Greet a new month with a ton of fun movies and shows from the paired streamers, including Lilo & Stitch and Sisu. No, not all together.
It’s only a matter of time until Disney+ and Hulu will be combined into a single app. Until then, Disney brings you the ultra-popular Marvel and Star Wars franchises, while Hulu covers a more adult-oriented niche with tons of movies and shows from network partners.
Between the two services, they release a ton of content every week, so I’ll make it easy for you by picking three worthwhile new entries. August leads into September with the latest Disney live-action remake, a chilling crime documentary from the frozen North, and one of the peak action movies of the decade. The full list of TV shows and movies coming to the streaming services is below.This Week on Hulu and Disney+: PCMag’s Picks Sisu (Hulu, Aug. 29)
One of the most viscerally satisfying action movies in recent years, Finnish hit Sisu is brutal and uncompromising. Jorma Tommila stars as a gold prospector who finds a huge deposit in Lapland, but on his way back to civilization, he runs into a pair of Nazi platoons who want to swipe his stash. Needless to say, he doesn’t take this lying down, and things get rowdy. The sequel’s coming out soon.
Director: Jalmari Helander
Cast: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Mimosa Willamo
Genre: Documentary
Rating: R
IMDb Rating: 6.9/10Lilo & Stitch (Disney+, Sept. 3)
Whatever your thoughts on Disney’s obsessive desire to release live-action remakes of every single one of its animated classics, Lilo & Stitch is pretty fun. While the original had a very distinctive visual style that reality can’t replicate, the CGI space monsters are fun, and the acting is solid. There’s already a sequel in development, so it must have done well at the box office.
