2015 Netflix Release Dates

2015 Netflix Release Dates

Welcome to 2016, my friends.  And to the new home of all the 2015 Netflix release dates.  You never can tell when you might want to know when your favorite TV show or movie got released on Netflix, or went to Instant Streaming.  You can find the current list – updated weekly – over here.

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December 29th, 2015

Person of Interest – Season 4 (TV drama, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson) – Instant Streaming Available! I hope that means the next (and reportedly last) season will be starting soon on TV.

Shameless – Season 5 (TV dramedy, Emmy Rossum, William H. Macy) – I love this show!  I’ll definitely binge this season. DVD Only (it isn’t a streamer)

Ray Donovan – Season 3 (TV drama, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight) – Fixer Ray Donovan returns for a third season on DVD Only.  It’s not a streamer.

The Bird Men (comedy, Tom Cavanagh, Graham Greene) – I swear there was a movie with this same plot with Owen Wilson in it.  Whatever, it’s about bird watching and revenge and is running a whopping 1.7 stars on Netflix.

Bone Tomahawk (drama, Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson) – A western with cave dwelling cannibals and Richard Jenkins?  YES PLEASE!

90 Minutes in Heaven (drama, Hayden Christensen, Kate Bosworth) – This is a near death experience thing, which is disappointing since I thought it might be about an extended version of the adolescent game 7 Minutes in Heaven.  I should know better than to get my hopes up.

A Walk in the Woods (drama, Robert Redford, Nick Nolte) – Based on the book by Bill Bryson (which I read), this also stars Emma Thompson.  I will most certainly be seeing it.

The Perfect Guy (thriller, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy) – Taking up with charismatic bad guy goes badly.  Shocking.  But I’ll watch it anyway.

Heist (action, Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan) – Casino robbery, hijacking, hostages. Sounds like a Murphy’s Law kind of day.

Jenny’s Wedding (comedy, Alexis Bledel, Katherine Heigl) – Who says your family needs to meet, or know the gender of, the person you’re marrying?  Instant Streaming Available.

I Believe in Unicorns (drama, Natalia Dyer, Peter Vack) – Coming of dysfunctional, abusive relationship age.

December 22nd

War Room (drama, Alex Kendrick, Priscilla Evans Shirer) – Commit to prayer to save your marriage.  So not my thing.

12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (action, Dean Ambrose, Roger R. Cross) – Being a whistleblowing cop is never safe, even if you’re really a WWE wrestler.

Dragon Blade (action, Jackie Chan, John Cusack) – Ancient Chinese action movie weirdly starring John Cusack and Adrien Brody.

Queen of Earth (drama, Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston) – Lake house recuperation derailed by what sounds like OCD.  I like Elizabeth Moss, I believe I’ll give this one a shot.  Instant Streaming Available

Nasty Baby (drama, Sebastián Silva, Kristen Wiig) – Don’t let the presence of Kristen Wiig fool you – this is not a comedy and it’s running all of 2 1/2 stars on Netflix.  It’s about a surrogate situation and a bad neighbor.

Vendetta (action, Bruce Payne, Danny Dyer) – Surprisingly, this movie named “vendetta” is about bloody revenge!

Chasing Shadows (crime drama, Reece Shearsmith, Alex Kingston) – a 4 part (single disc) British miniseries about a brilliant detective whose personality disorder makes him difficult to work with.  I’m definitely seeing this one.

December 19th

Call the Midwife – Season 4 (TV drama, Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter) – The 1950s British midwives are back!  Instant Streaming Available

Under the Dome – Season 3 (TV sci-fi, Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre) – This thing jumped the shark the minute they decided to make a season 2.  But I CAN’T STOP WATCHING.  I think it’s giving me brain damage.  DVD Only

K2: Siren of the Himalayas (documentary, Fabrizio Zangrilli, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner) – Mountain climbers in 2009.  Instant Streaming Available

The Admiral: Roaring Currents (action, Seung-yong Ryoo, Cho Jin-woong) – 16th century Chinese sea battle.  I’m not at all clear what language this is in, but you can find out easily because Instant Streaming Available!

In the Grayscale (foreign drama, Francisco Celhay, Emilio Edwards) – Spanish language story of a man questioning his sexuality.

Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans (documentary, Steve McQueen, Chad McQueen) – The apparently contentious making of a car racing movie.

The Legend of Korra: Book 4: Balance (anime) Seriously I don’t know a single thing about anime.  But I can tell this is part of a series!  Go me.

December 15th

Extant – Season 2 (TV sci-fi, Halle Berry, Goran Visnjic) – Astronaut Berry’s post-space saga continues.  DVD Only

Teen Wolf – Season 5, Part 1 (TV sci-fi, Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed) – Teen werewolf/athlete/BMOC is back for season 5 on DVD Only.

Marco Polo – Season 1 (TV action, Lorenzo Richelmy, Benedict Wong) – A Netflix original that is now also available on DVD.  Instant Streaming Available

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (action, Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner) – Also with Simon Pegg, who makes these movies worth watching.

We Are Your Friends (drama, Zac Efron, Wes Bentley) – As tempting as Efron and Bentley may be, I’m going to pass on this look into the world of the DJ (plus woman troubles, of course).

Santa’s Little Helper (comedy, Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin, AnnaLynne McCord) – A WWE star packed Christmas tale.  Awwww(ful).

Drown (drama, Matt Levett, Jack Matthews) – Has anyone else ever heard of competitive Surf Lifesaving?  What an odd sounding sport.  I might watch this just to see what it is.  Instant Streaming Only.

Time Out of Mind (drama, Jena Malone, Ben Vereen) – Homeless man finds a helpful friend at Bellevue Hospital.  Instant Streaming Available

Wolf Totem (foreign action, Shaofeng Feng , Shawn Dou) – French language story of a group of shepherds and their relationship with the local wolves.

Slow Learners (comedy, Marceline Hugot, Kate Flannery) – Friends decide to embark on a self improvement program.  Instant Streaming Available

Top Spin (documentary) – Olympic level table tennis doc.

Finders Keepers (documentary) – OMG – this guy found an amputated leg in a grill he bought at auction!  Now that’s a story worth telling.

From the Dark (horror, Niamh Algar, Stephen Cromwell) – CELTIC NIGHTMARE!  Instant Streaming Available

Redeemer (action, Mauricio Diocares, Marko Zaror) – Vigilante assassin.  And another assassin trying to assassinate the vigilante assassin.  That’s a lot of asses.  Instant Streaming Available

Cut Snake (thriller, Kerry Walker, Sullivan Stapleton) – Ex-con haunted by prison past.

December 10th

Doctor Who – Season 9 Part 1 (TV sci-fi, David Tennant, Matt Smith) – Yay!  Now this will stream at some point, but I have absolutely no idea when.  I’ll keep an eye out for it, but for now it’s DVD Only

December 8th

Hannibal – Season 3 (TV drama, Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen) – Pre-Silence of the Lambs Lecter and Graham.  DVD only.

Mike and Molly – Season 5 (TV comedy, Billy Gardell, Melissa McCarthy) – I’m surprised Melissa McCarthy is still making this.  It’s not a streamer, so DVD Only.

Death Comes to Pemberley – Season 1 (TV drama, Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin) – I think this is one of those one shot British series – there’s only a single disc.  It’s based on the P.D. James novel continuing Pride and Prejudice.  It is said to be witty.  Instant Streaming Available

Ant-Man (action, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly) – Whoo!  I’m very excited to see Paul Rudd in this action/comedy/superhero movie.  It should have been terrible but I’ve heard good things.

Trainwreck (comedy, Amy Schumer, Bill Hader) – Oh yes, I’ll be seeing this.  Amy Schumer is funny and I like the idea of her as a dedicated single lady.  Update – really crude but very funny.

Blind (foreign drama, Marius Kolbenstvedt, Ellen Dorrit Petersen) – Norwegian language story of a woman who loses her sight and begins to think those around her are not being honest about their actions.  This one looks good.

Knock Knock (thriller, Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo) – Don’t invite strangers in the house just because they’re pretty, Keanu.

Partisan (drama, Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel) – Best not question your cult leader, young man.

Xenia (foreign drama, Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia) – Greek language story of a teenager and his brother looking for their father.  Also doing a talent show.  Don’t ask me, I don’t make this stuff.  Instant Streaming Available

The Kindergarten Teacher (foreign drama, Hamuchtar, Guy Oren) – Hebrew language story of a 5-year-old poet prodigy and his obsessive teacher.  Instant Streaming Available

One Eyed Girl (thriller, Steve Le Marquand, Tilda Cobham-Hervey) – More cults!  This time it would be better not to join at all.

War Pigs (action, Luke Goss, Dolph Lundgren) – Misfit soldier v. Nazis.  But the misfits have Dolph Lundgren!

The Outrageous Sophie Tucker (documentary, David Hyde Pierce, Barbara Walters) – Though I’d never heard of her, Sophie Tucker was a Vaudeville legend.  This is the story of her life, with commentary from admirers.

December 7th

In the Courtyard (foreign drama,  Michele Moretti, Pio Marmaï) – French musician becomes landlord.  I’m not entirely sure, but I think the film is in English.

Seek (drama, Matthew Ludwinski) – Canadian reporter writing about gay night life in Toronto and recovering from a break up.

December 2nd

Rosamunde Pilcher’s Shades of Love (drama, Charles Dance, Eileen Atkins) – 4 disc British TV mini-series about the trials and tribulations of being rich in Britain.

December 1st

Fear the Walking Dead – Season 1 (TV sci-fi, Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis) – I still haven’t quite decided if I like this Walking Dead prequel.  The six episode first season is DVD Only for now.

Zoo – Season 1 (TV sci-fi, James Wolk, Kristen Connolly) – This 13 episode summer series about animals gone wild has been Available on Instant Streaming for some time, now you can get it on disc.  I’m watching it now – it isn’t bad if you can put your disbelief high on a shelf.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (action, Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer) – Guy Ritchie directed this movie adaption of the 1960s TV series about Cold War spies.

Amy (documentary) – Amy Winehouse bio-doc.

Some Kind of Wonderful (comedy, Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek) – Professor with complicated love life begins to reassess.  Instant Streaming Available

Inside Out (animation, Amy Poehler, Diane Lane) – Pixar Studios story of a girl and her animated emotions during a move across the country.

Momentum (action, Lee-Anne Summers, Olga Kurylenko) – Thief tries to retire.  Fails.  Isn’t that the way it always is with thieves and hit-men?

Mississippi Grind (drama, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn) – Compulsive gambler does some excessive gambling.

Self/Less (sci-fi, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley) – You should get to know someone before you steal their body.  This is a good cast – I’ll see it.

Goodnight Mommy (horror, Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz) – Plastic surgery or pod person?  AHHHHHHH!

A Christmas Eve Miracle (family, Olivia d’Abo, Anthony Starke) – Wonderful Life rip off #297,635.

The Hunting Ground (documentary) – College sexual assault documentary.

Jerusalem (documentary) – An exploration of Jerusalem narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Grace of Monaco (drama, Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth) – Grace Kelly biopic of a time when she was considering going back to acting.  Instant Streaming Available

Cooties (comedy, Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson) – Frodo and Dwight face an elementary school full of zombies.  You bet I’ll be seeing this.

Assassination (foreign drama, Gianna Jun, Jung-Jae Lee) – Korean resistance against Japan, snipers, traitors and jail breaks.

Lost in the Sun (action, Josh Duhamel, Josh Wiggins) – Thief forces orphan to participate in crime, then on a road trip, and the two bond.

The Editor (comedy, Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks) – People are dying on horror set.  Whodunit?

Yakuza Apocalypse (foreign action, Hayato Ichihara, Yayan Ruhian) – Japanese language underground criminal VAMPIRE!  Awesome!

Checkmate (action, Vinnie Jones, Danny Glover) – Bank heist.  Or is it?  Instant Streaming Available

Seeds of Yesterday (TV drama, Rachael Carpani, James Maslow) – Oh, VC Andrews, you’re never going away, are you?

Eaters (horror, Marcelle Bowman, Robert Dean) – Has there ever been a teenage road trip that did not end in biker gangs, stalkers and other horror cliches?

November 25th

1971 (documentary) – Activists who stole info about FBI surveillance programs back in 1971 discuss the robbery.

November 24th

Inside Amy Shumer – Season 3 (TV comedy, Amy Shumer) – I’ve never watched this mash up od sketch comedy, interviews and stand up, but I think she’s pretty funny in a really raunchy sort of way.  I may have to check it out.  This one is not a streamer, so DVD Only

Cedar Cove – Season 2 (TV drama, Andie MacDowell, Dylan Neal) – Justice and romance for a small town judge.  Instant Streaming Available.

Max (drama, Lauren Graham, Joseph Julian Soria) – A military dog is adopted by the family of his late trainer.  Based on a true story.

Vacation (comedy, Ed Helms, Christina Applegate) – I’m very torn about this.  It isn’t a remake, the Griswolds are now grown up and Rusty is head of the family.  But I don’t know if I can handle someone other than Chevy Chase in the lead role.  Maybe I’ll risk it.

Ricki and the Flash (comedy,  Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline) – It’s been awhile since I saw Meryl Streep in a comedy.  Plus I love Kevin Kline.  We’ll see – maybe if it comes out on streaming.

No Escape (thriller, Claire Geare, Owen Wilson) – A move to Southeast Asia lands a family in the middle of political turmoil.

Shaun the Sheep Movie (family animation, Stanley Unwin, Kate Harbour) – Looks like a Wallace and Gromit spin off.  But it’s animated, so I will never find out for sure.

American Ultra (comedy, Connie Britton, John Leguizamo) – Also with Walton Goggons, better known as Boyd Crowder from Justified.  It might be worth seeing a stoner comedy just for that.

The Square (documentary, Khalid Abdalla, Dina Abdullah) – Egyptial Revolution beginning in 2011.  Nominated for Best Documentary in 2014.  Instant Streaming Available.

Guidance (comedy, Pat Mills, Zahra Bentham) – Former kid TV star poses as guidance counselor. Instant Streaming Available

The Diabolical (thriller, Ali Larter, Arjun Gupta) – I don’t know, this demon haunted house flick sounds a lot more like “horror” than “thriller”.

The Poltergeist of Borley Forest (horror, Marina Petrano, Christopher Ingle) – Teenagers!  Stop partying in the woods!  They’re ALWAYS filled with evil spirits!

Far From Men (foreign drama, Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb) – French language period piece about a teacher escorting an Arab man in Algeria to trial.

One Rogue Reporter (documentary, John Bishop, Rich Peppiatt) – The story of Peppiatt, a tabloid reporter.  Supposedly quite witty.  Instant Streaming Only

A Christmas Horror Story (horror, Zoé de Grand’Maison, Amy Forsyth) – Four scary Christmas tales.  Probably not as scary as your average family Christmas, but you never know.

A Hard Day (foreign thriller, Seon-gyun Lee, Cho Jin-woong) – A Korean language terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (for a cop who kills someone after leaving a funeral).  Instant Streaming Available

November 20th

Marvel’s Jessica Jones – Season 1 (TV action, Krysten Ritter, David Tennant) – Private eye Jessica Jones hunts down a bad guy from her past.  Somehow part of the Marvel universe, I assume.  Netflix Original.  Instant Streaming Only 

November 17th

Getting On – Season 2 (TV drama, Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein) – HBO’s hospital dramedy returns for a second season.  This one is not a streamer – DVD Only

Masterpiece: Home Fires (TV drama, Samantha Bond, Francesca Annis) – 6 part series about rural English women during WWII.

Masterpiece: Indian Summers – Season 1 (TV drama, Julie Walters, Henry Lloyd-Hughes) – 10 episode drama taking place in India as English colonial rule comes to an end.  I have no idea if this will have a second season or if it stands alone.

Jurassic World (sci-fi, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard) – This didn’t get great reviews, but I’m looking forward to it anyway.  It’s dinosaurs!  Update: Wow, does this suck.  But the dinos are still cool.

Paper Towns (drama, Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne) – Adaptation of the novel by John Green.  I’ll probably need to read it, then see it.

The Exorcism of Molly Hartley (horror, Devon Sawa, Gina Holden) – Follow up to The Haunting of Molly Hartley from 2008.  Its clear that Molly Hartley can’t catch a break.

Pirate’s Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson (action, Christopher Lloyd, Kenton Duty) – Modern day pirates (but not like real, actual pirates) and villains and teenage heroes, oh my!

Pay the Ghost (thriller, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies) – Halloween kidnaps kid, dad goes looking a year later.  And seriously, I hope Sarah Wayne Callies can shake the instant hatred she inspired as Lori on The Walking Dead.  I don’t think that was really her fault.

Buzzard (drama, Joel Potrykus,  Joshua Burge) – Con man waiting to get caught starts to get loony.  I may give this indie a shot.

The Stanford Prison Experiment (drama, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Thirlby) – Based on the true story of a mock prison where things go Lord of the Flies really quickly.

Meru (documentary, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin) – Mountain climbing doc.

Tangerine (drama, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor) – Christmas Eve with transgender hookers, pimps and boyfriends.  Instant Streaming Available

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (documentary, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise) – I’m guessing the title is pretty self explanatory here.

A Matter of Faith (drama, Jordan Trovillion, Jay Pickett) – Seriously, this movie is about a college kid whose dad comes to the rescue when a biology teacher tries to convince her evolution is real.  Dad must save her faith!  I can’t believe this exists.

Best of Enemies (documentary, William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal) – Doc about the debates between the two stars.  Instant Streaming Available

Chloe & Theo (drama, Dakota Johnson, Mira Sorvino) – Inuit boy and homeless girl team up to save the environment.  Or something.

Felix and Maria (foreign drama, Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron) – French Canadian story of Jewish/atheist romance.

I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance is Mine (horror, Sarah Butler, Gabriel Hogan) – I have no doubt that this franchise NEEDED a third installment.  /sarcasm

June (horror, Lance E. Nichols, Kennedy Brice) – If you get a chance, check out the cover art on this one.  Looks like little June has major demon issues.

The Invoking 2 (horror, Allen Lowman, Andrew Fleming) – A pretty good slew of post-Halloween horror!  Well, a slew, I have no idea if any of it is good.

Death Squad (action, Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah) – This futuristic political shoot-em-up is running a stellar 1 1/2 stars on Netflix.  But hey, Instant Streaming Available!

