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Best Netflix Movies Streaming Right Now. Netflix offers a wide array of movie streaming goodness, but sometimes the sheer number of films available can be overwhelming. Here, we’ve rounded up the 5. US Netflix. While the new year is well underway, there’s no escaping that it’s still winter, and will continue to be so for a fair while longer. While the outlook continues to be grey and grim, there is a light in the form of Netflix, the streaming platform which stands in for a myriad of activities – from vegging out on the couch to date night (wink wink). The only problem comes when it’s time to choose a film from the platform’s bottomless scroll of ideas. To help out here, we’ve rounded up the 5.
So, get the popcorn popping, fix yourself a drink and hunker down with our pick of the best Netflix fare currently available. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1. Director: Wes Craven. Years after being burned alive by a mob of angry parents, child murderer Freddy Krueger returns to haunt the dreams and waking hours of small- town teens in this spine- chilling slasher classic from director Wes Craven. The Secret Life of Pets (2. Director: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney.
The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes. Schindler’s List (1. Director: Steven Spielberg.
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. Gremlins (1. 98. 4)Director: Joe Dante. When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town. The Prestige (2. 00. Director: Christopher Nolan. A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life- long battle for supremacy – full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. Chicago (2. 00. 2)Director: Rob Marshall.
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1. Chicago. Blazing Saddles (1. Director: Mel Brooks. A town – where everyone seems to be named Johnson – is in the way of the railroad and, in order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
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Jurassic Park (1. Director: Steven Spielberg. A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off- line and the dinosaurs escape. Midnight in Paris (2. Director: Woody Allen.
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Memento (2. 00. 0)Director: Christopher Nolan. Suffering short- term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman’s noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of photos to aid in his search and jog his memory, even tattooing his own body in a desperate bid to remember. Paris is Burning (1. Director: Jennie Livingston.
A chronicle of New York’s drag scene in the 1. Magic Mike (2. 01. Director: Steven Soderbergh. A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money. The Blair Witch Project (1.
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Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez. Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind. Superbad (2. 00. 7)Director: Greg Mottola. Two co- dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze- soaked party goes awry. As Sharon approaches her own wedding day, she returns home to Michigan to ask her parents how their love survived against all odds. I Am Sun Mu (2. 01.
Director: Adam Sj. His hidden identity is nearly compromised when a massive historical exhibit in Beijing is shuttered by Chinese and North Korean authorities. To Kill a Mockingbird (1. Director: Robert Mulligan.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression- era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. Barry (2. 01. 6)Director: Vikram Gandhi. A look into the early life of U. S. President Barack Obama. Spotlight (2. 01. Director: Tom Mc.
Carthy. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover- up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. Moonrise Kingdom (2.
Director: Wes Anderson. A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them. Hard to be a God (2.
Director: Aleksei German. A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2. Director: David Gelb. A documentary on 8. Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.
Man on Wire (2. 00. Director: James Marsh. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high- wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1. O Brother, Where Art Thou? But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
The Way of the Dragon (1. Director: Bruce Lee. A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2. Director: Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in The Royal Tenenbaums with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary filmmaker, Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a tough life crisis as he attempts to make a new film about capturing the creature that caused him pain.
White God (2. 01. Director: Korn. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him. Grizzly Man (2. 00.
Director: Werner Herzog. A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2. Alaska. Lucky Number Slevin (2.
Director: Paul Mc. Guigan. A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city’s most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Breaking A Monster (2. Romantic Horror Movies Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine (2015).
Director: Luke Meyer. Chronicling the break- out year of the band Unlocking the Truth, following 1. Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins as they first encounter stardom and the music industry. Hush (2. 01. 6)Director: Mike Flanagan. A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.
The Usual Suspects (1. Director: Bryan Singer. A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which begin when five criminals meet at a seemingly random police lineup. Rats (2. 01. 6)Director: Morgan Spurlock.
A history of rat infestations in major cities throughout the world. Captain America: Civil War (2. Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo.
Aging while female is not your worst nightmare. I’m going to tell you a story that is so common and so troubling it is effectively split off from the emotional lives of young women, tucked away into whatever neural recesses exist for the purpose of shelving information that feels irrelevant yet distantly threatening. I wonder if young women will read this?
The irony is that they probably won’t, and the silently nodding heads will be ones that are graying, like mine. After passing out of childhood and into puberty, I, like most women, entered a three- decade phase of my life that included an adolescence and young adulthood that was peppered with the sexual harassment, sexism in the workplace, mommy wars, pay gaps, and gendered put- downs that few females escape. It was a huge chunk of time. The issues feminism took up during those years were critical, and they continue to be. I am grateful to all of the women and men who fought and continue to fight for women’s equality, reproductive rights, and freedom from violence and harassment. It is brave and necessary work. But then something happened, and if not for the mirrors in my house, I would be very confused about what changed and why.
Young women, you’ll experience this too, some day. You’ll catch your reflection and your breath at the same time and be abruptly reminded that your exterior no longer matches how you feel inside, and that it now undermines the power of your voice, the voice that took decades to build up. I was talking about this to a friend recently who is 5.
