This a humongous week of releases. The quantity of new DVDs and Streaming Netflix movies to watch is absolutely staggering. Netflix specifically, which keeps on pumping out solid movies for unlimited streaming. Some highlights this week from Netflix include: Zombieland, Sleepless in Seattle, Black Dynamite (my 3rd favorite film from 2009), and my personal #3 favorite movie of all-time, No Way Out.

New Releases:

Hot Tub Time Machine – (DVD and Blu-ray)

Flickchart Ranking: #4396

Times Ranked: 2728

% Times Won: 65.17%

Times Top 20′d: 2

I saw this in theaters and absolutely loved it. Once our heroes commented on how “tight” the first girls they see are when they make it back to the 80′s (exactly as I was in my head just a split second earlier), I knew I was going to enjoy the ride.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – (DVD and Blu-ray)

Flickchart Ranking: #5776

Times Ranked: 1851

% Times Won: 44.24%

Times Top 20′d: 3

Greek Mythology for the Harry Potter crowd.

The Crazies – (DVD and Blu-ray)

Flickchart Ranking: #4523

Times Ranked: 2575

% Times Won: 59.22%

Times Top 20′d: 3

Very surprised to see this ranking so well, might have to give it a shot now…

Creation – (DVD)

Flickchart Ranking: #9265

Times Ranked: 88

% Times Won: 59.61%

Times Top 20′d: 0

Charles Darwin Biopic. Critical reviews have made it out to be pretty dull but Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly certainly are a watchable duo.

The White Ribbon – (DVD and Blu-ray)

Flickchart Ranking: #4350

Times Ranked: 1513

% Times Won: 76.96%

Times Top 20′d: 5

Director Michael Haneke of Caché and Funny Games fame directs this fantastic Foreign Language Oscar Nominee.

Classics and Re-releases:

Predator – (Blu-ray)

Flickchart Ranking: #133

Times Ranked: 205840

% Times Won: 46.31%

Times Top 20′d: 2152

Great Movie or The Greatest Movie? They just don’t make them like this anymore. Say what you will about Ronald Reagan’s (or Bush I’s) politics, they directly led to the golden age of American Action Pictures. I was only alive for two years of Reagan’s reign but when I think back on all the great action pictures made between 1980 and 1992, I just want to cry because everything has completely fallen apart. Now we’re left with a bunch of dunces who think fast editing and fresh-faced 20 year-olds is what makes for a good action movie.

Night Train to Munich – (Criterion DVD)

Flickchart Ranking: #8936

Times Ranked: 41

% Times Won: 59.91%

Times Top 20′d: 0

This movie is already on its way to my house. Rex Harrison, Carol Reed (Director of The Third Man), Spies and Trains? Yes, Please.

The Leopard – (Criterion Blu-ray)

Flickchart Ranking: #6098

Times Ranked: 371

% Times Won: 66.49%

Times Top 20′d: 1

With Burt Lancaster

The Warlords – (Blu-ray)

Flickchart Ranking: #10401

Times Ranked: 61

% Times Won: 58.57%

Times Top 20′d: 0

With Jet Li and Andy Lau.

Uncle Sam
Everlasting Moments (Criterion)
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
New York Confidential

Netflix Instant Streaming

Asterisks indicate that I have seen and can vouch for the flicks as being worth your time.

Tuesday June 29th:

• *Sounder (1972) – Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield

Thursday July 1st:

• *No Way Out (1950) – Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark
• *Black Dynamite (2009) – Michael Jai White
• *Zombieland (2009) – Bill Murray, Woody Harrelson
• *Shock (1946) – Vincent Price
• *Kagemusha (1980) – Akira Kurosawa
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) – Ingrid Bergman
• Enemy Mine (1985) – Dennis Quaid, Lou Gossett Jr
• Men of Honor (2000) – Robert Deniro, Cuba Gooding Jr
• *Black Sunday (1960) – Mario Bava
• *Black Sabbath (1963) – Mario Bava, Boris Karloff
• Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) – William Holden, Jennifer Jones
• Krull (1983) – Liam Neeson
• *The Omen (1976) – Gregory Peck, Lee Remick
• *Aliens (1986) – Sigourney Weaver
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) – Cary Elwes, Mel Brooks, Dave Chappelle
• *Barton Fink (1991) – Coen Bros
• Pollock (2000) – Ed Harris
• *The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) – Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison
• Swamp Thing (1982) – Wes Craven
• Days of Thunder (1990) – Tom Cruise
• Airheads (1994) – Adam Sandler
• Firestorm (1998) – Howie Long
• Taps (1981) – Tom Cruise, Sean Penn
• Batman: The Movie (1966) – Adam West
• The Castle of Cagliostro (1980) – Hayao Miyazaki
• Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) – Myrna Loy
• Brigham Young (1940) – Vincent Price
• S. Darko (2009) – Sequel to Donnie Darko
• Under Suspicion (2000) – Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) – Charlie Sheen

Friday July 2nd:

• *Sleepless in Seattle (1993) – Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
• *Rollercoaster (1977) – Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda
• *A Very Long Engagement (2004) – Audrey Tautou
• The Rookie (1990) – Clint Eastwood
• Look Who’s Talking (1989) – John Travolta, Bruce Willis
• Sister Act (1992) – Whoopi Goldberg

Head over to Netflix today! It’s well worth the price of admission: