Happy new year! congratulations. It’s January again. A full 12 months are ahead of us, and they are sure to be filled with good and bad, triumphs, disappointments, and surprises. So why not use the first weekend of the year to prepare for an unpredictable new chapter in your life story?
When embarking on any journey, it’s always good to seek inspiration from those who have done it before. As you take those shaky first steps into 2025, stream classic New Year’s resolution movies, various dramatizations of the bittersweet joy of a fresh start, or self-empowering series. Why not try making choices that change your life for the better, even if it’s just a small thing? Enjoy the good stream and Happy New Year!
First things first, what’s new with Netflix?
A room with a terrifying view. “Selling the City,” a new real estate docu-soap from the creators of “Selling Sunset,” immerses you in the drama of high-end New York real estate. Looking for another list? Face mortality with Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. A new documentary by Chris Smith (Fire: The Greatest Party That Never Happened) examines the controversial practices one man employs to stay forever young. Don’t you want to drink the fountain of youth? Let’s try a different kind of time warp with a twist on Christopher Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar, about a group of scientists (led by Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway) who travel through a wormhole.
If only for one night…
Listen to your gut. If you’re determined to change your eating habits in 2025, the Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut stream can inform your approach to nutrition. Anjali Nayyar’s 2024 documentary features opinions from a panel of experts on the importance of maintaining a diverse diet and how gut health impacts our bodies on a large scale. We are focusing on the intestinal microbiome.
If you have a whole day…
Please try again. New beginnings can be difficult, but they’re made easy with this three-movie mini-marathon that celebrates the courage it takes to turn the page. Let’s start with the drama of recognizing that beginnings come from endings. In Dan Levy’s directorial debut, 2023’s Good Grief, he plays a man mourning his late husband with the support of his two best friends (Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel). Followed by last year’s romantic drama, Justin Baldoni’s It Ends With Us. This is an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller about breaking harmful cycles and patterns. Blake Lively plays the troubled love triangle opposite Baldoni and Brandon Skrenner. Finally, lighten up the mood with comedy that challenges everything you’ve ever known and steps out from the past into the future. That’s correct! Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster Barbie, starring Margot Robbie as the beloved fashion doll and Ryan Gosling as Ken, will guide you through your fresh start.
If you have time for a whole weekend…
Do more than just a makeover. Queer Eye’s Fab Five specializes in giving deserving heroes a fresh start, and we’ve sampled all nine seasons (the most recent season ended in December) for inspiration to make your own new year even better. You can get it. Food expert Antoni Porowski, fashion expert Tan France, culture and lifestyle expert Karamo Brown, grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness, and design expert Bobby Berk (seasons 1-8) ) and Jeremiah Brent (Season 9) to step into 2025. Be confident.
Remember, you have one last chance…
…to cast a spell. In less than two weeks, watch The Magicians by Sera Gamble and John McNamara, which ran from 2015 to 2020. Based on a trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman, the series revolves around a graduate student (Jason Ralph) who enrolls at a school. There he discovered that the curriculum was more dangerous than he had imagined. Stream all five seasons before they disappear.
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