Every month, streaming services in Australia add a new batch of movies and TV shows to their library. Here are our picks for October.

OCT. 1

“Diane: the musical”

David Bryan and Joe DiPietro’s writing and songwriting team – who won four Tonys, including Best Musical, for their show “Memphis” – have come together for this high-energy, rock-hard version. n’roll from the Princess Diana saga. Jeanna de Waal stars as the popular and scandalous royal, in a story about her seemingly storybook romance with Prince Charles (Roe Hartrampf) and his unfortunate ending. “Diana: The Musical” officially opens on Broadway later this year, but the cast and crew recorded a performance over the summer, giving theater fans who can’t make it to New York City a chance to. see the show.

‘The guilty’

In this tense mysterious thriller, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a devoted but overzealous police officer, who is stuck working at a dispatch office when he receives a call from a woman (Riley Keough) who claims to fear for his life. Director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto follow the lead of the intense Danish 2018 film on which “The Guilty” is based, telling the story primarily from inside the police station. The hero scrambles to use all the investigative resources at his disposal from his computer and phone, trying to figure out how to stop what may or may not be an ongoing crime.

‘Housemaid’

Based on the memoir of Stephanie Land, the miniseries “Maid” stars Margaret Qualley as a broke single mom named Alex, with very few viable options for work, childcare or a job. safe accommodation. When working for a cleaning service for affluent families in the Pacific Northwest, Alex realizes how much her survival depends on a regular salary and a lot of luck. Qualley gives an exceptional performance in this gripping drama, which turns something as simple as having cash for gasoline (or a running car) into a source of relentless tension.

OCT. 6

“There is someone in your house”

Director Patrick Brice (best known for the quirky genre films “Creep” and “Corporate Animals”) and screenwriter Henry Gayden (who co-wrote the animated superhero film “Shazam!”) Adapted the novel for Stephanie Perkins’ Young Adult “There’s Someone Inside Your House” in a different kind of teenage horror movie. Sydney Park plays Makani, the new girl from a Nebraska high school where students with dark secrets are hunted by a serial killer who wears a mask that resembles the faces of the victims. As these children try to dodge the murder, they also scramble to avoid their deepest regrets being made public.

‘The Babysitters Club’ Season 2

One of the best surprises of the 2020s returns for a second season of family television. Based on Ann M. Martin’s beloved book series, “The Baby-Sitters Club” tells the story of a circle of industrious teenage friends who run a childcare business while helping each other. to solve their problems. The show uses the storylines of the novels as the starting point for modern stories about school, parents, relationships and responsibility.

OCT. 29

‘Colin in black and white’

The Colin in the title of “Colin in Black and White” is Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback and social activist who sparked controversy across the United States when he started kneeling before football matches during the singing of the national anthem. Here, Kaepernick and producer-director Ava DuVernay tell the athlete’s story as he looks back on his childhood, revisiting times when the biracial Colin (Jaden Michael) came into conflict with his coaches, classmates and parents. adoptive whites (played by Nick Offerman and Mary-Louise Parker) as he tried to embrace his cultural roots.

Also arriving: “On My Block” (Oct 4), “Backing Impossible” Season 1 (Oct 6), “Pretty Smart” (Oct 8), “Bright: Samurai Soul” (Oct 12), “Convergence: Courage in a Crisis ”(Oct. 12),“ The Movies That Made Us ”Season 3 (Oct. 12),“ The Four of Us ”(Oct. 15),“ Karma’s World ”(Oct. 15),“ You ”Season 3 (Oct. 15), “Found” (Oct. 20), “Night Teeth” (Oct. 20), “Stuck Together” (Oct. 20), “Sex, Love & goop” (Oct. 21), “ Inside Job ”(Oct 22),“ Locke & Key ”Season 2 (Oct 22),“ Maya and the Three ”(Oct 22),“ Hypnotic ”(Oct 27),“ Army of Thieves ”(Oct . 29).

OCT. 6

“Fate of” Season 1

This Canadian comedy-drama stars Bilal Baig as Sabi, a sexually fluid child of Pakistani immigrants. While working as a daytime nanny and nighttime bartender, Sabi tries to maintain meaningful relationships with her traditionalist family and LGBTQ friends – two very different factions who are sometimes just as bewildered by what it means to be non-binary. It is about a show about a person who makes a space, outside the conventional categories.

