Derek Malcolm has been covering the worlds of tech and entertainment for more than two decades.<\/p>\n
Before coming to How-To Geek in 2025, Derek was a contributing editor and writer for the A\/V and Home Theater section at Digital Trends, where he wrangled and wrote everything from what to watch on Netflix to reviews, explainers, and guides on the latest Bluetooth speakers, turntables, projectors, and other A\/V gear.<\/p>\n
Based in Toronto, Derek graduated from Humber College's Journalism program in 1999, after which he started covering the worlds of music, movies, TV, and celebrity for publications such as TV Guide, Hello! magazine, and Inside Entertainment. He then got the bug for covering tech and gadgets in 2006, when he served as editor-in-chief of Canadian tech magazine Connected for more than a decade.<\/p>\n
An avid skier, when all the snow's gone Derek can be found at home spinning vinyl with his daughter or cheering on his favorite F1 team, McLaren.<\/p>\n
August on Netflix has arrived, and with it comes the anticipation for a handful of marquee new original movies the streamer will be trotting out in the coming weeks, including a sci-fi horror starring Greta Lee (The Last House) and, late in the month, a chilling-looking murder thriller (The Whisper Man) starring Adam Scott and Robert de Niro.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, however, August 1st comes with a pile of good movies on loan to Netflix for the next little while, a few of which we dig into below for your weekly movie nights. The first is the most tearful and highest-rated in a long franchise of speedy-car movies; the second is a classic Beverly Hills '90s comedy that's highly quotable; and my top pick this week is an ever more classic action staple about a bus that can't slow down.<\/p>\n
From thrillers to docuseries \u2014 how much do you know about what's hitting
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNetflix in August 2026?<\/p>\n
The Whisper Man is a Netflix thriller based on a bestselling novel by which author?<\/p>\n
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing focuses on controversies surrounding which aircraft
\n\t\t\t\t\tmodel at the center of fatal crashes?<\/p>\n
My Life With the Walter Boys returns for its third season on Netflix. Where is the
\n\t\t\t\t\tseries primarily set?<\/p>\n
Ricky Gervais: Alley Cats marks which milestone for Gervais as a Netflix stand-up
\n\t\t\t\t\tspecial?<\/p>\n
Outer Banks: Season 5 follows the cast in their ongoing adventures. What is the name
\n\t\t\t\t\tof the central friend group the show follows?<\/p>\n
Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy examines the rise of which fast food chain that
\n\t\t\t\t\tbecame a cultural phenomenon?<\/p>\n
The Last House, arriving on Netflix in August 2026, falls into which primary genre?<\/p>\n
The Netflix documentary Mourinho profiles one of football's most controversial
\n\t\t\t\t\tmanagers. Which club did Jos\u00e9 Mourinho famously describe himself as a 'Special One' upon joining?<\/p>\n
Picking up just after the events of Fast & Furious 6, where we find Jason Statham's special-ops agent-gone-rogue, Deckard Shaw, hunting down Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), and their crew, seeking revenge for what they did to Deckard's mercenary brother Owen, in a timeline that goes back to the Tokyo Drift timeline. But Dom and the family aren't ones to sit and wait for their fate. Instead, they make a deal with government fixer Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell)\u2014he helps them get to Shaw, and they help him find a kidnapped hacker.<\/p>\n
As with all the brilliantly action-packed Fast movies, you can expect burning rubber, muscle cars doing things muscle cars can't really do (like skydiving), lots of explosions, and a genuinely touching sendoff to Walker. Furious 7 has an 81% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n
If you have children of the teenage persuasion, the time has come for you to finally expose them to the movie that defined a generation, delivered so many quirky and quotable lines, and gave us Paul Rudd's screen debut. Yes, Clueless, the updated retelling of Jane Austen's classic Emma, is on Netflix for the next little while, at least.<\/p>\n