Flickchart Daily: Starz Leaves Netflix and a Matchup of The Day
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Matchup of the Day – Starring Ken Foree
Ken Foree has a leap day birthday, so let’s compare his two best (and closely related) films on Flickchart:
Dawn of the Dead (1978) vs. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Obviously, the ’78 version is the genre standard but the ’04 remake performs surprisingly well.
Netflix Instant Watch
Bye Bye Starz. It was fun while it lasted but Starz priced Netflix out and their movies/TV shows are no longer on Netflix. In their place we get…The Lincoln Lawyer and Godzilla vs Monster Zero. Yay? Check back tomorrow while the first of March brings us a solid slate of new movies and TV shows to watch.
Exciting Movie News
- New SpongeBob SquarePants movie coming in 2014! [via]
- Elizabeth Olsen may play the female lead in the Oldboy remake from Spike Lee. [via]
- Beyonce, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Andy Samberg set to star in One Hit Wonders from the co-creator of Glee. [via]
I wish there was a comprehensive list of the movies that will go away from Starz because I don’t think anyone really knows that they will be missing. I suspect that if they have never seen the movie, they won’t know they’re missing it either. I like to buy movies I really like though rather than stream them since the quality of streaming isn’t the same as Blu-ray. In fact, now that I have a Blockbuster @Home membership with my DISH service I am finding that I like to just get the Blu-ray by-mail when I want to see a movie more than once. I like that I can stream too when I want, but Blu-ray doesn’t cost me extra like Netflix. Even though I work for DISH, I don’t mind paying the $10 a month since I get games too. Perhaps there will be more crying form Netflix customers in the days to come, especially from families with kids.
If it wasn’t or
Oops, double post. If it wasn’t for the great selection of TV shows on Netflix streaming, it wouldn’t really be worth the money anymore. After their big screw up last summer, you’d think they would have been doing cartwheels to get a better, more current selection of streaming movies, but I think it’s only gotten worse.