MAY'18 NETFLIX RELEASES | HOMESCREEN | ONSCREEN
- ONSCREEN
- May 8, 2018
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CHECK OUT THIS MAY'S NETFLIX OT SCHEDULE FOR BOTH UK + US SCREEN RELEASES, PLUS DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR NETFLIX PICKS OTPICKS FOR LAST MONTHS NETFLIX AND OTHER APRIL'18 OFFERINGS.
NETFLIX ORIGINAL SHOWS
MAY / 04
THE RAIN
SEASON 1 | DANISH SCI-FI THRILLER | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Netflix is not slowing down with its Sci-Fi and we are not complaining, on the whole they are putting out some high quality show and films. The Rain, a Danish Sci-Fi Thriller, follows a brother and sister duo in a post apocalyptic Denmark after a virus in Rain Water decimates humanity. ]
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
SEASON 2 | COMEDY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ The controversial satirical comedy received a lot of negative feedback last year, just from the initial trailer. However the film turned tv show went on to show that you should not judge a book by its cover or a tv show by it trailer as Dear White People Season 1 went on to earn critical acclaim from both by critics and audiences. The show does not discriminate with its variety of view points and faces head on a whole spectrum of social issues including race, politics, sexuality, class and is not shy as it does it. Season 2's 10 episodes will be available from May 04. ]
MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION WITH
DAVID LETTERMAN : TINA FEY
INTERVIEW / CHAT SHOW | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
KONG: KING OF APES
SEASON 2 | ANIMATION | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
BUSTED!
KOREAN DETECTIVE / COMEDY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
A LITTLE HELP WITH CAROL BURNETT
SKETCH COMEDY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
MAY / 10
SAFE
SEASON 1 | DRAMA / THRILLER | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Dexter's (2006 - 2013, Michael C. Hall is set to grace the small screen in new series, Safe. Hall encompasses a father of two who has to take matters into his own hands when his 16 year old daughter goes missing. As he digs deeper into his seemingly picturesque British suburban community, he finds some skeletons that he never expected. Also stars Sherlock's (2010-...) Amanda Abbington.
Have a good listen to Hall's 'British' accent in the trailer below, does it cut the mustard ? ]
MAY / 11
BILL NYE SAVES THE WORLD
SEASON 3 | FACTUAL / SCIENCE | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ The scientist returns with season 3 of his netflix series. With his celebrity guests, Nye will cover Evolution, Stem Cells and Food Science. ]
THE WHO WAS ? SHOW
CHILDREN'S HISTORY SHOW | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
SPIRIT RIDING FREE
SEASON 5 | ANIMATION | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Someone must be watching this if its gotten to season 5 ]
MAY / 17
DESIGNATED SURVIVOR
SEASON 2 | AMERICAN POLITICAL DRAMA | 🇬🇧
[ FINALE EPISODE IN CURRENT SERIES. Season 1 and the rest of Season 2 available to watch on Netflix now. ]
MAY / 18
INSPECTOR GADGET
SEASON 4 | ANIMATION | 🇺🇸
13 REASONS WHY
TEEN DRAMA | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Highly anticipated second season of the controversial teen drama, Don't have much info on 13 Reasons Why's Season 2, we just barely go the May 18 return. I'm going to make an out there prediction that Season 2 will commence from where season 1 ended... I know, crazy thought right ! ]
MAY / 22
MOB PSYCHO 100
SEASON 1 | ANIME / MANGA / LIVE ACTION ADAPTION | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ A quiet middle schooler named Shigeo Kageyama develops dangerous psychic powers. Follow his journey in search of maintaining a normal life whilst also figuring out how to control his powers... and his emotions. Power up with Mob Psycho 100 when the series drops on May 22. ]
TERRACE HOUSE : OPENING NEW DOORS
PART 2 | JAPANESE REALITY SERIES | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
MAY / 23
EXPLAINED
TOPICAL DOCU-SERIES | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ This new weekly series will focus on random topical issues such as the gender wage gap, cryptocurrencies, K-Pop and much more. ]
FAUDA
SEASON 2 | ISRAELI POLITICAL THRILLER | 🇺🇸
[ The Israeli political thriller returns with season 2. ]
MAY / 25
THE TOYS THAT MADE US
SEASON 2 | DOCU-SERIES | 🇺🇸 [ Season two will take a deeper dive into the toy boxes of our childhood. Not much can go wrong with a trip down nostalgia toy lane. ]
TROLLHUNTERS : PART 3
ANIMATION | 🇺🇸
MAY / 27
