Best Netflix Original Movies To Watch In 2. Netflix has been steadily putting out original content since 2. While they have bought the rights to many properties throughout the years, they’ve also self- commissioned a number of original TV shows, films, and documentaries. Starting with House of Cards, they’ve since released shows like Orange is the New Black, Bloodline, and Stranger Things, which have gone on to win Golden Globe and SAG awards, making them competitive with the major networks and studios. Ever since 2. 01.

Beasts of No Nation was released, Netflix has been steadily snatching up distribution for a number of indie films as well as providing funding for their own interesting projects. More and more filmmakers are choosing Netflix over traditional theatrical releases because of its accessibility in over 1. They’ve also been known to allow a lot more creative freedom on behalf of the filmmakers, which obviously makes them more attractive than restrictive movie studios.

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In 2. 01. 7 alone, they’ve slated over 3. Here are the 1. 5 you need to keep an eye out for. Small Crimes. Picked up ahead of its SXSW debut, Small Crimes features Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster- Waldau as Joe, a corrupt ex- cop who went to jail for, you guessed it, his “small crimes.” Newly freed, Joe tries to start over, but he can’t seem to shake his past deeds and the people affected by his crimes. It’s a classic scenario of will- he- won’t- he, as Joe’s tempted by the constant lure of criminal activity and corruption. Based on a novel of the same name by Dave Zeltserman, the film was adapted by E. L Katz (Cheap Thrills) and Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore).

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Both filmmakers got their start in the horror genre and have transitioned into black comedies of the indie crime persuasion. The film also stars House of Cards star Molly Parker as Joe’s love interest, along with Office Space’s Gary Cole as Joe’s former police superior. Look for it to hit Netflix later this month, on April 2. Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie. Known for his supporting roles in The Goldbergs, Arrested Development, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Garlin finally has a chance to shine in the lead role for Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie. Garlin co- wrote the film along with Andrea Seigel, the screenwriter for Laggies, which Garlin also appeared in.

It seems like a strange pairing since Seigel mainly delves into the minds of teenagers (both on film and in her novels), but coming of age stories aren’t just about growing up—they’re about evolving into your full potential. There lies the comedy (and tragedy) for Handsome, as he doesn’t seem to have gripped this concept, even in middle age. Set in the 1. 98. Garlin plays Gene Handsome, a quirky detective who’s good at his job, but frequently gets in his own way (especially when it comes to his personal life). While Handsome’s no Adrian Monk, his comedic chops take center stage as he sets out to solve a woman’s murder. Garlin also directed the film, which drops May 5th, and co- stars Natasha Lyonne and Amy Sedaris among other familiar comedic faces. War Machine. Brad Pitt’s first foray into Netflix territory comes in the form of War Machine, a film loosely based on the late Michael Hastings’ Rolling Stonesexpos.

While not a direct adaptation, the film throws a satirical slant on Mc. Chrystal’s role during the war in Afghanistan as commander of US and NATO forces. To separate truth from fiction, the Mc. Chrystal character has been renamed Mc. Mahon, and the White House staff bears no resemblance to the Obama administration it’s based on.

Like his real world counterpart, Mc. Mahon (Pitt) is determined to accomplish the task he was hired for: winning the war in Afghanistan and getting America’s troops the hell out of there.

However, even as a military man, Mc. Mahon doesn’t always play by the rules or know when to keep his big mouth shut. War Machine features an all- star cast including Tilda Swinton, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Michael Hall, and Topher Grace—premiering May 2. Netflix. 1. 2. Okja. Joon- Ho Bong’s newest endeavor, Okja, sees the return of Snowpiercer alum Tilda Swinton, along with appearances from Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Netflix allegedly handed over a cool $5. Bong complete creative control (something he struggled with on Snowpiercer). The film focuses on the relationship between a young Korean girl, Mija (played by Seo- Hyun Ahn), and a mysterious creature named Okja. Although we only see a close- up of the creature’s eye and part of its face in the trailer, it looks pretty harmless, especially in comparison to Bong’s creature in The Host.

According to the official synopsis, it seems humans are the terrorizers this time, as a large multi- national company tries to kidnap the creature, probably with the intention of exploitation. Touted as a coming- of- age film, Mija’s journey is the central focus as she’s exposed to the “harsh realities of genetically modified food experimentation, globalization, eco- terrorism, and humanity’s obsession with image, brand, and self- promotion.” Definitely ranking as one of the most highly anticipated Netflix original films for 2. Okja is available for streaming on June 2.

