The world’s most famous digital distribution platform floats in the space between the future, the past and nostalgia this month. It’s July, it’s hot and you need something cool to spend the evening in front of the TV? Between anime, new series and old films, in the following lines we recommend what to keep an eye on in July on Netflix. Let’s say that this month there is something for everyone, more or less.
Un piedipiatti a Beverly Hills – Axel F
If you love action comedies, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F It might be the most anticipated film of July: literally, since it’s been in the works for, like, twenty years, exactly since Eddie Murphy admitted that Beverly Hills Cop III was crap and he didn’t want the series to end like that.
Between writings and rewritings, directors who have come and gone, in the end it was up to Mark Molloy to bring Murphy back on stage: an aged Axel Foley, but still very badass, dealing with his daughter (Taylour Paige) and all the old cast, including Judge Reinhold, John Ashton and Paul Reiser. The always good Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins the crew for an explosive detective story full of chases, shootouts and irony. The July 3rd we’ll find out if he’ll be able to break away from nostalgia at all costs to tell us something fresh and engaging.
Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc
Starting from theJuly 8every week we will find on Netflix a new episode of this series that is a bit unpublished and a bit revival and also a bit celebratory: the Kinnikuman anime is in fact turning forty and the manga by the duo known as Yudetamago has been in circulation since ’79.
It is one of the longest-running shonen there is, in short, and it has gone through sequels, reboots and relaunches: the last anime series ended in 2006 and the story starts again right here, with a summary episode that serves to explain a little to all the neophytes who it is. Kinnikumanalso known in our parts as Ultimate Muscle, the alien wrestler who fights in the ring against the most absurd opponents. The new animated series has an important cast, the music of Yasuharu Takanashi and the animations of the always extraordinary Production IG
M3GAN
Gerard Johnstone’s horror comedy was a bit of a revelation in 2023: it doesn’t shake up the genre, it’s not a cinematic masterpiece, but it does what it has to do very well without resorting to unnecessary scares or rivers of blood. It is also a disturbing reflection on the dangers that the much talked about artificial intelligencein the event that, in a perhaps not too distant future, dolls are built that might become a little too attached to their owner.
Available from July 9thM3GAN is a film that we recommend you see if you like halfway horror Chucky the killer doll e Screambut you don’t have to take it seriously: the absurd situations and over the top dialogues are designed specifically to make you laugh and think, not necessarily in that order.
Exploding Kittens
One of the most famous card games in the world – it sold like 35 million copies and recently became a mobile game – in a cartoon for adults on Netflix: What could possibly go wrong? In fact, showrunner Matthew Inman, who created the original card game, had a good idea: since it was practically impossible to turn it into a coherent plot, he invented it from scratch. And so, in this series, God and Satan incarnate on Earth in the form of cats, and they’re neighbors to boot.
God, who is also voiced in the original language by Tom Ellis, ironically famous for playing Lucifer in the TV series of the same name, must solve the problems of his human family, protect them from Satan and save the world before returning to Heaven. Available from July 12thExploding Kittens has everything it takes to be a hilarious series.
Mononoke
The title may mislead you: no, it is not Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki but an old anime from 2007 that inspired manga and theatrical works and which sees the protagonist, known only as a “medicine seller”, wandering around Japan between the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji era in search of Mononokespirits to be exorcised after a careful study of the paranormal case in question.
Halfway between horror and investigative, with a truly particular and alienating style, Mononoke has twelve episodes divided into various narrative arcs (and a film that will be released at the end of July in Japan, who knows in our country). Coming soon 15th of Julyis definitely an anime to keep an eye on if you like the genre, ancient Japan between history and myth and paranormal adventures with horror hues.
Cobra Kai 6, Part 1
The showdown begins, but to find out how Cobra Kai will end we will have to wait until next year: the first part of the sixth and final season will arrive on July 18th on Netflix, followed by a second part on November 28 and a third and final part in 2025, for a total of 15 episodes. We’ll know in a few months if the long wait is worth it, so let’s just say you have plenty of time to catch up on this piece of action TV history that began way back in 1984, when Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso was still a kid.
Cobra Kai began life as a low-budget revival of The Karate Kid starring William Zabka as protagonist Daniel’s first rival, Johnny Lawrence, who reopens his old dojo, attracting a colorful cast of young students. Between love stories, fights, soap opera moments and pure nostalgia, Cobra Kai It was an incredible success and we’re a little sad to see it come to an end.
More releases in July on Netflix
- The vertical line (1 July)
- Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (July 1)
- Star Trek: Prodigy, Season 2 (July 1)
- Fast & Furious 9 (5 luglio)
- The Swamp Girl (July 6)
- Vikings: Valhalla, season 3 (July 11)
- Titanic (June 15)
- Sweet Home, season 3 (June 19)
- The Decameron (July 25)