THE BREAK WITH MICHELLE WOLF
SKETCH COMEDY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Michelle Wolf, the former Daily Show correspondent and writer gets her own weekly half hour series this month. Wolf recently gained notoriety after her performance at the 2018 White House Correspondence Dinner, with her clever, very funny (but maybe a little too close to the truth) political satire, Wolfs performance was very divisive much alike to America's political scene today. We recommend you watch her WHCD performance first to see if her sense of humour is on your wave length, because we can confidently guess that its not going to be for everyone. Wolf's jokes tend to ver close to the more taboo subjects like the female body, sex and with the state of todays society, she should have a lot of material to work with. ]
MAY / 30
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT
SEASON 4 | COMEDY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ The all popular Miss Schmidt is back with season 4. ]
MAY / 31
MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION WITH
DAVID LETTERMAN : HOWARD STERN
SEASON 1 | INTERVIEW / CHAT SHOW | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ The veteran host is back with his next guest... Howard Stern, this should be very interesting. ]
NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIES
MAY / 01
SOMETIMES
DRAMA | 🇺🇸
ANON
SCI-FI | 🇺🇸
[ Starring Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried, Netflix's upcoming sci-fi film Anon takes place in a future where technology has rendered anonymity — and as a result, crime — almost nonexistent. But when the police land on the trail of a woman who can apparently hack into people's neural implants and alter their perceptions of the world, life suddenly gets a lot more dangerous. How do you stop a killer who can change what's right in front of your eyes? ]
MAY / 04
MANHUNT
THRILLER | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS
ITALIAN ACTION DRAMA | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ In this Italian film, a man deeply in debt is forced to start working for a violent enforcer to collect other people's debts. As he gets more involved in his new job, he begins to suspect that his new boss and mentor is worse than he could have ever imagined. The trailer promises a dramatic journey where some actions come with grave consequences. Forgive us Our Debts premieres on May 4. ]
MAY / 11
THE KISSING BOOTH
TEEN DRAMA | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Teen melodrama, there's a girls, theres a boys, she has a crush, you get the gist. Staring Molly Ringwald, Pretty In Pink (1986), Riverdale (2017-...) and young actress Joey King of The Conjuring (2013) and 2016's Independence Day : Resurgence. ]
MAY / 18
CARGO
SCI-FI / THRILLER / DRAMA | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Cargo based on the very well received Australian short film from same directors Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke follows the protagonist (Martin Freeman), in a zombie apocalypse who has to find a way to care for his infant child even though he himself is becoming infected. The full feature has the same directors at the helm as so should be a repeat second round hit. ]
CATCHING FEELINGS
SOUTH AFRICAN COMEDY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Picked up by Netflix after premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2017, Catching Feelings is a critically praised South African dark romantic comedy . The story follows a young teacher and his beautiful wife whose lives suddenly are turned upside down when a famous older writer moves into their Johannesburg home with them. ]
MAY / 25
IBIZA
ROM-COM | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Original film which sees three best friends hunt for a hot DJ in Barcelona, Spain. Stars Gillian Jacobs and Vanessa Bayer ]
MAY / 26
SARA’S NOTEBOOK
THRILLER / ADVENTURE / DRAMA | 🇺🇸
[ Laura Alonso is a Spanish lawyer from Madrid who arrives Democratic Republic of Congo (center of Africa). Years after Laura's sister goes missing a photo turns up that may give Laura a clue to her sister's whereabouts. She decides to head deep into the jungle ( an area rife with violent warlords ) to track down her sister and get her home safely. ]
NETFLIX ORINGINAL DOCUMENTARYS
MAY / 04
END GAME
DOCUMENTARY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ A documentary about cutting-edge medical practitioners from Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman. ]
MAY / 11
EVIL GENIUS : THE TRUTH
ABOUT AMERICA’S MOST DIABOLICAL BANK
DOCUMENTARY | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
