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Now that Netflix has released an iPhone app that allows mobile cinephiles to stream their instant queues, it's worth considering reorganizing those queues for smartphone screening. So we put together a handy list of films across all genres that ought to look just fine on the iPhone's comparatively tiny display. Once they're all available, that is.
As expected, there's not a flick among them that contains ubiquitous subtitles or indispensable minutiae. They're all wide-screen blasts, whose broad strokes and deceptively simple compositions screen nicely on handsets.
The Iron Giant
Stream: Brad Bird's brilliant first film, The Iron Giant is a masterful sci-fi fable starring a boy called Hogarth (Eli Marienthal) and his interstellar killer robot gone good during the paranoid Cold War. Hounded by an insane government spook named Mansley (Kevin Macdonald) and befriended by a cool beatnik named Dean (Harry Connick Jr.), The Iron Giant (Vin Diesel) must choose between a hard-fought peace and an all-too-easy atomic holocaust. But only after eating all the used cars in sight. Buffering... Effortlessly shifting between measured pacing and kinetic fun, Bird's 1999 debut shouldn't suck up too much bandwidth or battery life. Actually, you should go watch it now. Bonus: The Iron Giant's stunning heart and smarts don't detract at all from its hypnotic wide-screen mash of hand-drawn animation and CGI. It fully computes in any dimension. Image courtesy Warner Bros.See Also:
