The Others: Netflix has a couple of other Originals debuting on April 19 ― both are foreign films. “A Fortunate Man” follows an engineer striving for success in Copenhagen. In “Music Teacher,” a, well, music teacher in a small town goes through an emotional journey when a former pupil returns as the Bollywood star the teacher always dreamed of becoming.
The non-Original movies “The New Romantic” and “I, Daniel Blake” also join the service this week.
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The Most Notable Movie Coming To Netflix This Week
“Someone Great” | April 19
Premise: A woman exiting her twenties (Gina Rodriguez) decides to have one last New York City adventure before moving to San Francisco for a dream job in music journalism. Her boyfriend (Lakeith Stanfield) of nearly a decade breaks up with her instead of agreeing to a long-distance relationship, so the young woman leans on her two best friends (DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow) for emotional support.
Sum-Up: This has a stacked cast of respected young actors. Beyond the four lead roles, cameos include Jaboukie Young-White, Questlove and Alex Moffat from “Saturday Night Live.”
Heads-Up: Reviews aren’t out yet. The trailer makes this look pretty forgettable, but perhaps this will be better than that. Since this has an NYC setting and focuses on a music journalist, I thought this was going to involve the LCD Soundsystem song “Someone Great,” but it appears to have nothing to do with that famous New York band. Disappointing!
Trailer:
Here’s the full list of movies joining Netflix this week:
April 15
“The New Romantic”
April 19
“A Fortunate Man” (Netflix Film)
“I, Daniel Blake”
“Music Teacher” (Netflix Film)
“Someone Great” (Netflix Film)