Here's Everything New On Netflix In April, Including 'Black Sails' & 'Role Models'
1. Black Sails
Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island."
If you ask me, this is one of the few series I have ever watched that hit the same heights as 'Game of Thrones' as far as the excellent combination of world-building, production value, writing, intrigue and acting. It's one of my favorite series EVER and I'm not a big pirates guy. I will note that they promised this series would drop on Netflix a few months ago and never delivered. So we will see.
2. Born on the Fourth of July
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
I had a big argument with that decrepit skeleton called Chris Klemmer about this movie recently. He is of the opinion that Tom Cruise can't act and just goes through the motions. While there are a ton of examples to the contrary, I think that this one stands out. Cruise is incredible in this very underappreciated movie starring as one of Massapequa's finest, Ron Kovic. As a little side note, we interviewed director Oliver Stone a while back and he told his publicist (who relayed it to ours) that he really liked me? Shoutout to that insane legend.
3. Ripley
In 1960s New York, Tom Ripley is hired by a wealthy man to convince his wayward son to return home from Italy. But Tom's introduction to Dickie Greenleaf's leisurely life abroad "is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder".
I don't have a ton to run on with this other than the fact that I like the original movie (never read the book), I think Andrew Scott is really talented and showrunner Steven Zaillian has written some movies that I really like (Schindler's List, Mission Impossible, Gangs of New York, Moneyball)
April 1st: American Graffiti, Baby Driver, Born on the Fourth of July, Happy Gilmore, Inside Man, Molly's Game, Role Models, Smokey and the Bandit, Split, Talladega Nights, The Land Before time, The Matrix Collection, The Theory of Everything, You've Got Mail
April 4th: Ripley (New limited series based on 'The Talented Mr. Ripley')
April 5th: Parasyte: The Grey (This was a really cool/fucked up anime but no promises that translates to live action here). The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem (New doc about the online community that bled into QAnon and Jan 6th).
April 16th: Knocked Up
April 17th: Black Sails (They promised this a few months ago and didn't deliver, but fingers crossed)
April 19th: Rebel Moon Part II
April 23rd: Anyone But You
April 24th: King Richard
LEAVING NETFLIX
April 1st: Beverly Hills Cop, Black Adam, Blazing Saddles, Bruce Almighty, Chinatown, Community, FUry, Hellboy, It , Man of Steel, Meet the Parents, Pacific Rim, School of Rock, The Batman, The Conversation, The Suicide Squad
April 3rd: The Raid
April 9th: The Nice Guys
April 23rd: Train to Busan