Netflix: 25 films to watch out for in 2021
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Donald Clarke on the big names, Oscar contenders and everything from westerns to romcoms that will hit the small screen this year
Nobody now doubts that Netflix enjoys the status of a major film studio. Indeed, few of its competitors deal so comprehensively in old-school Hollywood genres. The streaming giant’s recently unveiled 2021 slate is coming down with romantic comedies, family films and mid-budgeted dramas. There are even three projects that might reasonably be described as westerns: The Power of the Dog, Concrete Cowboy and The Harder They Fall.
No studio has so focussed on straight-up action flicks since the noisy high era of Schwarzenegger, Stallone and, to a lesser extent, Van Damme (who actually will be seen in Netflix’s The Last Mercenary).