Lots of goodies this month. The lauded animated series The Adventures of Tintin, the classic Bowie vision of the Walter Tevis novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, the Oscar-winning Rango, and the epic Ran all make their Netflix premieres this month. 70s and 80’s TV invade this month with Knight Rider, Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, Quincy, M.E., and the 1960s Adam-12 for good measure all make their appearance.
* streaming for the first time via Netflix.
Premiering March 1:
*Adam-12 (1968)
*The Adventures of Tintin (1991) I hope as promised that this is better than the wretched Spielberg version
*Amazing Stories (1985)
*An American Haunting
*The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Beverly Hills Cop III Emblematic of John Landis’s and Eddie Murphy’s mediocre outputs in the 1990s
*Dororo
*Dragnet (1967)
*The Gate
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
*Ghost Hunters: International
*Ghosts of Goldfield
Going Berserk
Half Past Dead
*In My Sleep I reviewed this in 2010. “With a telegraphed plot and stereotypical conclusions, “In My Sleep” struggles to achieve the level of a low-budget 1990s Lifetime movie.”
*In the Cold of the Night
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
*Knight Rider (1982)
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
*Magnum P.I.
*The Man Who Fell to Earth
*Miami Vice (1984)
*The Muse
*Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown
Opal Dream
*The Oregonian
Pi If you haven’t seen Aronofsky’s haunting, cerebral first film, watch it now or forever turn in your geek badge!
Project X
*Quincy, M.E.
*Ran (1985)
*The Sci-Fi Boys This looks interesting
*Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Ignore the movie and do the smart thing and just listen to the original album
*Sitting Ducks (2001)
*The Skulls 2
The Wraith (1986)
*Wushu
*Young Hercules
Premiering March 6:
*Babar (1989) So I like Babar. Sue me
Babar, King of the Elephants
Babar: The Movie
Premiering March 8:
*Jeepers Creepers
Premiering March 10:
*1911 (Xinhai geming) Directed by and starring Jackie Chan
Premiering March 16:
*The Tale of Despereaux
Premiering March 20:
*This Is Not a Movie
Premiering March 25:
*The Sacred Blacksmith
Premiering March 31:
*Rango (2011) The best animated feature of 2011! From my review:
| Quote: |
| In a seemingly impossible bit of movie alchemy, director Gore Verbinski (“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”), with the aid of Johnny Depp, masterfully combines “Chinatown,” Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name films and the best of Looney Tunes into the hilarious and entertaining “Rango.” |
Titles expiring soon
Mixed within the usual array of crap are several films that should be seen before they disappear: La Femme Nikita, The Odd Couple, Seraphim Falls, Soap (at least Season One), Dagon and Escape from New York
Expiring March 1:
Alien Trespass
The Broken (2008)
The Burrowers
Caligula (1979)
Can We Make it to Mars?: Nova scienceNOW
Carriers (2009)
Charlie’s Angels (2000)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Cool World
The Dead Hate the Living!
Dead Pool
Death Becomes Her
Demonic Toys
The Descent: Part 2
The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Series
Dollman
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Driftwood (2006)
The Electric Company: Season 1 (2009)
The Emperor and the Assassin (Jing Ke ci Qin Wang)
The Enforcer (1976)
Flash Gordon (1980) All together now.
| Quote: |
| Flash – a-ah – saviour of the universe Flash – a-ah – he’ll save everyone of us Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Flash – a-ah – he’s a miracle Flash – a-ah – king of the impossible |
Franklyn
The Funhouse
The Gods Must Be Crazy 2
The Gravedancers
Howard the Duck Beloved by a few and villified by many, this clunker managed to derail any serious comic book adaptation attempts for nearly a decade.
Iceman
Intruder (1989) Co-stars Bruce Campbell & Sam Raimi!
Jetsons: The Movie
Kill Theory
La Femme Nikita (1990) The original French masterpiece, basis for an American remake and two TV series, is a must see for all action film fans. One of the very best of its type.
Lake Mungo
Laserblast
The Last Action Hero
The Machinist
The Odd Couple (1968) May not fit perfectly on this list but one of my all time favorite movies.
Panic Room
Puppet Master 2: His Unholy Creations
Radio Flyer
Return of the Living Dead 3
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rugrats Go Wild
The Seeker’s Guide to Harry Potter
Seraphim Falls Unheralded horror-western hybrid. From my review of the DVD release: “[Director David Von Ancken] successfully weaves action, touches of humor, and moribund bizarreness in his picture.”
Sesame Street (1969)
The Seventh Sign
Silent Running
Soap The first season may be one of the funniest shows ever.
Stripes
Subspecies
Subspecies 2: Bloodstone
Suspect Zero
Trancers 2: The Return of Jack Deth
Wicked Little Things
Zombies of Mass Destruction
Expiring March 7:
Jackie Chan: Kung Fu Master
Expiring March 9:
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: The Original Animated Series
The Littles
Expiring March 10:
Almighty Thor This SyFy “original” film was a blatant attempt to cash in on some of the Marvel money.
Expiring March 14:
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Expiring March 15:
Alphaville
Animal Crackers: Season 1
Arachnid
The Baby’s Room
Beast Within (2008)
Boy Eats Girl
C.C. and Company
]i]Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever[/i]
Comic Book Villains
Dagon The fantastic third segment of Stuart Gordon’s Lovecraft trilogy
The Entrance
Escape from New York Some of the finest awesome sauce available
The Evil Woods
Frayed
Gamebox 1.0
Haunted Boat
Jade Warrior
King Cobra
The Last Warrior (2001)
The Man in the White Suit
Murder by Decree Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper starring Christopher Plummer, James Mason, and Donald Sutherland
Mystery Team
Nine Lives
Ninja’s Creed
Séance (2006)
Summer’s Moon
Swamp Thing
Three Kingdoms
Village of the Giants
Zapped!
Expiring March 16:
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations I didn’t even know they had made a two. Not that I really cared
From Within
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Blood Waters of Dr. Z
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beatniks
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Crawling Eye
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Final Sacrifice
Expiring March 17:
Ghost Adventures: Season 3
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera I own the recent release of the unedited, original Japanese version of Gamera. I highly recommend that edition. A great film.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Barugon Ditto goes for the unedited Barugon
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Gaos
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Guiron
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Zigra
Expiring March 20:
Contact
Expiring March 22:
Basket Case (1982)
Bloodthirst 2: Revenge of the Chupacabras
Hell’s Gate (2002)
Hellion: The Devil’s Playground
Invaders from Mars (1953)
It’s Alive (2008)
Lost Tribe (2010)
The Prisoner (1990)
The Secret (2007)
Thriller: Season 1 The classic anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff
Virtual Girl
Expiring March 24:
The Boondock Saints
Expiring March 25:
Conceiving Ada While an intelligent, well-conceived movie about Ada Lovelace would be more than welcome, this stupid-sounding film is not it
Expiring March 26:
Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
Samurai Champloo
Expiring March 28:
Alice in Wonderland (1949)
Legion of the Dead (2002)
The above is accurate as of February 28. As with all things streaming, the info is in constant flux. YMMV.
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Impending Geekgasm on Netflix Instant Watch – March edition was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon