The conversation surrounding Netflix films has shifted as the streamer begins unveiling its Academy Awards contenders. The streaming service has recently given some films theatrical releases to make them eligible for Oscar nominations, and the results have been mixed. The Mosquito Bowl has essentially taken itself out of the running thanks to overwhelmingly negative reviews, but La Bola Negra is still in the running.
But before these blockbusters make their streaming debut, Netflix hasn’t forgotten the stories that keep its film side going. With two months left this year, Netflix is leaning into the holidays with heartwarming stories of community and romance. However, variety is the name of the game for the streamer, and subscribers can expect more genres, including comedies and thrillers. One of the most anticipated films is Jessica Chastain‘s crime thriller, set for release mid-month.
This movie takes Chastain back to a staple of her career: the investigator. This time, she’s solving a crime in Music City in the movie titled Heartland. Chastain plays Misty, a former country star who left that life behind. When her niece disappears, Misty is forced out of seclusion to unravel the mystery. She revisits her past as she explores her niece’s life, including a rising career in country music, and is exposed to Nashville’s sketchy underbelly, where nothing is as it seems. Misty might also have secrets of her own that she needs to confront. Heartland streams on November 13.
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive: with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably should not work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back. Choose your channel
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Indiana Jones
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Rambo The 1982 original You will never need to ask whether he has your back. You will just know.
Your partner does not talk much, does not need to, and will have counted every threat around you before you finish your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics. He is a force shaped by survival, loyalty and an endurance that no amount of training produces on its own. He does not leave people behind. What you get is the most quietly ferocious partner imaginable, somebody who went through what would have broken anybody else and decided to keep going. Why he is your partner
He reads ground the way other people read a room.
He will stand between you and the worst of it without discussing it.
He says almost nothing, and never the wrong thing.
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The 1982 original came from David Morrell’s 1972 novel, which ends very differently.
Stallone cut most of his own dialogue in the edit to make the character nearly silent.
Five films across thirty-seven years, from 1982 to the fifth in 2019.
Says little Leaves nobody Built to endure
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James Bond Dr. No, 1962 He has survived things that have no business being survivable, and he does it with style.
Your partner arrives perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story convincing enough that you will need a moment to recall what is true. Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he walks into and the most disarmingly charming, which is the whole point. He works in layers, where nothing is what it looks like and every advantage gets used without apology. You will never be bored. You will occasionally be furious. Why he is your partner
He is better in the room than he is on paper, and he is excellent on paper.
He will not explain the plan, and the plan will work.
He treats charm as a tool, and it is a remarkably effective one.
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Eon has made twenty-five Bond films since Dr. No in 1962, across six actors.
Denis Villeneuve is directing the next one for Amazon MGM, which took creative control in
2025.
The search for the new 007 was still running through 2026, with screen tests under way.
Charm as a tool Always briefed Unbothered
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Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 A scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual pairing and a very effective one.
Your partner knows the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is the most important object in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless and occasionally impossible, and also one of the most genuinely resourceful people you could have beside you. He hates snakes and gets attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It will not matter. Why he is your partner
He has read the thing nobody else thought to read.
He will risk the whole plan for the artifact, and be right about half the time.
He improvises better than most people prepare.
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The Cairo swordsman scene was improvised on the day because Harrison Ford had dysentery.
Raiders was filmed in about 73 days, which was fast even in 1981.
Dial of Destiny in 2023 was Ford’s fifth and last outing, at the age of eighty.
Knows the history Reckless scholar Improviser
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John McClane Die Hard, 1988 His superpower is stubbornness and his contingency plan is improvisation.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything resembling the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and a flat refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it plainly is. John McClane is the great accidental hero of action cinema, a man whose capacity to absorb more than anybody should and keep going would be alarming if it were not so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will come through. Why he is your partner
He turns whatever is in the room to his advantage.
He is funniest when things are at their worst.
He has never once agreed that it is over.
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Die Hard came from Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever, a sequel to a book
filmed in 1968.
Nakatomi Plaza is Fox Plaza, which was the studio’s own headquarters at the time.
Bruce Willis was a television comedy actor then, and a long way down the casting list.
Pure stubbornness Improvises Complains throughout
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Ethan Hunt Mission: Impossible, 1996 The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Your partner has run seventeen scenarios before you finished the briefing, and the one he settled on involves at least two things that should not be physically possible. Ethan Hunt works at the outer edge of human capability, technically and physically, and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organizations that should not exist. He is not easy to know and he will never tell you everything. He will carry the weight anyway. Why he is your partner
He takes the risk himself rather than assigning it.
He is three moves ahead and will not say which three.
He treats your survival as the actual objective.
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Cruise hung off the side of an Airbus A400M at a thousand feet for the opening of Rogue
Nation.
The HALO jump in Fallout took 106 takes, filmed at dusk for the light.
The Final Reckoning in 2025 was the eighth film, and was sold as the last.
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Jessica Chastain Is in Her Element in ‘Heartland’ Trailer
You can tell Misty Jones isn’t enjoying her homecoming in the film’s trailer above. It’s been two decades, but she is back for a good reason: this is a matter of life and death after her niece Charlotte goes missing. She immerses herself in a world so familiar yet distant, fully aware of the risks and realities of missing persons. Things escalate when she discovers evidence that could point to a murder and receives pushback from some parties. Beneath the glamour of Nashville’s music scene lies a rot rarely spoken about.
The trailer teases a headstrong heroine who will stop at nothing to find the truth. Oh, and some good country music, too. Heartland was written and directed by Shana Feste (Run Sweethear Run), with a cast that includes Wynn Everett, Garret Hedlund (Roy Combs), Ross Lynch (Jace Jacobs), Carter Faith (Charlie Heart), and Jennifer Nettles (Winnie Jo Lean), among others.
Heartland streams on Netflix on Friday, November 13. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date
November 13, 2026
Director
Shana Feste
Writers
Shana Feste
Producers
Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, Jason Owen, Mark Anthony Little, Randall Poster
