Tubi is free, loaded with hidden gems, and beats paying Netflix prices every month. This week: a 1999 adventure classic, one of the most intense action thrillers of the 90s, and a Coppola coming-of-age film packed with future stars. All free on Tubi right now.
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Ten movies worth watching this Fourth of July ranked from great to essential. Not all war films this time, just pure American spirit from Sergeant York all the way up to The Patriot.
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Tubi is free, loaded with hidden gems, and beats paying Netflix prices every month. Here are three films worth your time this week on Tubi.
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Anthony Nash of Coming Soon wants you to believe every decision Christopher Nolan makes is brilliant. The Cutting Room is here to respectfully disagree. Very respectfully. Not at all, actually.
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Richard Dreyfuss delivers the best performance of his career in a film that spans thirty years of one man's life and earns every emotion it asks you to feel. The ending alone is worth the price of admission.
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Draft Day is a genuinely interesting behind the scenes look at how the NFL operates on the biggest day of the calendar. Great cast, compelling premise, but the writers didn't trust their own story enough to leave well enough alone.
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The Glass House got a raw deal when it came out in 2001. Revisiting it now, it holds up better than its reputation suggests, carried almost entirely by a Leelee Sobieski performance that deserves far more recognition than it ever received.
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Sabotage wants to be Training Day and a classic Arnold shoot em' up at the same time. It fails at both. One of the most boring Schwarzenegger films ever made, and that is really saying something.
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The 1999 CBS miniseries had no business being this good. Leelee Sobieski was just sixteen years old and already delivering one of the finest portrayals of Joan of Arc ever committed to screen. This one holds up.
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Mel Gibson proves he still has it in this lean, competent survival actioner. As reclusive woodsman Bowdrie protecting his daughter and a wounded woman from ruthless criminals in Oklahoma's wilderness, Gibson delivers a commanding, grounded performance that elevates a predictable but tense plot. Read our Hunting Season review.
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Leelee Sobieski had one of the most underrated filmographies of her generation. From Joan of Arc to My First Mister, here are the five best films she starred or co-starred in — plus a few that didn't make the cut.
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Jersey Boys (2014) Here is a musical for old farts. And I'll go ahead and admit right now, even though I'm only 28, I've kind of always been an old fart at heart. When it comes to music that old farts like, it doesn't get much older or fartier than Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Along with my appreciation for timeless music, I'm also a sucker for great coming-of-age music movies like Almost Famous and That Thing You Do, which rank among my all-time favorites. Jersey Boys isn't quite on that…
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The first Taken movie pretty much created a genre of its own. It was a smart fast-paced thriller, and a great watch. The sequel was stylistically appealing, but from a story standpoint was just a confusing mess that I absolutely hated. This movie has almost no style, and director Olivier Megaton (real name) must have broken some kind of record for yelling cut in this thing, but the story, for stupid action movie standards, is easy enough to follow. Add in Liam Neeson being Liam Neeson, even if…
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John Wayne was reported to have been offered a part in Blazing Saddles. After reading the script he called back and said “I can’t be in this, it’s too dirty… but I’ll be first in line to go see it when it comes out.” Imagining Wayne in the Wilder role makes me glad he turned it down. The other casting question that often comes up is why Richard Pryor did not play the part of the black sheriff in the film. That one apparently came down to a studio call, which is unfortunate since Wilder…
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The premise here is interesting, the talent is extraordinary, the action and atmosphere is fine, but the end result is one of the most befuddling messes I can long remember. The premise is this; 20 years after the Bosnian war, a retired US soldier now living out in the Appalachian countryside finds a strange hitch-hiker with a secret past. Turns out said hitch-hiker was among a group of enemy soldiers that he had (almost) executed two decades prior. Now he has come for his long awaited…
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Almost Famous is a movie I not only love, but was important to me in my formative years, and my life in general. It tells the story of William Miller (Patrick Fugit), a 15 year old kid on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine. He has to cover an up and coming rock band during what critic Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) calls the dying days of Rock N’ Roll. Along the way, Miller falls in love with a “groupie” (although she would object to the term) named Penny played by Kate Hudson. Penny…
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Originally slated for a theatrical release, Disney made the decision to go with Noelle as the first live-action, original movie for their Disney+ streaming service. With the service launching on November 12th, it was definitely a good decision by Disney because November and December are months when folks like to watch Christmas movies. Also a good decision because Anna Kendrick brings some name value to the service's first original film, and also because Noelle is better suited for at home…
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Nick Wild is a Las Vegas bodyguard with a gambling addiction, and an action movie hero addiction as well. Dreaming of escaping this seedy world so he can sail a yacht around Corsica, he earns money through cutesy side jobs like helping losers get laid by letting them beat him up in front of their girlfriends, while serving as the “Mike” Jason Alexander’s “Better Call Saul” character. The “Gus” of their world is a mysterious gangster known only as “Baby” who runs the entire local Vegas…
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I’ve seen plenty of movies which required its audience to turn off their brain. ‘Backfire’ (2017) is one of a select few that also requires them to turn off their souls. Note: their brains should still be turned off as well. I had moderate hopes for a mid-level shoot em' up based on a promising premise that hooked me in the Netflix description and made me decide to give this film a shot. Two urban thugs attempt to rob and then gun down a couple out on a date night. The couple turns out to have…
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Liam Neeson, as I have stated before, is my jam. If Robert Mitchum or Charles Bronson were still around I would have a harder choice, but since they’re not, Liam is the undisputed king of my favorite hard asses. Ed Harris is also up there, and this movie brings the two of them together as an aging gangster and hitman, both of with grown up children who wind up in a really tight bind, one night in the city. Harris plays an aging gangster who laments the fact that all of the locally owned…
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