3 New Movies Streaming in August 2023 You Won’t Want to Miss
Since neither the WGA nor SAG-AFTRA has issued an official call to boycott streaming services, we’re still bringing you our August picks of new movies premiering on streamers next month. During our strike times, may you find solace in the form of new cinema, including the noteworthy performances each movie contains. You don’t want to miss these three new titles, which might just further the idea that human writers and actors are vital to the success of streaming content and should be paid accordingly.
Love in Taipei
We couldn’t decide between two coming-of-age films for this month’s list, so we’re giving you both. The onscreen adaptation of Abigail Hing Wen’s New York Times bestselling novel, Loveboat, Taipei, is a far cry from our teen Fight Club pick further down this list. Love in Taipei centers on Ever Wong (Ashley Liao), a young American woman whose parents send her to the capital of Taiwan for a cultural immersion program. Once there, she soon realizes that the expected summer full of homework and history lessons is nowhere near the free-for-all she experiences, which both students and locals call “Loveboat.”
With such a moniker, it may come as no surprise that Ever finds herself caught between two wildly different boys vying for her attention. Ross Butler and Nico Hiraga play said love interests, alongside Chelsea Zhang as Ever’s friend Sophie. You can watch this tale of young romance unfold — against the backdrop of a summer spent defying expectations — when Love in Taipei premieres on Paramount+ come August 10.
Heart of Stone
In an upcoming Netflix blockbuster, Gal Gadot gets back to the business of kicking some serious tail. But the action star told Tudum that the operative she plays in Heart of Stone should come off more grounded than her superhero goddess role in Wonder Woman or sleek heist mastermind character in Red Notice.
In the upcoming thriller, Gadot’s Rachel Stone is a member of the Charter, a group of elite secret agents who remain free of national allegiances so they can pursue world order. The key to their lofty aspiration is a general A.I. called the Heart, which can essentially do anything it’s asked and immediately become a master of it, to boot. Such a powerful A.I. tool is used by the Charter for good — it allows the operatives to look at any given situation and plan the best course of action — but is also sought by someone plotting global instability (the threat of misused A.I. becoming a detriment to humanity? You might just call this one a timely pick on our part).
Be sure to check out Alia Bhatt’s performance as the film’s villain, as well as Jamie Dornan as the MI6 counterpart to Gadot’s Stone when the feature debuts on Netflix come August 11. You can take in the Heart of Stone trailer in the meantime, which teases more names you can find in the film, such as Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer, Jing Lusi, and Paul Ready.
Miguel Wants to Fight
And here’s our second coming-of-age tale, one that additionally possesses some serious Scott Pilgrim vs. the World vibes. In Miguel Wants to Fight, the titular high school junior (played by Tyler Dean Flores) has never engaged in a bonafide brawl, even though fisticuffs are a normal part of his neighborhood. But when a combination of events turns his life upside down, Miguel’s new goal becomes changing the status of his nonexistent fight history.
With the help of his three best friends — the quick-to-speak Srini (Suraj Partha), the rowdy Cass (Imani Lewis), and the stolid David (Christian Vunipola) — the high-schooler begins a series of attempts to engage in his first-ever fight. The recently-dropped trailer for the upcoming comedy feature displays a unique stylization of its fight scenes, which may just bring to mind the aforementioned 2010 film by Edgar Wright.
The Miguel Wants to Fight preview teases some additional talent — outside of its young stars already named — that includes actors like Dascha Polanco, Raúl Castillo, and Andrea Navedo. You can catch all these performances and more when the Hulu Original premieres on the streamer come August 16.
From a coming-of-age romance to a Fight Club-meets-Scott Pilgrim vs. the World action comedy, you can enter into the new month — and whatever it holds for our industry, at large — with a stacked watchlist of movies premiering in August full of noteworthy performances to take in.
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