The Wanted 18 (documentary) – 1980s Palestine doc.  Instant Streaming Only

November 13th

With Bob and David – Season 1 (TV comedy, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross) – These two very funny men star as dishonorably discharged Navy SEALs on the comedy circuit.  Odenkirk strikes again!  Instant Streaming Only (Netflix Original)

November 10th

Better Call Saul – Season 1 (TV drama, Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean) – Coming to DVD (don’t know yet if it will stream).  If you haven’t seen this Breaking Bad prequel, seriously, it’s fantastic.

Tomorrowland (sci-fi, George Clooney, Hugh Laurie) – Great cast, terrible reviews.  What’s a girl to do?  Wait for streaming, that’s what.

Terminator Genisys (sci-fi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke) – Yawwwwwwwwn.

Dope (comedy, Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori) – Trying to stay out of trouble and get into college while being befriended by a drug dealer is tough.  Also, apparently, funny.  I’ll give this indie a shot.

The Gallows (horror, Ryan Shoos, Pfeifer Brown) – You can legitimately say the high school play is a flop when someone actually dies.

Mr. Holmes (drama, Milo Parker, David Foxxe) – Ian McKellen plays an elderly Sherlock Holmes haunted by an old case.

My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes (documentary, Isabella Rossellini, Robert Loggia) – The story of an Italian cyclist saving thousands of Jews during WWII.  Instant Streaming Only

Goodbye Gauley Mountain (documentary, Larry Gibson, Patricia Spangler) – Subtitled “An Ecosexual Love Story” and starring Annie Sprinkle.  Instant Streaming Only.

The Timber (action, Josh Peck, James Ransone) – Josh from Drake & Josh heads for the wild west. Instant Streaming Available

Fresh Dressed (documentary, Pharrell Williams, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs) – Hip-hop/fashion doc.  Instant Streaming Available

Wolf Warrior (foreign action, Jacky Wu, Scott Adkins) – Mandarin language.  Chinese soldier vs. drug lord thugs.  Instant streaming available.

November 3rd

Black Sails – Season 2 (TV action, Toby Stephens, Hannah New) – Treasure Island prequel series.  This isn’t a streamer, DVD Only

Magic Mike XXL (comedy, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias) – Also starring Channing Tatum, of course, as the male stripper.

Bloodsucking Bastards (comedy, Fran Kranz, Pedro Pascal) – A+ for title, cover art and tagline “Work. It sucks the life out of you”.   No idea if this vampire bosses comedy will be any good, but it’s going on my queue.

The Gift (thriller, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall) – Oooh, I’ve been looking forward to this one.  Jason Bateman in a serious role?  Yes, please.  Update: Oh, it’s good.  Bateman is excellent.

The Final Girls (comedy, Alia Shawkat, Nina Dobrev) – Girl and mother must fight movie villain.

San Andreas (action,  Art Parkinson, Archie Panjabi) – Did you guess that it was about a big earthquake?  It IS about a big earthquake!

The End of the Tour (drama, Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg) – Author and writer go on tour.  Jesse Eisenberg still makes my teeth itch.

Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas (family animation, Jim Parsons, Mark Hamill) – I’m so sorry this exists, everybody.  So, so sorry.

A LEGO Brickumentary (documentary, Jason Bateman) – I’m thinking this one has a pretty self explanatory title.

Seymour: An Introduction (documentary, Seymour Bernstein) – Story of a piano teacher.  Instant Streaming Available.

Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (documentary) – Bio-doc.  Instant Streaming Available.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (action, James Bradford, Dawn Ford) – Child science prodigy takes solo journey cross country.

Eden (thriller, Nate Parker, Ethan Peck) – Soccer team lord of the flies.  Instant Streaming Available 1/3/16

A.D. The Bible Continues (TV mini-series, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Adam Levy) – Aptly named Christian mini-series.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (drama, Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler) – Teenage friends Greg and Earl get a little life perspective from a new friend with leukemia.

Before We Go (romance, Alan Cox, Mark Kassen) – Mugging victim and street performer form friendship in late night NYC.

Digging for Fire (comedy, Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt) – Marital fidelity tested by finding bones in the back yard of a house a couple is watching.  Yes, it sounds weird to me, too.  But it does have Orlando Bloom in it, so that’s something.

Do I Sound Gay? (documentary, Tim Gunn, Margaret Cho) – A look at men feeling uncomfortable about sounding gay, including gay celebrity interviews.  This looks pretty lame.  Instant Streaming Available.

Batkid Begins (documentary) – Little boy with cancer inspires San Francisco to transform into Gotham City.  I’m very sure this would make me cry.

She’s Funny That Way (comedy, Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots) – Comedy about a call girl, theater director and general shenanigans.  Also has Will Forte, who I love in The Last Man on Earth.  And I love the name Imogen Poots.  Love it.

Tiger House (thriller, Ed Skrein, Kaya Scodelario) – So unplanned pregnancies and hostage situations don’t go together that well, but maybe there have been unlikelier thriller set-ups.  Instant Streaming Available

Some Kind of Hate (horror, Ronen Rubinstein, Grace Phipps) – The bullied don’t take kindly to their bullies and do some revenge bullying.  WITH THE DEAD.  Instant Streaming Available

Hidden (horror, Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough) – Hey, that’s Eric from True Blood!  This time he’s hiding in a bomb shelter for a year after something horrible happens on the surface.  Until something intrudes…

Stung (horror, Matt O’Leary, Jessica Cook) – The caterers have to save the party from 7 foot long wasps.  7 FEET LONG!  Instant Streaming Only

November 1st

Twinsters (documentary, Samantha Futerman, Anaïs Bordier) – Finding your twin via social media.  Instant Streaming Only

October 27th

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – Season 3 (TV drama, Essie Davis, Nathan Page) – Period crime drama set in Australia in the 1920s.  Instant Streaming Available.

Spy (comedy, Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham) – I love her.  I obviously have to see this.  Update: It’s mostly stupid, but I totally enjoyed it.

Poltergeist (horror, Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt) – Very mixed feelings about this.  Did it really need a remake?

Entourage (comedy, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly) – Adapted from the TV show about an actor and his, well, entourage.

Pixels (comedy, Michelle Monaghan, Adam Sandler) – Aliens attacking with old arcade game characters.  Lame.  Plus Adam Sandler, so no.

A Borrowed Identity (drama, Tawfeek Barhom, Yaël Abecassis) – Arab student trying to fit in at Jerusalem school.  Instant Streaming Available.

Tu dors Nicole (foreign comedy, Godefroy Reding, Catherine St-Laurent) – French language story of a young woman whose quite summer plans are interrupted by her brother and hid friends.  Instant Streaming Available

7 Chinese Brothers (comedy, Jason Schwartzman, Tunde Adebimpe) – Honestly, Wes Anderson ruined Jason Schwartzman for me, so watching him fall in love with his boss at the quick lube station holds absolutely no appeal.

The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence (horror, Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey) – If you’re going to see it, I can’t stop you.  But it definitely isn’t my thing.  Instant Streaming Only

Southpaw (drama, Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker) – Sad but uplifting boxing drama. Meh.

October 21st

Back in Time (documentary, James Tolkan, Claudia Wells) – Doc about the Back to the Future movies.  Instant Streaming Only

October 20th

Pretty Little Liars – Season 5 (TV drama, Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson) – Instant Streaming Available.  Not sure when that happened, but it is!

Zoo – Season 1 (TV action, James Wolk, Kristen Connolly) – This summer series about attacking animals, based on a book by James Patterson, is Instant Streaming Only

Nurse Jackie – Season 7 (TV dramedy, Edie Falco, Merritt Wever) – Dysfunctional health care returns.  This one is not a streamer – DVD Only

Eastsiders – Season 1 (TV dramedy, Van Hansis, Kit Williamson) – Man leans on friend to get through the trauma of his partner’s infidelity.  This one doesn’t look like a streamer, so DVD Only

Pitch Perfect 2 (comedy, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson) – A cappella goes international.  I liked the first one well enough to give this a shot.  Update:  Meh

The Vatican Tapes (horror, Djimon Hounsou, Olivia Taylor Dudley) – Demonic possession clashes with the Vatican.  Could be quite a showdown.

Z for Zachariah (drama, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie) – Post apocalyptic trio must get along.  Also with Chris Pine.  Yeah, I’ll see this.  Update:  Really interesting – may have to write a real review.

Testament of Youth (drama, Colin Morgan, Georgina Bennett) – Based on the WWI era memoir of Vera Brittain.

Gueros (foreign drama, Sebastián Aguirre, Leonardo Ortizgris) – Spanish language story of students on a mission.  Instant Streaming Available

The Making of the Mob: New York (docudrama, Rich Graff, Ian Bell) – Exactly as the name suggests, in an 8 part, single disc mini-series covering over fifty years.

The Wolfpack (documentary) – A family of children raised in New York, but with no exposure to the world, explain their views of society – mostly based on movies.  Sounds pretty intriguing.  Instant Streaming Available.

Hungry Hearts (drama, Jake Weber, Jason Selvig) – Couple who meet in an interesting way are tested when they have a difficult to care for infant.  Instant Streaming Available.

Capital C (documentary, Brian Fargo, Zach Crain) – Entire documentary about crowdfunding.  Instant Streaming Only

October 16th

The Driver (TV drama, Claudie Blakley, Colm Meaney) – Mini-series about a cab driver sick of his crappy job so decides to moonlight for a crime gang.  Probably doesn’t go very smoothly.  2 discs.

Catching Faith (faith & spirituality, Lorena Segura York, Garrett Westton) – High school football player gets caught drinking ALCOHOL!  Oh. My. God.  Redeem yourself, sinner.  Instant Streaming Available

Jurassic: Monsters of the Deep (documentary) – Walking With Dinosaurs goes for a swim!

October 15th

The Anomaly (sci-fi, Ian Somerhalder, Alexis Knapp) –  Luke Hemsworth is in this.  Did everyone but me know there is a third Hemsworth??  How did this escape me??  This parallel timeline thriller is only running 2 1/2 stars on Netflix and I don’t care.  I need to see this newly discovered Hemsworth. Also, Ian Somerhalder, so yes.

Poltergeist Activity (horror, Lee Bane, Natalie Martins) – Secluded farmhouse?  What’s wrong with you people?

October 14th

The Following – Season 3 (TV drama, Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy) – Final season.  DVD Only for now – I’ll watch for streaming.

The 100 – Season 2 (TV sci-fi, Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley) – People have been waiting for this FOREVER!  Instant Streaming Available.

Mad Men – Season 7.2 (TV drama, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jones) – Why the split final season?  I don’t know.  This should stream eventually, I’ll watch for it.  DVD Only for now.

Bates Motel – Season 3 (TV drama, Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore) – I only got part way through season 1 before giving up on this one.  But it’s a streamer – I’ll keep an eye out for a date.  DVD Only for now.

Wayward Pines – Season 1 (TV sci-fi, Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino) – I hate that this is listed as Season 1.  Just like Under the Dome, it should have been a mini-series and left at that.  Bleh.  DVD Only for now – I’ll watch to see if it streams.

Good Witch – Season 1 (TV fantasy, Catherine Bell, Bailee Madison) – Okay, this is a Hallmark Channel original series about a witch who moves into a haunted house and is smitten with her new neighbor and I’m TOTALLY WATCHING IT.  Don’t judge me.  DVD Only

Ascension (TV sci-fi, Tricia Helfer, Brian Van Holt) – Miniseries about a space project launched in 1963.  Instant Streaming Available.

Furious 7 (action, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker) – The latest installment in the street racing series was Paul Walkers last movie before his death in an accident at age 40.

Monkey Kingdom (documentary) – A Disney doc about a mother/baby monkey duo.  Family friendly.

Insidious: Chapter 3 (horror, Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott) – This installment is a prequel to the first two.  I’ve only seen the first movie, but it was pretty scary.  Perfect October viewing.

Faith of Our Fathers (drama, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Downes) – Man searches for information about his father, who died in Vietnam, by seeking out his old army buddy.

After Words (romance, Marcia Gay Harden, Oscar Jaenada) – Librarian has mid life crisis in Costa Rica.

Call Me Lucky (documentary, Barry Crimmins, David Cross) – Biodoc about comedian Barry Crimmins.

The Little Death (comedy, Josh Lawson, Bojana Novakovic) – Sex in the suburbs.

Phantom Halo (thriller, Luke Kleintank, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) – Kids are thieves to support family.

Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman (documentary, Harper Lee, Oprah Winfrey) – An update of a 2011 doc about Harper Lee.  How does Oprah get in there?

Chain of Command (action, Max Ryan, Michael Jai White) – Military corruption and revenge.

Northmen: A Viking Saga (action, Tom Hopper, Ryan Kwanten) – Hey, that’s Jason Stackhouse from True Blood!  I could be talked into watching him be a 9th century Viking.  Oh yes, I could.

The Curse of Downers Grove (drama, Bella Heathcote, Lucas Till) – High school is a bitch, man.  Especially if one senior bites it every year.

October 9th

Preggoland (comedy, James Caan, Laura Harris) – Immature adult fakes pregnancy.  I will definitely watch this if it ever streams.

1001 Grams (foreign drama, Didier Flamand, Laurent Stocker) – Norwegian language story of a divorced scientist being forced out of her comfort zone.

The Unbelievers (documentary, Ricky Gervais, Bill Pullman) – Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss question religious beliefs around the world.  With celebrities!  Instant Streaming Available

The Discoverers (comedy, Madeleine Martin, David Rasche) – Who wants to be a history buff?  This family tracing the steps of Lewis and Clarke, frontier style! Okay, so maybe they aren’t enthusiastic.  Instant Streaming Available

The Nightmare (documentary, Maxwell Schneller, Yatoya Toy) – Sleep paralysis documentary.  So, so creepy!  Instant Streaming Available

The Wipers Times (comedy, Ben Chaplin, Patrick Fitzsymons) – Comedy about starting a newspaper during wartime, based on a true story.  Instant Streaming Available

October 7th

Harbinger Down (sci-fi, Lance Henriksen, Matt Winston) – Frozen mutant space organisms!  Instant Streaming Available

Five Star (drama, James ‘Primo’ Grant, John Diaz) – Wannabe gangster and wannagetout gangster.

October 6th

American Horror Story – Season 4 – Freak Show (TV horror, Evan Peters, Jessica Lange) – In season 4, the cast is part of a traveling freak show.  Instant Streaming Available

The Originals – Season 2 (TV sci-fi, Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies) – Instant Streaming Available

Last Man Standing – Season 4 (TV comedy, Tim Allen, Nancy Travis) – No thanks.  Instant Streaming Only

Penny Dreadful – Season 2 (TV sci-fi, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton) – Monsters lurk in Victorian London.  Why haven’t I been watching this??  DVD Only

Reign – Season 2 (TV drama, Adelaide Kane, Toby Regbo) – Historical drama about Mary Quees of Scots.  This one will start Instant Streaming Available.  Thanks to alert reader Brian for the heads up!

Vikings – Season 3 (TV action, Travis Fimmel, Gabriel Byrne) – Blood and guts in medieval Scandinavia.  This is not a streamer, so DVD Only

HAPPYish – Season 1 (TV comedy, Shalom Auslander, Steve Coogan) – Midlife crisis comedy from Showtime.  DVD Only

South Park – Season 18 (TV animation) – You already know if you like this.  I personally hate it.  It’s not a streamer – DVD Only.

The Leftovers – Season 1 (TV sci-fi, Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman) – What happens when 140 million people disappear?  I guess this is where we find out.  Good cast – I’ll give this one a shot. DVD Only

Air (sci-fi, Norman Reedus, Djimon Hounsou) – Love both leads – here they try to keep sane while taking care to keep the frozen remnants of humanity alive.  I will absolutely watch this.

Final Girl (thriller, Cameron Bright, Abigail Breslin) – It helps to be an assassin when navigating this particular high school.

Dark Places (thriller, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult) – Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, you bet I’m seeing this one.

The Falling (drama, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh) – Creepy girls in creepy boarding school exhibit creepy behavior.

Pod (horror, Lauren Ashley Carter, Dean Cates) – Why does anyone ever go to a remote lake house?  It’s always trouble.

Manglehorn (drama, Al Pacino, Chris Messina) – Also starring Holly Hunter.  Even with a great cast, this one got pretty bad reviews.

Tremors 5: Bloodlines (horror, Michael Gross, Jamie Kennedy) – Remember back when Tremors was fun?  You know, in 1990?  I think it’s time to give up.  Instant Streaming Only

The Stranger (horror, Cristobal Tapia-Montt, Alessandra Guerzoni) – One lonely dude incites small town blood bath.  Tsk. Instant Streaming Only

When Marnie Was There (anime, Kasumi Arimura, Sara Takatsuki) – Dream friend or real friend?

We Are Still Here (horror, Andrew Sensenig, Barbara Crampton) – Rustic = Haunted.

What We Did on Our Holiday (comedy, Celia Imrie, Harriet Turnbull) – It’s hard for the kiddos to keep that divorce a secret at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.

10,000 Saints (drama, Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield) – Kid abstains.  Dad does not.

Escobar: Paradise Lost (thriller, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson) – Surfer dudes should probably not date drug lords’ daughters.

Road Hard (comedy, Adam Carolla, Jay Mohr) – Ex-comedian has to go back on the road to pay the bills.

People, Places, Things (comedy, Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall) – Graphic novelist trying to get over unfaithful wife.

Dead Rising: Watchtower (horror, Dennis Haysbert, Virginia Madsen) – Based on a zombie video game!  What could possible go wrong?

Ardor (foreign thriller, Jorge Sesan, Lautaro Vilo) – Argentinean tale of mystery man rescuing kidnapped damsel.

Awake: The Life of Yogananda (documentary, Anupam Kher, George Harrison) – Biopic about Paramahansa Yogananda, spreader of Eastern yoga and meditation.  Instant Streaming 11/1/15

The Last Shift (horror, Juliana Harkavy, Joshua Mikel) – Poor rookie cop, alone in a closing station.  I don’t see this going well for him.

October 2nd

Avengers: Age of Ultron (action, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth) – Also known as Avengers 2.  If these things aren’t your cup of tea, this won’t change your mind, but I liked it.

Vampire Diaries – Season 6– Instant Streaming Available

October 1st

Pernicious (horror, Emily O’Brien, Byron Gibson) – Points for using a big word as the title.  But the movie, about women going to Thailand for fun and adventure and meeting an evil spirit, sounds suspect.  Instant Streaming Only

The Slap (TV drama, Peter Sarsgaard, Uma Thurman) – I read the book this 2 disc mini-series was based on – it was okay.  This is a good cast though, including Zachary Quinto, Melissa George and Thandie Newton, so it might be worth a look.

