![]() ![]() Per the official Netflix summary of this Italian drama, “Smuggling self-made mixtapes in 1980s Naples, an aspiring DJ and his two brothers become surprisingly powerful record producers wanted by the law.” They were also “hopeless dreamers, looking for a second chance,” we’re told at one point in this must-watch for baseball fans. Notwithstanding whatever you think this list should or shouldn’t include, though, one criminally underrated Netflix movie also belongs on it:Ģ014’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball is about the time when Kurt Russell’s father decided to organize a truly independent baseball team - assembling a ragtag bunch of oddballs with one thing in common: A genuine love of the game. The Battered Bastards of Baseball Image source: NetflixĪt this point, one of the only gaps remaining in the vast mix of content available on Netflix is live sports - and, even there, Netflix has started to make up for that somewhat by filling the service with top-notch sports-adjacent documentaries and docuseries (including everything from Last Chance U to Full Swing and Formula 1). I don’t want to say too much and spoil the truths herein (about the consequences of hate) that it’s better for audiences to come to on their own, other than to say recent events make the allegory of The Rat Catcher more timely than ever. ![]() One of four short Netflix movies from beloved director Wes Anderson (all of which are adaptations of works by Roald Dahl), the cast of The Rat Catcher - which is about a grifter who trumpets his rat-catching prowess - includes Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Friend, and Richard Ayoade. The Rat Catcher Richard Ayoade in The “The Rat Catcher.” Image source: Netflix As far as what the story is about, it revolves around a drug dealer named Fontaine, played by John Boyega, who encounters a bizarre mystery in his urban neighborhood and goes on a mission to bring it to light. The result is the fun, stylish, and refreshingly original They Cloned Tyrone, which stylistically feels like a mashup of everything from FX’s Atlanta to The Matrix to ’70s Blaxploitation comedy. Image source: Parris Lewis/Netflixĭirector Juel Taylor explained the genesis of his Netflix directorial debut in a promotional interview thus: “I had this joke in my mind for a while, like ‘an entrepreneur, a pro, and a hustler walk into a bar and they end up solving a mystery.” They Cloned Tyrone Teyonah Parris as Yo-Yo, Jamie Foxx as Slick Charles, and John Boyega as Fontaine in They Cloned Tyrone. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. ![]()
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