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Here’s an all-new episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? where we take a look at all of the new movies and shows coming to Netflix in May 2022! Afterwards we watch as a bunch of actors get talked into doing a big-budget movie right in the midst of the pandemic where everything that could possibly go wrong does in Judd Apatow’s The Bubble from 2022. Then two high-schoolers try to start a metal band, but first they have a lot of growing up to do in the coming-of-age comedy, Metal Lords from 2022. And finally, the true story of painter, Margaret Keane, whose husband scammed the world when he convinced everyone that he was the artist behind his wife’s paintings in Big Eyes from 2014. All of this plus which of the 3 Ninjas sequels are worth watching, magical mailboxes that work on love, James getting heated about Ghost in the Shell and then getting excited again, someone finally made a movie about motocross, people can’t get enough Lincoln lawyers, Stranger Things chat, and the return of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that isn’t quite what we expected. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

On this episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we go through a list of all 110 (that’s right 110!!) of the new releases that are hitting Netflix this month and it is a doozy! Then Lakeith Stanfield gets a job as a telemarketer until he finds out that upper management has been horsing around in the surreal, Sorry to Bother You from 2018. Next, in a bleak post-apocalyptic future, Noomi Rapace has to transport some canisters across a frozen body of water in Black Crab from 2022. And finally, Jason Segel takes Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins hostage at their remote vacation home in the stark, Windfall from 2022. All of this plus the real reason why no one wants to watch dance-battle movies anymore, films that function as iPod commercials, debating whether we should call Saul, no one likes girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch, lying your way to game show success, and Amish people gonna get the party started! got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

Can you believe it’s our seventh year doing What’s New to Netflix Instant!? We can’t, but apparently we have. So, as is our tradition every year as a podcast we are doing a full-length audio commentary of a movie streaming on Netflix right now at this very moment! Tonight’s feature is The One from 2001, starring a multi-dimensional Jet Li kicking his own ass while gaining super powers in the process. Sounds ridiculous? You bet it is!! WARNING: This is not a typical episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? This is an audio commentary. This episode is meant to be listened to while you watch The One. If you try to listen to this episode and you are not watching The One along with us, a lot of this will not make any sense. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

Here’s a brand spanking new episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? and we’ve got the dirty job of telling you about all of the recent titles coming to Netflix in March 2022!   Then we watch as DJ Qualls goes from zero to hero and back to zero again in the pop-punk sex comedy/coming of age film The New Guy from 2002. Next, Jean-Pierre Jeunet brings us a goofy and absurd look at a group of people trapped in a house with a slew of malfunctioning robots in Bigbug from 2022. And last, we look at the latest Leatherface film which serves as a direct sequel to the original in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, also from 2022.   All of this plus non-horror Stephen King prison movies, treasure hunting, Power Rangers vs. Pokémon, chips vs. potatoes, Australian influencers, Ryan Reynolds, vegan cannibals, the importance of good soil, cake, Drake, and innovations in bathing.   got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

For the shortest month of the year there are quite a lot of new movies and shows that are coming to Netflix in February 2022 and What’s New to Netflix Instant!? has got you covered on all of them! Later we check out the infamous NXIVM cult which was responsible for brainwashing such personalities as Allison Mack from Smallville and Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter among many others in Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter from 2019. Then, Guillermo Del Toro and the guy who directed Trollhunter bring Alvin Schwartz’s creepy childhood book series to the big screen in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark from 2019. And finally, Ben Affleck stars and directs the critically and commercially acclaimed, The Town, a heist movie about of a group of Boston criminals that rob banks, from 2010. All of this plus big-game hunting, con artists, infidelity, murder, blind dates, cookie-cutter plots, tall girls, Kanye, cupheads, chainsaws, halloween, Madea, and everything else you need to have the most romantic Valentine’s Day ever! got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

