New and expiring this week on Netflix & Amazon Prime
New trash on Netflix, 15 noteworthy movements + Step Up
Dear friends,
Happy early Thanksgiving. Wishing you as much normalcy as possible given the circumstances.
Stay safe.
On Netflix
What’s new
Not much to note this week for Netflix, as the once Oscar-bound Amy Adams drama Hillbilly Elegy is not bound anywhere. I leave you with this excerpt from a review by Vulture’s Alison Willmore, on the theme of chicken:
The new Shawn Mendez documentary In Wonder also sucks. It was also Oscar-boun—just kidding.
What’s expiring
Many classics leave this Monday, November 30th. The list includes Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También, David Fincher’s Zodiac, Boyz n the Hood, and Moneyball.
When Two Worlds Collide, a past newsletter pick, leaves Netflix this Sunday, November 29th. It’s about an indigenous leader in Peru who takes on big corporate interests in a fight for the Amazon, and the political crisis that ensues.
On Amazon Prime
What’s new
The 2008 documentary More Than a Game, about the rise of the high-school team where Lebron James played, is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
The apocalyptic thriller 28 Days Later, the classic war movie Platoon, the 1978 concert-classic The Last Waltz, Jack Nicholson’s As Good as it Gets, and the original Wall Street have all been added to Amazon Prime.
and *note to self*, speaking of classics: Amazon Prime also added the first Step Up.
What’s expiring
Force Majeure is an incredibly fun dark comedy from Sweden that leaves Amazon Prime this Monday, November 30th. It’s about a man who abandons his family to save himself during an avalanche in the French Alps, only to learn that the avalanche was controlled. He then has to confront abandoning his family.
Kill Bill: Volume I & II, Labyrinth, Slumdog Millionaire, and The Graduate all leave Amazon Prime the same day as well.
That’s it for the last week of November. I hope this summary was helpful.
Talk on Friday,
Bilal