The "did you know this streams on Netflix?" thread

[Applejack]

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Documentary that Netflix purchased at Sundance. Really fun and great story about an independent A league team in Portland that played in a league with bunch of affiliated teams in the mid-70's. The team was owned by actor Bing Russell, and his son, Kurt (that's Jack Burton to you!), played for the team for a couple years after his minor league career was cut short. Lots of great characters and just a really entertaining story about a group of has-beens kicking against the baseball establishment. The doc was originally directed by two of Bing's grandsons, but was later purchased and remade by Academy Award nominated director Todd Field. Field was interested in the project because he was actually the bat boy on the team as a little kid.

Anyway, I loved it. Definitely recommended.

I just watched this movie last weekend. I second the recommendation - the first time I've ever recommended a Kurt Russell movie!

[MarkGrace]

I just watched this movie last weekend. I second the recommendation - the first time I've ever recommended a Kurt Russell movie!

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[Pelado]

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[frank ryan]

The Believer. A great Ryan Gosling film about a charismatic young Neo-Nazi who happens to be Jewish.

[Commando]

I just watched this movie last weekend. I second the recommendation - the first time I've ever recommended a Kurt Russell movie!

[TripletDaddy]

Bojack horseman. Animated show with will Arnett. Just started. Funny.

[Lost Student]

Bojack horseman. Animated show with will Arnett. Just started. Funny.

I concur. I first noticed it a few days ago and now I'm 8 or so episodes in. I think it only gets better as you go.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Has anyone mentioned The Hunt? It's Danish, so it's subtitled. The guy who plays Hannibal on TV is the main character who is the victim of child molestation witch hunt.

[MarkGrace]

Transparent getting a lot of love and drops tomorrow.

The television business is going through its own remarkable transition now, exemplified by a show of this quality debuting on a streaming video service. (Ironically, the "Transparent" opening credits begin with a VCR tape's image flickering, a relic of a technological era that feels a thousand years old.) Amazon has been chasing Netflix in this field for a while — it's just about the only area where Amazon is an underdog to anyone (like when Michael Jordan played baseball) — and here they're even releasing the show Netflix-style, with all the episodes being made available at once. And they're doing it during the first week of the network TV season, when audiences are being flooded with viewing options, and may not have time to give five hours to a quirky indie family dramedy.

I think Amazon executives know that "Transparent" is that good — it's the best new TV show debuting anywhere this fall, by a long stretch — and therefore don't care that it's appearing at such a crazy time. They're throwing down a gauntlet — or maybe a demure satin glove — and saying, "This is us. Not bad, eh?"

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[falafel]

Wrong thread!

[MarkGrace]

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[Joe Public]

Silver Linings Playbook. I hadn't seen it previously, and I really enjoyed it.

[SteelBlue]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is streaming on Netflix. Hadn't seen it since probably 1978 and was quite freaked out by the child catcher back then. My kids loved the movie, and are now obsessed with it. I was surprised to learn that Ian Fleming wrote the book on which the film is based and that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay.

[TripletDaddy]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is streaming on Netflix. Hadn't seen it since probably 1978 and was quite freaked out by the child catcher back then. My kids loved the movie, and are now obsessed with it. I was surprised to learn that Ian Fleming wrote the book on which the film is based and that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay.

they also recently added Annie!

[PaloAltoCougar]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is streaming on Netflix. Hadn't seen it since probably 1978 and was quite freaked out by the child catcher back then. My kids loved the movie, and are now obsessed with it. I was surprised to learn that Ian Fleming wrote the book on which the film is based and that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay.

James Bond became the rage in the U.S. while I was in junior high. I read a couple of his books and wanted more (cool weapons, bedding beautiful women, dispatching bad guys, etc.--what was not to like?). I naively asked the school librarian if there were any Ian Fleming books available, and he handed me the only Fleming product in stock, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I've never been so misled or disappointed.