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Streaming Picks: Halloween 2023
I’ll be on vacation for two weeks, so I’ll miss my monthly update of great films and shows hitting streaming services in October. Instead, I’ll leave you with this list of spooky selections (on these services as of 9/19) to … Continue reading
Streaming Picks: September 2023
FILMSTop PicksBad Education (2020) – Prime Video 9/1El Conde – Netflix 9/15The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar – Netflix 9/27Released by HBO a month after everything shut down, Cory Finley’s Bad Education won the Emmy for Best TV Movie but … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Previews, Television
Tagged amazon, bad education, band of brothers, el conde, hulu, max, netflix, pacific, paramount, peacock, prime, showtime, tiny toons, wonderful story of henry sugar
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Streaming Picks: August 2023
FILMSTop PickHow to Blow Up a Pipeline – Hulu 8/24One of the year’s best films, Daniel Goldhaber adapts Andreas Malm’s climate activism treatise into an edge-of-your-seat thriller with piercing moral clarity. A must-see. Other Recommendations8 Mile – Peacock 8/121 Jump … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, bringing out the dead, disney, how to blow up a pipeline, hulu, max, netflix, paramount, peacock, prime, reservation dogs
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Streaming Picks: July 2023
Programming Note: Paramount+ has merged with the Showtime app, but subscribers don’t automatically get access to all Showtime programming without paying an additional fee. So while the app will henceforth be known (clunkily) as Paramount+ with Showtime, I’m only using … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, disney, hulu, knock at the cabin, max, netflix, paramount, peacock, prime, showtime, what we do in the shadows
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Streaming Picks: June 2023
FILMSTop PicksTár – Prime Video 6/6Avatar: The Way of Water – Disney+ and Max 6/7While I wouldn’t consider Lydia Tár a “Strong Female Lead,” Cate Blanchett gave one of last year’s best performances in one of the best movies of … Continue reading
Streaming Picks: May 2023
Programming Note: On Tuesday, May 23, HBO Max will become Max. Warner Bros. Discovery has promised a seamless transition, so theoretically anything added to HBO Max this month will also be on Max thereafter. But there’s always a possibility some … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Previews, Television
Tagged amazon, babe, documentary now, great, hbo max, hulu, i think you should leave, man called otto, netflix, paramount, peacock, prime, tim robinson
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20 After 20: 2002
20. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (dir. Joel Zwick)In the running for my most rewatched film ever, Nia Vardalos’s sweet-natured rom-com has endured. While it lacks the sophistication of some of the genre’s masterpieces, its comic timing and sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Best Of, Film
Tagged 13 conversations about one thing, 24 hour party people, 25th hour, about schmidt, adaptation, bowling for columbine, catch me if you can, chicago, far from heaven, grey zone, lord of the rings, monsoon wedding, my big fat greek wedding, pianist, punch drunk love, quiet american, road to perdition, signs, spirited away, talk to her, y tu mama tambien
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Oscar Re-Do: 2012
You know the drill: Winners in bold, then we break it down. BEST PICTUREAmourArgoBeasts of the Southern WildDjango UnchainedLes MisérablesLife of PiLincolnSilver Linings PlaybookZero Dark Thirty Should have won: Zero Dark ThirtyNot even nominated: Cloud Atlas One of the best … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Reviews
Tagged amour, django unchained, les miserables, lincoln, master, silver linings playbook, skyfall, wreck it ralph, zero dark thirty
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