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Next month, Netflix has a wide variety of films — modern to classic, animated to horror, Oscar winners to new indies — and we’ve picked seven that you should watch once they’re made available on the streaming service, either for the first time or as part of a nostalgic binge. Enjoy.

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1. “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (available February 1)

The 1993 stop-motion classic directed by Henry Slick and produced by Tim Burton tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from Halloween Town who stumbles through a portal to Christmas Town and decides to celebrate the holiday.

2. “The Blair Witch Project” (available February 1)

Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, the 1999 found footage horror film became one of the most successful indie films of all time when it was released. The movie follows three film students...

Brazilian feature film Neon Bull and documentary Speed Sisters have walked away with the major prizes at this year.s Adelaide Film Festival.

Neon Bull was announced as winner of the Foxtel Movies International Award for Best Feature Film at this year.s Festival..

The Festival also announced Speed Sisters winner of its Documentary Award, sponsored by Flinders University.

Neon Bull director and screenwriter Gabriel Mascaro was awarded a $25,000 cash prize.

Ten features from around the globe competed for the Award, including films from the Us, Denmark, Ethiopia, South Korea, Vanuatu and Australia.

Foxtel Movies International Feature Jury President Christian Jeune paid tribute to Mascaro as a leading figure in a burgeoning new wave film movement coming out of Recife in Brazil.s north-east.

Jeune said Neon Bull was a project that impressed with its cinematic vision..

.This work allows us into a place where both animal and human bodies...

Gregor Jordan (Two Hands, Unthinkable) will be the series director of a new 22 part comedy series part-funded by Qantas and Tourism New Zealand.

The Great Crusade is a based on Toby Withers, a 39 year-old former squash champion and sports journalist for Highly Strung Magazine, a publication for ‘non-tennis racquet sports’, that has decided to broaden its horizons into rugby, and into television, just in time for New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup.

The show will produced as 22 episodes in forty days with a team including Nathan Earl (The Chasers War on Everything), Nick Hayden and Nick McDougal (both of Hungry Beast) and will star Phil Lloyd (Review with Myles Barlow, At Home With Julia) who will also co-write the episodes.

Named after and set around the Great Crusade, a 25 deep convoy of luxury campers, episodes will include real Wallabies supporters, ex-wallabies, musicians, comedians and competition winners who won their slot...

The 16th annual Bradford International Film Festival, which will run March 18-28, is a total celebration of all forms of cinema, from classic films to modern world cinema to a tribute to Cinerama and more. But, most excitingly, is a bombastic collection of some of the best, most exciting underground films being made today.

From Bad Lit’s perspective, the most thrilling screening of the entire 10-day affair is the new film by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead, Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts. In the U.S., Whitehead is a “lost” filmmaker from the underground’s heyday in the ’60s, being left out of most histories of the underground movement. Whitehead directed several influential films, including Wholly Communion and The Fall, before dropping out of filmmaking in the mid-’70s.

Film historian Jack Sargeant wrote extensively about and interviewed Whitehead for his wonderful book on Beat cinema, Naked Lens.