Sunday 30 April 2017

New Releases on Netflix - The Bounce Back


On tour to promote his latest book, relationship expert Matthew encounters another popular relationship authority, Kristen, who directly criticizes his work. Yet the pair's initial clash sparks a mutual attraction.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Comedian


Once a TV star, now an angry stand-up comedian, Jackie can't seem to get his mojo back with audiences who refuse to see him as other than his sitcom character. Not surprisingly, he snaps -- accosting a heckler. And that lands him community service.

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New Releases on Netflix - God Bless the Broken Road


This faith-based drama centers on a young mother widowed by war, whose belief in God is put to the test as she struggles to raise her 9-year-old daughter and save the family home from foreclosure.

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New Releases on Netflix - Gold


In this epic crime caper based on real-life events, an out-of-luck gold prospector and a willing geologist pull off a brazen scam. Falsely claiming to have located a major gold deposit in Indonesia, the duo proceeds to hoodwink the experts.

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New Releases on Netflix - Silver Skies


Silver Skies chronicles a group of working-class residents whose lives turn upside down when their apartment complex threatens to be sold out from under them. Director Rosemary Rodriguez has assembled a high-profile cast to play some very complicated roles. With humor and compassion, she brings these old-timers to a place of fear, a little romance and deep caring for each other's well-being. The story is easily relatable, as our aging population confronts a downturn in health, money and self-esteem. Now in their twilight years, facing the unknown, these underdogs will have you rooting for them all the way.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Age of Shadows


During Japan's occupation of Korea, a former resistance member now working for the Japanese police is tasked with infiltrating a band of freedom fighters intent on blowing up key Japanese facilities. But he soon ends up in an impossible situation.

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New Releases on Netflix - Utopians


Hins, a dreamy boy who indulges in literature and thirsts for philosophy, is overwhelmed by his charismatic teacher, Antonio, who drags Hins and his religious girlfriend Joey into uncharted erotic territories. The intriguing appearance of Swan, a beautiful and intellectual lady, only adds to their entanglement of sensuality and lust. What once seemed like a path towards a surreal and unrestrained utopia is now barred by a lifetime secret and a lie of the heart. Will Hins's love for art and wisdom guide him through or will he lose himself amid the chaos of eroticism?

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New Releases on Netflix - Here Alone


In a world decimated by an epidemic, Ann is surviving alone in the forest when she encounters two other survivors: teenage Olivia and her stepfather, Chris. But after the three band together, growing suspicion and jealousy begin to strain their bond.

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New Releases on Netflix - Rings


Reaching back into the blood-soaked past, this prequel to the two Ring horror epics delves into the dark origins of the lethal videotape that would soon give rise to an epidemic of mayhem and murder.

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New Releases on Netflix - MindGamers


MindGamers takes the mind-bender thriller to the next level with an immersive narrative and breath-taking action. A group of brilliant young students discover the greatest scientific breakthrough of all time: a wireless neural network technology that links minds acting as the first shareware for transferring motor-skills to one another. The students freely spread the technology, believing it to be a first step towards a true equality, but soon dark forces emerge that threaten to subvert this technology into a means of mass-control.

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New Releases on Netflix - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story


Before the events of the original "Star Wars" trilogy, the Rebel Alliance enlists a team of rogue fighters to steal plans for the Galactic Empire's new space station -- a powerful superweapon called the Death Star.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Red Turtle


Without dialogue, this meditative animated fable chronicles the story of a man who washes up on a remote desert island, where he builds a makeshift raft to escape but is repeatedly turned back by an enormous red turtle.

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New Releases on Netflix - I Am Not Your Negro


When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an unfinished book about the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. This documentary uses that unfinished text to create a visual essay on race in America.

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New Releases on Netflix - God Bless the Broken Road


This faith-based drama centers on a young mother widowed by war, whose belief in God is put to the test as she struggles to raise her 9-year-old daughter and save the family home from foreclosure.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Last Ship: Season 3


The USS Nathan James continues to sail the seas, bringing supplies and solace to survivors of the pandemic that wiped out much of humanity. But with rumors of cure hoarding and a potential virus mutation, the crisis is far from over.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Red Turtle


Without dialogue, this meditative animated fable chronicles the story of a man who washes up on a remote desert island, where he builds a makeshift raft to escape but is repeatedly turned back by an enormous red turtle.

