Netflix is hemorrhaging non-originals and its reign at the top of the streaming heap will receive its strongest challenge yet in the form of Disney+ in November (with HBO Max coming hot on their tails next spring).
In fact, film fans and filmmakers alike took to Twitter this week to decry its proposed playback feature that'll play movies 1.5x faster – in case you want to watch a movie but don't want to have to go through the hassle of, you know, watching the damn movie – and its financial plan consists of piling some more billions of debt onto its billions of debt. To quote one of the many popular TV shows that will almost certainly disappear off the Big Red Streaming Monolith in the upcoming months: Not great, Bob!
But you know what's a great way to distract people from your upcoming struggles and possible impending demise? A new Martin Scorsese crime epic! But seriously, good strategy; it's almost working on me!
Indeed, Scorsese's massive gangster epic "The Irishman" – the crown jewel of Netflix's upcoming Oscar season strategy – will come to the streaming service after a short (and hopefully Milwaukee-bound) theatrical release. The reviews out of the festival circuit were rapturous and it's already pegged for several Academy Award nominations (including several categories in which it's the frontrunner), so Netflix has to be feeling good, at least about that. And it's certainly great news for cinephiles because a new Scorsese movie is never a bad thing, much less one starring Robert De Niro, an on-his-game Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.
Also good news for film fans: the rest of November's lineup, which, like "The Irishman," is doing its damnedest to help distract from everything leaving the service for other, potentially greener, pastures. As is the norm, the increasingly decreasing outside additions are nothing too special. "The Matrix" trilogy will be back (yet again) before it leaves in two months (yet again) along with other excellent entries "District 9," "A Single Man," "Grease," "Step Brothers" and "Rosemary's Baby." (Just in time for Not Halloween Anymore!)
But the Originals, again, save the day. The month will open with the medieval Shakespearean spectacle "The King," starring Timothee Chalamet, Robert Pattinson and both of their fully wild haircuts, followed by more "Queer Eye" and "Great British Baking Show," a comedy special from Seth Meyers, the third season of "The Crown" (starring newly crowned Oscar winner Olivia Colman of "The Favourite" fame), two excellent Milwaukee Film Festival alums in "Atlantics" and "I Lost My Body" ... and a whole bunch of corny Christmas movies as Netflix puts on its best Hallmark costume. I'm already terrified that I will have to watch "The Knight Before Christmas," the latest streaming Christmas kitsch starring Vanessa Hudgens, for a Hallmark Holiday Hell piece. (And now that I've said that in public, I've almost certainly guaranteed it.) Dammit.
Anyways, here's the rest of the new additions coming to Netflix in November.
Nov. 1
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "American Son"
"Apache Warrior"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Atypical" season 3
"Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures: Go Team Roberts" season 1
"Billy on the Street"
"Christmas Break-In"
"The Christmas Candle"
"Christmas in the Heartlands"
"Christmas Survival"
"The Deep" season 3
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Drive"
"Elliot the Littlest Reindeer"
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Fire in Paradise"
"The Game"
"Grease"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Hache"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Hello Ninja"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Holiday in the Wild"
"Holly Star"
"How to Be a Latin Lover"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The King"
"Love Jones"
"Paid in Full"
"Rosemary's Baby"
"Rounders"
"Santa Girl"
"Sling Blade"
"Spitfire: The Plane that Saved the World"
"Step Brothers"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Man Without Gravity"
"Mars" season 2
"The Matrix"
"The Matrix Reloaded"
"The Matrix Revolutions"
"Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans" seasons 1-2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Queer Eye: We're in Japan"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "True: Grabbleapple Harvest"
"Up North"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "We Are the Wave"
"Wild Child"
"Zombieland"
Nov. 4
"A Holiday Engagement"
"Christmas Crush"
"Dear Santa"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Devil Next Door"
"District 9"
Nov. 5
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The End of the F***ing World" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power" season 4
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Tune in for Love"
"Undercover Brother 2"
Nov. 6
"Burning Cane"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "SCAMS"
"Shadow"
Nov. 7
"The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open"
Nov. 8
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Busted!" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Great British Baking Show: Holidays" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Greatest Moments of WWII in HD Colour"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Green Eggs and Ham"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Let it Snow"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Paradise Beach"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Wild District" season 2
Nov. 9
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Little Things" season 3
Nov. 10
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj" volume 5
Nov. 11
"A Single Man"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Chief of Staff" season 2
Nov. 12
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Harvey Girls Forever!" season 3
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Jeff Garlin: Our Man in Chicago"
Nov. 13
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Maradona in Mexico"
Nov. 14
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Stranded"
Nov. 15
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Avlu: Part 2"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Club"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Earthquake Bird"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "GO!: The Unforgettable Party"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "House Arrest"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "I'm with the Band: Nasty Cherry"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Klaus"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Llama Llama" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Toys That Made Us" season 3
Nov. 16
"Suffragette"
Nov. 17
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Crown" season 3
Nov. 19
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Iliza: Unveiled"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "No hay tiempo para la verguenza"
Nov. 20
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator"
"Dream/Killer"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Lorena, la de pies ligeros"
Nov. 21
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Knight Before Christmas"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Mortel"
Nov. 22
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Dino Girl Gauko"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Dolly Parton's Heartstrings"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Dragon Prince" season 3
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "High Seas" season 2
"Meet the Adebanjos" seasons 1-3
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Mon frère"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Nailed It! Holiday!" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Narcoworld: Dope Stories"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Nobody's Looking"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Singapore Social"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Trolls: The Beat Goes On!" season 8
Nov. 23
"End of Watch"
Nov. 24
"Shot Caller"
Nov. 25
"Dirty John" season 1
Nov. 26
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Mike Birbiglia: The New One"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Super Monsters Save Christmas"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "True: Winter Wishes"
Nov. 27
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Broken"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Irishman"
Nov. 28
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Holiday Rush"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "John Crist: I Ain't Prayin' For That"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Merry Happy Whatever"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Mytho"
Nov. 29
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Atlantics"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Chip and Potato" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "I Lost My Body"
"La Reina del Sur" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Movies That Made Us"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Sugar Rush Christmas"
As much as it is a gigantic cliché to say that one has always had a passion for film, Matt Mueller has always had a passion for film. Whether it was bringing in the latest movie reviews for his first grade show-and-tell or writing film reviews for the St. Norbert College Times as a high school student, Matt is way too obsessed with movies for his own good.
When he's not writing about the latest blockbuster or talking much too glowingly about "Piranha 3D," Matt can probably be found watching literally any sport (minus cricket) or working at - get this - a local movie theater. Or watching a movie. Yeah, he's probably watching a movie.
