Screenshot: Kate / Netflix
There was a time when you could count the big blockbuster action films with women on one hand. In a jaw-dropping reflection on how things are changing in Hollywood, now you probably need to use both hands – and in fact, we are so advanced that women can now lay claim to an extremely problematic, culturally fetishistic shoot-em – on their own .
Yes, on September 10th, Netflix will release Kate, in which Scott Pilgrim vs. Mary Elizabeth Winstead from the world is an assassin who is poisoned during her last mission (when else?) And only has a few hours to hunt down her killers before it comes up and dies (this is one of those special movie poisons that apparently leaves you with no ill effects until it kills you). It looks incredibly cool – Winstead, an actress I adore, seems to have had a fondness for the action genre – or would if the trailer for the Japan-set flick wasn’t peppered with the kind of orientalism that an- racism that I thought we had left behind in the early 1990s when Japanese businessmen stopped being treated in every film as an acronym for a threat to American domination.
By Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Kate, the director of the second film Snow White and the Huntsman, looks like a frenetic cross between John Wick and Crank and is at least as entertaining as the recent Netflix assassin film Gunpowder Milkshake, but it’s a real warning sign if your movie’s villain is is mentioned simply as “the yakuza”, the trusted East Asian boogeyman in films for western audiences. Maybe the end result doesn’t reduce an entire country to a series of tropes, I don’t know. Given the director calls it his “love letter to Japan”. it really could go one way or the other.
This is where everything else comes to streamer this month, including a new He-Man animated series (September 16) – a different one this time – and additional seasons of streaming favorites like Love on the Spectrum, Nailed It! and reality sensations. The circle.
What’s Coming (and Leaving) Netflix in September 2021
Coming to Netflix in September
Arrival this month (no date known)
Arrival on September 1st
- How to be a cowboy – Netflix original series
- Turning point: 9/11 and the war on terror – Netflix documentation
- A Cinderella story
- Agatha Christie’s crooked house
- Barbie Big City Big Dreams
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
- The Blue Lagoon (1980)
- Chappie
- Clear and current danger
- Cliffhanger
- Cold mountain
- Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
- Dear John
- Do the right thing
- Freedom Authors
- Green Lantern
- House party
- House party 2
- House party 3
- The interview
- Kid-E-Cats: Season 2
- labyrinth
- letters to Julia
- Love Costs Nothing (2003)
- Mars attacks!
- Marshall
- Mystery Men
- The crazy professor
- Mad Professor II: The lumps
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Open season 2
- Rhyme & reason
- School of Rock
- Tears of the Sun
- Welcome home Roscoe Jenkins
Arrival on September 2nd
Arrival on September 3rd
Arrival on September 6th
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Arrival on September 7th
Arrival on September 8th
Arrival on September 9th
Arrival on September 10th
Arrival on September 13th
Arrival on September 14th
Arrival on September 15th
Arrival on September 16
Arrival on September 17th
Arrival on September 19th
Arrival on September 20th
Arrival on September 21st
Arrival September 22nd
Arrival on September 23rd
- I’m Karl – Netflix Film
Arrival on September 24th
Arrival on September 28th
Arrival September 29th
Arrival on September 30th
What is leaving Netflix in September 2021
From September 3rd
Departure on September 6th
Departure on September 7th
- Ripper Street: Series 1-5
Departure on September 11th
Departure on September 12th
Departure on September 14th
Departure on September 15th
- Angry Birds: Seasons 1-2
- As above, so below
- Scott pilgrim against the world
Departure on September 16
- Penny Dreadful: Seasons 1-3
Departure on September 18th
- Beauty and the Beast: Seasons 1-4
Departure on September 26th
From September 30th
- Air Force One
- Austin Powers in Gold Member
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Fucked Me
- Boogie nights
- Cradle 2 the grave
- Evil: Season 1
- Fools rush in
- Insidious
- The karate kid
- The Karate Kid Part II
- The Karate Kid Part II
- Kung Fu Panda
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- No strings attached
- The pianist
- Prom
- The Queen
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: Enterprise: Seasons 1-4
- Star Trek: Seasons 1-3
- Star Trek: Voyager: Seasons 1-7
- The Unicorn: Season 1
- Why do fools fall in love
