As we all know, Netflix giveth, and Netflix taketh away and lo and behold, it's taking
away quite a few really great flicks during March 2020.
It can be difficult to keep track of all the comings and goings on Netflix, but fortunately
for you, we're on top of it.
Most of Marvel Studios' releases have already boogied off of Netflix and onto their new
home on rival streamer Disney+, and the stragglers won't be around for long.
As of now, you can still catch Avengers: Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Black Panther
on Netflix but if you're keen to relive King T'Challa's awesome 2018 solo adventure, you'd
better do it pretty soon.
Time's running out, so don't freeze.
"I never freeze."
Star Chadwick Boseman gives a powerful, regal performance, his co-stars Danai Gurira and
Letitia Wright deliver star-making turns, and Michael B. Jordan brings to life one of
the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most complex villains to date.
Black Panther is one of Mighty Marvel's greatest films, and that is really saying something.
Stream it on Netflix until March 3.
The franchise may have flagged a bit with last year's soft reboot Men in Black: International,
but the first three films in the MiB series the ones which benefited from the sure direction
of Barry Sonnenfeld and the otherworldly comedic chemistry of stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will
Smith are about as good as sci-fi comedies get.
The first two of those, 1997's Men in Black and 2002's Men in Black II, are available
for streaming on Netflix, but not for long.
If you haven't caught either of these flicks for awhile, it will amaze you to be reminded
just how fun and funny they are especially the first one.
Smith's ever-inflating charisma and star power is on full display, Jones is as cool as ever,
and supporting players such as Linda Fiorentino, the late Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Johnny
Knoxville round out the supporting casts of Men in Black and Men in Black II; watch them
again on Netflix until March 14.
Coraline is an innovative animated film which everyone assumes was directed by Tim Burton,
but was actually the work of Henry Selick, one of Burton's longtime associates and director
of the holiday classic The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Based on a novel by master of dark fantasy Neil Gaiman the mind behind the iconic comic
book series The Sandman Coraline goes to some very unusual places, not the least of which
is the alternate dimension visited by its child protagonist.
"No way!
You're not sewing buttons in my eyes!"
"Oh, but we need a 'Yes!' if you wanna stay here."
"So sharp, you won't feel a thi-Ow!"
Basically, it's a stunning visual and narrative achievement, one which you'll want to catch
again before its time on Netflix is up and if you've never seen it, you'll probably want
to get on that.
Coraline is available to stream until March 15.
David Fincher's 2007 masterpiece Zodiac is several cuts above your average true-crime
thriller; meticulously researched, flawlessly written, and featuring a crackerjack cast
made up largely of, coincidentally, future MCU alumni, the movie provides an exhaustive
examination of the Zodiac murders, perhaps the most notorious unsolved serial killings
in American history.
Like the real-life case, it's agonizingly suggestive without providing answers; also
like the case, it can at times slow to a crawl before catching the viewer totally off-guard
with shocking, punishing bursts of violence.
David Fincher's direction has never been sharper or more deliberate.
Stream Zodiac on Netflix until March 19.
The films of director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy are some of the finest
examples of the superhero genre, and they blazed more trails than you might remember.
Before 2005's Batman Begins, the word "reboot" was used solely to describe the process of
restarting a computer; Nolan's complete revamping of Batman for the big screen was gritty, grounded,
and inspired, even if its took audiences forever to get their heads around the fact that it
was not a sequel to the Tim Burton or Joel Schumacher Batman movies.
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."
"Bruce?"
The film's legacy would have been impressive enough on its own, but then came 2008's The
Dark Knight, which simply shattered everyone's notions of what a comic book film could be.
Sadly, all good things as they say must come to an end.
Gotham's protector won't be sticking around for much longer.
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight will be available to stream until March 30.
Spectacle movies don't get much more spectacular than Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy,
and the second and third films The Two Towers and The Return of the King are revered by
fans of J.R.R.
Tolkien's classic fantasy novels.
Sure, Return of the King ends about six different times, but fans didn't mind; heck, the movie
was so good that they probably would have been fine with two or three more fakeout endings.
Mind-blowingly staged and perfectly cast, the Lord of the Rings flicks set a standard
for big-budget fantasy that no movie without Harry Potter in the title has even come close
to approaching.
Unfortunately, the end is nigh.
You'd best feast your eyes on the final two films in the greatest fantasy series of all
time before it's too late.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
will be departing Netflix on March 30.
Its five sequels have provided somewhat diminishing returns, but it's hard to overstate what a
revelation Paranormal Activity was when it hit screens in 2007.
Its inspired tweak to the conventions of the found-footage genre: all of the action takes
place on cameras which a young couple set up throughout their home in an attempt to
record, well, the paranormal activity plaguing the joint, allowed it to be made on a shoestring
budget.
This a) in no way kept it from being the scariest film of its year, and b) made its $193 million
worldwide box office total even more impressive than if the film hadn't been made for the
cost of a pretty nice used car.
"You know what, there's footsteps in but there's no footsteps out."
"Oh, God."
Director Oren Peli masterfully ratchets up the tension during the film's scant 85-minute
run time, and then-unknown stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat turn in realistic performances
that make the frequent scares land that much harder.
With an excruciating third act and a final shot guaranteed to separate you from your
skin, Paranormal Activity is one of the very best found-footage flicks ever made; stream
it on Netflix until March 30.
As a director, Quentin Tarantino is every bit as skilled as he is wildly unrestrained,
and we love him for both of those qualities.
Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2 are very much two halves of one big movie, and
it is part kung-fu flick, part revenge movie, and all Tarantino.
Uma Thurman stars as Beatrix Kiddo AKA "The Bride" a master assassin and once a key member
of the feared Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.
She is brutalized and left for dead on her wedding day by her former cohorts, including
their leader, Bill, who responds to her plea to spare her life and the life of their unborn
child by shooting her in the head.
Over the course of the two movies, she exacts her revenge on the Squad's members without
mercy, eventually fulfilling the flicks' titles by way of the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart
Technique.
"You're a terrific person.
You're my favorite person.
But every once in a while, you can be a real c----."
The Kill Bill flicks are pure, distilled Tarantino which is to say that they are uber-cinematic,
super-stylized, unbelievably violent fun.
They are two of the straight-up craziest movies you will ever see, and you've only got so
much time left to see them on Netflix; Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2 will be leaving
the streamer on March 30.
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