If you’ve been bored of some of the offerings recently, then what’s coming up might just brighten your month. With The Crow Girl season 2 coming up, the brilliant Johnny Lee Miller in Possession, and Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man movie there’s some very tempting offerings on the menu. Other things to look out for include: Walker, Sunny Nights, and Coyote vs. Acme (we’ll be going to the cinema for this one).
And the upcoming UK film festivals are waiting for you at the bottom of the page.
Catch Up On – July
- The Savant – Apply TV TBD
- Elle – Prime Video 1st
- Shooter S1-3 – Paramount+ 2nd
- Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol – Paramount+ 5th
- Little House on the Prairie – Netflix 9th
- The Dark – ITV 12th
- The Westies – MGM+ 12th
- RJ Decker – Disney+ 14th
- The Crow Girl S2 – Paramount+ 20th
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4 – Paramount+ 23rd
- CIA – Sky Witness 23rd
- Walker – Paramount+ 24th
- Furious – Disney+ 27th
- The Hunting Party S2 – U&Alibi 30th
The Crow Girl
I keep hearing about this show, but the trailer really doesn’t draw me in and make me want to watch it. Which is good, in a way, because I don’t have the right channel -which actually makes me want to watch it more!
DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.
–The Crow Girl, IMDb–
What’s Coming for August
- Fightland – Sky Atlantic -TBD
- Murder in a Small Town – Netflix 1st
- Evil S1-3 – Paramount+ 6th
- Possession – Sky Atlantic 6th
- The Shards – Disney+ 6th
- Alley Cats – Netflix 7th
- Warren’s Vortex – Sky Comedy 9th
- Reacher S4 – Prime Video 12th
- Hit Point – ITVX 16th
- Sunny Nights – ITVX 16th
- Lanterns – HBO Max 17th
- Dark Matter S2 – Apple TV 28th
Possession
Can’t wait to watch this, it looks so good.
Claudia, a bi-racial lawyer, journeys to Jamaica’s haunted Connaught plantation to fight an inheritance claim. Uncovering dark historical secrets intertwined with modern injustices intensifies her nightmare.
–Possession, IMDb–
Movies for August
- Ice Cream Man – 7th
- The End of Oak Street – 14th
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – 21st
- Mutiny – 21st
- Insidious: Out of the Further – 21st
- Coyote vs. Acme – 21st
- & Sons – 21st
- The Dog Stars – 28th
- I Want Your Sex – 28th
- One Night Only – 28th
- Colony – 28th
- Cliffhanger – 28th
- Late Fame – 28th
- She Saw Us – 28th
An idyllic summer town descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.
–Ice Cream Man, IMDb–
UK Film Festivals for August
This is not the complete list of film festivals in the UK, they’re just the ones that include horror, fantasy, new directors, first time film makers etc. If you’d like to see all of the film festivals around the world, that you could enter your work into then head to the British Council UK Film Database.
- FrightFest
- Nightpiece Film Festival
- Adventure Travel Film Festival
- London Feminist Film Festival
- Lytham International Film Festival
Writer, reviewer, and occasional chaos-collector -the kind who laughs through the plot twists and finds magic in the strange corners of storytelling. I explore films, stories, and the wonderfully weird… and yes, moths are still my sworn enemies.
