New Movies, Rotations, What’s Next
Lots to update…. yikes! First off, Ozu’s classic story about the travelling troubadours from Japan - Floating Weeds is now ready for viewing. See the previous post, or check out the movie page. It is a really cool film.
The LikeTelevision elves have been busy updating behind the scenes - creating a ton of new movie options for the feeling lucky link on the movie page - to reflect all the new movies we recently added to the library. This will make it more obvious to see what new movies are being added to our ever expanding library of entertainment media. And unlike some other sites - we always try to add content that is worth watching, as opposed to just adding content just to make the library big. Really - who cares if we just added a ton of junk?
We have also made a bunch of download rotations - removing downloads for Hercules Unchained, Jungle Book, Ugetsu, The Woman Hunter and a few more to make room for other downloads. Just added to the download library - Cyrano, Floating Weeds, a Jackie Chan movie, and Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin’s first comedy duo blast - At War with the Army. Also of note - as we expected, The Battle of Algiers - a great documentary film about terrorists which recently topped Andy Griffith in your tops picks wouldn’t last very long at the top. Way to go Andy - back at number one.
And here’s what’s coming - a very early Sally Field movie called - Maybe I’ll Be Home in the Spring from the early 70s (yes, Sally Field was Sister Bertrille in the Flying Nun..but in this movie, she has a fall from grace)… oh my!… an authentic That 70s Show. Oh brother, what a silly movie - though of course that is not what it was meant to be. Denise Miller (Sally Field) gets kicked out of the house by her parents, played by Jackie Cooper (from the Little Rascals) and Eleanor Parker (Zosh on Man with the Golden Arm). The she joins a hippie commune, experiments with drugs, and gets herself a rebel boyfriend, played by David Carradine, a.k.a. grasshopper from the popular TV show, Kung Fu. And what a creep he is in this movie - more of a locust than a grasshopper. Anyway - Denise comes home, her parents are still, you know - a drag man…. but then she gets even more confused when she sees her sister begin to follow her wayward path into teenage angst and despair. Heavy man, really heavy. In case you forgot how insipid all this whiny hippie talk was - just watch this movie. A real classic - back in the days when gas prices were soaring, the Vietnam War was on the front pages of every newspaper, and the counter culture was going to bring us a brand new day of peace and love. ha! So if you think life is meant to be endured… why, you’ll love this movie. If however, you have found that life is a joy filled gift - check out some of the FUN classics from Andy Griffith, Frank Capra, Bonanza, Johnny Carson, or the Beverly Hillbillies.
