Stream This: Bachelorette Married to the Warrior Mobs in Chinatown
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:30PM It's that time again when we receive a new batch of instant movies to watch. As per usual Amazon Prime is running circles around Netflix in terms of selection because Netflix's focus has long since shifted from movies and TV to movies and TV that they create themselves. After becoming the 21st century Blockbuster they ditched it to become the new HBO. Which is fine except those of us who like to watch movies need better streaming services that function more like the way rental houses used to so that we can find the movies we want when we want them.
Okay. Let's play our game of freeze framing the new streaming selections at random moments and seeing what comes up, no second guessing...
NOW STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME
-Oh no, I'm not talking to you. At all.
-I just waited up all night for you!
- Oh She waited all night? How Cinder-fucking-rella.
Stonewall (2015)
I need more of you to share my pain of having watched this. Sacrifice yourselves immediately so that we may discuss.
Seven more streaming entertainments of vastly varying quality after the jump...
Oh god don't stop. That feels great. I can't remember the last time a man touched me below the waist.
Married to the Mob (1988)
It's dumb that we've never written about this movie really. Love it.
Don't bother coming tomorrow. Unless you're going to act like normal people.
Bachelorette (2012)
Such a treat. Remember before Lizzy Caplan had Masters of Sex and this was the only post-Mean Girls project to truly capitalize on her gifts?
Those vests are real nice. Go one and give me one.
The Warriors (1979)
They are nice. What Michael Beck's got underneath his is nice, too. Costume Designer Bobbie Mannix and star Michael Beck both moved on to rollerskating with Olivia in Xanadu immediately after this movie. I've never actually seen this Walter Hill cult favorite about New York street gangs but after his horrible new movie (re)Assignment I'm scared to investigate the back catalogue. If you've seen it, do tell. Worth it?
-Did you talk to him this morning?
-No. I went riding rather early.
Chinatown
Stone cold classic. Faye's painted missing eyebrows forever.
Yeah a psycho but I'm still a cop.
Lethal Weapon (1986)
I'm hearing this is a TV show now... ? Which seems odd because why pay a license fee for a franchise when the franchise itself is based on the oldest public domain buddy cop cliches? Has anyone seen the new series?
I myself would welcome the sensation of a hundred pair of eyes caressing my 'booty'
Roger Dodger (2002)
I love this movie. Campbell Scott should have been Oscar nominated for this -- yes, even in a Best Actor year as strong as 2002. This might be my favorite scene in the movie actually because the stunt casting is just sublime. Famously objectified actresses Elizabeth Berkeley and Jennifer Beals having a heated but flirty conversation with Roger about the male gaze and nobody listening to a word you're saying while young Jesse Eisenberg tries to keep up, listening to every word they're saying.
A royal licensing law which states in binding language as does follow: 'Whereas the women's parts in plays have to been hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women at which some have taken offense. We do permit and give leave for the time to come that all women's parts be acted by women. No He shall e'r again upon an English stage play She.
Stage Beauty (2004)
I only remember two things about this movie. 1) Its released was overshadowed by the whole Billy Crudup leaves pregnant Mary Louise Parker for co-star Claire Danes brouhaha 2) The subject itself was fascinating but the movie not so much. Anyone remember anything else from this release?
