As part of our 100th episode celebration for the InstaFlicka Podcast, each of the hosts made a list of their Top 10 Movies on Netflix Instant Watch. This is Jonny’s list. Some of the movies are no longer streaming, but several still are.
10) JFK
Oliver Stone’s fascinating film about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — one of America’s most enigmatic and mythical political figures — is even more dramatic thanks to the extra footage included in this special edition. When Kennedy is killed while visiting Dallas, a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman) takes the fall. But was he acting alone, or was he part of a larger conspiracy?
9) Up
After a lifetime of dreaming of traveling the world, 78-year-old homebody Carl (voiced by Ed Asner) flies away on an unbelievable adventure with Russell, an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer (Jordan Nagai), unexpectedly in tow. Together, the unlikely pair embarks on a thrilling odyssey full of jungle beasts and rough terrain. Other voices in the Oscar-winning film include the renowned Christopher Plummer and Pixar stalwart John Ratzenberger.
8 ) Sweet Land
Norwegian-American farmer Olaf Torvik (Tim Guinee) and his rural Minnesotan community must struggle to overcome years of anti-German propaganda and prejudice when he discovers that his mail-order bride, Inge (Elizabeth Reaser), is not only a German but also an accidental Socialist. Writer Ali Selim also directs this Independent Spirit Award-winning tale of love’s ability to triumph over ignorance.
7) Amadeus
F. Murray Abraham earned a Best Actor Oscar for his imperious performance as Antonio Salieri, a mediocre composer whose churlish young rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), wins immortality with his musical genius. Not happy to see his talent eclipsed, Salieri dons a disguise and deviously plots revenge, obsessed with muffling Mozart’s maddening laughter. Milos Forman’s masterful drama also won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.
6) Pollock
This riveting biopic follows abstract painter Jackson Pollock — who’s alternately neurotic, misogynistic and brilliant — from the start of his career through his marriage to fellow artist Lee Krasner, a union tested by his adultery and alcoholism.
5) Man on Wire
Philippe Petit captured the world’s attention in 1974 when he walked across a high wire between New York’s Twin Towers. This Oscar winner for Best Documentary explores the preparations that went into the stunt as well as the event and its aftermath.
4) Black Dynamite
Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) is the only one strong enough and brave enough to take on the baddies who murdered his brother. What’s the former CIA agent to do? Expose a conspiracy that leads straight to the White House. Providing plenty of hilarity and sexy, slick action, Scott Sanders directs this homage to classic 1970s blaxploitation flicks. Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Arsenio Hall also star.
3) Gosford Park
Director Robert Altman’s witty murder mystery won an Oscar for its screenplay, which really takes off when Sir William (Michael Gambon) is found dead soon after his guests arrive for a weekend stay at his English estate. Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas), Constance (Maggie Smith) and Ivor (Jeremy Northam) try to make sense of the crime. Meanwhile, gossip flies among the household help (including Helen Mirren, Ryan Phillippe and Clive Owen).
2) Cool Hand Luke
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is a man who likes to do things his own way, which leads to a world of hurt when he ends up in a Southern prison camp — and on the wrong side of its warden (Strother Martin). George Kennedy copped an Oscar as a fellow prisoner who tries to break Luke and later comes to revere him. The cast also includes a young Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Joe Don Baker.
1) From Here to Eternity
This gripping adaptation of James Jones’s novel about Army life in Hawaii in the idyllic days just before Dec. 7, 1941, boasts one of the hottest love scenes in screen history: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling around in the sandy surf. All told, the film won eight Oscars, including awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Donna Reed) and Best Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra).
“This movie was such a plesant surprise for me. It had an excellent cast and an excellent story,” Jonny said. “This is movie on my list that I will watch over and over again.”


Sweet, man! Now that we have Netflix, I’m going to start listening to the InstaFlika podcast again. I’m starting by putting these 10 movies in our queue!
Happy to have you back, sir! I hope we can bring happiness to your life.
How is Dirty Dancing not on the list? Jonny is basically dead to me, similar to how Patrick Swayze is dead. RIP.
Jonny is basically a monster.