With June comes summer, and Netflix’s selection of films this month reflects that. The streamer has added several new films to watch for the month of June, including classics alongside some of their newer originals. Some of the movies that didn’t make the cut for this list, but are still new to Netflix in June include “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” “The Hurt Locker” and “Titanic.”
The following batch of films offers something many an audience member, from the heartfelt stories that have their ups and downs, animated films that still teach solid lessons and even an inspirational sports movie.
Read on to discover or re-discover the best new movies on Netflix this month.
“Steel Magnolias” (1989) Columbia Pictures
Boasting a brilliant cast of powerful female actresses, “Steel Magnolias” compliments “Hustle” and “We Are Marshall” in the vein of triumphs and tragedies. M...
The following batch of films offers something many an audience member, from the heartfelt stories that have their ups and downs, animated films that still teach solid lessons and even an inspirational sports movie.
Read on to discover or re-discover the best new movies on Netflix this month.
“Steel Magnolias” (1989) Columbia Pictures
Boasting a brilliant cast of powerful female actresses, “Steel Magnolias” compliments “Hustle” and “We Are Marshall” in the vein of triumphs and tragedies. M...
- 6/12/2022
- by Dessi Gomez and Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Take another look @ Nsfw images of actress January Jones, who returns as the character 'Betty Draper' in AMC's "Mad Men" Season 7:
Jones has had supporting roles in "Anger Management" (2003), "Love Actually" and "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights".
In 2005, she appeared as a U.S. border guard's wife in the feature "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" directed by Tommy Lee Jones.
In "We Are Marshall" (2006), she played the role of 'Carol Dawson', wife of football coach 'Red Dawson'. She played a supporting role in the film "The Phantom" (1996).
Jones played the lead female role in the movie "Love's Enduring Promise" as a pioneer family's oldest child.
She currently appears in the AMC original series "Mad Men" as young suburban housewife and mother 'Betty Draper Francis'.
She is also known for her role as 'Cadence Flaherty', the love interest in the 2003 comedy "American Wedding", the third installment of the "American Pie" film series.
Jones has had supporting roles in "Anger Management" (2003), "Love Actually" and "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights".
In 2005, she appeared as a U.S. border guard's wife in the feature "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" directed by Tommy Lee Jones.
In "We Are Marshall" (2006), she played the role of 'Carol Dawson', wife of football coach 'Red Dawson'. She played a supporting role in the film "The Phantom" (1996).
Jones played the lead female role in the movie "Love's Enduring Promise" as a pioneer family's oldest child.
She currently appears in the AMC original series "Mad Men" as young suburban housewife and mother 'Betty Draper Francis'.
She is also known for her role as 'Cadence Flaherty', the love interest in the 2003 comedy "American Wedding", the third installment of the "American Pie" film series.
- 5/6/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek Nsfw footage, plus images of actress January Jones, who returns as the character 'Betty Draper' for AMC's "Mad Men" Season 7:
Jones has had supporting roles in "Anger Management" (2003), "Love Actually" and "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights".
In 2005, she appeared as a U.S. border guard's frustrated wife in the film "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones.
In "We Are Marshall" (2006), she played the role of 'Carol Dawson', wife of football coach 'Red Dawson'. She played a supporting role in the film "The Phantom" (1996).
Jones played the lead female role in the movie "Love's Enduring Promise" as a pioneer family's oldest child.
She currently appears in the AMC original series "Mad Men" as young suburban housewife and mother 'Betty Draper Francis'.
She is also known for her role as 'Cadence Flaherty', the love interest in the 2003 comedy "American Wedding", the...
Jones has had supporting roles in "Anger Management" (2003), "Love Actually" and "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights".
In 2005, she appeared as a U.S. border guard's frustrated wife in the film "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones.
In "We Are Marshall" (2006), she played the role of 'Carol Dawson', wife of football coach 'Red Dawson'. She played a supporting role in the film "The Phantom" (1996).
Jones played the lead female role in the movie "Love's Enduring Promise" as a pioneer family's oldest child.
She currently appears in the AMC original series "Mad Men" as young suburban housewife and mother 'Betty Draper Francis'.
She is also known for her role as 'Cadence Flaherty', the love interest in the 2003 comedy "American Wedding", the...
- 3/29/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
"Lost" star Matthew Fox would be no good on a real desert island - he's a poor swimmer who's terrified of water. The actor, who plays heroic Jack Shephard on the hit drama, admits his wife Margherita had to teach him to swim and he still fears the show's water-based scenes.
He explains, "Growing up (in Wyoming) I didn't have the opportunity to spend a lot of time in the water. The water in Wyoming is so f**king cold that we got into the habit of jumping into a river or lake and then just jumping right out."
The Red Dawson of "We Are Marshall" continues, "I think I have a natural fear of water. I've never been comfortable, even now that I know how to swim... I get anxious. I'm just not a very good swimmer."...
He explains, "Growing up (in Wyoming) I didn't have the opportunity to spend a lot of time in the water. The water in Wyoming is so f**king cold that we got into the habit of jumping into a river or lake and then just jumping right out."
The Red Dawson of "We Are Marshall" continues, "I think I have a natural fear of water. I've never been comfortable, even now that I know how to swim... I get anxious. I'm just not a very good swimmer."...
- 4/12/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
What should have been an inspirational story about fortitude and courage in the face of mind-numbing tragedy becomes a compendium of sports cliches in We Are Marshall. Although based on a true story, the studio development process has produced a film in which real-life characters feel thinly motivated and insubstantial and "composite" characters -- meaning fictional ones -- are nothing more than ill-conceived dramatic devices. Young men and sports fans represent the film's major audience, which is a shame because the story, properly told, should not be a sports movie at all. Yet line by line, scene by scene, the emphasis falls on the wrong things.
