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New on Netflix: Gotham, How to Get Away with Murder, And More Streaming Options

by | September 22, 2015 | Comments

Streaming services are capitalizing on all the new Fall TV hitting the airwaves, with full seasons of returning shows like Gotham and How to Get Away With Murder, as well as brand new ones like The Muppets and Scream Queens. On top of that, we’ve got the usual roundup of classics and artful indies from Fandor and a handful of new releases available for purchase, including a steamy, muscular sequel. Read on for details.


New on Netflix:

 

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 93%

Wes Anderson’s coming-of-age film stars Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as a couple of pre-teens who fall in love and run away from home together; Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, and Frances McDormand also star.

Available now on: Netflix


Gotham: Season 1 (2014) 76%

FOX’s Certified Fresh drama, set during the early life of Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz), focuses on detective James Gordon (Ben McKenzie), who struggles to tackle the criminal underworld of the city in the days before Wayne became Batman.

Available now on: Netflix


How to Get Away With Murder: Season 1 (2014) 84%

Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) is a criminal defense attorney and professor teaching law students how to defend the accused, while tangling them up in a real-life murder mystery of their own.

Available now on: Netflix


The Bank Job (2008) 79%

Jason Statham stars as a 
petty thug who tries to execute the perfect heist in this Certified Fresh thriller, based on a real-life 1971 robbery.

Available now on: Netflix


Kung Fu Jungle (2014) 74%

Donnie Yen stars in an action thriller about a wrongly-convicted martial arts instructor who’s released from prison to help police track down a killer.

Available now on: Netflix


New on Hulu:

 

Gotham: Season 2 (2015) 74%

After you catch up on season one on Netflix, you can watch season two every week after it airs on Fox, beginning with the season two premiere, which is currently available to Hulu Plus subscribers.

Available now on: Hulu


The Muppets: Season 1 (2015) 64%

The Muppets are back! Tune in every week to see how Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of the gang live their lives as they produce Miss Piggy’s talk show.

Available Wednesday, 9/23 on: Hulu


Blindspot: Season 1 (2015) 68%

NBC’s new mystery series centers on a tattooed woman (Jaimie Alexander) with amnesia whose body markings may hold the key to solving a crime.

Available now on: Hulu


Scream Queens: Season 1 (2015) 68%

The latest series from American Horror Story creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk is a comedy-horror hybrid that focuses on a fictional sorority house whose members become entwined in a decades-old murder mystery.

Available Wednesday, 9/23 on: Hulu


New on Fandor

 

The Great Love (1969) 100%

Pierre Étaix  wrote, directed, and starred in this surreal 1969 comedy about a young man who daydreams about his future right as he is about to be married.

Available now on: Fandor


Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) 100%

This groundbreaking ethnographic documentary – about an annual cattle drive undertake by Persian farmers – was the first feature from Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, the team that brought us King Kong.

Available now on: Fandor


Le Havre (2011) 99%

Aki Kaurismaeki‘s Certified Fresh dramedy tells the tale of a shoeshiner who befriends a young African refugee.

Available now on: Fandor


Pickpocket (1959) 93%

The great Robert Bresson’s influential masterpiece is a stylistically bold and psychologically complex portrait of a petty thief and the people in his orbit.

Available now on: Fandor


Available for Purchase

 

Magic Mike XXL (2015) 66%

The Kings of Tampa decide that if they’re going to leave the adult entertainment world behind, they should go out with a bang. So they head for the Male Strippers Convention in South Carolina to strut their stuff one final time.

Available now on: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu


Results (2015) 85%

Kevin Corrigan, Cobie Smulders, and Guy Pearce and  star in this comedy about a newly divorced rich guy who falls under the influence of a gym owner and his sometimes-girlfriend.

Available now on: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu


Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World (2015) 81%

This Certified Fresh documentary shows how an ailing five-year-old’s wish to be a superhero for a day became a viral sensation.

Available now on: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu