I watched that show on Hulu (back in the day) and really liked it (probably wouldn’t have given it much of a chance if Captain Winters wasn’t the principle.).
I don’t know who the casting director was on that show but it featured the hottest women I have ever seen. His partners were Sarah Shahi and later Gabrielle Union. Christina Hendricks was on several episodes. Every woman who was a witness or a suspect was crazy hotter than the next.
While the individual episodes were pretty good it was one of the few shows with an overall arc that managed to stay interesting.
So they got progressively less crazy-hot?
Looks like that Miramax deal took effect? Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Clerks and a whole bunch of 90’s indie and foreign films. Also, the whole Hellraiser, Children of the Corn and Scream series made it on, so more really bad horror films.
On the one hand, almost none of this stuff is in HD. On the other hand, The Hustler. And Dead Man (which kind of sucks, but has arguably the best scene ever filmed when Depp meets Iggy Pop and his crew out in the woods).
Wait a second…did you watch this on disk or Watch Instantly? Because it doesn’t appear to be available for Instant Watch…
Anyway, Here is the Hulu link
Go ahead and watch it. Turn it off after an Hour. Then make up an ending. Will be btter than watching all the way through
Two excellent films. No apologies if they’ve already been posted as I want them to get more notice.
Animal Kingdom…I mentioned the film The Square earlier in this thread. Now this one, made by members of the Blue Tongue Films group of filmmakers, is available. Animal Kingdom was high on my Top Ten list last year.
After the Wedding…I watched this based on a recommendation of someone in some thread here (charmtrap?). I freaking love this film.
-xtien
“I don’t want to talk to you.”
It was me, really glad you enjoyed it.
If you haven’t yet you should definitely see Suzanne Bier’s next movie written with the same screenwriter of After The Wedding, In a Better World. It didn’t quite have the same emotional resonance for me personally, but the ambition was higher. It won Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, and After The Wedding was only nominated. I think they should have been reversed, but whatever…she’s a brilliant director and Anders Thomas Jensen is wonderfully sensitive writer and they should be better-known in America for sure.
Unfortunately, In A Better World isn’t streaming yet. But add the DVD to your queue…it’s worth seeing for sure.
Hmm, am I the only one seeing a radically different Netflix UI today?
Dunno about radical…but different.
Oh hey look! Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
The slow scrolling of titles to the left and right needs to go away. It was quicker to browse the genres by just clicking the arrow to show the next group of titles. Im not sure what they are thinking. Maybe someone in marketing probably said the site needed to look slicker.
Eric_P
1992
Netflix added two movies which are worth your time.
I Saw the Devil is your bog standard cop-vs-psychopath-we-are-more-alike-than-you-may-realize story but goddamn what a telling of it. Visceral and painful to watch but absolutely enthralling.
Black Death is a medieval tale which is almost as good as Sauna, where a coterie of knights are sent to find out why a village has not had the plague visit them at all.
Oh crap - I Saw the Devil…been waiting for that! Jee-woon Kim is great - The Good, The Bad, The Weird is also worth checking out.
Dean
1994
Watched Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 last night, and as someone who’s not much into football, I still had a really good time.
I watched GORP recently. Pretty terrible movie, but damn. Fran Drescher was fucking hot when she was young. Like, fucking hot!
I swear I said this exact same thin 8 hours ago in a different thread.
Edit: Here it is.
Yeah, I saw that just a few minutes after I posted!
GRANDPA MOVIE INCOMING!
We watched The Horn Blows At Midnight with Jack Benny last night - a hugely maligned (mostly by Benny himself) box office bomb from 1945. While I wouldn’t say this is a great lost classic of cinema or anything, it’s way, way better than it’s tarnished reputation would imply.
The plot is absurd: There’s a framing device where the whole movie is a fever dream Benny is having as he falls asleep at his job, playing trumpet on a national radio show. The dream has Benny as an angel, sent down from Heaven to blow the trumpet that will destroy the world at midnight, but of course he is waylaid by hijinkery. Like I say, I thought it was pretty funny all around, although it tries to squeeze way too much material out of Benny hanging off the side of a building for both the first act ending AND the finale.
What really impressed me was the art direction of the opening Heaven sequences, which I bet also made an impression on Terry Gilliam at some point. And later on in the movie, they go to see a swing band led by a bandleader named Slippy Thompson, which is easily the greatest character name in the history of movies.
davidf
1999
I really enjoyed Ghost Machine for a b movie, not a super rock solid story but for what it is, very enjoyable. The first hour was very tense, but a little weaker at the end . I really like the Ghost in the machine theme and the story had a few mild suprises for me.
Hooch
2000
Just watched I saw the devil. lolwtf, what a ludicrous movie.
