Lazy weekend? We’ve got you covered.
If you plan on relaxing in front of the TV, Netflix has recently added some cracking films to their library and there’s plenty for everybody. Here’s our pick of the bunch.
FYI, Altered Carbon is also a very good pick if you fancy binging on a new show.
Role Models
Plot: Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Watch it because: It’s hilarious, endlessly quotable and widely inappropriate at times. What’s not to love? Truth be told, we can all relate to Paul Rudd’s character.
Inside Man
Plot: A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal’s brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 86%
Watch it because: Denzel Washington. Is he ever bad? A heist thriller that keeps you on your toes.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Plot: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 58%
Watch it because: A film that really split the critical opinion. Truth be told, I really liked it and Galifianakis’ understated performance is excellent. Funny without ever being laugh out loud, sweet without ever being sickly, it’s a very decent coming of age film.
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The Force
Plot: At a powderkeg moment in American policing, The Force goes deep inside the embattled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to reform itself amid growing local controversy. Winner of the Documentary Directing Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, filmmaker Peter Nicks (The Waiting Room) embedded with the department over the course of two years to follow its serial efforts to recast itself. The film focuses on the new chief brought in to effect reform at the very moment the Black Lives Matter movement emerges to demand police accountability and racial justice both in Oakland and across the nation.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Watch it because: Like a mix of The Wire and Cops, if you really like fly-on-the-wall police documentaries, this is right up there.
Benny and Joon
Plot: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 75%
Watch it because: Depp’s performance is mesmeric.
Dazed and Confused
Plot: The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
Watch it because: It’s a bonafide cult-classic and Matthew McConaughey’s character is absolutely hilarious.
8 Mile
Plot: A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 76%
Watch it because: It all builds to that adrenaline-pumping rap battle. A reminder of how great a director the late Curtis Hanson was.
