This week our picks from Netflix’ latest releases includes a new episode of a well received TV series, an old classic that you’ve always been meaning to watch and a modern classic that you know you’ll want to watch again. Which is the pick of the week? Read on to find out….
Better Call Saul – season 2 episode 1– Slippin’ Jimmy is back! Rather than the usual full season dump that Netflix usually gives us, this time we’re getting each episode after it airs on AMC in America. So we’ll be getting one every week. Weirdly if you’re in America you’ll be seeing Better Call Saul appear on Amazon Instant Video. Anyway, if you liked the first season then you can follow season 2 from this week on.
The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman, in the time leading up to establishing his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. – IMDB
Dr. Strangelove – I’ve never seen it myself but it’s one of those films that keeps coming up in lists of top films and I keep meaning to watch it. Now that it’s on Netflix I’ve no excuse.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the US. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, stars Peter Sellers and George C. Scott. The film is loosely based on Peter George’s thriller novel Red Alert. The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It follows the President of the United States, his advisers as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. – Wikipedia
Pick of the week – Django Unchained – I could watch Christoph Waltz in pretty much anything. He was great in Inglorious Basterds and he’s just as great in this. If you haven’t seen it I suggest you take the opportunity now that its on Netflix. Tarantino is badly in need of an editor as you could easily shave off the last 25 minutes of Django and it would be a perfect film. That said, it’s such fun that you can forgive him his indulgences and almost forgive his Australian cameo.
Former dentist, Dr. King Schultz, buys the freedom of a slave, Django, and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of Django’s wife who is under the hands of Calvin Candie, a ruthless plantation owner. – IMDB
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