Roku is bringing more content to its free streaming service this month. Highlights include Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada; the Facebook origin story The Social Network; and celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse serving food to special guests in Emeril Live.
Here’s everything new on The Roku Channel in August.
Action Movies
- The Rock – A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) – Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day’s work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
- Run All Night – Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.
- The Last Stand – The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.
- The 5th Wave – Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.
Drama Movies
- Apollo 13 – NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
- The Devil Wears Prada – A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
- The Social Network – As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
- Stepmom – A terminally-ill woman must deal with her ex-husband’s new lover, who will be their children’s stepmother.
- Steel Magnolias – A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
- Interview with the Vampire – A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
- Practical Magic – Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love.
- My Son – Driving in the heart of the Highlands, Edmond Murray receives a call from his ex-wife, in tears. Their 7-year-old son went missing from a campsite. Soon it becomes clear that the child was kidnapped and the parents give way to despair.
- Whiplash – A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.
Romance Movies
- The Vow – A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.
- Diary of a Mad Black Woman – A couple’s seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.
- License To Wed – A reverend puts an engaged couple through a grueling marriage preparation course to see if they are meant to be married in his church.
- Out of Africa – In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Comedy Movies
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly.
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 – Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.
- Dead Poets Society – Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
- I Can Do Bad All By Myself – When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
Family Movies
- Stuart Little – The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.
- Paddington 2 – Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
Thriller Movies
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years by young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.
- No Good Deed – An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.
- Queen of the Damned – In this loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), the vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the equally beautiful and monstrous queen of all vampires.
TV Shows
- Martha Bakes – Learn to create the finest desserts and goodies in your own home. Martha Stewart shares the best baking tips and techniques, giving you the confidence to create delectable baked goods.
- Emeril Live – Emeril Lagasse takes cooking to a whole new level preparing delicious food with a live band and special guests try the food. BAM!
- Mary Kills People – Single mother Mary Harris is an ER doctor by day, but by night she and her partner, a former plastic surgeon, moonlight as underground angels of death who help terminally ill patients slip away on their own terms.
- The Fosters – Teenager Callie Jacob is placed in a foster home with a lesbian couple and their blend of biological, adoptive, and foster children.