Netflix Instant: Cool TV & Movies: Cartoon Editions!

Javi here. It seems that I completely forgot to put up a Netflix column given mostly due to my lack of sleep and trying to begin preparations for the 2012 Dallas International Film festival. We started the week with Damon and my own most anticipated movies of the festival. Now I bring you some great cartoons that JUST hit Netflix Instant.

G.I. Joe: RENEGADES

This was the well-received but short-lived new G.I. Joe cartoon. I have barely started watching it myself, but in this version, Cobra is a legit corporation and they're obviously evil, but in the eyes of the law, the Joes are fugitives of the law and are constantly hunted. This features one of my favorite Cobra Commander designs as well. 

RANGO

One of my favorite movies of the last year. Now available to streaming. Go see it now!!! It's hilarious, a little twisted, but it never fails to amaze visually.

TRANSFORMERS: PRIME

Now, there's a good reason I'm recommending this. I usually refrain from actually recommending most Transformers related media since I know it's not usually people's cup of tea. But just like ADVENTURE TIME seems to have a crazy cross over appeal, I believe that it's legitimately well written and a pretty dark show for kids but that adults could get into. This show is on HD which is great because that's the ONLY way to see this show. Ironically, the weakest part of this show is Optimus Prime, but everybody else is written so well. 

That's it for this week. Hope you enjoy!

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Javi's Top Ten Movies of 2011

Javi here. So here are the big movies that I really liked this last year. Much like last year, I have some specific movies that really spoke to me or affected me in a way that a movie should. This year was a little tougher because while there were some expectational movies out there, there were also a lot of movies that were just borderline awesome, but with little things here and there bothered me. The way that I like to do my top tens is I will list all nine movies that were my favorites, but since they're all so vastly different, I cannot rank them. I only have my absolute favorite movie distinguished from the rest.

Are you curious now? Hit the jump to find out all of my favorites in no particular order!

BATTLE: LOST ANGELES, CAPTAIN AMERICA, RANGO & THOR Super Bowl Teaser

Here's a big old post with more trailers from the Super Bowl so far!

First up, is BATTLE: LOST ANGELES. This movie has me excited of being a different kind of alien invasion movie. It seems to have more of the gritty, urban warfare style. It's a welcome change instead of more wise cracking Will Smith movies. My only apprehension is SKYLINE looked just as cool if not more, and well...we know what happened there.

The CAPTAIN AMERICA teaser is very effective, showing quick part of the origin story with Chris Evans going through his transformation. The best part was the single image of Hugo Weaving as The Red Skull. I'm pretty lukewarm on this movie, as it reminds me of lower tier Marvel movies like DAREDEVIL and THE FANTASTIC FOUR.

RANGO, was a movie I was very apprehensive against, but I have warmed up to it. Once the earlier trailers hit and I got a feel for the style and the type of story it was, I'm more excited for what will be Johnny Depp's redeeming performance after ALICE IN WONDERLAND.




THOR was a particularly great teaser, and it gave enough action shots that make you wonder what the hell is going on. It's very well cut, and the scope of the movie seems to be epic on scale, that will probably be matched only by THE AVENGERS movie. Two complaints...what's Sauron doing here, and please don't let their be too much love/hate banter between Thor and Natalie Portman's character.





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