Another year, another podcast. This month on What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we reflect on 2021 when we talk about our favorite and least-favorite films we reviewed on the show in the past year all before going through the new stuff coming to Netflix in January 2022. Then Benedict Cumberbatch gets upset when his brother, Jesse Plemons, hastily marries Kirsten Dunst, and when her son comes to live with them the tension builds to a fever pitch in Jane Campion’s western, The Power of the Dog from 2021. Next, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, and Denise Richards have threesomes and do awful things for money but who’s playing who, and who could be playing all three of them? We find out in the twist-heavy Wild Things from 1998. And finally, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are scientists that discover a comet headed for earth, but no one cares that the world is going to end, especially President Meryl Streep and her son, Jonah Hill, in the satire, Don’t Look Up from 2021.  All of this plus Mark Zuckerberg removed our Facebook page, Jack Black with dreads, TikTok meets The Real World, Riverdance: The Animated Adventure, ripping off Saved by the Bell,  Kevin James: Pee Wee Football Coach, and The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window and other ridiculously long-titled shows for people that are really into ridiculously long-titled shows for the purpose of comedy. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

‘Tis the last episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? for 2021, and we take a break from watching the ol’ YouTube yule log and getting blitzed on alcoholic cider to tell you the naughty and nice new titles that are coming down your Netflix chimney in December! Then we watch an Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy classic! No, it’s not Jingle All the Way, it’s the movie with its own metaverse way before that was even a thing, Last Action Hero from 1993. Then Kelsey Grammer abandons his family and then decides to return thirty years later in Father Christmas Is Back from 2021. And, Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot are all trying to steal some priceless eggs while cracking jokes and a few ribs in Red Notice, also from 2021. All of this plus Netflix bought all of MTV’s worst reality shows! We also got more heists, more mixtapes, more sheep, more centaurs! There are people thrown together, people sewn together, only the most elite of short stories, karate kids, cobra kais, seals vs. sharks, and so much more! got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

On this episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we go through all of the 114 movies and shows coming to your Netflix this November 2021! Later we check in with the original Lara Croft, Angelina Jolie, as she goes on a quest to locate Pandora’s Box, but can she can get there before some rich evil guy gets to it first? We find out when we explore Lara Croft Tombraider: The Cradle of Life from 2003. Next, inspired by a true story, what starts off as a found footage Superbad quickly escalates into one wild ass party which then turns into an all-out riot for a group of teens in, Project X from 2012. And finally, we crack the prequel to Army of the Dead, when we go on some insane heists featuring a German safecracker, his motley crew, and a whole lot of intricate mechanical locksmithery in Army of Thieves from 2021. All of this plus only kids can save Christmas, Colin Farrell doesn’t get his ass to mars, Netflix giving The Lifetime Channel a run for its money, the lost seasons of Survivor, the return of the Tiger King, and we both absolutely detest and relentlessly rip on the new Cowboy Bebop live-action reboot. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

We got an extra lengthy episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? this month because there are zillions of new titles hitting Netflix in October 2021 and we go through every single one of them! Then we check out what Mick Dundee is up to when he heads to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot that involves the smuggling of some very rare and expensive paintings in Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles from 2001. Next, Kid is off to college and his best friend Play just gave away his tuition check to some shady record executives, so they’ve got to throw a party to raise some money in House Party 2 from 1991. And finally, Martians are invading earth, destroying cities, and killing every famous celebrity from the mid-'90s, but what could possibly stop them? Find out when we get into the underrated sci-fi satire, Mars Attacks! from 1996. All of this plus musicals that shouldn’t be made, Al Gore being right the whole time, the obscene amount of money Netflix bought Seinfeld for, horse hitmen, no one knowing how many Pokémon there are, vagina-scented candles, sexy puppets, and the roaring twenties is now! kind of. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

We discuss a whole bunch of new movies and shows on What’s New to Netflix Instant!? for the month of September 2021, so check it out! Afterwards we check out some scientists that have inadvertently created some super smart sharks that cause all sorts of mayhem including devouring Samuel L. Jackson in the action-packed Deep Blue Sea from 1999. Next, John David Washington is on the run in Greece when he stumbles onto a conspiracy involving a kidnapped politician’s son in Beckett from 2021. And we learn about Bob Ross, his rise to success and the unfortunate deception that cost him his legacy in Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed also from 2021. All of this plus do you have what it takes to join The Circle? Do you have what it takes to give up sex? Do you have what it takes to play the Squid Game? Do you have what it takes to find out the correct order of Saved by the Bell’s episodes? Nevertheless, there’s sharks, sharkdogs, He-Men, Party Aunts, Octonauts, and much much more! got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

