December isn’t just a time for carols, cookies, and cheer. The holiday season is also the time to stuff your eye-gullets with as much vanishing streaming content as possible. Hulu is purging a lot of titles next month, including its fleet of Star Trek films, the Bourne Identity franchise, and for some unacceptable reason, Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Are we ready to let go of Spooky Season so easily?) It’s also your last chance to catch Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet before having to shell out the four bucks for the rental. Is that more of a warning for this writer? Possibly, but we can’t confirm for certain. It’s also the month to catch some big favorites for a limited one-month window. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, for example, heads to the platform on December 1 and expires at the very end of the month. The same goes for The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor and a number of Tyler Perry titles.
But there’s still plenty of room for new shows and the arrival of some old favorites. The Hardy Boys sacrifice their holiday to solve some mysteries in its first season. According to Hulu’s official synopsis, “Frank Hardy (Rohan Campbell), 16, and his brother Joe (Alexander Elliot), 12, are forced to move from the big city to their parent’s hometown of Bridgeport for the summer… Frank and Joe’s quiet summer quickly comes to a halt when they discover their dad, detective Fenton Hardy (James Tupper) has taken on a secret investigation. Realizing that their Dad may be onto something the boys take it upon themselves to start an investigation of their own, and suddenly everyone in town is a suspect.” Canadian comedy Letterkenny—a series that we recommend, if you haven’t checked it out already—returns for its ninth season the day after Christmas. But if you’re looking for something to keep you busy until then, you can always fire up the 1997 classic The Fifth Element, which arrives at the beginning of the month. Check out the rest of the arrivals and departures below.
Coming
December 1
CMA Country Christmas: Special
Disney Holiday Singalong: Special
Lupin the 3rd Part 5: Complete Season 1 (Dubbed & Subbed)
30 Days of Night (2007)
50 First Dates (2004)
About Last Night (1986)
Angels & Demons (2009)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Black Dynamite (2009)
Body of Evidence (1993)
Cake (2006)
Charlotte’s Web (1973)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Con Air (1997)
Diary Of A Mad Black Woman (2005)
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Dr. No (1962)
Dragonball: Evolution (2009)
Euphoria (2018)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
Goldeneye (1995)
Goldfinger (1964)
Hemingway’s Garden of Eden (2010)
Here On Earth (1999)
Hot Air (2019)
Into the Blue (2005)
Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
Our Family Wedding (2009)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
Shrink (2009)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Southside With You (2016)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
Sunshine (2007)
The 6th Day (2000)
The Chumscrubber (2005)
The Client (1994)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992)
The Hulk (2003)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The January Man (1989)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor (2008)
The November Man (2014)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The Young Victoria (2009)
True Confessions (1981)
Two Weeks (2006)
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
December 4
The Hardy Boys: Complete Season 1
Brassic: Complete Season 2
Deutschland 89: Complete Season 1
My Hero Academia: Complete Season 4 (Dubbed)
She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
December 5
Black Ops (2020)
God’s Own Country (2017)
It Had To Be You (2015)
Mr. Jones (2020)
Waiting For The Barbarians (2020)
December 6
How To Fake A War (2019)
The Secret Garden (2020)
December 7
Valley Girl (2020)
December 8
Nurses: Series Premiere
The Fairy Princess and the Unicorn (2020)
December 10
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical!
Out Stealing Horses (2019)