Another month, another list of movies that are coming out of the Netflix catalog and a list of movies that are being added for our viewing pleasure. But, as always, what’s really worth your time? That’s where I come in! First off, here are a few movies you should have watched before they vanished: Deliverance (somewhat hard to watch, but a brilliantly assembled buddy film that invented some of our modern “city guys in the…Read More
16 Great Films on Amazon Prime Video
A good friend asked if I could recommend a few good films that were available through the Amazon Prime Video program, so I started digging. Now they specifically asked about whether the movies are available for downloading, a cool feature of the Prime program that’s available for some, though not all, movies you can watch through Prime Video. Unfortunately, there’s no list of movies that meet this criterion on the site so it’s up to…Read More
Review: All Is Lost
It’s impossible to watch the sailing drama All Is Lost without comparing it to two other recent survival movies, Life of Pi and Gravity. Like Life of Pi, All is Lost takes place in a small boat in the middle of an endless, unforgiving ocean, and like Gravity, it pits one person’s ingenuity against a sequence of mishaps that take them closer and closer to dying. In All Is Lost, Robert Redford is an unnamed…Read More
Review: The Conspirator
We all know that the actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth (played in The Conspirator by Toby Kebbell) assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln (Gerald Bestrom) and was later killed during capture by Union soldiers, but did he work alone? It’ll come as a surprise to many people that he was part of a much greater plot that also involved the planned assassination of Vice President Andrew Jackson (Dennis Clark) and Secretary of State William…Read More