We start celebrating Halloween a little early this year on What’s New to Netflix Instant!? when we talk about all three of the new Fear Street movies streaming now on Netflix, but not before running down all of the new films and shows hitting Netflix in August 2021. Next, evil things are happening in the town of Shadyside when a masked murderer starts going after some teens in the first film of the series, Fear Street: Part One 1994. Then we go back in time to Camp Nightwing where the only survivor of the Shadyside killings tells her story of what really happened in Fear Street: Part Two 1978. And in the conclusion of the series, it’s up to the teens to figure out the root of all the evil in their hometown when they uncover a shocking secret in Fear Street: Part Three 1666. All of this plus glitchy Skype noise, disappearing wives and/or girlfriends, tournament-style anime shows, a real-life Breaking Bad Jr., fear of the internet, fear of social media, and a hockey team that had an offer they could not refuse. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

Welcome to our first in-person recording of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? in fifteen months! We have one-time guest of the show, Savannah, to join in on the fun as we go through all of the new films and titles coming to Netflix in July 2021. Then when Diane Lane gets kidnapped by an evil biker gang led by Willem Dafoe, it’s up to her ex-boyfriend and a band of misfits to rescue her in the rock and roll fable, Streets of Fire from 1984. Next, Liam Neeson and his brother have to transport cargo to save a group of trapped miners, but aside from dodging bad guys and avalanches they have to drive on roads made of thin ice in The Ice Road from 2021. And finally, it’s the completely inaccurate story of America animated through the lens of Adult Swim-styled irreverence and crude humor in America: The Motion Picture from 2021. All of this plus we sincerely apologize for the glitchy and annoying audio quality that appears near the end of the ‘July releases’ portion of the episode, however it seems to clear up significantly during our movie reviews. It was our first time recording IRL in a year and a half so cut us some slack!  got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

We were a little behind schedule this month due to getting all vaccinated for the summer, but on this episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we manage to do our best to cover all of the new content hitting Netflix this June 2021. Then we watch Steven Seagal take on a whole slew of bad guys when they hijack a battleship in the cheesy action flick, Under Siege from 1992. Next, Danny McBride and James Franco are knights that go on an epic quest where they must rescue Zooey Deschanel and smoke lots of weed in Your Highness from 2011. And finally, Zack Snyder* gets back into making zombie movies with the big dumb over-the-top action heist film, Army of the Dead from 2021.  All of this plus Steve Urkel as Sonic the Hedgehog, Tuxedo Mask and his suave ways, what it means to truly be elite, fried food, the return of rollerskating movies, pop music throughout the ages, and a threesome that might only be a twosome. *note: Any time I mention Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman, I meant to say Justice League. It’s all the same thing right?   got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

It’s a brand new episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? so we buckle down and go through the painstaking task of covering all of the new movies and shows hitting Netflix this May 2021. Then we join Joaquin Phoenix as he gets all tangled up with The Cause, a made-up religion invented by Philip Seymour Hoffman, in P.T. Anderson’s The Master from 2012. Next, a young girl marries Tom Hiddleston and heads to his haunted mansion where she encounters ghosts, a dubious sibling played by Jessica Chastain, and tons of red clay in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak from 2015. And last, Anthony Mackie discovers a drug that enables him to travel back in time, but when his friend’s daughter takes the drug and gets stuck in the past, it’s up to him to get her back in Synchronic from 2019. All of this plus the best of the best, money (how does it work?), another Rear Window remake, the legacy of Spy Kids, and Algorithms, Netflix & Robots? got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

For this episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we had the pleasure of talking with Colleen and Melissa, the stars of Netflix’s Pet Stars!  We talk about their company Pets On Q, how they got involved with Netflix, memorable experiences making the show, personal stories of friendship, and what life is like as a professional animal scout for the entertainment industry. We will be back with our regular format later in the month, but until then enjoy the interview and be sure to check out Pet Stars, which is streaming on Netflix right now! got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

