Kubo-and-the-Two-Strings.jpg?w=980&q=75' alt='Cult Comedy Movies Kubo And The Two Strings ' title='Cult Comedy Movies Kubo And The Two Strings ' />The Best TV Shows Movies Coming to Netflix in April 2. Now that the weather is getting nicer, you might not want to sit at home on the couch to watch stuff on Netflix, but the streaming service is going to do their best to keep you there with their new line up of shows and movies getting added to their library in April. As usual, there are a bunch of Netflix originals, including some movies that debuted at the SXSW Film Festival, new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3. Louis C. K., a new season of The Get Down and more. But there are also plenty of licensed titles ranging from a Disney sports classic to a Best Picture winner. Get our personal recommendations and the full list of TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in April 2. Cool Runnings. Its a shame that Disney rarely makes underdog sports comedies like this anymore. The story of the Jamaican bobsled team who didnt make it anywhere near victory, but stared in the face of adversity and gained the respect of Olympic athletes and fans everywhere is a little goofy, but it has that signature uplifting spirit that Disney sports movies ran rampant with in the 1. Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, its bobsled time. Feel free to make this a fun double feature by watching Eddie the Eagle along with it. Available April 1. TopGrossing Movies of 2016. Note This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2016. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money. Gremlins. Heres another prime example of the kind of movie that just doesnt get made anymore. Director Joe Dante and producer Steven Spielberg teamed up to make this horror comedy that features some creature effects that are still impressive to this day. Scary, funny and just plain great, its one of those movies that doubles as a Halloween favorite and a Christmas staple. But really, you can watch it at any time and be just as satisfied. Available April 1. Schindlers List. Its hard to believe, but Steven Spielberg managed to have a Best Picture winner the exact same year that his action adventure Jurassic Park hit theaters. The movies couldnt be more different, but its a testament to just how great of a filmmaker Spielberg really is. Schindlers List is close to the filmmakers heart since hes a Jewish American, and his passion shows in this historical drama that is one of the definitive depictions of the Holocaust during World War II. Available April 1. Tropic Thunder. Take Three Amigos and mix it with Apocalypse Now and you get Tropic Thunder, a raucously hilarious romp that delivers a fine parody of war dramas while also coming through with some impressive action and setpieces, albeit riddled with raunchy, gutbusting humor. Robert Downey Jr. Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a rare honor for an actor in a comedy, and absolutely deserved it. But the real scene stealer is Tom Cruise as Les Grossman, the jerk off film executive who will make you crack up every time he yells, which is pretty much all the time. Available April 1. The D Train. This Jack Black comedy went under the radar after it premiered at Sundance Film Festival a couple years ago, but its marginally better than pretty much everything else Jack Black has done in the past decade with the exception of Bernie. In this indie, hes paired with James Marsden as the two party it up for their high school reunion and have more than a friendly bond. Find out everything you need to know about this mystical journey before you see Kubo and the Two Strings, opening this weekend in theaters nationwide. This one takes one particularly surprising turns and youd be far better served just watching it rather than knowing whats in store. Available April 2. Win It All. This is one that I havent seen yet, but the buzz from SXSW was rather strong for Joe Swanbergs latest. But our own Jacob Hall enjoyed it quite a bit at the festival, saying The greatest trick Win It All pulls is that its not about a schlub learning about the important things in life its a movie about a schlub learning about the important things in life and then meticulously putting the pieces of his life back together. So much of the films comedy and sweetness stems from Eddie acknowledging that its time to grow up and take personal responsibility. You know, the stuff thats usually jammed into a third act montage in most comedies. In fact, Win It Alls biggest stumble comes when it disregards Eddies growth in favor of a silly and slapdash if admittedly crowd pleasing climax, where personal growth is thrown to the wayside in favor of big stakes. Cult Comedy Movies Kubo And The Two Strings Movie' title='Cult Comedy Movies Kubo And The Two Strings Movie' />Thankfully, the film rebounds with its very sudden and very perfect ending. Jake Johnson stars in the movie, if that does anything for you, and its available on April 7. Kubo and the Two Strings. Even though it didnt win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, this stop motion masterpiece from Laika deserves your full attention, not just for its stunning animation, but for its touching story of love and loss. Not much more needs to be said about this one, so just go watch it. Available April 8. The Prestige. Everyone loves to talk about Christopher Nolans Dark Knight trilogy, but The Prestige deserves much more attention than it seems to get. Its a cinematic magic trick, both literally and figuratively, and if you dont know what I mean from that, you should take the time to read this fantastic article at The AV Club from last year, which examines the trick at the center of the movie much more deeply. Just make sure you watch the movie first, or even rewatch it, before you take the dive into the deeper meaning. Available April 2. Small Crimes. Heres one more that debuted at SXSW, which Jacob Hall also liked a fair amount. In his review he wrote Small Crimes isnt Cheap Thrills, but thats okay. Its different enough to prove that E. K. Katz isnt a one trick pony while also being unpredictable and gnarly enough to prove that hes not going soft on us. Theres a gas station paperback energy to this film fast, mean, direct, and not concerned at all with your feelings. Theres a place for this kind of entertainment and Katz is pretty damn good at delivering it. That sounds like a suspenseful thriller worth watching. Available April 2. Get the full list of Netflix releases coming in April 2. Pages 1 2. Next page. Cool Posts From Around the Web. How Will the Game of Thrones TV Show Affect the Books Greetings from the future Welcome to Postal Apocalypse, io. Rob Bricken. This week Ive got a lot of Defenders questions from one curious reader, a lot more Game of Thrones questions from many curious readers, and I explain why you should only be slightly worried about the Captain Marvel more right now. Book Learning. Sean P. Stephenson Ive been following the HBO version of Go. T since the beginning, and have been toying with reading the books, but I had a multi part question I feel only you can answer. When Go. T concludes next year on HBO, do you think GRRM will incorporate any of the premises presented that have been shown on the small screen that he didnt originally come up with, and do you think he will change anything he had already come up with because of what was already shown, as in I thought that was a good idea, but having seen it played out, lets go a different route. Its impossible to say. Sorry to defer the question, but George R. R. Martin is still writing The Winds of Winter, and has A Dream of Spring left to go if not moreI still believe hes going to end up writing three more books all told before hes done. What he has planned today may change tomorrow, or next year, or the year after that. Or the year after that or the year after that. You see where Im going with this. At some point, GRRM, David Benioff, and D. B. Weiss sat down to discuss the end of the story, both A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. I sincerely doubt he told the showrunners everything he has planned, but there were definitely some story elements just too entrenched into the narrative for the show to skip, e. Hodors name. There may be a few others, but unless Weiss and Benioff fess up, we wont know for sure until the books are out. That said, the show will end up being vastly, vastly different from the books. Part of this is because the show has made its own changes to the narrative over its many years, which cant help but affect the ending part of it is because the series is ending in such a condensed timeframe only this Sundays season finale and six more episodes to go and part of it is likely Benioff and Weiss respect for GRRM, and their desire not to trample on what he has in mind for the books ending. But mostly because the books have so many more elements at play than the TV series the Fake Aegon, Lady Stoneheart, Victarion Greyjoy, Jeyne Poole whom Ramsay Bolton marries and claims is Arya, and more. Maybe Martin has something planned that the show is doing that, after seeing it, hell change his mind about. But we cant possibly know until he writes it. The Defense Rests. How To Download Blue Exorcist The Movie The Full Movie. Jess D. Dear Postman, I have some Defenders questions. A lot of Defenders questions. Why is there the remains of a giant dragon underneath New York City How did the monks of Kun lun get over to North America to build a door that only the Iron Fist could open If the Substance was so dangerous, why not leave the door