October 8

“One of Us Lies” Season 1

Like Karen M. McManus’ young adult detective story on which it is based, the teen drama series “One of Us Is Lying” is part of “The Breakfast Club”, “Gossip Girl” and Agatha Christie whodunit. When five students are trapped by a disturbing peer and stuck in after-school detention, four of them become murder suspects after a member of their group – an incorrigible gossip named Simon (Mark McKenna) – falls dead in strange circumstances. To clear their names, the other children work together, forming an “us versus the world” bond as their secrets become public.

OCT. 16

“Boogie Nights”

Cinephiles ‘favorite writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has a new movie coming out later this year: “Licorice Pizza,” a teenage comedy drama set in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley in the 1970s. It’s so the perfect time to revisit Anderson’s groundbreaking 1997 film “Boogie Nights”, also set in The Valley in the 70s (and 80s). Ostensibly the story of a fast-paced and sweet-living pornstar named Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), “Boogie Nights” is really about misfits from LA forming a makeshift family and then fighting to keep it together as a drug. , money, fame and change cultural attitudes are starting to take everything apart.

OCT. 21

‘Fighting spirit’

Looking for classic horror in October? You can’t go wrong with 1982’s “Poltergeist”, a witty, spooky story about ancient spirits terrorizing a new pristine suburban subdivision. Directed by Tobe Hooper (best known for “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”) and produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg (strong during the era of the success of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “ET”), “Poltergeist” begins as a dryly funny portrait of a pleasant bourgeois family. Then all hell breaks loose, turning an ordinary American neighborhood into a village of the damned.

OCT. 28

‘Love Life’ Season 2

The romantic comedy anthology series “Love Life” returns for a second season with a new story, starring some of the characters from the first season in smaller roles (including last year’s protagonist Darby , played by series co-producer Anna Kendrick). This time around, William Jackson Harper takes the lead as Marcus, a New Yorker still reeling from a recent divorce from the woman he believed to be his lifelong partner. As he re-enters the dating world, which has changed dramatically since the last time he tried to find a partner, Marcus takes the opportunity to reassess what he really wants out of a relationship.

Also arriving: “A Good Man” Season 1 (Oct 13), “Canada’s Drag Race” Season 2 (Oct 15), “Hightown” Season 2 (Oct 17), “All American” Season 4 (Oct 26), ” The Last OG “Season 4 (Oct 27),” Sisterhood “Season 1 (Oct 29),” Walker “Season 2 (Oct 29).

OCT. 1

‘Welcome to the Blumhouse’ Season 2

The second series of original horror feature films in Blumhouse Productions’ anthology series “Welcome to the Blumhouse” follows a slightly different formula than last year. The films “Bingo Hell” (about the elderly protecting their neighborhood from gentrification of a demonic villain), “Black as Night” (about a New Orleans teenager hunting down vampires who prey on the homeless), “Madres” (about Mexican American migrant workers plagued by terrifying premonitions) and “The Manor” (about a nursing home besieged by supernatural forces) bring unique twists and turns at the conventional genre rate, telling stories on people on the fringes of society who are fighting insidious evils.

OCT. 15

‘I know what you did last summer’ Season 1

Based on a 1973 Lois Duncan horror novel (and its hit 1997 film adaptation), the teen slasher series “I Know What You Did Last Summer” follows a group of friends and family. high school acquaintance whose life changed after a terrible accident. As a serial killer targets the children involved in a deadly car crash, they realize that they must abandon their carefully crafted public personas in order to be able to unravel the mystery of who knows their terrible secret.

OCT. 29

‘Fairfax’ Season 1

In this daring animated satire, voice actors Skyler Gisondo, Kiersey Clemons, Peter Kim and Jaboukie Young-White play a group of Los Angeles teens who devote most of their energy and talent to becoming social media influencers. “Fairfax” is partly a knowing look at the hip American youth of the 2020s, and partly an absurd comedy in which the pursuit of weight often turns into surreal adventures.

Also arriving: “All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs” (October 1), “My Name Is Pauli Murray” (October 1), “Justin Bieber: Our World” (October 8).