September 29th

Bones – Season 10 (TV drama, Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz) – WHOO!  Finally!  Available on DVD and Instant Streaming

Sleepy Hollow – Season 2 (TV drama, Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie) – Ichabod Crane continues his ride.  This one is not a streamer, so DVD Only

Jane the Virgin – Season 1 (TV dramedy,Gina Rodriguez, Andrea Navedo) – Immaculate conception via medical mistake.  Instant Streaming Available

Outlander – Season 1: Vol 2 (TV adventure, Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan) – Time travel fantasy – but why split the season’s release?  Annoying.  I don’t think this one will stream, but I’ll watch for it anyway.

Grimm – Season 4 (TV sci-fi, David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby) – I really should watch this one about a real life fairy tale investigator.  It’s not a streamer though, so DVD Only.

iZombie – Season 1 (TV sci-fi, Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin) – This I will watch – woman becomes zombie, continues to work in coroner’s office.  How can I not love it?  Instant Streaming Available

Deutschland 83 – Season 1 (TV action, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader) – Cold War spy drama/thriller series.  There may be only the one season of this.  DVD Only

Fresh Off the Boat – Season 1 (TV comedy, Randall Park, Constance Wu) – Taiwanese immigrant family trying to make a life in the US.  DVD Only – no idea if this will stream.

Unexpected (drama, Gail Bean, Elizabeth McGovern) – Teacher and student are both unexpectedly pregnant.  Instant Streaming Available

Return to Sender (thriller, Rosamund Pike, Camryn Manheim) – Blind date gone horribly wrong.  Instant Streaming Available

Cop Car (thriller, Kevin Bacon, James Freedson-Jackson) – Also Camryn Manheim.  Haven’t heard from her in ages and here she is, 2 in a row!  This one is about the stupidity of joyriding a cop car.

I’ll See You in My Dreams (romance, Blythe Danner, Martin Starr) – Also with Sam Elliot – I hope he grew his mustache back since his stint on Justified.  He looks really streange without it.  This one is about a widow being courted by two men.

The Connection (foreign action, Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche) – I’m assuming this is French with English subtitles – the story of an investigator on the case of a heroin cartel in Marseilles.

Gemma Bovery (foreign drama, Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini) – French language story about new neighbors with secrets.

Flamenco, Flamenco (dance, José Mercé, Sara Baras) – A Flamenco dancing world showcase.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (documentary, Bo Derek, Dolph Lundgren) – Story of a B movie studio.

Zipper (thriller, Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey) – Politicians and their hookers.  Tsk.

The Duke of Burgundy (drama, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna) – Steamy dominatrix drama.  Instant Streaming Available

Aloft (drama, Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy) – Love both leads in this mother-child reunion drama.  I’ll definitely see it.

SWAT: Unit 887 (action, Tom Sizemore, Timothy Woodward Jr) – Terrorists, SWAT team, LA, you know the drill.

Soul Boys of the Western World (documentary, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp) – Spandau Ballet band doc. Instant Streaming Available

Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot (documentary, Dirk Nowitzki, Mark Cuban) – Basketball player biopic.

A Murder in the Park (documentary) – Man exonerated of crime by confession of another man is suspect again.

Paper Planes (family, Sam Worthington, Ed Oxenbould) – Competing in paper planes competition helps boy grieve mother.

Alleluia (foreign thriller, Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas) – French language true story of a a morgue worker and romance run afoul.

September 23rd

The Mystery of Lord Lucan (drama, Rory Kinnear, Catherine McCormack) – This 2 disc, 3 part mini-series is about the 1970s case of a British Earl suspected of murder.

The Great Train Robbery (drama, Luke Evans, Neil Maskell) – Another British mini-series (2 discs), this one about a 1963 train hijacking.  Instant Streaming Available

September 22nd

Arrow – Season 3 (TV action, Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy) – The Green Arrow is back.  Instant Streaming Available

Modern Family – Season 6 (TV comedy, Ty Burrell, Sophia Vergara) – Great show, but not a streamer.  This one will stay DVD only.

The Last Man on Earth – Season 1 (TV comedy, WIll Forte, Kristen Schaal) – I fell in love with this during its network airing.  It’s DVD Only right now – I don’t know if it will stream, but I’ll keep an eye out!  Either way, it’s absolutely worth it.

The Red Road – Season 2 (TV drama, Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa) – This Sundance series is Available on Instant Streaming

The Goldbergs – Season 2 (TV comedy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff Garlin) – This sit-com (also starring George Segal) is not a streamer, so it’s DVD Only.

The Flash – Season 1 (TV action,Grant Gustin, Candice Patton) – Another superhero series!  Instant Streaming Available

Gotham – Season 1 (TV thriller, Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue) – Pre-Batman rise of Gotham.  Instant Streaming Available

Big Sky (drama, Bella Thorne, Frank Grillo) – Agoraphobic girl fights for her life in suspiciously horror chliche scenario.

Mad Max: Fury Road (sci-fi, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron) – A many years later franchise installment that didn’t need to be made (franchised from a movie I didn’t like to begin with).  There’s much better dystopia out there.

Finding Neighbors (comedy, Michael O’Keefe, Catherine Dent) – Graphic novelist midlife crisis.  Instant Streaming Only

The Only Real Game (documentary, Melissa Leo) – Basketball offers joy in a devastated state in India.  Instant Streaming Only

Saint Laurent (foreign drama, Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier) – French language Yves Saint Laurent biopic.

Welcome to Happy Valley (family, Brooke Coleman, Dan Glenn) – It’s sad when a children and family movie can only muster a star and a half on Netflix.  I’ll skip this one (I would have anyway – now I just have an excuse).

Containment (sci-fi, Louise Brealey, Lee Ross) – Apartment building locked down by guys in hazmat suits?  That just can’t be good.

In the Name of My Daughter (foreign drama, Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet) – French language story of the disappearance of a casino heiress.

The Farewell Party (foreign drama, Levana Finkelstein, Alisa Rozen) – Hebrew language assisted suicide in a retirement home drama.

Results (comedy, Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders) – Post divorce Guy Pearce seeks a new start at a local gym.  I like Guy Pearce, I’ll give it a shot. Instant Streaming Available

The Heart Machine (drama, John Gallagher Jr., Libby Woodbridge) – Online romance put to the IRL test.  Instant Streaming Only

The Human Experiment (documentary, Sean Penn) – A look at industry push-back against the examination of untested chemicals in everyday products.  Instant Streaming Only

September 16th

Red Knot (drama, Lisa Harrow, Olivia Thirlby) – Honeymoon on a research boat to Antarctica?  That’s not going to go well.

September 15th

The Big Bang Theory – Season 8 (TV comedy, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons) –  I love this show! This one is not a streamer, so DVD Only

The Comeback – Season 2 (comedy, Lisa Kudrow, Malin Akerman) – This is a weird one, since season 1 came out in 2005.  It’s DVD only right now, but who knows?

CSI: Cyber – Season 1 (TV drama, Patricia Arquette, Bow Wow) – Wow, I’m sick of these.  DVD Only, at least for now.

Empire – Season 1 (TV drama, Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson) – I haven’t seen this one, but it has a terrific cast.  No idea if it will stream, DVD only at the moment

Aquarius – Season 1 (TV drama, David Duchovny, Grey Damon) – As much as I love Mulder, I don’t have a lot of interest in this series about Charles Manson.  DVD Only

The Returned – Season 1 (TV drama, India Ennenga, Mark Pellegrino) – This A&E series sounds exactly like the cancelled series Resurrected, except each episode focuses on one of the returned.  DVD Only – I may have to watch it and see how the two compare.

Diplomacy (foreign drama, André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup) – German language Hitler drama.  I don’t make them, people, I just put them on the list.  Instant Streaming Available

Reality (comedy, Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Bouchez) – Cameraman wants to direct horror movie.  Instant Streaming Only

Little Boy (comedy, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson) – While a young boy’s father is fighting in WWII, he is fighting battles of his own against bullies.  Sounds like a weeper – but billed as a comedy.  Instant Streaming Available

Love & Mercy (drama, Bill Camp, Jake Abel) – Brian Wilson biopic.

The Overnight (comedy, Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling) – A play-date for kids and grown-ups?  Yeah, I knew that was stupid as I was typing the words.  It’s about swingers trying to talk other people into being swingers.

The Seven Five (documentary) – Story of a cop turning the tables on drug dealers in the 80s and 90s and the corruption scandal that followed.

Heaven Knows What (drama, Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones) – Junkie and the NYC drug scene.  Based on a memoir.  Not my thing –  I am strongly suspicious of memoirs in general.

Closer to the Moon (comedy, Vera Farmiga, Monica Barladeanu) – A comedy about a group of persecuted Russian Jews robbing a bank after WWII?  Yep.  Instant Streaming Available

Jack Strong (foreign thriller, Patrick Wilson, Marcin Dorocinski) – Polish spy during the Cold War.  Not entirely sure what language it’s in – but it’s based on a true story.  Instant Streaming 10/24/15

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (documentary) – 6 part documentary (2 disc) mini-series about an eccentric billionaire suspected of murder.

Nightingale (drama, David Oyelowo) – Single man cast – troubled Iraq War vet in a video blog.  Sounds intense – I’ll queue it.

September 14th

Call the Midwife – Season 4 (TV drama, Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter) – The 1950s British midwives are back!  Instant Streaming Available

September 12th

Portlandia – Season 5 (TV comedy, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein) – Instant Streaming Available

September 10th

Longmire – Season 4 (TV drama, Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff) – Instant Streaming Available

September 9th

The Suicide Theory (drama, Steve Mouzakis, Leon Cain) – Why is dude unable to commit suicide? Instant Streaming Only

Love & Engineering (documentary, Atanas Boev, Todor Vlaev) – Computer engineer develops system for finding love. Instant Streaming Only

September 8th

Homeland – Season 4 (TV drama, Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin) – We finally have a US date!  SO EXCITED!  This one never streams, so we’re all going to have to rely on our DVD subscriptions – at least in the US.  I heard it streams in Australia!

Supernatural – Season 10 (TV sci-fi, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) – 10 years!  It doesn’t seem that long.  Instant Streaming Available 

Haven – Season 5 (TV sci-fi, Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant) – I love this show.  Instant Streaming Available

The Blacklist – Season 2 (TV drama, James Spader, Megan Boone) – Instant Streaming Available

Blue Bloods – Season 5 (TV drama, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan) – New York cop family is back.  Instant Streaming Available

Madam Secretary – Season 1 (TV drama, Téa Leoni, Bebe Neuwirth) – Instant Streaming Available

Cyber-Seniors (documentary, Shura Eadie, Henri Pelletier) – Senior citizens learn to use the internet from teenagers.  Instant Streaming Only

Showrunners (documentary, J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon) – Subtitled “The Art of Running a TV Show” – fairly self explanatory.  Great choices for cast members!  Instant Streaming Only

Hot Pursuit (comedy, Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara) – This looks terrible, got terrible reviews, has a terrible rating on Netflix, and I’m going to see it anyway.

Unfriended (horror, Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm) – The teenagers were all buzzing about how scary this was when it came out in theaters.  I’ll probably have to see if they’re right.

The Age of Adaline (romance, Ellen Burstyn, Harrison Ford) – Sort of a Benjamin Button sort of lack of aging kind of thing.  Sort of.  I think.  Whatever, I’m going to see it.

American Heist (action, Jordana Brewster, Hayden Christensen) – Ex-con turns back to life of crime.  Shocker. Instant Streaming Available

Misery Loves Comedy (documentary, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Schumer) – Are comedians miserable in their real lives?  I guess we’ll find out from a bunch of interviews with comedians.

Love at First Fight (foreign comedy, Kévin Azaïs, Adèle Haenel) – French language boot camp rom/com.

September 4th

A Deadly Game (thriller, Amy Pietz, Johnny Whitworth) – Things get scary at the spa.  I probably need to see this one with a mother and daughter rooting out some festering evil between facials.

September 3rd

Elimination Game (action, Dominic Purcell, Viva Bianca) – The Hunger Games with felons.

The 10 Year Plan (romantic comedy, Jack Turner, Michael Adam Hamilton) – Gay version of the old “if we aren’t married in 10 years we’ll marry each other”.

September 1st

Criminal Minds – Season 10 (TV crime drama, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson) – Instant Streaming Available!  Thanks to alert reader Courtney for finding this date!

The Vampire Diaries – Season 6 (TV sci-fi, Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley) – Instant Streaming Available

The Originals – Season 2 (TV sci-fi, Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies) – Like its vampire cousins above, this one is Available on Instant Streaming

The League – Season 6 (TV comedy, Mark Duplass, Nick Kroll) – Fantasy football shenanigans are back. Instant Streaming Available.

Hawaii Five-O – Season 5 (TV drama, Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan) – This has been on for 5 years?  Wow.  Instant Streaming Available

Madam Secretary – Season 1 (TV drama, Téa Leoni, Bebe Neuwirth) – Since it’s the first season I have no idea if it will stream, but I’ll watch it. Instant Streaming Available

Nashville – Season 3 (TV drama, Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere) – This one is not a streamer, so DVD Only

Scorpion – Season 1 (TV drama, Elyes Gabel, Robert Patrick) – Homeland Security, terrorists, blah, blah, blah.  No idea if it’s a streamer.  DVD Only

Atlantis – Season 2.1 (TV action,Jack Donnelly, Mark Addy) – Looks like this Greek mythology series is not a streamer, so DVD Only

Castle – Season 7 (TV action, Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic) – Sadly, we do not get to see Nathan Fillion on instant streaming in this role.  DVD Only

The Harvest (thriller, Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon) – Over-sheltered child meets presumably under-sheltered child.  Hilarity probably does not ensue.  Instant Streaming Available.

Our Man in Tehran (documentary) – Story of the Canadian ambassador who sheltered the escaped hostages from Argo.  Instant Streaming Available

Hangar 10 (sci-fi, Danny Shayler, Robert Curtis) – Best not to hunt for treasure when UFOs are on the prowl. Instant Streaming Available

Far from the Madding Crowd (drama, Juno Temple, Michael Sheen) – Based on the novel by Thomas Hardy.  Good cast, including Carrie Mulligan.

True Story (drama, James Franco, Jonah Hill) – True crime thriller with the over-rated Franco and under-rated Hill.  Could be good if Franco is watchable.

Felt (thriller, Amy Everson, Alanna Reynolds) – Put on a costume, become another person?  Maybe so…

Good Kill (thriller, Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood) – Title is an oxymoron, but the cast is good.

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (documentary, Glen Campbell, Bruce Springsteen) – I have to be honest, I haven’t thought about Glen Campbell in a long time.  But this doc about his final tour after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease looks really good.  Instant Streaming Available

Boulevard (drama, Robin Williams, Kathy Baker) – Mid-life crisis drama, made so poignant by Williams’s untimely death.

Texas Rising (TV mini-series, Bill Paxton, Brendan Fraser) – Formation of the Texas Rangers in the 1830s.  3 disc mini-series with a HUGE cast of well known actors including Ray Liotta and Kris Kristofferson.

That Sugar Film (documentary, Damon Gameau, Stephen Fry) – Kind of like Supersize Me, but with a high sugar diet.

Dior and I (documentary, Raf Simons, Anna Wintour) – High fashion behind-the-scenes.

Backcountry (thriller, Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop) – City couple + Canadian woods + strange hiker + black bear = ANARCHY.

The D Train (comedy, Jack Black, James Marsden) – Jack Black organizing his class reunion?  Yes, I do believe I will.

Extinction (horror, Matthew Fox, Jeffrey Donovan) – Zombie dystopia!  We cant get enough of it, can we?  This time there are only 3 survivors.

The Surface (thriller, Sean Astin, Chris Mulkey) – Boat/plane accident survivors on Lake Michigan.

Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World (documentary, H.R. Giger, Stanislav Grof) – Alien monster designer doc.

7 Minutes (thriller, Joel Murray, Kris Kristofferson) – Kris Kristofferson twice in one week!This one’s about a bank heist.

Exeter (horror, Kelly Blatz, Brittany Curran) – Party in the abandoned asylum?  Dumb, teenagers, dumb!

The Face of an Angel (thriller, Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale) – Disillusioned filmmaker.  Sounds kind of yawny.  Instant Streaming Available

Broken Horses (drama, Vincent D’Onofrio, Anton Yelchin) – Musician tries to keep brother out of Mexican cartel wars.

The Blood Lands (horror, Pollyanna McIntosh, Lee Williams) – Movie people simply must stop buying isolated houses to get away from the pressures of urban living.  It just always ends poorly.

The Decent One (foreign documentary, Tobias Moretti, Sophie Rois) – German language Heinrich Himmler doc.  Instant Streaming Available

Awaken (action, Vinnie Jones, Edward Furlong) – Watch your kidneys. kidnapped people.

Dark Was the Night (thriller, Heath Freeman, Steve Agee) – Cut down trees, evil will come.

Animals (drama, David Dastmalchian, Kim Shaw) – Homeless addicts need medical attention.

August 31st

Cub (foreign horror, Evelien Bosmans, Jan Hammenecker) – French language children in the woods.  People will never learn in any language, will they?

August 27th

Revenge – Season 4 (TV drama, Madeleine Stowe, Emily VanCamp) – Instant Streaming Available

Once Upon a Time – Season 4 – Instant Streaming Available

Tiger Orange (drama, Mark Strano, Frankie Valenti) – Estranged gay sibling dysfunctional family drama.  Instant Streaming Available

August 26th

Cas & Dylan (comedy, Richard Dreyfuss, Tatiana Maslany) – Odd couple felonious road trip.  But looks worth it for the cast – Maslany is the lead from Orphan Black.

August 25th

Hawaii Five-O – Season 4 – Available on Instant Streaming – SOme shows really do like to hold back on streaming.  Season 5 is out on DVD September 1st and presumably a new season will start soon as well.

Revenge – Season 4 (TV drama, Madeleine Stowe, Emily VanCamp) – Instant Streaming Available

The Walking Dead – Season 5 (TV drama, Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus) – Instant Streaming Available. I sincerely hope next season is a good one.

Elementary – Season 3 (TV mystery,Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu) – Modern day Sherlock comes to DVD Only.
This one is not a streamer.

