{"id":23165,"date":"2018-01-24T07:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=23165"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:25:46","slug":"free-movies-catch-them-while-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/01\/24\/free-movies-catch-them-while-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Movies – Catch Them While You Can!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThere is a new station available for the Roku<\/em>, and if you’re interested, I would install it on your box and watch it’s offerings as soon as possible<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Time Machine Channel<\/em> has a small but surprising selection of mostly A-list movies and TV shows along with a number of Saturday morning curiosities from the 1970s such as Shazam!<\/em> and Ark II<\/em>. With it’s fairly decent logo I thought it was a professional channel, but when I noticed that it had no advertising and no subscription fees, I realized it was some sort of wildcat, amateur escapade that may last until the cease-and-desist order<\/em> comes from the various copyright holders. Until then, I think it’s worth chasing down for classics such as Alien,<\/em> Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>, the extremely rare and excellent first Nightstalker<\/em> movie and Killdozer<\/em> which is like a good version of Steven King’s Maximum Overdrive.<\/em><\/p>\n

The link to load the Time Machine Channel is here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There is a new station available for the Roku, and if you’re interested, I would install it on your box and watch it’s offerings as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3456],"tags":[3457,4305,4306,76,3183,185,195],"class_list":["post-23165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","tag-cord-cutter","tag-free-movies","tag-free-tv","tag-horror","tag-movies","tag-roku","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-61D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19607,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/09\/15\/not-quite-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":23165,"position":0},"title":"Not Quite Dead","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Having received an email about the obsolescence of my Roku HD from the company that manufactured it,\u00a0 I recently wrote an obituary for my dear departed media player. 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