During the Academy Awards, all I looked forward to was Idina Menzel’s performance. I was actually more interested in what would win the Best Original Song Oscar more so than I cared about Best Picture. It was a weird night as I watched through Pharell getting the joint jumping, Bono’s wailing walrus, and Karen O’s mystifying vocal. Then it was Menzel’s turn when John Travolta wrongly pronounced her name. Coincidentally, her performance that night was a little rough too.
But whatever, Netflix will never pronounce my name wrong. This week, a whole bunch of films return to the service like Desperado, Star Kid, and Dirty Dancing. So many returning in fact, I won’t list them here. Oh and for the record, my “Travoltfiied” (according to Slate) name is Nairn Mceezald.
Hit the jump for the list of Netflix Instant additions for the week.
- 1:1 Thierry Harry
- 28 Days
- About Last Night
- Adventures in Zambezia
- All the Pretty Horses
- All Wifed Out
- And Then Came Lola
- Arthur and the Invisibles
- As Good as it Gets
- The Baby Sitters Club
- The Bad News Bears
- Beethoven’s 2nd
- Below
- Being Mary Jane
- Big Sur
- The Blair Witch Project
- Blood and Bone
- Blood: The Last Vampire
- Bobby Z
- The Book of Daniel
- Brokedown Palace
- Bugsy
- The Caller
- Can’t Hardly Wait
- Capote
- The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
- Center Stage
- The Chaperone
- Chasing Beauty
- Das Boot: Director’s Cut
- Deal
- The Delinquents
- Desperado
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Dirty Dancing
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Dogtown and Z-Boys
- Donnie Brasco
- Dr. Strangelove
- Easy Rider
- Edison Force
- El Mariachi
- The Experiment
- The Final Cut
- Foolproof
- The Fisher King
- Flyboys
- Fright Night
- Game of Death
- Ghostbusters II
- Girl, Interrupted
- The Glass House
- The Hard Word
- Harsh Times
- Heaven’s Burning
- The Hit List
- The House of the Dead 2: No Guts, No Glory
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
- The Ice Storm
- Into the Mind
- The Iran Job
- Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore
- It Could Happen to You
- Just One of the Guys
- Kicking and Screaming
- King Pingu
- Last Action Hero
- Legendary
- Les Miserables
- Linsanity
- The Long Goodbye
- The Long, Hot Summer
- Look Who’s Talking
- Look Who’s Talking Too
- Men in Black II
- Midnight Express
- Mistress
- The Mothman Prophecies
- Mr. Angel
- My Boss’s Daughter
- Night of the Living Dead
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
- Not Another Teen Movie
- O.C. and Stiggs
- On the Line
- Open Season 2
- Open Season 3
- Otto the Rhino
- Over the Top
- Pandora’s Promise
- Panic Room
- Pingu: Slipping and Sliding
- Pokemon: Black & White
- Pokemon: Indigo League
- Pokemon Black: Victini and Reshiram
- Pokemon White: Victini and Zekrom
- Private Romeo
- Quarantine 2: Terminal
- Rachel Getting Married
- Rake
- RAKE
- Return to the Blue Lagoon
- Real Husbands of Hollywood
- Riding in Cars with Boys
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Roman Holiday
- Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
- Schlussmacher
- Seems Like Old Times
- Serpico
- Shriek IF You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th
- The Shunning
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Silverado
- A Slipping Down Life
- Something’s Gotta Give
- Spider-Man
- Spy Kids 3: Game Over
- Star Kid
- Starship Troopers 3 : Marauder
- Starship Troopers: Invasion
- The Station Agent
- Steel Magnolias
- Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams
- Streamers
- Stuart Little
- Summer’s Moon
- The Swan Princess 2: Secret of the Castle
- The Swan Princess Christmas
- The Swan Princess
- The Sweetest Thing
- SWAT: Fire Fight
- Sweetwater
- Tad: The Last Explorer
- Taxi Driver
- Thieves Like Us
- True Grit
- Two Can Play That Game
- The United States of Leiland
- Urban Legends: Final Cut
- Valkyrie
- Vanilla Sky
- Vertical Limit
- Vincent & Theo
- While You Were Sleeping
- Wild Things
- With a Friend Like Harry
- The Wood
- You Got Served: Beat the World
- Zombies of Mass Destruction
New additions to Netflix Watch Instantly apply only to readers in the United States. For those in other parts of the world, your choices may vary.
Weekly Netflix Now Awards
Most Likely to be Watched First
Pokemon: Indigo League
Most Likely to be Rewatched First
Ghostbusters II
Most Likely to Never Leave My Queue
Pokemon: Indigo League
Most Likely to be Watched Out of Perverse Curiousity
The House of the Dead 2: No Guts, No Glory
Wide Releases Made to be Seen via Netflix Instant
Sweetwater
Thanks for Coming Back to Netflix
Star Kid
Best Title
You Got Served: Beat the World