The Mindy Project – Season 3 (TV comedy, Mindy Kaling, Chris Messina) – Not a streamer – DVD Only.

Criminal Minds – Season 10 (TV crime drama, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson) – Instant Streaming Available.  

The Good Wife – Season 6 (TV drama, Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry) – This one isn’t a streamer, so DVD Only.

Portlandia – Season 5 (TV comedy, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein) – Instant Streaming Available

Transporter: The Series – Season 2 (TV action, Chris Vance, François Berléand) – DVD release and Instant Streaming Available.

Two Days, One Night (foreign drama, Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione) – French language story of a woman trying to get co-workers to sacrifice so she can keep her job.  Instant Streaming Available

The Divine Move (foreign drama, Woo-sung Jung, Beom-su Lee) – Korean inmate plays board game after release to get revenge.  Yep, that’s weird.  Instant Streaming Available.

Aloha (comedy, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone) – Also with Bill Murray, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski and Alec Baldwin.  And directed by Cameron Crowe.  Yeah, I don’t care what it’s about, I’ll see it.  Oh, but it’s about defense contractor, Air Force romance.  Whatever, it stays on the queue.

Where Hope Grows (faith and spirituality, Kristoffer Polaha, William Zabka) – Down and out ex ball player meets young man with Down Syndrome.

The Runner (thriller, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson) – Politician, oil spill, sex scandal, blah, blah, blah.  Instant Streaming Available

Big Game (action, Risto Salmi, Samuel L. Jackson) – This looks sort of fun – a Finnish kid on a solo wilderness trek stumbles on the downed wqreckage of Air Force One.

CITIZENFOUR (documentary, Edward Snowden) – Is anyone else just sick of this guy?

Lila & Eve (thriller, Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez) – Mothers investigate the murders of their children.  Love Viola Davis, I’ll give this one a shot.  Update – it sucks, total waste of a cast.

Iris (documentary, Iris Apfel) – I have never heard of this woman, but apparently she’s a fashion icon in her 90s.  Instant Streaming Available

Skin Trade (action, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa) – So much revenge lately.  SO MUCH.  Instant Streaming Available

October Gale (thriller, Callum Keith Rennie, Scott Speedman) – Grieving widow’s solitude interrupted by wounded man.  Also starring Patricia Clarkson – I like her, I’ll give this one a try.  Instant Streaming Available

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (foreign comedy, Michel Houellebecq, Françoise Lebrun) – French language faux-documentary about the disappearance of an author.  Instant Streaming Available

A Wolf at the Door (foreign thriller, Tamara Taxman, Juliano Cazarré) – Portuguese language abduction thriller.  Instant Streaming Available

The Last Survivors (thriller, Max Charles, Barbara Crampton) – What are they surviving?  Not zombies – drought.

Brother’s Keeper (drama, Alex Miller, Graham Miller) – Orphan twin faith and spirituality murder trial.  Totally serious.

Children of Sorrow (horror, Bill Oberst Jr, Hannah Levien) – Dark secrets in a Christian cult.  That can’t come as a surprise, really.

Final Prayer (horror, Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill) – Found footage of Vatican church investigators.

Black Beauty (family, Luke Perry, Bruce Davison) – Luke Perry just never met a western (or near-western) he didn’t like.

August 22nd

Thanks to alert reader Courtney for noticing that NCIS – Season 12 is Available on Instant Streaming!

August 18th

Once Upon a Time – Season 4 (TV sci-fi,Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison) – Instant Streaming Available

Grey’s Anatomy – Season 11 (TV drama, Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey) – This is the DVD release Instant Streaming Available

The Blacklist – Season 2 (TV drama, James Spader, Megan Boone) – Love this one!  Instant Streaming Available

NCIS: Los Angeles – Season 6 (TV drama, Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J) – This version is DVD only – for some reason not a streamer.

NCIS: New Orleans – Season 1 (TV drama, Scott Bakula, Lucas Black) – Because we needed another one.  DVD Only – no idea if this one will stream, but I’ll keep an eye out.

NCIS – Season 12 (TV drama, Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly) – 12 years and 2 spin-offs and going strong.  Instant Streaming Available

The Royals – Season 1 (TV drama, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Regan) – I never heard of this inside-a-monarchy series. DVD Only

New Worlds – Season 1 (TV drama, Jamie Dornan, Alice Englert) – Period series set in 1680s England.  This is just 4 episodes on two discs, and is a first season, so I have no idea if it will stream.

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (foreign comedy, Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander) – Swedish language story of a very old man having some very big adventures.

Strangerland (drama, Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes) – Couple searches for kids lost in the outback.  Instant Streaming Available

5 to 7 (drama, Frank Langella, Olivia Thirlby) – Young man finds it hard to be a conservative adulterer.  Huh.

Vendetta (action, Dean Cain, Big Show) – Cop wants revenge.  REVENGE!

The Riot Club (drama, Max Irons, Sam Claflin) – Nasty rich college boys.

After the Ball (comedy, Portia Doubleday, Marc-André Grondin) – Cinderella remake-ish thing in a knock off clothing factory.  Yeah, it sounds like a weird stretch to me, too.  Instant Streaming Only

Plague (drama, Don Bridges, Benjamin Rigby) – Post apocalyptic plague?  Come on, haven’t these Aussies been through ENOUGH??  Instant Streaming Only

August 14th

Soaked in Bleach (documentary) – Kurt Cobain doc.

August 13th

The Crimson Field – Season 1 (TV drama, Oona Chaplin, Hermione Norris) – WWI field hospital.  Yikes.  I liked Oona Chaplin in Game of Thrones – this could be worth a look.  DVD Only

August 12th

I Am Chris Farley (documentary, Christina Applegate, Dan Aykroyd) – Pretty self explanatory.  Could be both terribly sad and enlightening.

Lost for Words (drama, Sean Faris, Grace Huang) – A romance in Hong Kong between a former Marine and a Chinese dancer.

Abstraction (action, Hunter Ives, Korrina Rico) – It’s hard to go straight, man.  Really hard.

Uncertain Terms (drama, India Menuez, David Dahlbom) – Guy runs from bad marriage to live with relative who runs a program for pregnant teens, and is attracted to one.  He’s 30.  She’s presumably a teen.  I won’t be seeing this.

August 11th

Scandal – Season 4 (TV drama, Kerry Washington, Columbus Short) – Instant Streaming Available

Person of Interest – Season 4 (TV drama, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson) – I need to start watching this predicting the future drama.  It is now a streamer! But this season is still DVD Only

Two Broke Girls – Season 4 (TV comedy,Kat Dennings, Beth Behrs) – Not a streamer, this one is DVD Only

The Knick – Season 1 (TV drama, Clive Owen, Andre Holland) – Period drama about an early 1900s hospital.  DVD Only.  I feel like I should probably watch this just for Clive Owen.

The Dovekeepers – Season 1 (TV drama, Sam Neill, Cote de Pablo) – I’m not at all clear on whether this is a series or a mini-series.  But it’s about Jewish women in the year 70.  That’s right – 70.  Talk about a period piece!

Dig (TV drama, Jason Isaacs, Anne Heche) – This one is a 3 disc mini-series about archeology and murder in Jerusalem.

Welcome to New York (drama, Pamela Afesi, Paul Calderon) – Politician scandal.  Yawn.

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (documentary, Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz) – I think this is a pretty self explanatory title.

The Longest Ride (drama, Lolita Davidovich, Britt Robertson) – A Nicholas Sparks novel adaptation.  That’s all you really need to know.

Match (drama, Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino) – Patrick Stewart?  Yes, thank you!  He directs and stars in this story of a dancer/choreographer interview that is not what it appears.  Update – this is very, very good.

Hunting Elephants (foreign comedy, Reshef Levi, Sasson Gabai) – Also Patrick Stewart!  Two in one week.  This Isreali film appears to be on both Hebrew and English, and is the story of a bullied boy who gets into financial shenanigans with his grandfather and uncle.

Police Story: Lockdown (foreign action, Jackie Chan, Tian Jing) – Installment 5 of this Chinese series.  Instant Streaming Only

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (comedy, David Strathairn, Judi Dench) – Not something that needed to be made, but I loved the first one, more than enough to give this second one a shot.

The Father’s Love (drama, Angela Lin, Erik McKay) – A New York romance.  Meh.  Instant Streaming Only

Cleveland Abduction (TV drama, Taryn Manning, Raymond Cruz) – Lifetime movie exploiting the abduction of three women in Cleveland by Ariel Castro.  Way to go, Lifetime, for being among the first ones to make money off of their nightmarish suffering!

August 8th

Doctor Who – Season 8 (TV sci-fi, David Tennant, Matt Smith) – Seasons 7 and 8 Available on Instant Streaming

August 4th

Grey’s Anatomy – Season 11 (TV drama, Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey) – It’s still on.  Seriously, it’s still on!  Instant Streaming Available

How to Get Away With Murder – Season 1 (TV drama, Viola Davis, Billy Brown) – This did well its first season.  Instant Streaming Available

Strike Back – Season 3 (TV action, Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton) – This British series about spies and terrorists is not a streamer – DVD Only

The Affair – Season 1 (TV drama, Dominic West, Ruth Wilson) – A Showtime series completely devoted to a couple having an affair.  Eeeh.  DVD Only

The Divergent Series: Insurgent (sci-fi, Shailene Woodley, Theo James) – Even though I have trouble with Woodley as Tris, I liked the first installment pretty well.  And let’s be honest, Theo James is delicious.

Blackbird (drama, Mo’Nique, Torrey Laamar) – Religion and sexual orientation clash in the deep south.  Instant Streaming Available

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (horror, Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey) – Zombies! Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

Do You Believe? (faith and spirituality, Mira Sorvino, Sean Astin) – I’m just not into these, but is an examination of the importance of Christ via fiction on film is your thing, more power to you.

A Little Chaos (drama, Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts) – Louis XIV/Versailles court intrigue period piece.  Very likely to be exceedingly opulent.  Also featuring and directed by Alan Rickman.

Child 44 (thriller, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace) – Stalin’s Russia was probably a tough place to investigate murders.  Also starring Joel Kinnaman, who rocks.

Every Secret Thing (thriller, Elizabeth Banks, Common) – This looks interesting, if grizzly.  Girls who have killed before are suspects again.

Madame Bovary (drama, Rhys Ifans, Mia Wasikowska) – Period piece adaptation of the Falubert novel.  Instant Streaming Available

Barely Lethal (comedy, Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba) – Working as an assassin isn’t so different than being in high school.  I’m definitely seeing this one.

A la Mala (foreign comedy, Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann) – Spanish language about trying to seduce people into cheating.  Lovely.

Lake Placid vs Anaconda (horror, Robert Englund, Stephen Billington) – I have no idea why this exists.

Jackie & Ryan (drama, Katherine Heigl, Ben Barnes) – Sappy, crappy looking rom/com about musicians.

The Salvation (drama, Éric Cantona , Michael Raymond-James) – Revenge in the wild west.

The Dead Lands (action, James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare) – Revenge among Maori warriors.  Lots of revenge this week. Instant Streaming Available

Pressure (thriller, Danny Huston, Matthew Goode) – Trapped beneath the sea.  Eeeek!

Adult Beginners (comedy, Celia Weston, Joel McHale) – Floundering brother becomes manny.  I like Joel McHale – I’ll take a chance on this one.

Any Day (drama, Kate Walsh, Eva Longoria) – Also with Sean Bean.  Bad dude tries to become good dude.

Inner Demons (horror, Ashley Sutton, Kate Whitney) – Is it drugs…or DEMONS?  I think you know the answer.  Instant Streaming Available

Burying the Ex (comedy, Mary Woronov, Anton Yelchin) – Zombie exes can really mess up a relationship.  Instant Streaming Available

The Drop Box (documentary) – A pastor trying to care for South Korean orphans. Instant Streaming Available

Into the Grizzly Maze (thriller, James Marsden, Thomas Jane) – It’s hard to have a family reunion when a grizzly is trying to eat you.

July 31st

24 Days (foreign drama, Zabou Breitman, Pascal Elbé) – French language story of the 2006 abduction and torture of a Jewish man in Paris.  Instant Streaming Available

The House Across the Street (horror, Eric Roberts, Ethan Embry) – Think your neighborhood is perfect?  THINK AGAIN.

If There Be Thorns (TV drama, Heather Graham, Rachael Carpani) – Third VC Andrews adaptation.  Caveat Emptor.

The Butterfly Room (thriller, Barbara Steele, Ray Wise) – Kid makes friend with old lady.  Neither is what they seem.  Bwahahahahaha….

Nightlight (horror, Shelby Young, Chloe Bridges) – For the love of God, stay out of the scary forest, stupid teenagers.

Dinosaur Island (action, Darius Williams, Kate Rasmussen) – I know this will suck, but I’m going to rent the DVD to watch with my nearly grown son.  Because we will both enjoy it, that’s just how we are about dinosaurs.

July 28th

Hell on Wheels – Season 4 (TV drama, Anson Mount, Colm Meaney) – This post-Civil War drama  is Available on Instant Streaming.

The Gunman (action, Sean Penn, Javier Bardem) – Why do assassins try to retire?  We all know they aren’t allowed.  Instant Streaming Available

Danny Collins (drama, Al Pacino, Annette Bening) – Aging former rocker gets new inspiration from an old letter from John Lennon. Great cast including Jennifer Garner, Bobby Canavale and Christopher Plummer.

Get Hard (comedy, Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart) – I’m obviously going to see this.  I could pretend that I’m not, but it hits every single one of my low-brow comedy qualifications.  I plan to enjoy every minute. Update – it’s stupid and I loved it.

White God (foreign drama, Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér) – Hungarian language story of a dog done wrong.  Instant Streaming Available

Comet (comedy, Kayla Servi, Justin Long) – Nonlinear romantic comedy.  Why nonlinear?  WHY??  Instant Streaming Available

Runoff (drama, Joanne Kelly, Neal Huff) – Woman takes on unfamiliar responsibilities when her husband falls ill.

3 Hearts (foreign drama, Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg) – French language story of missed trains and chance meetings.

52 Tuesdays (drama, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Del Herbert-Jane) – Combination story of child coming of age and transitioning transgender parent.  Instant Streaming Available

Glass Chin (drama, Corey Stoll, Billy Crudup) – Boxer gets mixed up in shady dealing and crimes he didn’t commit.

July 23rd

A Place Called Home – Season 2 (TV drama,Marta Dusseldorp, Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood) – This 1950s Australia period piece is not a streamer, so DVD Only.

July 22nd

Ripper Street – Season 3 (TV drama, Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn) – Why don’t I watch this?  It’s a streamer, but for now DVD Only – I’ll let you know when it streams.

July 21st

Glee – Season 6 (TV musical, Lea Michele, Chris Colfer) – Final season now Available on Instant Streaming!

Cedar Cove – Season 2 (TV drama, Andie MacDowell, Dylan Neal) – The second season of this drama/romance is Available on Instant Streaming

Masterpiece: Poldark – Season 1 (TV drama, Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson) – This is a new adaptation of a 1970s PBS series.  There’s no information on whether there will be a season 2 or if it will ever stream. DVD Only

What We Do In the Shadows (comedy, Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi) – Vampire roomies.

Kung Fu Killer (foreign action, Baoqiang Wang, Donnie Yen) – In Cantonese.  I think the title here is pretty self-explanatory.

Tangerines (foreign drama, Lembit Ulfsak, Giorgi Nakashidze) – Estonian language Oscar nominee about tangerine farmers during the Georgian wars of the 90s.

Jauja (foreign drama, Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby) – Danish period piece about a man searching for his daughter in 1800s South America.  I can’t tell if it’s in English or subtitled.  Instant Streaming Available

Set Fire to the Stars (drama, Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones) – American academic tries to keep poet Dylan Thomas sober.  Good luck with that, Frodo.  Instant Streaming Available

Wild Horses (thriller, Robert Duvall, James Franco) – I think James Franco can ruin even Robert Duvall.  I wish he would go away for a while.  Instant Streaming Available

I Am Femen (documentary, Oksana Shachko, Alexandra Shevchenko) – Inside hardcore Ukrainian feminist group.  Instant Streaming Only

Ghoul (horror, Jennifer Armour, Jeremy Isabella) – Film crew remembers serial killer.  No way this ends well for them.

Dawn Patrol (drama, Daniel Petrie Jr., Scott Eastwood) – Surf gangs, revenge killings and…joining the Marines?

Lonesome Dove Church (western, Tom Berenger) – This is listed as a drama about a preacher and his son, but we all know it’s a western.

July 15th

Eat With Me (drama, Sharon Omi, Teddy Chen Culver) – You never know what you’re going to find out when you move in with your adult son.  Also starring George Takei.  Instant Streaming Available

July 14th

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (comedy, Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez) – I sheepishly admit to liking the first one.  I know I’ll end up seeing this.

Unfinished Business (comedy, Sienna Miller, Dave Franco) – Don’t let the main listed cast fool you – this is a Vince Vaughn movie.  It’s only fair that you know that going in.

Run All Night (thriller, Joel Kinnaman, Common) – I love Joel Kinnaman from The Killing, and this movie stars Liam Neeson and Ed Harris, too.  So why does it have to be a mafia movie.  WHY????

The Lazarus Effect (horror, Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde) – Also with Evan Peters, this is a good cast for a horror movie.  It sounds like pseudo-zombies too, so I’m absolutely down with that.  Instant Streaming Available

Lost Soul (documentary, Robert Shaye, Richard Stanley) – An in depth look at the disastrous production of Richard Stanley’s directorial version of The Island of Dr. Moreau.  Also featuring Rob Morrow, but probably not because his name sounds so much like Moreau.  Instant Streaming Only

The Unwanted (drama, Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr) – Drifters, family secrets…and William Katt – The Last American Hero!  But I think he’s playing a different role here.  Instant Streaming Only

Love Me (documentary) – Mail order bride doc.  Instant Streaming Only

Ex Machina (sci-fi, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander) – Sexy sentient robot!

It Follows (horror, Maika Monroe, Debbie Williams) – Casual sex with otherworldly beings is ill advised, people.

The Salt of the Earth (documentary) – Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado biography.

Clouds of Sils Maria (drama, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart) – Actress invited to appear in older role in production that was her breakthroughrole earlier.

Freedom (drama, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bernhard Forcher) – Underground railway drama.

