Friday, February 26, 2016 at 10:30AM Oscar weekend is a busy time but it's also your last opportunity to watch these titles free if you have Amazon Prime or Netflix. As is our silly habit, we've freeze framed a handful of them at a totally random place to whet your appetite. If this scene looks intriguing maybe you should carve out a couple of hours...
Leaving Netflix (after the jump)
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 8:01PM Here's another batch of movies leaving Instant Watch services on Netflix of Amazon Prime if you'd like to catch up with them. It also provides us with an excuse to talk about a handful of random movies so why not. We've freeze framed randomly. Let's begin...
UNITED 93 (2006) ends February 11th on Netflix
United 93, Cleveland. Verify your altitude."
This freeze frame is about 45 minutes in. The terrorists have just taken the cockpit when air traffic control tries to reach them. God this movie is upsetting.
WERE THE WORLD MINE (2008) ends February 11th on Netflix
-Jonathan. You look luminous.
-I'm in love.
I dont remember this well beyond its silly everyone straight becomes gay through magic plot. But I think there was a good musical number? [More films after the jump...]
Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 7:21PM 
Let's talk about you for a second...
7:11 This is the face Sarah Silverman made after hearing "Let's talk about you for a second" which is... sublimely funny, a perfect encapsulation of the faux humility #blessed of superstars attending awards shows in which they all fawn on each other. You're great. No, no, you're great.
07:14 Rami Malek doesn't know who he was wearing. Alicia Vikander says 'I've only watched this on YouTube' before. Idris Elba is working the grey in his beard. Everyone is adorable x3 is my point.
07:22 Saoirse is in light pink and Brie in baby blue and I'm not sure what to make of that.
07:25 Jesse Tyler Ferguson and E! Brad talking to each other
- "Are you a nervous nellie."
- "Yaaas"(hugs)
"-I hope I didn't get any contour on you"
This is the gayest thing I've ever seen on television. Which is saying a lot.
07:31 Nicole Kidman has arrived. [More...]
Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 3:23PM What's leaving Netflix Instant Watch?
We should probably start covering that. It seems like a boring topic but we jazz up your public service announcements. I'll close my eyes and play with the control bar and wherever I freeze the movie I'll share the image. This weekend is your last chance to watch these films for free for who knows how long. Since there are Oscar titles in the mix, perhaps you can fill some holes in your Oscar lists of Things To See or Rewatch.
Ready? In chronological order of their film year, seven films leaving Netflix on February 1st...
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983)
EMMA: I've got some good news. I'm unofficially pregnant. I mean I haven't got the tests back but I'm never late.
AURORA: [Pause] Well... No, I don't understand."
Look how crazy young Jeff Daniels is! Shirley Maclaine is so hilarious and complicated in this movie -- that long pause with cascading rejection of possible responses under frozen 'I don't understand' face. She's going to lose out since she doesn't want to think of herself as a grandmother. A well deserved Best Actress win, with Shirley obviously relieved about it "this show has been as long as my career."
Oscar Note: I know we've asked this before but how long before we get another girlie Best Picture winner it's been FOR-EV-ER. Terms of Endearment was nominated for 11 Oscars (an astounding amount for a contemporary-set film), winning 5.
six more movies after the jump
THE TERMINATOR (1984)
Monday, January 11, 2016 at 9:00AM Manuel here. Can it be possible that it’s taken us this long to talk at length about the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Netflix series The Get Down? I guess we’ve been busy, what with writing up our year end review, following all the precursors (including last night’s Golden Globes), counting down the shortlisted docs, and of course, obsessing over who’ll be nominated this Thursday. Well, let’s remedy that because nothing will cleanse your palate from the always fun/frustrating gamble of Oscar predictions than some flashy Baz.
All I really needed to know about The Get Down was that it comes from, as the trailer below states, the Australian “visionary director.” Even when his films don’t quite hit the mark (see Australia, The Great Gatsby) they are never nothing short of fascinating and as his Fitzgerald and Shakespeare adaptations show, few directors can match his cinematic vibrancy when it comes to using music to infuse his own storytelling.
Baz, Netflix, TV, The Get Down, musicals 