Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen, and Poms star Diane Keaton play longtime friends who’ve stayed bonded through their titular book club, and whose lives are all changed when they decide to read Fifty Shades of Grey. If you spent any part of your weekend in a theater watching the senior cheerleaders of Poms, you may also enjoy this charming tale from one of the same producers. Watch it now on Amazon Prime with CBS All Access add-on Book Club (2018) Years later, on the eve of her marriage of convenience to a snooty prince, Buttercup is kidnapped by bandits who are not what they seem. Princess Buttercup ( Robin Wright) falls in love with devoted stable boy Westley ( Cary Elwes), but loses him when he goes to seek his fortune and his ship is plundered by the Dread Pirate Roberts. Watch it now on Amazon Prime with Cinemax add-on The Princess Bride (1987) As a test case, scientists at the (evil) corporation Omni Consumer Products rebuild him as a far less vulnerable cyborg, but one who has no memory of his previous life. Officer Alex Murphy ( Peter Weller) patrols the streets of a crime-ridden, dystopian Detroit, in the course of which he is near-fatally shot. Skip the 2014 remake and accept no substitutes for Paul Verhoeven’s stunningly violent original. Watch it now on Amazon Prime with Cinemax add-on RoboCop (1987) Katharine’s injury on a European ski trip gives Tess the chance to step into her life and put together a deal with Katharine’s colleague, Jack Trainer ( Harrison Ford). Secretary Tess McGill ( Melanie Griffith) has aspirations to move up in the world of mergers and acquisitions her boss, Katharine Parker ( Sigourney Weaver), claims to want to mentor her, only to pass off Tess’s ideas as her own and take all the credit. Watch it now on Amazon Prime Working Girl (1988) Watch it now on Amazon Prime with Cinemax add-on Double Happiness (1994)īefore Killing Eve and Grey’s Anatomy, Sandra Oh played Jade Li, a Chinese Canadian who aspires to be an actress even as she knows her immigrant parents didn’t expect her to go into such a precarious career-or to fall in love with a white man ( Callum Keith Rennie). Steven Soderbergh directs this adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel cinematographer Elliot Davis deserves special notice for making his two stunning stars the sexiest they’ve ever looked. Neither can stop thinking about the other even after they part, and contrive to run into each other again. Marshal Karen Sisco ( Jennifer Lopez) and fugitive bank robber Jack Foley ( George Clooney) to get locked together in the trunk of a car, where they have nothing to do but chat, misquote Network, and fondle each other.
Watch it now on Amazon Prime with Cinemax add-on Out of Sight (1998)Ī series of mishaps causes U.S. Hugh Grant, as Bridget’s office crush, Daniel, didn’t top this winning and hilarious performance until Paddington 2.
When their personal and professional paths keep crossing, both realize they may have misjudged each other. Watch it now on Amazon Prime with Cinemax add-on Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)Īt a New Year’s Day party thrown by her parents’ friends, London singleton Bridget Jones ( Renée Zellweger) makes a disastrous impression on Mark Darcy ( Colin Firth), who may or may not remember her splashing in his wading pool when they were both children.
In 1974, acrobat Philippe Petit challenged himself to run a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center-a feat in itself even before he went on to walk that tightrope, thousands of feet up this documentary features footage shot during the planning phases as well as reenactments, and won the best documentary feature Oscar in 2009. Watch it now on Amazon Prime Man on Wire (2008) Wikus ( Sharlto Copley), an MNU agent serving notice to camp residents, is injured in an accident, which gradually gives him a new perspective on the aliens’ situation. The titular refugee camp-located near Johannesburg, South Africa, and inhabited by extraterrestrials whose spacecraft mysteriously appeared almost 30 years earlier-is about to be emptied by Multinational United, a private contractor. Watch it now on Amazon Prime District 9 (2009) How does an American diocese of the Roman Catholic church conceal widespread sexual abuse by priests trusted to counsel and educate children? The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” team of journalists investigated the corruption, won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003, and became the subject of this docudrama, a best-picture Oscar winner. Watch it now on Amazon Prime Spotlight (2015)