Netflix Nuggets: Insane Superhero Mafia Games in the Park

Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.

• GUY & MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH (2009)

  
  Streaming Available: 05/03/2011
  Synopsis: Black-and-white verité meets the charm of the classic Hollywood musical in writer-director Damien Chazelle’s romantic drama about a jazz trumpeter named Guy who’s perennially falling in and out of love. (Directed by Damien Chazelle)

• WARD NO. 6 (2009)

  
  Streaming Available: 05/03/2011
  Synopsis: This unconventional drama, which employs a nonfiction filmmaking style, chronicles the peculiar case of Dr. Ragin, the head of a mental hospital who irritates his subordinates and winds up being committed as a patient in his own facility. (Directed by Aleksandr Gornovsky)

• KICK-ASS (2010)

  
  Streaming Available: 05/04/2011
  Synopsis: Inspired by his love of comic books, high school student Dave Lizewski decides to transform himself into a masked crime fighter — a decision that eventually thrusts the teenager into Internet stardom. (Directed by Matthew Vaughn)

• EXISTENZ (1999)

  
  Streaming Available: 05/06/2011
  Synopsis: Allegra Geller, the world’s leading designer of virtual reality games, is testing a new prototype when an assassin wielding a daunting organic weapon attacks her. She survives the assault with help from her marketing assistant turned bodyguard. (Directed by David Cronenberg)

• THINGS CHANGE (1988)

  
  Streaming Available: 05/06/2011
  Synopsis: In David Mamet’s acclaimed comedy, Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn’t commit. (Directed by David Mamet)