#it is on youtube for free (as is a lot of silent cinema)

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[Image description: A digital drawing of Thymian Henning from the film Diary of a Lost Girl. She takes up the right side of the piece, which captures her from her head to her waist. She is sitting with her arms in her lap. Her face is solemn, with mournful eyes staring off into the distance. She is coloured in with white, a flatly shaded with one tone of grey. The shadows are sectioned off by the lineart, which is a stark black. To the left of her shoulder, there's three white flowers. They also resemble crumples up paper. Above them, the name "Thymian" is written in cursive. The background is greying purple.]

Inktober - Day 17 (Journal)

Film - Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst, 1929)

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Ruminations: Star Wars’ Great Moment

After last week's post, I started thinking a bit more about the Marvel movies, and in particular I began to remember a collaborative set of YouTube videos from some time ago that I really enjoyed watching. They were called "One Marvelous Scene" and were created by a variety of Youtubers all hoping to explain why their respective choices were, in their eyes, the greatest Marvel scenes of all. Some time later, a similar concept was attempted by many of those same people concerning Fox's X-Men movies, and again, I loved watching them. But after revisiting them I decided that I might try my hand at something similar. But not with Marvel or X-Men, (though I may indeed try such a thing at some point), but with a franchise that has been near and dear to my heart since my youth; Star Wars. Ever since I was gifted with the VHS re-release of the original trilogy back in 1995, I have adored these movies, and as you can probably imagine I've been given no end of scenes to talk about and fawn over. Whether you love or hate these movies, there's no denying that they and their characters have left their mark, and as such I could pick any scene from any movie and be able to just talk for ages about them, so narrowing it down to just one is no easy thing.

Thankfully, I've finally managed to decide which scene really stuck with me as my absolute favourite, and it comes courtesy of Episode III, Revenge of the Sith. Now, this is not my top choice of overall Star Wars film, nor is it even my personal best from the prequel trilogy specifically, but it unquestionably gave me a moment that I believe not only stands out in the prequels, but perhaps every Star Wars film out there. The moment in question comes at what is, quite possibly, the most pivotal moment of the entire franchise's story. Anakin Skywalker, troubled Jedi Knight, making the fateful decision to turn away from his order for the slim chance that he can save the woman he loves. Having revealed that Chancellor Palpatine is secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, he is ordered by the other Jedi to remain in the council chambers until the matter is dealt with. And in this moment, both he and his hidden wife Padme worry for one another across the vast distance between them. And all of that worry culminates in Anakin's final choice, to leave the Jedi Temple and follow the other Jedi before they can kill Palpatine. This is my choice for the greatest scene in Star Wars history, and hopefully, I'll be able to properly explain why.

First and foremost, this scene is dripping with atmosphere. And that's sort of to be expected with this movie in particular. Revenge is often regarded as one of the heavier films in terms of tone, and this scene, which is less than two minutes mind you, feels overwhelmingly oppressive and foreboding. There's a real sense of dread hanging over these images, made all the more potent by the fact that many people going into it will know full well what Anakin is going to be doing by the end of it. You watch a scene like this, and you just know that something bad is going to be happening. This isn't the kind of feeling you get when good things are on the horizon. In fact, it's sort of like we in the audience are ourselves feeling the force, as silly as that might be to hear. There's just this pang in our hearts as it plays out that things are just wrong, that something terrible is coming but that, most frustratingly, we're powerless to stop it. This is a situation that the characters too are helpless to prevent, as everything that has occurred thus far in the story is conspiring to drive these people, and Anakin in particular, into the decisions they will ultimately make, even though we can never forget that it is, at the end of the day, still their choices.

In terms of how the scene is framed, structured and presented, I believe Ruminations is masterfully done. Regardless of what you may feel about Lucas, there's no denying that the man knew what he was doing when it came to visuals. There's just so much going on here in just the look of the piece. At this point in his life, Anakin is feeling more than a little disillusioned with the Jedi, and with the council in particular, yet here he is, in their very chamber, and you can see the discomfort he feels from simply being in a place that reminds him of them. When he turns to the window, to look out to Padme, the scene feels almost like a prisoner looking out from his cell to the outside world. It's made all the more blatant when you consider that Padme, and his marriage to her, is a secret he's been keeping. The Jedi don't allow that kind of relationship, yet Anakin wishes for it desperately. He is, quite literally, standing in a place that forbids him from having the life he wants, staring out to that life, that love, all while knowing that those of his order are about to do something that may lead to him losing that love forever. You see him there, and you know there couldn't be a worse possible place for him to be right now.

And of course, the visuals pretty much have to convey all this stuff, because one of the other unique things about this moment is that it is totally free of dialogue. Now, there have been other wordless moments in Star Wars before, but I'm always amazed at just how much can be conveyed when the characters stay silent. Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman have often been criticised for their respective performances in these films, but this scene especially shows just how unfounded a lot of those accusations are. When you watch them, longingly looking out to one another and clearly feeling unhappy and worried about their situation, you feel all of that. The two actors did remarkably well here, and showed that, when not having to deliver the infamous dialogue of Lucas, they could really carry a scene and let their expressions speak for themselves. Oh, and one last point about the visuals, note that the scene takes place at sunset, the point of day where light gives way to darkness. So yeah, even the very time at which this scene takes place helps to contribute to the overall feel of what is happening, and going to happen. All ending with Anakin turning away from the sun, and from the light as a whole, when he leaves the chamber.

Now, no talk of a scene in Star Wars would be complete without mention of the now-legendary musical score of John Williams. Ever since the first film in 1977, this franchise has been regarded as having some of the best music in all of cinema, and despite a lot of the negativity surrounding the prequels, even they are lauded for their scores. Revenge of the Sith is no exception here, and while most will praise the likes of Battle of the Heroes as being the best track of this particular film, I have to give it to the music accompanying this scene specifically, Padme's Ruminations. Star Wars is no stranger to music that makes the audience feel foreboding and sombre, just listen to the works made for Empire Strikes Back for proof of that, but this one really takes the cake. From moment one we get a piece of music, and some truly excellent vocal work to boot, that really sells the dread that's meant to be experienced as you watch this. And special mention too has to be given to the brief rendition of Across the Stars tucked in at the end here, signalling not only a reminder of the forbidden love between Anakin and Padme, but also a clear answer to the question of what the former will be choosing to do very soon.

Ruminations is quite possibly the most consequential scene in the entirety of Star Wars, and that's saying a lot. So much of what happens after this, to all the major characters, hinges on the decision made here. It is a turning point for the whole saga, and as such the people behind it knew full well that they needed to pull out all the stops to make it as good a moment as it was capable of being. Thankfully, they succeeded, and spectacularly well. From the acting to the visuals to the music to just the general mood of the piece, it ticks all of the boxes you need for a truly great scene. Are there more memorable Star Wars moments out there? More epic or funny or action-packed scenes? Oh, certainly, and bucket-loads of them too. But for me, this scene stands above them all as one that has stuck with me for fifteen years. One I keep going back to time and time again because of just how much is going on in here. It is a moment that heralded the end of an era, the fall of a Republic, the doom of the Jedi, and the last instance of Anakin Skywalker walking the light before his turn to the dark. With all of that, what else but this could be my personal pick for the greatest Star Wars moment of all time?

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Film Allusions in Crimson Peak

Hi, all! So because I am deep in my horror movie feels at present and, as horror is a genre that some of you are new to/unfamiliar with, want you all to have some more context for Crimson Peak as an intertextual Gothic pastiche, I thought make a little list of films (mostly horror) that CP references, alludes to, or visually echoes (other than Jane Eyre or any iteration of “Bluebeard,” that is). This list is certainly not exhaustive, but I hope will give you a starting place at understanding the scale of the intertextual web this movie is weaving (also maybe give you some movie recs if you’re into horror/classic cinema. I’ll try to include links to films in the public domain).

Nosferatu (1922) and other early 20th century cinema

Del Toro makes use of a lot of the aesthetics and techniques of film from the late Victorian period/early 20th century (appropriate since Crimson Peak is set in the 1890s - incidentally one of the peaks of Gothic literature). One of these is iris shots/iris transitions (shown above in this screenshot from Nosferatu). Iris transitions are when a circular black mask over the shot shrinks, closing the picture to a black screen (very common in early horror film and 1920s cartoons, ie Betty Boop). If you’d like some very iconic, silent vampire cinema, you can watch Nosferatu here at archive.org for free.

The Old Dark House (1932) | Watch free on Archive.org

Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.

A trope codifier for the haunted house movie, complete with oodles of Gothic weirdness, including those ooky spooky, co-dependent Femm siblings.

Rebecca (1940) | Watch free on Archive.org

A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

Based on Daphne Du Maurier’s novel of the same name (itself heavily based on Jane Eyre), this Gothic variation on “Bluebeard” was Alfred Hitchcock’s first American film, won two Academy Awards, and is still considered one of the best psychological thrillers of all time. Features an overbearing female figure who directly interferes with our protagonist’s marriage to her, er, Prince Charming in the form of a Sapphic housekeeper obsessed with keeping the memory of the first Mrs. De Winter alive.

Notorious (1946) | Watch free on Youtube

A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

Don’t drink the tea! Also, butterfly-backed chairs. Allll the butterfly-backed chairs.

The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)

Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.

Two prongs here: Crimson Peak is very much playing with Edgar Allan Poe’s short story (incest siblings! Gothic manors sinking into the earth!) and evoking a particular aesthetic associated with a number of 1960s/70s “schlock” Gothic horror films like those made by Roger Corman who applied his use of vivid color and psychedelic surrealism to a number of Poe’s works. 

AESTHETIC!!!!! Speaking of aesthetic excess...

The Brides of Dracula (1960) and other Hammer Horror films

Vampire hunter Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on beautiful young schoolteacher Marianne.

Known for a series of Gothic horror films made during the 1950s - 1970s featuring well-known characters like Count Dracula, Baron Frankenstein, and The Mummy, Hammer film productions hooked audiences with its use of vivid color, gore, sexy damsels in nightgowns, sexy women with fangs, sexy mummy girls, sexy... you get the idea. It left an indelible aesthetic mark on horror cinema since (including Crimson Peak). Also famous for catapulting the careers of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing or, as you might know them, Count Dooku and Grand Admiral Tarkin from Star Wars.

The Innocents (1961)

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Frequently listed as one of the best horror films of all time, The Innocents (one of Del Toro’s direct inspirations -- clock the nightgown in the screencap) is a loose adaptation of Henry James’ seminal Gothic novella The Turn of the Screw.

So many more under the cut...

The Leopard (1963) 

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.

Another of Del Toro’s direct intertexts, which influenced Crimson Peak’s party scenes.

Suspiria (1977), the films of Mario Bava, and giallo cinema

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

A cult horror classic, Italian director Dario Argento’s Suspiria plays fast and loose with Gothic horror and fairy tale tropes, making for a slasher film quite unlike any other. Notable for its dreamlike surrealism, use of highly-stylized colorization, and sheer amounts of gore, Suspiria remains one of the most aesthetically influential horror films of all time and, looking at screenshots, you can maybe see its visual influence on films like Crimson Peak:

Guillermo Del Toro has also cited Mario Bava, another of the key figures in the golden age of Italian horror, as inspiration for his use of color and set design in Crimson Peak.

From Bava’s Black Sabbath (1963):

From Blood and Black Lace (1964):

Bava’s film, Blood and Black Lace, belongs to the giallo genre, which refers (at least, in English-speaking countries) to (largely 1970s) Italian horror thrillers/slashers notorious for their combination of intense, stylized violence and eroticism. Very much a precursor to the American slasher film.

The Shining (1980) 

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

As film that also loosely adapts “Bluebeard,” it’s perhaps unsurprising that there are so many allusions to Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name in Crimson Peak. 

And, man, does it have it all! Snowed in, Gothic entrapment! Threats of domestic abuse! Secrets locked away in forbidden rooms! Ghosts! So many ghosts!

Ghosts in the bathtub! 

Ludicrously enormous amounts of blood! Innocent waifs with the ability to commune with the dead! Intrepid third parties who heroically make an attempt to reach the isolated Gothic hellscape to help our damsel in distress only to get immediately merc’d! It’s all here, y’all.... except the incest, of course.

Flowers in the Attic (1987) 

Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Ok, this is something of a cheat, as Crimson Peak is alluding more to V.C. Andrews’ infamous novel of the same name, not the 1987 film (which is an abysmally terribly adaptation and hilariously bad flick). Anyway, abused siblings are locked away in an attic... and... well... things get all... Sharpe family values, if you know what I mean.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) 

The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

If you liked Crimson Peak, I think you’ll enjoy this too, as, like CP, this movie is a sincere horror film, but also a pastiche/celebration of the Gothic and vampire cinema. It’s visually sumptuous and very high-energy (if you didn’t like CP or Moulin Rouge!, this one is probably not for you).

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being the legendary apparition, The Headless Horseman.

