Batman Returns

[Weekly Netflix Fix] Large November Update

As we've come to expect of Netflix, the first of the month means a large number of new titles are added to Instant. For the first week of November, Netflix has added its fair share of TV, the majority of which tailored to kids (Bob the BuilderThomas the Tank Engine). However, there are some great films included in the bunch, including Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, Dumb and Dumber, and a whole lot more.

You can find the full list of new additions to Netflix Instant below.

Altman
Archipelago
Batman
Batman Returns
Blue Bloods
Exhibition
Inkaar
Blue Bloods: Season 1
Blue Bloods: Season 2
Blue Bloods: Season 3
Blue Bloods: Season 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
Unrelated
You've Got Mail
Dormant Beauty
Girltrash: All Night Long
Phenomenon
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Decoding Annie Parker
Dumb and Dumber
Seven
12 Christmas Wishes for My Dog
Addams Family Values
Airplane!
The Almighty Johnsons
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
Angelina Ballerina: Ballet Dreams
Angelina Ballerina: Dancing on Ice
Angelina Ballerina: Superstar Sisters
Angelina Ballerina: The Nutcracker Sweet
Angelina Ballerina: The Silver Locket
Antboy
Arachnophobia
Artifact
Babes in Toyland
Baby Blues
Baby Boy
Bali
Barney: A-Counting We Will Go
Barney: Barney's Colorful World: Live
Barney: Let's Go to the Doctor
Barney: Let's Go to the Farm
Barney: Let's Make Music
Barney: Most Lovable Moments
BASEketball
Best Laid Plans
Black Out
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Bob the Builder: Adventures by the Sea
Bob the Builder: Dig, Lift, Haul
Bob the Builder: Snowed Under
Bob the Builder: Teamwork
Bob The Builder: Teamwork Time!
Bob the Builder: The Best of Bob the...
Bob the Builder: The Ultimate Can Do...
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bratz: Babyz: The Movie
Braveheart
Breakheart Pass
The Burbs
Bushido Man: Seven Deadly Battles
Chasing Christmas
Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats Trailer
Children's Favorites: Halloween Treats
A Christmas Wedding
The Chronicles of Riddick
Cleopatra
Cold Storage
Coming Home for Christmas
Complicit
The Core
The Crimson Cult
Cyborg
DamNation
Dead Heat
DeepStar Six
Destiny Turns on the Radio
Deuces Wild
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Fatal Attraction
Fierce People
Fortress
The Fourth Angel
Good Will Hunting 
Hart's War
The Haunting
The Heart of Christmas
Heartburn
Hell Is for Heroes
Hiding Out
Honor Flight
How to Steal a Million
Infernal Affairs 
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Ssn 9
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jennifer 8
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
The Kingdom of Magic
Kingpin
Kipper: Kipper Helps Out
Kipper: Puppy Love
Kipper: Tales of Adventure
Kipper: Water Play
The Labyrinth of Magic
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
Little Odessa
Live Nude Girls
Love Actually
Magi
Marmato
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mercy
Mockingbird
Mona Lisa Is Missing
A Murder of Crows
Naked As We Came
Neurons to Nirvana: Psychedelic Medicines
Night of the Demons 2
Not Safe for Work
Papadopoulos & Sons
Phase IV
Pinocchio (English Version)
Portlandia: Season 4
The Preacher's Wife
The Quick and the Dead
Road Trip: Beer Pong
RoboCop
RoboCop 3
The Rocketeer
Samurai Champloo 
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: Season 1
The Almighty Johnsons: Season 1
Bali: Season 1
Wakfu: Season 2
My Big Big Friend: Season 2
Borgia: Season 3
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Series 2
Sex: My British Job
Snow Days
Spike
Stand by Me
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Stretch
The Tangerine Bear
TEDTalks: Debates
TEDTalks: Hot Buttons
Thomas & Friends: Come Ride the Rails
Thomas & Friends: Curious Cargo
Thomas & Friends: Go Go Thomas
Thomas & Friends: Merry Christmas Thomas
Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue
Thomas & Friends: Muddy Matters
Thomas & Friends: Splish, Splash, Splosh!
Thomas & Friends: The Greatest Stories
Thomas & Friends: Track Stars
Thomas & the Runaway Kite
Thorne: Scaredy Cat
Thorne: Sleepyhead
Total Recall 
Trading Mom
Turbulence
Unstable Fables: Goldilocks and the 3...
Wake Up
The White Buffalo
The Wipers Times
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
Your Inner Fish
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Season 1
Burt's Buzz
Cleanskin
Lost for Life
Rain Man
Violette


Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained

[Weekly Netflix Fix] The D is Silent

The final Netflix Instant update is a big one for film fans. The highlight of the new dump is Quentin Tarantino's latest, Django Unchained. The film netted both Tarantino and Christoph Waltz an Oscar each, Tarantino with Best Screenplay and Waltz with Best Supporting Actor. Also highlighting this week's updates is Bong Joon-ho's (The Host) most recent film, Snowpiercer, starring Chris Evans. Battle Royale 1 and Battle Royale 2, the Japanese cult classic films, have also returned to Netflix Instant, as well as the film adaptation of one of Philip K. Dick's final novels, Radio Free Albemuth.

You can find the full list of Netflix Instant updates below.

Ethos
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
Ironclad: Battle for Blood
Life in Our Universe
The Man Who Would Be Bond
Life in Our Universe: Season 1
Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Season 1
Snowpiercer 
Sordid Lives
Understanding the World's Greatest...
30 for 30: Playing for the Mob
Beneath
Birdmen: The Original Dream of Flight
Bound by Flesh
Cocaine Unwrapped
Salem: Season 1
Reckless: Season 1
George Gently: Series 1
George Gently: Series 2
George Gently: Series 3
George Gently: Series 4
George Gently: Series 6
Soulmate
Radio Free Albemuth
Nova: Rise of the Drones
Adventure Planet
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael...
Django Unchained
E-Team
Jackpot
Missing
Queen Margot
The Carrie Diaries: Season 2
Sons of Anarchy: Season 6
Triad
Battle Royale
Battle Royale 2
Darknet
Freakshow: Season 2
In Fear
Mr. Jones
Darknet: Season 1
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Season 2
Small Town Security: Season 3
We Are the Best!


[Weekly Netflix Fix] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Catches Fire on Netflix

This week's Weekly Netflix Fix features a small cache of new additions to Netflix Instant; however, while the amount of new titles isn't many, Netflix is preaching quality over quantity this week with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire representing the major update for the week. Of course, the film's addition is tied to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1's theatrical release next month, so it doesn't come with too much surprise. Also added this week is Josh Radnor's (How I Met Your Mother) directorial debut, Liberal Arts, which also stars soon-to-be Avengers: Age of Ultron star Elizabeth Olsen.

Check out the full list of new Netflix Instant additions below!

  • The 100
    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 
    Machine Gun Preacher
    The 100: Season 1
    A Brony Tale
    Canopy
    Chashme Buddoor
    Mission Air
    Mudbloods
    The Taking of Deborah Logan
    We The Economy
    Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn
    GMO OMG
    Policeman
    DTLA: Season 1
    Ace Wonder
    Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
    Freezing 2011 NR 4.2 new Oct 19 HD | play queue
    Liberal Arts 
    Freezing: Season 1
    Freezing: Season 2
    Last Man Standing: Season 3
    Metro Manila

[Weekly Netflix Fix] Mid-October Update

We're at the halfway point for October, and with it comes the next huge Netflix Instant update. There isn't much of substance in this latest update, though. A new batch of 30 for 30 films were added following last week's updates, as well as a large number of Sesame Street specials. On the film front, two personal favorite films from 2013, Breathe In and Hours, were added. Check out the full lost of new Netflix Instant titles below!

