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Top 5 Free Movies On The Roku Channel May 2018

Roku really stepped up this month with some high quality films. Enjoy these top rated films that earned Oscar Nominations and WINS.

Drive

Rotten Tomato Tomatometer – All Critics: 93%

Drive was nominated for one Oscar: Best Achievement in Sound Editing.

Director Nicolas Winding Refn (The Pusher Trilogy, Bronson) teams with screenwriter Hossein Amini to adapt author James Sallis novel about a lone-wolf Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a criminal getaway driver. When the lightning-fast wheelman (Ryan Gosling) incurs the wrath of L.A.’s most dangerous criminal (Albert Brooks), the only way out of the mess is to put the pedal to the metal. Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, and Ron Perlman co-star.

Whiplash

Rotten Tomato Tomatometer – All Critics: 94%

Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. Terence Fletcher, an instructor known equally for his teaching talents and his terrifying methods, discovers Andrew and transfers him into his band. Andrew’s passion to achieve perfection soon spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher continues to push him to the brink of both his ability and his sanity

Oscar Nominations

Whiplash was the winner of 3 Academy awards.

• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – J.K. Simmons – WINNER
• Best Achievement in Film Editing – WINNER
• Best Achievement in Sound Mixing – WINNER
• Best Motion Picture of the Year
• Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Capote

Rotten Tomato Tomatometer – All Critics: 90%

While researching for his book In Cold Blood, Truman Capote develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.

Oscar Nominations

• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Philip Seymour Hoffman – WINNER
• Best Motion Picture of the Year
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Catherine Keener
• Best Achievement in Directing – Bennett Miller
• Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay – Dan Futterman

Glory

Rotten Tomato Tomatometer – All Critics: 93%

The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, Glory stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is the inspirational sergeant who unites the troops; and Denzel Washington, in an Oscar winning performance (1989, Best Supporting Actor), is the runaway slave who embodies the indomitable spirit of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts

Oscar Nominations

• Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Denzel Washington – WINNER
• Best Cinematography – Freddie Francis – WINNER
• Best Sound – WINNER
• Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
• Best Film Editing

A Fish Called Wanda

Rotten Tomato Tomatometer – All Critics: 93%

Four career cons just committed the crime of the century. But when a double-cross leaves their loot in limbo, it’s up to one temptress (Jamie Lee Curtis) to convince an English lawyer (John Cleese) to reveal its location. Monty Python veteran Cleese co-wrote and co-stars in this hilarious tale of lust, sex, murder, and seafood. Also starring Python veteran Michael Palin, the film won an Academy Award for Kevin Kline for his performance as an unhinged hitman.

Oscar Nominations

• Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Kevin Kline – WINNER
• Best Director – Charles Crichton
• Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen – John Cleese (screenplay/story); Charles Crichton (story)

Bonus: TV Series On The Roku Channel March 2018

3rd Rock from the Sun

John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kristen Johnson and French Stewart star as aliens sent to Earth, disguised as a human family, to experience and report on life on the 3rd planet from the sun.

Golden Globe, PrimeTime Emmy Awards, and Other Awards

The 3rd Rock from the Sun was on from 1996 – 2001. In that short amount of time this show racked up 73 award nominations and was the WINNER 36 times.

• 31 Prime Time Emmy Awards with 8 WINS
• 6 Gold Globes with 2 WINS