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Start your bingeing engines: New shows streaming in August

It's a month for fabulous wigs as RuPaul's Drag Race and Funny or Die's take on Donald Trump hit the streaming services this month.

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Gentleman, start your engines. And may the best woman win.

Stan

Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come to lip-sync for your life!

RuPaul is hitting Stan with a vengeance this month, ready to take down all the basic b*tches of the world and get them to lift their game in "RuPaul's Drag Race" and the game show "Gay For Play." Now is the time to binge on Jinx Monsoon and Latrice Royale, and werk like you've never werked before.

Presto has its usual killer line-up of movies (many of which you'll find on Foxtel, but without the install fee). A lot of the good stuff, like "V for Vendetta" and "Annie Hall," drops on August 1, but you'll need to wait til the 7th for "Beverly Hills Chihuahua". A whole week?! I know, it's going to be tough.

You might have to wait a few months for new episodes of "Black Mirror" and "Gilmore Girls" to come to Netflix, but in the meantime, the US streaming service is showing greats like "Pretty Woman," "Braveheart" and "Argo." And for political buffs, you can catch Funny Or Die's take on Trump in "Donald Trump's the Art of the Deal."

Stan

August 2

  • Showgirls
  • Inside Deep Throat

August 3

  • Sharknado 3
  • Peep Show -- Seasons 1-9

August 4

  • Caligula
  • Beauty & the Beast -- Season 1

August 5

  • The Gruffalo
  • The Gruffalo's Child
  • Room on the Broom

August 10

  • Before We Go

August 12

  • Fringe -- Seasons 1-5

August 13

  • The Great Beauty

August 16

  • How to Train your Dragon

August 17

  • Younger -- Seasons 1-2
  • Gay for Play Game Show -- Season 1

August 18

  • Spaced -- Seasons 1-2

August 19

  • Top Boy -- Seasons 1-2

August 20

  • The Assassin

August 23

  • RuPaul's Drag Race -- Seasons 2-7

August 24

  • Burnt

August 25

  • The Returned -- Season 2

August 27

  • Spirits of the Dead

August 28

  • And God Created Woman

August 31

  • The Tale of Love and Darkness

Netflix

August 1

  • Argo
  • Grease: Live
  • Lawless
  • The Prestige
  • Donald Trump's the Art of the Deal: The Movie
  • The Killing -- Season 4
  • Scream -- Season 2

August 3

  • Pretty Woman
  • The Queen

August 5

  • The Little Prince
  • David Cross: Make America Great Again

August 8

  • Ever After High: Epic Winter

August 10

  • Braveheart
  • The Intern

August 12

  • The Get Down: Part 1
  • Project MC2
  • Ask the Storybots -- Season 1

August 17

  • Puffin Rock -- Season 2

August 19

  • Fearless
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

August 24

  • Definitely, Maybe

August 26

  • XOXO
  • Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy: We've Been Thinking
  • Glitter Force -- Season 2
  • Dawn of the Croods -- Season 2

Presto

August 1

  • Dead Poets Society
  • Good Morning Vietnam
  • The Legend of Johnny Lingo
  • Pushing Tin
  • Scoop
  • Femme Fatale
  • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
  • Starsky & Hutch
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • Meet Dave
  • Dragonball: Evolution
  • Airheads
  • Dirty Sanchez: The Movie
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Goodbye Lover
  • Interiors
  • Match Point
  • The Sentinel
  • Crank: High Voltage
  • The Grudge
  • Stay
  • Bye Bye Love
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo
  • It Could Happen to You
  • Made in America
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Dumb Criminals: The Movie
  • Copycat
  • Life or Something Like It
  • Radio Days
  • V For Vendetta
  • Alice
  • Open Season: Scared Silly
  • Broadway Danny Rose
  • Grandma
  • Annie Hall
  • The Transporter: Refuelled
  • The End of the Tour
  • Macbeth
  • Bananas
  • Ratter
  • Manhattan
  • Back on Board: Greg Louganis
  • Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
  • Winners and Losers -- Season 4
  • 800 Words

August 3

  • The Concierge
  • Veep -- Seasons 1-3

August 5

  • Peter Pan
  • Dexter -- Seasons 1-8

August 6

  • Mr. Holmes
  • Beverly Hills Chihuahua
  • Chuggington -- Season 2
  • Lah Lah's Adventures -- Season 1
  • Cat in the Hat: Xmas Special

August 7

  • The Chamber
  • Rock the Kasbah
  • Happy Gilmore
  • The Terminal

August 8

  • The Hangover 3
  • House Arrest
  • INXS: Never Tear Us Apart

August 10

  • Young Ones
  • Dark Net

August 12

  • Apollo 13
  • Return to Neverland

August 13

  • Bruno
  • High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  • Coraline

August 14

  • American Beauty

August 15

  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Hot Wheels Battle Force 5
  • Max & Ruby -- Seasons 1-2
  • Mr Young -- Season 1
  • Scaredy Squirrel -- Season 1
  • Sidekick -- Season 1

August 16

  • Hannibal Rising

August 19

  • Tinker Bell
  • No Strings Attached
  • Shooter
  • The Newsroom -- Seasons 1-3

August 20

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of Black Pearl
  • War of the Worlds
  • The 5th Wave

August 21

  • Primal Fear
  • Youth

August 24

  • Bill
  • Fear the Walking Dead -- Season 1

August 25

  • I Love You, Man

August 26

  • Paycheck
  • Just Like Heaven

August 27

  • Public Enemies
  • The Heartbreak Kid
  • Bedtime Stories
  • The Dressmaker

August 28

  • Disturbia