It’s almost the weekend, and that means you should book in another Gizmodo movie night. This week, stock up on popcorn and switch off the intellectual side of your brain — you won’t need it for watching the best blockbusters streaming online right now.
We’ve re-jigged our existing Netflix Movie Night series, and brought in Australia’s other popular subscription video on demand services — Presto and Stan — to give you a broader selection of movies and TV shows to enjoy. On all three services, you can watch from your tablet or smartphone, on your PC or laptop, through your Smart TV, or through a media streaming dongle like the Google Chromecast, although specifics can vary.
Presto is $10 to $15 depending which package you choose, Stan costs a flat $10 per month, and Netflix can cost from $9 to $15 per month.
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Presto
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Presto: When a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Captain America struggles to expose an ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off assailants sent to silence him at every turn.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro
Presto: Spider-Man’s greatest battle begins when an evil corporation attempts world domination by sending out an army of super villains to crush Peter Parker.
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Presto: The Terminator is back and now he’s one of the good guys, assigned to protect freedom fighter John Connor from a cyborg sent by the leader of the human resistance in the future.
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Divergent
Presto: In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, a Divergent, who is told will never fit in, discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents.
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Transformers: Age Of Extinction
Presto: Humans come to realise that their new war against the Autobots could end with their own extinction when a threat more powerful than anything they have ever imagined presents itself.
Stan
Pacific Rim
Stan: When legions of creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers.
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The Raid
Stan: Deep in the heart of Jakarta’s slums lies an impenetrable multi-level safe house for the world’s most dangerous gangsters. Cloaked under the cover of darkness, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house.
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The Dark Knight Rises
Stan: Christopher Nolan returns to complete the Gotham trilogy that launched with Batman Begins. Christian Bale prowls the night as the Caped Crusader, fighting crime and corruption with the help of Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman.
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The Hunger Games
Stan: Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains.
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Edge Of Tomorrow
Stan: An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to defeating the enemy.
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Netflix
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Netflix: On the run from intergalactic warlord Ronan, hotshot space pilot Peter Quill unites a ragtag band of oddballs to form a team of unlikely heroes.
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Inglourious Basterds
Netflix: A Jewish cinema owner in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi premiere, where a group of American soldiers called the Basterds plans a face-off.
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National Treasure
Netflix: Modern treasure hunters search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
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Dredd
Netflix: In a catastrophic future, the remaining population is crowded into megacities, where all-powerful and ultraviolent cops are hunting for terrorists.
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Godzilla
Netflix: A team of experts — including a biologist and two scientists — must stop an oversized lizard from destroying all of Manhattan.
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Disclosure: Stan is a 50/50 joint venture between Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media. Allure Media, the company which publishes Gizmodo Australia, is also owned by Fairfax.