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It’s cold outside and the family’s got the itis. If the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade isn’t quite your speed, round up the kin and check out these new titles hitting Netflix just in time for the holidays.
Mudbound
Netflix breakdown:
“Two families working the Mississippi Delta, but living worlds apart.”
Bright
Netflix breakdown:
“Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves, and fairies have been co-existing since the beginning of time. Bright is genre-bending action movie that follows two cops from very different backgrounds. Ward (Will Smith) and Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), embark on a routine patrol night and encounter a darkness that will ultimately alter the future and their world as they know it.”
Watch on December 22.
DeRay Davis: How To Act Black
Netflix breakdown:
“Listen up as DeRay Davis breaks it down very carefully for you.”
Ozark
Netflix breakdown:
“Ozark: Their Last Resort. The Byrdes, husband and wife Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney), their teenage kids Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner) — are for all intents and purposes an ordinary family. Ordinary save for Marty’s job: The top money launderer for the second largest drug cartel in Mexico.”
She’s Gotta Have It: Season 1
Netflix breakdown:
“Thirty years ago, Spike Lee burst onto the independent filmmaking scene with his groundbreaking look at one free-spirited artist making it happen for herself in BROOKLYN, New York. Now, Miss Nola Darling returns in a timely, topical update of the visionary writer-director’s She’s Gotta Have It.”
Watch on Thanksgiving.
Stranger Things 2
Netflix breakdown:
“It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demogorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.”
Also new to Netflix this month:
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Men in Black
Reggie Yates Outside Man: Volume 2
The Pursuit of Happyness