Prime in August: The Elephant Man, How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 11:00PM
NATHANIEL R in Amazon, American Gigolo, Angelina Jolie, Antonio Banderas, Blake Lively, Guy Pearce, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Makeup and Hair, Richard Gere, The Elephant Man, The Glass Castle, streaming

Time to play Streaming Roulette. Each month, to survey new streaming titles we freeze frame the films at random places with the scroll bar and whatever comes up first, that's what we share!

Eat me alive. Mommy, mommy 🎵

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017/18)
We should talk about this movie at some point real soon now that you can all see it. L-O-V-E this entire scene. My favorite in the movie though these screen pulls are random as promised. I want this nominated for Best Original Song though it never shall come to pass...

Please! Get me a drink

The Glass Castle (2017)
It should definitely be more exciting to see Woody tied to bed posts.

But nothing is exciting about this movie, alas... I wonder what went wrong because the director and actors are all talented. 

If you could see yourself, you could see that we look stupid!

All I See Is You (2018)
Blake Lively stars in a thriller about a blind woman. I have no idea why the visuals are so weird in this scene. Jason Clarke is shaming her about her joyful dancing at this moment. 

I care about you. I really do.

American Gigolo (1980)
I mean you believe that Richard-Gere-at-peak-hotness face, right? He is, after all, a professional actor paid to fake feelings playing a 'professional' paid to fake feelings. But in this scene, we're meant to see them as real ones, if memory serves. 

No, let's go into the city!

The Time Machine (2002)
Guy Pearce is a weird lead actor right? LA Confidential excepted, something about him is too weirdly intense for leading roles. And not the star magnetism kind of weirdly intense, like oh Tom Cruise, or somesuch. Remember when this was nominated against Frida for Best Makeup and Hairstyling and they were the only two nominees? When will the Academy ever fix that category and make it like all  the others?  

-WHORE! LIAR! THIEF!
-YES, YES, YES

Original Sin (2001)
The acting in this scene is very... purple. Sadly, I think this is supposed to be a romantic drama but in this scene Antonio Banderas is slapping, strangling, shaking, and threatening Angelina Jolie with a gun until he shouts "DON'T YOU SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU?"  Icky. ick. ick. Cut to: next morning, they wake up serenely in bed. Sexual politics, problematic: code red. 

-I understand that you've been flogged
-I feel much better now.

The Elephant Man (1980)
Somehow we've never discussed this movie despite its 8 Oscar nominations.

Also Streaming in August on Prime

America Divided 201 (2018)
The Americans Season 6
A Cinderella Story (2004)

American Ninja (1985)
American Ninja III: Blood Hunt (1989)
Be Cool (2005)
Black Mask (1996)
Black Rain (1989)
Blood Ties (2014)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Boomerang (1992)
Cold War (2012)
CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008)
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
Double Whammy (2002)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Fled (1996)
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Freedom Writers (2007)
Frequency (2000)
Friends with Kids (2012)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Get Shorty (1995)
Having Our Baby (2017)
Heartbreakers (2001)
High Noon (1952)
Hoosiers (1986)
Hurt Locker (2008)
I Went Down (1997)
In & Out (1997)
It Takes Guts (2016)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
Joe (2014)
John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997)
King Corn (2016)
Kingpin (1996)
#MeToo: Now What? Season 1 (2018)
Nick of Time (1995)
No Way Out (1987)
Out of Time (2003)
Private Parts (1997)
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)
Species (1995)
Species II (1998)
Species III (2004)
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming (2007)
Teen Wolf (1985)
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Ninth Gate (2000)
The Prince and Me (2004)
The Soloist (2009)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
True Colors (1991)
Tunnel Rats (1968)
Vegas Vacation (1997)
Watchmen (2009) 

Later in the Month

August 10
Agatha Christie, Season 1 (Prime Original series)
Bleed for This (2016)

August 14
Avoiding Apocalypse, Season 1
The Stinky & Dirty Show, Season 2B (Prime Original series)
I Am Not Lorena (2014)
August 16
America Divided: 203 (2018)
August 17
Gringo (2018) (Prime Original movie)
August 21
Ambassadors of the Sky (2016)
Two of a Kind (2014)
August 23
America Divided: 204 (2018)
August 25
Disobedience (2017)
The Escape of Prisoner 614 (2018)
Woman Walk Ahead (2017)
August 26
Mother! (2017) 

 

Article originally appeared on The Film Experience (http://thefilmexperience.net/).
See website for complete article licensing information.