Goodbye to All That (comedy, Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey) – Post divorce guy struggles with dating and social media.  Instant Streaming Available

Let Us Prey (horror, Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh) – Small town police stations are just hotbeds of unusual activity and mysterious strangers.  Instant Streaming Available

July 7th

White Collar – Season 6 (TV drama, Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay) – Instant Streaming Available!

The Musketeers – Season 1 (TV drama, Santiago Cabrera, Tom Burke) – I’ll give you one guess what this is about!  It’s DVD only for now – no idea if it will stream, but I’ll keep an eye out.

House of Cards – Season 3 (TV drama, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright) – All you streamers have been able to watch this for a long time.  Now it’s available on DVD as well.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (action, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson) – Great cast, including Michael Caine and Mark Strong, for this tale of a teenage delinquent recruited to be a spy.  I’ll definitely see it.  Update: it’s awesome.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (horror, Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright) – Why is it always up to a teenager to stop the crazed serial killer?  Instant Streaming Available

The Dramatics: A Comedy (comedy, Kat Foster, Pablo Schreiber) – Boyfriend has issues with girlfriend’s role in explicit miniseries.  Instant Streaming Only

Woman in Gold (drama, Max Irons, Tatiana Maslany) – Incredible cast including Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth McGovern, Helen Mirren, Charles Dance, Jonathan Pryce, and Katie Holmes in this story of a Holocaust survivor trying to reclaim Nazi stolen artwork.  Update: so much better than I expected.  Helen Mirren rocks in all ways.

5 Flights Up (comedy, Michael Cristofer, Diane Keaton) – New Yorkers need to sell their Brooklyn home and are finding it more difficult than they thought.  Also starring Morgan Freeman.

Maggie (drama, J.D. Evermore, Joely Richardson) – How to care for your daughter the zombie.

’71 (action, Paul Anderson, Valene Kane) – Behind enemy lines in Northern Ireland.  Probably in 1971.

Deli Man (documentary, Jerry Stiller, Freddie Roman) – Documentary about Jewish delis in America.

Slow West (drama, Caren Pistorius, Ben Mendelsohn) – Period piece about a teenager heading across the 19th century American frontier.

Alien Outpost (sci-fi, Joe Reegan, Rick Ravanello) – People making a documentary about the last fight for human survival.  Seriously, they have nothing better to do during the apocalypse??  Instant Streaming Available

Absolution (action, Byron Mann, Josh Barnett) – He may not head the cast listing, but this is a Steven Seagal flick.  That’s all you really need to know.

The Road Within (drama, Dev Patel, Robert Patrick) – Young man with Tourette’s journey after his mother’s death.  Good cast including Kyra Sedgwick for this indie – I’ll give it a shot.  Instant Streaming Available

Gerontophilia (comedy, Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, Walter Borden) – Young man attracted to much older men enters romance that causes hijinks to ensue.   Instant Streaming Available

The Pact 2 (horror, Caity Lotz, Patrick Fischler) – Dammit!  I forgot to see The Pact 1.  Instant Streaming Available

Kill Me Three Times (comedy, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga) – Neo-noir in Australia.  Also starring Simon Pegg, who makes everything worth watching.  Instant Streaming Available

The Lovers (action, Tamsin Egerton, Bipasha Basu) – Coma time traveler!  Also starring Josh Hartnett.

Dark Summer (horror, Keir Gilchrist, Grace Phipps) – Stalker under house arrest gets a little taste of his own medicine.  BWAHAHAHAHAHA  Instant Streaming Available

Echoes of War (drama, James Badge Dale, Ethan Embry) – Post Civil War Texas feud.

No Way, Jose (comedy, Adam Goldberg, Brendan Hines) – Middle age people are funny.  Written and directed by Goldberg.

Human Capital (foreign drama, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio) – Class, ambition, love and a traffic accident.  This looks weird enough for me to try.  Italian language.  Instant Streaming Available

Laugh Killer Laugh (drama, William Forsythe, Tom Sizemore) – Coma turns sourpuss into happypants.  But his past comes a-callin’.

July 6th

Zero Motivation (drama, Dana Ivgy, Nelly Tagar) – This group of female Israeli soldiers bored in the desert are living my motivation level.  Go them!  Instant Streaming Available

July 1st

Death in Paradise – Season 2 (TV dramedy, Ben Miller, Sara Martins) – Light British crime drama set in the Caribbean.  Instant Streaming Available

Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist (documentary, Lance Armstrong, Marco Pantani) – Tale of drugs and cycling.  Instant Streaming Only

All the Wrong Reasons (drama, Cory Monteith, Kevin Zegers) – Big Box employee drama.

That Burning Feeling (comedy, John Cho, Paulo Costanzo) – STD comedy.  Just when you think movies can get no more tasteless.

Wish You Well (family drama, Ellen Burstyn, Mackenzie Foy) – A period piece based on a David Baldacci novel.  I had no idea he wrote family-ish novels.

June 30th

Garfunkel and Oates – Season 1 (TV comedy, Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci) – This Netflix Original about two young singers has been Available on Instant Streaming for quite some time, now you can get it on DVD as well.

Killing Jesus (TV drama, Haaz Sleiman, Emmanuelle Chriqui) – Made for TV movie about the life of Jesus, focusing on politics.  Wow, no.

Focus (drama, Will Smith, Margot Robbie) – Heist movie with spurned protege.

Jupiter Ascending (sci-fi, Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum) – Pretty young woman destined to save the world.  No, the UNIVERSE!

McFarland, USA (drama, Maria Bello, Kevin Costner) – Even though it’s a schmaltzy, inspirational sports drama, I still kind of want to see it.  Don’t judge me.  Update: saw it and was very uplifted.  So there.

Before You Know It (documentary) – A look at LGBTQ senior citizens and the problems they face.  Instant Streaming Only

Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb Vs. Gravity (documentary) – I think this is like X-Games dancing or something.  Instant Streaming Only.

Last Knights (action, Kazuaki Kiriya, Clive Owen) – Honorable knights must kill dishonorable emperor.

While We’re Young (comedy, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts) – Documentarian in a rut meets interesting couple.  Good cast, I might give it a shot.

Forbidden Empire (sci-fi, Charles Dance, Jason Flemyng) – That’s Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones!  I’m not sure that’s enough to get me to see this tale of a Victorian cartographer in Transylvania, but you never know.

Gangland Undercover (TV drama, Damon Runyan, Ari Cohen) – History Channel mini-series about going undercover in a motorcycle gang.

Hard to Be a God (foreign sci-fi, Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko) – Russian language story of interplanetary observation and something that sounds suspiciously like the Prime Directive from Star Trek.  Instant Streaming Available

June 26th

Beautiful and Twisted (drama, Rob Lowe, Paz Vega) – True story about kinky sex, strippers and murder.  What could be bad?

June 23rd

Marvels Agents of SHIELD – Season 2 (TV action, Clark Gregg, Ming Na-Wen) – Available on Instant Streaming Only!  I love this show.

The Loft (thriller, Karl Urban, James Marsden) – I love Karl Urban – I might even see this adultery drama because he’s in it.  Available on Instant Streaming

Seventh Son (sci-fi, Kit Harington, Julianne Moore) – Based on first book in Wardstone Chronicles trilogy by Joseph Delaney.  Good vs. Evil, blah, blah, blah.  Good cast though – Kit Harrington is Jon Snow from Game of Thrones.

Old Fashioned (romance, Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Rik Swartzwelder) – Newly Christian conservative dude meets girl who doesn’t fit his narrow world.  Yawn.

Private Number (thriller, Tom Sizemore, Judd Nelson) – Writers really seem to be easily haunted.  This doesn’t look bad, though – and Judd Nelson is still making movies!  Instant Streaming 12/1

Playing It Cool (comedy, Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan) – Writer with disdain for romance forced to write romance.  Blah.

Mutant World (sci-fi, Kim Coates, Holly Deveaux) – If you prepare for doomsday and it happens, what do you do with the mutants that result?

Survivor (thriller, Robert Forster, Angela Bassett) – Terrorism, frame-ups, INTRIGUE!  Also starring Emma Thompson.

The Forger (thriller, John Travolta, Christopher Plummer) – Early release from prison comes with strings…

Timbuktu (foreign drama, Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki) – Arabic language drama about a city under siege (set in 2012).

Pound of Flesh (action, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Ralston) – It’s JCVD, enough said.

Stop the Pounding Heart (drama, Tim Carlson, Leeanne Carlson) – Devout Christians (non-actors) in conflict because of a young bull-riding stud.  Seriously.  Instant Streaming Available

If You Build It (documentary) – Architects looking to revitalize a community do so through a newly designed high school.  Instant Streaming Available

June 16th

Two and a Half Men – Season 12 (TV comedy, Jon Cryer, Ashton Kutcher) – Please end.  Please, for the love of God, end. DVD only

The Newsroom – Season 3 (TV drama, Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer) – This HBO drama gets great ratings, but it isn’t a streamer so DVD Only

Survivor’s Remorse – Season 1 (TV drama, Jessie Usher, RonReaco Lee) – Pro basketball players realizing that fame has costs.  DVD Only

American Sniper (drama, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller) – Military biopic about a sniper and his many, many kills.  This one is not for me, but it gets fantastic reviews.

Chappie (action, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver) – Chappie is a robot.  Chappie gets kidnapped.  Chappie ends up with a quirky family.

The Wrecking Crew (documentary, Brian Wilson, Cher, Dick Clark) – Or rather, ROCKUMENTARY, if you prefer.  About a studio band who backed up a lot of famous people.  Instant Streaming Available

Wild Tales (foreign comedy, Liliana Ackerman) – I believe this revenge comedy from Argentina is Spanish language, but I’m not sure.

Beyond the Reach (thriller, Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine) – If you hunt human beings, you are a bad person.

Welcome to Me (comedy, Thomas Mann, Joan Cusack) – Also starring Kristen Wiig (reason enough alone to see it) this comedy is about a lottery winner who goes off her much needed medication and produces a talk show with her winnings.  Yes, I will be seeing this – no question. Update: she’s great, the movie is average.  Instant Streaming Available

Time Lapse (sci-fi, Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary) – It’s never safe to know the future.  Instant Streaming Available

Bravetown (drama, Josh Duhamel, Maria Bello) – Party boy has to move to North Dakota.  I’m sure life lessons ensue.

A Master Builder (drama, Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty) – Based on the Henrik Ibsen play and directed by Jonathan Demme, the story of a cruel man dealing with his asshole tendencies as he comes to the end of his life.

June 12th

Orange is the New Black – Season 3 (TV dramedy, Taylor Schilling, Jason Biggs) – Instant Streaming Only.  BINGE!

June 11th

The Coven (horror, John Mackie, Dexter Fletcher) – STOP CAMPING TEENAGERS!

The Last Straight Man (comedy, Mark Cirillo, Scott Sell) – Same Time Next Year with closeted gay men.

June 9th

The Last Ship – Season 1 (TV drama, Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra) – Dystopian post-apocalypse survivor ship.  Not a streamer at this point, but who knows?  DVD only.

Blackhat (thriller, Chris Hemsworth, Wei Tang) – Cyber terrorism..with Thor!  I’ll see that.

The Sisterhood of Night (drama, Georgie Henley, Kara Hayward) – Teenage girls arrested for molestation and accused of being in a secret cult type group.  How cheerful.  Instant Streaming Only

Serena (drama, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper) – I really like these actors but I read the book and the characters are so thoroughly vile that I don’t want to spend any more time with them.  Instant Streaming Available

Red Army (documentary) – Bio-doc about leader of the Soviet hockey team in the 70s and 80s.

Project Almanac (sci-fi, Jonny Weston, Sofia Black D’Elia) – Time travel gambling.  Yawwwwwwn.

Rich Hill (documentary) – A look at a crumbling town through the lens of filmmakers who grew up there and boys who live there now.  Instant Streaming Available

Cupcakes (foreign comedy, Anat Waxman, Ofer Schecter) – Hebrew language comedy about an international song competition and the Israeli entry.  Instant Streaming Available

The Squeeze (drama, Jeremy Sumpter, Christopher McDonald) – Some weird golf/gambling thing based on a true story.

Free the Nipple (drama, Lina Esco, Lola Kirke) – Sort of a docudrama maybe?  The true story of women campaigning in favor of public nudity.  Instant Streaming Available

Der Samurai (sci-fi, Michel Diercks, Pit Bukowski) – Cop looks for wolf, finds Samurai.  Just a regular day in your average small town.

The DUFF (comedy, Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell) – Very stereotypical sounding ugly duckling high school make-over story that I will 100% watch with my daughter the minute it goes to streaming.

The Barber (thriller, Scott Glenn, Chris Coy) – Posing as serial murderer to catch a serial murderer.  Playing with fire, there, people.  Instant Streaming Available

June 5th

Fifty Shades of Grey (drama, Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson) – Based on the popular soft porn novel.  Yeah, don’t even tell me it isn’t porn.

Black Water Vampire (horror, Danielle Lozeau, Andrea Monier) – Young people making documentaries are going to become a scarce commodity if horror movies are on target about their fates.

Zombieworld (horror, Bill Oberst Jr., José María Angorilla) – In which zombies are…wait for it…TAKING OVER THE WORLD!

June 2nd

Pretty Little Liars – Season 5 (TV drama, Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson) – Available on Instant Streaming

Parks and Recreation – Season 7 (TV comedy, Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones) – DVD only for now, but it should stream!

Justified – Season 6 (TV drama, Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy) – A great final season!  This one is DVD Only right now, but it might stream.  I’ll keep an eye out.

Rectify – Season 2 (TV drama, Aden Young, J. Smith Cameron) – The first season of this one was fantastic.  The second has been Available on Instant Streaming for a while, but now you can get the discs if you have a DVD subscription.

Falling Skies – Season 4 (TV sci-fi, Noah Wyle, Maxim Knight) – Noah Wyle fights aliens?  This is another one I really should watch.  DVD Only

Rizzoli & Isles – Season 5 (TV dram, Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander) – I had no idea this was still on the air.  DVD Only

The Pyramid (horror, Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O’Hare) – Lost in an underground pyramid.  OH NO!

Black Sea (thriller, Jude Law, Scoot McNairy) – It’s bad when the submarine crew starts to bicker.  I like Jude Law, though.

Lost River (thriller, Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan) – Ryan Gosling directed this weird looking decaying city thriller.

Black or White (drama, Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer) – Grandparents custody drama.  Instant Streaming Available

Sword of Vengeance (action, Stanley Weber, Annabelle Wallis) – Pretty much looks like Bloody Murder All The Time.  Instant Streaming Available

The SpongeBob  Movie: Sponge Out of Water (family animation, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke) – I don’t usually care much about animation, but my kids would be mad if I didn’t include this – it’s SpongeBob!

Camp X-Ray (drama, Kristen Stewart, Peyman Moaadi) – Bella Swan goes to Gitmo and makes a friend.  Totally not kidding.

Spring (horror, Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker) – Grieving young man goes to Italy, meets intriguing woman.

Monsters: Dark Continent (sci-fi, Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley) – Sequel…with tentacles!  Instant Streaming Available

With This Ring (comedy, Regina Hall, Jill Scott) – Women vow to get married after a friend’s wedding.  Not to each other.

Blindsided (thriller, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton) – Blind woman fights off criminals.  Instant Streaming Available

Smiling Through the Apocalypse (documentary) – Harold Hayes bio-doc – editor of Esquire magazine in the 60s.

Eastern Boys (foreign drama, Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov) – French language gay businessman v. hustler.  Instant Streaming Available

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (documentary, Gore Vidal, Tim Robbins) – Bio-doc of Gore Vidal.  Instant Streaming Available

Hayride 2 (horror, Sherri Eakin, Richard Tyson) – The psycho’s name is Pitchfork.  Of course it is.  Instant Streaming Only

See You in Valhalla (comedy, Sarah Hyland, Steve Howey) – Dysfunctional family reunites after a death and secrets appear.  Yes, I will see this.  Instant Streaming Available

Li’l Quinquin (foreign comedy, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost) – French language slapstick crime comedy.  I didn’t know that was a thing either. Instant Streaming Available

May 28th

Such Good People (comedy, Randy Harrison, Michael Urie) – What do you do when you find a big wad of cash while house-sitting?  Hijinx ensue, supposedly.

May 27th

Major Crimes – Season 3 (TV drama, Mary McDonnell, Tony Denison) – I didn’t realize this was a spinoff of The Closer.  Which I suppose makes sense since I’ve never watched either one.  This one is DVD Only

Ray Donovan – Season 2 (TV drama, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight) – Schreiber is an LA fixer with a troublesome family. I should give this a try.  DVD Only

Hello Ladies – Season 1 (TV comedy, Stephen Merchant, Christine Woods) – It looks like this HBO sitcom only got one season – but it’s Stephen Merchant!  I’ll need to see it.  DVD Only

Sons of Liberty (TV mini-series, Ben Barnes, Rafe Spall) – Revolutionary era spy drama – three parts/6 episodes.

The Boy Next Door (thriller, Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman) – It’s never a good idea to have an affair with a teenager right after your divorce.  Even if you’re JLo.

Inherent Vice (drama, Joaquin Phoenix, Katherine Waterston) – PT Anderson directing and Joaquin Phoenix starring – that’s going to add up to weird.

The Living (thriller, Fran Kranz, Jocelin Donahue) – This abusive husband indie doesn’t look too bad – I’m willing to check it out because Joelle Carter is also in the cast and she was great as Ava Crowder on Justified.  Instant Streaming Available

Cut Bank (thriller, Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer) – This crime drama has a great cast including Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt, and John Malkovich.

Ballet 422 (documentary) – Backstage with the New York City Ballet Company and choreographer Justin Peck.

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (documentary, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich) – The title seems pretty self explanatory here.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (drama, Elvis Nolasco, Felicia Pearson) – Spike Lee and Steven Soderbergh directed story of anthropology, myth, and vampires.  Not kidding.  Instant Streaming Available

Dial a Prayer (comedy, Brittany Snow, Glenne Headly) – Also starring William H. Macy.  For that alone I may give this prayer hotline/community service comedy a chance.  Instant Streaming Available

May 22nd

Cut! (horror, David Banks, David Rountree) – Horror movie about making snuff films?  Sort of, and no thanks.

May 19th

Glee – Season 6 (TV musical, Lea Michele, Darren Criss) – Instant Streaming Available

Beauty and the Beast – Season 2 (TV sci-fi, Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan) – This has been Available on Instant Streaming for quite a while, but now you can the discs if you want them.