  • 30 for 30: Bernie and Ernie
    30 for 30: Big Shot
    30 for 30: Free Spirits
    30 for 30: No Más
    30 for 30: Requiem for the Big East
    30 for 30: Slaying the Badger
    30 for 30: Survive and Advance
    30 for 30: This Is What They Want
    30 for 30: Youngstown Boys
    House  M.D.
    3 Days to Kill
    All American Christmas Carol
    And Then There Was You
    Arpeggio of Blue Steel
    Christmas Crush
    Cowgirls n' Angels
    Cowgirls n' Angels 2
    The Debt
    Going Blind
    Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau
    History of the Eagles
    Ilo Ilo
    Inspector Morse Specials
    Is It Just Me?
    Kotoura-san
    The Last Letter
    Mine Games
    More Business of Being Born
    My Little Monster
    Pinky Dinky Doo
    Play with Me Sesame
    samurai flamenco
    Pinky Dinky Doo: Season 1
    samurai flamenco: Season 1
    Play with Me Sesame: Season 1
    Sesame Street: Animals and Nature: Season 1
    Sesame Street: Everyday Moments: Season 1
    Sesame Street: Numbers and Letters: Season 1
    Sesame Street: Creativity and Imagination: Season 1
    Sesame Street: Cookie and Friends: Season 1
    Sesame Street: Elmo and Friends: Season 1
    Sesame Street: Music and Dance: Season 1
    My Little Monster: Season 1
    Kotoura-san: Season 1
    Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Season 1
    Inspector Morse: Series 5 1
    Inspector Morse: Series 6
    Inspector Morse: Series 7
    Sesame Street: Animals and Nature
    Sesame Street: Classics
    Sesame Street: Cookie and Friends
    Sesame Street: Creativity and Imagination
    Sesame Street: Elmo and Friends
    Sesame Street: Everyday Moments
    Sesame Street: Music and Dance
    Sesame Street: Numbers and Letters
    Stay
    Tim Minchin And The Heritage Orchestra...
    Sesame Street: Classics: Vol. 1
    Sesame Street: Classics: Vol. 2
    Beethoven's Treasure Tail
    Venus in Fur
    Witching & Bitching
    You and the Night
    AFHV Kids: Holidazed
    AFHV Kids: Nincompoop Nation
    Holidazed
    Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United
    Nincompoop Nation
    Breathe In
    Chelsea Handler: Uganda Be Kidding Me
    Heatstroke
    Hours
    Lalaloopsy Girls: Welcome to L.A.
    Swelter
    Why Stop Now
    Winx Club: The Mystery of the Abyss
    Changing Hearts
    A Long Way Down
    The Tomorrow People: Season 1

30 for 30

[Weekly Netflix Fix] 30 for 30

A large assortment of new 30 for 30 documentaries have been added to Netflix Instant recently. Check out the entire list of new additions below.

