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22nd Apr 2018

New to Netflix: 5 movies to enjoy this weekend

Orlaith Condon

Settle in.

It might not be the hardest decision we have to make each week, but it’s definitely one that takes a lot of consideration.

Yes, choosing the right movie sets the tone for your night – watch something disappointing and you go to bed feeling the same way, choose something great and you’ll have to force yourself to turn the TV off.

Well, we think you might struggle with the latter when you catch a glimpse at just some of the films that have arrived on Netflix over the last week.

From teen dramas to comedies to great documentaries, the choice on Netflix never disappoints.

But just to make it a little easier, we’ve narrowed down the list somewhat.

Here are five films that arrived on Netflix this weekend.

 

1. Dude

Plot: Four best girlfriends negotiate loss and major life changes during the last two weeks of high school in this coming-of-age comedy.

 

2. Money Monster

Plot: In the taut and tense thriller Money Monster, Lee Gates is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn hostage live on air. Unfolding in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.

 

3. Alice Through the Looking Glass

Plot: After slipping through a mirror, Alice finds herself back in Underland with the White Queen, the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Her friends tell her that the Mad Hatter is in a funk over the loss of his family. Hoping to save his loved ones, Alice steals the Chronosphere from Time to travel into the past. While there, she encounters the younger Hatter and the evil Red Queen.

 

4. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Plot: In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shellshocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.

 

5. Kodachrome

Plot: A record company exec joins his estranged dad, a famous photographer who’s dying, on a road trip to the last lab still developing Kodachrome film.