It’s a bit jarring to watch William Powell play a suave detective – but without Myrna Loy, and cheating on Asta with some cute little Scottish terrier. Actually, Powell had made four “Philo Vance” mysteries before he joined Loy and Asta in The Thin Man. Check out one of the better Vance installments by clicking here.
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The Outlaw is one of those Hollywood curiosities with a background more intriguing than the movie itself. Oddball billionaire Howard Hughes produced and directed it. The film drew controversy because of the camera’s – or rather, Hughes’s – obsession with star Jane Russell’s cleavage. And yet the movie gets a high rating at Rotten Tomatoes and, according to Leonard Maltin, this “notorious ‘sex western’ is actually compelling.” Watch it for free by clicking here.
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James Woods plays a pot-smoking lawyer, a former civil-rights champion who is persuaded by idealistic apprentice Robert Downey, Jr. to take on a tough case involving a Korean-American prison inmate. Watch True Believer for free by clicking here.
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Most movies based on Stephen King books are pretty crappy, but 1983’s Cujo delivers some decent thrills. Check out the anti-Lassie free of charge by clicking here.
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Brad Pitt lost in the competition for Best Actor at last night’s Oscars, but after his wife Angelina Jolie made a show of flashing her thigh to television viewers, I doubt that many people felt sorry for him. Check out this early Pitt movie, a scenic drama directed by Robert Redford.
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It’s an irresistible concept: Natalie Portman, in her first movie, playing a 12-year-old girl who, after her family is slaughtered by crooked DEA agents, hooks up (no … not like that) with her neighbor – a professional hit man played by European star Jean Reno. Watch it for free by clicking here.
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Hard to believe now, but once upon a time Gary Busey was considered one of our finest young actors – primarily because of his starring role in this classic rock-and-roll biopic. Watch The Buddy Holly Story free of charge by clicking here.
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Do you dig Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest? Then you might want to check out this 1940 spy thriller from Hitchcock, which some film historians consider a warm-up to his 1959 Cary Grant classic. Click here to watch it free of charge.
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“A top-rate WWII thriller.” “A wholly persuasive, intelligent thriller.” “A landmark picture.” “Classic Frankenheimer WWII actioner with a unique plot.” Yes, you guessed it, I haven’t seen the movie and I am cribbing critical blurbs from Rotten Tomatoes. But they all seem to like it, don’t they? Click here to watch Burt Lancaster in The Train.
p.s. Leonard Maltin says it’s “high-powered excitement all the way.”
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If you can make it past the opening scene of this drama, in which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei do their best to convince us that we are watching a hardcore sex film, you’ll discover that the late, great Sidney Lumet still had his magic at the ripe old age of 82. However, if you are like me, you’d prefer not to think about the octogenarian director barking instructions to his actors in that opening scene. Click here to watch it for free.
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