This is another one that, if you liked CP, you might enjoy. Based on Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Tim Burton’s film evokes a number of genres and horror aesthetics, most notably the Gothic horror flicks of the 1950s/60s, to create a kind of Hammer Horror film for American Gothic.

The Devil’s Backbone (2001) and Del Toro’s other films

After Carlos -- a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War -- arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover.

Crimson Peak is not Guillermo Del Toro’s first foray into Gothic horror, as ghost stories and dark fairy tales are very much his specialty (as we shall see again in Shape of Water later this semester). I highly recommend his ghosts-as-a-reflection-on-the-trauma-of-war film The Devil’s Backbone and his take on portal fantasy, Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), as they’re both excellent and you can see echoes between them and the effects/visuals of Crimson Peak.

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My Year in Movies: Favorite Non-2018 Feature Films (Part 1)

I watched a LOT of movies this year. At last count, I had logged 229 features and 126 shorts; and that doesn’t count rewatches--only movies that were new to me.

I set a few challenges for myself as well this year. The first one was to watch at least one non-English language/US release per week--this exposed me to so much world cinema and some really amazing filmmakers. Anyone who avoids foreign films because “I don’t like subtitles” is really missing out, and I found myself craving these narratives from voices I don’t ordinarily get exposed to in my everyday life. 

Other personal challenges: Watching as many horror movies as possible in October (with horror defined pretty loosely so I could include entries from silent era and onward, as well as some comedy cult classics that have horror/thriller elements); participating in Noirvember (in addition to attending Noir City in Chicago); crossing off some major blindspots from my list (such as Bicycle Thieves, The Producers, Lethal Weapon, A Few Good Men, Grease, Home Alone 2, Brazil, and Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom); and trying to watch movies and short films from every decade that motion pictures have existed.

In 2019, I hope to do similar personal challenges with a focus on movies made by women, LGBTQ+, and people of color, in addition to filling in the gaps of my classical/canonical movie knowledge. 

OK, so that’s enough preamble. Let’s get to the list! For this list, I’m excluding movies that were released in 2018--that’s coming but this is for movies released before that. 

50. Linda Linda Linda (2005, directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, country of origin: Japan)

High school girls recruit the Korean exchange student (Doona Bae, of Cloud Atlas and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance) to join their rock band a few days before the school talent show. This is just a feel good film, recommended if you enjoyed the likes of Sing Street, We Are The Best!, and The Runaways. Unfortunately, it’s out of print in physical form; but last I checked someone had uploaded it to YouTube so you might want to get on that before it’s removed. You can watch the trailer here.

49. The Blue Dahlia (1946, directed by George Marshall, country of origin: US)

This film noir stars Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, and like any good noir, it deals with dark subjects including murder, blackmail, political corruption, and PTSD. It’s been on my watchlist for a long time, and thanks to Noir City Chicago, I got to see it on the big screen at the Music Box Theatre. For small screen viewing, you can catch up with it via rental on Vudu, Amazon, iTunes... the usual suspects. 

48. Siren of the Tropics (1927, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Etievant, country of origin: France)

My dearly departed Filmstruck had a spotlight on the films of Josephine Baker, and this was among them. I fell in love instantly with the lively, beautiful Baker, here playing a woman named Papitou who deals with some super scummy dudes but manages to be herself in the face of all that nonsense. Silent films can sometimes be tougher to engage with for modern audiences, but this one flies by and contains some unexpectedly racy sequences for the time. Its racial politics don’t meet today’s cultural standards, but considering Baker’s parents were former slaves and their daughter went on to become the first woman of color to star in a major motion picture, this is still a landmark film worthy of our consideration. She broke down many barriers and contributed a great deal to both the entertainment world and the Civil Rights movement, and this serves as a nice entry point into her career. It’s available on DVD through Kino Lorber, and hopefully one day soon it’ll pop up on another streaming service that carries on the Filmstruck legacy.

47. I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore (2017, directed by Macon Blair, country of origin: US)

Here’s a film that goes to some unexpected places. I had no idea what to expect from Macon Blair, who frequently appears in the movies of Jeremy Saulnier; but in his debut feature for Netflix, he pulled out all the stops. Hilarious, violent, and intense, with memorable performances from stars Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood, this is a movie about getting in over your head and just going for it anyway. I don’t want to tell you about the plot because it’s best discovered through watching--just go to your nearest device and add it to your Netflix queue. 

46. Song of the Sea (2014, directed by Tomm Moore, country of origin: Ireland)

Absolutely gorgeous animation from the team that previously brought us The Secret of Kells, and a touching story that combines family and mythology. I adored this one. Watch it on Netflix or rent on the usual streaming sources--for a preview, click here. 

45. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, directed by Michael Curtiz, country of origin: US)

I always watch Independence Day on the Fourth of July; but in 2018, I decided to mix it up and cross this patriotic musical off the watchlist. I’d seen James Cagney’s gangster movies like White Heat and The Public Enemy, but seeing him sing and dance was a whole new joyous discovery. This movie is entertaining, funny, touching, and full of iconic sequences that other films would go on to borrow from. I absolutely loved it. Pretty sure I saw this on Filmstruck originally, but since that’s no longer possible you should be able to find it at your local public library or you can rent it for a couple bucks on Amazon, YouTube, iTunes, and the like. 

44. The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950, directed by Felix Feist, country of origin: US)

This tightly wound noir thriller pits brother against brother against the backdrop of 1950s San Francisco. Lee Cobb plays an aging bachelor and an accomplished police detective who falls for the wrong dame. His younger brother, played by John Dall (Gun Crazy, Rope), has just joined the police force and idolizes his older brother. Trouble strikes when the dame murders her no good husband and needs help from Cobb to cover it up. Naturally, Dall gets assigned to the case and as he begins to piece together the clues, he doesn’t like where they’re leading him. The climactic sequence is one of my favorite endings to a noir film, and I’ve seen a lot of them. Watch it for free if you have Amazon Prime; otherwise, there are a few versions uploaded to YouTube of varying quality or you could wait for it to pop up on TCM. 

43. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, directed by Thom Andersen, country of origin: US)

This documentary edits together clips from movies of every era that were filmed or set in Los Angeles, and explains through voiceover narration the significance of each location and the history of the motion pictures in LA. That’s it--very simple concept but also fascinating. I split this up over a couple nights because it’s pretty long, but if you’re a film fan or a Los Angeles native, this is well worth your time. The voiceover is kind of hilariously flat in its delivery--kind of a Steven Wright sound actually--but that sort of adds to the charm for me. Get a taste by watching the trailer, and then you can rent it on YouTube for $1.99.

42. A Simple Plan (1998, directed by Sam Raimi, country of origin: US)

It’s been almost two years since we lost Bill Paxton; I don’t know about you but I don’t think any other actor can really fill those shoes. This year I caught up with three films that showcased his talent: A Simple Plan, One False Move, and Frailty. He plays very different characters in each one but in many ways they all start off with a similar premise: Ordinary guy dreams of becoming more. What that “more” is for each character is what sets each film and performance apart, but Paxton provided a great canvas to paint these unique characters onto. He inhabited the ordinary man better than just about anyone. 

In this film, which I watched during Noirvember, Paxton plays Hank, a college-educated guy working a blue collar job in a small town, trying to make a better life for himself and his family. He’d like to get away from those small town roots, but his socially awkward brother Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton) relies on him. Unfortunately, Jacob is often accompanied by the hard-drinking loose canon Lou (Brent Briscoe). When the unlikely trio discover a crashed plane in the woods containing a suitcase full of cash, they each have ideas for how to handle the situation. Of course things escalate from there, and the way the movie explores human nature and family ties set this story apart. Available for online rental on the usual platforms.

41. The Iron Giant (1999, directed by Brad Bird, country of origin: US)

Given my obsession with Vin Diesel in the early 2000s, it’s pretty shocking I never saw this movie til now--sure, he and his glorious muscles don’t appear on screen, but he does provide the voice of the title character after all. When the Iron Giant made a controversial cameo in this year’s film adaptation of Ready Player One, I decided it was time I saw the source material for myself. 

This gorgeously animated fable unfolds during the Cold War era, and features an ET-inspired story arc of a young boy befriending an unlikely being that the government is looking for. If you’ve never seen it, this is definitely a must-watch. Currently available on Netflix, but rentable on other platforms too.

40. The Unsuspected (1947, directed by Michael Curtiz, country of origin: US)

I adore Claude Rains, star of this film and supporting actor in Curtiz’s more famous work, Casablanca. Here, he plays the host and narrator of a popular radio show that revolves around tales of murder--basically the Law and Order: SVU of its day. We learn early on that he sometimes draws inspiration for his broadcasts from real life criminals. When people in his own life start dropping dead, the plot thickens and he finds himself at the center of the action. A very suspenseful and well-plotted film noir, which is available from the Warner Archive collection on DVD. I got to see it at Noir City Chicago, and loved every second of it. 

That’s all for this entry--stay tuned for part two of this list, posting soon! 

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IYO, which Golden Age stars had the most interesting "will make degrading cameo for food" phases?

Sorry this is so late, but whoa boy that’s a loaded question. Honestly, a lot of silent and classic Hollywood stars had money troubles in their later years because residuals weren’t really a thing until the 50s. Before the television market nobody thought there was a way to consistently make money on old movies so everyone was content to be paid upfront. Then add on a lot of stars grew accustomed to lavish lifestyles and never learned responsible spending and most of them had some degree of financial difficulties after their careers declined. Some of them had a sense of humor about it, for others it was humiliating and there can be a vague sense of exploitation about the whole thing that makes some fans reluctant to talk about these periods.

We should probably begin with Orson Welles, who made what was/is considered the greatest movie of all time, and yet had to take some pretty demeaning work to pay the bills. Like, he really did do a frozen peas commercial. That’s not something the writers of The Critic made up. It exists, it’s on youtube!

Bette Davis famously placed an ad in Variety asking for work when parts dried up. She spent most of the 60s starring in horror movies of declining quality, primarily because she needed money to support he family, but also because she was desperate to work. By the 70s though the Hag Horror fad had passed and she became even more desperate. A 1971 film Bunny O'Hare had her playing an elderly woman who dresses up as a hippie to rob banks on a motorcyle, it was so bad she sued the studio claiming it had damaged her future employment prospects. During this time she also filmed 4 sitcom pilots, and not good ones either. they were for Aaron Spelling, the man behind “Jiggle-TV” (although Davis herself did not jiggle, she still had some pride). The tv show Feud treated this as a sort of tragic time where the woman who once sued Jack Warner for better scripts was so desperate for work she stopped caring about quality. I look at it more as Davis realized that no matter how much dreck she did the public would always consider her a Hollywood Legend, so she was free to stop worrying about her image and just take whatever paid work she could get while playing the movie queen in interviews. 

Another low point was the Disney-sequel Return From Witch Mountain in 1978 where she and Christopher Lee (who took the part just to work with her) played the villains intent on using mind control devices on two super-powered alien kids. To say Davis’s character was as flat as cardboard is an insult to cardboard. She finally got a decent script in the 1980s with The Whales of August opposite Lillian Gish, so she was able to remind everyone how good she could be a few years before her death. Not every star would be so lucky.

Joan Crawford, who must be discussed alongside Davis by Hollywood law, has become, along with Welles, the poster-child for late career humiliation. Like Davis, Crawford spent the 60s doing low budget horror shlock, but somehow her movies always seemed shlockier. She teamed up with William Castle twice, for his Strait-Jacket he let her act like the movie queen she’d once been and she took full advantage. She demanded a limo to drive her to set each day, a role be given to a vice-president of Pepsi (she was on the board) and refused to let him be fired even when it became obvious he couldn’t remember his lines. She insisted on portraying her character as in her 40s despite turning 60 the year it came out, and also played the character as a 20-something in flashbacks. The air conditioning on set was cranked obscenely high because she believed cold air kept her skin from wrinkling.

In 1968 Crawford guest starred on The Lucy Show as a version of herself who liked being out of the public eye (Ha!). Lucille Ball by this point was a terror to work with and she bullied Crawford relentlessly over everything from her dancing to her drinking (which of course just made Crawford drink more). Later that year her daughter Christina was hospitalized, meaning she wouldn’t be able to film her scenes for the daytime soap opera she was in. Crawford, 64 years old, convinced the producers to let her fill in. And they said yes, so for four whole episodes Crawford appeared as a 24 year old girl. And on top of that, she was so drunk she could barely remember her lines. A year later Crawford had what I think is her most interesting TV role. For Rod Serling’s Night Gallery she played a ruthless, blind heiress who will stop at nothing to be able to see. It’s a standard Serling morality play right down to the ironic twist. What so fascinates me is that it marked the professional debut of one Steven Spielberg, although by his own admission he shot the thing like a European art film and had it taken away in editing so it could be re-worked into something presentable on network TV. So you have Crawford, who started her career in the silent era, came to embody the studio system, and remained a movie star into the 1960s, being directed by Spielberg, one of the key directors of the New Hollywood era who went on to create the era of the blockbuster tentpole we live in today. It’s such a fascinating meeting in the middle moment of the woman who ebodied the first half of Hollywood’s history, and the man who embodied its second half.

