The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix Canada in February<br />Francis Ford Coppola’s daughter, Sofia (“Lost in Translation”),<br />and son Roman (“CQ”) are already well-established, and now his granddaughter Gia has made a persuasive directorial debut with “Palo Alto,” a lush adaptation of the short story collection by James Franco about the dreams and memories of high schoolers.<br />‘A History of Violence’ (Feb. 15)<br />This stunning crime thriller by David Cronenberg about a small-town diner owner (Viggo Mortensen) whose gangster past resurfaces, is at once<br />a satisfying exercise in ultraviolence, a disquieting study of man’s darkest impulses and a withering critique of American carnage.<br />‘The Constant Gardener’<br />Breaking out from the stuffy agencies and back rooms of a typical John le Carré story, this emotionally resonant thriller about a low-level<br />diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) investigating his the murder of his wife in Kenya exposes the dark side of the pharmaceutical industry.<br />‘Wayne’s World’ (Feb. 2)<br />There’s a time capsule quality to this very 1992 adaptation of the “Saturday Night Live” sketch about Wayne (Mike Myers), Garth (Dana Carvey),<br />and the public access show they produce from a basement in Aurora, Ill.<br />The final entry in Edgar Wright’s loosely associated “Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy” — “Shawn of the Dead”<br />and “Hot Fuzz” are the others — follows old friends who encounter killers androids on a pub crawl in their hometown.
