In 1975, Steven Spielberg released Jaws and taught us not to go swimming in the ocean. Three years later, director Alan Parker and screenwriter Oliver Stone released this movie and taught us never to bring drugs on board an airplane – at least not in Turkey. Watch Midnight Express by clicking here.
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Amelie is one of those “love it or hate it” movies. I’m guessing that you will know into which category you fall within the first five minutes of the film. The movie looks great, but has what might kindly be called a “quirky” style. Read my review of Amelie by clicking here, or go here to watch this award-winning, French (yes, it’s subtitled) romantic comedy.
(You have to register with Hulu, but it’s free.)
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It’s the end of the year and we are scraping the bottom of the Internet barrel in search of free flicks. We scraped and scraped and came up with Teenagers from Outer Space, a 1959 absurdity that features babes in bathing suits, stilted dialogue, stiff acting, dime-store special effects, and a ridiculous plot. Oh, yeah, and a monster shaped like a giant lobster. This Hulu version of Teenagers is crammed with commercials – not necessarily a bad thing in this case. Click here to watch this “so bad it’s good” cult classic.
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In 1937, the screwball comedy Nothing Sacred was a critical and commercial smash, and it helped make Carole Lombard the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Five years later, the 33-year-old actress was killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas. Watch the legendary star in what might be her best film by clicking here (YouTube version) or here (IMDB version).
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I’m a Jeff Bridges fan, but I’ve grown a bit weary of his “good old boy” routine. Yeah, yeah, Bridges is “The Dude,” and critics love it when he plays rednecks and drunkards. But I know Bridges is capable of other things – like playing a smooth villain (or is he?) in the 1985 thriller, Jagged Edge. This movie, co-starring Glenn Close, has one of the best “gotcha!” moments I’ve seen on film (it involves a typewriter keyboard). Watch it for free by clicking here.
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It’s the holiday season, and no holiday movie gets a better rating on Rotten Tomatoes than that crusty chestnut, Babes in Toyland. I watched about ten minutes of it and had to turn it off; I couldn’t handle it. Then again, I can’t handle that other holiday favorite, It’s a Wonderful Life. But you are not me. You are not Scrooge, and you want to see Laurel and Hardy do their thing. So click here to watch them for free. And one more thing: Bah, humbug.
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Back in 1951, announcing the “gayest” musical of the year (see above) didn’t have quite the same meaning as it does today. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen anyone dance on a ceiling recently, either. See Fred Astaire’s famous rotating-wall routine, free of charge by clicking here.
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1994 was a pretty good year at the movies. Audiences could enjoy Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, and Forrest Gump. Or they could see what was, in my humble opinion, the best film of the year: Hoop Dreams, a sometimes joyous, sometimes sad documentary about two Chicago high school boys who share a dream of basketball fame and fortune. Watch it for free by clicking here.
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When I was a kid, it seemed as though the same two actors starred in all the scary movies: Boris Karloff and Vincent Price. But there was a small problem with that. Neither one of them was particularly frightening. Karloff looked too old and feeble to do much harm, and Price was too soft and effeminate to stoke fear. Of course, now I’m older and know better – the old, feeble, soft, and effeminate are the scariest people on Earth. Watch Price in 1958’s House on Haunted Hill by clicking here.
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