Looking for something new to watch?
Fortunately for us, there’s a bunch of freshly-landed titles on Netflix, just in time to help you waste away the weekend from the comfort of your couch. The one we’re most excited about is Annihilation, which has received brilliant reviews so far.
Here’s a selection of some of the best new titles to arrive on Netflix:
Films
Annihilation
Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X – a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.
Benji
A modern-day retelling of the classic, the story of Benji follows one orphaned puppy and Carter and Frankie, two capricious New Orleans school kids who strike up a friendship with the tenacious street dog. When danger befalls them and they end up kidnapped by robbers who are in over their heads, Benji and his scruffy sidekick come to the rescue.
Grown Ups
The death of their childhood basketball coach leads to a reunion for some old friends (Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock), who gather at the site of a championship celebration years earlier. Picking up where they left off, the buddies, with wives and children in tow, discover why age does not, necessarily, equal maturity.
Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (Available from 18 March)
Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) isn’t doing so well. He has a nasty painkiller addiction, courtesy of an injury he sustained while rescuing a prisoner during Hurricane Katrina. Plus, there’s his alcoholic father, boozy wife and prostitute girlfriend. Now Terence must pull himself back from the edge of insanity to investigate a series of murders that has the city on edge.
Netflix Original Series
Edha: Season 1
A dramatic series set in the fashion-conscious city of Buenos Aires, as seen through the eyes of a trendsetting designer, Edha, whose untraditional male model, Teo, becomes her muse. Their chemistry inspires Edha to create a stunning new fashion line, but Teo’s hidden agenda will set in motion a series of betrayals that cause their worlds to unravel.
On My Block: Season 1
On My Block is a coming-of-age comedy about four bright and street-savvy friends navigating their way through the triumph, pain and the newness of high school set in the rough inner city.
https://youtu.be/SpjBGekX14E
Weekly Episodes
Designated Survivor: Season 2
With the conspiracy more alarming than ever, a fiery lawyer joins President Kirkman’s staff and Agent Wells forms an alliance with a British spy.
Once Upon A Time: Season 7
A knock on the door changes everything for Henry Mills, now a struggling writer living in Seattle, when a girl shows up saying she’s his daughter.
https://youtu.be/k8OJC6gxeJo
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
Trending news, pop culture, social media, original videos and more come together in host Joel McHale’s new weekly comedy commentary show.
Black Lightning: Season 1
Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. Nine years ago, Pierce was gifted with the superhuman power to harness and control electricity, which he used to keep his hometown streets safe as the masked vigilante Black Lightning. However, after too many nights with his life and his family on the line, he left his Super Hero days behind. Almost a decade later, Pierce’s crime-fighting days are long behind him…or so he thought.
https://youtu.be/uoUlGwYa4QE
Riverdale: Season 2
Riverdale is back for season two and it’s darker than ever. With the shooting of Fred Andrews threatening to plunge the entire town into utter darkness, can Betty unmask the Black Hood to save Archie from going further down the dark and dangerous path he’s on?
https://youtu.be/uydlLyug_Ds
iZombie
When over-achieving medical resident Liv Moore attends a party that turns into a zombie feeding frenzy, she ends up joining the ranks of the living dead. Determined to pass as human despite her pale appearance and newly listless demeanour, Liv forms a plan to resist her drive to consume fresh human brains by taking a job at a coroner’s office, where she can secretly snack on the brains of corpses delivered there.
Comedies and Documentaries:
Ricky Gervais: Humanity
Ricky Gervais kicks off 2018 with a new original Netflix stand-up comedy special, Ricky Gervais: Humanity. Filmed at the Apollo Hammersmith in London, the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning British comedian returns to the stage in London with a scathing special that touches on aging, becoming spoiled, his perspective on having kids and more.
Take Your Pills
The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human, and in the age of Adderall and Ritalin, achieving that can be as close as the local pharmacy. No longer just “a cure for excitable kids,” prescription stimulants are in college classrooms, on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley… any place “the need to succeed” slams into “not enough hours in the day.” But there are costs.
This Netflix documentary focuses on the history, the facts, and the pervasiveness of cognitive-enhancement drugs in our amped-up era of late-stage-capitalism.
Facing Ali
Boxers George Chuvalo, Ron Lyle, Leon Spinks, Larry Holmes and other fighters discuss their experiences in the ring with Muhammad Ali.
Wild Wild Country: Season
When the world’s most controversial guru builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, a massive conflict with local ranchers ensues; producing the first bioterror attack in US history, the largest case of illegal wiretapping ever recorded, and the world’s biggest collection of Rolls-Royce automobiles.
Something for the kids
Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout
Villains are rampaging through Charter City and the Flex Fighters — Jake, Ricardo and Nathan — need your help to halt the chaos. … Watch, choose and see what happens next with the Flex Fighters in their all-new interactive adventure.
https://youtu.be/y2N8oGbNTx0
Spirit Riding Free: Season 4
Lucky, Spirit, and the rest of the PALs are back and ready for more adventures! In the all new season of Spirit Riding Free, you’ll meet Lucky’s grandfather, the circus comes to town, and Lucky finds out her life is about to change forever!
