Updates by EmailNetflix Watch Instantly Additions For April 3
It looks like Netflix has added around 130 movies to the Watch Instantly service in the last couple of weeks, putting the total number of titles at around 3800 movies. I’ve listed 9 that stand out, and the other 129 additions and 19 deletions are listed below.
I’m not going to pretend to understand why Mannequin or Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey were added, but there is certainly something for everyone in this batch. There are exercise videos, bad 80′s movies, Anime, horror classics, and more Wiggles videos than any child should be allowed to watch.
I pulled out some below that I thought might be worth a watch. If you only have time for one of these, check out Weeds. It’s a well-written TV series about a suburban mom who deals drugs to support her family after her husband dies. #1GF! and I watched the first two seasons a few months back and really, really liked them. It’s not half as gritty as I had expected, but I can’t recommend it enough.
Recommended Netflix Watch Now New Additions (9)
Other Netflix Watch Now Additions Since Since March 18 (129)
Abominable Dr. Phibes / Phibes Rises Again
The Accidental Tourist
Adam’s Apples
Airwolf: Season 4
Aloha Scooby-Doo!
American Cannibal
Anna Karenina
Arthur
Back to the Beach
Bamako
The Basketball Diaries
Bat 21
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
The Beast
The Beast Within
Bed of Roses
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Best Defense
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
The Blood of My Brother
Boomerang
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
Bringing Up Baby
A Century of Black Cinema
Conviction: The Complete Series
Cougar Club
Crash Dive
Creature
Crystalstone
Disco: Spinning the Story
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
The Driver
Driving Miss Daisy
Eloise: Eloise Goes to School
The End of the Affair
Fangoria Blood Drive
A Few Days in September
Fratricide
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society
Girl Missing
Greedy
Gun Sword
Hellfighters
High Times Presents: The Cannabis Cup
Home Run Derby: Vol. 1
Home Run Derby: Vol. 2
Home Run Derby: Vol. 3
I Was a Male War Bride
In Concert Series: Sammy Davis Jr.
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Jennifer Kries: 3-Dimensional Toning
Jennifer Kries: Perfect Mix
Jennifer Kries: Precision Pilates
JFK: Special Edition
Jimmy and Judy
Joe’s Apartment
John Carpenter: Pro-Life
The Kid From Brooklyn
Kiss Me, Stupid
Leave Her to Heaven
Les Paul: Chasing Sound
Lightspeed
Liz Gillies: Pilates: 4 10-Minute…
Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown
The Mambo Kings
The Man from Earth
Mannequin
Masters of Horror: Dario Argento: Pelts
Masters of Horror: Right to Die
Megaman: Upon a Star
Mommie Dearest
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
My Gal Sal
Nat King Cole: Encore
Necessary Roughness
The Night of the Following Day
Noein
The Perfect Witness
Purple Rain
The Return of a Man Called Horse
Return to House on Haunted Hill
Roar: The Complete Series
Rock’n'Roll Greats: John Kay/Steppenwolf
RX
Saintly Sinners
The Salton Sea
Satan Never Sleeps
Self: Firm Flat Abs, Fast
Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven
Show Stoppers
Silent Running
Slayer
Stanley & Iris
Straight into Darkness
Sublime
Survival Quest
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Tall Tales & Legends: Darlin’ Clementine
Thank God It’s Friday
This Is Elvis
Tin Cup
Tokko
The Tower of London
Tripping the Rift: Season 1
Tripping the Rift: Season 2
True Believer
The Tudors: Season 2
Under Siege
Vernie
Vision Quest
Waiting for God: Series 1
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
The Wiggles: Getting Strong!
The Wiggles: Here Comes the Big Red Car
The Wiggles: Racing to the Rainbow
The Wiggles: Sailing Around the World
The Wiggles: Space Dancing
The Wiggles: Toot Toot!
The Wiggles: Wiggle Time
The Wild Bunch: Special Edition
The Winter People
Without Limits
Words and Music
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
The Yakuza
The Yearling
Young Guns II
Netflix Watch Now Deletions Since March 18 (19)
City of Angels
Cocoon
Cocoon: The Return
District B13
The Girl from Monday
Grover Washington, Jr. in Concert
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Heidi
How to Steal a Million
Innocent Voices
The Last American Hero
The Last of the Mohicans
Le Petit Soldat
Paradise Road
The Robe
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
To the Shores of Tripoli
The Undefeated
Yes: 35th Anniversary Concert
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 am
Well, clearly, they added Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey because it’s 94 minutes of pure, undiluted awesome!
I’m serious!
Stop laughing!
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am
I watched Phantasm the other night…man, I love that movie!
Mommie Dearest is up next…because I can lounge around with stiff drink and yell things about wire hangers and it’s kinda funny in a very sick and twisted way.
Littled bummed that they took out District B13 already *sniffle*.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Code of Silence… classic Chuck Norris!
LOL at myself. Just checked my spelling and wrote:
Cod of Silence… classic Chunk Norris!
Chunk Norris. Chuck’s fatter brother.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
@Jacob: We all have movies that we all shouldn’t like. Mine happens to be the Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. Man, I did not want to admit that.
@M-Shel: I know! They just added B13 within the last month, and now it’s gone. I even had it in my queue. That’s the nature of the Watch Instantly service sometimes. You snooze, you lose.
@KF Chud: I don’t know what would make a better joke: ChuNk Norris or COD of Silence.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Chunk Norris…
the man Chunk from The Goonies grows up to be!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:06 am
I caught Weeds (season one) last weekend and plan to watch season two tomorrow; it’s a terrific show. Jon, you’re the best for providing these lists of Watch Now flix. Thanks.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I recommend Bringing Up Baby. Good flick.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Thanks for the list, but it’s wrong. Weeds has been available on watch now for at least a year.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
@M-Shel: Rocky Road?
@Ann: Aw shucks. Glad to help.
@Dave: Thanks for the tip. I’ll try to check it out.
@Maxwell: I looked back to July ’07 and I couldn’t find Weeds mentioned anywhere. Are you sure you’re right?
April 7th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Abominable Dr. Phibes!!!!!!!!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Any thoughts on why the deletions occurred?
Contract renegotiations?
April 7th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
@Jason: I have no idea. Maybe the movies don’t get watched or maybe they only have limited space. 3800 movies could be somewhere around 15 terabytes of storage.