Paramount Plus to Add 127 New Movies On Friday – Here’s My 8 Best

By Phillip Swann
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Paramount Plus, the streaming service, plans to add 127 new movies tomorrow, November 1. Here’s the 8 best, in my humble opinion:

Election (1999)
The satire from director Alexander Payne about a corrupt high school election stars Matthew Broderick as a overqualified teacher who’s outwitted by an overachieving student, played flawlessly by Reese Witherspoon. This is Broderick as his best since Ferris Bueller. Election is a funny, insightful film from an underrated director.

Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese’s brilliant 1990 mob drama starring Ray Liotta (RIP), Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro. Ten years earlier, Scorsese made Raging Bull and it seemed improbable then that he could top such a work of art. But he did. Goodfellas has become one of those movies that you can watch over and over and never be bored.

Taxi Driver (1976)
Robert De Niro stars as a New York cabbie in this brilliant character study of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese. The graphic violence has polarized film critics and fans over the years, but no film has better depicted the rage found in so many American males and explained the reasons why it’s there. De Niro is fascinating as Travis Bickle, the taxi driver, showing him capable of appearing normal and almost suave at one point, only to succumb to his worst instincts after any momentary setback. The superb supporting cast includes Cybill Shepherd as the icy-blonde Travis longs for; Albert Brooks as her coworker; Jodie Foster as an underaged sex worker; Harvey Keitel as her pimp; and Peter Boyle as a fellow driver. Very, very powerful film.

The Hurt Locker (2008)
The brilliant 2008 Iraqi war drama stars Jeremy Renner as a munitions specialist who’s ready to blow. There have been many films that strive to show the horrors of war after the soldier comes home but few have done it better than The Hurt Locker. Renner’s character becomes addicted to war’s adrenaline rush and is never able to live normally again. It’s a great performance.

Magnolia (1999)
The satirical drama from director Paul Thomas Anderson features the lost souls of San Fernando Valley as played by the brilliant ensemble cast of Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Melora Walters. Magnolia doesn’t get the love of PTA’s previous film, Boogie Nights, but it’s a thrilling piece of cinema that will leave you wanting even more after three hours and eight minutes.

Friday Night Lights (2004)
The TV show starring Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton gets all the love, but the original 2004 movie starring Billy Bob Thornton as a Texas high school football coach in mythical Dillon, Texas is just as good. (And guess who plays his wife? That’s right. Connie Britton.) Peter Berg, the showrunner for the TV show, directed the movie and co-wrote the screenplay.

The Social Network (2010) 
Director David Fincher’s brilliant take on narcissism, ambition and, ultimately, unrelenting arrogance through the lens of young Mark Zuckerberg as he builds Facebook while shedding friendships and his moral compass. Jesse Eisenberg is flawless as Zuck but don’t forget the fun supporting performances by Justin Timberlake as Napster’s Sean Parker and Armie Hammer as both of the Winkelvoss twins who claimed the Facebook founder ripped them off.

Out of Sight (1988)
Out of Sight, the 1998 comedy/drama from director Steven Soderbergh which stars George Clooney as a bank robber who’s tracked (and, uh, pursued) by a federal agent played wonderfully by Jennifer Lopez. The great cast also includes Michael Keaton, Albert Brooks, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Nancy Allen, Samuel L. Jackson…and too many more wonderful folks to name here. Watch this movie. It’s classic Soderbergh.

Complete List Of New Movies Coming to Paramount Plus On Friday, November 1:

3:10 to Yuma
48 Hrs.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
A Christmas Carol (1999)
A Night At The Roxbury

A Thin Line Between Love And Hate
A Thousand Words
Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
Alfie (2004)
All I Want For Christmas

All the World Is Sleeping
Another 48 Hrs.
Bad Santa
Bad Santa 2
Billionaire Boys Club

Black Snake Moan
Blades of Glory
Blinded by the Light
Catch and Release
Chloe

Christmas Eve
Cloud Atlas
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Daddy Day Camp
Death at a Funeral (2010)

Deck The Halls (2011)
Double Jeopardy
Eat Pray Love
Election
Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas

Ernest Saves Christmas
Everybody’s Fine
Faster
Fences
First Shift

Five Feet Apart
Flashdance
Flight
Free Birds
Friday Night Lights

Go
Good Will Hunting
GoodFellas
Hacksaw Ridge
Happy Christmas

Head of State
Home For The Holidays
Hook
Hotel for Dogs
Ida Red

Identity
Inglourious Basterds
Insomnia
Joyeux Noel
Just Mercy

Last Man Standing
Last Vegas
Leap of Faith
Letters from Iwo Jima
Like Crazy

Looper
Luce
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Magnolia

Michael Clayton
Morning Glory
My Cousin Vinny
My Fair Lady
My One and Only

No Strings Attached
Noah
Oliver! (1968)
Once Upon a Time in America
Out of Sight

Paddington
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary II
Rounders
RV

Santa Stole Our Dog!
Scrooge
Shaft (2000)
She’s All That
Siberia

Snatch
Super 8
Surf’s Up
Taps
Taxi Driver

The 12 Days of Christmas Eve
The Age of Adaline
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Dead Zone
The Duchess

The English Patient
The Fighting Temptations
The Good Liar
The Guilt Trip
The Honeymooners

The Hurt Locker
The Infiltrator
The Kite Runner
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The November Man

The Prince and Me
The Prince Of Tides
The Smurfs Christmas Special
The Social Network
The Stepfather

The Terminal
The Tuxedo
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Top Five
Tremors

Two for the Money
Unforgiven
Urban Cowboy
Vacancy
Wayne’s World

We Were Soldiers
What Lies Beneath
What Women Want
While You Were Sleeping
Yours, Mine & Ours

Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Zookeeper

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