What is Netflix? Should you use it?

Netflix is an online DVD rental service.  Instead of going to the local video store, you can have movies of your choice sent to you via the US mail.  It really is that simple.  Read on to see if it’s for you.

The Past

Originally, Netflix was a DVD only operation.  You chose the movies you wanted to watch from their online catalogue, put them on your list and they would send them to you.  You could have as many as you wanted at a time (prices increased as the number increased) and you could keep them as long as you wanted.  Send one back and the next one on your list (called your queue) would be sent to you.  New movies would release on Netflix as soon as they released on DVD.

When we started, years ago, it took about 4 days to turn around a movie.  We had a 3 movie per month service plan and there were something like 11,000 movies in the Netflix catalogue.  It was heaven at a time when trying to rent a new release, a documentary or an independent film at a video store was next to impossible and late fees were omnipresent.

Times changed and Netflix changed with them.

The Present

Our original Netflix account seems quaint now.  So does the dial-up connection we used to manage it.  But the core appeal remains – I get movies I choose delivered to my mailbox, take as long as I want to watch them and drop them back in the mail (no postage needed).  A new one appears now in about 2 days.  The catalogue is now unimaginably huge – my queue is always enormous.  User interface on the site itself is super simple – you can browse movies, rate them, get recommendations, complain and report damaged and missing discs as well as manage your own account.

And there are so many more options now.  You can have DVD plans up to 8 at a time, you can have limited plans for as little as $5 a month, and the biggest change – you can now get additional content streamed to any of a couple hundred different devices.  It’s called Netflix Instant Streaming.

Netflix Instant Streaming

When this service began, you could stream movies to your computer via the Netflix site.  There were a few thousand available, most of them sucked.  We never used it – in addition to having little interest in the available content, we had no desire to watch movies on our computer.

But now, with the rise of YouTube and Hulu and any number of other services that stream video content from the internet, Netflix has upped their game.  Their instant catalogue has grown to include many thousands of movies and TV shows.  Best of all, you can stream through over 100 different devices.  We use either our Xbox 360 or our Roku Netflix Player to stream movies directly to our TV.  So in addition to the DVDs we get, we also have access to thousands of titles streamed free.

As streaming becomes more and more dominant with consumers, Netflix has acquired rights to more and more content.  Their latest acquisition involves streaming new releases before they go to pay TV.

We’re discovering now that about 20% or so of the movies and TV that we want to get from Netflix is available through Netflix Instant Streaming.  Most of the movies are still either not new or are of limited general interest.  But the TV is fabulous – we’ll often get a season the summer after it airs and be caught up for the fall premiere.  We’ve seen any number of movies and TV series via streaming on which we never would have used a DVD rental.  Some of them have been gems.  Some have also sucked.  But that’s the world of movies, right?

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I’m sure this seems like nothing more than a commercial for Netflix.  Let me assure you – I do not work for them.  And they have plenty of problems.  The granddaddy of all current problems is the horrid delay imposed upon Netflix by most of the major movie studios.  This problem is so big and pisses me off so bad that it gets its very own section here on Movie Rewind.  Just hop over one tab.

But let’s start with a simple rundown of the good:

• Movies and TV on DVD delivered to your mailbox
• Huge DVD and Instant Streaming catalogue from which to choose
• Large number of service options
• Excellent user interface on the site
• 2 day DVD turnover
• My history with them is spotless in terms of customer service

And move straight on to the bad:

• 28 day delay for new releases
• Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a 2 day turn around
• DVD extras often not included on rental discs
• No extras on streamed content
• No captions available on streamed content
• Streamed content requires the purchase of a (usually very expensive) device in order to be truly watchable
• Streamed content varies in picture quality

And the downright ugly:

• There is no easy way to figure out when things will become available for either rental or streaming on Netflix

My Gift to You

We here at Movie Rewind are annoyed by the lack of easy access to Netflix release dates.  So I am going to provide them.  Tab over and you will find Netflix release dates for as many newly released moves as I can find, starting with January 1, 2012 (you can find the 2011 release dates here).  I will not be including old movies new to DVD or to Netflix – only new releases.  If I can figure out when they will begin streaming, I’ll include that as well.

