Netflix had another sizable stream of updates this week, with the majority of the new additions coming from various Cartoon Network series. Everything from great shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, and The Venture Bros. to less-than-great shows like Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Johnny Bravo make up a sizable portion of the new Netflix titles. Some choice films added this week are Scoop and Wrong Cops, as well as the “Should I or Shouldn’t I Watch This?” film, G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
However, my personal recommendation for this week is the film Short Term 12, one of the best films of 2013 (that didn’t make my best of 2013 list only because I didn’t get a chance to see it). The film, written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, is an independent drama about a supervisor (Larson) at a foster care facility for at-risk teenagers. As supervisor, she has to gather up the strength and courage to help all of the teenagers living there, despite having her own personal demons she must contend with. Short Term 12 was nominated for and won a plethora of awards during its festival run, and serves as a break-out role for Larson. If you can only watch one film on Netflix this weekend, it better be Short Term 12.
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Season 1
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Season 2
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Season 2
Ben 10: Alien Force: Season 3
Ben 10: Season 2 2006
Ben 10: Season 3 2007
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Season 2
The Boondocks: Season 2
Breathless
Burnt Money
Chowder: Season 2
Christian Finnegan: The Fun Part
Cow and Chicken: Season 2
Crimes of the Century: Season 1
Dexter’s Laboratory: Season 3
Dexter’s Laboratory: Season 4
Dude, What Would Happen?: Season 2
The Eagle
Ed, Edd ‘n’ Eddy: Season 3
Ed, Edd ‘n’ Eddy: Season 4
Edge of Seventeen
Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement
Elon Gold: Chosen and Taken
The Family
A Fantastic Fear of Everything
A Farewell to Fools
Fate/Zero: Season 1
Fate/Zero: Season 2
Foster’s Home: Season 2 2005
From One Second to the Next
Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Season 4
Hannah Arendt
Heaven Is Waiting
How Much Do You Love Me?
Inside Man: Season 1
Interior. Leather Bar.
Iris: The Movie
Johnny Bravo: Season 2
The Last Gladiators
Laurence Anyways
Leap Year
Leprechaun
The Living End
Me Late Chocolate
Mother of George
My Gym Partner’s a Monkey: Season 2
Nazi Hunters: Season 1
Night Train to Lisbon
Powerpuff Girls: Season 4
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Season 1
Rebel Music
Rebel Music
Robot Chicken: Season 2
Samurai Jack: Season 2
Scoop
Show Me Love
Taxi Zum Klo
A Teacher
TEDTalks: Trust Me
Time to Leave
Trap for Cinderella
Uncle Boonmee
The Venture Bros.: Season 2
The Witnesses
Wrong Cops
Zaytoun
The Bible: The Epic Miniseries
Khumba
Short Term 12
AFV: Best in Boneheads
AFV: Kid’s Favorites
The Artist and the Model
Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
Forgetting the Girl
G.B.F.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
The Dirties
Milius
Peeples