By With all the schizoid weather in New York right now, I really wish I was out there in the Riviera covering the Cannes Film Festival. I would wander around half-drunk and half-heat-stroked every day in a summer jacket and hat, watching movies to get out of the sun, giving weak high-fives and terrorist fist jabs to celebrities in crowded elevators, and speaking what little broken French I remember from college in order to woo les belles filles avec mon charme Americain.
Instead, I’m in my apartment wearing mismatched sandals wondering how I’m going to cook red potatoes for a late lunch. I’m also wondering what I may watch on Netflix Instant this weekend (other than Arrested Development, of course, which debuts on May 26th).
Compared to the last two weeks, it’s very light. Dragon (Wu Xia) with Donnie Yen has been added, as has The Dictator with Sasha Baron Cohen and Academy Award-winning thespian Sir Ben Kingsley. You can also watch Asylum’s cheap-o DTV rip-off Jack the Giant Killer, which, in all honesty, probably couldn’t be any better or worse than Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer.
Check out the new stuff on Netflix Instant after the cut, and prepare to get a little uncanny.
- At the Gate of the Ghost
- Bridezillas: Season 9
- The Dictator
- Donovan’s Echo
- Dragon
- The Flat
- The Great Magician
- Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
- Handy Manny: Season 3
- Jack the Giant Killer
- JoJo’s Circus: Season 1
- The Jungle Book
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Longmire: Season 1
- Neighboring Sounds
- Peep World
- Push Girls: Season 1
- Special Agent Oso: Season 1
- Struck by Lightning
- Suave Patria
- Tonight You’re Mine
- Travel the Road: Season 1
- Travel the Road: Season 2
- Travel the Road: Season 3
- Unconditional
- Wasted on the Young
- Young & Wild
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
The Great Magician
Most Likely to Be Rewatched First
Dragon
Most Likely to Be Watched out of Perverse Curiosity
Jack the Giant Killer
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Leaving Las Vegas
Honorable mention: Jack the Giant Killer
What Youth Is
Wasted on the Young
Mostly Grunts, Bed Springs, Violent Arguments, and Bad Gas
Neighboring Sounds
Honorable mention: Jack the Giant Killer
Easy There, Pal, I Hardly Even Know You
Tonight You’re Mine
Bes– G-G-G-G-GHOST!?
At the Gate of the Ghost
Best Title
Handy Manny
