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New on Netflix and Amazon Prime: The Big Short, Mustang, and More

by | July 12, 2016 | Comments

This week on streaming video, we’ve got an Oscar-winner, an Oscar nominee, some great television, and a handful of indies that are worth a watch. Read on for the full list.


New on Netflix

 

Mustang (2015) 97%

This Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film centers on a group of five sisters whose free-spiritedness gets them in trouble with their parents.

Available now on: Netflix


The Last Kingdom: Season 1 (2015) 87%

Based on The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom is set in the 9th century when Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of northern Europe faced attacks by Viking forces.

Available now on: Netflix


The Big Short (2015) 89%

Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei, and Melissa Leo star in Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning dramedy about some of the eccentric Wall Street types who scored big during the 2008 financial collapse.

Available now on: Netflix


The Invitation (2015) 90%

Michiel Huisman, Tammy Blanchard, and John Carroll Lynch star in Karyn Kusama’s Certified Fresh thriller about a man who is invited to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new husband, but suspects dark ulterior motives.

Available now on: Netflix


The Armor of Light (2015) 96%

This documentary profiles an Evangelical minister and the mother of a shooting victim who speak out in favor of gun control.

Available now on: Netflix


Deathgasm (2015) 88%

This New Zealand-based tongue-in-cheek gorefest is the tale of teenage metalheads whose garage band unleashes a plague of carnage upon their sleepy suburban community.

Available now on: Netflix


New on Amazon Prime

 

Suits: Season 5 (2015) 100%

USA Network’s legal drama stars Patrick J. Adams as a brilliant but unlicensed lawyer and Gabriel Macht as his polished mentor. Season five drops on Amazon Prime this week.

Available now on: Amazon Prime


Available for Purchase

 

Sing Street (2016) 95%

John Carney’s Certified Fresh musical drama centers on a teenager who starts a band to impress the girl he has a crush on.

Available now on: FandangoNOW, iTunes