Month: December 2018

Tis the holiday season, or at least it will be very soon, and that usually means streaming services pump out some classic holiday movies. However, Netflix’s new arrivals in December feels a little light on holiday fair, but at least the family can curl up next to the fire to spend the morning watching Friday After Next. Here are the new movies, TV shows, and originals hitting Netflix in December 2018.

December may be a bit light on theatrically-released movies coming to the service for the final month of the year, but it has plenty of Netflix original films and series revolving around the holidays to keep you happy. On December 7, Nailed It! returns for a holiday special, where cooks around the world try their best to recreate beautiful-looking baked deserts and always fail miserably. Sabrina returns on December 14 for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale.

In addition, there are a few non-holiday specials to keep your eye on as well. Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book adaptation Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle heads to Netflix on December 7, which was announced it would be coming to the streaming service during the summer. December 14 is a big day for Netflix originals, and aside from Sabrina, Netflix will be revealing new seasons of Fuller House, Voltron, Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons, and Travelers.

Netflix also has a nice present for you on December 25, Christmas day. Avengers: Infinity War is coming to the service, so you and your family can come together to watch Thanos try to snap everyone out of existence. That same day, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: Season 11 will be released as well.

Sadly, there are plenty of movies leaving Netflix in December as well. On December 1, all of Sons of Anarchy will be removed, along with Groundhog Day, Hellraiser, and Cabin Fever. There are a few more notable titles to watch before they leave Netflix like Battle Royale (December 10), Moana (December 20), and Troy (December 30).

Below you’ll find everything coming to and leaving Netflix for the month of December.

Coming In December

Available 12/1/18

• 8 Mile
• Astro Boy
• Battle– NETFLIX FILM
• Bride of Chucky
• Christine
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Crossroads: One Two Jaga– NETFLIX FILM
• Friday
• Friday After Next
• Hellboy
• Man vs Wild with Sunny Leone: Season 1
• Meet Joe Black
• Memories of the Alhambra (Streaming Every Saturday)– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• My Bloody Valentine
• Next Friday
• Reindeer Games
• Seven Pounds
• Shaun of the Dead
• Terminator Salvation
• The Big Lebowski
• The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass: Season 5 Masterclasses
• The Last Dragon
• The Man Who Knew Too Little

12/2/18

• The Lobster

12/3/18

• Blue Planet II: Season 1
• Hero Mask– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Sound of Your Heart: Reboot Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/4/18

• District 9

12/6/18

• Happy!: Season 1

12/7/18

• 5 Star Christmas– NETFLIX FILM
• Bad Blood– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Dogs of Berlin– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Dumplin’– NETFLIX FILM
• Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle– NETFLIX FILM
• Nailed It! Holiday!– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Pine Gap– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• ReMastered: Who Killed Jam Master Jay?– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Super Monsters and the Wish Star– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The American Meme– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Hook Up Plan (Plan Coeur)– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Ranch: Part 6– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/9/18

• Sin senos sí hay paraíso: Season 3

12/10/18

• Michael Jackson’s This Is It

12/11/18

• Vir Das: Losing It– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/12/18

• Back Street Girls: Gokudols– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Out of Many, One– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/13/18

Wanted: Season 3– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/14/18

• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Cuckoo: Season 4– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Dance & Sing with True: Songs– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Fuller House: Season 4– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Inside the Real Narcos– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons: Season 3– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Colombia, Costa Rica, Romania and Norway.
• Prince of Peoria: A Christmas Moose Miracle– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• ROMA– NETFLIX FILM
• Sunderland Til I Die– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Fix– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Innocent Man– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Protector– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Tidelands– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Travelers: Season 3– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 8– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/16/18

• Baby Mama
• Kill the Messenger
• One Day
• Springsteen on Broadway– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Theory of Everything

12/18/18

• Baki– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 5– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/21/18

• 3Below: Tales of Arcadia– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• 7 Days Out– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Back With the Ex– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Bad Seeds– NETFLIX FILM
• Bird Box– NETFLIX FILM
• Derry Girls– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Diablero– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Greenleaf: Season 3
• LAST HOPE: Part 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Perfume– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Sirius the Jaeger– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski– NETFLIX FILM
• Tales by Light: Season 3– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Casketeers– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Wolf (BÖRÜ)– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/24/18

