After a mediocre range of offerings over the past few months, Netflix Inc. right as summer arrives, with a few fans of favorites returning in May, along with some original films.
The biggest of the group looks like Zack Snyder’s zombie / casino heist mashup, “Army of the Dead” (May 21), a cheerful violent caper movie starring Dave Bautista. On the film front there is also “The woman in the window” (May 14), with Amy Adams in a psychological thriller from the “Rear Window” that delayed the release a year due to the pandemic; and “Oxygen” (May 12), a French sci-fi thriller starring Mélanie Laurent as a woman trapped in a cryogenic room.
Most interesting is Aziz Ansari’s Emmy-winning comedy series “Master of no one” is returning for his third season (TBA date) after a four-year gap, in which allegations against Ansari in sexual misconduct by 2018 arose. The new season has shifted filming from New York to London and will reportedly focus more on Lena Waithe’s character, Denise.
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also has the second part of season 5 of the supernatural crime drama (and fan favorite) “Lucifer” (May 28); and part two of “Selena: The Series” (May 4), about the life of the late Mexican-American pop superstar. There are also “Halston” (date TBA), a limited series by Ryan Murphy and starring Ewan McGregor as the iconic fashion designer; the real crime documentation “The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness” May 5); the superhero comic adaptation “Jupiter’s Legacy” (May 7), starring Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb; the financial documentation “Money, explain” (May 11); the sitcom “The Upshaws” (May 12), starring Mike Epps, Wanda Sykes and Kim Fields; a new season of the Emmy-winning animated anthology series “Love, Death & Robots: Volume 2” (May 14); Season 2 of the popular Mexican thriller “Who killed Sara?” (May 19); the second season of “Special” (May 20), the comedy about a young gay man with cerebral palsy; and Season 3 of the comedy “The Kominsky Method” (May 28), starring Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin.
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And a warning to fans of Benedict Cumberbatch: Seasons 1-4 of “Sherlock” leaves Netflix on May 14th.
Here is the full series from April 21 (the release dates may change):
What’s coming in May 2021
Coming soon (no date announced)
AlRawabi School for Girls – Netflix Original
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (2021)
Halston – Netflix Original
Crazy For Each Other – Netflix Original
Master of None – Netflix Original
Racket Boys – Netflix Original
Ragnarok: Season 2 – Netflix Original
May 1
Strangers stole my body
Angelina Ballerina: Season 5
Angelina Ballerina: Season 6
Back to the future
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III
Barney and Friends: Season 13
Barney and Friends: Season 14
Best of the best
Dead again in tombstone
Deadline
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Green Zone
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
JT LeRoy
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
Mystic River
Never give up
Notting hill
Open season
Resident Evil: the afterlife
Resident Evil: Extinction
SMART Chase
Scarface
Sit in Limbo
Stargate
Game status
The country ahead of time
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
The sweet legs
The Pelican Letter
The sweetest thing
The Whole Nine Yards
Under siege
Deep waist
Your Highness
Zack and Miri make a porn
Zombieland
May 2
Hoarders: Season 11
May 4
The Clovehitch Killer
Selena: The Series: Part 2 – Netflix Original
Trash Truck: Season 2 – Netflix Family
May 5
Framing John DeLorean
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness – Netflix Documentary
May 6
Dead man down
May 7
Girl from Nowhere: Season 2 – Netflix Original
Jupiter’s Legacy – Netflix Original
Milestone – Netflix Movie
Monster – Netflix Movie
May 8
Myne – Netflix Original
Sleepless
May 11
Money, Explained – Netflix Documentary
May 12
Dance of the Forty One – Netflix Movie
Oxygen – Netflix Movie
The Upshaws – Netflix Original
May 13
Castlevania: Season 4 – Netflix Anime
Layer cake
May 14
Ferry – Netflix Movie
Haunted: Season 3 – Netflix Original
I’m All Girls – Netflix Movie
Jungle Beat: The Movie – Netflix Family
Love, Death & Robots: Volume 2 – Netflix Original
Move to Heaven – Netflix Original
The Strange House – Netflix Movie
The Woman in the Window – Netflix Movie
May 16
Sleight
May 18
Sardar Ka grandson – Netflix Movie
May 19
The last days
Sabotage
Small Town Crime
Who Killed Sara ?: Season 2 – Netflix Original
May 20
Peter Tatchell hates
Special: Season 2 – Netflix Original
Spy Kids: all the time in the world
May 21
Army of the Dead – Netflix Movie
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Season 3 – Netflix Family
The Neighbor: Season 2 – Netflix Original
May 22
Sam Smith: Love Goes – Live At Abbey Road Studios
May 25
at home
May 26
Baggio: The Divine Ponytail – Netflix Movie
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America – Netflix Documentary
Nail Bomber: Manhunt – Netflix Documentary
May 27
Black Space – Netflix Original
Blue Miracle – Netflix Movie
Eden – Netflix Anime
Soy Rada: Serendipity – Netflix Comedy Special
May 28
Dog Gone Trouble – Netflix Family
Lucifer: Season 5, Part 2 – Netflix Original
The Kominsky Method: Season 3 – Netflix Original
May 31
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story
The Paris Agency: Exclusive Properties – Netflix Original
What’s going on in May
May 1
Hoarders: Season 10
May 3
War horse
May 5
Hangman
May 6
City of God: 10 years later
Exclusion
May 7
The Elect
House at the end of the street
May 10
Quartet
May 14
Sherlock: Series 1-4
May 18
Trumbo
May 29
American Crime: Seasons 1-3
My Week with Marilyn
The one i love
May 31
50 first dates
Heroism
All dogs go to heaven
The Blair Witch Project
Brokeback Mountain
The son
Deliver us from Eve
The help
I’m speaking to you now from Chuck and Larry
Julie & Julia
Marauders
Milk
Miracle
National Lampoon’s Christmas Holiday
Persecution of Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz
The pursuit of happiness
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
Soul Surfer
Striptease
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