Yahoo Movies New on Prime Video UK in August 2023: Best movies and TV from Greatest Days to Women Talking
The all-singing, all-dancing Take That movie musical is heading to Prime Video UK
In August, Amazon's Prime Video is ramping up its efforts to Rule The (Streaming) World as Take That musical Greatest Days headlines the streamer’s slate of new releases.
Elsewhere on the film front, if A Million Love Songs aren’t quite enough for you, then original prince and president’s son rom-com Red, White & Royal Blue sounds like a viewing experience you’ll Never Forget.
Decidedly less rom — or indeed com — is Sarah Polley’s blistering, Oscar-winning Women Talking, which sees the women of an isolated religious community reckoning with the unimaginable.
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For those who aren’t so fussed on musicals, romance, or scathing sociopolitical commentaries, just have a little Patience. Counter-programming arrives this month in the form of Gerard Butler star vehicle Kandahar, whose plot isn’t entirely dissimilar to the unexpectedly excellent Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
Over on the TV side of things, there’s an eye-catching twofer of brand new Prime Video originals to look forward to. First up, catch Sigourney Weaver in Aussie family drama The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which promises to have us holding back The Flood — of tears, mostly. And then, mid-month, it’s buzzy mystery-chiller Harlan Coben’s Shelter’s time to Shine.
Rounding out the month’s TV, mystery thriller Cruel Summer returns in bingeable boxset form for a second series of twists and turns, whilst basketball doc Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey hits the streamer in August, too.
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Here’s everything we know is headed to Prime Video UK this month…
Movies coming to Prime Video UK in August 2023
Kandahar | 4 August
The Scottish Schwarzenegger is back, baby! Yes, fresh off the back of the soon-to-be fully franchised up Plane, Gerard Butler reunites with Angel Has Fallen and Greenland director Ric Roman Waugh for Kandahar, which sees the Scotsman star as Tom Harris, a CIA operative trying to flee Afghanistan after a failed mission.
Joined by translator Mo (Navid Negahban), Tom makes a break for Kandahar, pursued by world-class mercenaries and elite enemy forces.
Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon Original) | 11 August
Adapted from Casey McQuiston’s same-named novel, Amazon original rom-com Red, White & Royal Blue revolves around United States First Son Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez) and Brit Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine).
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Initially rivals, an unfortunate incident sees the pair forced to feign friendship to generate goodwill. It isn’t long however before everything changes and their fake friendship becomes a very real relationship of a very different kind.
Greatest Days | 25 August
A Take That musical? Starring Aisling Bea and Alice Lowe? Could It Be Magic? Well actually, it’s Greatest Days. Based on the hit stage-show The Band, Coky Giedroyc’s feelgood flick follows a group of friends who, united in teenhood by a love of boy group The Band, find themselves reuniting years later when a chance arises to see them perform live.
As much about sisterhood and the trials of growing up, older, and apart as the music of Gary Barlow and co, the ladies find themselves having to answer that all important question - How Deep Is Your Love?
Women Talking | 28 August
A flooring dialogue-driven drama from Sarah Polley, Women Talking takes a series of conversations between the variously abused and down-trodden women of an isolated religious community and makes of it a bone-rattling, soul-shaking piece of cinema.
Exploring the role of religion in both oppression and liberation, the knots women often find themselves tied up in trying to simply exist autonomously within a patriarchal society, and the roots of generationally inherited trauma, this isn’t an easy watch.
However, with an all-star ensemble including Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Rooney Mara driving Polley’s sharply written polemic onwards, Women Talking is a film that demands to be seen — and heard.
TV shows coming to Prime Video UK in August 2023
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Australian Original Series) — Episodes 1-3 drop on 4 August, then weekly
A decades-spanning seven part family drama based on Australian author Holly Ringland’s same-named book, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart promises an emotional tale and a propulsive mystery as we follow a young girl whose violent childhood continues to cast shadows over her as an adult.
Alyla Browne plays Alice as a child sent to live with her grandma (Sigourney Weaver), uncovering secrets within secrets about her family’s past on her gran’s flower farm. As the series charts our protagonist’s life well into womanhood, Alycia Debnam-Carey takes over the role of Alice as the orphaned Hart girl finds herself fighting for her life against a man she believes she loves
Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey | 8 August
Unfolding over the course of the NBA’s developmental G League 2022-23 season, new documentary Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey follows youngsters and veterans with hoop dreams as they try to reach the summit of professional basketball and earn an NBA roster spot.
Taking in b-ball loving neighbourhoods in Las Vegas, Mexico City, Detroit, Maine and Fort Wayne, Indiana, this gripping, visceral first-person account of life in the G League is a perfect jumping in point for basketball fans and newcomers to the sport alike.
Cruel Summer S2 | 11 August
Having impressed fans and critics with its clever approach to non-linear storytelling in its first season, anthology series Cruel Summer returns this month with a second temporally tricksy mystery to unravel. Last time around, viewers were taken to the summers of 1993, 1994, and 1995 and the disappearance of teenager Kate Wallis.
This time out, the story focuses on two summers and a winter in a Y2K-era rural idyll in the Pacific Northwest. There, we meet teens Megan (Sadie Stanley), Isabella (Lexi Underwood), and Luke (Griffin Gluck), three friends with skeletons in their closets who find themselves caught in a love triangle. To paraphrase Pam from Gavin & Stacey, “It’s all the drama! We love it!”
Shelter (Original Series) | Episodes 1-3 drop on 18 August, then weekly
Harlen Coben’s Shelter, the first collaboration between Prime Video and the renowned mystery writer, follows the story of Mickey Bolitar (Jaden Michael), a teenage boy trying to begin again in Kasselton, New Jersey after the death of his father.
When Mickey becomes embroiled in the disappearance of new girl at school Ashley Kent (Samantha Bugliaro), the ripples soon become great waves as the troubled teen uncovers unimaginable secrets buried at the heart of the community. One for fans of Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club, this YA adaptation promises chills and thrills galore.
Watch a trailer for Harlen Coben's Shelter
