I just saw an ad for it the other day, but what s up with the new Criterion streaming service?

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:I just saw an ad for it the other day, but what s up with the new Criterion streaming service?It's great. Added it yesterday. I could not find it doing a channel search within the Roku, so I had to visit this URL and do it from there.Some of the basic questions you might have can be answered here, but the short of it is, if you like the kind of movies Criterion puts out, the Criterion Channel is for you. That might sound kind of nebulous, but I think you get the drift. If you follow the second link, you can see some of what they're offering up this month. But that's just the tip of the iceberg and they'll be adding new things as time goes on.

ldopa\_chicago wrote:I just learned about Kanopy yesterday- a free indie/documentary/art house/ classic film streaming service available to many library users and academic institutions, sadly not the Chicago Public Library though.Thank you ldopa! The PDX library system offers this service so I'm going to give it a try. Looks promising.

CPL does have Hoopla - https://www.hoopladigital.com/. Not a terribly great selection, but something.Edit: Also - this is an old post, bit there might be some stuff of interest here: http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline

Netflix:"Constantine" - a lot of places is writing about like it was a forgotten gem but It didn't seem like this to me. Entertaining enough but nothing great about.I saw that Edgard Wright's "The World's End" is there - one of my favourite films."Umbrella Academy" - bleeeergh, more like "Filler Academy" I found first episode intriguing, second one boring and I turned the third one half way through. The song scenes are indeed terrible and out of place (the dance thing in ep.1 one was so out of place It was bizarre). That one character WHO HAS NO POWERS, GET IT? is surely going to do something like saving the world through her newly found super power of playing violin in a minor key. CRAP.Oh and since I'm at it: it seems like they were suppoosed to add fingers movement when she plays the violen in post production, but for whatever reasons haven't. She is not even trying to fake she is playing, quite weird.

cneutron wrote:Knock Down the House.Incredible. Watch it, right now.2nded. Obviously heavy on the AOC, but everyone featured was incredible.

Knock Down the House.Incredible. Watch it, right now.

I've only watched an episode and a half so far, but I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is really fucking funny. The Lonely Island guys are involved as producers (with Akiva directing), always a good sign:

Watched the Sisters Brothers on Hulu last night. Kind of a wannabe Coen bros movie at times, but it was pretty good.