It’s December already, which means it’s almost time to dive into everyone’s favourite festive films. But if you’re not quite ready to gorge yourself on Elf, and feel it’s too soon for National Lampoon, Netflix has just the thing.
Here we have compiled the best new content dropping on Netflix to keep you occupied this weekend. Whether you fancy an epic monster movie that would give King Kong and Godzilla a run for their money, or a documentary exploring the life of a Hollywood icon, there is something for everyone this December.
Here are the new films and shows available to stream on Netflix this weekend.
Troll
In this epic action-adventure monster movie, an explosion awakens an ancient troll after being trapped deep inside a Norwegian mountain for a thousand years. As the giant creature fast approaches Oslo destroying everything in its path, a ragtag group of heroes must unite and do everything in their power to exterminate the deadly being, once thought to exist only in Norse folklore.
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Firefly Lane – Season Two
In this second and final season, we will find out exactly what caused the end of Tully and Kate’s tight-knit, thirty-year friendship. But first, Kate (Sarah Chalke) grapples with the painful aftermath of Johnny's ill-fated trip to Iraq, while Tully (Katherine Heigl) faces a lawsuit after walking away from her talk show, and must restart her career.
This leads her to search for answers about who she is and where she comes from - including a quest to find the father she never met, against the wishes of her secretive hippie mother, Cloud (Beau Garrett). In the 1980s, we see Kate and Johnny (Ben Lawson) first fall in love, as Tully’s career rises and she spars with a cocky sportscaster.
While in the ‘70s, teenage Kate and Tully struggle to keep their friendship together as Cloud goes to jail for dealing drugs and Tully goes to live with her grandmother, far away from Firefly Lane. As the girls face the tumult of high school apart, they know the one thing they really need is each other.
Firefly Lane season two will be released in two parts, with episodes one to nine released on December 2 and episodes 10 to 16 dropping in 2023.
My Unorthodox Life – Season Two
After fleeing her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, Julia Haart inspired millions around the world with her story of liberation, instantly becoming a spearhead for the modern women’s movement. Now, Julia is forced to navigate yet another avalanche of personal and professional challenges.
When she and her husband surprise the world with a blindsiding removal as CEO – followed by filing for a divorce – Julia is left to battle for control of her business empire, which quickly turns contentious. Will she lose everything or gain more than she could ever imagine?
Within her family, Julia must find a way to reconnect with her daughter Batsheva, guide her daughter Miriam in her first committed relationship with a woman, and dissuade her son Aron, who is determined to drop out of secular school to attend Orthodox yeshiva full-time.
Sr.
From documentarian Chris Smith (American Movie) comes a lovingly irreverent portrait of the life, career, and last days of maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., whose rebellious spirit infused decades of counterculture movie-making. Sr. widens the lens from Downey’s art to the life with which it was deeply intertwined, including an intimate examination of his relationship with son Robert Downey, Jr.
Shot over the course of three years, the film truly honors Senior’s nonlinear, outlaw-like approach, including capturing his decision to embark on his own concurrent and final film project. Smith’s portrait of a family and an artist is a meditation on life that’s as surreal as it is sentimental, a celebration of making art with no rules that tosses out its own rulebook along the way.
Hot Skull
Based on the novel of the same name by Afşin Kum, Hot Skull takes place in a dystopian world shaken by an epidemic of madness that spreads through verbal communication. The reclusive former linguist Murat Siyavus (Osman Sonant), having taken refuge at his mother’s home, is the only person mysteriously unaffected by this disease.
Hunted by the ruthless Anti-Epidemic Institution, Murat is forced to leave the safe zone and flee within the flames and ruins of the streets of Istanbul, where he searches for the secret of his ‘hot skull’ – a lasting mark of the disease.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
After marrying Sir Clifford Chatterley, Connie ( The Crown’s Emma Corrin) seems set for a life of wealth and privilege as she takes the title of Lady Chatterley. But this idealistic union gradually becomes an incarceration when Clifford (Matthew Duckett) returns from the First World War with injuries that have left him unable to walk.
When she meets and falls for Oliver Mellors (Jack O’Connell), the gamekeeper on the Chatterley family estate, their secret trysts lead her to a sensual, sexual awakening. But as their affair becomes the subject of local gossip, Connie faces a life-altering decision: follow her heart or return to her husband and endure what Edwardian society expects of her.
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