What to Watch Now: Best New Streaming Movies & TV
Looking for something good to watch at home or on the go?
October 23, 2014
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Looking for something good to watch at home or on the go?
Parents may get so accustomed to seeing sex and violence in movies and television that they end up lowering their standards for what kids are allowed to watch, a new report suggests.
Summer is almost over, but don’t fret… the 2014 fall movie lineup looks pretty fantastic! There’s the twisty thriller (“Gone Girlâ€); some quirky indies (“Birdman,†“St. Vincentâ€); a family dark comedy (“This Is Where I Leave You); “Interstellar,†another sci-fi gem from Christopher Nolan; and of course, some Oscar contenders (“Foxcatcher,†“Kill the Messenger).
The news that the next “phase” of Marvel movies will focus on internal strife among its heroes (with Tony Stark reportedly battling Steve Rogers in Captain America 3) is a logical solution for the hyper-franchise's biggest problem to date. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been printing money for six years now and shows no sign of abating, but after ten films it's only been able to cook up one …
The animated feature “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,†which was one of the year’s earliest box-office hits, has…
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Seth MacFarlane swings hard and fast at an assault of incoming jokes, but the overall effect of A Million Ways to Die in the West is disappointing
Recommended When Meteor was new, in October 1979, I dragged several friends to see it, expecting something intelligent and full of spectacle. A science fiction-disaster film, it was, unusual for the time, rooted in sound science.
Highly Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. Writing a review of Obvious Child presents some obvious topics. Maybe I could focus on how the film is about a woman, and is written, directed, and produced by women as well, perspective that gives this charming and …
Highly Recommended The Movies: The eternally gorgeous Audrey Hepburn may not have been the most versatile of movie stars, but she certainly had “It” – that elusive quality known as charisma. Arriving on the scene as a sophisticated waif in a sea of voluptuous curves, she charmed audiences with a cultured, genial image full of inherent contradictions
Highly Recommended Wow, what a surprise! If you've suffered through as many public domain movies from the 1930s as I have, films produced and distributed by small, long-defunct and forgotten companies, you'll know that the vast majority are quite dreadful, and normally only the cheapest of home video distributors (e.g., Alpha Video) will release them at all, typically with terrible video …