The weather outside is frightful, but the Netflix Yule Log is delightful, as are the rest of the streaming service’s holiday season offerings. (Many of which have nothing at all to do with the holidays!) Read on to learn the best of what Netflix is bringing to the screen next month—as well as what to catch now, before it fades into the black hole of the Internet.

What’s Arriving . . .

8 Mile

Those of you who saw Eminem’s recent performance on Saturday Night Live and thought, “Oh yeah. Remember him?” are in luck: Netflix will give you a chance to revisit the rap world’s great white conundrum at perhaps the peak of his powers. He surprised audiences and critics alike 15 years ago in Curtis Hanson’s largely biographical drama, about a poor son of Detroit with blazing freestyle talent struggling toward a better life. It’s a surprisingly thoughtful movie—well, maybe not that surprising, as it was a Curtis Hanson film—made all the more so by Em’s quietly confident performance. Surrounding him are the late, great Brittany Murphy as a slinking love interest (she’s great in this, too), Mekhi Pfeiffer as a friend-mentor, and Kim Basinger chewing the walls of her trailer home with furious aplomb. The movie is definitely a time capsule, but one it could be fun to reopen.

While You Were Sleeping

Speaking of time capsules, let’s return to the moment when Sandra Bullock really broke big, all the way back in 1995. Netflix is maybe being a little sneaky here, hoping to ensnare people looking for the 2017 Korean drama series of the same name. But if those people are tricked, they’ll hopefully at least be as enraptured by this winsome romantic comedy as audiences were 22 years ago, when the film was a huge hit, solidifying Bullock’s stardom a year after Speed. (She had, of course, already been simmering in stuff like The Vanishing and Demolition Man.) You also get good Bill Pullman, some Peter Gallagher eyebrow action, and a nice, Christmasy backdrop. They almost quite literally don’t make movies like this anymore, so why not retreat to a past when they did?

The Young Victoria

Move ahead in movie history but further back into the actual past for this 2008 Queen Victoria origin story, starring a then up-and-coming Emily Blunt and directed by future Big Little Lies maestro Jean-Marc Vallée. The film’s lavish costumes won the Academy Award that year, but the most stunning visuals in the film are courtesy of a young Rupert Friend, mustachioed, wavy-haired, and moony-eyed as Victoria’s smitten suitor, Albert. The movie isn’t some kind of Outlander sexfest, but it is a pleasant and engaging romance, thanks in large part to its two charming leads. A perfect movie to watch with Anglophilic family members over the holidays; the script was even written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

Sahara or Catwoman (12/11)

There are so many good movies out in theaters right now that I don’t know why you’d want to stay at home and watch junk. But if it’s a blizzard outside or something, there is, at least, less interesting junk than Sahara, in which Matthew McConaughey flails around in his pre-Oscar desert, and Catwoman, in which Halle Berry skitters around in her post-Oscar tumble. Both are nearly irredeemably bad movies, but they are interesting marker points in two big actors’ careers, if you’re into tracking that kind of thing.