This weekend, Netflix is adding a documentary series about a legendary rapper, a comedy-drama movie based on a novel, a true-crime documentary series, and an animated series with monsters and huge robots. As the future of cinemas around the world remains unclear due to the coronavirus pandemic, streaming services continue working at full speed and offering different content, including some of the movies that couldn’t be released in theaters. Netflix has already housed some of those movies, and it continues adding new content every week so its subscribers always have something to watch.
The final days of February brought season 2 of the anthology horror series Two Sentence Horror Stories, the comedy-dramas Captain Fantastic and Our Idiot Brother, and the action thriller No Escape, along with the documentary Pelé, the comedy-drama TV series Ginny & Georgia, and the Spanish romance movie Call Me Crazy/Crazy About Her. As it does on the first days of every month, Netflix will add a bunch of licensed content, most notably Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, the rom-com Crazy, Stupid, Love, the epic Western Dances with Wolves, the post-apocalyptic thriller I Am Legend, the sci-fi slasher Jason X, and the drama The Pursuit of Happyness.
As for original content, Netlfix users will get to enjoy a documentary about The Notorious B.I.G., a comedy-drama directed by Amy Poehler, a true-crime miniseries, and an animated TV show from the universe of Pacific Rim. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend - March 5.
Biggie: I Got a Story To Tell
Biggie: I Got a Story To Tell is a documentary on the life of rapper Notorious B.I.G. Made in collaboration with Biggie’s estate, I Got a Story To Tell offers a look at the life of a man whose rapid ascent and tragic end has been at the center of rap lore for more than two decades. Through rare footage filmed by his best friend Damion “D-Roc” Butler and interviews with his closest friends and family, the documentary reveals a side of the rapper that the world never got to see.
Moxie
Moxie is a comedy-drama movie directed by Amy Poehler and based on the novel of the same name by Jennifer Mathieu. It follows Vivian (Hadley Robinson), a seemingly shy 16-year-old who has always preferred to keep her head down and fly under the radar, but when the arrival of a new student (Alycia Pascual-Peña) forces her to examine the unchecked behavior of her fellow students running rampant at her high school, Vivian realizes she’s fed up. Inspired by her mother’s (Poehler) rebellious past, Vivian anonymously publishes an underground zine called Moxie to expose bias and wrongdoing in her high school and unexpectedly sparks a movement.
Murder Among the Mormons
Your second dose of documentaries for the weekend comes with Murder Among the Mormons, a true-crime documentary miniseries. Set in Salt Lake City in 1985, it focuses on a series of pipe bombs that killed two people and severely injured another, jolting the epicenter of the LDS Church. The murders sent shockwaves through the community when a trove of early Mormon letters and diaries were found destroyed in the vehicle of the third victim, Mark Hofmann, a renowned collector of rare documents, including the infamous White Salamander Letter – an artifact whose contents threatened to shake the very foundations of Mormonism. As Hofmann fought for his life, investigators raced to uncover the truth.
Pacific Rim: The Black
From the world of Pacific Rim comes the anime-style TV series Pacific Rim: The Black. In a time when Australia has been overrun by Kaiju, forcing the evacuation of an entire continent, two siblings – Taylor and Hayley – are left behind. They then embark on a desperate search for their missing parents, teaching themselves to pilot a battered, long-abandoned Jaeger to help in their quest and give them hope of surviving.