Escape to The Movies: EARTH TO ECHO

Did you have a busy weekend? I had a busy weekend.

The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Earth to Echo - This Generation's ET?

Real Evil.

Addendum to Tuesday's show: You think Michael Bay is evil? You think TRANSFORMERS movies are civilization on the brink? No. On balance, Michael Bay is harmless. You want to see evil onscreen? Rick Santorum is making movies now:



You want to talk about evil? A feature-length propaganda movie celebrating a culture's slide back into dark ages barbarism is evil. Agitating AGAINST the improvement and progress of a society via the lessening of the influence of superstition and pointless "moral" self-denial/self-hatred is evil. Advocating for ignorance is evil.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Thinkers and Believers.

Big Picture: LEAVE MICHAEL BAY ALONE

The Escapist : The Big Picture : Leave Michael Bay Alone

June Expiration Watch: Art of the Tease

Turns out some of the more impressive additions to Instant these last few months were little more than loaners. I'm not really sure the point of acquiring streaming rights to a film for only two or three months (why not six? or a year?), but if you were excited by such recent additions as The Terminator, Chinatown, Angel Heart, and classic Kubrick and Scorsese�not to mention the perennially peripatetic James Bond films�then you better get your licks in while you can.

And since no one else seems to be tracking this, here are the most notable films that debuted on the service in recent months that are now expiring:

Arrived in May

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
James Bond Films (list below)

Arrived in April

Angel Heart (1987)
Bad Company (1972)
Chinatown (1974) - review
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - review
Dragonslayer (1981)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Roger Dodger (2002)
Spanglish (2004)
Rocky (1976) + sequels
The Running Man (1987)
The Terminator (1984)

Arrived in March

As Good As It Gets (1997)
Dr. Strangelove (1964) - review
Gattaca (1997)
Taxi Driver (1976)

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Escape to The Movies: TRANSFORMERS - AGE OF EXTINCTION

It is what it is. This time, I liked it.

Also: STILL more Transformers!

The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Transformers: Age of Extinction - Better Than The First Three

Big Picture: NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

Yet more TRANSFORMERS, because it's that time of every other Summer...

The Escapist : The Big Picture : Nothing Gold Can Stay - The Most Bizarre Episode of Transformers

Podcast!

Am I on a Podcast again? I am!

Also, some TRANSFORMERS because it's that kind of week.