_FJdiY9dA
Sci fi horror film starring Elizabeth Moss, with Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, Michael Dorman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen,
RT 92% Metacritic 72
The Bodyguard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JFRdJTszRM
Whitney Houston the singer who plays a singer who plays kissy face with Kevin Costner the bodyguard that was panned by the critics but hugely popular and was bonkers at the box office
RT 34% Metacritic 38
Fatal Attraction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3oF8Po4qWc
Psychological thriller that covers the white-hot affair between deranged Glenn Close and philanderer Michael Douglas. Justice for the bunny!!!1!!
RT 75% Metacritic 67
click tweet source for the full HBO list
@Hulu
Hulu
If you want to stream #TrollsWorldTour, marathon the #Twilight franchise, or catch the new season of #Pen15 you'll want to check out @hulu this month: https://t.co/6Qa84fcsva
- Collider (@Collider) September 1, 2020
Click for sample of new Hulu selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Mississippi Burning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUtlJwfNEtI
American biographical crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker that is loosely based on the 1964 Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner murder investigation in Mississippi. Starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, France McDormand
RT 84% Metacritic 65
Outbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5povsMKfT4
Not as good as Contagion but why not watch another film about a viral outbreak while we're still coping with covid?! With Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., Patrick Dempsey
RT 60% Metacritic 65
The Terminator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64P4l2Wmeg
The OG with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton
RT 100% (lol) Metacritic 84
click tweet source for the full Hulu list
@netflix
Netflix
From the 'Back to the Future' trilogy to 'The Devil All the Time, @Netflix's new lineup for September is pretty dang incredible.
Check it out: https://t.co/Nw1Mcomdpu
- Collider (@Collider) August 19, 2020
Click for sample of new Netflix selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
Magic Mike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEhYnUr0EDE
Steven Soderbergh’s film about the previous irl profession of star Channing Tatum as a male exotic dancer. A lot of hot guys dirty dance. Also with Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Matt Bomer, Riley Keough, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias
RT 79% Metacritic 72
Enola Holmes 23 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0Zf9sXlHk
The younger sister of Sherlock has her own narrative. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and his delicious wavy long hair as Sherlock, Sam Claflin as Mycroft, Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria
No critics reviews yet
The Devil All the Time 16 September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIzazUv2gtI
Psychological thriller based on the novel of the same name which follows disparate characters in post-World War II Southern Ohio and West Virginia, including a disturbed war veteran, a husband and wife who are serial killers, and a false preacher. Starring a large ensemble cast with Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson
No critics reviews yet
click tweet source for the full Netflix list
@showtime
Showtime
Showtime serves up a cartoon president, a real-life former FBI director, and the comedic stylings of Desus and Mero. https://t.co/xKaXP45f2k
- PCMag (@PCMag) August 27, 2020
Click for sample of new Showtime selection [Spoiler (click to open)]
21 Bridges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVZDhunTrYA
Action thriller starring King Chadwick ☹ who shuts down Manhattan bridges to find two suspected cop killers. Also starring Sienna Miller, Stephan James, Keith David, Alexander Siddig, Taylor Kitsch, J. K. Simmons
RT 53% Metacritic 51
Carrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuO26oJQLVs
Stephen King’s supernatural horror film starring Sissy Spacek
RT 92% Metacritic 85
The Silence of the Lambs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuX2MQeb8UM
Oscar winning powerhouse psychological horror film with tour-de-force performances from Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Still holds up well.
RT 96% Metacritic 85
click tweet source for the full Showtime list
*Films selected randomly but I tried to include some older movies you may not have seen
Ontd what are you looking forward to watching this month?
Source links with each section