After months of consideration, I’ve finally pulled the trigger on providing weekly Netflix Instant updates. After all, I always wonder what’s new on Netflix myself, so this is like killing two birds with one stone. Thankfully, I chose a great week to begin the Weekly Netflix Fix, because the past week saw dozens of titles added to Netflix. Some of my personal recommendations include Amores Perros, Bob’s Burgers Season 3, Lars and the Real Girl, Mean Girls, Rocky I – V, and Terminator.
It’s about time Mean Girls found its way to Netflix. Say what you will about Lindsay Lohan’s downfall, but Mean Girls was a shining moment not only for her and for the rest of the cast (Hey, Lacey Chabert), but also Tina Fey’s writing career and general acclaim for female-driven comedies. Hell, just last week, a close friend of mine told me she thinks she has ESPN. Bob’s Burgers inclusion is self-explanatory: If you’re not watching Bob’s Burgers, you’re missing out on one of the best animated shows on-air right now. Rocky I-V and Terminator are also self-explanatory. Amores Perros, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, 21 Grams), is actually the first film in the Death Trilogy that also includes the two aforementioned films. The film is told through three interconnected vignettes that are tied together narratively by a car accident, and thematically by each vignette’s characters’ relationships with the dogs around them. It’s gripping and infinitely better than Babel. Lars and the Real Girl, my left field suggestion, will be expanded on another time…
Check out the full list of updates below. Take note: the Weekly Netflix Fix will be updated every Thursday morning and will have a full list of new additions from the previous week (with the exception of this week where I simply added new titles from the beginning of April). Netflix Pix, where we choose one new title and explain why you should watch it ASAP, will be moved to Fridays to accommodate the Weekly Netflix Fix.
- Act Like You Love Me
- After Porn Ends
- Ali
- Alice
- Amanda
- Ambush at Dark Canyon
- Amistad
- Amores Perros
- Angel Heart
- Ass Backwards
- Axed
- Baby Genius: A Trip to the San Diego Zoo
- Baby Genius: Animal Adventures
- Baby Genius: Favorite Children’s Songs
- Baby Genius: Favorite Nursery Rhymes
- Baby Genius: Mozart and Friends
- Bad Company
- Barton Fink
- The Bells of St. Mary’s
- Bending the Rules
- Best of TEDx
- Berkeley in the Sixties
- The Black Tulip
- Bob’s Burgers: Season 3
- Braveheart
- The Brooke Ellison Story
- Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
- Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Chinatown
- Click
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Comic Book Villains
- Commune
- Coneheads
- Cotton Comes to Harlem
- Craigslist Joe
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Death Wish
- Death Wish 2
- Death Wish 3
- Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
- Decoding Deepak
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Dragonslayer
- The English Patient
- ETXR
- A Fierce Green Fire
- The Fifth Element
- For a Few Dollars More
- Frankenstein’s Army
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Germ Z
- The Goebbels Experiment
- Going Ape!
- The Graduate
- The Great Train Robbery
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- The Heart of the Game
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- The Hive
- The Hive: Season 1
- The Hive: Season 2
- House, M.D.
- House, M.D.: Season 1
- House, M.D.: Season 2
- House, M.D.: Season 3
- House, M.D.: Season 4
- House, M.D.: Season 5
- House, M.D.: Season 6
- House, M.D.: Season 7
- House, M.D.: Season 8
- In the Hive
- The Inexplicable Universe with Neil…
- Inside Out
- Inventing the Abbotts
- Jake Blauvelt: Naturally
- Jane Eyre
- Jumanji
- The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
- Lars and the Real Girl
- Last Tango in Halifax: Season 1
- League of Super Evil: Season 1
- A League of Their Own
- The Legend of Hell House
- Les Miserables
- The Little Prince
- A Man Called Peter
- Man Hunt
- The Man with One Red Shoe
- Mean Girls
- Midnight F.M.
- Mortified Nation
- Moto 5
- Mumfie: Season 1
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- Murder at the Presidio
- My Bloody Valentine
- My Bodyguard
- The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
- No Holds Barred
- No Way Home
- NotBad
- Now Is Good
- The Odd Couple
- Orgasm Inc.
- The Paradise: Series 1
- The Player: Secrets of a Vegas Whale
- Point Blank
- The Princess Twins of Legendale
- Pumpkin
- The Queens of Comedy
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- The River’s Edge
- The Robe
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars
- Rocky
- Rocky II
- Rocky III
- Rocky IV
- Rocky V
- Roger Dodger
- Royal Pains: Season 1
- Royal Pains: Season 2
- Royal Pains: Season 3
- Royal Pains: Season 4
- The Running Man
- Scary Movie 3
- Secret Things
- Sense and Sensibility
- Shenandoah
- Sommore: Chandelier Status
- Spanglish
- Steel Magnolias (2012)
- Stephen King’s Thinner
- Strangers in Good Company
- Stuart Saves His Family
- Survival of the Dead
- Tentacles
- The Terminator
- That Splendid November
- There’s No Business Like Show Business
- This Ain’t California
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- Titanic
- The Turning Point
- The Undershepherd
- Women Who Kill
- The Wotwots: Season 1
- The Wotwots: Season 2
- The Writers’ Room
- The Yards