I love Netflix and have no intention of leaving them for another service or abandoning my disc subscription.  But nothing is perfect.  It’s my job to bitch about the problems I can’t control (I’m looking at you, 28 day delay) and provide solutions for the ones I can.  I love my job.

I hate you, 28 day delay

This is not the first time I’ve bitched about the 28 day release delay imposed on Netflix by many of the major movie studios.  But for those of you new to this particular party, I’ll go over the basics.

Beginning in January, 2010, Netflix customers (aka: ME) started noticing that some newly released DVDs were not being released by Netflix.  Hmmmm.  “What’s the deal?” the customers wondered.  Maybe just a glitch, an anomaly, an oversight.  WRONG!  It turned out that Warner Bros. and Netflix had reached a deal in which Netflix would delay release of new movies for 28 days after they became available for purchase, presumably to give people incentive to buy the DVD rather than wait to rent.  Fox and Universal soon followed suit, as did Paramount, even though their own internal study showed that delaying rental release did not increase DVD sales.

I have no idea, none at all, what Netflix gets out of this “agreement”.  I can only assume that it was forced down their throats with the threat of withdrawal of content altogether.

Yeah, I get that the studios want more people to buy DVDs.  But I want to see concrete proof that delaying rentals achieves that.  I think that it does not – all it does is prove to someone at the studio that they have a bigger virtual penis and can force down Netflix (and Redbox – they’re affected as well) with their big powerful bully tactics.  Personally, it makes me committed to never, ever buying another DVD from one of these studios.   If I didn’t care enough to see a movie in the theater, I sure as hell don’t care enough to spend twice the price buying the stupid thing.  As I’ve pointed out before, buyers and renters are two different species and never the twain shall meet.  Or at least not very often.

Adding insult to injury, Blockbuster began running ads on TV during the 2010 holiday season boasting about how they had new releases for rent as soon as they were available for purchase.  They went so far as to specifically take a swipe at Netflix for the idiot 28 day delay.  Talk about rubbing salt in a wound.  I would venture to guess that the only reason Blockbuster has not, to this point, been forced to accept the same crappy delay “deal” as Netflix and Redbox is that everyone assumed they would be out of business by now.  Keep boasting, Blockbuster – if you look even marginally viable as a company, the big virtual penis will smack you down, too.

The fallout from the 28 day delay is not just my ire (powerful though that might be).  People now have no idea when the movies they want will become available on Netflix.  It used to be easy – when it was released on DVD, it was released on Netflix.  But now there’s usually a delay – but it isn’t always 28 days.  Sometimes it’s shorter, sometimes it’s longer, sometimes there is no delay.  Who keeps track of which studios release which movies?  I know I don’t.  Even if I did, I don’t know anymore how many of them are enforcing the delay and there’s no way of knowing if they’ll enforce it on any particular movie.  BAH!!

But now you can know.  Because I’m going to tell you.  Tab over and you’ll find Netflix release dates beginning January 1, 2012.  I love you all just that much.  Almost as much as I hate that damn 28 day delay.

All the Dates That Are Fit to Print

So here you have it.  Release dates for all of 2012 as they become available (you can find all of 2011 here).  I’ll add to it every week as information becomes available.  One Stop Shopping for Netflix Release Dates.  Gotta love it.

