Looking for a cheap way to watch some premium movies? Amazon Prime is now offering Showtime, Epix, Starz and the Lifetime Movie Club for 99 cents a month each for the first two months.
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Sometimes it pays to wait before buying a new TV. Sony’s 2020 model 65-inch LED 4K TV, model X750H, was $1,000 when it was introduced last spring. But now, it’s available for $697 at Amazon.com.
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We’ll never forget Hannibal Lecter’s steely blue eyes as he tells FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) that he prefers fava beans and a glass of Chianti when he chows down the liver of an unfortunate victim of his madness.
However, what if those blue eyes had been dark brown? In fact, what if they had been Sean Connery’s dark brown eyes?
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It’s never too early to start stuffing the stocking stuffers. And if there’s a 4K TV enthusiast on your shopping list, Amazon.com now has numerous 4K Blu-ray movies available for under $15. Continue reading “4K Blu-ray Movies For Under $15? Yes!”
Samsung’s 65-inch ‘Crystal’ 4K TV, model TU800, cost $1699.99 just six months ago. Today, it can be had at various retailers, including Amazon and Best Buy, for just $699.
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Amazon and BestBuy.com are now selling the new and highly-praised Sony 65-inch 4K LED TV for $999, which is $400 off the price of a few weeks ago.
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The French Connection, which premiered in New York 49 years ago today (October 7), is one of the most realistic police dramas in cinematic history. Directed with a tight hand by William Friedkin (The Exorcist), the film fearlessly shows its lead detective, Detective Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle (Gene Hackman), as both hero and anti-hero. You root for Doyle, but you also cringe when he resorts to illegal and sometimes cruel tactics in his relentless search of a French drug kingpin (Fernando Rey).
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Amazon is now selling a Toshiba 55-inch Smart 4K TV for $299.99, which is $150 off the manufacturer’s suggested price, and $80 less than what BestBuy.com is charging today. (The link is an Amazon affiliate link. This site receives a small percentage of sales from Amazon affiliate links.)
The deal is part of Amazon’s run up to next week’s Prime Day two-day sale during which thousands of products, including many Home Theater-related items, will be heavily discounted.
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Samuel L. Jackson is regarded by many as the coolest cat in Hollywood, a reputation that was first formed by his dazzling performance in Pulp Fiction (1994) as drug hitman Jules Winfield. Flanked by John Travolta, who plays the thickheaded Vincent Vega, Jackson’s Jules employs Biblical verses to disarm his prey before emptying his revolver on their bad selves.
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Amazon is now selling an Insignia 50-inch 4K TV with Fire TV inside for $249.99, which is $100 off the regular price.
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Whether it’s a high-def or 4K version, the Blu-ray disc offers the best picture in the world, better than anything you will see on streaming. But with brilliance sometimes comes trouble and the Blu-ray disc is no exception.
Burt Reynolds’ quiet but powerful performance as adult film director Jack Horner in Boogie Nights (coming to HBO Max on October 1) gives the film a respectability it desperately needs. Despite chronicling how participating in the industry contributed to destroying many of the main characters, Boogie Nights still comes off as a celebration of what is a highly reckless lifestyle and mode of sexual behavior. Director Paul Thomas Anderson takes the viewer on a rollercoaster rush from beginning to end as the main players engage in non-stop partying and porn. The viewer can’t help but think that it may be hazardous to one’s health but what fun it would be to navigate those hazards!
Halloween, the 1978 horror film directed by John Carpenter, is regarded by many critics as being responsible for creating the slasher film which features a knife-wielding psychopath stalking a defenseless woman, or several defenseless women. (Halloween can be seen for free now on the Roku Channel, or on October 1 at 8 p.m. ET on AMC.)
Amazon on October 1 is adding 37 new movies to its Prime streaming lineup, including two Martin Scorsese classics.
The new films will include The Departed, Scorsese’s 2006 crime drama starring Jack Nicholson as his wolfish best in the role of mobster Frank Costello. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga and Martin Sheen round out an exceptional cast in what may be Scorsese’s best movie since Casino in 1995. Hell, maybe since Goodfellas; yes, it’s that good. William Monahan’s taut but pulpy script (pulpy in a good way) keeps you on the edge of your seat, and Marty’s characteristic adrenaline-fueled direction leaves you breathless from beginning to end.
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HBO Max on October 1 plans to add 145 new movies to its lineup, including some relatively recent hits and classic movies stretching back to the 1930s.
The new films will include Boogie Nights, the 1997 dazzling second film from director Paul Thomas Anderson which stars Mark Wahlberg as a teen bus boy who’s recruited to join the adult film business by one of its top directors, played with steely aplomb by Burt Reynolds; the four Lethal Weapon movies which stars Mel Gibson as a suicidal cop with a charming fetish for the Three Stooges; the three Matrix films starring Keanu Reeves; Open Water, the gripping 2004 drama based on a real-life story of two swimmers who get lost in the middle of the ocean; Us, the 2019 horror film from Jordan Peele which stars Lupita Amondi Nyong’o as a woman who’s haunted by doppelgangers; and Best in Show (pictured above), the 2000 mockumentary about an annual canine competition from director/actor Christopher Guest.