  • Cuban Fury
    Jay Mohr: Funny For a Girl
    Arrow: Season 2
    Snoop Dogg Presents: Bad Girls of Comedy
    Willie Barcena: I Gotta Be Honest
    30 for 30: Fernando Nation
    30 for 30: Four Days in October
    30 for 30: Guru of Go
    30 for 30: Into the Wind
    30 for 30: Jordan Rides the Bus
    30 for 30: June 17th, 1994
    30 for 30: Kings Ransom
    30 for 30: Little Big Men
    30 for 30: Marion Jones: Press Pause
    30 for 30: Muhammad and Larry
    30 for 30: Once Brothers
    30 for 30: Pony Excess
    30 for 30: Run Ricky Run
    30 for 30: Silly Little Game
    30 for 30: The 16th Man
    30 for 30: The Band That Wouldn't Die
    30 for 30: The Best That Never Was
    30 for 30: The Birth of Big Air
    30 for 30: The House of Steinbrenner
    30 for 30: The Price of Gold
    30 for 30: The Two Escobars
    30 for 30: The U
    30 for 30: Tim Richmond: To The Limit
    30 for 30: Unmatched
    30 for 30: Without Bias
    Action Replayy
    Alpha and Omega 3
    Alpha and Omega: A Howl-iday Adventure
    Die Todesliste
    Hart of Dixie: Season 3
    In a World...
    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
    Redeemed
    The Following: Season 2
    Raising Hope: Season 4
    Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
    Supernatural: Season 9
    Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. New York
    Little Man
    The Perfect Summer
    The Boxcar Children
    Haiti Untold
    The Originals: Season 1
    14 Blades
    America Declassified
    American Jesus
    American Masters: Billie Jean King
    American Promise
    Ancient Extraterrestrials: Aliens & UFO...
    Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
    Bad Johnson
    Big Ass Spider! 
    Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
    The Brian Boitano Project
    Buying & Selling
    Carrie 
    Caucus
    Chopped Collection
    Color Splash: Collection 1
    Cousins on Call
    Cupcake Wars: Collection 1
    Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest
    Cutthroat Kitchen
    The Dead Files
    Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives Collection
    Documented
    Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story...
    Example Short: Descriptive and...
    Flea Market Flip
    Ghost Adventures: Collection 1
    Good Eats: Collection 1
    Hit!
    Holmes Inspection: Collection 1
    Hostages: Season 1
    Hotel Impossible
    House Hunters Collection
    House Hunters International: Collection
    How to Start a Movement
    Income Property Collection
    Ken Burns: The Address
    Love It or List It: Collection 1
    Man v. Food: Collection 1
    Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
    Monique Marvez: Not Skinny Not Blonde
    Murder on the Home Front
    Mysteries at the Museum: Collection 1
    Nature: Honey Badgers
    Nature: Ireland's Wild River
    Nature: Leave It to Beavers
    Nature: Love in the Animal Kingdom
    Nature: Meet the Coy-wolf
    Nature: My Bionic Pet
    Nature: Parrot Confidential
    Nature: Saving Otter 501
    Nature: Snow Monkeys
    Nature: The Gathering Swarms
    Nature: Touching the Wild
    Nazi Hunters
    Nazi Hunters: Season 1
    Off Limits: Collection 1
    The Pioneer Woman: Collection 1
    Please Subscribe
    Pride: The Gay and Lesbian Comedy Slam
    Property Brothers
    Rachael Ray's Week in A Day: Collection 1
    Rehab Addict: Collection 1
    Reign
    Restaurant: Impossible: Collection 1
    SciGirls
    Property Brothers: Season 1
    SciGirls: Season 1
    The Brian Boitano Project: Season 1
    The Dead Files: Season 1
    Cousins on Call: Season 1
    Buying & Selling: Season 1
    Hotel Impossible: Season 1
    Flea Market Flip: Season 1
    Cutthroat Kitchen: Season 1
    America Declassified: Season 1
    Reign: Season 1
    SciGirls: Season 2
    Wild Kratts: Season 2
    Property Brothers: Season 2
    Hotel Impossible: Season 2
    The Dead Files: Season 2
    Flea Market Flip: Season 2
    Property Brothers: Season 3
    The Vampire Diaries: Season 5
    Selling New York: Collection 1
    Sid the Science Kid: Season 1
    Swearnet Live
    TEDTalks: How to Start a Movement
    Test Patterns
    The Town That Dreaded Sundown
    Under the Electric Sky: EDC 2013
    Vikingdom
    Watermark

The Waking Dead

[Weekly Netflix Fix] New October Update

As you should know by now, with the beginning of a new month comes a large number of new titles to Netflix Instant. Some of my highlights for this new batch of updates include Can't Hardly WaitEvil Dead 2: Dead by DawnL'Auberge EspagnoleRomeo + JulietSleeperTeam America: World PoliceComic Book Men: Season 3The Walking Dead: Season 4Parks and Recreation: Season 6, and The Double. You can find the full list of new titles below.