2012 Netflix Releases

June 5th

Love’s Everlasting Courage (drama, Cheryl Ladd, Bruce Boxleitner)

May 29th

True Blood – Season 4 (TV drama, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (drama, Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly)

May 22nd

The River – Season 1 (TV drama, Bruce Greenwood, Joe Anderson)

Pariah (drama, Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (drama, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks)

Contraband (thriller, Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale)

May 15th

Albert Nobbs (drama, Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska)

Shame (drama, Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan)

Rampart (drama, Woody Harrelson, Ned Beatty)

One For the Money (comedy, Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara)

The Devil Inside (horror, Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman)

Norwegian Wood (foreign drama, Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi)

We Were Here (documentary, Eileen Glutzer, Paul Boneberg)

Windfall (documentary, Laura Israel)

Dragonslayer (documentary, Josh Sandoval)

My Piece of the Pie (foreign comedy, Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche)

Caught Inside (thriller, Ben Oxenbould, Daisy Betts)

May 8th

Mother’s Day (thriller, Rebecca de Mornay, Jaime King)

Happy Feet Two (family, Elijah Wood, Robin Williams)

The Vow (romance, Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams)

Dysfunctional Friends (comedy, Tatiana Ali, Essence Atkins)

Underworld: Awakening (action, Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea)

Tom and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (comedy, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim)

Mother’s Day (thriller, Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King)

Playback (horror, Christian Slater, Johnny Pacar)

Beautiful Wave (drama, Aimee Teegarden, Patricia Richardson)

The Shrine (horror, Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson) – Instant Streaming Available

May 1st

We Bought a Zoo (drama, Matt Damon, Cameron Crowe)

Haywire (action, Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender)

W. E. (drama, James D’Arcy, Abbie Cornish)

Kinyarwanda (foreign drama, Edouard Bamporiki, Cassandra Freeman)

7 below (thriller, Val Kilmer, Ving Rhames)

The Veteran (action, Toby Kebbell, Brian Cox)

The Song of Lunch (drama, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson)

April 24th

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked (family comedy, Justin Long, Jesse McCartney)

The Last Rites of Joe May (drama, Dennis Farina, Jamie Anne Allman)

Tomorrow When the War Began (action, Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood)

The Innkeepers (horror, Sara Paxton, Pat Healy)

The Fields (horror, Tara Reid, Chloris Leachman)

The Wicker Tree (horror, Graham McTavish, Jacqueline Leonard)

Dark Tide (thriller, Halle Berry, Oliver Martinez)

Cinema Verite (drama, Diane Lane, Tim Robbins)

Young Goethe in Love (foreign romance, Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein)

11-11-11: The Prophecy (horror, Timothy Gibbs, Michael Landes)

The Time That Remains (foreign drama, Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman) – Instant Streaming Available

Albatross (drama, Felicity Jones, Jessica Brown-Findlay)

Crime After Crime (documentary, Deborah Peagler, Joshua Safran)

Return (drama, Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon)

April 20th

Hop (comedy, James Marsden, Russell Brand)

April 17th

The Sitter (comedy, Jonah Hill, Max Records)

J. Edgar (drama, Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts) – Directed by Clint Eastwood

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (thriller, Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke)

Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (action, Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner)

The Divide (action, Lauren German, Michael Biehn)

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father CIA Spymaster William Colby (documentary, Carl Colby)

Paul Goodman Changed My Life (documentary, Jonathan Lee)

The Broken Tower (drama, James Franco, Michael Shannon)

Little Rock (drama, Atsuko Okatsuka, Cory Zacharia) – Instant Streaming Available

High Road (comedy, James Pumphrey, Abby Elliott) – Instant Streaming Available)

Ayn Rand & The Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged (documentary)

 

April 10th

The Descendants (drama, George Clooney, Shailene Woodley)

The Iron Lady (drama, Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent)

Tyrannosaur (drama, Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman)

The Devil’s Rock (horror, Craig Hill, Matthew Sunderland)

The Darkest Hour (action, Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby)

Miss Representation (documentary, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Fonda)

Sleeping Beauty (drama, Emily Browning, Rachael Blake)

Into the Abyss (documentary, Werner Herzog)

