Spring weather is just around the corner, so it's time to draw your blackout curtains, pull tighter your most fetid sweatsuit, and gather around the tee-vee set: Netflix Instant is unleashing another wave of mediocre cinema for your isolated viewing pleasure.

They're not all bad: Chinatown is a classic, Terminator is an ingenious sci-fi trailblazer, and The Yards...is a movie that...exists. Here's the list:

Amistad

Barton Fink

Braveheart

Chinatown

Click

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Coneheads

Death Wish

Death Wish 2

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Dragonslayer

The English Patient

The Fifth Element

Gattaca

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Inventing the Abbotts

Jumanji

A League of Their Own

Look Who’s Talking Now

The Man With One Red Shoe

Mean Girls

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Night of the Comet

Rocky

The Running Man

Scary Movie 3′

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Sense and Sensibility

Survival of the Dead

The Terminator

Wild Things 2

The Yards

It's also time to say goodbye to another set of films; films you swore you'd watch before sighing heavily and hitting "replay" on Friends With Kids. In particular, watch Pet Sematary before it's too late, OK? You know you'll never pay actual cash money to see some dead animatronic brat named Gage (not a name) mirthfully murder his neglectful family with a scalpel. Watch Pi and imagine the air in the Paramount board room the moment it fully dawned on its top execs that they'd just given that guy $130 million to make a biblical film. "Tense" comes to mind; so does "sweaty."



24

Voltran: Lion Force

The Dead Zone

21 Grams

Oldboy

Escape From Alcatraz

The Hunt for Red October

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Truman Show

Sunset Boulevard

The Thing Called Love

The Amittyville Horror

Pi

Nell

Everything or Nothing

The Haunting in Connecticut

My Tutor

Who’s Minding the Store

Farewell to the King

Baby Boom

American Gigolo

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Catch 22

Dark Blue

Play It Again, Sam

Mommie Dearest

Pet Sematary

April Fool’s Day

Staying Alive

Resident Evil Apocalypse



See ya'll next Winter!

