New Movies on Netflix Instant | October 2012
October on Netflix Instant is proving to be a good month to catch up on what you may have missed this year.
Among the possible watches, Mel Gibson's Straight-to-VOD-DVD-Blu-Ray-Hyphen-Dash-Whatever Get to the Gringo hits the servers. It's worth the watch, honestly. Also, Machine Gun Preacher, which received extremely love-it-or-hate-it reviews is available. Act of Valor also hits Netflix. As well, a very unknown, yet decent flick, Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale, is worth checking out too.
Want even more? Make sure to check out our Best of Netflix Instant list, with links to the best in action, comedy, and even recommendations on what to watch each weekend. It's pretty groovy stuff.
You're up to date with Netflix Instant. Make sure to stay up with New Releases on RedBox in October, and New on DVD/Blu-ray in October too.
Sweet Streams.
Note: Release dates are subject to change.
New This October on Netflix Instant Watch
Get the Gringo
Available on: October 1st, 2012
Mel Gibson stars as a man who ends up in a notorious Mexican prison after his attempt to get away with a million-dollar stash ends in his arrest. With no friends among his fellow inmates, the American has to rely on help from a young Mexican boy.
Starring: Mel Gibson
Machine Gun Preacher
Available on: October 1st, 2012
Gerard Butler stars in this true-life story of Sam Childers, a drug dealer who turns his life around to become a spiritual warrior. His mission? Rescuing child soldiers in the Sudan from lives ruined by their forced participation in bloody conflict.
Starring: Gerard Butler
My Fellow Americans
Available on: October 1st, 2012
Jack Lemmon and James Garner star as ex-presidents and former political foes who unite in the face of adversity. They're forced to overcome their partisan bickering when the current president (Dan Aykroyd) tries to frame and kill them to conceal his crimes. To clear their names, they go on a different type of whistle-stop tour, taking it on the lam among the "common people."
Starring: James Garner, Jack Lemon
Coriolanus
Available on: October 1st, 2012
Actor Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with this modern update of Shakespeare's tale about the arrogant general who is banished by the republic he has protected at all costs, provoking him to ally with former foes and wreck a bloody revenge.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler
Mansome
Available on: October 1st, 2012
From director Morgan Spurlock and producers Will Arnett and Jason Bateman comes a raucous but thoughtful documentary examining what defines masculinity in our modern culture of male grooming products, suave celebrities and avant-garde facial hair.
Starring: Morgan Spurlock
Act of Valor
Available on: October 4th, 2012
An expert marksman is coaxed out of seclusion by colleagues who need his help in preventing a plot to kill the president. But he realizes he's been set up when he's framed for the assassination attempt. Can he bring the real culprits to justice?
Starring:
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Available on: October 1st, 2012
Eric and his thirtysomething friends spend their summer weekends carousing at his family's house in the Hamptons. When Eric learns that his dad plans to sell the place, he proposes a party to end all parties: an orgy!
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb
Troll
Available on: October 1st, 2012
A wizard who's been transformed into a troll attacks the residents of an apartment building, seeking a ring that will make him human again. Young resident Harry teams up with a witch who lives in the building to stop the wizard's destruction.
Starring:
Equilibrium
Available on: October 1st, 2012
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with an emotion-suppressing drug, and "sense offenses" are punishable by death. When an enforcer skips a dose of the medication, it stirs in him a desire to revolt.
Starring: Christian Bale
Bringing Out the Dead
Available on: October 1st, 2012
An ambulance driver on the verge of a nervous breakdown stumbles through three sleepless nights on the job accompanied by a callous crew and finds humanity in an unlikely friendship with a heart-attack victim's ex-junkie daughter.
Starring: Nicolas Cage
9 1/2 Weeks
Available on: October 1st, 2012
In director Adrian Lyne's erotic drama, art gallery worker Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) and commodities broker John (Mickey Rourke) become involved in a steamy relationship based on sex and fantasy -- and must eventually face consequences as the reality of their affair takes hold. This thoughtful examination of obsession and passion is notable for its titillating mix of the erotic and the everyday that raised many eyebrows upon the film's release.
Starring: Bob Marley, Rita Marley
Forever Young
Available on: October 1st, 2012
In 1939, the love of Daniel's (Mel Gibson) life, Helen (Isabel Glasser), falls comatose after an accident. Grief-stricken, he agrees to be frozen alive in scientist Harry's (George Wendt) cryogenics experiment in the hopes that when he's thawed, Helen will be recovered. Some 50 years later, two kids revive Daniel, leaving him to cope with society's developments -- and having to find Harry and Helen. Jamie Lee Curtis co-stars.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis
Natural Born Killers: Director's Cut
Available on: October 1st, 2012
Director Oliver Stone's stark satire of media and murder still generates controversy. Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, respectively) hit the road on an interstate killing spree that triggers a manhunt and garners amazing ratings for a tabloid TV star (Robert Downey Jr.). Shocking, bloody and relentlessly violent, Stone's visually frenetic film makes a chilling statement about the American cultural landscape.
Starring: Woody Harrelson
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