It only feels like August has just begun, but we are already halfway through the eighth month of 2025. If you are worried that time is going too fast, you might be able to comfort yourself with one of the many new movies and shows that have debuted on the best streaming services this week.
There are plenty of fans of all genres to enjoy as well. In fact, from sci-fi-runs and criminal thrillers to a couple of animated offers -‘s family friendly, the other is definitely non-finding something worth seeing with our experts’ help. – – Tom Power, Senior Entertainment Reporter
Alien: Earth (Hulu/Disney+)
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It’s at high time someone created a TV show in Alien universe. Go forward Noah Hawley (FargoAt Legion), finally delivered on that front to Hulu (USA) and Disney+ (internationally).
Set two years before the original movie from 1979, Alien: Earth Brings sci-fi horror series’ iconic xenomorphs and a lot of other ugly beings to our home world. It’s up to Wendy (Sydney Chandler), a hybrid – an Android with a child’s consciousness – to lead the charge by fighting the threat of the said scary organisms.
Episodes 1 and 2 are out now, with new chapters that fall every Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on where you live. Before you stream it, read my Alien: Earth guide to a full shutdown on the show and my Alien: Earth Review to see what I was thinking about its first six records.
Fast (Netflix)
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If you are a fan of the scratch and explicit humor from Clean and stimpy showAt And have wanted more over-the-top 2D animations, one of this month’s new Netflix movies Firmly is just the ticket. It is an eerie story of a bull dog that is castrated after being a little too fresh with its owners, but not until one last cheers with his friends.
Created by Genndy Tartakovsky who stands behind hit -animations like Dexter’s Laboratory, Primal, and Samurai jack, The film draws on its high school friends for inspiration, but has not gone well with both critics and the audience. Maybe it’s better with you? – – Amelia Schwanke, senior entertainment editor
Butterfly (Prime Video)
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Prime Videos New spy -Thriller Butterfly is a six-piece series based on the graphic novel series by Arash Amel, and focuses on a previous intelligence operative that finds itself persecuted by a sociopathic agent due to previous decisions he has made.
The series plays Octopus games‘s park hae-soo, Lost‘s Daniel Dae Kim and Kim Tae-Hee who starred in the Netflix K drama Hello goodbye, mom. If you are in the mood for tension and family drama, this may be your new favorite Amazon TV original. – – Lucy Buglass, Senior Entertainment Writer
Limitless: Live Better Now (Hulu/Disney+)
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That is the unexpected Avengers: Judgment Day Time over you didn’t know you needed. Thor Star Chris Hemsworth is back to another round of overwhelming physical punishment that takes him across the globe. This time, though it is all in the name of learning to live healthier for a longer period of time.
Unlimited: Live better now Bridger the gap between mental and physical health, and it is clear that Hemsworth has picked up some new habits for life along the way. As of Hemsworth, who taught the drums to play for Ed Sheeran’s sold-out stadium tour in section 1, he learns deeply to scale a 600ft artificial climbing wall in Switzerland in section 2. Officer. Rather him than me … – Jasmine Valentine, entertainment writer
The Legend of Ochi (HBO MAX)
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The legend of Ochi is fun for the whole family this weekend. One of August’s new HBO Max films follows a farm girl named Yuri who has been, learned to not go outside after darkness due to terrible recurring beings called Ochi. But when she finds a lost and wounded baby Ochi, she goes out on a journey to reunite it with her family.
The director of Isaiah Saxon, this A24 offering at HBO Max has a star throw including Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson and Willem Dafoe. Relative Nykommer Helena Zengel plays the role of Yuri after his international film debut in News about the world. – – Lb
The night always comes (Netflix)
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Toto, we’re not in The Fantastic Four: First Steps further. In one of Augusten’s new Netflix movie The night always comesMarvel star Vanessa Kirby plays Lynette, an almost bread former sex worker working at a bread factory to try to keep a leaking roof over her family’s heads. When her mother decides to spontaneously blow up their $ 25,000 house payment on a new car, Lynette risks losing their house completely. In a complete panic mode, she goes out to the night to try to get the same amount in all necessary ways.
Lynette really means something too. We see Kirby in some situations that we have never seen her in before, from clinging strange men to death over a stolen safe to sell illegal drugs in the back room in a shady peasant shop. From this angle alone, it can be one of the craziest Netflix movies of the year, and I really don’t guess what came until its final moments. Shout for my favorite benefit of the herd in Julia Fox … With so much personal branded cultural capital, I forget that she is actually a good actress. – – JV
Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (Apple TV+)
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Are you looking for an animation that is more suitable for the whole family? I suggest going over to Apple TV+ this weekend to stream Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the gang in Snoopy presents: A summer musical.
This musical special, which is one of the five new Apple TV+ shows in August 2025, looks the gang breaking out in original songs by Jeff Morrow, Ben Folds, Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner as they stumble across a treasure trove of instruments.
The Apple original is ready to please fans of the peanuts comics as it has been more than three decades since the first peanuts musical was released. I don’t doubt it will fill your weekend with a heavy dose of nostalgia. – – SEAM
