So, how does a stumbling bumbling nobody waitress named Alma (Vicky Krieps in a blow-the-doors-off performance) flip their entire pristine world upside down with nothing but a well-calculated blush and a basket of mushrooms? That’s the stuff of romance, in all of its violent, push-pull swirl. Why has 'Phantom Thread' given us so many great memes? DDL's persnickety couture bastard Reynolds Woodcock (a name the director and his star came up with as a gag, which stuck) and his right-hand sis Cyril (Lesley Manville, who will go right through you) have the disgustingly wealthy eating out of their satin-lined gloves when the film begins. If Daniel Day-Lewis is really and truly permanently retired from acting (and let's hope he's not, for acting's sake), then he went out on a darn high note with this profoundly romantic anti-romance from director Paul Thomas Anderson. How to watch: The Fellowship of the Ring (Opens in a new tab), The Two Towers (Opens in a new tab), and The Return of the King (Opens in a new tab) are streaming on Netflix. These represent the height of fantasy filmmaking, perhaps to never be dethroned. trying to get that darn precious up into the lava flows of Mount Doom, Gollums be damned.īut today the trilogy stands tall as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time, spawning a second threesome of Hobbit films and a billion-dollar episodic series on, you know, that other streaming service. So, why not hand over nine plus of your daily allotment of hours to Peter Jackson’s epic Oscar-swallowing Middle-earth trilogy ( The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King)? Two decades on, the trilogy that started it all still holds up so well that it’s nigh impossible to remember what an enormous risk it seemed in 2001, back before we’d seen a second of Frodo & Co.

They say go big or go home, and thankfully you’re already home, on your couch, Netflixing. Credit: Pierre Vinet/New Line Cinema/Kobal/Shutterstock

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