From there she went on to her final film, 1970′s Trog. She played a scientist investigating a ape-cave man hybrid believed to be the missing link. She was so drunk she had to use cue-cards to read her lines. The movie was so low-budget she had to wear her own clothes and change in an old van. Roger Ebert once said that the difference between Crawford and Davis was that Crawford would agree to make Trog. He wasn’t wrong. She made a handful of TV appearances after that, but then the tabloids published some unflattering pap photos. In the 1930s when she’d been the most beautiful woman in Hollywood she famously told an interviewer “I never go out of my house unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star, if people want the girl next door they can go next door.” Decades later she lived up to her words, convinced she could no longer look like the glamorous movie queen she cancelled her public appearances and spent the last years of her life in Norma Desmond-like isolation. She died in her New York apartment in 1977 with only her maid and a loyal fan by her side.

This is getting long, but I have to mention Aldo Ray, a big macho man action hero of the 1950s who made a porno in 1979 and spent the 1980s working mostly with cult exploitation filmmaker Fred Olen Ray (no relation). Ray Milland was a hunky leading man in the 40s, spent the 1970s alternating between genuine A-list hits like Love Story and shlock like Frogs and The Thing With Two Heads where he played a racist whose head is grafted onto a black man. Yeah:

Bela Lugosi’s fall from grace has been much covered. He had a huge hit with Dracula but feuded with the studio and soon found himself confined to B-level shlock, eventually finding himself a member of Ed Wood’s stock company. Fan still debate if Wood was exploiting him or helping him. Boris Karloff fared better. He made plenty of low budget dreck for Roger Corman, but he also endeared himself to younger audiences, most notably in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and went out on a high note with Peter Bogdanovich’s directorial debut Targets.

Lastly, we must speak of Veronica Lake. She was a glamour queen of the 40s, famous for her hair style where her long blonde locks were styled to cover one eye, studio publicists dubber her “The Peek-a-Boo Girl.” She made one genuine 4-star must-see classic, Preston Sturges’s Sullivan’s Travels, and some well regarded noirs and comedies, but she was washed up by the 1950s. She was discovered working a a waitress in the 1960s and subsequently told her story on the talk show circuit and later in an autobiography. She decided to use the money she’d earned from various public appearances to produce a comeback vehicle. For some reason, perhaps known only to her, she decided the best movie to relaunch her career was Flesh Feast. A no budget Grade-Z catastrophe where she played a mad scientist developing a breed of flesh eating maggots while moonlighting for an underground organization of escaped Nazis in possession of Hitler’s body. She is charged with reanimating their Führer so they can take over the world. Turns out though, Lake is only doing this to avenge her mother who was subjected to Nazi experiments in the concentration camps. Once old Adolf is alive and kicking again, she throws her flesh eating maggots in his face and laughs maniacally as he dies a second, painful death. Honestly, Lakes delivery of the line “Don’t you like my little maggots?” deserves to go down as one of the all-time camptastic line readings in the history of cinema. But seriously, this movie raises so many questions I can’t even start. Like, if she just agreed to star I could understand, but she was a producer on this, she went all-in on this project, why? Why this of all things?

[notoriousgrd]

Further to last post, rough anime timeline...

1970s - Marine Boy, aired on the BBC for a time.

1980s Gatchaman - aired on BBC in it's butchered Battle Of The Planets form.

1990 - Akira - travelled to Edinburgh to see it in the cinema on limited release.

1990s - mostly whatever Manga Video decided to release in the UK, which included a lot of shite. They were going for a very specific teenage male audience for a good number of years, I believe their next release after Akira was Legend Of The Overfiend which says a lot.

Luckily, also during this time there was a local anime club so the first thing I saw after Akira was Lupin III:Castle Of Cagliostro which made me an instant fan of Hayao Miyazaki and Lupin III. Also saw Grave Of The Fireflies, Devil Hunter Yoko, the Silent Mobius movie and other stuff. Also turned out my flatmate was friends with the bloke who ran the club so we got various tapes of stuff at times, including the Gundam 0079 movies with no subs or dub and some silly SD Gundam shows, again with no subs or dub. Also Ranma 1/2.

2000s - DVDs and a couple of trips to America including trawling through anime stores netted me better versions of some stuff I had on video in the 90s (Dominion Tank Police), stuff I didn't know existed (the Silent Mobius series, which I think still never had a release here in the UK, 15 years later) and very the decade things got licenced and released in the UK and sometimes it took a while and I imported US discs (hello FLCL) but it meant I got a bunch of Studio Ghibli movies, Ghost In The Shell:Stand Alone Complex, Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop and others.

I also obtained a copy of Azumanga Daioh through some means and suddenly comedy antics anime got added to the list of stuff I liked.

2010s - streaming and Blu-ray's happened, so I've had a chance to try lots of new and old animes in this decade. My ten favourites have been...

Planetes (2003) - great hard sci-fi show about an orbital debris retrieval crew.

Nichijou (2011) - comedy antics schoolgirl show, very much the next step after Azumanga Daioh except it goes even further with the wackiness.

Stein's Gate (2011) - starts up as goofy mad scientist shenanigans, takes a real turn to darker stuff at a point. It pre-emptively spoiled a major plot point in a series of modern Doctor Who and an implication in a big sci-fi movie because this did them better.

Durarara!! (2010) - starts off slice-of-life anime with a single, extremely awesome, supernatural element, gets more complicated, has one of my favourite sequences ever in an anime which I can't talk about as it's a mahoosive spoiler and is generally a lot of fun.

Little Witch Academia (2017) - Harry Potter but at an all-girl school and more anime. Just got into this thanks to Netflix and it's had me in tears of laughter several times.

Space Dandy (2014) - silly, wacky space adventure shenanigans. Maybe has negative continuity as I'm sure at least one episode ends with the ship exploding and everyone dying yet they're all fine at the beginning of the next episode. Has awesome opening and closing songs.

Laid-back Camp (2018) - adventures in camping, lovely chilled out show with actual useful camping tips interspersed throughout. First episode is available free on Crunchy Roll's YouTube channel.

Persona 4 (2011) - based on one of my favourite videogames and follows it's plot very closely. Transfer student goes to live with uncle for a year. There's a serial killer. Something in the fog. The urban legend of The Midnight Channel. Portals to somewhere else and fighting your dark sides using cards and demons. It's awesome.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan (2007) - the anime personification of "That escalated quickly!" Starts with boy escaping his underground cave network home. Then things escalate. Then escalate again. And again. And again. And then one more time for good measure. Has the line "Greetings, defiant human scum!" which has joined "And up yours." and "DINSDALE!!!" As things I randomly exclaim.

Spice & Wolf (2008) - travelling medieval merchant suddenly find himself accompanied by a wolf goddess on his travels. Seemed a bit sketchy in first episode but ended up being utterly fun and wholesome mild adventure series. I ended up humming the first closing theme song for months.

[keramalusundeep]

‘KABALI’ PEAKED AT THE TRAILER. HERE’S WHY

First of all, I don’t do movie reviews. I am the guy who just watches a movie and then maybe talks about it during lunch at work to avoid awkward silences. So, why am I writing this review about a movie I watched a half hour ago? Because you know, how sometimes when you have a near death experience, your perspectives change and suddenly you want to do all this good in life, save lives, be a better person? Yeah, I am in that zone right now. I have been hit by something powerful. And it’s time to share it with the rest of my species.

Two months before today, I accidentally came across the trailer of Kabali on YouTube. I was immediately arrested by the killer original soundtrack for the movie. That’s where it had begun, for me.

Every time I watched the trailer at home, I’d go on and on to my wife about how I would not miss this movie. I don’t know why I had suddenly become such an aggressive fan of Rajinikanth. My mom was always a diehard fan, though. Two decades ago, I stumbled upon a large biology drawing book that had cut-out pictures and childlike hand-drawn sketches of him at my house in Bangalore. The book belonged to my mother. When I confronted her, she said that she was supposed to get rid of that book after marriage, but somehow it had come along with her. Super jealous of the superstar, my father would often mock Rajinikanth. I don’t blame him. He was just an ordinary South Indian man born in a conservative family. He is well educated and open-minded, yes, but he is still a man. I mean, when my wife used to look at Jason Momoa’s buttocks in Game of Thrones, I would run to the bedroom and do 50 squats and come out like I was all chill.

When you watch a Rajinikanth film, you better go to a local theatre. Not the multiplex ones where one is too shy to even release a silent fart. No, go to a local theatre. The kind where women best not venture. That’s the kind of place where you will know what it is like to be a Rajini fan.

In these theatres, as the lights dim, a new wave of energy crackles to life. Whistles, throat-burning screaming, firecrackers, shirtless dancing on seats. The entire room becomes a five-dimensional stimulation ride. Your seats rock. The walls vibrate. You smell smoke. It’s exhilarating to witness the madness, but deafening and annoying beyond a point as you can’t hear shit. Because from the time Rajini’s name pops up in the opening credits till the interval (where the fans begin to get a little tired), it’s a war zone. You would be lucky if you came out of the theatre entirely unbroken.

When you are watching a Rajinikanth movie, there is a 3000% chance that you will see something superhuman. Death-defying. Nonconforming to every law of nature. But you tell your mind to hush. During a Rajinikanth movie, only his fans can make a sound. If you are a non-fan and say something mocking, well, leave the address to your coffin.

Well, this time, I watched the film in a multiplex. Families and kids. So even if I had said something, I probably wouldn’t have got my ass whooped. Still, I watched quietly and saved everything for my keyboard. So now I’m going to spill my shit out. Here, I am Spartacus. Unyielding. Veracious.

Being 2016, being Kabali, being Rajini, you’d think, mafia being the spine of the story, it’d have all the beef in the universe to make Martin Scorsese take note. The opening scene, is the ending scene. When will writers learn that when you are showing Rajinikanth to be the gangster (especially when he is being released from jail), you know for sure that all his enemy gangsters will be dead, no matter what! Keep a little surprise, man! Henceforth, I want Santa Claus to write all the scripts for Rajini movies.

The story takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It’s a beautiful city. But they decided to show only the dark world. The Tamils. Their dark skin. Their dark labour problems. Their dark mafia. In all of this darkness, the only contrast in the colour palette was the ostentatious bling that these gangstas flaunted from start to finish.

After all these great movies in the West about drugs and gangsters, you’d go on to have this divine hope that the Tamil industry would go easy on making every hero a superhero. But nope. First of all, what kind of a gangster is comfortable with only a handful of business associates who also moonlight as security? I comprehend the fact that it is Rajinikanth and he can take care of himself, but he is old now. Besides, he carries only one gun. Not even an extra magazine!

When you are out of commission for 25 years, don’t you need money when you come back? Don’t you still need to be in business? Apparently, when Rajini is a gangster you don’t need to do gangster business to earn money. You just have it all sorted. Somehow he is able to run a free school for drop outs, drug addicts and ex-gangster kids. The funny part is, he himself is a gangster and hires kids on his team. So the point is that when you are in Kabali’s gangster squad, you don’t need to be rehabilitated, life’s all good.

P.A. Ranjith, before I forget, take this — you suck. You suck big time. Basha, for that time, had so much more swag than you have managed to squeeze out of Kabali. To a gangster, his family is very important. I mean to all of us, families are important. But to a gangster, it’s more of a prestige issue. If a gangster has let his enemy harm his family, it would convey that he is weak, incapable of protecting his own family . . . how then will he protect his business and other people who are dependent on him? But you could have involved his family saga in the movie in such a better way. There was no need for all the flashbacks. You have permanently ruined “once upon a time” for me.

I still cannot digest the fact that the director completely omitted to show us or explain Kabali’s business model. Maybe every time Kabali and his men whimsically went after the villains and delivered some soggy dialogues the producers would give them some candy money? Also, I think Indian movies should stop making the villains troll the hero and his affiliated people with dummy guns. Can’t take that shit anymore. If you want to shoot, just pull that plastic trigger and be done with it. Why do you have so many extras pointing all those useless toy guns at one old guy and still end up getting laid low by his stunt double?

Radhika Apte, who plays Rajini’s wife in the movie is a good actor. However, in this movie, she is a bad actor. When you have a bad script and a dumbass director, even a lion becomes a pig. I was happy to know that she was killed by the villains. Good riddance, I thought that’s what she must have thought. But no, she was brought back from the dead 25 years later and made to run for her life again. What torture, marrying Kabali!

Dhansika has tried to play a version of Rooney Mara in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but the result is extremely unpleasing. The director concluded, perhaps, that if she is a girl and an assassin, she’s got to sport a punk bob cut and a lot of badly done temporary tattoos (which keep drastically changing and moving places). By the way, she is Kabali’s daughter, who he reunites with. Sadly.

