By After last week’s Cartoon Network infusion on Netflix Now, we’re back to another sparse week, giving me a few extra minutes to look up world news and catch up with current events… and basically worry. Things are getting kind of tense with North Korea (again), as Kim Jong Un is now set to test a medium-range missile. This will most likely coincide with the birthday of the country’s founder Kim Il Sung (April 15). Here’s hoping China steps in, apologizes for its friend’s behavior, and helps North Korea into a cab.
You can count everything on Netflix Watch Instantly this week on your fingers and toes, especially if you’re missing a hand. (Fewer digits are needed given the repeats from last week.) The biggest title is Scream 4, though the standout may be Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet, a documentary on a guitarist with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) who still continues to write music. (I remember reading an article about him back in the 1990s in either Guitar Player or Guitar One magazine.) Missed the Jason Becker film at DOC NYC last year, but now I get to give it a watch.
After the cut, all the new stuff on Netflix Instant, as well as Dennis Rodman, a little bit of Vice, and a full-length Best Korean monster movie (made by a kidnapped South Korean filmmaker).
- After Kony: Staging Hope
- Bobcat Goldthwait: You Don’t Look the Same Either
- Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance
- El Infierno
- Feast of the Assumption: BTK and the Otero Family Murders
- Girl Model
- I Survived BTK
- Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
- Lay the Favorite
- Mafia
- Recipe of Love
- Scream 4
- Shelter Me
- Three Stars
- Voltron: Lion Force
Weekly Netflix Now Awards
Most Likely to Be Watched First
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
Honorable mention: Voltron: Lion Force
Documentary I’m Most Interested In
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
Is It Built to Scale?
Girl Model
I Scream, You Scream, We All…
Scream 4 (ice cream)
That Sounds a Little Dirty
Lay the Favorite
Titles from Last Week That Reappeared on the RSS Feed This Week
After Kony: Staging Hope, Feast of the Assumption: BTK and the Otero Family Murders, Girl Model, Shelter Me, Voltron: Lion Force
Title from Last Week Most Likely to Be Watched This Week
Young Mr. Lincoln
Best Subtitle
(Bobcat Goldthwait:) You Don’t Look the Same Either
Best Subtitle That Should Appear on My Business Cards
(Carl Panzram:) The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance
Best Title
Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance
