You can now see The Hot Rock in your home

At the very start of this year, I saw the Robert Redford caper The Hot Rock (1972). This movie is very good, but until recently it was kind of hard to see without performing some shenanigans, I'm told. I was only able to see it because some friends got professional help securing a theater screening for their joint birthdays. Part of the reason they did this is that they wanted their friends to see The Hot Rock... but it was too hard to see! Well, now you can see it here if you are in the US. I would not actually recommend getting Amazon Prime in order to see this - it's not worth it for a variety of reasons, and you can probably figure out another way to see this if you're committed to not sending Bezos any dollars. (Every time a hard to find, long-out-of-print movie comes out on streaming, it gets easier to watch it without, ah, sending the platform holder any dollars, let's say.) But if you have a friend who still has Prime, and you can go to their house and convince them to watch a…