Spring is almost here, bringing warm weather, sunshine, flowers with green grass versus gray with more gray, baseball and outside activities again. But ... have you heard of couches? Sure, we've been bunkered inside for the past several months ... but sitting on a comfy couch with a good movie, not doing anything technically productive, sure sounds like a solid reason to keep things that way. And if that wasn't enough, here comes Netflix with a strong lineup of new arrivals to encourage my slovenliness.
Can't wait for summer blockbuster season (and whatever version of it we'll have this year thanks to the studios and the strikes)? Past box office smashes "Baby Driver," "Inside Man" and "The Matrix" will crash, chase, dodge, duck, dip, dive and doge onto the Big Red Streaming Monolith, along with retro sensations "American Graffiti" and "Smokey and the Bandit." That's right: Netflix discovered movies existed before 1980! Speaking of throwbacks, the original HBO hit "Sex and the City" will have cosmos and chat over on Netflix now – and for more laughs, comedy classics "Happy Gilmore," "Talladega Nights" and "Knocked Up" will chuckle it up on the streamer next month as well.
And remember when Will Smith won an Oscar? No, you don't – no one remembers anything that happened at that Oscars beyond The Slap – but if you'd like to refresh your memory, the Williams' sisters tennis drama "King Richard" will serve on the streaming service starting in April.
As for originals headed to Netflix, Zack Snyder's second installment of his sci-fi epic "Star Wars" "Rebel Moon" will arrive in April. According to Snyder, more people watched his movie than "Barbie" last year – which makes sense because obviously everyone had "Rebel Moon" fever in 2023. You couldn't walk down the street without someone talking about Atticus Noble! Also there's yet another season of Netflix's reality contest "The Circle," which I cannot watch without getting unwittingly astral projected back to pandemic times when it first debuted. So yes, I will likely be skipping that.
Anyways, that's just a few of the additions coming to Netflix next month, so here's the full list of movies and TV shows springing onto the service at the start of spring.
April 1
"American Graffiti"
"Baby Driver"
"Battleship"
"Born on the Fourth of July"
"Glass"
"Happy Gilmore"
"Hotel Transylvania"
"Hotel Transylvania 2"
"How to Be Single"
"Inside Man"
"Inside Man: Most Wanted"
"It's Kind of a Funny Story"
"The Land Before Time"
"The Little Things"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman"
"The Matrix"
"The Matrix Reloaded"
"The Matrix Revolutions"
"Molly's Game"
"Mortal Engines"
"One Piece Film: Red"
"Role Models"
"Sex and the City" seasons 1-6
"Smokey and the Bandit"
"Smokey and the Bandit II"
"Split"
"Step Up: Revolution"
"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Wild Things"
"You've Got Mail"
April 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Demetri Martin: Demetri Deconstructed"
"Space Jam: A New Legacy"
April 3
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Files of the Unexplained"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Rodeio Rock"
April 4
"100 Days to Indy" season 1
"Blackfish"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Crooks"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "I Woke Up a Vampire" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Ripley"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Tearsmith"
April 5
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Parasyte: The Grey"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Scoop"
April 8
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Spirit Rangers" season 3
April 9
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Neal Brennan: Crazy Good"
April 10
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Anthracite: Secrets of the Sect"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Hijacking of Flight 601"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Unlocked: A Jail Experiment"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "What Jennifer Did"
April 11
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "As the Crow Flies" season 3
"The Bricklayer"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Heartbreak High" season 2
"Meekah" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Midsummer Night"
April 12
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "A Journey"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Amar Singh Chamkila"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Good Times"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Love, Divided"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Stolen"
"Strange Way of Life"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp"
April 15
"The Fairly OddParents" seasons 4-5
"Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel"
April 16
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer"
"Knocked Up"
April 17
"Black Sails" seasons 1-4
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Circle" season 6
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Don't Hate the Player"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Grimm Variations"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Our Living World"
April 18
"Bros"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Upshaws" season 5
April 19
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver"
April 21
"Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know"
April 22
"Ahead of the Curve"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "CoComelon Lane" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen"
April 23
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Brigands: The Quest for Gold"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust?"
April 24
"Deliver Me"
"Don't Hate the Player"
"King Richard"
"TLC Forever"
April 25
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "City Hunter"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Dead Boy Detectives"
April 26
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Asunta Case"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut"
April 29
"Boiling Point" season 1
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Honeymoonish"
April 30
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Fiasco"
April TBA
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Baby Reindeer"
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.
