Yet more streaming delights for you…
Christmas is done and dusted for another year but we come bearing gifts, anyway.
Streaming gifts, to be precise.
Yep, the team at Amazon Prime Video has only gone and done it again; quietly adding a fistful of new movies to its platform in recent days.
There’s also a hell of a line-up of new entertainment coming in 2022 – check out the full list right here.
For right now, however, we’ve sifted through the new additions, so if you’re a subscriber, take your pick from…
Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe’s superb coming-of-age tribute to his own youth finds an awkward, wannabe music journalist teenager on the road with a Led Zeppelin-esque rock band.
The Angry Birds Movie 2
The second – and much better – one.
The Bounty Hunter
A bounty hunter (Gerard Butler) must track down his ex-wife (Jennifer Aniston), who has jumped bail.
Romantic comedy hijinks ensue.
Child’s Play
The 1988 original in which a killer doll comes to life.
A Cinderella Story
Hilary Duff does the ‘Cinderella in modern times’ thing.
Fun fact – this spawned five direct-to-video sequels, including one this year.
Contagion
Can’t get enough of the pandemic? Watch this, so.
Dark Shadows
Tim Burton’s reimagining of a kitsch 70s vampiric TV sitcom boasts the likes of Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Chloë Grace Moretz, Johnny Lee Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.
Deepwater Horizon
Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell lead the line in a real-life disaster film set on an oil rig.
Once it kicks off, director Peter Berg does a hell of a job taking you into a terrifying situation.
Dirty Grandpa
Robert De Niro and Zac Efron get their creepy comedy vibe on.
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
2021 sequel to The Hitman’s Bodyguard, featuring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas and Morgan Freeman.
Pan
The director of Atonement tries his take on the Peter Pan story, with critically reviled results.
Practical Magic
Cult favourite supernatural rom-com with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.
War Dogs
Miles Teller and Jonah Hill profit from war in Todd Phillips’ unsubtle satire.
We’re The Millers
They sure are!
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