Sherlock Holmes is everywhere these days, but the eccentric sleuth has been around for a long time. Check out my review of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson in 1939’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, or click here to watch the movie.
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Orson Welles directs himself as a war criminal in hiding in a Connecticut college town, with Edward G. Robinson as the Nazi hunter on his trail. Watch it for free by clicking here.
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Hitchcock is back in vogue (is he ever “out”?), and I could say a few words about this thriller from his early output, but why bother when I can lift a quote from the Feb. 27, 1937 edition of the New York Times? “Alfred Hitchcock … has whittled a pitilessly melodramatic segment from Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent and, calling it [Sabotage], has placed it on exhibition at the Roxy as a masterly exercise in suspense.” So there. Watch it for free by clicking here.
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In the 1990s, if you wanted to make a great film about crime in small-town America, the formula was simple: cast Billy Bob Thornton and Bill Paxton. Thornton and Paxton worked magic twice – first in 1992’s One False Move, then again in 1998’s A Simple Plan. Click here to watch the former, free of charge.
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It’s only a few weeks into football season, and your favorite team already sucks. You need to watch football and feel good about it, even if that means viewing a predictable, schmaltzy movie like Rudy. So here you go: Click here to watch for free.
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It was a dark and stormy night …. You never know these days what kind of movie you’re going to get when John Cusack is the star – crowd-pleasing junk or critics’ darling – but this mind-bending thriller is slick and entertaining. Click here to watch it for free.
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This is, if memory serves, the first film that I saw in a movie theater. Now that you know approximately how old I am, watch David Lean’s 1962 classic free of charge by clicking here.
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You might have heard of this movie. You might also have heard of its director, someone named Steven Spielberg. Watch it for free by clicking here.
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It’s a David Lynch movie, so yes, it’s weird. If you don’t want weird, the Republican National Convention is on television. Oh, wait ….
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“They’re coming to get you, Barbara.” It’s been awhile since you last creeped out to George Romero’s zombie classic, so watch it free of charge by clicking here for Hulu, or here for YouTube. The YouTube version has better picture quality, although it was a bit of a slow load on my computer.
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