Follow us. All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Since absorbing, well, pretty much everything, the collection available at your fingertips from the House of Mouse is more like a cursed all-you-can-eat buffet than a children's playpen.
After acquiring 20th Century Fox and Star, you're more likely than ever to stumble across gems that aren't exactly family-friendly viewing. The bigguns are all there β your Alien s, your Die Hard s β but it might be lost on some that the movie library now ranks highly among its rivals.
Even Netflix , whose film offering from before has always left something to be desired. John Cusack plays a record shop owner who breaks the fourth wall to talk us through his history of unsuccessful relationships. A beautiful thing. Supremely family-friendly, without compromising on its stirring story. Shot to look like one take way before that was cool, this is a zany examination of the fallacies of stardom and success, held together by an excellent central performance and ably supported by Emma Stone and Edward Norton.
Motorbike road racing is fucking cool. Riders average lap speeds comparable to those of an F1 race circa mph , on public roads, with much less protection and many more obstacles in the way. Three of these four men have now been killed in motorbike crashes, and yet the last remaining son Michael persists.
How strong must the allure of this sport be, to tempt him over the threshold of such danger and grief? Watch the documentary and you might begin to understand. This one is most definitely for adults. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland team up behind the camera for this now-legendary horror about people trying to escape an incurable virus that sweeps through the entirety of the UK in a matter of weeks β or, 28 days, to be precise.