On this episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? it’s springtime and love is in the air which is heavily apparent as we go through the list of new titles that are streaming on Netflix in April 2021. Then we recall our own personal experiences working at Blockbuster Video when we talk about the documentary, The Last Blockbuster from 2020. Next, Nicolas Cage and a group of Jiu Jitsu fighters have to stop an alien or a comet from annihilating the universe or something in the preposterous sci-fi action flick, Jiu Jitsu from 2020. And finally, Eric Andre and Lil Rey Howery drive across the country as unsuspecting people get roped into their zany antics in Bad Trip from 2021. All of this plus the story behind your favorite sweater, new movies sharing slightly similar titles to more popular films, Selma Blair sitcom nostalgia, the legitimacy of inventing new film cameras, the phenomenon of meditation apps, and the existential emptiness of animal influencers getting Netflix deals. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

In celebration of our 6th year as a podcast, we’re doing a full-length commentary of a film that’s streaming on Netflix right now! It’s all about that lovable, clueless Paul Rudd in the surprisingly heartfelt, Our Idiot Brother from 2011 also starring Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer as his three sisters. So fire up Netflix and queue up Our Idiot Brother along with this podcast and we’ll all get to enjoy the film like one big happy family! ***NOTE: THIS IS A FULL-LENGTH COMMENTARY OF OUR IDIOT BROTHER, NOT A REGULAR EPISODE. THIS IS MEANT TO BE LISTENED TO WHILE WATCHING OUR IDIOT BROTHER AND NOT ON ITS OWN*** got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

An all-new episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? brings all-new movies and shows to Netflix in March 2021, so we do our best to tell you what you should be checking out and what you might want to avoid this month. Afterwards we check out the big-budget Korean sci-fi action adventure film, Space Sweepers from 2021. Next, Rosamund Pike makes her living stealing from the elderly, but when she goes after the wrong people she gets in over her head with an organized crime boss, played by Peter Dinklage, in I Care a Lot from 2021. And finally, Owen Wilson relocates his family to Thailand just in time for a giant coup to overthrow the government and hunt him down in No Escape from 2015. All of this plus the ‘Z’ in Gen Z standing for zines, Team Rocket’s noble intentions, “killer sounds bro”, saying yes to everything has big disadvantages, a show starring those loveable millennials, real-life pirates, and clueless cake creators causing crazy cake-tastrophes. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

On this episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we broadcasted during the midst of the Snowpocalypse almost losing our electricity and sanity along the way. Then after going through all of the new titles coming to Netflix in February, we check into a psychiatric ward with Halle Berry as she is haunted by ghostly visions and the possibility that she murdered her husband in Gothika from 2003. Next, Nicolas Cage as well as a few comedians and language experts talk to us about swear words in the aptly named History of Swear Words from 2021. And finally, Jason Statham is trying to raise his daughter in a small town, but when the local meth dealer (played by James Franco) finds out he’s ex-DEA, he decides to make things interesting in Homefront from 2013. All of this plus mysterious deaths in mysterious towns, pole dancing, films that sound like Kevin Smith films but aren’t, The King of Queens takes on millennials, Bear Grylls tries to outdo The Crocodile Hunter, and when dogs might need an intervention. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com

It’s a whole new year so we here at What’s New to Netflix Instant!? waste no time talking about our favorite films of 2020 as well as the films we thought totally sucked! Then we go through all of the new titles hitting Netflix in January 2021!  Afterwards we venture to an alternate universe where puppets and mankind coexist together peacefully, only they don’t! It’s a violent, perverted, and often hilarious good time starring Melissa McCarthy and a whole lotta puppets in The Happytime Murders from 2018. Then, we watch David Fincher’s new biopic on Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of Citizen Kane, and all around veracious and quick-witted guy in Mank from 2020. And finally, we explore the complex relationship between Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal symbolized through a gritty revenge story that serves as a metaphor for their relationship in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals from 2016. All of this plus the benefits of minimalism, getting drunk and singing Guns N’ Roses songs, Joe Pesci soundboards, going off the grid before it was a ‘thing’, dubstep’s finest cinematic moment, and Sex and the City and Aliens. got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflixinstant@gmail.com