What’s with the suit? I thought when you wore a suit, you had the license to kill. Oh, wait a minute! That was 007. In Kabali, if you wore a suit, well, you have the license to get killed.

The villain gangsters are real pussies, I tell you. I can’t fathom why they are so scared of Kabali. He is just a vintage chap with a few old friends who masturbate on the rusted bullets in their guns. Then again, it is Rajini. He can get bin Laden to marry Gandhi if he wanted to.

Movies in the south always thrive on comedy. In Kabali, there is nothing to laugh about. Nothing to cry for. Absolutely nothing to rejoice about. The soundtrack was the only saving grace. The movie was a drab, unsexy 150-minute quest for finding his family, which he could very well have done without us having to sit and watch. I liked the free trailer on YouTube. Not the full movie I spent 200 bucks for. Kabali, no magizhchi for you.

Reminds me of the famous Bruce Lee quote: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” With all due reverence and respect for you as a great human being, I am afraid, Rajinikanth Sir, we are no longer afraid of your 10,000th kick. You have overdone it. It’s the same kick and it doesn’t give us any kick anymore. I know it’s the directors asking you to do lame stuff, not you per se. However, you could say no to them, yes? Maybe make meaningful cinema? You have earned that. But not the right to disappoint us, after all that hype.

P.S. Watch out for Tony Stark. He makes a sensational cameo.

Photo by Soloman Soh

[dmitri-smerdyakov]

Thoughts on "IT" (2017)

Let me start off by saying that I haven’t seen the miniseries from 1990, and I have not yet read the book (I’m debating buying it) – I went to watch it as a lover of horror films, and because I get free tickets at the cinema where I work. My opinion isn’t professional in any sense of the word, I’m speaking merely as a cinema-goer with an opinion.

So…where to start is the question? There’s a lot to discuss with this film, more so than I thought, so I hope I can remember to get everything in.

Let’s get this out of the way now: I enjoyed the film. I enjoy horror films, I enjoy being scared, and I enjoy horror films with actual plot and not just “random serial killer hacks teens to death on a cabin retreat”. The plot of this is of a child-eating-clown/monster/alien that terrorises the small down of Derry, Maine – that’s the basic sum of it. Then there’s the Losers Club who are all bullied misfits and outcasts in some way, and they decide that they want to take down “IT” to stop it from claiming more innocent victims (to add, the “leader” of the group, Bill, is the older brother of Georgie, who is killed at the start of the film). The film wasn’t faultless by any means, of course, but I’ll get there in a second.

The film opens with Bill making his little brother, Georgie, a paper boat to play outside in the rain with (Bill is stuck in bed because he’s sick); let me just say that Georgie is adorable. I wanted to cuddle him and squeeze him; I also liked the relationship between Bill and Georgie, but that also comes up later. So Georgie goes outside to play with his paper boat in the rain, chasing after it as it travels along the water of puddles etc. until he hits his head and the boat heads towards a gutter drain… I’m a horrible person for saying this, but I still laughed when Georgie ran into that public works sign/barrier thing and fell down. It was just really amusing to me that he ran straight into it. After this, the boat goes down the drain and Georgie gets on his hands-and-knees to try and retrieve it – and that’s when the clown pops up.

Following on from the above point, I know Georgie is only little and he does mention that he’s not allowed to talk to strangers…but I can’t help but laugh at how he had a conversation with a random clown in the drain. Bless him, I certainly wouldn’t have done that even if I had lost the paper boat my brother made me, but there you go.

I’m going into way too much detail so I’ll try to be more concise or I’ll be here all night; I’m sure we all know of that infamous gutter drain scene between George and Pennywise – it’s used in marketing and I’m sure many have seen it on YouTube from the 1990s miniseries. This scene was tense to watch, even though I’d seen a preview on YouTube of it; I knew what was going to happen because it’s impossible to escape spoilers, but it was still pretty intense – knowing made it worse, I feel. There’s something I found endearing about this Pennywise that I can’t put my finger on, but even so I don’t think I would have stuck my hand in that gutter drain to take that boat from his hands.

I saw the clip from the original 1990 miniseries of when Georgie is “killed” – it’s not shown on-screen at all, merely implied. In this adaptation, there’s no problem showing gore; I suspected we’d see more in this film, but still. Let me tell you, when that clown opened its jaws and ripped that kid’s arm off, I yelped (quietly because it was a cinema, but still); there’s no way I can describe this clown’s teeth properly…it’s like the Deacon from Prometheus, it has like jaws that pop out??? The worst part wasn’t the violence or gore, though, it was Georgie crying and attempting to escape before being pulled into the sewer; there’s something really very upsetting about a little child crying in pain, and it gives me chills to think about.

Okay, now to the main bulk of the film – hopefully I won’t go into full detail on every scene, but I felt that the first opening scene was important since it’s perhaps the most well-known one.

The Losers Club, in full, is made up of six boys and one girl - and I can only just name them. I know one of them was from “Stranger Things”, but I couldn’t tell you which one since I don’t watch it (I know, I know). There’s obviously Bill, Georgie’s older brother; there’s also Ben, an overweight boy, Richie (the boy with glasses, I think), Stan (the Jewish one), Mike (an African American), and Eddie (asthmatic/hypochondriac), and the girl in the group is Beverley. They’re all a part of the Losers Club for various reasons, and they’re frequently bullied by a group of older boys led by Henry Bowers (who is a bit of a psychopath, it turns out).

To stop me from ranting and going in-depth on EVERY scene, I’m going to sum up my feelings in bullet points:

Beverley being bullied in the bathroom at the start of the film – this ties into the theme of bullying in the film, which is quite central. Her character is quite a bad-ass, actually, and probably one of my favourites.

Oh God, Ben was sweet; I really want all the best for him, because he’s just so lovely. He’s overweight and the new kid, and he has such a crush on Bev, and it’s just…bless him. I wanted to pat him on the shoulder.

Admittedly, Richie grated on me a little bit with his jokes – you know, the overtly sexual “your mom” jokes that a lot of fuckboys make? Yeah, that kinda annoyed me quite a bit. I read somewhere that he’s supposed to be a “trashmouth” but, I don’t know, it just grated on my nerves. Then again, these are teen boys – it’s only to be excepted really.

The part with that guy in the pharmacy, though…he really creeped me out that guy behind the counter. He was weird as fuck and creepy.

We see “IT” terrorising the kids one-by-one quite early on; Bill is tormented by visions of Georgie (“YOU’LL FLOAT TOO!”); Stan is attacked by a creepy woman from a creepy painting that plays a flute (she really is fucking terrifying); Ben is chased by a headless person in the library before being chased by Pennywise; Mike sees the hands of his parents attempting to escape from behind a door (his parents died in a fire); Richie is terrorised by several clowns at one point (including Pennywise), and Eddie sees a Leper which chases him, diseased and carrying god knows how many germs/bacteria. Beverley is a little odder; she hears voices from down the sink, and a blood bubble bursts that covers her entire bathroom.

I feel compelled to mention the part where Patrick, one of the bullies in the gang, is in the sewer and is killed by Pennywise after being chased by zombies. That really was quite frightening, actually, at least for me.

Beverley’s relationship with her father is heavily implied to be incestuous; I think it’s quite apparent that her father sexually abuses her from the start, coaxing her to say that she’s still his “little girl”. Again, a deeply unsettling theme that I’ll talk about in a sec.

Adding onto the above, Bev cutting all of her hair off was really compelling and sad but I was also silently cheering her on? I just felt like this was something she had control over; her father would stroke her long hair and call her his little girl, and now with her hair cut short he can’t do that. I just felt that this was really very freeing.

There’s a scene where the kids are watching a slideshow/projector thing to figure out where “IT” lives; it soon starts to flicker and show images of Bill’s family with Georgie, with Pennywise in the pictures in place of their mother. They knock the slide-thing over, and for a moment it’s like it’s all over – and then this MASSIVE Pennywise appears out of fucking nowhere and I nearly shat myself. I was shaking afterwards.

I just…every time Pennywise appeared, I ended up sitting with both middle fingers raised and my eyes half-shut. I really do not like clowns.

I’m slightly concerned about how Henry Bowers murdered his father, attacked the kids and then fell down the hole and just…never turned up again? Did no one have questions about his father being murdered? Or perhaps about the missing 15-year-old? Or are these answered in the second film where the kids are adults?

Also slightly concerned over Beverley murdering her father and getting off scott-free. I mean, I know he was sexually abusing her and stuff, but she wasn’t punished at all for it – she’s merely being sent away to live with an aunt. Maybe I’m just dwelling too much :’)

Eddie standing up to his mother was great, though; there’s something satisfying in him leaving her to go with his friends after she’s been way too overbearing – like, I get caring and stuff but then there’s making him afraid of everything “to protect him”.

Right, okay, I have to put this out there: that scene where Beverley is in the sewer after “IT” drags her done there, and he suddenly appears doing a dance…I was crying and laughing and cringing because I was just so…? I had no words to describe this. It’s so funny that it’s actually scary.

I’m assuming that those lights that made Bev comatose were “deadlights”, right? I’ve heard about those too. Also, Pennywise/IT opening his mouth again…I was so close to physically vomiting.

Man, those kids really beat the crap out of Pennywise though. I was at first surprised but then I reasoned “seven kids against one clown – could work”. And I think that that’s what the film is about, really – about them sticking together to survive.

I think it’s nice that they did blood oaths, and they set up the next movie pretty well with the whole “if IT comes back then we’ll reunite again” thing – because there’s a second part, of course. At the same time, it ended in a way that meant that it stands on its own without the second part.

I just want to add that I’m extremely glad that they didn’t add the orgy scene from the book into the film – yes, I know about that scene since someone told me about it. I’m relieved that there was no orgy between the kids, because that would have been way too traumatising for everyone involved.

The pop music from the 80s...I was mixed on. I like an 80s tune as much as the next person, but at times I wondered if it was strictly necessary to blast it over certain scenes.

And, most importantly:

Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise is brilliant, in my opinion – he wasn’t just scary, he was playfully scary…he incorporated the playfulness with the fear, and that frightened me more than just “evil clown”. But at the same time, I was weirdly attracted to him?? (okay, that’s just me knowing what Bill Skarsgard looks like in real life, I admit) He seemed to go full out in the film, too, drooling and spitting and screaming and just…I think he really pushed himself into it.

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Now, moving on, while looking at reviews after I saw the film, I noticed a headline that sums up my feelings of the film perfectly: “a superb movie less about clowns than real-world evil”. For me, a lot of the horror and unease came from the real life “evils”; bullies, Beverley’s father, Eddie’s over-bearing mother. Don’t get me wrong, Pennywise is still fucking terrifying, but there’s a lot of other evils to consider too. We have implied incest/sexual abuse, adults who don’t listen, overbearing parents, and parents who don’t seem to care much at all. Like, where were Bill’s parents when all of this was going on? We saw his dad in one scene having a go at him, but that was it. Stan’s parents…well, we saw his dad briefly chastise him for not knowing his reading from the Torah (if I’m incorrect, please let me know), but that was literally it. I don’t think we saw Ben or Richie’s parents at all in the film. I think that this is all pretty scary in its own way, actually, the fact that the parents have unhealthy relationships with their children.

The film isn’t perfect, I’m not saying it is; on some of the jump scares, I wasn’t scared (but that could easily been me getting used to horror films or me moving around in my seat too much to take it all in), and I’ve mentioned bits that seemed off to me. But I did enjoy the film, and I’d happily watch it again, if only to try and get more into the story of it. I keep saying this, but I think that Bill Skarsgard did a great job in making his own Pennywise and not just copying Tim Curry’s version (or what I’ve seen of it on YouTube…I’ve seen a lot on YouTube).

I want to add that the soundtrack was pretty good - I'm listening to it now as I write this and I keep jumping, so kudos to Benjamin Wallfisch.

I’m curious to know what anyone else thought? And also, to those who have read the book, if you believe it’s worth reading the book before viewing the film again?

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Make Your Own Film School

I invested in a MasterClass membership this year and was watching some of Spike Lee’s lectures when I realized: if you know how to use your online resources to your advantage, and maintain an inquisitive mindset, actual film school becomes more and more irrelevant. You can save yourself thousands of dollars in film appreciation and history classes by a simple YouTube search and you can learn the basics of a movie set just by reading a $12 book. What a time to be alive!

One of my goals with CineMama is to help readers take full advantage of the resources that make film so accessible in the year 2020. There is no wrong way to watch a movie (except maybe staring at your phone the whole time and not actually watching), but there are always opportunities to enhance your viewing experience and enrich your life through the art of film. I want to share online resources, books, videos, podcasts, and subscriptions that have helped me deepen my own appreciation for movies and better understand the work that goes into creating any movie, let alone a great one.

