It’s an extremely jam-packed month, so let’s dive in.
FILMS
Top Picks
High Life – Prime 10/3
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie – Netflix 10/11
The Laundromat – Netflix 10/18
Dolemite Is My Name – Netflix 10/25
Amazing Grace – Hulu 10/2
Little Monsters – Hulu 10/11
Wounds – Hulu 10/18
With such an insanely large selection this month, I’m choosing to write only about 2019 movies. All the services are adding plenty of spooky selections for Halloween, but I don’t know when you’ll have time to watch all of those when there’s this much primo content from the last few months.
High Life is Claire Denis’ English-language debut, a disturbing psychological thriller about the bright idea to stick a bunch of violent felons and an obsessive scientist (Juliette Binoche) on space mission.
Netflix is coming for all the awards (well, Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmys) with a sequel to Breaking Bad and two tongue-in-cheek true stories. The Laundromat is the latest from Steven Soderbergh, about the Panama Papers, while Dolemite Is My Name is the crowd-pleasing festival favorite featuring a plugged-in Eddie Murphy as comedian and filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore.
Amazing Grace instantly vaulted itself into the upper echelon of concert docs, as the previously unseen footage was finally restored and synced with the audio of Aretha Franklin’s legendary gospel album. And Hulu also picked up two horror flicks from Sundance and SXSW: Little Monsters is a dark comedy about a teacher trying to save her students on a field trip from a zombie apocalypse. Wounds features Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson and shit-ton of creepy crawlies.
Recent Selections
Miami Group Murder – Hulu 10/1
The Killer Next Door – Hulu 10/1
Pegasus: Pony with a Broken Wing – Hulu 10/4
Missing Link – Hulu 10/7
After – Netflix 10/9
Megan Leavey – Hulu 10/9
Trespassers – Hulu 10/11
The Last Face – Hulu 10/13
Little Woods – Hulu 10/14
Dark Crimes – Netflix 10/15
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am – Hulu 10/17
Kill Chain – Prime 10/18
The Ladybug – Hulu 10/20
Echo in the Canyon – Netflix 10/21
Benjamin – Hulu 10/22
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy – Netflix 10/22
Revenge of the Pontianak – Netflix 10/24
Assimilate – Netflix 10/25
Nobody’s Fool – Prime 10/28
In Search of Greatness – Prime 10/30
Originals
Ready to Mingle – Netflix 10/2
In the Tall Grass – Netflix 10/4
The Forest of Love – Netflix 10/11
Fractured – Netflix 10/11
La influencia – Netflix 10/11
The Awakenings of Motti Wolenbruch – Netflix 10/11
Banlieusards – Netflix 10/12
Eli – Netflix 10/18
Seventeen – Netflix 10/18
Upstarts – Netflix 10/18
Rattlesnake – Netflix 10/25
A 3 Minute Hug – Netflix 10/28
NEW SHOWS & SPECIALS
Top Picks
Raising Dion – Netflix 10/4
Modern Love – Prime 10/18
The former is Netflix’s first foray into non-Marvel comic books, adapting a graphic novel about a superpowered boy and the single mother raising him after her husband dies. Michael B. Jordan executive produces and appears in flashback as the boy’s dad. Should be both exciting and heart-tugging.
Modern Love could be a great rom-com anthology, or something akin to Garry Marshall’s awful holiday movies. Adapted from the New York Times‘ series on romance, they’ve got a stellar cast for this thing, including Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel and yes, the hot priest from Fleabag (Andrew Scott).
