The holiday season is here and like a lot of you, I plan on staying inside as much as I can and watching some great TV and movies. Thankfully Netflix is here to help with a new batch of offerings for December. They are also removing some titles you may want to watch while you can! Of course we are all waiting to see this Bill Murray Christmas special which arrives December 4th. Have a safe and happy viewing month everyone! Check out the full listings below:
All Title Dates are Subject to Change
Netflix U.S. Release Dates Only
Available 12/1
#DeathToSelfie (2014)
30 for 30: Chasing Tyson (2015)
50 Shades of They: Season 1
A Christmas Star (2015)
A Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z (2014)
Amnesiac (2015)
Broadchurch: Season 2
Cbgb (2013)
Christmas Wedding Baby (2014)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Darkman (1990)
Detectorists: Season 1
I’m Brent Morin — Netflix Original...
All Title Dates are Subject to Change
Netflix U.S. Release Dates Only
Available 12/1
#DeathToSelfie (2014)
30 for 30: Chasing Tyson (2015)
50 Shades of They: Season 1
A Christmas Star (2015)
A Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z (2014)
Amnesiac (2015)
Broadchurch: Season 2
Cbgb (2013)
Christmas Wedding Baby (2014)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Darkman (1990)
Detectorists: Season 1
I’m Brent Morin — Netflix Original...
- 11/27/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
To your already busy December to-do list, add watching "A Very Murray Christmas," the all-star Bill Murray Christmas special that's available only on Netflix.
Also new to Netflix in December: New comedy specials from Mike Epps and Brent Morin, Adam Sandler's controversial "The Ridiculous 6," the buzzy transgender indie drama "Tangerine" and "Queen of Earth," starring "Mad Men"'s Elisabeth Moss.
Here's what's coming to Netflix in December 2015.
Available Dec. 1
"DeathToSelfie" (2014)
"30 for 30: Chasing Tyson" (2015)
"50 Shades of They": Season 1
"A Christmas Star" (2015)
"A Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z" (2014)
"Amnesiac" 2015)
"Broadchurch": Season 2
"Cbgb" (2013)
"Christmas Wedding Baby" (2014)
"The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury" (2004)
"Cradle 2 the Grave" (2003)
"Darkman" (1990)
"Detectorists": Season 1
"I'm Brent Morin" (2015, Netlix Original)
"Jenny's Wedding" (2015)
"Las magicas historias de Plim Plim": Season 1
"Ray" (2004)
"Real Rob": Season 1 (2015)
"See You In Valhalla" (2015)
"Stir of Echoes" (1999)
"Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming" (2007)
"That Touch of Mink...
Also new to Netflix in December: New comedy specials from Mike Epps and Brent Morin, Adam Sandler's controversial "The Ridiculous 6," the buzzy transgender indie drama "Tangerine" and "Queen of Earth," starring "Mad Men"'s Elisabeth Moss.
Here's what's coming to Netflix in December 2015.
Available Dec. 1
"DeathToSelfie" (2014)
"30 for 30: Chasing Tyson" (2015)
"50 Shades of They": Season 1
"A Christmas Star" (2015)
"A Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z" (2014)
"Amnesiac" 2015)
"Broadchurch": Season 2
"Cbgb" (2013)
"Christmas Wedding Baby" (2014)
"The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury" (2004)
"Cradle 2 the Grave" (2003)
"Darkman" (1990)
"Detectorists": Season 1
"I'm Brent Morin" (2015, Netlix Original)
"Jenny's Wedding" (2015)
"Las magicas historias de Plim Plim": Season 1
"Ray" (2004)
"Real Rob": Season 1 (2015)
"See You In Valhalla" (2015)
"Stir of Echoes" (1999)
"Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming" (2007)
"That Touch of Mink...
- 11/24/2015
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Logo TV is launching a new documentary division dedicated to untold Lgbt stories, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The division’s initial slate will include six new docs focusing on Lgbt trailblazers from the perspective of their family and friends including, “Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine,” about Wyoming University student Matthew Shepard, whose brutal murder in 1998 sparked a national outcry. “These films will not only educate and enlighten, but spark important dialogue around Lgbt issues that have flown under the radar for far too long,” said Logo’s head of original programming, Pamela Post.
- 6/9/2015
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
‘Les Loups’ is the first great Quebec film of 2015
The dark unforgiving waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the mouth of the St. Lawrence river provide the backdrop to Les Loups, a beautifully crafted melodrama. Set in a small island Quebec town during the spring thaw, a stranger arrives during the height of the controversial seal hunts. Vibrant and mysterious, many suspect that Elie, the young woman from Montreal, is not who she says and is likely a reporter or an activist bent on portraying the townsfolk in a bad light… read the full article.
