Prime for April - Screengrab Roulette
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 1:00PM As we do, we've frozen random new to Amazon Prime titles and grabbed the first screengrab that popped up. Though they're leaning heavily on 1990s titles at the moment, their quality of offerings is far outpacing whatever B pictures Netflix has been licensing of late. Comment Party: Which will you be watching and which of the "new" streaming titles would you most want to read a write-up on this month? I'll obey your consensus command.
Okay on to the random screengrabs.
Every morning the ground is soaked with blood. The workers believe I brought this terror since it didn't begin until my arrival. Whatever I try they seem to know. All the deaths are on me.
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Yes, yes, great Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography, a sound Oscar, and killer lions and but on a scale of 1-100 how kissable were Val Kilmer's lips in his prime? My vote: 118.
[no dialogue]
Sliver (1993)
Remember when wealthy perv Billy Baldwin was spying on all his tenants including sexy Sharon Stone who caught on to him? The 90s were THE decade for erotic thrillers, which have gone completely out of fashion, just like romantic comedies.
more after the jump...
First time I've seen you miss, Mack.
Chaplin (1992)
Remember when Robert Downey Jr was a real actor and not just a snarky rock star philanthropist billionaire superhero
I'm sorry. You just, uh, drove me nuts in there."
Days of Thunder (1990)
Remember when Nicole Kidman was just "Mrs. Tom Cruise"?
I could have woken you up if I knew when you had to get off...
A Man Called Ove (2016)
How close do you think this past year's race for Best Foreign Film was at the Oscars? I'd wager it was probably pretty close between Land of Mine (Denmark), The Salesman (Iran), Toni Erdmann (Germany), and this one which was the biggest hit of all of them stateside - even bigger then the year's two highest profile critical darling subtitled films that weren't up for that prize (France's Elle and South Korea's The Handmaiden)
-I'm sorry
-It's okay
Hello My Name is Doris (2016)
It was so stingy of the Golden Globes that they went for Lily Collins instead of Sally Field in their Comedy lineup last season. She was good in this. I'm dying to see her on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie. The last time I saw her on stage (a replacement in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia) she was a revelation
Also Available Now on Prime
- Almost Famous
- Eddie Murphy Raw
- Election - we have a piece on this coming up
- Ella Enchanted
- Gimme Danger
- Kiss the Girls
- A Man Called Ove
- Mulholland Falls
- Precious Cargo
- Robocop
- Robocop 2
- Saturday Night Fever
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- There Will Be Blood
- Tommy Boy
- What If
Streaming Soon
- American Playboy S1 (4/7)
- Barbershop: The Next Cut (4/8)
- In a World (4/9)
- The Perfect Match (2016) (4/9)
- The Handmaiden (4/13)
- The Love Witch (4/14)
- Fortitude S2 (4/14)
- American Pastoral (4/21)
- Thunderbirds Are Go S3 (4/21)
- American Honey (4/27)
- Catatostrophe S3 (4/28)
- Animal Kingdom S1 (4/30)
Reader Comments (14)
Field was good, but the real shameful snubs of the Best Actress - Comedy nominees were Susan Sarandon in The Meddler and Kate Beckinsale in Love & Friendship.
Agreed apart for Bening it was a mess.
I love Geraldine's role as her own grandmother shame only the GG'S noticed,Sharon Stone in 94 WOW.
The 90s were THE decade for erotic thrillers, which have gone completely out of fashion
Our access to free porn online destroyed the viability of the genre.
Man, I really miss those erotic/psycho thrillers of the late 80s to mid 90s -
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle,
Malice, The Fan, Fatal Attraction, Hush, Mother's Boys, Single White Female, Sliver, Fear, The Temp, Unlawful Entry, Sleeping With The Enemy, Pacific Heights, The Crush, Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct, Jade, Body Of Evidence, The Good Son, Final Analysis, Jennifer 8.
Deceived, Guilty As Sin
etc etc
They're so guilty pleasure!
And yes, Sharon Stone was a total babe in the 80s to late 90s!
I see "Saturday Night Fever" mentioned up there, and once more I wonder how many Oscars and nominations SHOULD John Travolta have already, had scientology not played a key role in his life... I mean, choose noms and wins out of this list...
· Saturday Night Fever
· Grease
· Blow Out
· Pulp Fiction
· Get Shorty
· She's so Lovely
· Primary Colors
· A Civil Action
· Swordfish - yeah, that monologue alone deserved the nom already
· Hairspray
(and I am pretty sure I'm forgetting some, and I still have to praise his wild performances in Face/Off and From Paris With Love).
I even doubt he'll get an Honorary Oscar in the future... so far, he has ONLY 1 Golden Globe (Get Shorty) and 2 Oscar noms, despite his filmography quite served of iconic performances and characters...
^my favorite Travolta performance is in Urban Cowboy.
He was also really terrific in Phenomenon.
Sally Fields is very good in " My Name is Doris"... "The Ghost and the Darkness" is an excellent adventure movie
Travolta has the correct number of Oscar nominations.
I so adored HELLO MY NAME IS DORIS.
A MAN CALLED OVE was the worst film nominated for an Oscar this year. Even worse than SUICIDE SQUAD and that terrible Danish short film SILENT NIGHTS.
Sally Field's strange and amazing performance was actually my fave of last year. What an odd movie.
Ulrich, I'm actually watching "Urban Cowboy" for the first time right now, as I thought I'd finally catch up on Debra Winger's filmography ahead of "The Lovers" and see why people are big fans of her.
Next up: "Terms of Endearment" and "An Officer and a Gentlemen."
George P -- and those next two are where it's at for how she got so (briefly) famous
I love a good erotic thriller--granted, Sliver was not good, but it's a genre I miss.
I`ve rewatched recently Sliver, Intersection, Casino and Diabolique.....( Nostalgia ?), but yeah Sharon Stone was total babe and what an actress, criminally underrated. Wish she`d worked more, although this year I`ve heard she has some interesting projects, hence Soderbergh`s TV movie Mosaic and A Little Something for your Birthday. Hope she gets a comeback. Miss her.
Only 118! I'd put it above 200. Val had the most sexy pout and yes the most bee-stung lips ever.