Read

For perspective on the behind-the-scenes ingredients of filmmaking, read the short and sweet, but beyond informative book, Making Movies by Sidney Lumet. (You might recognize his name from a couple little movies called Network and Dog Day Afternoon.) Though written decades ago, most of the working parts of a film set haven’t changed and the artistic process largely remains the same, so his expertise and insight prove invaluable to any young filmmaker or film devotee.

Anyone who knows me knows that I strongly believe in rewriting the generally accepted film cannon to better spotlight the accomplishments and contributions of women in filmmaking. Backwards and In Heels by Alicia Malone provides a reader-friendly primer to the under-recognized history of women in Hollywood. If you take care to learn the names of D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin, familiarize yourself with the work of Lois Webber and Mary Pickford.

Explore http://davidbordwell.net. Film historian and professor David Bordwell, and his wife and partner Kristin Thompson, write in-depth and transformative analyses of films and film history. You can peruse their shared blog and enjoy essays by Bordwell, as well as video essays that help visualize his words. (I especially enjoy the video essay on CinemaScope, which you can watch here.) Bordwell and Thompson do a great service to film fans and autodidacts everywhere by keeping so much of their work accessible and free online. (You can also invest in their published works and support their scholarly pursuits with your wallet, if you’re able and so choose.)

Read film criticism. Some of my personal favorite critics include Pauline Kael and Molly Haskell, but I also respect Roger Ebert and Haskell’s other half, Andrew Sarris. You can read many of their articles and reviews online for free after a quick Google search, or you can purchase or borrow entire books of their work. Reading criticism can teach you how to best apply your subjective judgment to a film and thus put your unique viewing experience into words. No two people see a movie the same and you have nothing to lose by learning others’ perspectives. 

To keep yourself open to diverse voices, I encourage you to follow the @femalefilmcritics account on Twitter. I’ve personally discovered many insightful and contemporary film critics through this site and enjoy participating in the progressive environment fostered there. Social media is a great place to discover voices and opinions you might otherwise be deaf to.

And speaking of criticism, you can download a copy of The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism by Mattias Frey, here. The book covers an interesting and vital aspect of film history: film’s journey to acceptance as an art form and the perpetual argument over the purpose of criticism.

Read screenplays. Every year, film studios provide free access online to the screenplays for their major awards contenders. I usually check www.thefilmstage.com to keep up with the recent output of free screenplays. (You can read 2019’s most hyped screenplays here.) Read them and watch the movies so you can witness how a cast and crew translates the written word into film’s unique grammar of image, sound, and performance.

Watch

Film historian Kevin Brownlow’s Hollywood: a Celebration of the American Silent Film first aired in 1980 and was made available on VHS and LaserDisc, then never again on physical media. The series utilizes primary sources in the form of interviews with some of Hollywood’s most beloved artists: Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, John Wayne, William Wyler, and Louise Brooks, just to name a sampling. Film fans have no official means to access to the series, but you can watch 12 of the 13 50-minute episodes on YouTube, starting here, but you will need to visit here to view the 12th episode, as it was removed from YouTube. 

Almost everyone knows of Martin Scorsese’s passion for cinema, both for foreign and classic Hollywood features. In A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Cinema, he covers the history of American filmmaking from his viewpoint as a fan and a filmmaker: the movies that inspired him, the ones that made the biggest impact on his appreciation for cinema, the ones that he pays homage to in his own work. You can watch the documentary in parts on YouTube here.

Listen

Listen to commentaries. Whether you stream movies, rent them from RedBox, or straight up buy them, most discs or digital copies give you access to audio commentaries from cast, crew, critics, or historians. You can learn about film history and appreciation from the critics and historians, filmmaking tools through the crew’s anecdotes, and actors’ methods straight from the mouths of professional actors. Commentaries give you a front row seat to a film’s production history, so take advantage of that “special features” tab on your DVD menu.

Listen to podcasts. Beloved movie critic Leonard Maltin hosts the podcast Maltin on Movies with his dear daughter and fellow movie fan, Jessie Maltin. Every week, they interview a legend or legend-in-the-making of the movie industry. The Maltins conduct the interviews with a wealth of respect, knowledge, and enthusiasm, since both Leonard and Jessie have spent at least the majority of their lives observing the movie business, one for a living and one by association. Some previous guests include Mitzi Gaynor, Greta Gerwig, and Christopher Guest, to give you a sense of the variety of personalities and perspectives your earbuds will encounter.

Hosted by writer April Wolfe, the podcast Switchblade Sisters invites a different guest every week to choose and discuss a genre movie at length on the show. All of the guests work in the film or TV industry and give a lot of insight into their own work while dissecting and appreciating the work of others.

Another genre-loving podcast, on Faculty of Horror, Andrea Subissati (executive editor at Rue Morgue magazine) and Alexandra West (freelance writer) analyze horror movies from an academic perspective. The hosts make a point to include show links that serve as a bibliography, so you can continue to learn about an episode’s specific subject after you’ve finished listening. 

Subscribe

These recommendations cost money, ranging from $9 a month to hundreds of dollars a year. If you have the cash to spend, and want to, these resources can help you access movies and lectures, with an emphasis on quantity of content and convenience.

Can’t afford investing in physical media, but want access to a better selection of classics without subscribing to multiple streaming platforms? Party like it’s the early 00s and consider a DVD Netflix subscription. You can use the service to a keep a steady stream of movies coming your way. Not sure what to add to your queue? Check out popular lists like “1001 Movies to See Before You Die,” or if you want to keep it local, peruse the reviews and lists published on CineMama for inspiration.

For $10.99 a month or $99.99 a year, you can access hundreds of movies on the Criterion Channel. In addition to a treasure trove of classic and critically-acclaimed films, you also have access to enlightening video series like Observations on Film Art and Split Screen. As if all of that wasn’t enough, you also can enjoy and learn from countless supplementary materials related to the movies currently streaming. If the movies sold by the Criterion Collection are “film school in a box,” then the Criterion Channel is film school in an app.

For $180 a year, you can sign up for MasterClass and enjoy hours of lectures with filmmakers with decades of experience, including Spike Lee, David Lynch, Ron Howard, and Jodi Foster, as well as screenwriters and dramatists and other leaders in their respective fields. The upfront fee seems steep compared to the monthly payments to which audiences have grown accustomed, but the program’s still cheaper than paying some bozo at a community college with only a couple more years of education than you. (If that.)

If you want to stay up-to-date on recent releases and have an AMC near you, I would consider investing (at least) $20 a month in the AMC Stubs A-List program. For a monthly fee, you can attend three movies every week (regardless of the ticket price or if you’ve seen the movie already) and also earn rewards points to save on concessions. Though less of a necessity now that so many filmmakers release their films straight to streaming or VOD, the A-List can help you save money if you’re a frequent moviegoer. 

I wouldn’t recommend this program for parents of small children, because unless you have magical powers, I doubt you’ll have the time or energy to go to the movies more than once or twice a month. However, you may want to remember the AMC Stubs A-List program for when the whole family can enjoy a night out at the movies. Even if you just go once a week as a group, you could save on tickets and concessions by paying for your monthly subscriptions.

And finally…

Visit your local library for an abundance of free and quality resources! See what sparks your interest by browsing the shelves. Not just in the film section, but I also strongly suggest skimming the biographies. (That might just be the history nerd in me, though.) Check out the e-books and audiobooks available through your library’s online program. I know for a fact that the Sioux City Public Library hosts an impressive DVD collection. (It’s where I first borrowed a copy of Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs.)  You can also do some research online and provide your local research librarian with a list of books to request for you through interlibrary loan.

For resource recommendations on any particular film-related subject, reach out to your local CineMama on social media and I can help point you in the right direction. Also, let me know if any of these links break over time and I can update them as necessary.

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22 of the Best Motivational Speeches of All Time

It was halftime throughout one of my 7th grade football games. And we were losing 14 - 0. With our knees planted in the grass, my team was silently gathered, drenched in sweat and defeat. We all understood the game was over.That's when our

assistant coach ruptured through our circle and shattered our pity party, providing among the best inspirational speeches I have actually heard to this day.I can't straight estimate him because he said some

things that are improper for an article(and, in hindsight, most likely for a lot of 13-year-olds too). The point is, he harnessed the power of words to invigorate a physically and mentally drained group. And we returned clawing to win the game.Just like in sports, being motivated at work is vital for your performance.

This rings specifically true when you have a looming due date, an important presentation to provide, or colleagues or customers depending upon your performance.To help you remain motivated, no matter what your task tosses at you, we decided to put together 22 of the very best motivational speeches

from company, sports, home entertainment, and more. If you desire to get fired up for a job, watch these videos. Believe me, I was ready to compose a 5,000 word post after I saw them. And while the messages vary from speech to speech, they will put you in the ideal state of mind for taking on and squashing your next huge difficulty.(Disclaimer: Some speeches-- * cough * Al Pacino * cough *-- may consist of NSFW language.

)16 of the Best Inspirational Speeches 1)J.K. Rowling:" The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination"

(2008 )In J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard beginning speech, the Harry Potter author checked out how 2 phenomena-- failure and imagination-- can be crucial to success. While failure can help you understand where your real passion lies, and where you ought to focus your energy moving on, creativity is what will permit you to understand with other people so you can utilize your impact to do good.We do not need magic to alter the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves currently: we have the power to think of better. "2)David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water"(2005 )From the opening minutes of David Foster Wallace's

2005 Kenyon College beginning speech, where he concerns start speech conventions, it's clear that Wallace has some major wisdom to share. The core of his speech: A lot of us ignore our own

close-mindedness. We picture ourselves as the centers of our own, individual universes, instead of seeing the bigger, more interconnected picture.If you're automatically sure that you understand exactly what truth is and who and what is really important, if you want to operate on your default setting, then you, like me, most likely will not consider possibilities that aren't irritating and miserable. If you've really discovered how to think, how to

pay attention, then you'll understand you have other choices. It will really be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, sluggish, consumer hell-type circumstance as not just meaningful, however spiritual-- on fire with the exact same force that lit the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. "3 )Brené Brown: "The Power of Vulnerability"(2013)The video above is an animated excerpt from researcher Brené Brown's speech, " The Power of Vulnerability. "In the speech, Brown checks out how our worry of not being great enough(amongst other worries) drives us to protect ourselves from our own vulnerabilities.

The option to using this emotional match of armor: Welcome vulnerability throughunderstanding with others.Empathy is a choice, and it's a vulnerable option. Due to the fact that in order to link with you, I have to get in touch with something in myself that understands that feeling."4)Al Pacino:" Inch by Inch"(1999)Yes, this speech is from a football motion picture(Any Given Sunday ), but trust me: This isn't your stereotypical rah-rah-go-get -'em sports speech. It's deeper than that. It's about life, and loss, and ... gosh darn it simply pay attention to Al Pacino, he's pouring his soul out!Either we recover as a group or we're going to fall apart, inch by inch, play by play, till we're

finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen, think me

. And we can remain here and get the$& # @ tossed out of us, or we can combat our method back into the light. We can climb up from hell, one inch at a time."5)Steve Jobs:"The Best Ways To Live Before You Pass Away "(2005 )Thinking about the YouTube video of Steve Jobs'2005 Stanford commencement speech has 24 million views (not counting the 10 million+

additional views from replicate uploads), it's most likely that you've seen this one currently. In the speech, Jobs plays on 2 themes: linking the dots (anecdote: how taking a calligraphy class assisted influence the style of the Mac )and love & loss(anecdote: how getting fired from Apple helped influence his

greatest innovations ). Maybe the most remarkable part his speech comes

at the end, when he quotes the(now-famous)lines from the final problem of his favorite publication, The Entire Earth Catalog: Stay hungry. Stay foolish. "6)Ellen DeGeneres: Tulane University Beginning Speech(2009)Ellen's speech, as you might anticipate, has its amusing minutes. However it likewise checks out a few of the really individual and tragic episodes in her life that assisted push her into funny in & the first location. 2 essential styles of DeGeneres' speech: getting rid of hardship and being real to yourself. ForDeGeneres, that implied pushing onward with her career after her sitcom was canceled in action to her openly coming out as gay.Really, when I look back on it, I would not alter a thing.