‘The Phantom Menace’ and the goodness of Star Wars nostalgia
A long time ago…in 1999, the pop culture zeitgeist was caught in a Star Wars maelstrom. Writer-director George Lucas and his crack creative team had gone back to the well that made space opera cinema what it is known and appreciated as today by producing...
The dark unforgiving waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the mouth of the St. Lawrence river provide the backdrop to Les Loups, a beautifully crafted melodrama. Set in a small island Quebec town during the spring thaw, a stranger arrives during the height of the controversial seal hunts. Vibrant and mysterious, many suspect that Elie, the young woman from Montreal, is not who she says and is likely a reporter or an activist bent on portraying the townsfolk in a bad light… read the full article.
‘The Phantom Menace’ and the goodness of Star Wars nostalgia
A long time ago…in 1999, the pop culture zeitgeist was caught in a Star Wars maelstrom. Writer-director George Lucas and his crack creative team had gone back to the well that made space opera cinema what it is known and appreciated as today by producing...
- 2/28/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
It was early afternoon on Friday, May 23rd 2014. I walked into Tiff Bell Lightbox, knots in my stomach, my eyes still welling with tears. “Just take a deep breath,” I kept telling myself. “You’ll be fine.” Up the escalator I rode, around the corner, and into the lavish Luma lounge. I approached the table, and as soon as I saw Dennis and Judy Shepard, I began to cry. No amount of professionalism or attempt at stoicism could mask the impact of their son’s story, told beautifully by his childhood friend Michele Josue, in Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine. The moving documentary – holding strong with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes – is currently playing at Toronto’s Carlton Cinema through until March 5th.
By this point, many are familiar with the tragic death of 21-year old Matthew Shepard. A Political Science student at the University of Wyoming, Matt was brutally...
By this point, many are familiar with the tragic death of 21-year old Matthew Shepard. A Political Science student at the University of Wyoming, Matt was brutally...
- 2/25/2015
- by Ariel Fisher
- SoundOnSight
An almost unbearably heartbreaking documentary rehumanizes the Lgbt icon… and makes him newly tragic all over again. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you know of Matthew Shepard, it’s probably only because of the horrific nature of his death, which came in October 1998, just before his 22nd birthday and a few days after he was savagely beaten and left tied to a fence on a Wyoming prairie. His murder became a rallying cry for the gay-rights movement, raising awareness of violence against Lgbt people and eventually (in 2009) prompting new federal hate-crime legislation. That Shepard’s death has been almost mythologized since is hardly surprising… but now this almost unbearably heartbreaking documentary rehumanizes him and makes him newly tragic by showing us all the potential that was lost with his way-too-early death, but also...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you know of Matthew Shepard, it’s probably only because of the horrific nature of his death, which came in October 1998, just before his 22nd birthday and a few days after he was savagely beaten and left tied to a fence on a Wyoming prairie. His murder became a rallying cry for the gay-rights movement, raising awareness of violence against Lgbt people and eventually (in 2009) prompting new federal hate-crime legislation. That Shepard’s death has been almost mythologized since is hardly surprising… but now this almost unbearably heartbreaking documentary rehumanizes him and makes him newly tragic by showing us all the potential that was lost with his way-too-early death, but also...
- 2/16/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Far Away So Close: Josue Pays Personal Homage to Memory of Murdered Friend
His name now synonymous with progressive social policy, Matthew Shepard, the young gay man murdered in 1998, would come to represent a generation of bullied, battered and butchered Lgbt American youths. At last, he receives a moving, often devastatingly sorrowful homage in Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine, a documentary from his close friend and first time filmmaker Michele Josue. There have been other significant filmed documents attempting to grapple with his horrific demise, most notably the 2002 television film adaptation of Moises Kaufman’s play The Laramie Project, which featured a star studded cast. Now, nearing seventeen years since his death, Josue finally was able to assemble a more personal ode to Shepard, something that was initially discouraged by Shepard’s mother. The only trouble is, though often meaningful and loving, it’s a document that seems unnecessary,...
His name now synonymous with progressive social policy, Matthew Shepard, the young gay man murdered in 1998, would come to represent a generation of bullied, battered and butchered Lgbt American youths. At last, he receives a moving, often devastatingly sorrowful homage in Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine, a documentary from his close friend and first time filmmaker Michele Josue. There have been other significant filmed documents attempting to grapple with his horrific demise, most notably the 2002 television film adaptation of Moises Kaufman’s play The Laramie Project, which featured a star studded cast. Now, nearing seventeen years since his death, Josue finally was able to assemble a more personal ode to Shepard, something that was initially discouraged by Shepard’s mother. The only trouble is, though often meaningful and loving, it’s a document that seems unnecessary,...