Duck Dynasty – Season 7 (TV reality, Korie Robertson, Jase Robertson) – If it’s your thing…  This is not a streamer, so DVD Only

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (comedy, Adam Scott, Gillian Jacobs) – Does anyone think this needs to be made?  I like Adam Scott, though.

Taken 3 (action, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace) – They say it’s the last one.  Please let it be the last one.

Cake (drama, Daniel Barnz, Jennifer Aniston) – I’m not sure if I want to see this because the premise of a chronic pain sufferer investigating a suicide intrigues me or if I’m just obsessed with cake.  Either way, it’s staying on the queue. Instant Streaming Available

The Marine 4: Moving Target (action, Paul McGillion, Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin) – A WWE movie.  Do I need to say more than that?

Leviathan (foreign drama, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov) – Russian language story of politics in a small town.  Appears to have gotten lots of awards.

Zombeavers (action, Cortney Palm, Rachel Melvin) – I know this sounds like porn, but it’s actually about zombie beavers!  Also college students on a getaway.  AGAIN.  Stop it, people!  Instant Streaming Available

Before I Disappear (drama, Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek) – Suicidus Interruptus.  Instant Streaming Available

Girlhood (foreign drama, Karidja Toure, Marietou Toure) – French language gritty coming of age story.  Instant Streaming Available

Cymbeline (action, Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris) – Good cast for this modern retelling of the Shakespeare play.

The Blue Room (foreign thriller, Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker) – French language infidelity/crime thriller.  Instant Streaming Available

Lovesick (comedy, Ali Larter, Chevy Chase) – Also with Matt LeBlanc – jealousy rom/com

Lasy Hijack (documentary) – Piracy documentary – like real Somali pirates.  Partly animated.  Instant Streaming Only

May 12th

Power – Season 1 (TV crime drama, Omari Hardwick, Lela Loren) – It isn’t clear to me if this is going to have another season or not.  Right now it’s DVD only

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (horror, Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine) – But will it really be as good without Harry Potter? Instant Streaming Available

Still Alice (drama, Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore) – I read the book – about a woman with early onset dementia – and it’s really sad.  Julianne Moore is good enough to make it even sadder.  I’m not sure I can take it.

Mordecai (action, Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow) – Fantastic cast for this art heist action movie – including Oliver Platt, Paul Bettany, Aubrey Plaza, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Goldblum.  Why have I never heard of it?  Doesn’t matter – it’s going on the queue.

The Cobbler (comedy, Adam Sandler, Method Man) – Adam Sandler is sick of his life until he discovers a magic shoe machine.  I’m sick of Adam Sandler’s life on film, and no magic will fix that.  Instant Streaming Available

Tracers (action, Taylor Lautner, Marie Avgeropoulos) – Bike messengers who steal using parkour.  Seriously, who thinks this is a good idea for a movie?  Instant Streaming Available

Just Before I Go (comedy, Seann William Scott, Olivia Thirlby) – Courtney Cox directs a dark comedy about a man going through his bucket list before committing suicide.

Midnight Stallion (family, Kris Kristofferson, Jodelle Ferland) – It’s about a horse and a kid and the description uses the word “inspiring”.  I will never see it.

Beloved Sisters (foreign drama, Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter) – 18th century period piece about a poet that I believe is German language.

These Final Hours (drama, Nathan Phillips, Angourie Rice) – Redemption before the apocalypse.  Seems a little yawny.  Instant Streaming Available

White Rabbit (thriller, Britt Robertson, Nick Krause) – Bullied kid with violent visions.  Instant Streaming Available

Two Men in Town (drama, Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel) – Apparently it isn’t easy being a newly converted black Muslim  ex-con in a small town in New Mexico.  Go figure.

The Girl is in Trouble (thriller, Columbus Short, Wilmer Valderrama) – Probably unfair, but I can only see Valderrama as Fez from That 70s Show.  It isn’t an appealing vision.

[REC] 4: Apocalypse (foreign horror, Manuela Velasco, Paco Manzanedo) – They say this is the last one.  I don’t believe them.  Instant Streaming Available

Extraterrestrial (horror, Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma) – Young people party in a cabin in the woods.  AGAIN.  Will they never learn?  Instant Streaming Available

Magical Universe (documentary) – A look of an 88 year old dude who makes and photographs Barbie dioramas.  I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.  Instant Streaming Only

Tip Top (foreign comedy, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain) – French language murder comedy.  Instant Streaming Available

The Sleepwalker (drama, Gitte Witt, Christopher Abbott) – While renovating her childhood home, a woman and her boyfriend run into drama from the past in the form of an estranged sibling.  Instant Streaming Available

Whitney (drama, Yaya DaCosta, Arlen Escarpeta) – Made-for-TV Whitney Houston biopic.

Devil May Call (horror, Corri English, Tyler Mane) – Serial killer calling suicide hotline.  Twisted.

VANish (action, Maiara Walsh, Tony Todd) – Bad things happen when you kidnap the feisty drug cartel daughter.

The Culling (horror, Jeremy Sumpter) – No college kids should ever go on a weekend trip.  EVER.

May 8th

Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies (3 disc documentary, Terrence Howard, Edward Herrmann) – Ken Burns looks at cancer – based on the acclaimed book by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

May 5th

White Collar – Season 6 (TV drama, Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay) – Who doesn’t love that trickster Neal Caffrey?  Instant Streaming Available

Royal Pains – Season 6 (TV drama, Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo) – Instant Streaming Available

Parenthood – Season 6 (TV drama, Peter Krause, Lauren Graham) – I never could get into this show because Lauren Graham drove me nuts.  I hope this was the last season.  Will stream, but DVD only for now.

Longmire – Season 3 (TV drama, Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff) – Instant Streaming Available

Broadchurch – Season 2 (TV drama, David Tennant, Olivia Colman) – Excellent British crime drama.  Instant Streaming Available

Death in Paradise – Season 2 (TV dramedy, Ben Miller, Sara Martins) – Light British crime drama set in the Caribbean.  Instant Streaming Available

Masters of Sex – Season 2 (TV drama, Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan) – Period series about sex research pioneers Masters and Johnson.  This one is not a streamer.  DVD Only

Dancing on the Edge (TV drama, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode) – TV mini-series (3 discs) about a group of black jazz musicians in the 1930s.  Instant Streaming Available

Mr. Turner (drama, Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson) – Biopic of painter J.M.W. Turner.

Selma (drama, David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson) – A biopic of sorts about the march from Selma to Montgomery.

Bad Asses on the Bayou (action, Danny Trejo, Danny Glover) – With such an inspiring title how could it be bad?  I mean good?  Instant Streaming Available

Walter (comedy, Andrew J. West, Justin Kirk) – Also with William H. Macy.  I’ll give this comedy about a delusional movie usher a shot.

One Shot (sci-fi action, Kevin Sorbo, Matthew Reese) – Does anyone else have trouble taking Kevin Sorbo seriously?  I hope he can save the planet from these aliens though.

Concerning Violence (documentary, Lauryn Hill) – A look at Africa’s struggle against colonization and exploitation.  Instant Streaming Only

Spare Parts (drama, George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Underdog robotics team.  I’m totally not kidding.

The Last Five Years (musical, Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan) – I like Anna Kendrick and this time warp musical romance sounds quirky enough to put it on the queue.

Jamaica Inn (drama, Ben Daniels, Jessica Brown Findlay) – Sounds a little bit like the Hotel California, people, don’t check in!

Miss Julie (drama, Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell) – Great cast for this period piece about a volatile summer fling.

Love, Rosie (comedy, Lily Collins, Sam Claflin) – Best friends, maybe partners?  Looks like a typical rom/com/

Against the Sun (action, Garret Dillahunt, Jake Abel) – Lost at sea in WWII.  Sounds pretty good.

Winter Sleep (foreign drama, Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen) – Turkish language drama about a family stuck in an inn.  I hope they fare better than the good folks in The Shining.  Instant Streaming Available

Superfast! (comedy, Alex Ashbaugh, Dale Pavinski) – Fast and Furious parody.  Peh.  Instant Streaming Available

Futuro Beach (foreign drama, Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick) – Portuguese language lifeguard drama.  Instant Streaming Available

Amira & Sam (comedy, Martin Starr, Dina Shihabi) – American/Iraqi rom/com.

Immigrant (drama, Andrew Divoff, Paul Sorvino) – A semi-autobiographical story of immigrating from the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Murder of a Cat (comedy, Greg Kinnear, J.K. Simmons) – While as an aspiring Crazy Cat Lady I must object to the title of this movie on principle, I do love the cast.

April 30th

Gladiators of Rome (animation, Julianne Hough, John Schwab) – Animated?  Nope.

April 28th

Sons of Anarchy – Season 7 (TV drama, Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal) – Instant Streaming Available

The Mentalist – Season 7 (TV drama, Simon Baker, Robin Tunney) – We missed the end of this season – time to catch up!  This one isn’t a streamer.  DVD Only

Suits – Season 4 (TV drama, Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams) – This courtroom drama is also not a streamer.  DVD Only

Covert Affairs – Season 5 (TV action, Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham) – CIA shenanigans.  Another non-streamer.  DVD Only

Royal Pains – Season 6 (TV drama, Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo) – Instant Streaming Available

Wild (drama, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern) – Another one I’ve been looking forward to – based on the novel by main character Cheryl Strayed.

Remnants (action, Tom Sizemore, Wilbur Fitzgerald) – Suburbs squabble after worldwide blackout.

Red Sky (action, Bill Pullman, Mario Van Peebles) – Disgraced pilot, rogue squad, yada, yada, yada.

Affluenza (drama, Ben Rosenfield, Gregg Sulkin) – A group of The Privileged living the highlight right before the 2008 financial crash.  Instant Streaming Only

50 to 1 (drama, Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane) – Kentucky Derby horse biopic.

The Wedding Ringer (comedy, Kevin Hart, Josh Gad) – In which one can hire a best man for one’s wedding.  ALso starring Kaley Cuoco.

The Gambler (drama, Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange) – Oh, Marky Mark, gambling leads to trouble.  How can you not know that?  Sigh.

Mommy (foreign drama, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément) – French language story of a mother with a troubled son and a new neighbor offering help.

Accidental Love (romantic comedy, Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal) – I can’t help it, I love Jake Gyllenhaal.  Enough even to see a rom/com about health care and politics.  Okay, maybe not that much.

The Devil’s Violinist (drama, David Garrett, Jared Harris) – Niccolò Paganini biopic.  Instant Streaming Available

Boy Meets Girl (comedy, Michael Welch, Michelle Hendley) – Looks like a heartfelt transgender dramedy.  That goes on the queue.  Instant Streaming Available

Appropriate Behavior (comedy, Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson) – Bisexual Iranian-American dramedy.

Always Woodstock (comedy, Allison Miller, Brittany Snow) – Songwriter takes rural retreat to evaluate her life.  Ugh.

April 24th

Serangoon Road – Season 1 (TV action, Alaric Tay, Chin Han) – 1964 Singapore period drama.  DVD Only

April 21st

Beauty and the Beast – Season 2 (TV sci-fi, Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan) – DVD comes out 5/19, but Instant Streaming Available now!

Fortitude – Season 1 (TV drama, Stanley Tucci, Richard Dormer) – Terrific cast for this drama about a murder in an Arctic Circle town.  DVD Only

A Place to Call Home – Season 1 (TV drama, Marta Dusseldorp, Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood) – Period drama taking place in 1950s Australia.  A nurse comes back from Europe after the war, a convert to Judaism.  DVD Only

Unbroken (drama, Garrett Hedlund, Domhnall Gleeson) – Story of US pilot Louis Zamperini, WWII POW and Olympic athlete.  I’m looking forward to this one.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (fantasy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett) – I never got into these as much as the LOtR movies.  Probably my loss, but there you go.

Into the Woods (musical, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp) – Another one I’m looking forward to – I have a weakness for a good production number.

Chasing Ghosts (drama, Joshua Shreve, Frances Conroy) – A young boy obsessed with death becomes a YouTube sensation with a film. Instant Streaming Only

Little Accidents (drama, Elizabeth Banks, Josh Lucas) – A coal mining disaster survivor joins the mother of a murdered boy to find the killer.  Good cast.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (foreign horror, Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi) – Farsi language vampire chiller.  Instant Streaming Available

Like Sunday, Like Rain (drama, Leighton Meester, Debra Messing) – Musician nannies cello prodigy.

The Walking Deceased (comedy, Dave Sheridan, Joey Oglesby) – Stupid Walking Dead parody.  Hasn’t it become enough of a parody of itself by now?  Peh.  Instant Streaming Available

Life Inside Out (drama, Maggie Baird, Finneas O’Connell) – Mom breaks out guitar and becomes cool with angsty son.

Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (foreign comedy, Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina) – Spanish language road trip/unlikely friendship comedy.  Instant Streaming Available

Supremacy (drama, Joe Anderson, Dawn Olivieri) – Murderous white supremacist rampage, based on a true story.  People suck.  Instant Streaming Available

Hit By Lightning (comedy, Jon Cryer, Will Sasso) – Adultery comedy.  Ha. Ha. Ha.

Aftermath (thriller, Anthony Michael Hall, Chris Penn) – Construction with a side of murder.  Weirdly also starring Tony Danza.  Instant Streaming Available

Everly (action, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Blanc) – Salma v. Assassins.  I’ll put money on Salma for the win.

April 14th

The Missing – Season 1 (TV drama, James Nesbitt, Frances O’Connor) – Not really sure if this is a series or a mini-series about the search for a young boy missing in France.

Exodus: Gods and Kings (drama, Christian Bale, Aaron Paul) – The story of Moses with Batman and Jesse Pinkman.  Huh.

Penguins of Madagascar (family animation, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich) – I’ll never see it, but you enjoy!  Instant Streaming Available

The Babadook (thriller, Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman) – Tantrums turn deadly via creepy children’s book.  Instant Streaming Available

A Little Game (adventure, Ralph Macchio, Janeane Garofalo) – Coming of age with chess and the Karate Kid.  Instant Streaming Available

Goodbye to Language (foreign drama, Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdeli) – French language story of adultery from Jean-Luc Goddard.  Instant Streaming Available

Big Eyes (drama, Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz) – Margaret Keane biopic.

You’re Not You (drama, Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum) – Ill pianist hires quirky caregiver.  I like the leads here – this looks pretty good.  Instant Streaming Available

Map to the Stars (drama, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska) – Hollywood family satire – great cast including John Cusack.  I’ll give this one a shot.

Antarctica: A Year on Ice (documentary) – Documentary maker Anthony Powell in Antarctica with a camera.  Instant Streaming Available

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (thriller, Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington) – Dramatization of kidnapping of beer magnate.  Also starring Ryan Kwanten, aka Jason Stackhouse.  Instant Streaming Available

The Man With the Iron Fists 2: Sting of the Scorpion (action, Dustin Nguyen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) – Martial arts treasure hunters.  Instant Streaming Available

God Help the Girl (musical, Emily Browning, Hannah Murray) – Troubled songwriter musical.

Jinn (thriller, Faran Tahir, Serinda Swan) – Ooooh, supernatural beginning of time creatures!  Sweeeet!  Instant Streaming Available

Manny (documentary, Liam Neeson, Manny Pacquiao) – Boxer Manny Pacquiao documentary.

John Doe: Vigilante (thriller, Daniel Lissing, Jamie Bamber) – Vigilante on trial gains sympathy.

Beside Still Waters (drama, Ryan Eggold, Beck Bennett) – Memorial celebration for man’s parents becomes eveing of nostalgia.

Enter the Dangerous Mind (thriller, Jake Hoffman, Nikki Reed) – Musician falls for woman, she doesn’t reciprocate, he doesn’t take it well.  Also with Scott Bakula and Jason Priestly.  Instant Streaming Avaialable

Meet the Mormons (documentary, Jermaine Sullivan, Ken Niumatalolo) – A doc about Mormonism, made by Mormons.  I suspect they discover that they like it.  Instant Streaming Avaialable

April 7th

Manhattan – Season 1 (TV drama, John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams) – Story of the young scientists in 1943 working on the atomic bomb.  DVD Only

Grantchester – Masterpiece Mystery (TV drama, James Norton, Robson Green) – British clergy Murder She Wrote.  I don’t know if this is going to be a series, right now it’s just a 6 hour single season.  DVD Only

The Book of Negroes (TV Miniseries, Aunjanue Ellis, Louis Gossett) – The story of an African woman sold into slavery, and her escape.  DVD Only

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (action, Ben Stiller, Rebel Wilson) – Installment #3.  Yikes.  But it does have Rebel Wilson, who rocks, so maybe I’ll see it.

Russell Madness (family) – It’s a dog and a chimp.  Wrestling.  Hmmmm……NO!  Instant Streaming Available

Salvation Army (foreign drama, Said Mrini, Karim Ait M’hand) – French language adaptation of Abdellah Taïa’s autobiographical novel about coming of age as a gay teen in Morocco.  Instant Streaming Available.

The Immigrant (drama, Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix) – Immigration.  Prostitution.  Magician.  Maybe she should have stayed in Poland. Instant Streaming Available.

Home Sweet Hell (comedy, Katherine Heigl, Patrick Wilson) – I don’t like Heigl (though I do like Wilson) but I have to give this movie props for the title.  It makes me laugh.

A Most Violent Year (thriller, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain) – I had no idea NYC in 1981 was such a nasty place.  Go figure.

The Voices (thriller, Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton) – Cat and dog tell accidental killer what to do.  I may have to see this simply for the absurdity of it all.

Pelican Dreams (documentary) – Pelican snarls traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge – this doc follows her journey afterward.  Instant Streaming Available

Monk With a Camera (documentary) – Literally about a monk photographer.  Instant Streaming Available

Preservation (horror, Wrenn Schmidt, Aaron Staton) – Stay out of the woods, city folk!  Instant Streaming Available

Killers (foreign action, Kazuki Kitamura, Oka Antara) – Two hours and twenty minutes of Japanese language uber-carnage!  Who says they don’t make great films anymore.  Instant Streaming Available

Code Black (documentary) – A look at an LA county hospital.

Happy Valley (documentary) – Penn State football/Jerry Sandusky scandal doc.  Instant Streaming Available

American Milkshake (comedy, Tyler Ross, Shareeka Epps) – White kids wants in with the black kids.  Presumably hilarity is supposed to ensue.  Instant Streaming Available

A Country Christmas (family, Joey Lauren Adams, William Shockley) – Timely release here, Netflix.  Though to their credit Instant Streaming is Available and has been since the holiday season.