Naked. Fans of the Wayans family’s films will be excited to know that Netflix is set to release Marlon’s newest creation, Naked, on August 1. While his last productions were spoofs of popular American films, Naked is actually a remake of the 2. Swedish film, Naken. It’s basically Groundhog Day, but naked in an elevator, the film focuses on a man who’s forced to repeat the morning of his wedding until he can get things right. Hilarity ensues as he’s humiliated over and over again, much to the delight of the audience. Michael Tiddes, Haunted House and Fifty Shades of Black director,returns for Naked, as does writer, Rick Alvarez.

Expect the same outrageous, gross- out humor as their other films, possibly with some male full frontal shots thrown in (the original film was full of them). Also starring alongside Marlon is Regina Hall, who has appeared in all four Wayans- produced Scary Movie films to date. To the Bone. To the Bone was one of eight feature films acquired by Netflix that premiered at Sundance this year. It stars actress/singer Lily Collins as a twenty- year- old anorexic who goes to live in a group home for girls with eating disorders. While writer/director Marti Noxon based the story on her own struggles with both anorexia and bulimia in her teens and twenties, Collins also revealed that she too struggled with an eating disorder in her teens as well. Despite dealing with such intense subject material that hits so close to home for those involved, To the Bone manages to find humor in the darkness as well. It currently sports a healthy 8.

Rotten Tomatoes. Much of the narrative centers on Collins’ character confronting her illness with the help of an unconventional doctor, played by Keanu Reeves. Since there’s no trailer yet, we’re unsure of the dynamic that exists between Collins’ and Reeves’ characters, but, according to an interview conducted by Kevin Smith during Sundance, Reeves won’t be John Wick- ing the anorexia out of his patient. Death Note. Another manga adaptation stirring up controversy for “whitewashing,” Death Note, like Ghost in the Shell, cast primarily white actors in a story originally featuring Asian characters. Luckily for Death Note, it won’t suffer from embarrassing box office numbers, like Ghost in the Shell has, since it’s only scheduled for a streaming release on August 2. Still, the film, which stars The Fault in Our Stars’ Nat Wolff as Light Turner (Light Yagami in the manga) may face a boycott from diehard fans who aren’t thrilled with the casting. In fact, the only role they don’t seem to have a problem with is the death demon Ryuk, voiced by Willem Dafoe. For those unfamiliar with the story, Death Note follows a high school student who finds a supernatural notebook owned by a Shinigami, or death demon.

As you can probably guess, last week’s episode of Game of Thrones—and its increasing dominance over the pop culture landscape—has filled the ol’ postman’s stolen mailbag to the brim. There are a few spoilers for last week’s episode, but more importantly, an answer to a question we should have been asking ourselves since the first episode: Should we want Daenerys and Jon Snow to fuck? Aunt, Man. Aaron W.: So I’ve been struggling with this question a lot: Is it ok to . So the aunt/nephew dynamic is an absolute deal breaker to modern audiences, but maybe wouldn’t be the worst thing in Westeros? Lots of reasons it would be good, but one BIG reason it is unacceptable. Thoughts? Shipping is. I’ve seen worse than aunt and nephew.

And the show is definitely presenting them as future romantic partners/fuckbuddies, which makes it as legitimate as these things get. Their familial relationship may freak you out, but that’s sort of the point. How To Watch Downsizing (2017) Online here. GRRM wants to show a medieval, feudal- type era with all the awfulness most fantasies skip over. The relentless sexism, the rape and torture, the horror that regular people could and did experience constantly as the result of what the nobility chose to do—you can absolutely complain about how omnipresent it is in his stories and/or how it’s portrayed, but it’s not inaccurate to the source material of that reality. And one part of that reality is medieval (and certainly ancient) nobility’s tendency toward incest, especially between uncles and nieces—to the point where its got its own name, avunculate marriage.

As you said, the books/show have already shown that Targaryens have been more than willing to marry within the family in order to keep their bloodline pure, so there’s a precedent for Jon and Dany starting a relationship. And since we’re talking about an aunt and nephew here (since Jon is the son of Dany’s deceased brother Rhaegar) and not uncle/niece, a Jon/Dany hook- up would. I am far more skeptical that Jon would be cool with sleeping with his aunt, given the rest of Westeros isn’t nearly as cool with incest (hence Cersei and Jaime’s hiding of their sexual relationship—well, until Cersei took the throne and decided that yes, in fact, as queen she gets to have sex with anyone she wants, and everyone else has to deal with it. Or be tortured and killed).