locked permanently Or better yet why not destroy itWhy didnt the Hand just dig around the door There was a huge cavern down there. Couldnt they have dug to any other area and gotten in Why would removing the Substance destroy NYC If the Hand wanted to get back to Kun lun, like they said all the time, why did they only seem interested in getting to that underground place that we know wasnt Kun lun from Iron Fist I can give you answers to all of these, as long as you dont mind that The Defenders TV series in no way supports or confirms any of them. In ancient times giant dragons roamed the earth, and died like any other creature. The monks tasked themselves with protecting the Substance left behind by these dragons to prevent evil people from getting ahold of it. They traveled by boats to North America, and then used their mystical powers both to push the bones deep, deep underground and to create a magic shield all the way around the cavern that now housed them, leaving a door as the only access point. The monks did this instead of destroying the Substance, because they could foresee a time when they were so desperate they might need the Substance themselves, and thus made the key the Iron Fist, who would always be a protector of Kun Lun until Danny Rand fucked it up. Oh, and then the mystical energies of these dragons subconsciously led humans to build cities on top of them. Although, the Hand clearly got to the Substance under Pompeii and Chernobyl, because they said they destroyed them hmm the dragon under New York City was the biggest dragon and had the most substance, which made it the one that most needed to be denied to the Hand, and is why New York City is a much, much more major city than Chernobyl or Pompeii. More dragon, more mystical energy, more Substance, more city. And after so many millennia, the Substance became part of the essence of the Earth itselfmysticallyand thus removing would effectively cause a cataclysm in the location it was housed. As for your last question, its because uh by sealing the area off, the Monks effectively made it part of Kun Lun, even though it was thousands of miles from the actual mystical city. So Sigourney Weaver and the rest were speaking metaphorically. Yeah. The Jon Con. W I feel there hasnt been enough discussion about the legitimate reveal that Jon is in fact the legitimate son of Rhaegar and the entire dynamic this imposes on Jon Dany hook up believers. He is in the direct succession to the iron throne. I honestly cannot see how these two would work if this gets exposed to the whole world. Even if it is after she may or may not get pregnant with a mini incest royalty baby, I cannot visualize a way for the plot to just make this situation okay with Jon. I can realistically see Dany dying after all this simply because Jon will in fact always know nothing. Dany cannot possible just stop her quest for total dominance of Westeros just because Jon gets revealed to be the true heir at least lets hope the show writers dont take the easy way out. Its not going to get exposed to the whole world. When Jon finds outif Jon finds out, he could probably fulfill whatever prophecy Rhaegar heard that made him seek out Lyanna Stark and marry her and throw all of Westeros into civil war without ever knowinghes not going to broadcast it. Hell likely tell Dany, who also wont tell anybody, for obvious reasons. And Jon will be fine with that, because there is no one who wants to sit on the Iron Throne less than Jon Snow. Also Jon is absolutely not going to live through the series finale. The Lord of Light brought him back for a purpose when that purpose is fulfilled, he isnt going to be rewarded with a vacation. Thats not how the world of Westeros works. The End Is Not Nigh. James M. Game of Thrones has already surpassed its source material and will possibly finish the entire saga before we even get the penultimate volume in book form. Kingkiller Chronicles is already spinning off televison, movies and video games while we await the concluding volume with bated breath. Stormlight Archive has been greenlit for movie adaptions and realistically the series will not conclude for another 2. We have so many wonderful finished works that remain unadapted. Why are we rushing so much to make film and television of works in progressBecause TV and movie studios need to make money constantly, and to do that they need to make content. They look for whats hot right now, not whats finished. Thats a problem for later, and its for the creators and directors and screenwriters and so forthnot the studios. This is true just about anywhere, to be clear. Anime does this a fair amount. Fullmetal Alchemist is the biggest example I can think ofit had a TV show long before the manga was finished, and then just made up its own ending, just like Game of Thrones.