The Witches of Oz (action, Christopher Lloyd, Lance Henrikson)

The Terror Experiment (horror, C. Thomas Howell, Jason London)

King of Devil’s Island (drama, Stellan Skarsgard, Benjamin Helstad)

A Bird of the Air (romance, Rachel Nichols, Jackson Hurst)

The Conquest (foreign drama, Xavier Durringer, Denis Podalydes)

April 3rd

Tooth Fairy 2 (family comedy, Larry the Cable Guy, David Mackey)

Immortals (action, Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke)

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (comedy, John Cho, Kal Penn)

Columbus Circle (thriller, Selma Blaire, Amy Smart)

The Tunnel (horror, Bel Delia, Andy Rodoreda)

War Horse (drama, Emily Watson, David Thewlis)

Rabies (foreign horror, Lior Ashkenazi, Danny Geva)

Bounty Hunters (action, Trish Status, Frank J. Zupancic)

Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (documentary, Zachary Levi, Domenic Murgo)

Enter Nowhere (thriller, Sara Paxton, Scott Eastwood)

Angels Crest (drama, Thomas Dekker, Lynn Collins)

March 27th

He’s Mine Not Yours (comedy, Gabrielle Dennis, Caryn Ward)

War of the Arrows (foreign action, Hae-il Park, Seung-yong Ryoo)

Recoil (action, Danny Trejo, Steve Austin)

A Dangerous Method (drama, Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightly)

In the Land of Blood and Honey (foreign drama, Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic) – Directed by Angelina Jolie

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (documentary, Ron Howard, Robert De Niro)

Romantics Anonymous (foreign romantic comedy, Benoit Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carre)

Breaking Wind (comedy spoof, Heather Ann Davis, Eric Callero)

Camel Spiders (sci-fi horror, C. Thomas Howell, Brian Krause)

March 20th

Carnage (drama, Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster)

Honey 2 (drama, Katerina Graham, Mario Lopez)

Martha Marcy May Marlene (drama, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (thriller, Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara) – Directed by David Fincher

Tower Heist (action, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy)

The Muppets (family, Jason Segel, Amy Adams)

A Lonely Place to Die (thriller, Melissa George, Ed Speleers)

Undocumented (thriller, Peter Stormare, Scott Mechlowicz)

Creature (horror, Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan)

Inkubus (horror, Robert Englund, William Forsythe)

Roadie (drama, Ron Eldard, Jill Hennessy)

Snow White: A Deadly Summer (thriller, Shanley Caswell, Eric Roberts, Maureen McCormick)

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (foreign drama, Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon)

One Lucky Elephant (documentary, David Balding, Laura Balding)

March 13th

The Killing: Season 1 (TV drama, Mereille Enos, Joel Kinnaman)

The Three Musketeers (action, Juno Temple, Orlando Bloom)

My Week With Marilyn (drama, Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne)

Young Adult (comedy, Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson)

Melancholia (drama, Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg)

The Swell Season (documentary, Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova)

Bag It (documentary, Jeb Berrier, Anne Reeser)

Stuck Between Seasons (drama, Sam Rosen, Zoe Lister Jones)

The Adventures of Tintin (family adventure, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis)

The Muppets (family comedy, Jason Segel, Amy Adams)

Neverland (action, Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel)

Weekend (romance, Tom Cullen, Chris New)

The Women on the 6th Floor (foreign comedy, Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain)

Loosies (drama, Peter Facinelli, Jaimie Alexander)

March 6th

Footloose (musical, Kenny Wormwald, Julianne Hough)

The Skin I Live In (foreign drama, Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya)

Jack and Jill (comedy, Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes)

Like Crazy (drama, Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin)

Wyatt Earp’s Revenge (western, Val Kilmer, Shawn Roberts)

Mercenaries (action, Robert Fucilla, Billy Zane)

