After a bungled convenience-store robbery, lovers Watty Watts and Starlene Cheatham make a reckless run for the Mexican border, pursued by their drug-addled former partner, a pair of thugs and Texas lawmen.
Daily Archives: April 1, 2013
Streaming: Love and a .45
Streaming: Witness
Detective John Book goes undercover in an Amish community to protect a boy who witnessed a murder. Once inside, Block must adjust to major culture shock while cautiously romancing the boy’s mother.
Streaming: The Impostors
To elude the wrath of overbearing Broadway star Sir Jeremy Burtom, two struggling actors are forced into a madcap succession of masquerades aboard an elite ocean liner swarming with people who aren’t what they seem.
Streaming: Another Day in Paradise
Injured in the middle of a break-in, Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie are taken in by an older junkie couple, Mel and Sid, who enlist them to help in a drug robbery. The four go on the road together, but their allegiance soon begins to crumble.
Streaming: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
A scheming college student is desperate to get home for Christmas so he can collect his gift: a vintage Porsche. Unfortunately, he’s stranded in the desert with no money and no ID. Will losing everything help him find the real meaning of the holiday?
Streaming: Man on the Moon
Jim Carrey gives the performance of his career as the insanely inventive comedian Andy Kaufman, best known as lovable mechanic Latka Gravas on the 1970s sitcom “Taxi,” who shocked audiences with his caustic, off-the-wall routines. Director Milos Forman vividly recreates the era (with help from Lorne Michaels and David Letterman, who play themselves) and profiles a man who often blended comedy with performance art.
Streaming: But I’m a Cheerleader
A “normal” teen cheerleader dating the football captain draws suspicion from parents and friends who think she’s gay. Shipped off to a camp designed to shove her back in the closet, she meets a tomboy who helps her recognize her sexual orientation.
Streaming: Shaft
In John Singleton’s update of the 1970s classic, New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for murder, but he jumps bail to Switzerland, returning to face trial two years later.
Streaming: Along Came a Spider
When a girl is kidnapped from a prestigious prep school, homicide detective Alex Cross takes the case, teaming up with young security agent Jezzie Flannigan in hopes of finding the girl and stopping the brutal psychopath before it’s too late.
Streaming: Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn, the essence of 1950s chic, stars in an Oscar-winning performance as a cosseted European princess who goes AWOL in Rome and is soon taken under the wing of tabloid journalist Gregory Peck and his photographer sidekick, Eddie Albert. She thinks the boys don’t suspect who she really is, but they’re onto her — and sense a sensational story if they can just keep Audrey’s handlers from retrieving her too soon.
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