I indicate, it was so essential for me

to lose whatever because I learnt what the most essential thing is ... to be true to yourself

. Eventually, that's exactly what's gotten me to this place. I don't live in worry. I'm free. I have no tricks and I know I'll constantly be OKAY, since no matter what, I know who I am."7 )Will Smith: Speech from The Pursuit of Happyness(2006)Here's another speech from the cinema, this time from the 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness. In the scene above, Will Smith's character discusses to his boy why he should not pursue basketball (since

he'll end up being "below par")before having a significant change of heart.Don't ever let someone tell you ... you can't do something. Not even me. All right? You got a dream. You got ta protect it. Individuals can't do something themselves, they desire to inform you can't do it. If you want something, go get it. Duration."8 )Sheryl Sandberg: Harvard Business School Class Day Speech( 2012)In her

speech to the HBS class of 2012 , Lean In author and tech executive Sheryl Sandberg deconstructed the

concept of the" career as a ladder."For Sandberg, a career has to do with finding chances where you can make an impact, not about chasing titles and planning a precise course. "If I had actually drawn up my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my profession,"she commented. Exactly what's more, Sandberg shuns the

standard wisdom of keeping feelings out of the office. For Sandberg, you have to care not only about exactly what you're working on, however likewise who you're working with."If you wish to win hearts and minds, you need to lead with your heart as well as your mind. I don't think we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the

rest of the time ... It is all professional and it is all individual, all at the same time. "9)Dan Pink: "The Puzzle of Inspiration"( 2009)Commissions, benefits, other incentives ... in the business world, these are the things that inspire individuals? According to Dan Pink in his 2009 TED Talk, such extrinsic motivators(a.k.a."carrots and sticks ")could actually be doing more damage than great. The most recent sociological research suggests that the real key to producing better work is to find intrinsic motivation inside of yourself.There is a mismatch between exactly what science understands and what service does. And what concerns me, as we stand here in the rubble of the economic collapse, is that a lot of companies are making their choices, their policies about talent and people, based on assumptions that are outdated, unexamined, and rooted more in folklore than in science."10 )Denzel Washington: "Fall Forward "( 2011 )In his 2011 UPenn start speech, Denzel Washington highlighted three reasons why we require to accept failure in order to achieve success. Initially,

everybody will stop working at something at some time, so you much better get utilized to it. Second, if you never ever fail, take that as an indication that you're not truly attempting. And 3rd, at the end of the day, failure will assist you find out what course you wish to be on.Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out twenty-six-hundred times in his profession-- the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. Individuals remember the house runs.

Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 stopped working experiments. Did you know that? I didn't understand that-- since # 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every stopped working experiment is one step better to success."11)Sylvester Stallone: Speech from Rocky Balboa( 2006) I needed to put this one next considering that it plays along the same themes as Denzel Washington's UPenn speech. In the

scene above, from the 2006 film Rocky Balboa, the title character(played by Sylvester Stallone )is having a heart-to-heart with his boy. The guidance he gives him: Do not let your failures or the adversity you face sluggish you down. Keep. Moving. Forward.Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunlight and rainbows. It's an extremely mean and nasty location, and I do not care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there completely if you let it.

You, me, or no one is gon na strike as hard as life. However it ain't about how hard you strike. It has to do with how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!"12 )Elizabeth Gilbert:"Your Elusive Creative Genius "(2009 )Following the extraordinary success of her book, Eat, Pray, Love, people started asking author Elizabeth Gilbert the very same concern over and over and over: How are you going to top that? In her 2009 TED Talk,

Gilbert explores that question while also taking a look at how our ideas

of genius and creativity have actually moved over the generations. While when viewed as different entities or states of being that anybody might use, genius and imagination have actually progressively ended up being related to people. And according to Gilbert, that shift has actually been putting a growing number of pressure on artists, writers, and other creatives to produce great work.I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she resembles, the vessel, you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all magnificent, innovative, unknowable, everlasting secret is just a smidge excessive responsibility to place on one delicate, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. It just completely warps and distorts egos, and it develops all these unmanageable expectations about efficiency. And I believe the pressure of that has actually been exterminating our artists for the last 500 years

."13 )Charlie Day: Merrimack College Start Speech(2014

)Best understood for his role in the comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, actor Charlie Day had great deals of knowledge to share during the 2014 start speech at his alma mater, Merrimack College. Day explained to the audience how college degrees are inherently valueless, since you can't trade them in for cash. Rather, it's you, your effort, and the risks you take that supply real value in life.You can not let a worry of failure or a worry of comparison or a worry of judgment stop you from doing the things that will make you great. You can not be successful without the risk of failure. You can not have a voice without the danger of criticism. You can not like without the danger of loss.

You must take these threats."14)Frank Oz/Yoda: Speech from The Empire Strikes Back( 1980)This speech from The Empire Strikes Back felt like a natural follow-up to Charlie Day's speech. In the scene above, Yoda-- voiced by Frank Oz-- is teaching Luke the ways of the force. One of his crucial mentors: Whether or not something can or can't be done (e.g., lifting an X-Wing out of a swamp)is all in your head. So rather of doubting yourself, think in yourself."Do, or do not. There is no try." 15)William Wallace: Speech From the Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297)OK, I'll confess: I couldn't discover a recording of the actual speech Scottish flexibility fighter William Wallace provided at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297( the historian I spoke with stated something about"nonexistent innovation "and me"being an idiot, "however I digress ). Historic accuracy aside, there's no rejecting that Mel Gibson's variation of the speech from the 1995 movie Braveheart can assist get you pumped up. "Aye, battle and you might die.

Run and you'll live-- a minimum of a while. And dying in your beds several years from now, would you be ready to trade all the days from this day to that for one opportunity, just one possibility to come back here and tell our enemies that they might take our lives, however they'll never take our flexibility!!! "16)Orlando Scampington:" The Pillars of C.L.A.M."

(2015)Sometimes humor is the very best motivator. So here's an INBOUND Vibrant Talk

fromself-proclaimed author, thought leader, dreamer, cat owner, visionary, and"follower in limitless human capacity, "Orlando Scampington. As you'll quickly realize upon checking out the quote below, it's difficult to describe exactly what his speech is in fact about-- so I believe it's much better that you simply dive in and take pleasure in. "Culture is the bitter inebriated coachmen lashing motivation into the ungrateful workhorses, so

they drag the wagon of growth down the road of success. I think that's a very accurate example."17 )Kurt Russell: "This is Your Time" (2004 )

The Wonder on Ice is still considered the most significant upset in Olympic hockey history. And for good factor. The Soviet Union won 6 of the last 7 Olympic gold medals, and the United States team consisted only of amateur gamers. It was apparent the Soviets were much better. But, in the motion picture Wonder, which told the fish story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, Kurt Russell's character-- Coach Herb Brooks-- understood that this video game was various. The U.S. was much better than the Soviets that day. And his speech communicated such a strong belief in his group that they managed among the biggest sports minutes of the 20th century."If we played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game ... Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stick with them.

And we shut them down since we can! Tonight, WE are the biggest hockey group on the planet.

You were born to be hockey gamers, each of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time."18 )Jim Valvano: ESPY Speech(1993 )Less than two months prior to he lost his battle to cancer, Jim Valvano provided among the most impactful and timeless speeches about living life to the maximum. My words can't do it justice, so be gotten ready for some laughter, tears, and thought."I just got one last thing; I urge all of you, all you, to enjoy your life, the precious minutes you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some idea, to obtain your emotions going.

To be passionate every day, and Ralph Waldo Emerson said,"

Absolutely nothing great might be accomplished without interest,"to keep your dreams alive in spite of issues whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come real, to become a truth."19 )Mel Gibson:"The Valley of the Shadow of Death"(2002)The film We Were Soldiers happens in one of the most racially charged decades in American history, however Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore-- played by Mel Gibson-- provided such a rousing speech that it brought an extremely varied group of soldiers together as one system. He knew if his soldiers might set their differences aside, then they would form a true brotherhood, increasing their chances of survival as a whole. That method, the memories of their lost brothers might reside on forever when they returned home." I cannot guarantee that I will bring you all house alive.

This I swear before you and prior to Almighty God: that when we go into battle, I will be the very first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off. And I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So assist me God. "20 )Kal Penn: DePauw University Start Speech (2014 )In 2014, Kal Penn delivered an uplifting speech that DePauw University will never ever forget. He recommended graduates to aim for

success however to not let it loosen their grip on the things that actually matter, like remaining gotten in touch with liked ones, being adventurous, and acting selflessly. He also comforted millennials everywhere, convincing them that their futures are full of prospective and

pledge because their generation's identity is rooted in innovation."Chance is all around us. You're graduating at a time where youth unemployment is high. But your peers are refusing to sit idly by. You're the most active, service-driven generation, the most imaginative, the most tech-savvy. You're creating chances, developing gadgets, placing an emphasis on social responsibility over greed. So stop stressing a lot. Why are you stressed?"21 )Charles Dutton: Speech from Rudy(1993) In the film Rudy, Sean Astin's character, Rudy Ruettiger, gives up the Notre Dame football group since he has to watch among his last games from the stands. After 2 years of difficult practices and never ever as soon as being apart of the group on the sidelines, he's done handling the humiliation. His friend Fortune-- played by Charles Dutton-- flips the script on him. He reveals Rudy that he shouldn't be embarrassed. He should be happy since he's shown to everyone that his perseverance and heart can bring him through any difficulty. He simply has to realize that himself. And the only method he can do that is if he remains on the team for the remainder of the

season." You're 5 feet nothin ', a 100 and nothin', and you got barely a speck of athletic ability. And you awaited with the finest college football group in the land for two years. And you're also going to walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life time, you do not need to show

nothin' to no one-- except yourself. And after exactly what you have actually gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't going to never ever take place. Now go on back."22)Vera Jones:"But the Blind Can Lead the Blind ... "(2016)Last year at INBOUND, Vera Jones informed a moving story about the life lessons she's gained from raising her blind child. She describes how having faith in your future and letting it lead you toward your real purpose will help you conquer blinding challenges. She also talks about how following your enthusiasm and trusting your vision establishes compassion, which is a vital management skill."Passionately play your position no matter how bad things get. You are considerable. Why we are here is not for our own magnificence. Eventually, we're here to lead and serve everybody else. By doing that, we encourage others to do the very same. "Seen other motivational speeches that should be on this list? Share them in the remarks section below!

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22 Tricks Sneaky Movie Buffs Use To Watch Movies For Free (Legally)

The first motion picture movie theater opened in 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a single admission ticket only cost a nickel.

Going to the movies on a Friday night has been an American pastime ever since, but with tickets costing as much as $9 per person, many families can’t afford to go to the theater on a regular basis.

Thankfully, free movie websites make watching your favorite movies possible by saving you some dough too!

  Money Hack: Earn up to $50 in AMC Movie passes by sharing your opinion with Swagbucks – one the most trusted survey sites with a Trust Pilot rating of 8.3 out of 10.

  You may still want hit up the theater for the opening night to watch the next Star Wars or comic book hero installment, but you can also watch movies from the comfort of your house most weeks of the year. Since you probably have a flat screen TV at home, high speed internet, and a stash of snacks in the pantry, the viewing experience may just be more enjoyable at your very own “private” theater.

Finally, you should consider these free movie websites if you need a break from the Netflix or Hulu catalogs which are extensive, but don’t have everything.

Try These Free Movie Websites First

Most “free movie websites” are scams or illegal. You’re going to want to stay away from sites like BitTorrent that download small packets of data from various users so you eventually download the entire video for free.

This technology isn’t new, if you want to learn a lesson in Internet History 101, research the history of Napster which was the pioneer of free media sharing sites.

The sites we’re going to mention in this list are legal and you don’t have to worry about getting scammed or breaking the law.

Most of the sites offer classic movies that belong in the public domain but you can still watch new movies for free too. For the best selection of newer movies, visit one of the movie websites listed here first.

1. Crackle

If you own a Roku Express device, you already have a few apps pre-installed that you can use to stream content directly from your computer. One of the free streaming apps that you should check out first is Crackle, which contains the Sony Pictures TV and movies catalog.

You can watch newer releases like Fury or Zookeeper, or classics that you watched as a child including Look Who’s Talking or the original Karate Kid.

When you don’t want to watch a full feature film, you can also watch classic and current TV series such as:

All in the Family

Who’s the Boss?

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Dr. Ken

Get the Crackle Apps Here:

Crackle TV App (iOS)

Crackle TV App (Google Play)

2. TubiTV

With more than 7,439 movie and TV titles from Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, MGM and other large motion pictures studios, tubiTV is definitely worth a look. You can also watch these titles on virtually any device with the downloadable app that helps give tubiTV two thumbs up! Or does that rating system only apply to movies themselves?

Because tubiTV has so many titles you could call it the “Netflix of free movie sites.” It features new releases, old classics, and movies or TV shows that never blipped on your radar before.

You can quickly sort movies by genre, new releases, recently added, or going away soon.

How does tubiTV offer so many movies for free? You have to watch ads in between. While this can be a small nuisance, the movie is free and it’s still better than watching it on live cable TV when you have to sit through the entire three to five-minute commercial break.

Get the tubiTV Apps Here:

tubiTV App (iOS)

tubiTV App (Google Play)

3. Vudu

Vudu offers free movies and TV shows with advertisements. Once again, these ads might be a hassle but it’s the cost of being able to watch newer movies for free before they enter the public domain. And, these ad-supported streaming platforms also offer apps that let you watch a movie directly on your TV or mobile device in full screen.

Not every movie on Vudu is free, however. Click their “Movies on Us” tab to navigate the free movies section. If there’s a movie you want to see without in-movie ads, you can see how much it costs to rent or own.