[ Documentary about a pizza delivery man who robbed a bank and was then killed by a bomb fastened around his neck. ]
NETFLIX ORIGINAL STAND-UP COMEDY
JOHN MULANEY:
KID GORGEOUS LIVE AT RADIO CITY
STAND-UP | MAY / 01 | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
HARI KONDABOLU: WARN YOUR RELATIVES
STAND-UP | MAY / 08 | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
HARD KNOCK WIFE
STAND-UP | MAY / 13 | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
TIG NOTARO HAPPY TO BE HERE
STAND-UP | MAY / 22 | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
STEVE MARTIN AND MARTIN SHORT
STAND-UP | MAY / 25 | 🇬🇧🇺🇸
OTHER NETFLIX ARRIVALS
MAY / 01
HELLBOY II : THE GOLDEN ARMY | 2008 | ACTION | 🇺🇸
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM | 2007 | ACTION | 🇺🇸
Amelie | 2001 | COMEDY | US BEAUTIFUL GIRL | 1996 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY | 2008 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
MR. WOODCOCK | 2007 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
SLIDING DOORS | 1998 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
THE CLAPPER | 2017 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY | 2017 | DRAMA | 🇺🇸
MY PERFECT ROMANCE | 2018 | DRAMA | 🇺🇸
27 : GONE TOO SOON | 2018 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
A LIFE OF ITS ON : THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA | 2016 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
THE CARTER EFFECT | 2017 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
THE STRANGE NAME MOVIE | 2017 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
DARC | 2018 | THRILLER |🇺🇸
REASONABLE DOUBT | 2014 | THRILLER | 🇺🇸
RED DRAGON | 2002 | THRILLER | 🇺🇸
SCREAM 2 | 1997 | THRILLER | 🇺🇸
THE REAPING | 2007 | THRILLER | 🇺🇸
HACHI : A DOGS TALE | 2009 | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇺🇸
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 : SENIOR YEAR | 2008 | | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇺🇸
POCOYO & CARS | 2015 | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇺🇸
POCOYO & THE SPACE CIRCUS | 2009 | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇺🇸
SHREK | 2001 | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇺🇸
BARBIE FREAMHOUSE ADVENTURES | SEASON 1 | 2018 | ANIMATION |🇺🇸
QUEENS OF COMEDY | SEASON 1 | 2001 | 🇺🇸
SIMON | SEASON 1 | 2001 | 🇺🇸
YU-GI-OH! ARC V | SEASON 2 | 2015-2016 | ANIMATION | 🇺🇸
MAYA ANGELOU : AND STILL I RISE | DOCUMENTARY | 🇬🇧
MEN BEHAVING BADLY | SEASON 1 - 6 | TV SERIES / SITCOM | 🇬🇧
COLD FEET | SEASON 1 - 6 | TV SERIES / DRAMA / COMEDY | 🇬🇧
LOVE ISLAND | SEASON 1 & 2 | TV SERIES / REALITY / ROMANCE | 🇬🇧
MAY / 02
JAILBREAK | 2017 | ACTION | 🇺🇸
MAY / 03
HE DURRELLS | SEASON 1 | DRAMA | 🇬🇧
MAY / 04
NO ESTOY LOCA | 2018 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
TALLADEGA NIGHTS : THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY | 2006 | ACTION / COMEDY / SPORT | 🇬🇧
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE | SEASON 10 | REALITY TV SHOW | 🇬🇧
MAY / 05
FACES PLACES | 2017 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
MAY / 06
POLDARK | SEASON 2 | PERIOD DRAMA | 🇬🇧
MAY / 08
DESOLATION | 2017 | THRILLER | 🇺🇸
MAY / 11
TAXI DRIVER | 1976 | ACTION | 🇺🇸
MAY / 14
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | 2004 | DRAMA | 🇺🇸
MAY / 15
ONLY GOD FORGIVES | 2013 | DRAMA | 🇺🇸
GIRLFRIENDS’ GUIDE TO DIVORCE | SEASON 4 | … | 2017 | 🇺🇸
GRAND DESIGNS | SEASON 13 / 14 | 2013 / 2014 | … | 🇺🇸
THE GAME 365 | SEASON 15 / 16 | … | | 🇺🇸
MAY / 16
WANTED | 2008 | ACTION | 🇺🇸
THE KINGDOM | 2007 | ACTION | 🇺🇸
MAMMA MIA! | 2008 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN | 2005 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
89 | 2017 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
MAY / 18
THE SOCIAL NETWORK | 2010 | BIOPIC | 🇬🇧
THE PUNISHER | 2004 | MARVEL COMIC ADAPTION | 🇬🇧
MAY / 19
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA | 2007 | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇺🇸
SMALL TOWN CRIME | 2017 | THRILLER | 🇺🇸
SCANDAL | SEASON 7 | 2017 | DRAMA | 🇺🇸
MAY / 20
SOME KIND OF BEAUTIFUL | 2014 | COMEDY | 🇺🇸
MAY / 21
SENORA ACERO | SEASON 4 | 2017 / 2018 | | 🇺🇸
MAY / 22
SHOOTER | SEASON 2 | 2017 | ACTION / THRILLER | 🇺🇸
MAY / 24
SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON | 2018 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
MAY / 27
PAN | 2015 | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇬🇧
MAY / 28
MAGGIE’S PLAN | 2016 | DRAMA | 🇬🇧
MAY / 29
COCO | 2017 | CHILDREN + FAMILY | 🇺🇸
MAY / 31
BOMBSHELL : THE HEDY LAMARR STORY | 2017 | DOCUMENTARY | 🇺🇸
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