Want to know what new Netflix movies are available this month or what you should binge watch? We've got you covered.
So it's a hot and muggy July night. You smell of sulfur and Budweiser, just returned from lighting up the sky with some all-American fireworks. The crack and bang have your ears ringing and those five hotdogs you ate just aren't sitting right in your stomach. Sleep isn't going to come just yet, so you fire up the Netflix just like those Roman Candles about an hour ago. You scroll through endlessly, but the overwhelming amount of options keep you from picking anything.
Netflix adds hundreds of new movies and shows to its library and many users have no idea what new titles have been added by the streaming service. We’re here to make it a little easier on you, as we’ve gathered the latest new Netflix movie releases along with our pick for the Binge-Watch Series of the Week.
What's new on Netflix during July:
July 1 Releases -
12 Angry Men (1957), Bad Santa (2003), Basic Instinct (1992), Boyz N the Hood (1991), City of God (2003), Dead Man Walking (1996), Fever Pitch (1997), Funny Face (1957), Gandhi (1982), Honey I Shrunk the Kids (1989), The Karate Kid I-III (1984/86/89), The Last Days (1998), Legends of the Fall (1994), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), My Girl I & II (1991/94), The Parent Trap (1998), Patton (1970), Philadelphia (1993), Primal Fear (1996), Sophie's Choice (1982), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Tarzan I & II (1999/05), Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), Wolf Creek 2 (2014), XXX: State of the Union (2005).
July 6 -
Renoir (2013)
July 9 -
Out of the Furnace (2013)
July 11 -
The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014), Hemlock Grove (Season 2)
July 12 -
Sleeping Beauty (2014)
July 14 -
Hitch (2005), The Master (2012)
July 18 -
Baby Daddy (Season 3), Melissa and Joey (Season 3)
July 19 -
Hell On Wheels (Season 3)
July 24 -
Lost Girl (Season 4)
July 26 -
Christamas with the Kranks (2004), Continuum (Season 3)
The Obvious Choices: Bad Santa, Basic Instinct, Boyz N the Hood, The Karate Kid, Philadelphia, The Master
Sleeper Picks: City of God, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Out of the Furnace, 12 Angry Men
Our Binge-Watch Series of the Week: Rectify
Backstory: Rectify was originally set up to air on AMC in 2008, with Walter Goggins set to star. After sitting in limbo for three years, AMC's sister network The Sundance Channel decided to greenlight the series as their first wholly owned Sundance Channel scripted production. The show was created and written by Ray McKinnon, who won an Academy Award for his live-action short The Accountant. The show finally premiered in 2013.
Premise: Daniel Holden (Aden Young) is imprisoned as a teen for the rape and murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend in his hometown of Paulie, Georgia. After 19 years spent in a cell with no windows on death row, new DNA evidence vacates his original trial, freeing him until a retrial is scheduled. Moving back in with his Mom and her new husband, an older, stranger Daniel tries to readjust to life on the outside and connect with his family, all while the small-town of Paulie calls for his head.
Seasons: One six-episode season is on Netflix. Season two is currently airing on the Sundance Channel. Read our coverage of season two here.
Why you should watch it: Rectify plays with the Southern Gothic genre while still at its core being a legal drama. But seeing as Daniel spent all of his adulthood locked away, his perspective and character are completely unique. The show moves slowly, but in a hypnotizing, enchanting way. The show is delicately subtle and sprawls like a chapter of a rich, atmospheric novel or the Georgia landscapes that are on full display.
The series is for you if: You loved the simmering strangeness of True Detective or have the patience for character driven dramas like Mad Men.
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