Get the Vudu Apps Here:

Vudu App (iOS)

Vudu App (Google Play)

4. Pluto TV

Pluto TV offers 75 channels for live TV, movies, and internet videos. You can watch live TV for free without creating an account, but you’ll have to register to watch movies for free. If you’re looking to cut the cord, Pluto can be an option worth considering to watch those specialized channels that you might only get with a premium cable package.

Regarding free movies, you’ll need to browse through the different channel lineups to see what you can watch with commercials. You won’t be able to watch content on-demand, so Pluto TV will feel a lot like flipping through the channels of your current cable TV or satellite provider as you scroll through the channel guide and click on the channel you want to watch.

It’s possible to stream Pluto TV on your computer, mobile device, or your TV when you use a streaming device that accesses the Pluto TV app.

Get the Pluto Apps Here:

Pluto TV App (iOS)

Pluto TV App (Google Play)

5. Popcornflix

The mission statement of Popcornflix is “Great Movies. Free.”

Since they’re sponsored by the largest independent distributor of motion pictures with a catalog containing 1,500 movies, it’s safe to say that Popcornflix is doing a good job at living up to their goal of being a premier free movie website.

Popcornflix offers old and new movies in every genre and some of their most popular options include John Wayne’s Stagecoach, Clear and Present Danger starring Harrison Ford, and Steve Austin in Tactical Force.

You can stream Popcornflix online or with one of the following devices via the downloadable app:

Roku

Apple TV

Amazon

Xbox

Android and Apple mobile devices

Get the Popcornflix Apps Here:

Popcornflix App (iOS)

Popcornflix App (Google Play)

6. MoviesFoundOnline.com

MoviesFoundOnline offers a surprisingly wide selection of movies that have been released since 1997. Don’t worry, classic movie fans will still find plenty of movies that are from the 1940s or earlier like Gulliver’s Travels (1939) or Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

Some of the feature films you might enjoy include Smokey and the Bandit or G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Besides feature films, you might also enjoy some of the other digital content including:

Documentaries

TV series

Short films

Animations

Comedy

Viral videos

The one downside is that you must either stream the movie from your computer or download it as MoviesFoundOnline doesn’t have an app.

7. YouTube

YouTube is for more than watching the latest viral videos.

You can also watch a large collection of movies for free, the only catch is that the playback speed, audio or video quality, or an abridged runtime is used to avoid copyright infringement. If you want to watch the actual film, you can rent the movie for $2.99 in standard definition and $3.99 for high definition quality.

    8. Classic Cinema Online

Patrons of Classic Cinema Online can enjoy movies from the 1960s and earlier. You may even decide to watch a silent film, just like the first moviegoers did at the Nickelodeon theater in 1905!

Classic Cinema Online doesn’t have the largest movie catalog, but it’s probably the most family-friendly of the free movie websites listed in this post. Browsing through the catalog, you’ll find movies starring the likes of John Wayne, Abbott and Costello, and Cary Grant.

You’ll have the best success watching the movies on your computer as most movies stream from an embedded YouTube screen.

9. Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has a wide collection of classic films that you might enjoy for the following categories:

Film noir

Charlie Chaplin

Three Stooges

Silent movies

There’s also a collection of short films, trailers, and TV shows–both old and recent–that you might like as well. You’ll have to sift through what’s good and what doesn’t interest you as there are some off-the-wall videos you probably won’t find anywhere else, or didn’t even know they existed.

Internet Archive has a few adult-only titles so you won’t want children browsing this site without parental supervision.

10. Retrovision

Retrovision offers classic movies and TV for most movie genres and a few hit TV shows including:

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bonanza

Dragnet

The Lucy Show

You can either stream online watching the movie within your internet browser or with the Android app on your mobile device.

Get the Retrovision App Here:

Retrovision App (Google Play Only)

11. Open Culture

Open Culture offers 1,150 free movies with most being classic American films from the 1960s and earlier. There are also several foreign films available to watch too; Korean movies in particular.

If you’re looking to start a new hobby, you can also use Open Culture to learn a foreign language, learn a new skill with free online courses, and also listening to over 900 free audiobooks.

12. Top Documentary Films

Are you ready to learn something new? Top Documentary Films offers hundreds of documentary films on almost any topic, including many documentaries that have been produced in the last year.

If you want to brush up on history, health, conspiracy theories, and the performing arts–just to name a few of the possibilities–to help you learn while you’re entertained.

If you have children at home, you might even enjoy the National Geographic documentaries available here too.

13. Viewster

Viewster specializes in anime movies, but also offers a few other genres too including gaming and comedy. With such a focused movie catalog, Viewster might not be your first option if you want a full feature film. But, Viewster offers content that you won’t find at many of the other free movie websites that focus more on the public domain movie database that primarily consists of movies from the 1960s or before.

14. Overdrive

Your local library might partner with Overdrive, an online platform that lets you rent movies, ebooks, and audiobooks for free. The catalog isn’t the biggest and you might have to reserve a title and wait your turn, but it’s free and offers a selection of family-friendly content that you won’t find at some of the other places.

You can see visit your local library and ask if they offer free online movies, or you might find a link on their website too.

15. SnagFilms

Indie film lovers will enjoy Snagfilms for fictional movies and documentaries. You can also watch classic movies that belong in the public domain too.

If you want to try watching something different tonight, SnagFilms fits the bill because they offer many titles that you probably won’t see in many other places because most of these movies are produced by independent studios.

16. Veoh

Veoh lets you watch free movies from all over the world. You will need to create an account to begin watching movies to begin searching for something to watch tonight for almost any movie genre.

17. Vimeo

Vimeo offers a small free movie catalog with the “Staff Picks” section. Many of these videos are only five minutes or less and are very eclectic so you won’t be watching the next epic blockbuster that will redefine the way Hollywood produces movies for the next generation. But, you can watch short movies that can get your brain thinking and maybe seeing a video before it goes viral on social media.

18. Yidio

Yidio offers a free movie section, but it’s more like a movie streaming search engine to see where you can watch a title online for free or for a small fee. Using Yidio can help you save time looking for free movies instead of spending half the evening looking for the perfect title and then it’s too late to either start the movie or watch it in entirety.

Alternatives to Free Movie Sites (Besides Netflix)

You might decide that a free movie website isn’t going to fully replace going to the movie theater, but you’re tired of your current Netflix subscription. These movie websites cost money, but they still offer high-quality movies at affordable prices.

19. Hulu

Maybe you joined Hulu with Live TV to save money by streaming your cable TV over your high speed internet connection.

What you might not realize is that you also get access to the entire Hulu catalog to watch almost any TV show or movie on-demand. Because the various national TV networks–ABC, NBC, Fox–all own a portion of Hulu, you might find the most diverse movie catalog here. See, these three TV networks also produce full feature movies through their parent companies to captivate your mind on the flatscreen and silver screen.

20. Pureflix

Do you want to stream movies without worrying about the inappropriate content you don’t want your children to see?

Pureflix is one of the best streaming platforms to watch Christian and family-friendly movies, TV shows, and documentaries. You also get a free 30-day trial to test drive PureFlix before you must commit to a monthly or annual subscription plan as well.

21. Amazon Prime

Maybe you joined Amazon Prime for the free, two-day shipping. One of the other fringe benefits of Prime membership is free movies and TV shows.

Like Netflix and Hulu, Amazon is also creating their own exclusive content that you won’t find anywhere else including the movie store, theater, or premium cable TV channels like HBO or Starz.

22. Lifetime Movie Club

If you’re only keeping your cable plan because of Lifetime, you might be able to cancel it by joining the Lifetime Movie Club. For about four bucks a month, you can watch Lifetime movies on your TV, computer, or mobile device commercial-free whenever you want!

FAQs

Have you ever tried one of these free movie websites before?

To help answer some of your questions about streaming movies and to help you from getting scammed, definitely take anything that’s “free” on the internet with a grain of salt…well except for the free advice we provide on Money Peach of course! 😉

Are Free Movie Websites a Scam?

Before you try watching your first movie online for free, try looking around the site before you click play. There are dozens of websites that claim to offer free movies, but nothing happens when you click play.

Some websites are simply duds that no longer work. Others might put spyware on your computer, this is most likely the case if you’re trying to watch a new release that isn’t even on DVD yet. The only way to watch new movies for free is usually with periodic in-movie ads from one of the websites listed above.

There might be others that let you stream new movies for free which aren’t listed here, but do your homework to make sure the site is legit.

If you are on a free movie website that you’re unsure about, look for these clues:

Contact information

An About Us page

State how they offer the movies for free (public domain or permission from the studio)

Positive reviews from at least one third-party website

Yout might take your vetting process a step further and only join a website that has a free app. Most scam sites aren’t going to take the time to create an app. If they do, those who have been scammed will leave bad feedback in the app store so you can quickly discover the website doesn’t have the noblest of intentions.

Can You Stream Any Movie for Free?

Unfortunately not every movie can be streamed for free online; legally at least.

The answer isn’t as cut and dry thanks to the ins-and-outs of the Copyright Act of 1976, but essentially if the copyright isn’t renewed for a movie or TV show before the current copyright expires, the movie enters the public domain.

When the movie enters the public domain, it can be broadcast and streamed penalty-free. This is why most of the free movie websites have movies and TV shows from the 1960s and earlier that you can watch commercial-free.

New movies can also be part of the public domain at the producer’s discretion. But since these movies can still be broadcast and licensed for royalties, most producers won’t do this until they can no longer make a profit from the film.

You should also avoid sites that download movies via torrent. The legality of these websites are questionable, plus they can be a backdoor way to install spyware and viruses on your computer if you come into contact with a bad actor.

Can You Watch New Movies for Free?

Watching new movies for free isn’t as easy because they are still earning a profit for the studio and don’t belong in the public domain. That means you might only be able to watch the movie on one or two streaming sites instead of ten.

For example, Sony Pictures owns Crackle which might be the only movie website that lets you watch certain titles for free. You can watch these movies with limited ads which are worth the tradeoff of having to take the entire family to the theater to see it.

Are Free Movie Websites Legal?

The free movie websites listed above are legal because they either provide movies included in the public domain or they partner with the movie studio to legally show the movies for free.

They also play commercials to pay the streaming royalties to the studio that you must watch. You can click on the ads to help the streaming service earn a small commision so they can expand their catalog.

Can I Watch Free Movies with Roku?

Yes!

Several of the movie websites included here offer a free Roku app that works with your Roku Express or Roku Streaming Stick+ to seamlessly watch the free movies directly on your TV.

You will need to see which websites support Roku streaming, but these suggestions are already set up for Roku:

Crackle

Vudu

TubiTV

Popcornflix

Which Free Movie Website Is the Best?

That answer depends on what you want to watch and how you want to watch it. The most common viewing method is streaming directly on your personal laptop like you watch a YouTube video.

If you have a smart TV, Roku, or video game system that you want to watch videos with, you should consider one of the free movie apps listed above, Crackle and Vudu are probably the two most common apps but there are several to choose from.

Summary

When a movie ticket costs $9 a person, what do you have to lose by trying a free movie website?

If you enjoy old movies, you’ll now be able to watch them for free compared to keeping a cable or Netflix subscription. Even newer movies can be watched for free if you’re willing to sit through a few commercials.

Now choose your favorite site listed above, grab a bowl of popcorn, and sit back and enjoy the show!

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22 Tricks Sneaky Movie Buffs Use To Watch Movies For Free (Legally)

The first motion picture movie theater opened in 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a single admission ticket only cost a nickel.

Going to the movies on a Friday night has been an American pastime ever since, but with tickets costing as much as $9 per person, many families can’t afford to go to the theater on a regular basis.

Thankfully, free movie websites make watching your favorite movies possible by saving you some dough too!

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  You may still want hit up the theater for the opening night to watch the next Star Wars or comic book hero installment, but you can also watch movies from the comfort of your house most weeks of the year. Since you probably have a flat screen TV at home, high speed internet, and a stash of snacks in the pantry, the viewing experience may just be more enjoyable at your very own “private” theater.

Finally, you should consider these free movie websites if you need a break from the Netflix or Hulu catalogs which are extensive, but don’t have everything.

Try These Free Movie Websites First

Most “free movie websites” are scams or illegal. You’re going to want to stay away from sites like BitTorrent that download small packets of data from various users so you eventually download the entire video for free.

This technology isn’t new, if you want to learn a lesson in Internet History 101, research the history of Napster which was the pioneer of free media sharing sites.

The sites we’re going to mention in this list are legal and you don’t have to worry about getting scammed or breaking the law.

Most of the sites offer classic movies that belong in the public domain but you can still watch new movies for free too. For the best selection of newer movies, visit one of the movie websites listed here first.

1. Crackle

If you own a Roku Express device, you already have a few apps pre-installed that you can use to stream content directly from your computer. One of the free streaming apps that you should check out first is Crackle, which contains the Sony Pictures TV and movies catalog.