Starship Rising (sci-fi, Claudia Wells, Brooke Lewis) – Government secrets, destruction of the galaxy, one man who can save the universe!  You know, the usual.

The Wedding Pact (romantic comedy, Haylie Duff, Chris Soldevilla) – One of those stupid “if we’re both single in 10 years” things.  Peh.  Instant Streaming Available

Blood Shed (horror, Bai Ling, Vida Guerra) – Squatting in locked storage containers didn’t sound good to begin with, now it gets even worse.

Rampage: Capital Punishment (action, Brendan Fletcher, Lochlyn Munro) – Revenge on the rich, brought to you courtesy of director Uwe Boll.  Yeah, I’m not getting anywhere near it, either.  Instant Streaming Available

March 31st

Veep – Season 3 (TV comedy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky) – I keep hearing good things – this one will eventually make it onto the queue.  DVD only

Silicon Valley – Season 1 (TV comedy, Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller) – Dot com launchers hang with eccentric millionaire.  This looks pretty good, no idea if it will stream, for now it’s DVD Only

Interstellar (sci-fi, Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain) – I saw this in the theater and it was entertaining, but may lose something on the small screen.  Matthew McConaughey, however, is delicious, so there’s that.

The Imitation Game (drama, Benedict Cumberbatch) – The story of Alan Turing’s brilliant work as a code breaker during WWII.  Must see this, even knowing the sad details of his later life.

Wolfcop (action, Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio) – Oh my.  Werewolf policeman named Lou Garou.  That’s just painful.  Instant Streaming Available

Harlock: Space Pirate (anime, David Matranga, Emily Neves) – More new anime – nice going Netflix!  Instant Streaming Only

The Rewrite (comedy, Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei) – Sort of sounds like a version of Music and Lyrics with a screen writer instead of a song writer.

Outcast (action, Nicolas Cage, Hayden Christensen) – Exiled royals look for protection in Ye Olde Europe.  Instant Streaming Available

The Circle (drama, Marianne Sägebrecht, Anatole Taubman) – This is apparently a docudrama about a gay teacher and a transvestite artist falling in love in the 1950s.  Instant Streaming Available

Out of the Dark (horror, Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman) – Haunted house/disappearing child/Colombia.  Bad combo.  Instant Streaming Available

Wild Card (action, Jason Statham, Michael Angarano) – Bodyguard on the quest for revenge.  Shock there for Statham.

March 26th

The Odd Way Home (drama, Chris Marquette, Rumer Willis) – Car theft turns into road trip.  Because that happens a lot.

March 24th

Mad Men – Season 7 (drama, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss) – Available on Instant Streaming!

Big Hero 6 (family animation, Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit) – It could be the best movie ever and I still guarantee I’ll never see it.

Beyond the Lights (drama, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker) – Singer caught in the throes of fame.  Instant Streaming Available

The Humbling (drama, Al Pacino, Dianne Wiest) – Actor retires, moves to country, begins weird relationship with young woman.  Great cast, I’ll give it a shot.  Instant Streaming Available

Horrible Bosses 2 (comedy, Jason Bateman, Chris Pine) – Yes, the first one was stupid.  Yes, I can’t wait to get my hands on this one.

A Stranger in Paradise (action, Colin Egglesfield, Stuart Townsend) – Hedge fund a-hole gets stuck in Thailand.  Boo.  Hoo.  Instant Streaming Only

Three Night Stand (comedy, Sam Huntington, Emmanuelle Chriqui) – It sucks when your boyfriend’s unrequited love ex shows up on your romantic ski trip.  Really just sucks.  Instant Streaming Only

Song One (drama, Anne Hathaway, Johnny Flynn) – Who can resist Anne Hathaway in a romance?  I know I can’t.

Digging Up the Marrow (sci-fi, Adam Green, Ray Wise) – Gross title, sci-fi horror movie.

Frankenstein Vs. The Mummy (horror, Ashton Leigh, Brandon deSpain) – I have no idea why this exists.

March 19th

Hot in Cleveland (TV comedy, Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli) – The ladies are back!  This one is not a streamer, so DVD Only

Low Down (drama, John Hawkes, Elle Fanning) – Story of chaotic family life of pianist Joe Albany.

The Physician (drama, Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard) – Hey, my book club read this book!  I did not, however, so have no opinion about this story of a wannabe physician in the 11th century.  Instant Streaming Available

Halo: Nightfall (action, Mike Colter, Christina Chong) – For the most part I don’t see the appeal of movies based on video games I never understood when I watched some young whippersnapper play them.  But that’s just me.

March 17th

TURN: Washington’s Spies – Season 1 (TV drama, Jamie Bell, Seth Numrich) – This AMC original series is a period drama about a ring of spies during the Revolutionary War.  Instant Streaming Available

Birdman (comedy, Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis) – When’s the last time something even remotely resembling a comedy won Best Picture?  Ever?  This goes to the top of the queue. See more Oscar movies on Netflix here!

Dumb and Dumber To (comedy, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels) – Just typing that was painful.  Why did this happen?

The Theory of Everything (drama, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones) – Another Oscar nominee for Best Picture, and winner for Eddie Redmayne in the leading role of the story of the life of Stephen Hawking.

Annie (comedy, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne) – I never liked this play, I don’t plan on this movie changing my mind.

Song of the Sea (anime, Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan) – Some new anime!  That’s something we don’t see too often in Netflix-land.

Top Five (comedy, Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson) – Comedian has to face his past.  Can’t for the life of me remember if I heard great things or terrible things about this movie.

The Way He Looks (foreign drama, Fabio Audi, Ghilherme Lobo) – Portuguese language story of a blind, gay teenage boy.  Instant Streaming Available

Something Wicked (thriller, Brittany Murphy, John Robinson) – Wedding stalker.  Brittany Murphy’s last movie.

Vice (sci-fi, Thomas Jane, Bruce Willis) – Sort of like Fantasy Island with robots and Bruce Willis.

Son of a Gun (action, Brenton Thwaites, Ewan McGregor) – In prison with Ewan McGregor?  I’ll watch it.

Fear Clinic (horror, Robert Englund, Thomas Dekker) – Trauma survivors should not go to a fear clinic run by Freddie from Nightmare on Elm Street.  I don’t think it will turn out as planned.

March 11th

Beyond (sci-fi, Paul Brannigan, Gillian MacGregor) – Alien apocalypse.  Sorry, doesn’t sound like there are any zombies.  Tsk.  Instant Streaming Available

March 10th

Archer – Season 5 (TV animated comedy, H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer) – Available on Instant Streaming

The Red Road – Season 1 (TV drama, Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa) – Sundance Channel drama about a sheriff and an uneasy truce with local Native Americans.  Instant Streaming Available.

The Atticus Institute (horror, Rya Kihlstedt, William Mapother) – William Mapother is Tom Cruise’s brother.  That’s the only interesting thing I can think of to say about this movie.

Land of Storms (foreign drama, Andras Suto, Adam Varga) – Hungarian language story about a gay soccer player.

Night Crawler (thriller, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo) – Looking to make ends meet, a man ends up as a paparazzo.  I’m guessing all does not go smoothly.  Love Jake G, I’ll give this one a shot.  Instant Streaming Available

Rosewater (drama, Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia) – Directed by Jon Stewart!  Worth seeing this true story of a journalist detained in Iran just for that.  Instant Streaming Available

Kill the Messenger (thriller, Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt) – True story of uncovering CIA funding of Nicaraguan Contras in the 80s.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (family, Jennifer Garner, Steve Carell) – Based on the perennial kids book favorite, this family comedy has a great cast including Megan Mullally and Jennifer Coolidge.

Life of Riley (foreign drama, Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain) – French language satire about chaos around an unseen man named George Riley.  Instant Streaming Available

Survivor (sci-fi, Kevin Sorbo, Danielle Chuchran) – Post apocalypse on another planet.  With mutants!

The Red Tent (mini-series, Minnie Driver, Morena Baccarin) – 2 part (1 disc) mini-series about the 12 Tribes of Israel.

The Liberator (foreign drama, Édgar Ramírez , María Valverde) – Simon Bolivar biopic.  Though it’s listed as foreign, I think it’s in English.  Instant Streaming Available

Listen Up Philip (comedy, Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss) – Wes Anderson ruined Jason Schwartman, but I still like Elizabeth Moss.  Too bad the movie is about him, as a self-absorbed writer.  Ew.

Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf (drama, Nick Damici, Ethan Embry) – Werewolves!  Bet you never would have guessed.  Instant Streaming Available

Pioneer (foreign thriller, Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley) – Anyone else interested in watching Wes Bentley speak Norwegian?  Instant Streaming Available

R100 (foreign comedy, Nao Ômori, Mao Daichi) – Japanese S&M.  Oh my.

Faith Connections (foreign documentary, Bhole Baba, Hatha Yogi Baba) – Hindi language look at a huge Hindu religious gathering.  Instant Streaming Only

March 7th

Glee – Season 5 – Available on Instant Streaming

March 6th

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (action, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth) – WOOT!

This Ain’t No Mouse Music (music documentary, Chris Strachwitz) – A look at a man who records and documents the roots of American music.  Instant Streaming Only

Come Back to Me (horror, Katie Walder, Nathan Keyes) – Woman records herself during blackouts after an accident.  That can’t turn out well.  Instant Streaming Available

Racing Hearts (drama, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte De Bruyne) – Investment banker woos pigeon racer as potential client.  Totally not kidding.

March 5th

Longmire – Season 3 (TV drama, Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff) – Instant Streaming Available

Starred Up (drama, Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn) – Badly behaved teen inmate gets to move in with the big boys.

March 4th

Watchers of the Sky (documentary) – Tribute to four individuals trying to end genocide globally.  Instant Streaming Available

March 3rd

Outlander – Season 1 (TV adventure, Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe) – Based on a series of action/romance novels about a couple caught in time travel.  DVD Only

Anzac Girls – Season 1 (TV drama, Dustin Clare, Georgia Flood) – Australian and New Zealand girls in Egypt during WWI.  DVD Only

Foxcatcher (drama, Channing Tatum, Steve Carell) – Carell scooped up an Oscar nom for playing a psycho in this – and it has a fantastic cast.  I’ll give it a shot.

Ouija (thriller, Ana Coto, Bianca A. Santos) – Oh, teenagers, stop playing with the evil spirits.

Dracula Untold (action, Luke Evans, Zach McGowan) – Dracula origin story.

Web Junkie (documentary) – A look at internet addiction in China – the first to classify it as a disorder.  Instant Streaming Only

Hector and the Search for Happiness (drama, Simon Pegg, Toni Collette) – Love the cast here for this story of a man leaving his life behind in search of something more.  Instant Streaming Available

Coffee Town (comedy, Glenn Howerton, Steve Little) – Please don’t turn my coffee shop/office into a bar, Mr. Corporatepants.

The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill (horror, Mark Andrews, Michael Bartlett) – “Based on true events” about a haunted church.

Day of the Mummy (action, Danny Glover, William McNamara) – Two one star reviews on Netflix.  Ouch.

The Device (sci-fi, Angela DiMarco, David S. Hogan) – Don’t pick up that alien looking thing by the cabin in the woods!  Are you people crazy??

Ask Me Anything (drama, Britt Robertson, Christian Slater) – Imagine that your anonymous blog might backfire.  Shocking.  Instant Streaming Available

The Better Angels (drama, Brit Marling, Diane Kruger) – Abe Lincoln’s youth.

Life Partners (comedy, Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs) – Some sort of gay/straight, friends/lovers mish-mash.  Instant Streaming Available

The Last of Robin Hood (drama, Kevin Kline, Dakota Fanning) – Errol Flynn biopic.

Believe Me (faith & spirituality, Alex Russell, Zachary Knighton) – Scam leads to moral dilemma.

Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife (comedy, Patrick Wilson, Scott Foley) – Ward’s wife is not well liked.  I suspect a deep appreciation of dark humor is necessary here.

To Write Love on Her Arms (drama, Kat Dennings, Chad Michael Murray) – Story of Renee Yohe and the founding of the titular charity.  Of which I have never heard and know nothing about.

The Captive (thriller, Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman) – Directed by Atom Egoyan, about a kidnapped girl, her parents and her crazy captor.

Loitering With Intent (comedy, Michael Godere, Ivan Martin) – Also with Marisa Tomei, Sam Rockwell and Natasha Lyonne – trying to write a screenplay with distractions aplenty.  Instant Streaming Available.

Innocence (thriller, Kelly Reilly, Sophie Curtis) – Don’t be sending your young’uns to this prep school, parents.  Instant Streaming Available.

Private Peaceful (drama, Jack O’Connell, George MacKay) – Brothers in the trenches during WWI.

Stonehurst Asylum (thriller, Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess) – Based on an Edgar Alan Poe story, nothing is as it seems at this asylum.  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA  Instant Streaming Available.

February 26th

In the Flesh – Season 2 (TV drama, Emily Bevan, Harriet Cains) – YESSSS!  I’ve been waiting for this remarkably thoughtful and interesting British zombie drama to come out.  Very exciting!  DVD Only

Antisocial (horror, Michelle Mylett, Cody Ray Thompson) – Teenage party killer virus!  Instant Streaming Available.

Last Summer (drama, Deb Lewis, Samuel Pettit) – Gay high school couple spend their last summer together before life takes over.  Instant Streaming available

Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land (documentary, Michael Lucas) – Story of vibrant Israeli gay community.

The Dark Place (drama, Blaise Embry, Timo Descamps) – Dysfunctional family mystery?  Sign me up!  Update – wow, this sucked.  Really, really sucked.

February 25th

The Game – Season 1 (TV thriller, Tom Hughes, Brian Cox) – Cold war spy thriller.  DVD Only

Throwdown (action, Vinnie Jones, Mischa Barton) – Also starring Danny Trejo.  Automatically terrifying.

Finders Keepers (horror, Steve Austin, Tobin Bell) – Am I the only one old enough to see the name Steve Austin and think of the 6 Million Dollar Man?

Battle Ground (action, Johan Earl, Tim Pocock) – Soldiers stuck in no man’s land between trenches in WWI.

Cantinflas (foreign drama, Oscar Jaenada, Michael Imperioli) – Biopic of a Mexican comedian, I assume Spanish language.  Instant Streaming available

Sanatorium (horror, Kate Riley, Megan Neuringer) – Ever notice that no cheery movies are ever set in a sanatorium?

Tapped Out (action, Michael Biehn, Martin Kove) – Martial arts drama.

February 24th

Sons of Anarchy – Season 7 (TV drama, Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal) – It’s here!  Instant Streaming available

Rogue – Season 1 (TV drama, Thandie Newton, Marton Csokas) – Death of son leads to bad cop behavior.  Tsk  DVD only

The Judge (drama, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall) – Really looking forward to this legal drama.  I love me some RDJ.  Update – I liked, husband couldn’t get into it.

Whiplash (drama, Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons) – Drummer drums ’til his hands bleed, dude!

Before I Go to Sleep (thriller, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth) – I’ve been looking forward to this!  I read the book and really liked it and this is a fantastic cast.  Top of the queue! Update – very, very good.  Instant Streaming Available

My Old Lady (drama, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas) – Amazing cast including Maggie Smith living in an apartment inherited by Kevin Klein.  Definitely goes on the queue.

The Book of Life (animated, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum) – Day of the Dead/Romeo and Juliet cartoon.  Nope.

How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson (documentary, Steven Johnson) – This may or may not be a series.  It’s about innovations and innovators.  Instant Streaming Available

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer’s Curse (action, Julian Morris, Tamzin Merchant) – Unless your name is Harry Potter or Katniss Everdeen (or you live in Middle Earth), you’ve probably jumped the shark by the third installment.

The Intruders (thriller, Miranda Cosgrove, Donal Logue) – iCarly stars in home invasion scary thriller.  AHHHHH!

February 19th

Poker Night (thriller, Beau Mirchoff, Titus Welliver) – Detective kidnapped by serial killer uses info gathered at weekly poker night.  Odd, but this could actually be good ’cause I sorta dig Titus Welliver (don’t judge me).  I’m keeping it on the queue.

February 18th

Tyrant – Season 1 (TV drama, Adam Rayner, Jennifer Finnigan) – Middle East intrigue.  Now all three discs of the season are available.  DVD Only

Game of Thrones – Season 4 (TV fantasy, Sean Bean, Mark Addy) – This one is not a streamer – DVD Only

On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter (documentary, Carlin Dunne, Ashley Fiolek) – Documentary about motorcycle racing.  Not my bag, but a follow up by a son of his father’s 1971 doc.

Jake Squared (comedy, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen) – Guy hires actor to play himself at party and films it.  Instant Streaming Only

30 for 30: When the Garden was Eden (documentary, Willis Reed, Phil Jackson) –  Part of an ESPN documentary series.  This one is about 1970s New York Knicks.  Instant Streaming Only

30 for 30: Brian and the Boz (documentary, Brian Bosworth, Barry Switzer) – ESPN Brian Bosworth bio-doc.  Instant Streaming Only

30 for 30: Rand University (documentary) – ESPN doc about Randy Moss.  Instant Streaming Only

Daughters of Dolma (documentary) – Inside an all female Buddhist monastery in Nepal. Instant Streaming Only

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Tough Love (animated) – My loathing for this guy gets deeper with every piece of media he releases with his name splashed before the title.

The Drop (drama, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace) – Gangsters, really, just don’t even try and reform.  At least not if you’re in a movie.

The Boxtrolls (animation, Elle Fanning, Simon Pegg) – Animated?  Not seeing it.  Instant Streaming Available

St. Vincent (comedy, Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy) – Bill Murray befriends the neighbor kid?  Hell, yeah!  Top of the queue!

The Homesman (drama, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank) – Fantastic cast for Insane on the Prairie.  Meryl Streep, Miranda Otto, Lames Lithgow, James Spader.  Also, bleak.  I do dig bleak.  Instant Streaming Available

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Japanese anime, Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora) – Don’t get a lot of new anime here on Netflix.  But here’s some!  Based on a 10th century folktale.

Life Itself (documentary) – Doc about the life of film critic Roger Ebert.  Instant Streaming Available

Dying of the Light (thriller, Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin) – Ex-CIA dude with early onset dementia faces career nemesis.  Jeez, you really can’t retire from the CIA.

V/H/S: Viral (horror, Blair Redford, Carrie Keagan) – Horror anthology, installment three.  Instant Streaming Available

The World Made Straight (drama, Noah Wyle, Jeremy Irvine) – I’ve always liked Noah Wyle – maybe he gets a chance to show his chops in this Appalachian drama.  Instant Streaming Available

Terms and Conditions May Apply (documentary, Orson Scott Card, Raymond Kurzweil) – Digital privacy documentary.  Instant Streaming Available

Point and Shoot (documentary, Matthew VanDyke) – OCD man rides his motorcycle in North Africa and the Middle East.  Instant Streaming Available

February 17th

The Overnighters (documentary) – Pastor assists unemployed men looking for jobs in North Dakota.  Instant Streaming Only

Through a Lens Darkly (documentary) – A look at the work of black photographers as an instrument of social change.  Instant Streaming Only

The Last House on Cemetery Lane (horror, Lee Bane) – Haunted house in England.  Instant Streaming Only

February 10th

Nurse Jackie – Season 6 (TV dramedy, Edie Falco, Merritt Wever) – I have the feeling that I’ll binge this when the series is over.  DVD Only

Z Nation – Season 1 (TV horror, DJ Qualls, Kellita Smith) – This is the purchase release date for the DVDs, but this has been Available on Instant Streaming for quite some time.  Way to go, Netflix.

Gone Girl (thriller, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike) – If you haven’t read the book you’re in for a treat – it’s an excellent adaptation.  If you have read the book, there are no surprises.

Southern Baptist Sissies (drama, Emerson Collins, Leslie Jordan) – Four gay boys coming to terms with their sexuality in Southern Baptist churches.

A Walk Among the Tombstones (action, Liam Neeson,  Dan Stevens) – Liam Neeson kicks some more bad guy ass.

Lucy (action, Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman) – Drug mule becomes super hero.  This looks pretty good – its going on the queue.

Annabelle (horror, Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton) – Prequel to The Conjuring.  But how much would it suck to be the actress with the same name as the evil doll?

Stray Dogs (foreign drama, Kang-sheng Lee, Lee Yi Cheng) – Chinese language story of a father and his two children.  Instant Streaming Available

A True Story (comedy, Katrina Bowden, Jon Gries) – Fame, Hollywood and complications for a pair of screenwriters.  Instant Streaming Only

The Song (Christian drama, Alan Powell, Ali Faulkner) – Success leads to temptation.  Tsk, tsk.

Addicted (drama, Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe) – Super woman has secret life.  Don’t we all, missy.  Don’t. We. All.

Predestination (sci-fi, Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor) – Handsome Hawke takes on time travel.

Laggies (comedy, Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz) – Good cast including Sam Rockwell for this rom/com about extended adolescence.

Force Majeure (foreign drama, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli) – Swedish language avalanche/dysfunctional family drama.  If you do subtitles, this looks pretty good.  Instant Streaming Available

Lilting (drama, Ben Whishaw, Pei-pei Cheng) – A grieving man tries to communicate with the non-English speaking mother of his deceased lover.  Instant Streaming Available

Felony (thriller, Tom Wilkinson, Joel Edgerton) – Three cops play vastly different roles in the handling of an accident that left a child injured.  Instant Streaming Available

Kink (documentary) – Internet BDSM documentary produced by James Franco.  I seriously could not make this stuff up.  Instant Streaming Available

The Lookalike (drama, Justin Long, Jerry O’Connell) – You’re sort of up a creek when the drug dealer’s girl dies and you need to replace her.  Instant Streaming Available

After the Fall (drama, Wes Bentley, Jason Isaacs) – Man turns to crime rather than admit unemployment.  Stupid premise, but Wes Bentley is beautiful, so there’s that.  Instant Streaming Available

February 6th

Field of Lost Shoes (drama, David Arquette, Keith David) – Southern Civil War drama.  Instant Streaming Available

The Dark Valley (action, Sam Riley, Tobias Morettio) – Everyone wants the mysterious stranger gone in this western.  But there’s revenge to be had!  Instant Streaming Available

February 4th

Vic and Flo Saw a Bear (foreign drama, Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer) – French language story of a parolee trying to set up a normal life while signs of peril abound.  Instant Streaming Available

4 Moons (foreign drama, Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid) – Spanish language story about the lives of four gay men.  Instant Streaming Available

February 3rd

The Paradise – Season 2 (TV drama, Joanna Vanderham, Emun Elliott) – 1870s girl works in England’s first department store.  Instant Streaming Available

Hollow (horror, Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman) – Horror legends and myths are ALWAYS TRUE PEOPLE.  Instant Streaming Available

Easy Money: Life Deluxe (foreign thriller, Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela) – Love Joel Kinnaman from The Killing but not really in the mood for Swedish language organized crime.

Valentine Road (documentary) – A look at the murder of a gay middle schooler in 2008 and the aftermath.

1000 Times Goodnight (drama, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche) – War photographer is torn between job and family.  Instant Streaming Available

Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt (drama, Kristoffer Polaha, Laura Regan) – FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET IT DIE.

The Longest Week (comedy, Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde) – Oh, lame rom/com, I will see you because of my undying love for Jason Bateman.  Instant Streaming Available

Get On Up (drama, Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis) – James Brown biopic.

Cannibal (foreign thriller, Antonio de la Torre, Olimpia Melinte) – This is subtitled “A Love Story”.  I have to admit, that makes me laugh.  Spanish language. Instant Streaming Available

The Strange Little Cat (foreign drama) – They should have called this “The Strange Little Movie”.  There’s no cast listed, so maybe it’s animated?  No idea, but it’s in German and from the POV of a cat.  Caveat Emptor.

John Wick (action, Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist) – Why do hit men bother to retire?  They always have to do one (or ten) more job, usually personal and involving revenge.  Like here.

Dear White People (comedy, Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson) – Satire about four black kids at an Ivy League College and its racist party – that leads to riots.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (drama, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy) – Good cast for this dark drama played out in two distinct chapters.  Instant Streaming Available

20,000 Days on Earth (documentary, Nick Cave) – Nick Cave bio-doc.

Exists (horror, Dora Madison Burge, Brian Steele) – For the love of God why do people go camping.

Boys (drama, Ko Zandvliet, Gijs Blom) – Boys discovering that they like…boys.  Instant Streaming Available

Jurassic City (sci-fi, Ray Wise, Kevin Gage) – Dinos in LA.  That doesn’t look like a rip off at all.

Food Chains (documentary, Forest Whitaker, Eric Schlosser) – Farm workers being exploited doc.  Instant Streaming Available

Starry Eyes (horror, Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller) – Be careful what you wish for, actress wannabe.  Instant Streaming Available

The Retrieval (drama, Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott) – Civil War/slave hunter drama about a young boy learning the human cost of being a bounty hunter.  Instant Streaming Available

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (documentary, Richard Pryor, Sandra Bernhard) – Look at the career of Richard Pryor.

Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (action, Patrick Stewart, Shahin Sean Solimon) – I was going to chastise Patrick Stewart, but he’s just the narrator, so I’ll let it go. Instant Streaming Available

February 2nd

App (foreign thriller, Hannah Hoekstra) – Dutch language evil cell phone thriller.  I’m totally not making that up.  Instant Streaming Available

January 29th

Necessary Roughness – Season 3 (TV dramedy, Callie Thorne, Scott Cohen) – This psychotherapist dramedy is not a streamer, so DVD Only

About a Boy – Season 1 (TV comedy, David Walton, Minnie Driver) – This TV version of the movie based on the book by Nick Hornby (!) is Available on Instant Streaming

Manakamana (documentary, Bindu Gayek) – Journey to a Nepali Hindu temple. Instant Streaming Available

January 27th

The Fall – Season 2 (TV drama, Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan) – Before watching him as the lead in 50 Shades of Grey, you can see Jamie Dornan as a creepy as hell serial killer in this excellent, excellent Netflix original.  Instant Streaming Only

Downton Abbey – Season 5 (TV drama, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter) – This is still running on PBS in the US, but you can get the whole thing on DVD if you like!  DVD Only

Intruders – Season 1 (TV drama, Sonya Salomaa, John Simm) – Shady organization possessing people.  I’ll certainly be watching this.  DVD Only for now.

The Interview (comedy, James Franco,  Seth Rogen) – The Sony Hack may have wreaked havoc on the theater release, but you can see this bro comedy right now if you like!  Because Instant Streaming Available.

Fury (action, Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf) – WWII actioner.

Coherence (thriller, Nicholas Brendon, Maury Sterling) – What’s with the only house on the block not affected by the blackout?  Something weird, that’s my guess.

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (documentary, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki) – Studio Ghibli bio-doc.  Instant Streaming Available

The Remaining (faith & spirituality, Alexa Pena Vega, Shaun Sipos) – Post rapture apocalypse.

Miss Meadows (drama, Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale) – Bein’ well-mannered don’t mean you cain’t get some down home justice.

Art and Craft (documentary) – Bio-doc of Mark Landis – art forger and con man.

Falcon Rising (action, Neal McDonough, Michael Jai White) – Mafia, drugs and thugs test man with a mission in Brazil.  Instant Streaming Available.

Open Windows (thriller, Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey) – Frodo turns into a weird, officially sanctioned stalker.  Might be worth a look. Instant Streaming Available

Days and Nights (drama, Christian Camargo, Katie Holmes) – 1980s period piece adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull.  Great cast including William Hurt, Allison Janny and Jean Reno.  Instant Streaming Available

Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (foreign action comedy, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino) – Japanese language story of a feud interrupted by a film crew.

January 23rd

The Houses October Built (horror, Zack Andrews, Bobby Roe) – Group of dumb people go looking for authentic haunted house.  Think they find one?  Instant Streaming Available

January 21st

Z Nation – Season 1 (TV horror, Nat Zang, Russell Hodgkinson) – Got the one guy in the world who survived the zombie virus?  Better take good care of him.  Instant Streaming Available.

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2 (documentary, Joe Cross) – Former fat guy talks about lifestyle changes and weight and health achievements.  Instant Streaming Available

Chasing Beauty (documentary) – Modeling doc.  For when my self esteem gets a little too high.  Instant Streaming Only.

Rudderless (drama, Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin) – William H. Macy directed drama about a father dealing with the death of his son.  Very, very good movie – highly recommend it.

Wolves (horror, Lucas Till, Jason Momoa) – Sucks when your inner werewolf eats your parents.

The Zero Theorem (sci-fi, Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton) – Great cast but be prepared for significant weirdness as this is directed by Terry Gilliam.

White Bird in a Blizzard (drama, Shailene Woodley, Eva Green) – Mom disappears, college kid comes home to figure it out.  Also starring Christopher Meloni, who I love.  I’ll check this one out.  Instant Streaming Available

The Green Prince (documentary) – A look inside the life of an Israeli mole in the Palestinian Hamas.  Instant Streaming Available

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (documentary, Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee) – The life of tech prodigy, Reddit co-founder and champion of internet free access and free speech.

Winter in the Blood (drama, Chaske Spencer, David Morse) – Are the chances that David Morse plays a bad guy 100% in this adaptation of a 1974 novel?  I suspect yes.  Instant Streaming Available

May in the Summer (drama, Cherien Dabis, Alia Shawkat) – Christian and Muslim world collide with one interfaith marriage.  Instant Streaming Available

Life’s a Breeze (comedy, Kelly Thornton, Fionnula Flanagan) – Object lesson on not literally stuffing your fortune in your mattress.  Looks pretty cute. Instant Streaming Available

By the Gun (thriller, Ben Barnes, Leighton Meester) – Mafia story.  I suspect gun violence is involved.  Just a guess.  Instant Streaming Available

January 16th

Missionary (thriller, Dawn Olivieri, Kip Pardue) – Single mom tangles with Mormon missionary.  Instant Streaming Available

January 15th

Levitated Mass: The Story of Michael Heizer’s Monolithic Sculpture (documentary, Michael Heizer) – It’s a movie about a sculpture that’s a giant boulder over a trench.  Whatever floats your boat, I guess.  Instant Streaming Available

January 13th

Psych – Season 8 (dramedy, James Roday, Dule Hill) – Finally, season 8 is Available on Instant Streaming!!

House of Lies – Season 3 (TV comedy, Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell) – I don;t know why I haven’t started watching this yet.  But I will!  DVD Only.

Dallas – Season 3 (TV drama, Josh Henderson, Jordana Brewster) – The new one, not the old one!  Instant Streaming Available

The Bridge – Season 2 (TV drama, Diane Kruger, Demián Bichir) – FX crime drama about a cop with Asperger’s chasing a serial killer.  DVD Only

Tyrant – Season 1 (TV drama, Adam Rayner, Jennifer Finnigan) – Middle East intrigue.  It’s unclear how much of a series this really is – this season is only a single disc.  DVD Only

Episodes – Season 3 (TV comedy, Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig) – Joey keeps rolling, they’re now on season 4.  This one is DVD Only

Boardwalk Empire – Season 5 (TV drama, Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt) – This is an HBO series – it’s likely to stay DVD Only

This is Where I Leave You (comedy, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey) – Dysfunctional family comedy with two of my fave actors!  Going to the top of the queue. Update – thoroughly enjoyed it.  Love Jason Bateman.  So much.

The Maze Runner (sci-fi, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) – Dystopia!  With a maze.  I think I need to see this one.

Viktor (action, Gérard Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley) – Mystery and vengeance.  And art thieves and killers.  Instant Streaming Only

Love is Strange (drama, John Lithgow, Alfred Molina) – A gay couple’s marriage causes issues.  Great cast, getting good reviews – top of the queue!  Update – fantastic performances, mediocre production.

The Two Faces of January (thriller, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst) – Con artist finds himself in over his head in Greece.  Another great cast – it stays on the queue!  Instant Streaming Available

The Identical (drama, Seth Green, Ashley Judd) – Something about Elvis and identical twins – I don’t even know.  Instant Streaming Available

Keep On Keepin’ On (documentary, Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin) – Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry profile.  Instant Streaming Available

Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (action, Royce Gracie, Esmé Bianco) – I think three was probably sufficient.  Instant Streaming Available

Jimi: All is By My Side (drama, André Benjamin, Imogen Poots) – Jimi Hendrix biopic.  Instant Streaming Available

Men, Women & Children (drama, Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt) – Also with Emma Thompson, Jennifer Garner, Ansel Elgort, Dean Norris, J.K. Simmons, Dennis Haysbert and Judy Greer.  Wow. Directed by Jason Reitman, this actually looks like and Adam Sandler movie that doesn’t suck.  I’m as surprised as you are.  Update – sadly, it kind of did suck.

Jessabelle (horror, Sarah Snook, Mark Webber) – Decent looking ghost/haunted house movie.

Wetlands (foreign comedy, Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski) – This German language rom/com describes itself as vulgar.  I think I’ll pass.  Instant Streaming Available

Honeymoon (thriller, Rose Leslie,  Harry Treadaway) – Stop taking honeymoons at secluded cabins!  They just never go well.  Instant Streaming Available

Young Ones (thriller, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult) – Planet wide drought tests family.  Instant Streaming Available

Revenge of the Green Dragons (thriller, Ray Liotta, Justin Chon) – Surviving 1980s NYC by joining a gang.

Guardian (action, Sarah Carter) – Using your ninja skills to protect your kid.  Way to go, female lead!

Alien Abduction (sci-fi, Katherine Sigismund,  Corey Eid) – Well, there goes camping in North Carolina as a vacation option.  Instant Streaming Available

Bird People (foreign drama, Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier) – Chance meeting leads to…something, in this French language drama.  Instant Streaming Available

Bad Turn Worse (drama, Mackenzie Davis, William Devane) – Teen noir gangster drama.  Instant Streaming Available

Expedition to the End of the World (foreign documentary, Per Bak Jensen, Jonas Bergsøe) – Danish language schooner heads to Greenland.  Instant Streaming Available

Finding Fela (documentary, Fela Kuti, Yeni Kuti) – Fela Anikulapo-Kuti bio-doc.  Instant Streaming Available

21 Years: Richard Linklater (documentary, Matthew McConaughey, Jack Black) – Indie filmmaker Richard Linklater bio-doc.

Memphis (drama, Willis Earl Beal, Constance Brantley) – Odd singer drifts through Memphis.  Instant Streaming Available

January 9th

Abducted: The Carlina White Story (TV drama, Aunjanue Ellis, Keke Palmer) – Woman abducted as a baby finds out the truth.  Instant Streaming Available

January 6th

Glee – Season 5 (TV musical, Lea Michele, Darren Criss) – Yay!  Instant Streaming Available

Archer – Season 5 (TV animated comedy, H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer) – Animation for adults. Instant Streaming Available

Girls – Season 3 (comedy, Lena Dunham, Allison Williams) – Didn’t realize this was a Judd Apatow produced show.  But it is!  DVD only.

Black Sails – Season 1 (TV action,Toby Stephens, Hannah New) – Treasure Island prequel series.  DVD Only

White Collar – Season 5 (TV drama, Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay) – Available on Instant Streaming

Boyhood (drama, Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke) – Richard Linklater directed story of a divorced couple sharing custody of their son as he grows up.  Oscar nominee – I hated it, husband loved it.

Left Behind (thriller, Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray) – I thought we were through with film adaptations of this book after Kirk Cameron.  I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.  Instant Streaming Available

No Good Deed (thriller, Taraji P. Henson, Idris Elba) – Love both leads, but this desperate convict storyline looks like a TV crime show episode.

Horns (thriller, Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple) – Huge kudos to Daniel Radcliffe for sticking with the weird when choosing roles post-Harry Potter.  This story of a man growing horns with special powers looks creepy, weird and maybe a little funny.  I’ll definitely be seeing it. Update – it’s okay, but not great. Instant Streaming Available

The Guest (thriller, Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe) – Stranger claiming to be friend of deceased son.  Don’t let him in!  DON’T LET HIM IN!  Instant Streaming Available

Two Night Stand (comedy, Miles Teller, Analeigh Tipton) – Snow storm traps one night stand couple together.

Dinosaur 13 (documentary) – Tale of the controversies surrounding the South Dakota discovery of the first complete T-Rex.

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (documentary, Shep Gordon) – Mike Myers (!?) made this documentary about Hollywood manager Shep Gordon.  Instant Streaming Available

To Be Takei (documentary, George Takei, Leonard Nimoy) – It really doesn’t take a genius to figure out what this bio-doc is about. Instant Streaming Available

January 1st, 2015

Friends – Seasons 1-10 (TV comedy, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer) – That’s right, people, you can welcome 2015 with a massive Friends binge.  All 10 seasons are now Available on Instant Streaming!