- 2/16/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – In 1998, the murder of Matthew Shepard led to an overview of the hate crimes in America, especially the type of assault crimes perpetuated against the gay community. In essence, Shepard became a martyr and a symbol for something much larger. An old high school classmate remembers his legacy for this, and for just being a soul buddy, in “Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The timing of the film’s release comes as the State of Alabama is determined to deny the rights of marriage to gay people despite an opposing court order. This also comes on the heels of the racially combustible incidents in Ferguson, Cleveland and New York City. It is a reminder that there are human beings behind the unjustly murdered, with full lives and family/friends who desperately miss them. While the world knows Matthew Shepard as a victim of a hate crime,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The timing of the film’s release comes as the State of Alabama is determined to deny the rights of marriage to gay people despite an opposing court order. This also comes on the heels of the racially combustible incidents in Ferguson, Cleveland and New York City. It is a reminder that there are human beings behind the unjustly murdered, with full lives and family/friends who desperately miss them. While the world knows Matthew Shepard as a victim of a hate crime,...
- 2/14/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Funny. Smart. Sincere. Irritable. Gay. Cute. Humble. These are just some of the adjectives used by Matthew Shepard to describe himself in an ongoing series of journal entries that he mostly kept a secret from his friends, his family, everyone. Shepard was a young gay man from Laramie, Wyoming whose brutal murder sent ripples of grief and stringent awareness from the middle of the country all the way to the coasts. I suspect Shepard kept this diary (where all entries begin with “I am…”) to allow himself some sense of belonging in a world that so often denied him that basic human right. The new documentary, “Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine,” is directed by Shepard’s childhood friend Michele Josue, who conducts some shattering interviews with Shepard’s schoolmates, family friends, and his understandably devastated parents. It sheds light not just on the heinous details of the crime...
- 2/6/2015
- by Nicholas Laskin
- The Playlist
Judy and Dennis Shepard long believed they knew their son, Matthew, better than anyone - certainly better than the millions who saw him as a gay-rights icon and his brutal 1998 murder as a crystallizing moment in the crusade for equality, if not acceptance. And, at times, they knew almost more than they could bear about Matthew and the horror he suffered the night he was savagely beaten and left tied to a prairie fence in Laramie, Wyoming. "It was brutal," Dennis remembers even now. But it wasn't until after Matthew's high-school friend, filmmaker Michele Josue, interviewed his closest friends for her new documentary,...
- 2/4/2015
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
Judy and Dennis Shepard long believed they knew their son, Matthew, better than anyone - certainly better than the millions who saw him as a gay-rights icon and his brutal 1998 murder as a crystallizing moment in the crusade for equality, if not acceptance. And, at times, they knew almost more than they could bear about Matthew and the horror he suffered the night he was savagely beaten and left tied to a prairie fence in Laramie, Wyoming. "It was brutal," Dennis remembers even now. But it wasn't until after Matthew's high-school friend, filmmaker Michele Josue, interviewed his closest friends for her new documentary,...
- 2/4/2015
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
Michele Josue's debut documentary is a tribute to her friend Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old gay college student murdered in October 1998 outside Laramie, Wyoming. His ordeal prompted an impassioned national conversation about homophobia and hate crimes, but Josue recalls the media frenzy as a surreal and painful blur, the moment when her beloved classmate was transformed into a symbol, widely embraced yet little known. The present tense of the title, Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, describes the attitude of her interviewees, who grieve Shepard's loss but still feel the impact of his presence. Josue met Shepard at The American School in Switzerland, where he spent the last years of high school after his father took a job abroad. That engaging kid from Casper traveled ...
- 2/4/2015
- Village Voice
Judy and Dennis Shepard, parents of Matthew Shepard and well-known gay-rights advocates, are set to attend an Lgbt film festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, this month. The Shepards, whose son, then a 21-year-old student at University of Wyoming, was murdered in October 1998 in one of the highest-profile Lgbt hate-crime cases, will attend the Nov. 24 screening of Michele Josue's documentary Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine at the Bok o bok (Side by Side) festival. See more Straight Actors in Gay Roles: From River Phoenix to Michael Douglas Among the festival's other
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- 11/18/2014
- by Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After two successful sold-out screenings of opening night film Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine on Wednesday, aGLIFF continued Thursday with a full day of programming.
Short films usually offer a fun way to dive into a festival (they let you explore a lot of ground in an hour and a half or so), so I decided to go the Dramatic Shorts Program #1 and the Comedy Shorts Program #1.
The dramatic program included eight shorts from six different countries. Half focused on teens and pre-teens learning to navigate a world that's less than welcoming to their sexual orientation, while the other half showed that adults still struggle with internal and external factors in their relationships, as well.
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Short films usually offer a fun way to dive into a festival (they let you explore a lot of ground in an hour and a half or so), so I decided to go the Dramatic Shorts Program #1 and the Comedy Shorts Program #1.
The dramatic program included eight shorts from six different countries. Half focused on teens and pre-teens learning to navigate a world that's less than welcoming to their sexual orientation, while the other half showed that adults still struggle with internal and external factors in their relationships, as well.