But Jon’s problem is easily solved by keeping his parentage from him until after Ice and Fire have fucked each other. In fact, I suspect Bran is keeping/will keep the truth of Jon’s parentage from everyone until after Daenerys gets pregnant for that very reason. The Three- Eyed Raven knows this has to happen, so mum’s the word for now Or GRRM—or the show, for that matter, since we know it’s diverging from GRRM’s plan in major ways—could just throw a curveball and have Dany marry Gendry, the closest thing King Robert had to a legitimate heir, combining the Targaryen and Baratheon lines to create a progeny whose claim to the throne is unassailable throughout Westeros. Actually, that’s a pretty good idea!

He’s way at the bottom . No way Bronn can hold his breath long enough to get down there, cut all the straps to all the pieces of the armor, pull them off, and then also pull him to safety before they both drown. I’m not going to say it’s unrealistic, since Jaime was pushed into the water to avoid a dragon, but the point of Game of Thrones is that it has fantasy elements but it’s still realistic in the basic laws of physics. So isn’t Jaime getting rescued impossible?

You bring up a good point about fantasy, in that the best fantasy has a set of rules, even if the audience doesn’t know them, and doesn’t break them. Someone suddenly having a “hoist person out of lake” spell to save Jaime would be dumb. Tyrion running down the hell and begging Dany to have Drogon fish the dude who was about to kill her out of the lake is more realistic for Go. T, but implausible in terms of Dany’s character and the time it would take for Tyrion to get down to Dany and ask for her to save his brother. So that leaves Bronn. Here’s one thing we all need to make our peace with first, right now: Game of Thrones the TV show has begun playing fast and loose with strict reality in favor of presenting the most exciting story possible.

This is how armies and fleets are moving gargantuan distances in- between and sometimes even during episodes. It’s why Tyrion can pick out Jaime from half a mile away amid a battlefield full of smoke and destruction. It’s why Cersei and her allies can suddenly kick ass or all of Highgarden’s gold can get into King’s Landing with a mutter and a handwave. There are only nine episodes left, total, as of the time this mailbag hits the nerdernet. The show doesn’t have any time to waste. Yes, part of the reason the books are so good is because they were sprawling and complicated in the way life is, and yes, the show is 1.

I also, as I mentioned in my recap this week, think it doesn’t make any narrative sense for Bronn to push Jaime out of the way of a giant cone of dragon breath into a lake, only to have him immediately drown—if Weiss and Benioff are going to kill the character, having Jaime get turned into cinders by Drogon is a much, much cooler death. So I think the show will forgo realism (I mean, how was that lake at the side of that road a full 3. Bronn will cut Jaime out of his armor and drag him to the surface (because Jaime is the one who’s going to give him a castle, after all), and the Lannister will probably live to fight another day. And I also think he’ll be the one to perform those (book spoilers) valonqar duties, and obviously, he can’t do that if he’s dead. Last time I looked, I didn’t see any friendly priests of R’hllor nearby. Where to even begin? Ser Barristan would have been the most solid member of Daenerys’ Queensguard due to military and combat experience, but his relationship to Rhaegar is most interesting.

When Dany tells Jon that everyone loves doing what they’re best at, Jon disagrees. Ser Barristan once told Dany a similar story about her brother Rhaegar preferring singing in the street to killing. I also imagine Ser Barristan recognizing the late prince’s resemblance in Jon’s face, posture, or personality. Although Jon is very much Ned Stark in code and hair color, there would be a few opportunities for the show to make that connection. Are there any dead characters that would’ve enhanced the current story we have without breaking the series?

Barristan had to die because he had too many answers. He knew Rhaegar well, and he likely knew what Rhaegar was doing when he kidnapped Lyanna, or at the very least he knew whether Lyanna was kidnapped or went with him willingly. Even though we know the result of their union was Jon Snow, the reason why Rhaegar kidnapped her, thus starting a chain of events that killed most of his family and ended their dynasty, is such an integral mystery that it’s going to need to be saved until the very end of the series. Barristan may well have had those answers. The show could get away with not acknowledging this for a bit, while he hadn’t been in Daenerys’ service for long and wasn’t completely trusted. When Dany realized that Barristan knew her family pretty intimately, and was beginning to ask questions about them—well, that’s when he had to go.

Barristan literally died in the same episode he began to tell stories Rhaegar (“Sons of the Harpy,” episode five). So yes, Barristan would added a great deal to the proceedings, but would have added too much, too soon.

My pick would be either Oberyn or Doran Martell, if only so one of them could make the Dorne storyline worth a damn. It would be cool so see Dorne have a major role to play in the great war other than serving as Cersei fodder. If a good Dorne storyline is off the table, I have to go Stannis, actually. Seeing him somehow bend the knee to Jon Snow and becoming part of the fight against the White Walkers would be really satisfying on a lot of levels, I think.

But those are just mine—add and explain yours in the comments.