David Farnor | On 17, Jul 2017

Summer. A time of sunshine, ice cream, strawberries and running to the nearest beach. Unless you’re Ian McKellen, David Bowie or Colin Firth, in which case you’ll be preparing to say goodbye to Netflix UK, as a range of cinematic gems expire on the subscription service, including Mr. Holmes and the inimitable Labyrinth.

With August on the horizon, this is your last chance to stream the following:

Labyrinth – 19th July

“I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.” If you’ve never seen David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King in this iconic 1986 fantasy, this is your chance.

Mr. Holmes – 19th July

Ian McKellen stars in this quietly smart take on the Baker Street detective, a sensitive and elegant meditation on memory, wrapped in an ingenious unpicking of the Sherlock mythology.

Exodus: Gods and Kings – 19th July

Big Biblical epics don’t come much bigger than this. Better, though, is another matter entirely…

The King’s Speech – 22nd July

Tom Hooper’s Oscar-winning drama sees Colin Firth’s learn to overcome his stammer with the help of Geoffrey Rush’s therapist. Their chemistry makes this a hugely watchable drama.

Clue – 31st July

Enjoyed Murder by Death? Try this Cluedo send-up from 1985. Featuring Tim Curry as a straight-faced butler, the farce flies thick and funny.

Ex Machina – 31st July

“If you’ve created artificial intelligence, that isn’t the history of man. It’s the history of gods.” That’s programmer Caleb to his boss, Nathan, after winning a prize to spend a week on a private work retreat – only to discover it’s really to put a top secret robot through the Turing test. The robot in question? Ava, a female with enough self-awareness to know what she is, and enough smarts to do something about it. Domnhall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac are excellent as the programmers – but Alicia Vikander steals the show.

Harold and Maude – 31st July

Hal Ashby’s 1971 romantic comedy is as dark as it is sentimental, telling the twisted story of a suicidal young man and the older woman he meets while attending a funeral – a hobby that they both share.

Legally Blonde – 31st July

Bend… and snap!

The Green Hornet – 1st August

The Green Hornet changed comic book hands multiple times during its run, but Michel Gondry stamps his one-off personality all over this madcap blockbuster, which lets Seth Rogen do his funny thing while still punching people in the face. Daft turns from Christoph Waltz and James Franco complete the entertainment – while enjoyably OTT editing makes the visuals as entertaining as everything else.

Wild – 5th August

Reese Witherspoon gives a career-best performance in this drama about Cheryl Strayed, who decides to hike all the way up America’s 1,100-mile Pacific Crest Trail – from Mexico to Canada – on her own. Her reason? To get away from it all. It all, we discover through a series of flashbacks, consists of everything from unwanted pregnancies and deceased relatives to failed marriages. While this litany of mistakes could be cheesy or trite, though, Nick Hornby’s script (based on Cheryl’s own memoirs) ensures that Wild’s tale become one not of self-penitence but self-appreciation. The decision to approach her sins of the past as part of what makes her who she is in the present makes for a positive and uplifting journey.

Commando – 9th August

Arnie goes full Arnie in this classic actioner about a former Special Forces soldier whose daughter is kidnapped by a Latin American dictator. Big mistake.

To Kill a Mockingbird – 14th August

Gregory Peck is on charismatic form in this iconic adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel, as lawyer Atticus Finch defends a Black man in the Depression-era South against false charges of rape.

 

Other titles leaving Netflix UK in July and August 2017:

17th July
Black Lagoon
Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail
Tenkai Knights

19th July
3rd World Cops
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Genghis Khan (1965)
Joe Dirt
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Resident Evil: Retribution

21st July
Kal Ho Naa Ho

22nd July
Lily’s Driftwood Bay

28th July
Law Abiding Citizen

30th July
Scaredy Squirrel

31st July
All I Want for Christmas
Amber
Antarctic Edge: 70° South
Blue Chips
Body of Evidence
The Border
Canadian Bacon
The Carpetbaggers
Cherry 2000
Cop
Crime and Punishment (2002)
The Delivery Man
Deterrance
Dior et Moi
Don’t Trust the B*** in Apartment 23
Dumbstruck
Eat with Me
Evidence of Blood
Flex Is Kings
Flight of the Intruder
Freak Encounters
The Fuzz
The Gambler
Head of State
Houseboat
Hunter X Hunter
Hunting the Lost Symbol
In Dangerous Company
Into the Drink
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Lady in a Cage
The Last Gladiators
Latham Entertainment Presents: An All New Comedy…
Love, Cheat & Steal
Lunch Monkeys
Madso’s War
Messenger Death
Moll Flanders
MotherTruckers
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Night of the Demons 2
The Parallax View
Pony Express
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Revenge of the Ninja
The Royals
Run
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
The Secret Life of Birds
Sex: My British Job
SheZow
The Skull
Small Time Gnagster
The Smurfs
Some Kind of Hero
Special Ops Mission
Strictly Sexual: The Series
Stuart Saves His Family
Thief of Hearts
Unsung Heroes: The Story of America’s Female Patriots
Vampire in Brooklyn
White Dog
Winter in Wartime
The World of Henry Orient

2nd August
Black Sheep
Project Nim
Oranges and Sunshine
Bright Young Things
Black Dynamite
According to Greta
Immortal Beloved
On a Clear Day
Good Hair
The Good, The Bad and the Weird

3rd August
Shaolin Soccer

7th August
Big Game

8th August
The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin
The Five Venoms
Return To The 36th Chamber

13th August
Food Matters (2008)

14th August
Eddie Pepitone: In Ruins (2014)

 

With thanks to uk.newonnetflix.info for some of the information.

 

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