I am. She said, “Oh wow. I remember my grandmother telling me the exact same thing about being shocked by her reflection in the mirror because she still felt like a young woman inside, and she was 8. So this probably will not end for me, nor for any of us given the gift of not dying young.
It bears remembering. Men do not catcall me anymore, and I’m happy to have aged out of that, although some of my friends are not. My daughter is grown, so the mommy wars rage on without me. I’m now happy to be self- employed—an escape hatch from workplace sexism that is not available to all women, and one that I fully appreciate.
I charge what I want as a consultant and will never again stumble across information at the office that a male co- worker who is younger, less educated and less experienced than me makes more money than me simply because he belongs to the penis- owning gender. I am not free of the physical and sexual dangers all women live with, but they have receded somewhat for me at this stage of my life. All of this liberation, however, is not entirely freeing. I have simply been transported into the next phase of sexism that comes with middle age, and it’s a dramatic change well illustrated metaphorically by the female body that is ogled and objectified transforming into the female body that is invisible.
If the loudest and most heralded voices of contemporary feminism most often belong to the youngest and most sexually appealing women, is this not a hypocritical replication within feminism of what happens in our patriarchal society at large? I’m looking at perhaps three more decades of my life that will be shaped to some degree by not only misogyny, but by the intersection of misogyny and ageism. That’s a whole bunch of years I never gave the slightest thought to when I was younger. No older woman ever demanded that I think about the fact that it would eventually happen to me. No one asked that I care about it, respond to it, and recognize the unfairness of what can sometimes feel like a one- way feminist street.
I temporarily stopped the oncoming freight train of ageism right in its tracks with my indifference, like everyone else my age did. Even in my late- 3. I did not read articles like this. They were not about me. When I recall how I thought about middle- aged and older women when I was younger, I realize I bought into American stereotypes and did so mindlessly. I ascribed to older women a lack of relevance and an inability to contribute meaningfully to a world and a dialogue that was no longer “theirs,” as if ownership of culture rationally belongs to any particular age group over others. My ideas came from where?
How silly. Must this lesson only be learned woman by woman, with the passage of time, and not by the perspicacious use of ones eyes and ears? Because women like me are writing and talking.
Trees in the forest are falling. I ask that young women hear. Elective deafness will not stop the train. It will keep rolling down the track, silently and dispassionately. It always arrives. For me, aging as a woman in America is less about injustices done to me than it is about a subtle undermining of my place within this society and a not- so- subtle disrespect that pops up more with each passing year.
For example, if I condemn pornography as systemically damaging to women, it is my age that provokes my labeling as a prude and a pearl- clutcher. It cannot be that I base my opinion on studies and statistics and the understanding that feminism is a movement—one that supports the liberation of all women, not to be confused with individual women who choose to reduce their identities to the sexual uses and abuses of their bodies, calling that empowerment. My age sets me up for a kind of disdain only partially experienced by younger women with the same views. The wisdom that comes with age has little value to anyone but those possessing it, because wisdom is another word for old, and old is what no one wants to be. I don’t know what the answer is, but I can tell you what it isn’t, at least for me. It isn’t to try to look or act younger. It isn’t to write blog posts about how hot/thin/beautiful/sexy middle- aged women are.
They are, but wasting my written voice on championing shallow efforts at continued conformity to what is expected of women in a patriarchal society does not feel productive. It is an insidious capitulation.
It entices women my age to trade away opportunities to weigh in on important matters for a chance to be among the “seen” again. I won’t play a game I despise, and that I did not create and cannot win. To be an aging woman in America is to be constantly bombarded by imagery and media that distance your younger feminist sisters from you, because the idea of no longer resembling those youthful images of femininity and becoming invisible terrifies them.
I look like a typical 5. Ageism is a life- altering injustice affecting women in ways that are different than the effects on men — different in age of onset and degree and personal consequence. If we continue to be erased in the second half of our lives, we will remain stuck in a perpetual cycle of conflating youth with greater social relevance in the first half of our lives, and the patriarchal axiom that women are only valuable when they are young, hot and fertile will continue unchallenged.
Let’s stick together. Let’s make a conscious effort to stop putting down older women to set oneself apart from them and from an inevitable form of bigotry that cannot presently be escaped. Whatever you think of Madonna at 5. Jamie Lee Curtis at 5. Surely it will involve relevance and influence, whether we are singers, actors, writers, activists, or any other identity we have chosen and loved. As feminists we are stronger together than apart—women of all races, of all gender expressions, of all sexual orientations, of all socioeconomic classes, of all religions, of all ethnicities, and yes, of all ages, too.
Lori Day is an educational psychologist, consultant, and parenting coach with Lori Day Consulting in Newburyport, MA. She is the author of Her Next Chapter: How Mother- Daughter Book Clubs Can Help Girls Navigate Malicious Media, Risky Relationships, Girl Gossip, and So Much More and speaks on the topic of raising confident girls in a disempowering marketing and media culture. You can connect with Lori on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. Tags: ageing, ageism, ageism in feminism, Lori Day, young feminists.