As we do, we've frozen random new to Amazon Prime titles and grabbed the first screengrab that popped up. Though they're leaning heavily on 1990s titles at the moment, their quality of offerings is far outpacing whatever B pictures Netflix has been licensing of late. Comment Party: Which will you be watching and which of the "new" streaming titles would you most want to read a write-up on this month? I'll obey your consensus command.
Okay on to the random screengrabs.
Every morning the ground is soaked with blood. The workers believe I brought this terror since it didn't begin until my arrival. Whatever I try they seem to know. All the deaths are on me.
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Yes, yes, great Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography, a sound Oscar, and killer lions and but on a scale of 1-100 how kissable were Val Kilmer's lips in his prime? My vote: 118.
[no dialogue]
Sliver (1993)
Remember when wealthy perv Billy Baldwin was spying on all his tenants including sexy Sharon Stone who caught on to him? The 90s were THE decade for erotic thrillers, which have gone completely out of fashion, just like romantic comedies.
more after the jump...
First time I've seen you miss, Mack.
Chaplin (1992)
Remember when Robert Downey Jr was a real actor and not just a snarky rock star philanthropist billionaire superhero
I'm sorry. You just, uh, drove me nuts in there."
Days of Thunder (1990)
Remember when Nicole Kidman was just "Mrs. Tom Cruise"?
I could have woken you up if I knew when you had to get off...
A Man Called Ove (2016)
How close do you think this past year's race for Best Foreign Film was at the Oscars? I'd wager it was probably pretty close between Land of Mine (Denmark), The Salesman (Iran), Toni Erdmann (Germany), and this one which was the biggest hit of all of them stateside - even bigger then the year's two highest profile critical darling subtitled films that weren't up for that prize (France's Elle and South Korea's The Handmaiden)
-I'm sorry
-It's okay
Hello My Name is Doris (2016)
It was so stingy of the Golden Globes that they went for Lily Collins instead of Sally Field in their Comedy lineup last season. She was good in this. I'm dying to see her on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie. The last time I saw her on stage (a replacement in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia) she was a revelation
Also Available Now on Prime
- Almost Famous
- Eddie Murphy Raw
- Election - we have a piece on this coming up
- Ella Enchanted
- Gimme Danger
- Kiss the Girls
- A Man Called Ove
- Mulholland Falls
- Precious Cargo
- Robocop
- Robocop 2
- Saturday Night Fever
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- There Will Be Blood
- Tommy Boy
- What If
Streaming Soon
- American Playboy S1 (4/7)
- Barbershop: The Next Cut (4/8)
- In a World (4/9)
- The Perfect Match (2016) (4/9)
- The Handmaiden (4/13)
- The Love Witch (4/14)
- Fortitude S2 (4/14)
- American Pastoral (4/21)
- Thunderbirds Are Go S3 (4/21)
- American Honey (4/27)
- Catatostrophe S3 (4/28)
- Animal Kingdom S1 (4/30)