Prime Video – quick links
Prime Video: new this week
Sterling Point – 5 August
Series. Created by Megan Park, Sterling Point is a heartfelt, coming-of-age drama led by 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin). Raised in New York City with her twin brother (Keen Ruffalo) and loving adoptive father (Jay Duplass), Annie’s life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada.
There, she finds new friends, budding romances and untold family secrets.
Beast Race – 7 August
Film (2026). In a dystopian future, Rio de Janeiro lies in ruins and has become the setting for a deadly race. What was once the ‘jogo do bicho’ (animal game) has now turned into a violent competition among runners, each representing an animal, risking their lives to compete for a cash prize that can change their lives.
However, to compete, each runner must offer another person as collateral. Only the winners recover their loved ones. The game has become a symbol of oppression for many and entertainment for the majority, who bet on their favorite runners, further widening the gap between the rich and the poor.
Beast Race stars Matheus Abreu, Rodrigo Santoro and Isis Valverde.
Prime Video: recent highlights
Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 – 31 July
Series. This hard-boiled animated series follows the fearsome vigilante in his early years. Forged in the fire of tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human – the Batman.
Night after night, against overwhelming odds, he wages his relentless one-man war on crime. The series is a reimagining of the Batman mythology through the lens of executive producers J. Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm.
The Sheep Detectives – 24 July
Film (2026). Every night, a shepherd reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand. When he is found dead, the sheep realise at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Brett Goldstein and Patrick Stewart.
Ride or Die – 15 July
Series. Ride or Die follows best friends Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer) and Judith Burton (Hannah Waddingham) who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin.
When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a hit goes horribly wrong, both of their worlds are turned upside down as they’re forced to go on the run together. It’s a race against time and a road trip across Europe, with law enforcement, highly trained assassins, and some very dangerous criminals at their heels.
The Ghost in the Shell – 8 July
Series. Since Shirow Masamune first published the original manga in Kodansha’s Young Magazine Pirate Edition in 1989, The Ghost in the Shell series has transcended media boundaries – expanding into anime, beginning with director Mamoru Oshii’s landmark 1995 film, as well as a live-action Hollywood film and more – delivering awe and inspiration to audiences around the world.
Starring Maaya Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Yûichi Nakamura and Yoji Ikuta.
Elle – 1 July
Series. Season 1 of Elle follows Elle Woods before she was a fish-out-of-water at Harvard. We meet her in 1995 as a fish in the tumultuous waters of high school where she encounters tricky friendships, forbidden romance, and questionable fashion choices.
Through it all, Elle uses her family as a touchstone, and forms an even tighter bond to her mother, proving that they can get through anything life throws their way as long as they have each other. With each challenge she faces, Elle grows closer to the Elle Woods we know and love today.
Starring Lexi Minetree June Diane Raphael, Tom Everett Scott, Jacob Moskovitz and Gabrielle Policano.
