The holidays are a time to luxuriate in having less to do than normal, and that typically means watching a whole heap of content – with all of us making the most of our streaming subscriptions for once. Still, that also means that plenty of people arguably take the easy way out and watch a bunch of stuff that isn't particularly demanding or new.
Not to toot my own horn, but I try to concentrate around this time of year on watching at least a few things that I haven't seen before, rather than the same old classics and re-runs, and Netflix got my attention with Train Dreams in quite a big way. Based on a genuinely lovely little novella by Denis Johnson, the film arrived on Netflix right at the end of November, and shouldn't be missed.