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Sunday 23 April 2017

New Releases on Netflix - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them


This wizardly spin-off from the cinematic world of Harry Potter relates the wondrous and exotic life of "magizoologist" Newt Scamander, who wrote the Hogwarts School's textbook on magical creatures decades before Harry Potter would lay eyes on it.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Marine 5: Battleground


While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.

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New Releases on Netflix - Underworld: Blood Wars


The fifth chapter of the gripping Underworld vampire epic follows "death dealer" Selene and her protégé David as they take on Marius, a new and ruthless Lycan leader, and the ambitious schemes of a rival female vampire.

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New Releases on Netflix - Catfight


Though Veronica and Ashley were friends in college, they fell out long ago. When they bump into each other years later, old wounds resurface, and the two end up brawling in a stairwell -- which is just the beginning of their renewed rivalry.

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New Releases on Netflix - Right Now, Wrong Then


Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And together, they go to her workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi and Soju. More conversation follow, and drinks, and then an awkward get-together with friends where all sorts of secrets are revealed. All the while, they may or may not be falling for each other. Then, quite unexpectedly, we begin again, but now things appear somewhat different. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN is a deliciously intricate comedy of manners from a master filmmaker

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New Releases on Netflix - Why Him?


During a visit to his daughter at college, Ned meets her superrich brash boyfriend and promptly starts plotting to end the relationship. After learning that the young man is about to propose, Ned's urge to interfere reaches panic proportions.

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New Releases on Netflix - A Monster Calls


In this adaptation of a children's fantasy novel, 12-year-old Conor has been devastated by his mother's terminal cancer diagnosis. Then a monster begins visiting Conor at night, who tells stories that help him come to terms with the truth.

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New Releases on Netflix - Bokeh


When two young Americans take a romantic journey to Iceland, they witness a bright light crossing the heavens -- after which they find themselves absolutely alone in the world and with no idea what the future holds.

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New Releases on Netflix - Detour


With his mother in a coma after a car crash, law student Harper is certain his adulterous stepfather set up the accident -- and soon a barroom conversation with a slippery character named Johnny leads Harper to consider knocking off his stepdad.

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New Releases on Netflix - Mean Dreams


After learning that new neighbor Casey is being abused by her corrupt lawman father, 15-year-old Jonas resolves to save her. Rashly stealing a bag of her dad's dirty drug money, Jonas goes on the run with Casey as her father chases them relentlessly.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Girl with All the Gifts


When a fungus turns most of the population into flesh-eating zombies, a scientist seeking a cure studies young Melanie, who's infected yet mentally normal. As the researcher prepares to dissect Melanie's brain, a horde of the undead disrupt the plan.

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New Releases on Netflix - Mifune: The Last Samurai


Renowned for his work in the films of Akira Kurosawa, actor Toshirô Mifune reigned supreme during the golden age of Japanese cinema. Through interviews with friends, family and colleagues, this film reveals the man and his influences.

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New Releases on Netflix - We Are X


Big hair and big drama have long been the hallmarks of glam rockers X Japan, whose music has thrilled fans for more than three decades. This absorbing documentary profiles the group in the lead-up to their 2014 Madison Square Garden performance.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Affair: Season 3


In the show's third season, both Alison and Helen find themselves grappling with guilt over their involvement in Scotty Lockhart's untimely demise and letting Noah take the fall for it.

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New Releases on Netflix - La La Land


While pursuing showbiz fame, jazz pianist Sebastian falls for aspiring actress Mia, and the two embark on an intense love affair. But as their separate paths of ambition force them to make tough choices, their relationship starts to fray.

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New Releases on Netflix - Right Now, Wrong Then


Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And together, they go to her workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi and Soju. More conversation follow, and drinks, and then an awkward get-together with friends where all sorts of secrets are revealed. All the while, they may or may not be falling for each other. Then, quite unexpectedly, we begin again, but now things appear somewhat different. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN is a deliciously intricate comedy of manners from a master filmmaker

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Sunday 16 April 2017

New Releases on Netflix - Assassin's Creed


Expanding the landscape of the titular video-game franchise, this adventure saga follows Callum Lynch, who discovers his link to a secret medieval society called the Assassins and acquires their skills to take on their age-old foes, the Templars.

