Here is a round up of films watch on Netflix in August.

A Tourist’s Guide to Love
Rachael Leigh Cook stars as Amanda Riley, a travel industry executive, who has just gone through a break up of her long term relationship, with John – an underused Ben Feldman. She decides to get away from it all by accepting an assignment to go undercover and scope out a boutique tourist company in Vietnam that her company is considering buying.

On the trip, she begins to fall for the tour guide Sinh (Scott Ly). Does she tell him why she is there? Of course not! We need to have a conflict to split them up towards the end, after all! Yes, this follows the well worn rom com formula, but Cook is charming, the locations stunning and there are some funny lines.
Rating: 6.5 out of 10

Wham!
I was not a fan of the 80’s pop duo, so I did not expect too much from this documentary. But, it was a pleasant surprise, inventively using archive footage and interviews only to comprehensively cover their four year existence. There is plenty new here for non or casual fans, and the pair come across as very likeable with a friendship that endured.
Rating: 7 out of 10

Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case
This true crime documentary recalls the disappearance of the British woman, Lucie Blackman in Tokyo in 2000. The story is compelling enough and is elevated above the plethora of many similar programmes you can see on various channels on your TV by the access to people involved in the case.

I was particularly interested in the interviews with the various Japanese detectives involved, with both the insight into their methods and the effect the case has had on them.
Rating: 6.5 out of 10

10 Days of a Bad Man
10 Days of a Good Man is one of my favourite films on Netflix this year, so I was pleased to see this swift sequel appear on the service. Nejat Isler returns as private investigator Sadik, who is forced by Abi (Erdal Yildiz) the crime boss he crossed in the first film to look for someone whilst also investigating an unconnected murder.

Yildiz is excellent again and it is great to see that Ilayda Akdogan, so good in the first film, reprise her role as Pinar and given a much bigger part. Also returning are writers Mehmet Eroglu and Damla Serim, who have provided another twisting, complicated story as well as director Uluç Bayraktar who gives the narrative moving nicely.
Rating: 8 out of 10