The 100 best Netflix releases of 2015 - The Daily Dot

Here, we’ve collected the 100 best Netflix releases of 2015 (plus a few still on their way that we can’t contain our excitement about) in one easy-to-navigate list. Fair warning: The rankings are arbitrary at best, and we fully expect things to shift and morph as the streaming giant continues its flurry of reboots, releases, acquisitions, and renewals. Keep checking back to see if your favorites made the cut, and we apologize if Netflix pulls one of these titles without our noticing. Hot Fuzz is one of the greatest movies ever made. What most people fail to realize about this oddball film is that it’s not just a brilliant, hilariously funny parody of action movies. It simultaneously homages and eviscerates the Wicker Man, that glorious genre-bender that sees a dogged big-city detective Edward Woodward shriek “Jesus Christ. Woodward plays the town priest in Hot Fuzz , one of dozens of cast members whose casting was itself an inside joke (like Cate Blanchett as a bit part whose face you never see). In another of its hundreds of layered jokes, which emerge on repeat viewings like sparks flying up from a blazing hearth of comedy, Woodward’s character shrieks “Jesus Christ. Source: www.dailydot.com