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Post by ando on Nov 3, 2022 22:21:36 GMT
 tubi has been the most impressive free site for classics and undiscovered, lesser known films to me for more than a year or two. I hadn't realized until today that it was purchased by FOX back in 2020. That explains some things but overall I've had fun watching their offerings from month to month. This month the platform really brought a smile to lips... The Pink Panther Collection! (1963-1993)
All of the Blake Edwards directed movies featuring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau except Curse and Revenge of The Pink Panther are streaming this month on tubi.
I haven't seen any of them (though I've always loved the cartoon) and for years I've been waiting for the right weekend and/or the right place to watch them all. Looking forward to a binge!
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Post by Andrea Doria on Nov 3, 2022 22:51:54 GMT
I love Tubi, I'll bet I've watched at least a hundred of their offerings since I discovered it last year.
Lately I've been going through their documentaries. The last one I watched was about the church shooting in Sutherland Springs Texas. They talk to the two local men who happened upon the incident and went after the shooter on their own. There are some real heroes inside ordinary people.
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Post by ericj on Nov 4, 2022 8:42:09 GMT
I've said it often: TubiTV is like the streaming equivalent of one of those old strip-mall mom-and-pop VHS rentals, the one that could never afford the big movies, and had dozens of strange obscure no-name titles on the back shelf to explore.
Big "real" movies, usually Universal, come and go unpredictably, so you have to go into Tubi with a pot-luck mentality. October, for example, gave us a sudden influx of Universal Horror and Abbott & Costello meet-the-monsters movies to enjoy, but they'll probably be gone by Thanksgiving.
At the moment, I'm still getting through the complete 70's Fantasy Island series (which Columbia's Crackle should have, and used to, but doesn't), a best-of Candid Camera collection, Davey & Goliath (which I never used to watch, even as a little Lutheran kid), and how in the world did they dig up all 26 episodes of Calvin & the Colonel, where Freeman Gosden & Charles Corell resurrected their radio version of Amos & Andy as inoffensive Rocky & Bullwinkle-era cartoon animals?
They also have the complete lineup of Shout Factory TV's channel, which allows for rare cult movies (The 10th Victim in the original Italian? Yes, thanks), and the complete set of MST3K episodes (including Cinematic Titanic), which make nice background viewing while I'm doing chores.
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Post by Fading Fast on Nov 4, 2022 8:55:45 GMT
I've said it often: TubiTV is like the streaming equivalent of one of those old strip-mall mom-and-pop VHS rentals, the one that could never afford the big movies, and had dozens of strange obscure no-name titles on the back shelf to explore. |
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Post by ando on Nov 4, 2022 13:09:07 GMT
I love Tubi, I'll bet I've watched at least a hundred of their offerings since I discovered it last year. Lately I've been going through their documentaries. The last one I watched was about the church shooting in Sutherland Springs Texas. They talk to the two local men who happened upon the incident and went after the shooter on their own. There are some real heroes inside ordinary people.  I’ve just discovered their doc collection, the most recent of which is Making Montgomery Cliff, directed by his nephew apparently. Shows a buoyant side of the actor the public at large was probably not aware of then. |
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Post by ando on Nov 4, 2022 13:20:54 GMT
I've said it often: TubiTV is like the streaming equivalent of one of those old strip-mall mom-and-pop VHS rentals, the one that could never afford the big movies, and had dozens of strange obscure no-name titles on the back shelf to explore.
Haha. They’re getting better with older hits. I usually tag the ones I’ve been meaning to watch and create my own collection for later viewing. Only a small percentage have dropped from my list since the summer. But it’s true that their library is chock full of knock offs and single viewing forgettables. |
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Post by CinemaInternational on Nov 5, 2022 19:10:27 GMT
i saw some of the TV show Family on there a little while back. They include the seasons that were never put on DVD. Also took a look at an episode or two of Laugh-In.
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Post by Admin on Nov 5, 2022 19:16:32 GMT
Hi everyone,
Ando asked me to move his thread to the streaming section, and I just figured out how to do this!
Please continue this very good discussion.
