By If, for reasons frankly beyond us, you're not enjoying the World Cup and the hours of television it has injected into your day, you might be after something to while away the long sleepless nights this heatwave is gifting us.
Almost faster than we can keep track of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have refreshed their catalogue for July meaning you can now lie atop your sheets and clutch your fan while enjoying the likes of new Orange Is The New Black or the second series of Juventus' sports documentary.
Stay safe out there.
Netflix
Duck Butter (2nd July)
Originally premiering at Tribeca Film Festival this year, Duck Butter follows two women who meet in a club and decide to spend 24 hours having sex on the hour and trying to reconcile the problems they have with relationships. It features powerful performances from Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) and Laia Costa (Victoria) as well as a guest appearance from Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick).
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (6th July)
Long before UK outcast James Corden drove celebrities around LA, Jerry Seinfeld was doing it much better. This July the series, which dates back to 2012, moves to Netflix and Seinfeld is joined by funny folk including Dave Chappelle, Ellen DeGeneres, Zach Galifianakis and Alec Baldwin.
Wind River (6th July)
This 2017 film was inspired by the countless stories of sexual assault on women working on reservations in America. With some grim irony it was distributed by the Weinstein Company before the revelations about him came to light and has since been acquired by Lionsgate. In it Jeremy Renner and Elisabeth Olson play a fish and wildlife service tracker and an FBI agent respectively who try and solve a murder on a Wyoming reservation.
First Team: Juventus (6th July)
The second series of the inside look at the Serie A giants is set amongst the tear-jerking backdrop of their losing two Champions League finals in three years. "It hurts so much," says Del Piero. But the fightback is on, and the team gather strength with an electrifying title race against rivals Napoli.
Orange Is The New Black (Season 6) (27 July)
Jenji Kohan's darkly comic exploration of female incarceration returns for a sixth season after the previous ended with the prison being stormed after an explosive three day riot. Details of season six have been carefully guarded but Netflix have teased images of the new prison that inmates will be held at in the updates title credits and Danielle Brooks, who plays Taystee has promised repercussions for betrayals in season five.
Amazon
Sweetbitter (1st July)
Stephanie Danler's best-selling novel about a wide-eyed girl developing a palate while working at a high-profile Manhattan restaurant was described as "the Kitchen Confidential of our time" by the New York Times. In the first season of the TV adaptation, Tess (played by British actress Ella Purnell) endures barked instructions to refill salt shakers and smashed plates as she tries, and often fails, to learn the imitable laws of good service.
El Bulli: The Story of a Dream (2nd July)
Until 2011 Ferran Adrià’s 3 Michelin Star restaurant on the Catalonian coast was the best restaurant in the world. Waiting lists were years long as, though it only hosted around 8,000 guests a season, it had more than two million requests. This new documentary charts the rise and decline of the restaurant and features interviews with Adrià, stirring archive videos of him addressing the staff and forensic footage of food preparation.
Amy (2nd July)
What really strikes you upon watching this 2015 documentary is the sheer volume of recorded footage of Amy Winehouse. With exception directing from Asif Kapadia (Senna) and production by master of the documentary biopic, James Gay-Rees (Senna, Oasis: Supersonic, Ronaldo), Amy paints a doomed portrait of the her life and the many people who failed her.
Paddington 2 (12th July)
We too never thought we'd be recommending this heart-warming not-just-for-kids romp featuring one of England's foremost bears, but here we are. A brilliant script, flawless animation and genuinely amusing performances from British great such as Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent and Peter Capaldi. Paddington 2 is worth streaming with every anxiety-inducing hangover you have this month.
BBC iPlayer
Scotland 78: A Love Story (1st July)
Scotland’s miraculous journey to the 1978 World Cup in Argentina is revisited in this documentary which unpicks why it was a moment the country badly needed something to believe in. A little extra football for you now that we're down to only two games a day.
