Category: Netflix 2021

https://youtu.be/T_JbFba2i6s 2.5/10 What is essentially a Hallmark movie made by Netflix, “A Castle for Christmas” will be loved by your drunk aunt on Christmas but any legitimate film fan will want to avoid this lump of coal. First off, if you have seen the trailer for this movie, then you’ve already seen the entire movie. … Continue reading #18 Netflix Film in 2021: A Castle for Christmas

https://youtu.be/aFI_aiidke0 5/10 As I selected three original Netflix Christmas movies to watch/review leading up to Christmas Day, I didn’t realize that the first two would follow the same opening format. Both “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” and now “A Boy Called Christmas” both follow “The Princess Bride” in being movies that begin with adults reading … Continue reading #17 Netflix Film in 2021: A Boy Called Christmas

https://youtu.be/aYPUYVgwLWY 3.5/10 It’s that time of year when film goers and particularly families with younger children are looking for new Christmas films to check out so Mom and Dad can be spared from watching “Home Alone” for the 47th day in a row. No offense to “Home Alone” but damn near any film played repeatedly … Continue reading #16 Netflix Film in 2021: Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

https://youtu.be/OdbXnboJCVw 5/10 A prequel to Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead”, this movie takes the safe cracking Ludwig Dieter character (played by Matthias Schweighöfer who also directs here) and gives him his own heist movie. While some individual aspects of this movie work well, the overarching story follows the cliché path of many similar films. … Continue reading #15 Netflix Film in 2021: Army of Thieves

https://youtu.be/J1JdWOqc9Q8 8/10 For my final horror streaming review leading up to Halloween (although I have another coming post-Halloween), I decided to check out the Gareth Evans film, “Apostle”. While dozens and dozens of horror films have focused on cults to varying degrees of success, “Apostle” succeeds due to its well developed relationships between characters and … Continue reading #14 Netflix Film in 2021: Apostle

https://youtu.be/Q_P8WCbhC6s 7/10 While picking out original Netflix horror films to review this month, I had no idea that my first two choices, “The Platform” and “Hush” would have one big similarity…stories that take place in a singular location, something of which I am fond. Imagine what a challenge it is for film makers and story … Continue reading #13 Netflix Film in 2021: Hush

https://youtu.be/RlfooqeZcdY 8/10 Acquired and distributed by Netflix, this Spanish language horror film is extremely inventive and creative, while providing some social commentary without preaching or talking down to its audience, an accomplishment that many Hollywood studios could take a lesson from. “The Platform” is a rather simple story and all takes place in one location. … Continue reading #12 Netflix Film in 2021: The Platform

https://youtu.be/q57D6kF5B1k 6.5/10 A ballsy horror movie that had me surprisingly captivated until it comes apart at the end, “The Perfection” is far better than it has the right to be and was a lot of fun for the first 2/3 of the movie. While it definitely has shades of the superior “Black Swan” (a little … Continue reading #11 Netflix Film in 2021: The Perfection

https://youtu.be/OVBjPpUlQrE 7/10 Originally supposed to come out in 2016, this film was pushed back a couple years to give it breathing room from the Jon Favreau directed 2016 adaptation/live action remake of “The Jungle Book”. Upon rewatching Favreau’s take, which is easily one of the better Disney live action remakes (it is too bad his … Continue reading #10 Netflix Film in 2021: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

https://youtu.be/3s0LTDhqe5A 6/10 Winner of Best Documentary at the Academy Awards, “My Octopus Teacher” is the story of a man who decides to go diving every single day to observe ocean wild life and finds an octopus that he befriends; as much as a human can befriend an octopus. There is a lot of beauty to … Continue reading #9 Netflix Film in 2021: My Octopus Teacher