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Post by ando on Nov 7, 2022 5:53:36 GMT
Watching this tonight. Capote (2005, Bennett Miller)
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's great turn as Truman Capote is also one of my favorite films of the 00s. Hoffman, of course, took home an Oscar and director, writer and actress, Bennett Miller, Dan Futterman and Catherine Keener (respectively) were honored with nods. But the thing that stays with me most is the stunning art direction, camerawork and editing, without which this movie may just have been another murder investigation melodrama. To me the adroit visual storytelling is what separates it from other movie versions of Capote's book.
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Post by ando on Dec 4, 2022 5:47:12 GMT
 Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli) A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
Great rock n roll classic. Anyone looking for serious acting from anyone in this cast is a fool - the music is everything. One of my (especially late night) favorites. Free on tubi. Prince's band members (at the time of the filming) talk about the project in the vid above. |
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Post by ando on Dec 12, 2022 17:40:35 GMT
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Post by ericj on Dec 31, 2022 11:08:56 GMT
One curiosity in the Panther collection is Son of the Pink Panther (1993): Ten years after Blake Edwards had finally written Inspector Clouseau off with Peter Sellers' death in his two-part-Endgame Trail of and Curse of, he kept looking for the Next Peter Sellers who could jumpstart the franchise singlehandedly. And after "Johnny Stecchino" became the surprise breakout hit at the foreign arthouses, Edwards thought he'd found his new Clouseau (or the Son of, as in the title) in...Roberto Benigni??  Yes, Edwards was pretty far-gone as a director by this point, and had gotten so used to Sellers improvising entire scenes, Edwards seemed to have forgotten how to give any other actor direction about what to do with himself onscreen. Benigni seems to sense this, and basically takes the steering wheel away from Edwards and turns it into a pre-"Life is Beautiful" Roberto Benigni comedy. The only handicap is that Roberto's speaking barely-understood English for most of the movie (and, like at the Oscars, OVER-A-DOES EVERY LINE!!), but since Benigni's US career seems to have ended after that '00 Pinocchio thing, we take him where we can get him. ---- My pick for this month on Tubi is one of the hard-to-find unsung bits of 80's Saturday morning coolness: While most in the 80's were watching Garfield, The Smurfs and Pee-Wee, true connoisseurs knew that the 1-1/2 seasons of ALFTales was the hippest show on 80's Saturday morning--With the furry sitcom star, and his alien-aardvark buddies from his home planet, playing fractured fairytales from one of the future co-writers of the first Shrek movie. (Eg. a Goldilocks that ends with "We could form a new singing group, the Mama & the Papa: 'Dreaming of our beds...Dreaming of our chairs...'")  The sheer concentration of nonstop fourth-wall and late-80's pop-ref gags make this probably THE closest thing to seeing a Shrek: the TV Series, except without the princess-pandering, without the anti-Disney bile, no Eddie Murphy, and actually funny. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 16, 2023 6:32:31 GMT
This is a great thread! For some reason I thought I was geo-blocked from Tubi but I seem to be able to click through on the ones I have tested. I am looking forward to watching this one again: Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? 1983 · 1 hr 30 min Comedy · Romance Spurned and abandoned by her husband, a woman connects with a peculiar man in a Manhattan cafe and sparks a relationship with its own ups and downs.
Starring Michael Emil Karen Black Michael Margotta Directed by Henry Jaglom It is now considered a cult movie!? When did that happen!? I don't remember loving it but I don't think I hated it either.  |
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Post by ando on Feb 28, 2023 22:02:07 GMT
Sorry I’ve been absent taking care of a family member full time so my movie watching has greatly diminished lately. Nice entries above, though! Thanks. Forgive my formatting (not at home, doing this on my iPhone). Tonight’s selection:  Eye of the Needle (1981, Richard Marquand) IMDB page
Intriguing spy yarn with an unwitting Kate Nelligan falling for Nazi, Donald Sutherland. Hate that I can’t watch it with my usual ad-blocker (on my home set up) but I’ll have to deal with the ads. Haven’t watched it some time. One of Nelligan’s (and Sutherland’s) best. |
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