New to Netflix: Magic Mike, Woman in Gold, Babe and More...
Friday, February 3, 2017 at 1:00PM Today on Netflix a new series debuts starring the long lost Drew Barrymore called Santa Clarita Diet but it's apparently a gore-fest so perhaps skippable? Those of you with a high tolerance for such things can let us know. But there are several enticing options that have just made available for streaming. As is our habit, we've freeze framed a handful plus of new selections at random places and are sharing anything that came up.
This is my idol, Paulina. Someday I hope to be up there with her.
Paris is Burning (1990)
The best documentary of all time? Well, one of 'em at least. And 100% the most quotable as you hear lines from it practically every day still thanks to drag going more mainstream.
Seven more after the jump including Magic Mike...
A new arrival!!!
Corpse Bride (2005)
What a totally fantastic lineup the Oscars had for Best Animated Feature that year: Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Howl's Moving Castle. Any of them would have made a worthy winner. I still think this is the best Tim Burton film of the 21st century (i.e. best since at least Sleepy Hollow, 1999). You?
I know him!
The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story (2016)
Now I can finally see what all the fuss was about. Every other human being appears to have obsessed over it as it aired. I can't say I'm interested in revisiting this topic (though the rest of the world obviously is -- see the Oscar nomination for the other OJ miniseries and all the TV awards for this one) but as a Sarah Paulson devotee, tis my duty.
Dad?
Contact (1997)
This scene and the one before it and after it I had no recollection of once I started scrolling around. But I loved it at the time and I remember thinking of it after Arrival, another film about mysterious communications and an empathetic smart woman who is trying to parse it.
Good evening, you live here? Yeah? What's your name?
Magic Mike (2012)
Hollywood loves franchises and there are too many of them but if we have to have them why can't we have more variety in them and not just visual fx epics and cartoons? My point is this: Why are there only two of these movies? MORE. MORE. MORE.
Thanks very much. That was very nice of you.
Babe (1995)
I love this movie so much. It's one of my all time fondest movie-going memories, taking my then very small nephews to see it.
-Congratulations, you can sue.
-Yes, but I don't want to.
Woman in Gold (2015)
This movie is so bad. That is all.
It's your destiny, Destiny."
Finding Dory (2016)
This was a cute moment. The film had cute moments but I'm glad Oscar hasn't rewarded Pixar for sequelizing things much. It's so depressing to learn that there's only one more original animated film (Coco this year) coming from Pixar until 2020 at the earliest. BOOoooooo!
P.S. Did you hear that Ellen DeGeneres totally schooled T**** on the meaning of this film after he held at screening at the White House? Ellen should get more political. We need her.
ALSO NEW TO NETFLIX
Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies, and Cyber Attacks
Babe
Babe: Pig in the City
Balto
Balto 2: Wolf Quest
Balto 3: Wings of Change
The Blair Witch Project
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Contact
Corpse Bride
Eleven P.M.
Finding Dory
The Five Heartbeats
From This Day Forward: A Trans Love Story
The Girl From Chicago
Gun Runners
Hell-Bound Train
Highly Strung
Hot Biskits
I Am Sun Mu
Invincible
The Longest Day
Magic Mike
Mother With a Gun
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Paris Is Burning
Project X
The Santa Clarita Diet (s1)
Silver Streak
Twilight
Woman in Gold
Coming later this month: Superbad, Girls Lost, Clouds of Sils Maria, Crazy Ex Girlfriend Season 2, King Cobra, White Nights, Before I Go to Sleep and Milk
Reader Comments (11)
I think Corpse Bride is a good movie, but in that year I absolutely adored Howl's Moving Castle. I don't really get Wallace & Gromit.
My favorite Tim Burton film of the 21st century is Big Fish which I know you aren't fond of, but I adore it.
I'm going to eventually give Santa Clarita Diet a chance. I don't really care for gore, but based on the trailer for the series it's played for laughs and usually I can handle that.
I remember Foster being seriously considered as Oscar material in 97,love the John Hurt pic.
I can't believe you haven't seen The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story
yet - it's fantastic. And Sterling, Sarah and Courtney are so amazing in it.
You have something to look forward to for sure!
"Paris is Burning" is amazing and heart breaking...yes there should be more "Magic Mike" movies Mr Tatum was born to dance..."Contact" is a smart sci-fi movie ...
Channing Tatum needs his big La La land musical. he has a real gift that no other a-list actor (is he A-list?) has. that said I never got bitten by the Magic Mike bug.
Paris is Burning is a great great movie. Overwhelmingly touching and affecting. I love it with my everything.
Finding Dory was instantly forgettable for me but I appreciated it as I watched it.
I have still to watch The Corpse Bride and American Crime Story (finally!).
Also Balto !!!!! instant nostalgia to my childhood.
Thanks for reminding me that I need to finish People vs OJ, I still had about three episodes left before hulu took them off last summer. Really curious how they'll pull off the Katrina season next year.
Katya's favorite movie of all time ever, Contact, is actually a pretty good sci-fi with a solid Foster perf.
Isn't Paris is Burning always streaming on there? That, Mean Girls, Clueless, and Heathers are staples I always come across on sick days.
Something I never see available to stream which they recently added is Mulholland Dr., and everyone should see if they haven't. The whole Justin Theroux subplot doesn't work for me but Naomi Watts has never been better and I love the turns the story takes in the second half.
I see King Cobra is gonna stream later this month and that movie is pure LOL. I had a fun campfest watching it last year in a nearly empty theater with my husband. James Franco's line reading of FUCK ME IN THE ASS WITH YOUR BIG DICK is my fav of 2016, no shame. He was trying SO hard. Also, they made that kid look like a fool, which he totally is/was.
Oh, boy, King Cobra was just too much for too little payoff. I'd much rather just rewatch Boogie Nights, which is what King Cobra (and James Franco in it) only wishes it could be. #TeamHeathers
No actress in the world plays intelligence better than Jodie Foster. All her best performances are about her brain trying to figure out things she doesn't understand at first: Contact, Nell, The Silence of the Lambs... It's a very rare gift, to make a very internal and subtle process into sublime acting.
I totally agree about that Mr Tatum needs to be in a real musical - "Hail Caesar" proved that he can be just as hot in a tight sailor whites than in both "Magic Mike" - I think the second film fails because Mike is never given a great solo number- in "Magic Mike III" he should move to Hollywood and do a gay musical....
Contact > Arrival. The similarities between the two are actually, I think, what kept me somewhat from embracing Arrival as much as I would have liked since I think Contact is just so great and did it first. Not that they're identical at all, but I think it does most things just ever so better with the added bonus of those incredible discovery sequences from when Foster first hears the signal.
I watched the Ashley Madison doco tonight. I am sure there is a great doco to be made about the Ashley Madison saga, but this isn't it. Baaaaaad.