You can watch newer releases like Fury or Zookeeper, or classics that you watched as a child including Look Who’s Talking or the original Karate Kid.

When you don’t want to watch a full feature film, you can also watch classic and current TV series such as:

All in the Family

Who’s the Boss?

Community

Dr. Ken

Get the Crackle Apps Here:

Crackle TV App (iOS)

Crackle TV App (Google Play)

2. TubiTV

With more than 7,439 movie and TV titles from Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, MGM and other large motion pictures studios, tubiTV is definitely worth a look. You can also watch these titles on virtually any device with the downloadable app that helps give tubiTV two thumbs up! Or does that rating system only apply to movies themselves?

Because tubiTV has so many titles you could call it the “Netflix of free movie sites.” It features new releases, old classics, and movies or TV shows that never blipped on your radar before.

You can quickly sort movies by genre, new releases, recently added, or going away soon.

How does tubiTV offer so many movies for free? You have to watch ads in between. While this can be a small nuisance, the movie is free and it’s still better than watching it on live cable TV when you have to sit through the entire three to five-minute commercial break.

Get the tubiTV Apps Here:

tubiTV App (iOS)

tubiTV App (Google Play)

3. Vudu

Vudu offers free movies and TV shows with advertisements. Once again, these ads might be a hassle but it’s the cost of being able to watch newer movies for free before they enter the public domain. And, these ad-supported streaming platforms also offer apps that let you watch a movie directly on your TV or mobile device in full screen.

Not every movie on Vudu is free, however. Click their “Movies on Us” tab to navigate the free movies section. If there’s a movie you want to see without in-movie ads, you can see how much it costs to rent or own.

Get the Vudu Apps Here:

Vudu App (iOS)

Vudu App (Google Play)

4. Pluto TV

Pluto TV offers 75 channels for live TV, movies, and internet videos. You can watch live TV for free without creating an account, but you’ll have to register to watch movies for free. If you’re looking to cut the cord, Pluto can be an option worth considering to watch those specialized channels that you might only get with a premium cable package.

Regarding free movies, you’ll need to browse through the different channel lineups to see what you can watch with commercials. You won’t be able to watch content on-demand, so Pluto TV will feel a lot like flipping through the channels of your current cable TV or satellite provider as you scroll through the channel guide and click on the channel you want to watch.

It’s possible to stream Pluto TV on your computer, mobile device, or your TV when you use a streaming device that accesses the Pluto TV app.

Get the Pluto Apps Here:

Pluto TV App (iOS)

Pluto TV App (Google Play)

5. Popcornflix

The mission statement of Popcornflix is “Great Movies. Free.”

Since they’re sponsored by the largest independent distributor of motion pictures with a catalog containing 1,500 movies, it’s safe to say that Popcornflix is doing a good job at living up to their goal of being a premier free movie website.

Popcornflix offers old and new movies in every genre and some of their most popular options include John Wayne’s Stagecoach, Clear and Present Danger starring Harrison Ford, and Steve Austin in Tactical Force.

You can stream Popcornflix online or with one of the following devices via the downloadable app:

Roku

Apple TV

Amazon

Xbox

Android and Apple mobile devices

Get the Popcornflix Apps Here:

Popcornflix App (iOS)

Popcornflix App (Google Play)

6. MoviesFoundOnline.com

MoviesFoundOnline offers a surprisingly wide selection of movies that have been released since 1997. Don’t worry, classic movie fans will still find plenty of movies that are from the 1940s or earlier like Gulliver’s Travels (1939) or Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

Some of the feature films you might enjoy include Smokey and the Bandit or G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Besides feature films, you might also enjoy some of the other digital content including:

Documentaries

TV series

Short films

Animations

Comedy

Viral videos

The one downside is that you must either stream the movie from your computer or download it as MoviesFoundOnline doesn’t have an app.

7. YouTube

YouTube is for more than watching the latest viral videos.

You can also watch a large collection of movies for free, the only catch is that the playback speed, audio or video quality, or an abridged runtime is used to avoid copyright infringement. If you want to watch the actual film, you can rent the movie for $2.99 in standard definition and $3.99 for high definition quality.

    8. Classic Cinema Online

Patrons of Classic Cinema Online can enjoy movies from the 1960s and earlier. You may even decide to watch a silent film, just like the first moviegoers did at the Nickelodeon theater in 1905!

Classic Cinema Online doesn’t have the largest movie catalog, but it’s probably the most family-friendly of the free movie websites listed in this post. Browsing through the catalog, you’ll find movies starring the likes of John Wayne, Abbott and Costello, and Cary Grant.

You’ll have the best success watching the movies on your computer as most movies stream from an embedded YouTube screen.

9. Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has a wide collection of classic films that you might enjoy for the following categories:

Film noir

Charlie Chaplin

Three Stooges

Silent movies

There’s also a collection of short films, trailers, and TV shows–both old and recent–that you might like as well. You’ll have to sift through what’s good and what doesn’t interest you as there are some off-the-wall videos you probably won’t find anywhere else, or didn’t even know they existed.

Internet Archive has a few adult-only titles so you won’t want children browsing this site without parental supervision.

10. Retrovision

Retrovision offers classic movies and TV for most movie genres and a few hit TV shows including:

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bonanza

Dragnet

The Lucy Show

You can either stream online watching the movie within your internet browser or with the Android app on your mobile device.

Get the Retrovision App Here:

Retrovision App (Google Play Only)

11. Open Culture

Open Culture offers 1,150 free movies with most being classic American films from the 1960s and earlier. There are also several foreign films available to watch too; Korean movies in particular.

If you’re looking to start a new hobby, you can also use Open Culture to learn a foreign language, learn a new skill with free online courses, and also listening to over 900 free audiobooks.

12. Top Documentary Films

Are you ready to learn something new? Top Documentary Films offers hundreds of documentary films on almost any topic, including many documentaries that have been produced in the last year.

If you want to brush up on history, health, conspiracy theories, and the performing arts–just to name a few of the possibilities–to help you learn while you’re entertained.

If you have children at home, you might even enjoy the National Geographic documentaries available here too.

13. Viewster

Viewster specializes in anime movies, but also offers a few other genres too including gaming and comedy. With such a focused movie catalog, Viewster might not be your first option if you want a full feature film. But, Viewster offers content that you won’t find at many of the other free movie websites that focus more on the public domain movie database that primarily consists of movies from the 1960s or before.

14. Overdrive

Your local library might partner with Overdrive, an online platform that lets you rent movies, ebooks, and audiobooks for free. The catalog isn’t the biggest and you might have to reserve a title and wait your turn, but it’s free and offers a selection of family-friendly content that you won’t find at some of the other places.

You can see visit your local library and ask if they offer free online movies, or you might find a link on their website too.

15. SnagFilms

Indie film lovers will enjoy Snagfilms for fictional movies and documentaries. You can also watch classic movies that belong in the public domain too.

If you want to try watching something different tonight, SnagFilms fits the bill because they offer many titles that you probably won’t see in many other places because most of these movies are produced by independent studios.

16. Veoh

Veoh lets you watch free movies from all over the world. You will need to create an account to begin watching movies to begin searching for something to watch tonight for almost any movie genre.

17. Vimeo

Vimeo offers a small free movie catalog with the “Staff Picks” section. Many of these videos are only five minutes or less and are very eclectic so you won’t be watching the next epic blockbuster that will redefine the way Hollywood produces movies for the next generation. But, you can watch short movies that can get your brain thinking and maybe seeing a video before it goes viral on social media.

18. Yidio

Yidio offers a free movie section, but it’s more like a movie streaming search engine to see where you can watch a title online for free or for a small fee. Using Yidio can help you save time looking for free movies instead of spending half the evening looking for the perfect title and then it’s too late to either start the movie or watch it in entirety.

Alternatives to Free Movie Sites (Besides Netflix)

You might decide that a free movie website isn’t going to fully replace going to the movie theater, but you’re tired of your current Netflix subscription. These movie websites cost money, but they still offer high-quality movies at affordable prices.

19. Hulu

Maybe you joined Hulu with Live TV to save money by streaming your cable TV over your high speed internet connection.

What you might not realize is that you also get access to the entire Hulu catalog to watch almost any TV show or movie on-demand. Because the various national TV networks–ABC, NBC, Fox–all own a portion of Hulu, you might find the most diverse movie catalog here. See, these three TV networks also produce full feature movies through their parent companies to captivate your mind on the flatscreen and silver screen.

20. Pureflix

Do you want to stream movies without worrying about the inappropriate content you don’t want your children to see?

Pureflix is one of the best streaming platforms to watch Christian and family-friendly movies, TV shows, and documentaries. You also get a free 30-day trial to test drive PureFlix before you must commit to a monthly or annual subscription plan as well.

21. Amazon Prime

Maybe you joined Amazon Prime for the free, two-day shipping. One of the other fringe benefits of Prime membership is free movies and TV shows.

Like Netflix and Hulu, Amazon is also creating their own exclusive content that you won’t find anywhere else including the movie store, theater, or premium cable TV channels like HBO or Starz.

22. Lifetime Movie Club

If you’re only keeping your cable plan because of Lifetime, you might be able to cancel it by joining the Lifetime Movie Club. For about four bucks a month, you can watch Lifetime movies on your TV, computer, or mobile device commercial-free whenever you want!

FAQs

Have you ever tried one of these free movie websites before?

To help answer some of your questions about streaming movies and to help you from getting scammed, definitely take anything that’s “free” on the internet with a grain of salt…well except for the free advice we provide on Money Peach of course! 😉

Are Free Movie Websites a Scam?

Before you try watching your first movie online for free, try looking around the site before you click play. There are dozens of websites that claim to offer free movies, but nothing happens when you click play.

Some websites are simply duds that no longer work. Others might put spyware on your computer, this is most likely the case if you’re trying to watch a new release that isn’t even on DVD yet. The only way to watch new movies for free is usually with periodic in-movie ads from one of the websites listed above.

There might be others that let you stream new movies for free which aren’t listed here, but do your homework to make sure the site is legit.

If you are on a free movie website that you’re unsure about, look for these clues:

Contact information

An About Us page

State how they offer the movies for free (public domain or permission from the studio)

Positive reviews from at least one third-party website

Yout might take your vetting process a step further and only join a website that has a free app. Most scam sites aren’t going to take the time to create an app. If they do, those who have been scammed will leave bad feedback in the app store so you can quickly discover the website doesn’t have the noblest of intentions.

Can You Stream Any Movie for Free?

Unfortunately not every movie can be streamed for free online; legally at least.

The answer isn’t as cut and dry thanks to the ins-and-outs of the Copyright Act of 1976, but essentially if the copyright isn’t renewed for a movie or TV show before the current copyright expires, the movie enters the public domain.

When the movie enters the public domain, it can be broadcast and streamed penalty-free. This is why most of the free movie websites have movies and TV shows from the 1960s and earlier that you can watch commercial-free.

New movies can also be part of the public domain at the producer’s discretion. But since these movies can still be broadcast and licensed for royalties, most producers won’t do this until they can no longer make a profit from the film.

You should also avoid sites that download movies via torrent. The legality of these websites are questionable, plus they can be a backdoor way to install spyware and viruses on your computer if you come into contact with a bad actor.

Can You Watch New Movies for Free?

Watching new movies for free isn’t as easy because they are still earning a profit for the studio and don’t belong in the public domain. That means you might only be able to watch the movie on one or two streaming sites instead of ten.

For example, Sony Pictures owns Crackle which might be the only movie website that lets you watch certain titles for free. You can watch these movies with limited ads which are worth the tradeoff of having to take the entire family to the theater to see it.

Are Free Movie Websites Legal?

The free movie websites listed above are legal because they either provide movies included in the public domain or they partner with the movie studio to legally show the movies for free.

They also play commercials to pay the streaming royalties to the studio that you must watch. You can click on the ads to help the streaming service earn a small commision so they can expand their catalog.

Can I Watch Free Movies with Roku?

Yes!

Several of the movie websites included here offer a free Roku app that works with your Roku Express or Roku Streaming Stick+ to seamlessly watch the free movies directly on your TV.

You will need to see which websites support Roku streaming, but these suggestions are already set up for Roku:

Crackle

Vudu

TubiTV

Popcornflix

Which Free Movie Website Is the Best?

That answer depends on what you want to watch and how you want to watch it. The most common viewing method is streaming directly on your personal laptop like you watch a YouTube video.

If you have a smart TV, Roku, or video game system that you want to watch videos with, you should consider one of the free movie apps listed above, Crackle and Vudu are probably the two most common apps but there are several to choose from.

Summary

When a movie ticket costs $9 a person, what do you have to lose by trying a free movie website?

If you enjoy old movies, you’ll now be able to watch them for free compared to keeping a cable or Netflix subscription. Even newer movies can be watched for free if you’re willing to sit through a few commercials.

Now choose your favorite site listed above, grab a bowl of popcorn, and sit back and enjoy the show!

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