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- 9/13/2014
- by Caitlin Moore
- Slackerwood
Oh, what a difference a year can make, especially for aGLIFF.
The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival has reclaimed its original name -- retiring its short-lived Polari moniker -- and moved back to its most successful venue, the newly reopened (and debatably improved) Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. And while not all change is good, these changes certainly are; if the crowd at aGLIFF's opening night on Wednesday is any indication, the festival has regained much of its footing after a couple of sparsely attended years.
aGLIFF couldn't have chosen a better opening night film than Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, a powerful and poignant documentary about the titular Wyoming college student who was tortured and murdered in 1998. Shepard's killers admitted killing him because he was gay, and his murder became one of America's most notorious hate crimes.
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The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival has reclaimed its original name -- retiring its short-lived Polari moniker -- and moved back to its most successful venue, the newly reopened (and debatably improved) Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. And while not all change is good, these changes certainly are; if the crowd at aGLIFF's opening night on Wednesday is any indication, the festival has regained much of its footing after a couple of sparsely attended years.
aGLIFF couldn't have chosen a better opening night film than Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, a powerful and poignant documentary about the titular Wyoming college student who was tortured and murdered in 1998. Shepard's killers admitted killing him because he was gay, and his murder became one of America's most notorious hate crimes.
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- 9/12/2014
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (better known as aGLIFF) kicks off Wednesday night, and over 100 films from a variety of countries and genres will screen through Sunday. Most of the festival will take place at the recently remodeled Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, and badges and individual passes are both still available.
The lineup is designed to showcase some of the most noteworthy Lgbtq films from the recent festival circuit and includes opening-night film Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine, Centerpiece Film Regarding Susan Sontag, narrative closing-night film Appropriate Behavior and a Friday night secret screening.
Whether you're a badgeholder who wants to catch as many movies as possible or a casual participant just planning to attend a screening or two, here are a few things to keep in mind.
Location: With the exception of the closing night films, which are at the Stateside Theatre, all other...
The lineup is designed to showcase some of the most noteworthy Lgbtq films from the recent festival circuit and includes opening-night film Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine, Centerpiece Film Regarding Susan Sontag, narrative closing-night film Appropriate Behavior and a Friday night secret screening.
Whether you're a badgeholder who wants to catch as many movies as possible or a casual participant just planning to attend a screening or two, here are a few things to keep in mind.
Location: With the exception of the closing night films, which are at the Stateside Theatre, all other...
- 9/9/2014
- by Caitlin Moore
- Slackerwood
The Austin Film Festival has announced its first wave of film screenings, including Centerpiece Film Black and White (directed by Mike Binder and starring Kevin Costner), documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater, and Dawn Patrol, directed by Aff regular Daniel Petrie Jr. This initial list is a mix of world and regional premieres and provides glimpses of a diverse program; among other things, festivalgoers will have the chance to see a Texas-based political documentary, a pioneer drama with an all-star cast, and Benedict Cumberbatch playing the role of Alan Turing.
The writer-focused festival runs Oct. 23-30 and includes feature films, short films, film competitions and conference panels. See below for a list of the titles announced so far, and find out more about attending Aff here.
If you're ready to get festival season started already, don't forget that the 27th Anniversary Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) takes place in...
The writer-focused festival runs Oct. 23-30 and includes feature films, short films, film competitions and conference panels. See below for a list of the titles announced so far, and find out more about attending Aff here.
If you're ready to get festival season started already, don't forget that the 27th Anniversary Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) takes place in...
- 8/22/2014
- by Caitlin Moore
- Slackerwood
First of all, in case you hadn't heard, it's called aGLIFF again. Polari is still the name of the nonprofit that organizes the annual Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, but the film festival's traditional name has prevailed.
Now that I've established that, here's the news. aGLIFF has announced its opening-night film for this year's fest -- and the dates of the fest are news too, since they've changed. aGLIFF will run from September 10-14, 2014, at the newly-renovated Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. (So now you know the theater has to be at least sort of ready by then.)
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine will open the fest on Wednesday, September 10. The documentary focuses on the late Matthew Shepard's personal life, from friends' and family's point of view. Director Michele Josue and Shepard's parents will be there for a post-screening discussion. aGLIFF also announced three other...
Now that I've established that, here's the news. aGLIFF has announced its opening-night film for this year's fest -- and the dates of the fest are news too, since they've changed. aGLIFF will run from September 10-14, 2014, at the newly-renovated Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. (So now you know the theater has to be at least sort of ready by then.)
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine will open the fest on Wednesday, September 10. The documentary focuses on the late Matthew Shepard's personal life, from friends' and family's point of view. Director Michele Josue and Shepard's parents will be there for a post-screening discussion. aGLIFF also announced three other...
- 7/28/2014
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
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