On Saturday evening, Nov. 14, 1970, a charter jet carrying Marshall University's football team, its coaches, staff and boosters, returning from a game in North Carolina, crashed in the Appalachian Mountains minutes before its schedule landing in Huntington, W.Va. In a moment, an entire football program and the heart and soul of the small town vanished. No one survived.
The next year, a new football team took the field lead by head coach Jack Lengyel, an outsider hired by university president Dr. Donald Dedmon to rebuild the program. He used a mix of junior varsity and injured players who didn't make the North Carolina trip, walk-ons, basketball players and true freshmen, who in those days were only able to play because of an NCAA waiver. This is the story that screenwriter Jamie Linden (from a story by Cory Helms and Linden) and director McG (the "Charlie's Angels" films) fumble away with blatant sentimentality, poorly sketched characters and forced dialogue.
The first thing that puts you off is Matthew McConaughey's odd take on playing coach Lengyel. Outfitted in some of the worst examples of that era's clothing styles and sideburns that threaten to never quit, McConaughey ambles into the movie as if it were an off-kilter comedy. His reasons for eagerly pursuing for the job -- in reality he was the university's third choice -- are never explored. Instead, the movie accents his breezy self-confidence and quirky manners in his approach to people still in shock over the tragedy. This makes the coach come off as an opportunist or at least someone insensitive to the situation.
His assistant coach, Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), who missed the flight for a recruitment visit, is a real character with a real problem about stepping back onto the gridiron. The same goes for Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie), an injured linebacker who lost all his teammates but fights to continue the program. He is easily the movie's most vividly drawn character.
But the other characters dreamed up by the filmmakers -- Paul Griffen (Ian McShane), a father who lost his son in the crash; Annie (Kate Mara), a cheerleader engaged to his son; and Tom Bogdan (Brian Geraghty), wallowing in guilt that he missed the flight by oversleeping -- feel fraudulent from the get-go. Indeed, the cheerleader is completely extraneous.
Where the focus should be on how people find a way to go on with life, this film dwells excessively on Paul's bitterness over the university's failure to suspend the football program. While some town folks did feel that way, this was not the major issue the film would have you believe. Most people wanted a football team. Even President Nixon sent an encouraging telegram.
Instead of showing how the community sought to heal itself by re-investing emotionally in its team, the movie returns time and again to the football field to demonstrate how the new coach tinkers with the offense and gives pep talks. In other words, it turns into a movie about football.
Technical credits are adequate, but the football action falls short of the standards established by such films as Any Given Sunday and Friday Night Lights. Runs, tackles and fumbles look staged. The editing further confuses things during plays with annoying cut-aways to shots of fans in the stands or coaches screaming on the sidelines. This is a movie destined to look at the wrong things.
On Saturday evening, Nov. 14, 1970, a charter jet carrying Marshall University's football team, its coaches, staff and boosters, returning from a game in North Carolina, crashed in the Appalachian Mountains minutes before its schedule landing in Huntington, W.Va. In a moment, an entire football program and the heart and soul of the small town vanished. No one survived.
The next year, a new football team took the field lead by head coach Jack Lengyel, an outsider hired by university president Dr. Donald Dedmon to rebuild the program. He used a mix of junior varsity and injured players who didn't make the North Carolina trip, walk-ons, basketball players and true freshmen, who in those days were only able to play because of an NCAA waiver. This is the story that screenwriter Jamie Linden (from a story by Cory Helms and Linden) and director McG (the "Charlie's Angels" films) fumble away with blatant sentimentality, poorly sketched characters and forced dialogue.
The first thing that puts you off is Matthew McConaughey's odd take on playing coach Lengyel. Outfitted in some of the worst examples of that era's clothing styles and sideburns that threaten to never quit, McConaughey ambles into the movie as if it were an off-kilter comedy. His reasons for eagerly pursuing for the job -- in reality he was the university's third choice -- are never explored. Instead, the movie accents his breezy self-confidence and quirky manners in his approach to people still in shock over the tragedy. This makes the coach come off as an opportunist or at least someone insensitive to the situation.
His assistant coach, Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), who missed the flight for a recruitment visit, is a real character with a real problem about stepping back onto the gridiron. The same goes for Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie), an injured linebacker who lost all his teammates but fights to continue the program. He is easily the movie's most vividly drawn character.
But the other characters dreamed up by the filmmakers -- Paul Griffen (Ian McShane), a father who lost his son in the crash; Annie (Kate Mara), a cheerleader engaged to his son; and Tom Bogdan (Brian Geraghty), wallowing in guilt that he missed the flight by oversleeping -- feel fraudulent from the get-go. Indeed, the cheerleader is completely extraneous.
Where the focus should be on how people find a way to go on with life, this film dwells excessively on Paul's bitterness over the university's failure to suspend the football program. While some town folks did feel that way, this was not the major issue the film would have you believe. Most people wanted a football team. Even President Nixon sent an encouraging telegram.
Instead of showing how the community sought to heal itself by re-investing emotionally in its team, the movie returns time and again to the football field to demonstrate how the new coach tinkers with the offense and gives pep talks. In other words, it turns into a movie about football.
Technical credits are adequate, but the football action falls short of the standards established by such films as Any Given Sunday and Friday Night Lights. Runs, tackles and fumbles look staged. The editing further confuses things during plays with annoying cut-aways to shots of fans in the stands or coaches screaming on the sidelines. This is a movie destined to look at the wrong things.
- 12/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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