With cold January winds blowing across the country, no one would blame you for spending the entire weekend on your couch watching movies, waiting for the sun to warm us again.
It’s possibly the result of long moves between actors and writers that have ruined the flow of content, yet this month’s new Netflix offerings are packed with foreign videos and TV screens. Which is a smart thing to do; This gives observers the ability to see anything different. Below are my picks for the nine most productive videos and screens streaming on Netflix this week. Because it’s a windy January, I’ve also included cinematic prepared food to keep you warm.
It may be cold where you are, but it’s not “eat your friends” cold. In 1972, an airplane carrying an amateur rugby team from Uruguay crashed in the Andes mountains. Though grit, heroism, and cannibalism, 16 of the 45 passengers survived. Society of the Snow tells their story with photography that makes the mountains seem as ominous as they are beautiful, but it also digs into the mysterious center of this unbelievable true story by suggesting a spiritual journey as much a physical one.
I want to say I’m tired of documentaries about low lifes, but the allure of the outlaw is powerful. The alluring outlaws in Bitconned, a new Netflix original docuseries, are a gang of blackhearts from Miami who are as brainless as they are ruthless. In 2017 Ray Trapani and his pals muscled into the ground floor of the booming cryptocurrency world and scammed every mark the internet could offer up—and that’s a lot of marks. Unlike international bankers, dumb dudes from Florida who scam people tend to get caught, so Bitconned offers a comeuppance narrative to go with the “dipshits get rich” main story in the form of a New York Times financial reporter who sees through Trapani’s scheme in about eight minutes.
If you’re looking for a comedy with funny jokes, great music, and a surprisingly emotional core, get high and click on School of Rock. Jack Black plays a slobby rocker who cons his way into a job as a music teacher at a school for stuck-up rich kids. As you might guess, the kids learn how to loosen up and rock out from their new teacher, and Teach learns how to be an adult from them. It’s formulaic, sure, but it’s only a formula because it works so well.
The importance of 1970s cinemas may be annoying, but One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an exception because it doesn’t pretend to be entertaining and human while also being consistent with “big ideas. “Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of a small-time criminal who feigns insanity to serve his life smacks with the anti-hero attitude of the ’70s. Randle P. McMurphy (RPM – revolutions consistent with minutes. Do you understand?) spends his days urging his intellectually ailing comrades to think for themselves and the insurgents opposed to the design of the authoritarian force embodied through the evil nurse Ratchet. Because it’s rarely a global intellectual institution, man?Over time, the secondary characters’ humanity and wounded dignity shine brighter than the slightly silly main story of Cuckoo’s Nest’s “Messianic Rebel. “Stands Up to The Man. ” In addition, it features a very young Christopher Lloyd.
This romantic tragicomedy is set among complicated Londoners who have better furniture and best friends than you do. But Good Grief manages not to be boring because tragedy and death spare no one; Mourning is mourning, even if you do it in a well-equipped Parisian apartment. If you like serious movies wrapped in funny jokes or tragic comedies, Good Grief is the movie you’ll see this weekend.
If you need to show off your new 8K TV and surround sound system, Gravity will give you an impressive demo. The special effects and camera paintings are head and shoulders above anything I’d noticed, if someone told me it was filmed on Earth. In orbit, it would, and the story is, at times, existentially frightening and strangely uplifting. What’s more, the air of mystery of stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney almost overshadows the technical prowess.
January is the Monday of the year, and if you need to spend it on crazy demonstrations of truth, the first episodes of Love is Blind: Sweden have just premiered on Netflix. The premise of the exhibition: couples meet, date, and fall in love. , and proposing, all without seeing each other, it’s a bit like online dating, they’re all Swedish, so they’re probably taller and have whiter teeth than your Tinder date.
For a long time I even knew that I didn’t like action videos, however, despite everything, I watched John Wick a few months ago and discovered that I love action videos, but most of them are terrible. John Wick is rarely very horrible. Even though he fits all the beats and clichés of a million previous action videos, Wick feels fresh. A lot of that has to do with Keanu Reeves’ unlikely anti-action hero persona, but it’s also because each and every detail is carefully crafted. Two John Wick sequels also appeared to be on Netflix this month, but in the culture of the genre, they’re not as smart as the original.
Based on a beloved young adult novel, Boy Swallows Universe is an Australian-produced series about a teenager who suffers greatly in a world of drug dealers, gangsters, and other thugs. Boy Swallows Universe’s touches of magical realism and poetry remind us that the formative years are filled with love and wonder, even for kids on the wrong side of the tracks, halfway around the world.
Stephen Johnson is a contributor to Lifehacker, where he covers pop culture and adds two weekly columns, “The Disconnected Adult’s Guide to Children’s Culture” and “What People Get Wrong This Week. “She graduated from Emerson College with a bachelor’s degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing.
Previously, Stephen was editor-in-chief at NBC/Universal’s G4TV. At G4, he won a Telly Award for writing and was nominated for a Webby Award. Stephen has also written for Blumhouse, FearNET, Performing Songwriter magazine, NewEgg, AVN, GameFly, Art Connoisseur International Magazine, Fender Musical Instruments, Hustler Magazine, and other outlets. His paintings have aired on Comedy Central and screened at the Sundance International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Chicago Horror Film Festival. He lives in Los Angeles, California.