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New Releases on Netflix - Isolation


Hoping to restore their flagging marriage, Lydia (Tricia Helfer) and Creighton (Luke Mably) journey to a remote island in the sun-drenched Bahamas. One drunken night, they return to their cabin to find it's ransacked. Will nearby couple Max (Dominic Purcell) and Nina (Marie Avgeropoulos) give them help or do them harm? Also starring Stephen Lang, this seductive, sinister thriller shows that trust can be a dangerous thing.

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New Releases on Netflix - A Cowgirl's Story


When newcomer Dusty Rhodes enrolls at Jefferson High, her cowgirl manners and Texas twang make it hard for her to fit in. But after she befriends a classmate whose Goth style has also made her an outcast, the two form a special connection.

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New Releases on Netflix - Sing


Animals of all stripes -- including an underappreciated mother minding 25 piglets, a young gorilla trapped in gang life and a shy elephant -- find hope in a life-changing singing competition to save the local theater.

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New Releases on Netflix - Bigger Fatter Liar


In this follow up to 2002's Big Fat Liar, hilarity ensues as a 16-year-old habitual liar leaves suburbia to prove that a sleazy executive stole his idea for a video game. Stars Ricky Garcia.

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New Releases on Netflix - Live by Night


With bootlegging profits skyrocketing during the era of Prohibition, Joe Coughlin -- the son of a cop -- makes a name for himself in the underworld by becoming a smuggler and then a gangster. But as his power grows, Joe finds there's a price to pay.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Duelist


In czarist Russia, professional duelist Yakovlev makes his living standing in for gentlemen who fear their odds of survival. But his trade puts him in a dicey spot when he falls for a woman whose brother Yakovlev will soon be facing with pistols.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Founder


The concept and expansion of McDonald's global fast-food empire represent one of the great success stories of American business. This meaty biopic profiles company founder Ray Kroc, whose canny instincts turned McDonald's into a golden brand.

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New Releases on Netflix - Miss Sloane


In this gripping thriller that exposes the dog-eat-dog world of Capitol Hill lobbyists, political strategist Elizabeth Sloane is determined to push through legislation enacting tougher gun control, regardless of the personal or professional cost.

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New Releases on Netflix - Ocean Waves


Ocean Waves is one of the most poignant and unsung masterpieces within Studio Ghibli's legendary creative output. Wonderfully detailed and incredibly subtle, there are very few films in the history of animation that have managed to capture so well the joys and drama of adolescence and teenage alienation. Kochi is your average coastal town on the sleepy, idyllic island of Shikoku and young Taku is definitely your average high school student. But soon his quiet life will be turned upside down with the arrival of Rikako: a beautiful, female student recently transferred from Tokyo. By the end of term Taku will have learnt a valuable lesson in love and friendship.

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New Releases on Netflix - Before the Flood


Global climate change is examined from multiple perspectives in this illuminating documentary chronicling actor Leonardo DiCaprio's crusade to increase awareness of the potentially catastrophic effects of the environmental changes already under way.

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New Releases on Netflix - Don't Blink: Robert Frank


One of America's most respected and revolutionary photographers, Robert Frank is renowned for choosing unlikely subjects. This comprehensive documentary includes Frank's candid reflections on his background, career and philosophy as a shutterbug.

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New Releases on Netflix - Killjoys: Season 2


Dutch, John and D'avin do their best to remain neutral in the tangled multiplanetary conflict that has spread across the entire Quad system. Meanwhile, the Company's repressive policies and actions alarm the trio more than ever.

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New Releases on Netflix - Masterpiece: Home Fires: Season 2


Great Paxford's eclectic band of women return for more stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.

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Saturday 15 April 2017

New Releases on Netflix - Mars


In this epic miniseries, a carefully chosen international team of astronauts sets off on a fateful voyage to the red planet, where they'll face the formidable task of establishing a permanent human settlement.

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New Releases on Netflix - Silicon Valley: Season 3


Even after the humiliation of being fired as CEO of his own company, Richard is far from ready to surrender and begins to lay out a strategy for reclaiming his kingdom -- and exacting some revenge.

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Sunday 9 April 2017

New Releases on Netflix - Monster Trucks


In this animated fantasy epic, Tripp's (Lucas Till) life changes dramatically after he crosses paths with a ferocious real-life monster in the shape of a marauding monster truck. Before long, Lucas's long-absent dad appears on the scene.

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New Releases on Netflix - Sword Master


Hong Kong cinema giants Derek Yee and Tsui Hark join forces in this martial arts epic, about an elite swordsman who is haunted by his skill, and a challenger who aims to take his place at all costs.

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