An Affair to Remember
Affliction
Alice
Annie
Annie: A Royal Adventure
Baby's Day Out
Bananas
Body Count
Can't Hardly Wait
Caught Up
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Chicken Run
The Contender
Cool World
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Domestic Disturbance
Don't Be a Menace to South Central
Ernest Saves Christmas
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Fat Man & Little Boy
Finding Forrester
The Fly
From the Hip
Galaxy Quest
The Gambler
Gilmore Girls
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The Hanoi Hilton
House
House Arrest
Interiors
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Kramer vs. Kramer
L'Auberge Espagnole
The Last Godfather
Love and Death
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said...
My Father the Hero
Nell
Nick of Time
The Parallax View
Paths of Glory
The Phantom of the Opera
The Producers
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Radio Days
The Rage: Carrie 2
Rescue Dawn
Romeo + Juliet
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Gilmore Girls
September
Shadow of the Vampire
Shadows and Fog
Shane
Shivers
Sleeper
Sleepless in Seattle
A Slipping Down Life
Stardust Memories
The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All
Swimming with Sharks
Tamara
Team America: World Police 
Three Fugitives
Tombstone
Top Dog
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
The Wedding Planner
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Zelig
Another Gay Movie
Bear City
Boy Culture
Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
Chelsea Handler: Uganda Be Kidding Me...
Guardian of the Highlands
The Heart of Bruno Wizard
Holiday - A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
The Hunted
Julius Jr.: Season 1
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Killing Them Softly
Longhorns
Melanie Comarcho: Hello!
The Monkey's Paw
Never Say Never: Director's Fan Cut
A Night in Old Mexico
Peaky Blinders: Season 1
Simon and the Oaks
This Property Is Condemned
The Wild Geese
Wolf
The Conspirator
The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
Five Dances
Lullaby
Bad Grandpa: Unrated Version
Dragonwolf
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
On My Way
Print the Legend
Comic Book Men: Season 3
The Walking Dead: Season 4
China Revealed
Crazy Land
Hillbilly Blood
Indy 500: The Inside Line
Lethal Force
Oceana Air Show
Parks and Recreation: Season 6 
Crazy Land: Season 1
Hillbilly Blood: Season 1
Crazy Land: Season 2
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
The Double 


Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend Releasing on IMAX and Netflix on Same Day

Several years ago, the thought of a same-day home/theatrical release was seen as a bad business move by film studios because of the lower box office returns. After all, who wouldn't rather watch a film at home in their pajamas instead of going to an over-priced theater with a bunch of strangers? Actually... that doesn't sound that bad... Nevertheless, over the years, smaller studios have embraced the idea, simultaneously releasing films on VOD and limited theatrical rollouts. However, bigger studios haven't yet embraced the business model... until now.

In a press release sent out today, it was announced that The Weinstein Company is teaming up with Netflix to have a day-and-date release of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend on Netflix Instant and in IMAX theaters on August 28th, 2015. The sequel, directed by fight choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix), will see Michelle Yeoh returning and Donnie Yen joining the cast. The film will be based on Wang Dulu's novel Iron Knight, Silver Vase, the fifth in his Cane-Iron Pentalogy series.

Could this be the first step towards major film studios embracing the practice? Probably not, but it'll certainly set the precedence for other studios to follow. Netflix has four other similar deals in the works for the future, so we'll definitely see whether the experiment works out. One thing is clear: Having the free (for Netflix subscribers) option to watch brand new films at home on its release will be an amazing option for those lazy weekends.

[via /Film]


How I Met Your Mother

[Weekly Netflix Fix] How I Met Your Mother: Season 9, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete

After nine long years, How I Met Your Mother reached its finale earlier this year. While the notorious ending was met with almost widespread dislike (I was neutral to it), you can't help but want to re-watch the amazing show's final season and see how Ted and the Mother first met. After all, Cristin Milioti is just so beautiful... Another fine addition to the new batch of Netflix Instant titles is The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, directed by Soul Food and Men of Honor director (and Chicagoan!) George Tillman, Jr. The film is about a 14-year-old kid, Mister, in New York taking care of his 9-year-old friend, Pete, during a New York summer after Mister's Mom (Jennifer Hudson) is arrested by the cops for possession. It's heartbreaking, engaging, and one of the best films I've seen on Netflix this year.

You can check out all of the new Netflix Instant titles below.

  • Alfie
    A Fine Step
    Make Me Superhuman
    The Wedding Video
    The Chair
    Eternal Revenge
    Free the Mind
    The Girl on the Train
    Hoop Dreams  
    My Name Is Joe
    A Room with a View
    How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 
    Suddenly
    Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
    Revolution: Season 2
    Vic and Flo Saw a Bear
    Beyond the Ocean
    Blood Lake
    Bratz: Friendship is Always in Style
    Dead Within
    Hot House
    Ragamuffin
    Reporter
    Call the Midwife: Series 3
    The Suspect
    The Talent Given Us
    The Woman Chaser
    Dream School
    The Firm
    Hatari!
    The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete 
    The Little Ghost
    The Next Best Thing
    Rampage: Capital Punishment
    Dream School: Season 1
    The Sons of Katie Elder
    Suspect Zero