High Road (comedy, Ed Helms, Lizzy Caplan) – Instant Streaming Only

The Lie (comedy, Joshua Leonard, Jess Weixler) – Instant Streaming Available

February 28th

Hugo (family drama, Asa Butterfiled, Ben Kingsley)

In Time (action, Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried)

Dream House (thriller, Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz)

The Big Year (comedy, Jack Black, Steve Martin)

The Thing (horror, Joel Edgerton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead)

Beneath the Darkness (horror, Dennis Quaid, Aimee Teegarden)

Answers to Nothing (drama, Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell)

I Melt With You (thriller, Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven)

InSight (thriller, Sean Patrick Flannery, Natalie Zea)

The Myth of the American Sleepover (dramedy, Claire Sloma, Marlon Morton) – Instant Streaming available.

The Catechism Cataclysm (comedy, Steve Little, Robert Longstreet)

February 21st

Puss in Boots (family animation, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek)

The Way (drama, Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen)

London Boulevard (romantic drama, Colin Farrell, Keira Knightly)

The Son of No One (thriller, Channing Tatum, Ray Liotta)

Retreat (thriller, Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell)

Blank City (documentary, Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi)

Octubre (foreign drama, Bruno Odar, Gabriela Velasquez)

The Space Between (drama, Melissa Leo, Anthony Keyvan)

The Whistleblower (thriller, Rachel Weisz, Benedict Cumberbatch)

Prey (foreign horror, Berenice Bejo, Gregoire Colin) – Instant Streaming available.

5 Star Day (romance, Cam Gigandet, Jena Malone)

Spork (comedy, Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park) – Instant Streaming available.

Hunted By Night (action, Jencarlos Canela, Juan C. Bofill)

All Things Fall Apart (sports drama, 50 Cent, Ray Liotta)

Dirty Little Trick (thriller, Dean Cain, Christie Burson)

February 14th

Tiny Furniture (comedy, Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons) – Instant Streaming available.

The Rum Diary (drama, Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart)

The Dead (horror, Rob Freeman, Prince David Oseia)

Take Shelter (thriller, Michael Shannon, Katy Mixon)

Woody Allen: A Documentary (documentary, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)

Mozart’s Sister (foreign drama, Marie Feret, Marc Barbe)

How to Die in Oregon (documentary)

The Mortician (thriller, Method Man, Edward Furlong)

February 11th

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (fantasy, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson)

February 7th

Killer Elite (action, Jason Statham, Clive Owen)

What’s Your Number (comedy, Anna Faris, Chris Evans)

There Be Dragons (drama, Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley) – Directed by Roland Joffe

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (action, Victor Webster, Ron Perlman)

A Mile in His Shoes (drama, Dean Cain, Luke Schroder)

Alleged (drama, Brian Dennehy, Colm Meaney)

Don’t Let Him In (horror, Sophie Linfield, Sam Hazeldine)

The Elephant in the Living Room (documentary, Tim Harrison, Terry Brumfield)

Anonymous (thriller, Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave)

The Sunset Limited (Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson)

Cyberbully (TV drama, Emily Osment, Ken Panabaker) – Instant Streaming available

A Warrior’s Heart (sports drama, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene)

The Reunion (action, John Cena, Ethan Embry)

Last Man Standing (action, Catherine Bell, Anthony Michael Hall)

Metal Shifters (sci-fi, Kavan Smith, Nicole de Boer)

Knuckle (documentary, Ian Palmer, James Quinn McDonagh)

Stormhouse (horror, Grahame Fox, Martin Delaney)

January 31st

Drive (thriller, Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan)

Contagion (thriller, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow)

Shark Night (horror, Sarah Paxton, Dustin Mulligan)

Mausam (foreign drama, Shahid Kapur, Sonam Kapoor)

Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (documentary, Gunther Hauk, Michael Pollan)

The Double (thriller, Richard Gere, Topher Grace)

Texas Killing Fields (thriller, Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan)

Chalet Girl (drama, Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick)

The Mill & The Cross (drama, Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling)

You and I (drama, Mischa Barton, Shantel VanSanten) – Directed by Roland Joffe.

