Streaming Roulette, Early March 2019
Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 7:20PM by Nathaniel R
As is our practice we've selected a couple handful of titles and frozen the films at utterly random moments without cheating (whatever comes up comes up) for this quick preview. Do any of these screencaps make you wanna watch the movie? At the bottom of the page, check out full listings for Netflix, Hulu, Prime, and HBO for the first half of March. Okay, let's go...
Ohmygosh, he is dreaaammmmy.
The Notebook (2004) on Netflix
Wait James Marsden is the other man in this movie? (You may recall I told you I hadn't seen it when Kim was writing up its famous kiss last month. Somehow I didn't know that Rachel McAdams had to choose between Marsden and Gosling? Tough life, that girl leads.) Oh and did you hear that weird story about how Netflix changed the ending to The Notebook in the UK? I wouldn't have known the difference but bizarre. How is that even legal?
[eery music]
What Lies Beneath (2000) on Hulu
You guys... never look at a pristine empty bathtub while holding a ouija board...
I mean, next thing you know the bathtub is going to fill itself up the second you walk around the corner and there's going to be creepy messages written in steam on the mirror. P.S. This is a great Michelle Pfeiffer star turn. She doesn't phone it in when she's doing genre, no matter how silly the premise or character (see also Ladyhawke, Batman Returns) but fully commits.
You must be the new Emily. Nice to meet you.
Devil Wears Prada (2006) on HBO NOW
I love this movie endlessly but it's one of those great loves that you forget all its flaws unless you're actually watching it and there are a lot of deadspots. But Hathaway is SO GOOD in it and never gets any credit with Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep both being such comic dynamos. Playing the straight woman is the thankless role in a comedy but she's great, too.
Isn't it nice to have visitors, mother?
Emma (1996) on Netflix
If the visitors are Toni Collette and Gwyneth Paltrow in delightful performances from their rising star years, why yes, yes it is indeed. I've never watched this back to back with Clueless but it might be amusing to do so.
This world is just an illusion.
Saving Mr Banks (2013) on Netflix
You guys, how are we going to get Emma Thompson another Oscar nomination? It's been 24 years! Remember how harsh 2013 was to two-time Oscar winners? Both Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips) and Emma looked like real possibilities in the lead categories until the names were read out and both were denied again!
Let's not get queer over a crackpot idea. What the hell does the kid no anyway?
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (1974) on Netflix
Whoa. It's so weird for Netflix to have a movie older than, like, 25 years available. Jeff Bridges received his second Oscar nomination playing "Lightfoot" at just 25 years old at the time so that's unusual in two ways: Men almost never have two nods by that age (only Mickey Rooney and Sal Mineo managed it before Jeff Bridges -- unless you want to count James Dean's posthumous nods, but though he died at 24 his nominations could have come at 25 and 26 had he lived) and it was also the movies sole nomination which you know is fairly rare in the supporting categories. What's more it wasn't even a 'prestige' genre but a crime caper with Clint Eastwood.
What are the names on the list? [CROWD ERUPTS IN SHOUTING]
Heaven's Gate (1980) on Hulu
I guess it's a Michael Cimino week on streaming? Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was his debut and this was his third feature, a career destroying flop after his sophomore effort, The Deer Hunter, took 5 Oscars. Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken and Isabelle Huppert star. It was nominated for 1 Oscar (Production Design) and 5 Razzies because the latter likes to kick you when you're down (sigh).
I'm not afraid of anything or anybody -- I never cried in my life.
So Young So Bad (1950) on Prime
Prime has a million "B" movies and exploitation titles from the 1970s but some of the earlier low budget titles are worth checking out. This one is about a reform school and a psychiatrist (Paul Henreid from Casablanca) trying to help the "bad" girls see a future for themselves. It's notable for featuring the screen debuts of both Anne Jackson (pictured above, later a Tony, Emmy, and Grammy nominee) and EGOT champ/legend Rita Moreno (then credited as Rosita Moreno).
Oh hi honey. Hey guess what? The divorce is final.
My Friend Dahmer (2017)
I know this is not the proper takeaway from an image from a movie about a notorious serial killer but I love Anne Heche so goddamn much. She acts with her whole body. Why are the auteurs not constantly knocking on her door?!
Also streaming on Hulu
March 1
Drifters: Complete Season 1
Into The Dark: Treehouse: Episode 6 Premiere
Rick Steves’ Europe: Complete Season 10
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
Abduction
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Alex & Emma
American Beauty
An American Haunting
Astro Boy
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
Batman Begins
Black Sheep
Blast from the Past
Boomerang
Breakheart Pass
Bruce Almighty
Bushwhacked
The Chumscrubber
The Cider House Rules
The Crying Game
The Dark Knight
Death at a Funeral
Deuces Wild
Dirty Work
The Dogs of War
Double Jeopardy
Easy Rider
Edward Scissorhands
Fire in the Sky
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
He Named Me Malala
I, Dolours
The Ice Storm
Impostor
Inventing the Abbotts
Ironweed
It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown
JFK
Jumanji
Legally Blondes
Lego Batman: DC Super Heroes Unite
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash
The Mighty Quinn
Nacho Libre
Not Another Teen Movie
Office Space
Open Season
Open Season 2
Open Season 3
Open Season: Scared Silly
Ouija House
Ouija Séance: The Final Game
Perfect Creature
The Piano
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Rambo III
Reasonable Doubt
Red Corner
Red Dragon
Regarding Henry
Return of the Living Dead 3
Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis
Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave
River’s Edge
S.F.W.
Saved!
Shaolin Warrior
Small Soldiers
Summer Catch
Tapeheads
Toys
Tristan & Isolde
Two Weeks Notice
Vice (2015)
W.
Waterworld
What a Girl Wants
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Witness
Yes Man
March 4
American Idol: Season 2 Premiere
Cosmos: Possible Worlds: Series Premiere
Good Girls: Season 2 Premiere
March 5
A Frozen Christmas 3
The Closet (“Le Placard”)
Where Hands Touch
March 6
MasterChef Junior: Season 7 Premiere
Mental Samurai: Series Premiere
March 7
Dudes
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Suburbia
March 8
A.P. Bio: Season 2 Premiere
For The People: Season 2 Premiere
Hang Ups: Complete Season 1
I Can Only Imagine (2018)
March 9
Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Complete Season 15
March 10
Black Clover: Complete Season 1
Middle Men
March 11
The Party’s Just Beginning
March 12
Acrimony
Trigger
March 13
Free Solo
March 14
Shoplifters
Also streaming on Netflix
March 1
A Clockwork Orange
Apollo 13
Budapest
Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Junebug
Larva Island
Layer Cake
Losers
Music and Lyrics
Northern Rescue
Stuart Little
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Hurt Locker
Tyson
Wet Hot American Summer
Winter’s Bone
March 3
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
March 4
Rebellion
March 5
Disney’s Christopher Robin
March 6
Secret City
March 7
The Order
March 8
After Life
Blue Jasmine
Doubt
Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Hunter X Hunter
Immortals
The Jane Austen Book Club
Juanita
Lady J (FR)
Shadow
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Walk. Ride. Rodeo.
March 12
Jimmy Carr: The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits
Terrace House: Opening New Doors
March 13
Triple Frontier
Also Streaming on Prime
A Man Called Blade
A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
A Woman Possessed
Abduction
Amelia's 25th
American Beauty
Baba Yaga
Basic Instinct 2
Big Night
Black Cat
Black Sheep
Boomerang
Boston Legal (S1-5)
Carpool
Chinese Hercules
City of the Living Dead
Death at a Funeral
Deep Red
Double Jeopardy
Dude, Where's My Dog?!
