Netflix Instant Project for 2014

@portlander - Too bad Plan 9 isn't on Netflix instant.

Recommendations for March:
The Last Stand
Outrage

Throwing my support behind:
The Last Stand

It's a lot better than people give it credit for. Think of it as Jee-woon Kim's latest rather than Arnie's return to action. Helps.

Great Topic! I have a blog at Wordpress about movies and TV shows available on Netflix Instant. I review movies and alert people to movies that are leaving the service, and also post news articles relevant to Netflix.

Recommendations for March

I can recommend two of the last three movies I reviewed:

You Only Live Once (1937) directed by Fritz Lang and starring Henry Fonda
Red Lights (2012) starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, and Robert DeNiro

Throwing my support behind

The Station Agent
Midnight Express

Throwing my support behind
Maniac

Recommendations for April:
Nightmare City - www.listal.com/movie/nightmare-city
This is a seminal Italian zombie-flick from the 80s, AKA it's pretty darn awesome. It starts with machete and machine gun-wielding zombies landing a plane. They then proceed to wreak havoc all over a television studio. The twist ending is probably the most asinine of all time.

Frankenstein's Army - www.listal.com/movie/frankensteins-army
Now sure, this isn't the best film of all time or anything. But if you're big in to practical effects and hate CGI, then you need to watch this movie. When the practical gore and monsters show up, they look amazing. I just wish the camerawork wasn't complete BS.

Throwing my support behind:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Certainly not the greatest comedy of the time, but Sidney Poitier is so damn good in it. At least according to my very faint memories.

Recommendations for April:
Alice (I know it was a pick last year, but I didn't recommend it then so it's OK, right?)
The Legend of Hell House

Holy crap Netflix added some awesome movies today. Too bad they don't all fit our criteria.

@VT - I feel like you chose Frankenstein's Army just for me. ;)

Recommendations for April:
Mud
Stir Crazy

Throwing my support behind:
Alice - Heck, I recommended it last year so only makes sense.

@giraffe I can't deny that the moment I saw it on the Instantwatcher-website I didn't think about your words of the Maniac-remake.

Throwing my support behind: Stir Crazy - Actually not my favorite at all of the Wilder/Pryor pairings, but it's entertaining enough.

@VT - I thought so. :)

By the way, it's got too many ratings to include for our project (or I would've picked it), but if anyone has NOT seen The Diving Bell & the Butterfly it's now available on Instant & is very much worth checking out.

Throwing my support behind:
Mud

Finally saw it. Sure was Jeff Nicholsian as balls, down to the fact that the ending almost ruins everything.

Throwing my support behind:
Man of Tai Chi

Throwing my support behind:
Nightmare City

Recommendations for May:
In the Loop
Basquiat

Recommendations for May:
The Family
Return of the Dragon

My internet is finally back so I can give my Recommendations for May:
The Dirties - www.listal.com/movie/the-dirties
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology - www.listal.com/movie/perverts-guide-ideology

The first is an interesting Canadian microbudget film about making movies. It's very similar to something like American Movie, except... Well, I won't spoil what differentiates it so severely. It's an interesting piece. Pervert's Guide... is just one of the funniest and most insightful (albeit controversial) documentaries about film analysis I've seen.

Throwing my support behind:
In the Loop

Throwing my support behind:

The Big Chill

Recommendations for June:
Night of the Creeps - www.listal.com/movie/night-creeps
Look, if you haven't seen Night of the Creeps, you're doing it wrong. You need to see Night of the Creeps.

We Are What We Are - www.listal.com/movie/we-are-what-we-are-2013
One of the best horror remakes, a visionary improvement over the original which you should really just skip and get to the, uhm, meat of it with this one. It's sort of if Terrence Malick's DP made a horror movie.

Recommendations for June:
Anatomy of a Murder
They Might Be Giants

Throwing my support behind: Night of the Creeps

Throwing my support behind:
Anatomy of a Murder

Like I said at Giraffe's movie diary, I was real close to throwing this as a recommendation last month. That ending is gold.

Recommendations for June:

Insidious: Chapter 2
The Replacement Killers

Awesome topic, glad to be a part of it!

Recommendations for June:

Wake In Fright
Drained

Throwing my support behind:
They Might Be Giants

Recommendations for July:
Paper Moon
Waking Ned Devine

Completely shocking to me that both these films have less than 200 ratings on here.

Also, @portlander - I don't see my support there for Night of the Creeps. Please add it when you get a chance. :)

Recommendations for July:
The Triplets of Belleville - www.listal.com/movie/the-triplets-of-belleville
This is among the greatest animated movies I've seen. You need to watch it too. Yes, you. I know you're reading this and you need to see it.

Contracted - www.listal.com/movie/contracted
A cool microbudget body-horror with a great ending.

Throwing my support behind:
The Family

Never thought I'd like it but it's a really weird and melancholic comedy without any real jokes in a sense but... I dunno, it's really friggin' weird and depressing and I kinda really like it.

Just say NO to Netflix in 2014!

Recommendations for July:
Redemption
Devil in a Blue Dress

Throwing my support behind:

Paper Moon

Throwing my support behind:
Insidious: Chapter 2
Silverado
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

And not to burst a bubble, but Triplets of Belleville has over 400 ratings on here.

MY BEAUTIFUL BUBBLE!

Alright, I'll replace those Triplets with
Banshee Chapter - www.listal.com/movie/the-banshee-chapter

This is a fairly spooky indie horror (based on Lovecraft's From Beyond) with a fantastic Hunter S. Thompson -tribute performance.

Sorry about that, man. Forgot to mention before that Triplets is TOTALLY worth checking out regardless. And that description is enough that I've already added Banshee Chapter to my queue.

Throwing my support behind: Cujo
It's far from one of the best King adaptations, but entertaining enough to be worthwhile if you're in the right mood.

Throwing my support behind: Waking Ned Devine and Cujo.

Throwing my support behind: Mud