You spent an entire afternoon writing your New Year’s Resolutions and most of you have already broken them. It’s okay, though. Just buy looser pants and enjoy all the cheese you want like proper human beings. If you’re into self-actualization through masochism, however, I say keep on keepin’ on, and pick up a wheel of Gloucester for me on your way back from your run.
If last week was a slow week on Netflix Now, this week is a big New Year’s purge, meaning that the Mayans were right. In my best documentaries of 2012 list, I mentioned that How to Survive a Plague was one of the docs I’ve been meaning to see from 2012, and it’s now available to stream. Red Lights with Cillian Murphy and Robert De Niro is also on Watch Instantly, and ditto the moon Nazi flick Iron Sky, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, The Devil Inside, and Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse.
Some classics have been added to Watch instantly in the last week, including Disney’s The Rescuers, Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn, Hondo and El Dorado with John Wayne, and the always awesome Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. There’s also a film called Afghan Luke, which may or may not be a play on Cool Hand Luke. Regardless, I hope the title character in that film also eats a bunch of hard-boiled eggs like a champ. (Full disclosure: I think there should be a hard-boiled egg scene in every movie.)
See what’s new on Netflix Watch Instantly after the cut. We also have some holiday leftovers, and a look at the future in A.D. 2000 — ohh, SWISH!
- Afghan Luke
- After Fall, Winter
- Ancient X-Files
- Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter
- Ben Franklin’s Pirate Fleet
- Biography of a Corpse
- Blue Valentine
- Bro’
- Caged Animal
- Campion
- Coach Carter
- The Company Men
- Counterterror NYC
- Dark Horse
- The Day I Saw Your Heart
- The Devil Inside
- The Dogs of War
- Drive Thru History
- El Dorado
- Employee of the Month
- Endless Love
- Escape from Alcatraz
- Felipe Esparza: They’re Not Going to Laugh at You
- For Love of the Game
- Found Memories
- Four Brothers
- Funny Face
- The Grudge 3
- Hard Times
- Hondo
- How to Survive a Plague
- I Am Slave
- An Inconvenient Truth
- The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
- Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
- Iron Sky
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home
- Ken Davis: Fully Alive
- Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
- Kickin’ It
- Lars and the Real Girl
- The League of Gentlemen
- Little Town of Bethlehem
- Locked Up Abroad
- The Lying Game
- Madhouse
- Mansfield Park
- Monica & David
- The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries
- Nantucket Film Festival’s Comedy Roundtable
- Navajo Cops
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold
- Night of the Living Dead: Reanimation
- Nowhere Boy
- October Sky
- One for the Money
- The Original Kings of Comedy
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Portlandia
- Post Impact
- Putin’s Kiss
- Red Lights
- Rescue: IMAX
- The Rescuers
- Sahara
- Sassy Pants
- SEC Storied: Croom
- SEC Storied: Lolo Jones
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- Smalltown, Italy
- Sniper: Reloaded
- Star Trek: Nemesis
- Stranded
- Stuart Saves His Family
- Switchback
- Tangled
- The Theatre Bizarre
- Treasure Planet
- The Truth Behind Zombies
- The Vicar of Dibley
- The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Specials
- Wicked Attraction
- Windtalkers
- World Without End
- Wreckers
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
How to Survive a Plague
Honorable mention: Iron Sky
Movie I’ve Been Meaning to See That I’ll Finally See
How to Survive a Plague
Honorable mention: Hondo
Most Likely to Be Watched Out of Perverse Curiosity
The Truth Behind Zombies
Wide-Release Movie Made to Be Seen via Netflix Instant
The Devil Inside
Honorable mentions: Treasure Planet, Star Trek: Nemesis
Romantic Comedy or Slasher Film?
The Day I Saw Your Heart
Probably Not as Good as the Charles Dickens Novel or the Baby Huey Song
Hard Times
What the Waitress at the Diner Calls Me
Sassy Pants
Honorable mention: Bro’
Simplifying the Complicated Way in Which We Measure Time
After Fall, Winter
Best Title
Ben Franklin’s Pirate Fleet
Honorable mention: Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
Best Title for Kick Buttowski’s Memoir
Kickin’ It
