Netflix Instant: TV and Movie Picks

Spring Break is coming to an end for many of us, and in a couple of weeks, the big summer season of movies will begin. As always, my picks are totally random, but here's a few titles you can watch this weekend if your St. Patrick's Day festivities get rained out, which will apparently happen here in Dallas.

Enjoy!

VALKYRIE

When this film came out, all I remember was how everyone was complaining how Tom Cruise didn't have the appropriate accent for his character. However, it's been a few years, but this film actually surprised me with how tense and fascinating this true story was. It's worth a watch even if you aren't the biggest Cruise fan.

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

I love this film. I do. It scared the crap out of me when I saw it opening night. It's one of the few films to ever keep me awake at night. Laugh if you want, but before the social media age, this was a little gem of a film no one saw coming. And anyone that says they weren't scared after that final shot is full of lies. Lies! 

TRAILER PARK BOYS

This Canadian series was recommended to me by a friend of mine who wouldn't stop raving about how funny it was. It's a mockumentary about a group of trailer park residents. It had me at mockumentary…and Canada. Sounds like a good little series to end Spring Break with. 

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Netflix Instant TV and Movie Picks

Guys. I promise I'm always trying to have a theme for my Instant picks, but I just don't have the theme gene like my cohort does. It's a gift. However, I bring you two thought provoking films this week, and one that, well, isn't. 

OBLIVION Trailer Drops!

Love him or hate him, Tom Cruise makes some fun action movies. I've always enjoyed him as an action star, and his new sic-fi action film looks entertaining as hell.

Set in a futuristic Earth (which I'm spying a pattern for next summer), Cruise is a technician who cleans up drones years after a war has left Earth in shambles. However, during his last few weeks on the job, as always, he starts uncovering secrets including stumbling across a band of rebels led by Morgan Freeman.

Check the trailer after the jump.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE- GHOST PROTOCOL- He said/She said

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL

Directed by: Brad Bird

Written by: Josh Applebaum, Andre Nemec based on the TV show written by Bruce Geller

Starring: Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton and Jeremy Renner

Synopsis: Our team is back to stop the bad guy from blowing up a nuclear device.

ROCK OF AGES trailer drops...with a load of bad karaoke

There's a reason that certain shows are created for the stage and others are created for film. Musicals need a certain sense of disbelief to work. Do people usually break out into song and dance? Not normally, but on the stage, it's all part of the show. It's the same as believing you change "locations" in a show simply because a piece of furniture is moved or a backdrop is changed.

So, it takes a certain talent, script, and all the right things to make a musical work for the screen. There hasn't been much success nowadays with the trend of adapting musicals. ROCK OF AGES is the latest victim of this trend. Directed Adam Shankman (HAIRSPRAY), ROCK OF AGES is about a young couple falling in love during the 80's era of rock n' roll.

Check out the trailer after the break

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL trailer hits

He's back!  The full trailer for Tom Cruise's newest installment of the Mission Impossible series hit the web today.  Looks like Cruise is back to his old tricks, like crashing fancy parties and hanging off really tall buildings, but really, this trailer looks like so much fun.

And you thought action-packed thrillers were only for the summer....





MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL will be released December 16, 2011 starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Josh Holloway, and Vladimir Mashkov. 

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