New to Prime: Dirty Grandpa, Sabrina, and Nuts!
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 2:30PM If you've caught up on all the Oscar nominees and want to watch movies at home instead, the first of the month always brings lots of options. As is our on again off again tradition, we've freeze framed new-to-streaming options on Amazon Prime at entirely random places and shared whatever we saw there. Will you be watching / have you loved any of these films?
I think you're both a couple of tramps."
Frankie & Johnny (1991)
MICHELLE! We have you're enjoying our Michellebration of the RePfeiffal on Saturdays. You're probably anxious to get to the movie-movies and they're right around the corner. Grease 2 and Scarface will sandwich Oscar week so that's something to look forward to! I haven't seen Frankie & Johnny in FOREVER but that's a few months away in the retrospective.
Six more screengrabs of randomness starring Zac Efron, Audrey Hepburn, Susan Sarandon and more after the jump...
Is that sand on your face?
Dirty Grandpa (2016)
Okay so... I only watched 1 minute of this after freeze framing this image and it was not funny: Nazi jokes, pedophilia jokes, poop jokes, and prison rape jokes while Zac Efron held his junk on a beach and then got arrested. It made $35 million at the box office which is more than mainstream-aimed Oscar films like Florence Foster Jenkins and Hell or High Water. The earth is doomed.
Brinkley took a quiet walk through the streets of Milford, and pondered his place in the world, and the good he had done for it, and that which had been taken from him by lesser men.
Nuts! (2016)
Glenn previously reviewed this inventive documentary about a doctor who discovered he could cure impotence with goat testicles. Animation is becoming fairly common in documentaries. It beats staring at only talking heads for two hours!
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Never Say Never Again (1983)
The "unofficial" Bond with Sean Connery. This is Barbara Carrera as "Fatima." But ohmygod look to the left of her out of focus by the elevator. WHY IS JAMES BOND WEARING OVERALLS?!? 007 is supposed to be a style god.
-They look really old.
-They're magic
Untamed Heart (1993)
When Marisa Tomei was briefly a leading lady post Oscar win. I remember this being sweet but I haven't seen it since 1993.
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Thelma & Louise (1991)
You guys. It was so rewarding to really dig into Thelma & Louise for our 25th Anniversary Retrospective. So if you missed that, please stream the movie and read our huge 5 parter on it. (Even though Susan Sarandon has made it difficult to continue loving her, she really was spectacular-spectacular in this movie.)
-What a lovely party.
-It is now.
Sabrina (1954)
J'adore this movie. So funny and romantic and stylish. Imagine making a movie THIS GOOD as your follow up to your first and Oscar winning leading role (Roman Holiday) when people have just barely learned your name. Audrey Hepburn's rise was meteoric but so deserved. She was 25 years old.
COMPLETE LIST OF NEW TO AMAZON PRIME
The Care Bears Movie
The Choice
Dead Heat
Diamonds Are Forever
Die Another Day
Dirty Grandpa
Drop Zone
Escape from Alcatraz
The Firm
Forces of Nature
Frankie & Johnny
Goldfinger
Hook
Hoosiers
I Went Down
Into the Wild
Judgment Day
Kiss the Bride
The Living Daylights
Live and Let Die
Man with the Golden Gun
Margin Call
My King
Never Say Never Again
Nuts!
Octopussy
Payback
Pretty in Pink
Rob Roy
The Running Man
Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina (1995)
Soapdish
The Spy Who Loved Me
Swiss Army Man
Teen Wolf (1985)
Thelma & Louise
Untamed Heart
Where to Invade Next
Wild Bill
The World is Not Enough
You Only Live Twice
Reader Comments (19)
Ack that picture of Audrey! Pure happiness! She really is just such a delight.
Why is it difficult to love Susan.
Thanks for using my suggestion of Michellebration.
I love this post!
A shout-out to Barbara Carrera, who got a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Never Say Never Again. As a Bond fan, I love that that happened!
I must see Sabrina...
Soapdish! Perfect timing to enjoy the magic that is Carrie Fisher in all her tart, beefcake-objectifying glory. And the rest of the movie is great, too. Field, Kline, Shue, Goldberg, Downey Jr, Moriarty, Marshall, Najimy, Hatcher - what a cast. And they all knock it out of the park.
More people need to see Rob Roy (the other "Scottish" movie that came out in 1995). Also because of John Hurt (RIP) and another excellent villain role for Tim Roth.
KMA-Susan Sarandon. I hate you.
Pam -- ROB ROY! It's way better than Braveheart that's for damn sure.
Carrera makes a terrific Bond villain- that movie has the worst score of any Bond movie- it's like they could only afford some generic disco from the remainder rack
I wish they kept the original title ("The Baboon Heart") for "Untamed Heart." And for that matter, they should have also kept the original title for "It Could Happen To You" ("Cop Gives Waitress $2 Million Tip").
Pfeiffer is superb in Frankie & Johnny. A miscast, sure, but great actresses can turn a problem into an excellent performance.
"(Even though Susan Sarandon has made it difficult to continue loving her, she really was spectacular-spectacular in this movie)"
Totally unfair. You haven't said the same thing about Viggo or Nicole.
Wow that oscar voter interview is hard to read. I'm only halfway through and he [presumably...] has already complained that LaLa Land is not as good as the Godfather and goes on to call all Best Actress nominees (and female-driven movies) as "one note" or "detestable." Then he tacks on how much he likes or admires the male director or male co-star. Hmm.
peggy -- not unfair. Sarandon was the worst and basically was as crazy and possessed with lies about Clinton as that right wing propaganda guy who makes those anti-Hillary documentaries. she was out for blood... but now we all get to bleed and sarandon can continue with her cushy life. Yay!
Viggo:
"I trust Hillary about as much as I trust Donald Trump. I think she’s dishonest, I don’t think she has the interests of working people at heart, and I think she’s shown that time and again. All the things that Bernie Sanders said about her I agree with." (July)
“I understand the argument that I’m helping Trump. But people said it was a problem in 2000 voting for Ralph Nader and not Al Gore, and that election was stolen by Bush anyway.” (September)
"Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump. I trust her about as far as I could throw him. As regards her foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together." (October)
“I think of her proven record. Whether it be bullying other Latin American countries to support the coup in Honduras, which has proved so damaging to that country and she forced people to go along with it because it was good for business, it was good for the U.S. military and economic interests. And it’s just the same old imperialism really and bullying behavior. I think she’s as frightening as he is.” (November)
After the past twelve days, I will really be disappointed (putting it mildly) if Viggo or Affleck win that Oscar. I'm rooting for Denzel and (to a lesser degree) Gosling, but tbh I'd rather see Garfield win than the first two.
You sound like Sasha Stone, Paul.
Bullshit, Belinda.
Susan Sarandon is a spetacular-spetacular actor. Period.
My sister saw Braveheart for the first time, and she texted me to ask why it won best picture. She said it's the Scottish war version of Transformers. Tee-hee.
I've been meaning to watch Rob Roy for a while. Maybe it's time.
Cash -- i like your sis.