New Releases and Recommendations for Jan 6

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Kacie

The first Friday of a new year is always the sweetest. Here are some recommendations to help you kick off a fantastic 2012! As always, if you have a suggestion on the perfect lazy Sunday flick, please post ‘em in the comments. Happy streaming!

Netflix New Releases:

  • True Grit- Jeff Bridges stars as alcoholic U.S. Marshal Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn in the Coen Brothers remake of this Western saga (2010)
  • Louis C.K.: Hilarious- Louis C.K. offers up his unique and uncensored take on sex, parenting, politics and more (2009)
  • Man on Wire- This Oscar winner for Best Documentary explores Philippe Petit’s daring high wire walk between New York’s Twin Towers (2008)

Hulu Plus New Releases:

  • Grey’s Anatomy: Suddenly- A severe car crash involving an entire family results in an all-hands-on situation in the ER (2012)
  • Modern Family: Lifetime Supply- Phil misses a call from his doctor with test results and assumes the worst (2012)
  • Wipeout: Winter Wipeout- Because the weekend and epic snowy wipeouts were made for each other (2012)

Crackle New Releases:

  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby- Losing his confidence after a spectacular crash, a dimwitted NASCAR driver goes to hysterical extremes to recover his nerve and make a comeback (2006)
  • Desperado- A handsome musician-turned-gunslinger returns to a small Mexican town seeking revenge against an evil drug kingpin (1995)
  • And Now For Something Completely Different- Dead Parrots. The Lumberjack song. John Cleese at his best and most absurd. Need we say more? (1972)

Amazon Instant Video New Releases:

  • New Girl- The gang attends Schmidt’s holiday office party and Jess frets when she receives an expensive gift from Paul (2011)
  • Downton Abbey Season 1- Catch up on the lives of the Crawley family and their servants before Season 2 starts this weekend (2011)
  • Steve Jobs: One Last Thing- This documentary reveals how much the brilliant Apple founder changed our everyday world of work, leisure, and human communication (2011)
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  • karen

    Like the Roku but the only problem I have is I signed up for Amazon Instant Video to find out I couldn’t get it as we don’t live in the US which came up on the screen, we live in American Samoa which is an American Territory. It was a big disappointment as Amazon had more updated movies.

    • leonard church

      If you can find someone to help you… i have a son the is out of the US mainland and uses a proxy service for his Roku to identify itself as being in the US mainland. Your router would have to identify the Roku box and forward it to the proxy service. Its beyond the scope of a reply to figure out how to do it.. but I know it can be done.

    • Preston McNair

      You may want to add the http://www.ustvnow.com/ channel, if you are a US citizen living abroad it will give you free access to live TV on your ROKU

  • Ronanderson6708

    Thank you for this new release list –I would recommend and ask that you do it each week on friday like this —I love my Roku and believe you will eventually run a lot of cable companies and satellite companies out of business or at least get them to lower prices instead of keep trying to rob the american public. i certainly am appreciative of your new alternative.

  • Rabbitbrain

    I bought Roku because it puts Crackle on my tv. However the movies will stop playing and not load. I am missing out on so much! Please fix the problem or tell me if there is something I can do?

  • Careythefloorgirl

    Can I watch any of the shows that are on the Discovery Channel with the Roku

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brenda-Sock-Gerbino/1037296998 Brenda Sock-Gerbino

      I have seen Deadliest Catch on Netflix through my Roku, I love documentaries and can get most of the ones I watch on cable through either Netflix or Hulu Plus.

  • O21putt_2000

    Can we get closed caption on movies?

  • Lainvisible

    “Man on Wire” shows at Netflix as a DVD only feature. Are the titles listed soon-to-be-released? Maybe it was a fluke?

  • Roberto

    I love my Ruku and I have cancelled my cable about a month ago. I got a bill for a full month at 197 vr the 67 I should be paying for super high speed and land line. They are trying to pull something because the lady really wanted to keep me on cable. Is there any way to watch the superbowl. I live in a canyon and can get zero tv reception and the closes channel is in LA and that is 60 miles away. I made a commercial for the superbowl contest but didnt win. Check it out-
    http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/?video=13913