Netflix Friday - Vol. 113

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 

Action: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.
 

Drama: Warrior (2011)
The youngest son (Tom Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nick Nolte) returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother (Joel Edgerton).
 

Comedy: Dream Horse (2020)
Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes (Toni Collette). With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.
 

Animation: Child of Kamiari Month (2021)
A year after losing her mother, a little girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.
 

Romance: Love & Gelato (2022)
Lina makes a promise to her sick mother that she'll spend the summer before college in Rome, where she falls for the city, the people - and the "gelato".
 

Horror: The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga) travel to North London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.
 

Science Fiction: Men in Black (1997)
A police officer (Will Smith) joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.
 

Crime: Way Down (2020)
Follows a genius engineering graduate (Freddie Highmore) who is interested in the Bank of Spain's safe.
 

Thriller: Shutter Island (2010)
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal (Leonardo DiCaprio) investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
 

Documentary: The Hidden Life of Pets (2022)
Bow wows and purr-fect pets. Meet amazing creatures from around the world and dig into the latest science on our animal friends' senses and skills.
 

Family: Spy Kids (2001)
Using high tech gadgets, two kids have to save their reactivated OSS top spy parents when they're taken by an evil, high tech enemy.

Netflix Friday - Vol. 112

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 

Action: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill (David Carradine), the reclusive bouncer Bud (Michael Madsen) and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle (Daryl Hannah).
 

Drama: Herself (2020)
A young mother (Clare Dunne) escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She gets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
 

Comedy: The Man From Toronto (2022)
The world’s deadliest assassin (Woody Harrelson) and New York’s biggest screw-up (Kevin Hart) are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.
 

Animation: My Neighbor the Yamadas (1999)
The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.
 

Romance: De Rouille et D’os (2012)
Put in charge of his young son, Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts) leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain’s bond with Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
 

Horror: The Block Island Sound (2020)
Something lurks off the coast of Block Island, silently influencing the behavior of fisherman, Tom Lynch. After suffering a series of violent outbursts, he unknowingly puts his family in grave danger.
 

Science Fiction: Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Eddie Brock (Tom hardy) attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson) who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution.
 

Crime: The Post (2017)
A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country’s first female newspaper publisher (Meryl Streep) and her editor (Tom Hanks) to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
 

Thriller: Thoroughbreads (2017)
Two upper-class teenage girls (Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy) in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both their problems, no matter what the cost.
 

Documentary: Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022)
Examines the rise of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and his shocking criminal case.
 

Family: Imagine That (2009)
A financial executive (Eddie Murphy) who can’t stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter’s imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.

Netflix Friday - Volume 111

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 

Action: Interceptor (2022)
One Army Captain (Elsa Pataky) must use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attach threatens the remote missile interceptor station she is in command of.
 

Drama: Moneyball (2011)
Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s (Brad Pitt) successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
 

Comedy: Long Shot (2019)
Journalist Fled Flarsky (Seth Rogen) reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Fields (Charlize Theron), now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
 

Animation: A Whisker Away (2020)
Miyo Sasaki is in love with her classmate Kento Hinode and tries repeatedly to get Kento’s attention by transforming into a cat, but at some point, the boundary between herself and the cat becomes ambiguous.
 

Romance: What Happens in Vegas (2008)
A man (Ashton Kutcher) and a woman (Cameron Diaz) are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
 

Horror: The Prodigy (2019)
A mother (Taylor Schilling) concerned about her young son’s disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.
 

Science Fiction: The Core (2013)
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.

Crime: Spiderhead (2022)
In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable of generating feelings of love beings questioning the reality of his emotions.
 

Thriller: Fear (1996)
When Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) met David (Mark Wahlberg); handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.
 

Documentary: Misha and the Wolves (2022)
“Misha and the Wolves” is the dramatic tale of a woman whose holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher, who turned detective, revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
 

Family: The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of fairies and other creatures.

Netflix Friday - Volume 107

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.

Action: The Lost City of Z (2016)
British explorer Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
 

Drama: Schindler’s List (1993)
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
 

Comedy: Senior Year (2022)
A cheerleading stunt gone wrong landed Stephanie (Rebel Wilson) in a 20-year coma. Now she’s 37, newly awake and ready to live out her high school dream: becoming prom queen.
 

Animation: Apollo 10 ½
A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
 

Romance: How Do You Know (2010)
After being cut from thd U.S.A. softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa (Reese Witherspoon) finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy (Paul Rudd) in crisis competes with her current, baseball playing beau (Owen Wilson).
 

Horror: Dark Shadows (2012)
An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp), is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
 

Science Fiction: Mute (2018)
A mute bartender (Alexander Skarsgård) goes up against his city’s gangsters (Justin Theroux, Paul Rudd) to find out what happened to his missing partner
 

Crime : Papillon (2017)
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere (Charlie Hunnam) forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega (Rami Malek), in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island.
 

Thriller: Taken (2008)
A retired CIA agent (Liam Neeson) travel across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter (Maggie Grace), who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
 

Documentary: Our Father (2022)
After a woman’s at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
 

Family: The Karate Kid (2010)
Work causes a single mother (Taraji P. Henson) to move to China with her young son (Jaden Smith); in his new home the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master (Jackie Chan).

Netflix Friday - Volume 106

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 

Action: Mandy (2018)
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
 

Drama: Ben is Back (2018)
A drug addicted teenage boy (Lucas Hedges) shows up unexpectedly at his family’s home on Christmas Eve.
 

Comedy: This is the End (2013)
Six Los Angeles celebrities are stuck in James Franco’s house after a series of devastating events just destroyed the city. Inside, the group not only have to face the apocalypse, but themselves.
 

Animation: Arriety (2010)
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family’s residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter, Arriety, is discovered.
 

Romance: Austenland (2013)
Obsessed with Pride and Prejudice, a woman (Keri Russell) travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.
 

Horror: Halloween (2018)
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) confronts her long-life foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
 

Science Fiction: The 5^th Wave (2016)
Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz) is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.
 

Crime: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
When a depressed woman (Melanie Lynskey) is burgled, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor (Elijah Wood). But they soon find themselves dangerously out of the depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
 

Thriller: I See You (2019)
Strange occurrences plague a small town detective (Jon Tenney) and his family as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy.
 

Documentary: Jackass Forever (2022)
After 11 years, the Jackass crew is back for another crusade.
 

Family: Mr. Bean’s Holliday (2007)
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson_ wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love.