ALSO NEWLY STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME
A Feast at Midnight
Alice
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
A Shot in the Dark
American Horror Story: Hotel
Bananas
Before Sunrise (2014)
Before Sunset (2004)
The Blood Oranges
Blue Steel (1989)
Bowling for Columbine
Candyman 3: Day of the Dead
Class
Congo
Cool It
Dead Men Can’t Dance
Deep Impact
The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
The Dogs of War
Down Terrace
Dreamcatcher
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
The Falcon and the Snowman
Final Destination (2000)
The Gift
Good Girls Revolt: (Season 1)
Happy Gilmore
The Host (English Subtitled)
Hunger Games, The: Mockingjay Part 2
I Am David
I Saw the Devil (English Subtitled)
Island in the Sky (1953)
Joyride (1997)
Last Night
The Last Waltz
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Let the Right One in (English Subtitled)
Lost and Delirious
Love and Death
Malibu Beach
Malibu High
Misery
Mission Park
Monsters
Mutant Chronicles
National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie
National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2: College
National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call
Nick of Time
North Dallas Forty
The Patriot
Peter and the Wolf
The Pink Panther (1963)
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Son of the Pink Panther
Curse of the Pink Panther
Trail of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Quigley Down Under
Redacted
Secretary (2002)
SFW
Slap Shot
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Spanish Judges
Splinter (2008)
Stigmata (1999)
The Stoned Age
Stuart Saves His Family
Throw Momma from the Train
Timecrimes
Training Day
Troll
Troll 2
Trollhunter (English Subtitled)
True Colors
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
V/H/S
The Witches (1990)
Zombie Nation
Reader Comments (14)
Campbell Scott was so brilliant in Roger Dodger. It's a shame that he hasn't had a bigger career.
I think I was too young to get Roger Dodger the first time around but I am loving it the second... Also look forward to see Falcon and the Snowman again after quite a while.
Oh boy do I love Bachelorette. I'd love to see another Dunst, Caplan, and Fisher team up - they really brought out the best (or worst?) in each other.
It sounds ridiculous, but the Sleepaway Camp sequels are some of the best slashers ever made. They reclaim they horribly offensive twist ending of the original and turn it into a celebration of the "punish teenagers for being bad people" morality of 80s slashers amped to the extreme. You get killed for giving side eye to the murderous counselor and it's glorious.
Trollhunter is excellent in an actual quality, rather than so bad it's good kind of way. One of the best found footage films ever made.
The same cannot be said of V/H/S, which I can only recommend if you hate yourself or enjoy exploitation. Not the 1970s style that people revisit to explore the merits of low budget filmmaking and subversive quality of, but the bad taking advantage of people kind. I saw no redeeming qualities in any of the entries in that series. The first one is the most deplorable, and the rest are run between dull and inexplicable in execution. Not a fan.
OT: Is that guy with the glasses Chris Pine? He could play Peter O'Toole in a movie about British hell-raisers.
And then, of course, win the Oscar in an undeniable landslide. Which would make St Peter laugh in the most otoolish way.
OT: Yes, Gena, it is. And as long as we're OT, please don't swipe Monty to the left! PLEASE.
Oh boy do I love Bachelorette. I'd love to see another Dunst, Caplan, and Fisher team up - they really brought out the best (or worst?) in each other.
I say this as a joke, but it WOULD be funny if they could get Dunst to replace Caplan in a NOW YOU SEE third film just as Caplan replaced Fisher in the second.
@ Paul Outlaw
I'm sure he'll be back:) But they can stay like that for a bit, as far as I'm concerned. It's a fine quintet.
I don't remember it too well, but, yes, The Warriors is well worth it, to see what New York's outer burghs looked like in the 1970's.
I want to hate watch Stonewall too.
Big ol RODGER DODGER fan, right here!
Turning off STONEWALL around 15 minutes in was I gift I gave myself. I understand how a movie can be misguided, but I found it actually toxic.
Roger Dodger is very good, and Campbell Scott is excellent in it (and in everything).
And yes, Chinatown...you said it, Nathaniel.
Bachelorette is one of my favourite movies of the new aughts. Still p.o.'d that Kirsten Dunst didn't get a Comedy Golden Globe nomination.
Didn't Campbell Scott win the gold medal at the 2002 Film Bitch Awards? Watched "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" earlier this year and was surprised that that movie didn't net him more attention in the mid-'90s.
As somebody who's seen Stage Beauty, the only thing that sticks out in memory is Zoe Tapper's performance as Nell Gwyn.
"[Bachelorette] was the only post-Mean Girls project to truly capitalize on [Caplan's] gifts"? Uh, Party Down, dude. *That* show was fan-fuckin'-tastic and really played to her strengths.
@ Wayne B:
Rupert Everett as the King and Hugh Bonneville as Pepys were also memorable.
@ Mareko
Party Down: never forget!