Janie Jones (drama, Abigail Breslin, Alessandro Nivola)

January 24th

Final Destination 5 (horror, Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell)

50/50 (comedy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan)

Little Deaths (horror, Kate Braithewaite, Daniel Brocklebank)

The Lamp (family, Jason London, Louis Gossett, Jr.) – Instant Streaming available.

Age of Heroes (action, Sean Bean, James D’Arcy)

Saint Nick (foreign horror, Huub Stapel, Egbert-Jan Weeber)

Real Steel (action, Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly)

Paranormal Activity 3 (horror, Katie Featherston, Christopher Nicholas Smith)

Revenge of the Electric Car (documentary, Danny DeVito, John Favreau)

Restless (drama, Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper)

The Woman (horror, Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers)

The Confession (drama, Kiefer Sutherland, John Hurt)

Hell and Back Again (documentary)

Another Happy Day (drama, Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller)

Tales of an Ancient Empire (action, Kevin Sorbo, Michael Pare)

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (documentary, Eddie Lee Sausage, Mitch Deprey)

Essential Killing (action, Emmanuelle Seigner, Vincent Gallo)

Happy, Happy (foreign comedy, Oscar Brandso, Ram Shihab Ebedy)

Beware the Gonzo (comedy, Ezra Miller, Jesse McCartney)

January 17th

Toast (drama, Helena Bonham Carter, Freddie Highmore)

Glee: The Concert (musical, Lea Michele, Dianna Agron)

Dolphin Tale (family, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd)

The Ides of March (thriller, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling)

Cheaper to Keep Her (romance, Vivica A. Fox, Brian McKnight)

Courageous (drama, Alex Kendrick, Ken Bevel)

Abduction (thriller, Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins)

Mysteries of Lisbon (foreign drama, Adriana Luz, Maria Joao Bastos)

Dirty Girl (comedy, Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich)

Killing Bono (comedy, Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan)

Special Treatment (foreign drama, Isabelle Hupert, Bouli Lanners)

January 10th

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (sci-fi, James Franco, Tom Felton)

Pete Smalls is Dead (comedy, Peter Dinklage, Mark Boone, Jr.)

In My Sleep (thriller, Philip Winchester, Tom Draxl)

Moneyball (drama, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill)

An Idiot Abroad (TV comedy, Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais)

Higher Ground (drama, Vera Farmiga, Donna Murphy)

1911 (foreign drama, Jackie Chan, Winston Chao)

Sinners and Saints (action, Kevin Phillips, Sean Patrick Flannery)

Answer This! (comedy, Christopher Gorham, Arielle Kebbel)

Aurora (foreign drama, Cristi Puiu, Clara Voda)

Saving Private Perez (foreign action, Miguel Rodarte, Jesus Ochoa)

January 3rd, 2012

The Debt (thriller, Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington)

Mr. Popper’s Penguins (family comedy, Jim Carey, Carla Gugino)

Cowboys & Aliens (action/sci-fi, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford)

The Hangover Part II (comedy, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms)

I Am (documentary, Tom Shadyac)

The Guard (action comedy, Don Cheadle, Brendan Gleeson)

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (horror, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison)

I Don’t Know How She Does It (comedy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan)

The Last Lions (documentary, Jeremy Irons narrates)

The Greening of Whitney Brown (family drama, Brooke Shields, Aidan Quinn)

Red: Werewolf Hunter (action, Felicia Day, Kavan Smith)

Puncture (drama, Chris Evans, Brett Cullen)

Ice Quake (sci-fi, Brendan Fehr, Victor Garber)

The Chateau Meroux (drama, Christopher Lloyd, Marla Sokoloff)

Removal (thriller, Billy Burke, Mark Kelly, Oz Perkins)

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