Oh, the lowly Netflix Original Movie. I talk repeatedly about Shudder movies and about how I never ever know what I'm going to get when I open up that service. It could be an extremely delightful hidden gem, or it could be repetitive crap I've seen dozens of times before. But with Netflix... man, doesn't it FEEL like we know what we are going to get? For every K-Pop Demon Hunters, we get about twenty The Last Days Of American Crime. Netflix movies are notoriously bad, but the

Buddy (Keegan-Michael Key) is an anthropomorphic talking unicorn with magical powers and the host of a 1990s-style children's television program. The show centers around him teaching lessons and playing with four children, in the same vein as something like Barney. But when two of the children, Freddy (Delaney Quinn) and Wade (Caleb Williams), become increasingly suspicious of Buddy and his short temper, they begin planning their escape from this seemingly inescapable world.

Ethan Hawke is carrying a fortune in stolen gold across a hundred miles of Oregon wilderness in 1930s America and he is also, less metaphorically, carrying this entire film on his back. Both jobs are difficult. He is better at one of them than the other but he gives everything to both. The premise of The Weight is the kind that sounds irresistible in a pitch room. A labour camp inmate gets offered early release in exchange for transporting government gold through the wilderne