Originals
Carmen Sandiego (Season 2) – Netflix 10/1
Living Undocumented – Netflix 10/2
Rotten (Season 2) – Netflix 10/2
Seis Manos – Netflix 10/3
Big Mouth (Season 3) – Netflix 10/4
Creeped Out (Season 2) – Netflix 10/4
Goliath (Season 3) – Prime 10/4
Into the Dark: Uncanny Annie – Hulu 10/4
Light as a Feather (Season 2, Part 2) – Hulu 10/4
Peaky Blinders (Season 5) – Netflix 10/4
Super Monsters (Season 3) – Netflix 10/4
Super Monsters: Vida’s First Halloween – Netflix 10/4
Drunk History (Season 6, Part 2) – Hulu 10/5
Legend Quest: Masters of Myth – Netflix 10/5
Match! Tennis Juniors – Netflix 10/7
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween – Netflix 10/8
Rhythm + Flow – Netflix 10/9
Ultramarine Magmell – Netflix 10/10
The Bravest Knight (Season 1, Part 2) – Hulu 10/11
Costume Quest (Season 1, Part 2) – Prime 10/11
Haunted (Season 2) – Netflix 10/11
Insatiable (Season 2) – Netflix 10/11
Plan Coeur (Season 2) – Netflix 10/11
YooHoo to the Rescue (Season 2) – Netflix 10/11
Letterkenny (Season 7) – Hulu 10/14
Ghosts of Sugar Land – Netflix 10/16
The Unlisted – Netflix 10/17
Living with Yourself – Netflix 10/18
Baby (Season 2) – Netflix 10/18
Looking for Alaska – Hulu 10/18
Interior Design Masters – Netflix 10/18
The House of Flowers (Season 2) – Netflix 10/18
MeatEater (Season 8) – Netflix 10/18
Mighty Little Bheem: Diwali – Netflix 10/18
Spirit Riding Free: Pony Tales (Volume 2) – Netflix 10/18
Tell Me Who I Am – Netflix 10/18
Toon (Seasons 1-2) – Netflix 10/18
Unnatural Selection – Netflix 10/18
The Yard – Netflix 10/18
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner – Netflix 10/23
Castle Rock (Season 2) – Hulu 10/23
Dancing with the Birds – Netflix 10/23
Daybreak – Netflix 10/24
Brigada Costa del Sol – Netflix 10/25
Brotherhood – Netflix 10/25
Greenhouse Academy (Season 3) – Netflix 10/25
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Halloween Special – Prime 10/25
Just Add Magic: New Protectors – Prime 10/25
The Kominsky Method (Season 2) – Netflix 10/25
Monzon – Netflix 10/25
Nailed It! France – Netflix 10/25
Nailed It! Spain – Netflix 10/25
Prank Encounters – Netflix 10/25
It Takes a Lunatic – Netflix 10/25
Zomboat! – Hulu 10/25
Little Miss Sumo – Netflix 10/28
Flavorful Origins: Yunnan Cuisine – Netflix 10/30
Kengan Ashura, Part II – Netflix 10/31
Nowhere Man – Netflix 10/31
OLD SHOWS
Bring It On, Ghost (Season 1) – Netflix 10/1
Cheese in the Trap (Season 1) – Netflix 10/1
Chicago Typewriter (Season 1) – Netflix 10/1
Tomorrow with You (Season 1) – Netflix 10/1
Tunnel (Season 1) – Netflix 10/1
Saints & Sinners (Season 4) – Hulu 10/4
Schitt’s Creek (Season 5) – Netflix 10/10
Fairy Tail (Season 9, Part 3) – Hulu 10/21
Shine on with Reese (Season 1) – Netflix 10/28
Unforgotten (Season 3) – Prime 10/28
COMEDY SPECIALS
Top Pick
Jenny Slate: Stage Fright – Netflix 10/22
Jenny Slate tries her hand at stand-up. Though she was dumped from SNL after a tumultuous year, she’s been a delightful screen presence ever since, particularly in Obvious Child.
Other Specials
Nikki Glaser: Bangin’ – Netflix 10/1
Deon Cole: Cole Hearted – Netflix 10/8
Arsenio Hall: Smart & Classy – Netflix 10/29
Jestination Unknown (Season 1) – Prime TBD
One Mic Stand (Season 1) – Prime TBD