• Hi Score Girl– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Magicians: Season 3

12/25/18

• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Season 11
• Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War

12/26/18

• Alexa & Katie: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• YOU

12/28/18

• Instant Hotel– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• La noche de 12 años– NETFLIX FILM
• Selection Day– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• When Angels Sleep– NETFLIX FILM
• Yummy Mummies– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

12/30/18

• The Autopsy of Jane Doe

12/31/18

• The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man

Coming in December

Watership Down: Limited Series– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Leaving In December

Leaving 12/1/18

• Cabin Fever
• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
• Groundhog Day
• Happily N’Ever After
• Happily N’Ever After 2: Snow White
• Hellbound: Hellraiser II
• Hellraiser
• Sons of Anarchy: Seasons 1-7
• Spider-Man 3
• Spy Hard
• Stephen King’s Children of the Corn
• Swept Under
• The Covenant
• The Game

Leaving 12/4/18

• Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch
• Air Bud: Spikes Back
• Air Bud: World Pup
• Air Buddies
• Cars Toon: Mater’s Tall Tales
• Spooky Buddies
• Tarzan & Jane
• The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
• The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
• The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
• The Search for Santa Paws
• Tinker Bell
• Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
• Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Leaving 12/7/18

Leaving 12/10/18

• Battle Royale
• Battle Royale 2
• Teeth

Leaving 12/15/18

• Step Up 2: The Streets

Leaving 12/16/18

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Leaving 12/17/18

• Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

Leaving 12/19/18

• Ip Man: The Final Fight

Leaving 12/20/18

• Disney’s Moana
• Food, Inc.
• I Give It a Year

Leaving 12/22/18

Leaving 12/25/18

• Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Leaving 12/31/18

The release date for MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries was announced at Mech-Con 2018 today. Originally scheduled for 2018, it is now slated to release on September 10 of next year.

Developed by MechWarrior Online studio Piranha Games, it’s the first numbered game in the series since 2000’s MechWarrior 4: Vengeance. The series is known for its sim-focused mech combat that pushes its players to master its intricacies. MechWarrior 5 continues that tradition; however, it is trying to be much more approachable for newcomers.

I got the opportunity to go to Piranha Games, speak to the team there, and play it for myself. One thing I talked to CEO Russ Bullock about was the balance of pleasing nostalgic while courting newcomers. As someone who hasn’t played a MechWarrior game since the second installment from the mid-90s, I have fond yet admittedly foggy memories of firing rockets and peppering enemies with machine gun fire. MechWarrior 5 is easier to pick up and play than MechWarrior 2, and more action-packed, but Titanfall this is not. It still evokes the same feeling of controlling an incredibly heavy mech that feels like it can walk through a building as if you were slicing a stick of butter with a hot knife.

In fact, Bullock stressed how important it was for them to add destructible buildings into the game. He talked about how it’s always been a fantasy for players to be able to absolutely decimate structures, so it was an important aspect of the game to get right. Buildings that are of the same height as your mech, or shorter, are easily destroyed by moving towards them. Taller buildings, on the other hand, will be left as skeletal structures.

And thankfully, it’s relatively easy to get into the game and start causing all that destruction. Keyboard and mouse is the optimal way to play, but I also got a chance to go into a custom-made pod of sorts that was meant to simulate the cockpit of a mech. The first round of using a HOTAS setup was awkward, and my mech ended the round with both of its arms blown off. However, by the second round, I had gotten used to the throttle-and-stick and made it through relatively unscathed with a trail of dead mechs in my rear-view mirror. When the dust settled, I was thoroughly impressed with what I had experienced in my demos: shooting enemy mechs, stomping on ant-like tanks, and running through buildings.

As for multiplayer, MechWarrior 5 will have co-op. Bullock said that the team wanted to focus on the campaign and let PVP-minded players have MechWarrior Online. That means you can invite up to three friends to join you in your otherwise single-player missions in MechWarrior 5.

MechWarrior 5 releases for PC on September 10. You can follow more news from Mech-Con 2018 over on Piranha Games’ Twitch channel where much of the event is being livestreamed this weekend.