Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video Australia: June 2023

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video‘s Australian library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks

Bones And All (June 1)

Hungry for some sickening teen romance? Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino and star Timotheé Chalamet reunite for this dark, swoony feature about Fine Young Cannibals finding one another along the routes of midwest America. Taylor Russell and Chalamet have beautiful, doomed chemistry in what’s basically a tale of addiction: cursed to crave human flesh, they’re unsure whether being together is more or less destructive to themselves and whatever poor victims they come across. If you can’t stomach any screen gore, this might not be the breezy YA road-trip you’re after—but horror fans will appreciate its sweeping cinematography and haunting moral questions.

Deadloch: Season 1 (June 2)

Two extremely different detectives solve a murder in a sleepy rural hamlet—sounds like a million, gritty British crime dramas that you’ve already seen, no? The comic creativity of the Kates (Aussie humorists McCartney and McLennan, that is) should add a streak of hilarity to such a familiar format. Over eight episodes, you’ll be able to spot top characters from the Australian comedy scene as the mismatched Sergeant Dulcie and Investigator Eddie close in on their killer.

I’m A Virgo: Season 1 (June 23)

Boots Riley made an audacious splash with his surreal dark comedy Sorry To Bother You a few years back, and has only just resurfaced with another strange project about the awkwardness of modern Black life. The wickedly talented Jharrel Jerome takes on a literally larger-than-life role, as a 13-foot-tall kid only just beginning to experience love, friendship and rebellion. Set loose on the streets of Oakland after a hermetic childhood surrounded by comic books, he’ll own his absurd situation and even get to meet his idol: a superhero played by my fave Walton Goggins. Expect the unexpected.