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BAADER!! CORALINE!! ELEGY!! FROZEN!! NIXON!! PELHAM!! READER!! TYSON!! WRESTLER!! February Premiere Dates!!
I am – Hercules!!
Inspired by Harry’s, Father Geek’s, Capone’s and the other critics' best-of-2009 lists, I’m experimenting this month -- in addition to my usual monthly list of series season premieres – with a list of theatrical features I think may be new to cable in February. (If I’m missing anything, be sure to point it out. I’m particularly keen not to miss the documentaries and indie films when they roll around.) I threw in the scores from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic to help sort out movies viewers might be keen to pursue.
I thought a list like this would be useful for a couple of obvious reasons.
I’ve grown paranoid about missing movies I’ve been meaning to see, and not every movie sticks around forever uncensored on pay-cable.
Also? Say you’ve been waiting to see “Frost/Nixon” but subscribe to Showtime (and/or Starz) but not HBO. Now that you know “Frost/Nixon” is headed to HBO you can add “Frost/Nixon” to your Netflix queue, or snag it off pay-per-view, or just purchase your own DVD or Blu-ray copy. (I’ve linked each movie title to an Amazon page so you can read more about it and/or order it.)
I’ve arranged the titles chronologically by cable premiere date to make it most useful to people with DVRs:
Taste of Cherry
RT: 82
MC:
Feb. 1. 2am
TCM
Tyson
RT: 85
MC: 83
Feb. 1. 12:40pm
Starz Black
Hannah Montana
RT: 44
MC: 47
Feb. 1. 5:50am
Starz Kids
Notorious
RT: 50
MC: 60
Feb. 1. 8:30pm
HBO HD
Never Back Down
RT: 24
MC: 39
Feb. 2. 8:40am
Encore Action
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
RT: 23
MC: 45
Feb. 3. 7am
Starz Edge
Henry Pool is Here
RT: 38
MC: 44
Feb. 3. 10:05am
Encore Drama
Pathology
RT: 47
MC: 55
Feb. 4. 2:45am
Showtime HD
Coraline
RT: 89
MC: 80
Feb. 4. 9pm
HBO HD
Dragonball Evolution
RT: 13
MC: 45
Feb. 6. 10pm
Cinemax HD
The Tale of Despereaux
RT: 55
MC: 53
Feb. 8. 6:35am
Cinemax HD
My Best Friend
RT: 75
MC: 65
Feb. 8. 9:05am
IFC
Elegy
RT: 74
MC: 66
Feb. 8. 8pm
TMC HD
Valentino: The Last Emperor
RT: 77
MC: 68
Feb. 9. 8pm
Showtime HD
The Wrestler
RT: 98
MC: 81
Feb. 9. 8pm
Cinemax HD
Full Grown Men
RT: 39
MC: 47
Feb. 9. 10pm
Sundance
The Longshots
RT: 40
MC: 52
Feb. 11. 8pm
Showtime HD
Easy Virtue
RT: 51
MC: 58
Feb. 12. 1:10pm
Starz HD
Frozen River
RT: 88
MC: 82
Feb. 12. 2:20pm
Starz Edge HD
17 Again
RT: 58
MC: 48
Feb. 13. 8pm
HBO HD
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys
RT: 51
MC: 49
Feb. 13. 9pm
Showtime HD
Miss March
RT: 4
MC: 7
Feb. 13. 10pm
Cinemax HD
Gigantic
RT: 38
MC: 38
Feb. 19. 3:50am
Starz Edge HD
The Last House on the Left
RT: 42
MC: 42
Feb. 20. 10am
Cinemax HD
Frost/Nixon
RT: 91
MC: 80
Feb. 20. 8pm
HBO HD
The Reader
RT: 61
MC: 58
Feb. 20. 9pm
Showtime HD
The Taking Of Pelham 123
RT: 52
MC: 55
Feb. 20. 9pm
Starz HD
Baader Meinhof Complex
RT: 87
MC: 76
Feb. 20. 11:05pm
Showtime HD
Summer Hours
RT: 92
MC: 84
Feb. 21. 10pm
Sundance
O’Horten
RT:
MC:
Feb. 22. 2:50am
Starz HD
Year One
RT: 15
MC: 34
Feb. 27. 9pm
Starz HD
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I wish you would get better sleep.
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and they scare even me. This is a hell of an idea though Herc.
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...The Wrestler, Frost/Nixon and Gigantic have certainly already been on premium cable channels. Maybe these are their premiere dates on specific channels.
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...months ago. Took its time getting to cable. Not really very good, but you have to give it credit for trying. I approve of this new feature. Not only does it give you a last chance to whack or praise a movie on its way out the door, it could also clue you in on an easy way to catch something you haven't gotten around to seeing.
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Has been on cable already. I watched part of it last night, forget which channel though. One of the premium cable channels. So it's already showing.
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Elegy was on Netflix HD streaming and Tyson was on Netflix SD streaming. Also, Starz Black is the worst title for a channel ever, right after BET. Why don't they have WET or HET or AET or NAET or GET or LET or or or....
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I've already seen on HBO or Showtime like Frost/Nixon and The Wrestler.
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Please do this every month. I often forget titles of movie I want to see once on cable, and the premium channel websites SUCK! Thanks a ton AICN!
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never thought that word would be associated with the movie 17 again
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Nice. Click on the dvd, you know you want to.
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I'm assuming Wrestler is new to the Cinemax channels, Frost/Nixon is new to HBO, etc. etc.
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...which means the information is still valuable. I like this.
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There are entertainment channels geared towards virtually every ethnic group or demographic. Logo is a channel for the LGBT crowd. I admit that I know of no Native American channels, but it wouldn't surprise me. If you can't think of any really white channels then you just aren't trying.
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And I'm actually growing tired of your attempts to get people to put pennies in your pocket. And that IS all this column is for. Really glad you removed the $89 Blu-Ray player column, though. Because then I didn't have to wait until I could post to say Wal-Mart regularly has them for less.
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Just go ahead and say that instead of disguising it as a informational column.
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...called a mouse. Okay, personally I use a trackball, but the concept is the same. When I don't want to read something, on this or any other site I visit, I use it to make the little arrow thingie (I think they call it a cursor)take me somewhere else. For instance, I haven't watched Saturday Night Live in a long time. Because of that I don't want to read about it. So I don't put the little arrow thing over those stories, or if I do I make sure not to click the bad left button. So I never get tired of stories about Saturday Night Live. Now this, on the other hand, I'll probably click on regularly, 'cause it might have something listed I haven't seen and would like to. Or I might even want to say something along the lines of "that movie raped my childhood" or "that movie raped my eyeballs" one last time without bothering to introduce the subject to a thread about something different. I don't care why the column's here, but I can imagine it having a certain utility for me. I have sympathy for people who yell at Herc to cover more things. That seems like a valid desire, and especially for genre stuff an appropriate thing to clamor for. But giving him crap for including more content, whatever his motive may be...nah, I can't get behind that.
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Great idea, Herc. For a few months now, I've been tracking good movies on cable each week (although not necessarily premieres), so I thought I'd shamelessly plug - I mean, share - it here: http://xonmus.wordpress.com
It's basically anything I think is worth "your valuable time", and that runs uncut, commercial free, and on a channel that I pay for. It exists to counter the argument that "there's nothing good on..." -
At this embryonic stage I'm not as concerned about the movies in this column that might have hit another cable channel a few months earlier as I am about new movies I may have inadvertantly omitted.
And if Walmart has a working Blu-ray player under $89, I say buy it! -
This is yet another great addition to Coax, Herc. I'm also a big fan of your ratings pieces, so you're on a roll lately. Although I only set one movie up for record, it ended up being the very first one on the list. I wasn't sure what to do with my night, but Taste of Cherry sounds like the perfect dinner. Great addition, I look forward to seeing more of these in the future.
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wow this is really helpful, always good to know when some cool flicks are gonna be on TV. please keep it up!
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have a DTV sequel. Enough people seen it to make a studio say "Hey slap a 2 or an again to the title." That's just my opinion.
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Please keep these sort of 'when movies are showing on the cable networks' coming!
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You work on the timely deliver of your customary ones. I haven't seen hide nor hair of your DVD/Blu release column in three weeks, Harry! Let's get with the program, shall we?
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MISS MARCH and DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION get 'Saturday night premieres', while CORALINE gets snuck onto the network on a Thursday? Fucking weak.
And am I the only one who thinks that Showtime needs to get the lead out on their movie premieres? It's almost two years since IRON MAN came out and I haven't heard word one about it. What the fuck?
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But why he posts half the stuff he does I'll never know. Unless he gets paid per article or hits to articles.
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Everyone should see this movie. Its fucking superb
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And Travolta was very entertaining as an interesting bad guy.
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come off it
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...much like another Assault on Precinct 13, Pelham isn't a terrible straight ahead, no brainer, no surprises, sure there are plot holes and the characters' motivations are...who cares, look what happens now movies. And there's a place for those. And no, the re-Pelham is not as bad as the re-Precinct. But man, what's the point even, if you can't bring anything fresh or interesting to the mix, or even adequately ape the cleverness of the originals? Matthau and Shaw > Washington and Travolta, sure, though that shouldn't even be a given because both Washington and Travolta have taken some pretty good swings in their day. But the supporting casts for the two movies are just thousands of miles away from each other. And forget about pacing, atmosphere or character driven drama. Is the remake terrible? No, not absolutely. But if you can't improve on a nearly forty year old crime drama (sure a gem, but a minor one) with a big budget and big stars shouldn't that be automatically judged a pretty big failure?
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who scores big in In The Loop. Always amazing that "TV" actors want their spot on the big screen, but the roles pale to their television roles. Want to see what Jon Hamm does next after the nothing role in Time Stood Still. And yes, I know Gandolfini had many film roles before the Sopranos.
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The rest of those movies I either like/love/haven't seen.
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Cool, I can see the logic in that. But I've got every movie channel available on Comcast and that's a majority of what I use my tv for. I was just a little surprised that some of your suggestions had been on for a while already. Loved Tyson, btw. Uncomfortable at times, but that doc along with The Hangover have made me like that guy much more than I did prior to their viewing. It's not a bad column idea overall. But I stand by the constant shilling growing old. AICN contributors gotta eat, though, I suppose.
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Yes, they've had them for less than $89. Had them for at least as low as $69 around Christmas and $85, I believe, just recently. Haven't checked a store recently but they have them for $98 and $108 online. The $108 player appears to be a nice 1080p Panasonic that's been "rolled back" from $249. However, as I commented before, no Blu-Ray player for me until the DVD format (and the deals you can get on them now) has run it's course. I've been through too many format changes in my life already and have too large a DVD collection to switch over now. By the time DVDs are done I expect we'll have moved past Blu-Ray anyway.
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Keep in mind that if a movie was in 2.35:1, which is scope, HBO and Cinemax will blow it up to 1.78:1, thus cutting off a great deal of picture.
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why does iit seem to take so long for some movies to premier?Wheres Indiana Jones 4 and Ironman?
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