[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
HBO is Cutting the Cord, Offering Cable-Free Subscriptions in 2015
“That is a large and growing opportunity that should no longer be left untapped. It is time to remove all barriers to those who want HBO." - HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler.
For somebody who hates downloading stuff illegally, I've missed out on a lot of amazing TV shows because of my lack of HBO. Sure, I could borrow HBO Go logins from friends (and have honestly attempted to), but I never went through with them. I've gotten caught up in the Game of Thrones hype, yet I've never actually seen an episode, I, too, want to see dragons and nudity and sword thrones! But alas, without a cable subscription (or even a normal TV subscription due to my recent move this summer) or money to throw down on the Game of Thrones DVD/Blu-ray sets, I was resigned to waiting until the series hit Netflix Instant.
However, in a move that has been rumored for a couple of weeks, HBO has finally come to their senses and announced their intentions to offer HBO to users who don't have an HBO cable subscription. By their count, there are 80 million homes in the United States that don't subscribe to HBO, and it's this demographic that the company is hoping to attract with their announcement. No concrete details, such as pricing, limitations, etc. were revealed.
What should be noted is how this announcement will affect pre-existing relationships with service providers like Comcast and DirecTV. Surely, they won't be too thrilled that HBO is taking their service into their own hands. However, I'm sure there are provisions in place that will continue to offer cable subscribers incentives (exclusive shows, cheaper rates?) that non-cable subscribers won't have. Of course, this is all just speculation, but we'll hear more information as the weeks follow.
[via HBO]
[Trailer] Mike Tyson Mysteries
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Mike Tyson has been rebuilding his public image over the past few years following his retirement from boxing with memorable cameos in films like The Hangover, his one-man show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, and his New York Times Best Seller, Undisputed Truth. What's the next step for one of boxing's most dominant athletes? An Adult Swim cartoon!
During New York Comic Con 2014, the extended trailer for Mike Tyson Mysteries was revealed. The cartoon is a Scooby Doo-esque mystery starring Tyson as himself and the Mike Tyson Mystery Team made up of his adopted Korean daughter Yung Hee (Rachel Ramras), the Ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry (Jim Rash), and a pigeon named Pigeon (Norm Macdonald). If the animation style seems familiar, it's because Warner Bros. Animation themselves is handling it, which is a great show of faith for the show.
Mike Tyson Mysteries will premiere on Adult Swim on October 27th at 10:30pm EST/9:30pm CST. Check out a small gallery of images from the show below!
[NYCC 2014 Photos] Bob's Burgers Roundtables
During the first day of New York Comic Con 2014, I had the chance to take part in roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of the ever-popular Bob's Burgers. While the videos of those interviews will be incoming, I took some photos of the various roundtables featuring Kristen Schaal, H. Jon Benjamin, Loren Bouchard, John Roberts, Eugene Lirman, Larry Murphy, and Bobby Tisdale, which you can see below. Expect more from the Bob's Burgers roundtables next week, and be sure to keep it tuned to Ruby Hornet for more from New York Comic Con 2014.
You can check out some more of my behind the scenes Bob's Burgers roundtable interview photos on my Flickr.
[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
Fox Might Be Developing X-Men TV Show
While the box office is where the real money is, many studios are embracing the TV format for various comic book properties. The Batman-related Gotham's series premiere a few weeks ago brought in 8.21m viewers, Netflix and Marvel recently revealed the logo for Daredevil (the first of four TV shows to exclusively premiere on the service), Brian Michael Bendis' Powers will be released exclusively on the PlayStation Network this December, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has had its ups and downs, but further expands upon the lore of its Cinematic Universe, and we all know how successful The Walking Dead has been since it premiered four years ago. These shows help represent cheaper, faster returns for the studios as opposed to producing one film every x amount of years. That's not to say that each series' quality is any less than what we catch in theaters, of course. Nevertheless, TV is becoming the perfect landscape for serial storytelling, and with the growth and success of comic book properties in the past 10 years, it makes sense for more adaptations hitting the small screen.
That brings us to the new rumor that 20th Century Fox is preparing to develop a live-action X-Men show. Recently, it was confirmed that the next X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse, will mark the final entry in the trilogy that began with X-Men: First Class and was continued by this summer's Days of Future Past. The film is currently slated for a May 2016 release, which gives Fox two years to develop the rumored X-Men TV show to further continue the mythology and universe established in the X-Men films.
What do you think? I, for one, would love to see a live-action X-Men TV show, so long as it was handled correctly.
[via Bleeding Cool]
[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 Wait, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, L'Auberge Espagnole, Romeo + Juliet, Sleeper, Team America: World Police, Comic Book Men: Season 3, The Walking Dead: Season 4, Parks 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
[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