“A Netflix Original Series.” Bet you never thought you’d see those words. I sure didn’t. The Netflix stream loses some really good sketch comedy this week, as well as one of the few movie reboots that’s actually any good. In return, we get Netflix’s first original series. It’s not an exciting trade, but based on current user reviews, it might not be as bad as it seems.
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It’s time for some monkey business. This week, VUDU offers up one of last year’s most acclaimed documentaries, which was inexplicably passed over by the Academy Awards and doesn’t seem to be getting a Blu-ray release either.
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The beginning of February is all about comedy on Netflix. We lose a few funny movies and we gain a few. All things considered, it’s a zero sum game. It’s not a win, but it’s a hell of a lot better than a loss.
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What do you call the part-prequel/part-remake of a remake of an adaptation of a short story? How about the most promising streaming rental of the week?
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All right, I’ll level with you – I’m a little scared this week. Netflix loses a huge amount of programming from the BBC, including a few favorites of mine. ‘Doctor Who’ is on the list at Instant Watcher, which is usually a reliable source. Yet on the Netflix page, the availability section shows “Streaming, Blu-ray and DVD.” If the show were leaving the stream, it should say “Streaming until x/x, DVD and Blu-ray.” So, I have my fingers crossed, because I’ve had a hankering to watch Seasons 1 through 4 again, and finish by bawling along in my room at the last half hour or so of ‘The End of Time’. So crazy good.
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In all the hoopla around this week’s Oscar nominations, several highly-acclaimed films from last year were (perhaps unfairly) ignored and left completely out of the running. One of them hit Blu-ray and streaming this week. Despite its lack of awards recognition, the movie still looks like a very worthy rental.
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There’s not a lot of movement in the Netflix stream this week. While we gain practically nothing, we also only lose two movies worth talking about. Wouldn’t it be nice if this happened more often? It’d sure give us less reason to babysit our queues!
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When looking through the movies being removed from Netflix this week, I began to get very excited. It looked like nothing of value would be lost. Instead, it turns out that Netflix will deprive us of great Shakespeare performances, and give us garbage in return. I’m not even going to link to the remake of ‘Carrie’, but I will call out one new movie in particular, whether you like it or not.
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Maybe I just never noticed it before, but I only recently realized that VUDU has a wishlist feature both on the web site and within VUDU-enabled devices that tie together with each other and your account. Has this been there the whole time, or was this a recent addition? I’m not sure. In any case, I find this very handy to flag movies that I might be interested to rent at a later time, but am liable to forget about without a reminder. Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot that I’ll be adding to the wishlist this week.
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A couple months ago, I attempted to start a new feature here in the blog where I review titles from the VUDU streaming service that aren’t available on Blu-ray yet, as a complement to our “One from the Vault” feature that does the same for Netflix. The original intention was to write these about once a month, but then I got tied up in other things and missed December. With the start of the new year, let’s try to start this up again with a look at Rob Lowe’s notorious 1990 erotic thriller ‘Bad Influence’.
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