Enter the Invincible Hero
From Beneath
Jig
Karl Rove, I Love You
La clave
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Lone and Angry Man
Major Payne
Mary Loss of Soul
Murimgori
Nacho Libre
Overkill
P.O.E.: Project of Evil
The Practice (S1-9)
Prison Girls
Rambo III
Ride Out for Revenge
Setup
Still Waiting…
Tapeheads
The American
The Apple
The Bank Job
The Chumscrubber
The Crazies
The Dead and the Damned
The Four of the Apocalypse
The Invincible Armour
The Mighty Quinn
The New York Ripper
UFO
Us and the Game Industry
Valerie
Vice Squad
Waiting...
Woman Avenger
Fatal Flying Guillotine (1977)
You Did This to Me
March 8
I Can Only Imagine
March 10
Middle Men
March 12
Acrimony
Colette
Also streaming on HBO NOW
March 1
50 First Dates, 2004
Angela’s Ashes, 1999
The Client, 1994
Courage Under Fire, 1996
Date Night (Extended Version), 2010
Deja Vu, 2006
The Devil Wears Prada, 2006
Despicable Me, 2010
Drugstore Cowboy, 1989
Entrapment, 1999
The Family Fang, 2016
Green Zone, 2010
The Grudge (Extended Version), 2004
Hellbound: Hellraiser II, 1988
Knock Knock, 2015
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, 2006
Love & Other Drugs, 2010
My Friend Dahmer, 2017
Paper Heart, 2009
The Shop
Sinister 2, 2015
Stratton, 2018
Taps, 1981
Tarzan, 2014
The Wicker Man (Director’s Cut), 2006
The Wolfman, 2010
Twisted, 2004
Weekend at Bernie’s, 1989
Yogi Bear, 2010
March 2
Skyscraper, 2018
March 3
Leaving Neverland, Part 1
March 4
Leaving Neverland, Part 2
March 6
Grisse (Series Premiere)
March 9
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, 2018
Teen Titans Go To the Movies, 2018
Reader Comments (16)
Thank you for consolidating these all into one place. It is really appreciated.
Agreed on Anne Hathaway in PRADA. She's glorious in it.
Prada has so many bad moments it's crazy. It's a good movie (Blunt best in show and I think Meryl supporting), but it's so soft, with contradictions and overdone arcs (her friends are all tools).
I was todays years old when I realized Pfieffer's What Lies Beneapfht was a massive hit in the cinemas, taking in $155 million domestically in 2000.
I love Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath.
As Nathaniel mentioned, she elevates every single scene. Those eyes in the tub, what an actress!
non-internet -- people always forget that! It was Pfeiffer's last blockbuster unless you count ant-man and the wasp (which she's barely in).
Agreed on Pfieffer she stops the movie from tipping into silliness,the therapy scenes are her best and i'd have inc in the 2000line up no question,nice Diana Scarwid supporting role too,you really believe they are friends..
Diana Scarwid, Melinda Dillion, and Tuesday Weld should comeback together. I was lumping Barbara Harris with them for many a year.
You've never seen the beautiful, schmalzty tearjerker "Notebook" ? Whats ur thoughts ... it is classIc already at least in my house for a rainy Sunday afternoon treat. I was so surprised when Gosling didn't get a nomination - not sure if he even was in the run ??? First time I saw him in a movie and he blew me sideways ... would have definitely swopped him for Johnny Depp's "Neverland" nod !! one of 3 nods the academy missed in my regard (Drive & Blue Valentine - don't get his LaLaLand nom though)
Wait...where is what lies beneath?
streep was supporting. that is all.
enel89 -- on Hulu
Meryl was co-lead. That's all.
I never get bored of "What Lies Beneath" a very classy suspense horror film with an all star cast. I highly recommend " Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" with a young and sexy Jeff Bridges who even looks hot in drag.
"What Lies Beneath" is so much stylish fun. The entire audience Jumped en masse when Harrison Ford sees... something in the Bathroom.
Streep in Prada is like Colmam in The Fav. Borderline supporting MVP tt gets push to Lead after they steal the show!!
Hathaway n Stone r the true leads/protagonists in their respective movies.
Had Streep campaigned under Supp, she'd probably won?