As the weather gets colder—and our pathological urge to be inside where it’s nice and toasty gets stronger—the need for fresh streaming content gets stronger and stronger. Hence us (possibly temporarily) adding Showtime to our roster of streaming libraries we keep an eye on every month, as the network drops some much-anticipated season premieres—and a whole bunch of older films of highly varying quality—onto its end-of-year roster.
Most notably, this December will see the eighth season finale of Shameless, as the Gallagher family continues its feckless dalliances with redemption and rehabilitation. The end of the year will also see the end-of-season for shows like SMILF, Jay Pharoah’s White Famous, and Ill Behaviour.
Over on the movie side of things, Showtime is apparently going out of its way to fill its ranks with high-profile bombs; those looking for a holiday endurance test can direct themselves toward iconically awful fare like Gigli and Battlefield Earth, nestled right in along Kramer Vs. Kramer and the original Assault On Precinct 13. Christmas-minded watchers are out of luck, though; beyond last year’s Office Christmas Party, you’ll have to content yourself with the wholesome holiday vibes of Heavy Metal or Con Air.
Here’s the complete list:
Available 12/1:
Kramer Vs. Kramer
Personal Shopper
Con Air
Certain Women
American Outlaws
Battlefield Earth
Body Of Deceit
Bugsy
Citizen Ruth
Cold In July
Cursed To Kill
Death Line
Different Flowers
Get The Gringo
Gigli
Heavy Metal
In The Bedroom
K2
The Legend Of Ben Hall
Legends Of The Fall
The Pianist
Return To Me
Sex, Lies, And Videotape
A Simple Plan
The Skulls
The Skulls Ii
The Skulls Iii
Smoke Signals
Some Kind Of Wonderful
St. Elmo’s Fire
Unleashed
Urban Legend
Urban Legend: Final Cut
Vertical Limit
While You Were Sleeping
Available 12/2:
Office Christmas Party
Assassination Tango
Osama
Available 12/11:
Away From Her
Available 12/12:
Cupid’s Proxy
Available 12/15:
Assault On Precinct 13
The Rendezvous
The Whistleblower
You, Me And Him
Available 12/30:
Don’t Sleep