Today on Netflix a new series debuts starring the long lost Drew Barrymore called Santa Clarita Diet but it's apparently a gore-fest so perhaps skippable? Those of you with a high tolerance for such things can let us know. But there are several enticing options that have just made available for streaming. As is our habit, we've freeze framed a handful plus of new selections at random places and are sharing anything that came up.
This is my idol, Paulina. Someday I hope to be up there with her.
Paris is Burning (1990)
The best documentary of all time? Well, one of 'em at least. And 100% the most quotable as you hear lines from it practically every day still thanks to drag going more mainstream.
Seven more after the jump including Magic Mike...
A new arrival!!!
Corpse Bride (2005)
What a totally fantastic lineup the Oscars had for Best Animated Feature that year: Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Howl's Moving Castle. Any of them would have made a worthy winner. I still think this is the best Tim Burton film of the 21st century (i.e. best since at least Sleepy Hollow, 1999). You?
I know him!
The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story (2016)
Now I can finally see what all the fuss was about. Every other human being appears to have obsessed over it as it aired. I can't say I'm interested in revisiting this topic (though the rest of the world obviously is -- see the Oscar nomination for the other OJ miniseries and all the TV awards for this one) but as a Sarah Paulson devotee, tis my duty.
Dad?
Contact (1997)
This scene and the one before it and after it I had no recollection of once I started scrolling around. But I loved it at the time and I remember thinking of it after Arrival, another film about mysterious communications and an empathetic smart woman who is trying to parse it.
Good evening, you live here? Yeah? What's your name?
Magic Mike (2012)
Hollywood loves franchises and there are too many of them but if we have to have them why can't we have more variety in them and not just visual fx epics and cartoons? My point is this: Why are there only two of these movies? MORE. MORE. MORE.
Thanks very much. That was very nice of you.
Babe (1995)
I love this movie so much. It's one of my all time fondest movie-going memories, taking my then very small nephews to see it.
-Congratulations, you can sue.
-Yes, but I don't want to.
Woman in Gold (2015)
This movie is so bad. That is all.
It's your destiny, Destiny."
Finding Dory (2016)
This was a cute moment. The film had cute moments but I'm glad Oscar hasn't rewarded Pixar for sequelizing things much. It's so depressing to learn that there's only one more original animated film (Coco this year) coming from Pixar until 2020 at the earliest. BOOoooooo!
P.S. Did you hear that Ellen DeGeneres totally schooled T**** on the meaning of this film after he held at screening at the White House? Ellen should get more political. We need her.
ALSO NEW TO NETFLIX
Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies, and Cyber Attacks
Babe
Babe: Pig in the City
Balto
Balto 2: Wolf Quest
Balto 3: Wings of Change
The Blair Witch Project
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Contact
Corpse Bride
Eleven P.M.
Finding Dory
The Five Heartbeats
From This Day Forward: A Trans Love Story
The Girl From Chicago
Gun Runners
Hell-Bound Train
Highly Strung
Hot Biskits
I Am Sun Mu
Invincible
The Longest Day
Magic Mike
Mother With a Gun
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Paris Is Burning
Project X
The Santa Clarita Diet (s1)
Silver Streak
Twilight
Woman in Gold
Coming later this month: Superbad, Girls Lost, Clouds of Sils Maria, Crazy Ex Girlfriend Season 2, King Cobra, White Nights, Before I Go to Sleep and Milk