Amazon Prime Film/TV Series Recommendations

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118692395#Comment_118692395

It's all right. Distinctly "nothing special". Comedy's a bit flat, drama's a bit flat, satire's a bit toothless. It has a sweet heart though

cdgalwegian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118686188#Comment_118686188

"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 4)(Amazon Original)(2022) - 2 Episodes/weekly until conclusion"

Finally. Really looking forward to this.

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118692395#Comment_118692395

I really enjoyed it more and more as it went along, very interesting concept

hold my beer

I watch about 2 or 3 episodes and thought it was ok, a bit of light fluff. Never bothered finishing it

Caquas

The Father is a deeply moving story about an issue which affects very many families but which rarely features in films. I have never seen this theme handled more humanely.

Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman are tremendous as father/daughter struggling with his dementia. Hopkins deservedly won the Best Actor Oscar last year for his performance (while tucked up in bed in Wales!). Coleman is marvellous as his middle-aged daughter whose marriage is cracking under the strain of caring for her cantankerous and increasingly disoriented father. (She is wasted on that Lost Child mish-mash which only the critics and pseudos can love.).

A brilliant script makes The Father lively and engaging, never mawkish, but it is not an easy watch. Set design and cinematography subtly draw you into his world and its confusions.

Five stars!

Wrongway1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118701261#Comment_118701261

Thanks for this rechecked it's now indeed playing for Irish users.

Wrongway1985

Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

12 Years a Slave

A Call to Spy (2019)

All the Money in the World

Biffy Clyro: Cultural Sons of Scotland (2022)

Broken City

Clementine (2019)

Detroit

Fast Girls

The Father (Colman/Hopkins)(2020)* - *now of use to Irish customers

The Front Runner

The Great Escape

I Do, I Do, I Do

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

London Has Fallen

Lucy and Desi (2022) - Amy Poehler documentary on Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz

The Misfits (Amazon Original)(2021)

Molly's Game (Chastain/Elba)

Muriel's Wedding

Olympus Has Fallen

Pan's Labyrinth (Original Title: El laberinto del fauno)

Persian Lessons

Red

Red 2

Sleeping with the Enemy (J.Roberts)

S.W.A.T.

Terminator Genisys

This Means War

Toto and Cleopatra

The Tourist

Transcendence

Walk the Line

The Watch

The Way Way Back

The Weeknd x Dawn FM Experience (2022)

Wild Hogs

The Boys Presents: Diabolical (Amazon Original)(2022)

Quantico (Season 1-3)

Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Season 1-4)

Star Trek: Picard - Season 2 (Amazon Original)(2022)(1 Episode,Episodes weekly 'til conclusion)

The Walking Dead (Season 10)

Wolf Like Me (2022)

Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

IT Chapter 2 - 13/3

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 15/3

Costantine - 20/3

peteeeed

https://twitter.com/primevideouk/status/1501966108747649024?s=20&t=RQ70ZN9X4zEbep-nyBoNbQ

Mr Crispy

This has piqued my interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFj5K7WmwqI

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I watched 2 very different but very enjoyable films on Prime today.

First was The Surprise, a Dutch film, which surprisingly was partly filmed here in Ireland. It's a slightly dark rom-com, I guess, but there's some surprises in there too. I saw it described as absurdist humour earlier, which might be more accurate than calling it a rom-com. It's funny, charming, sweet, kind of sad, and really very enjoyable.

Then I watched Blue My Mind, which is a terrible title, but a great film. Its billed as coming of age mixed with body horror, which is kind of accurate but doesn't paint the whole picture. I'm told the trailer spoils the whole film so I'd go in blind if you fancy watching it. It's a Swiss film, about Mia, a 15 year old girl who starts at a new school just as puberty hits and she finds herself going through some major changes. Probably not for everyone, there's some gore, I guess, but not too much.

Wrongway1985

Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

About Time

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Arsène Wenger: Invincible (2021)

Before the Revolution (Original Title: Prima della rivoluzione)

Burning at Both Ends (2021)

Clueless

Dark Eyes (Original Title: Очи черные)

Deep Water (Amazon Original)(2022)

Flatliners (K.Sutherland/J.Roberts)

Flatliners (D.Luna/E.Page)

Gladiator

A Good Woman (H.Hunt/Johansson)

The Green Mile

Grown Ups

Grown Ups 2

Hot Fuzz

Infinitum: Subject Unknown (2021)

Inglourious Basterds

Last Action Hero

Legend (T.Hardy)

Macbeth (Fassbender)

Metallica: Cunning Stunts

Metallica: Pride, Passion and Glory — Three Nights in Mexico City

Ossessione (1943)

People I Know (Pacino/Bassinger)

The Postcard Killings (2020)

Robin Hood (1973) - Animated

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Shaun of the Dead

Slaughterhouse Rulez

Spencer (K.Stewart/S.Hawkins/Spall)(Amazon Exclusive)(2021)

Time Freak

The Wolf of Wall Street

The World's End

Zombieland

The Handmaid's Tale (Season 4)

Upload - Season 2 (Amazon Original)(2022)

Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

Ammonite - 31/3

Dune (1984) - 31/3

The Losers - 1/4

Argo - 2/4

Requiem For A Dream - 2/4

The Goldfinch - 3/4

Con Air - 5/4

Dead Poets Society - 7/4

Wild Mountain Thyme - 7/4

S.M.B.

I didn't notice Spencer in the list above when I skimmed through it earlier but just saw it mentioned on their twitter.

Terence Rattigan

Wrath of Man, Jason Statham playing Jason Statham, a heist/revenge movie, thoroughly enjoyable action movie with an impressive body count. Scott Eastwood the spit of his Dad.

S.M.B.

The HBO show Hacks is arriving on prime UK tomorrow, sky must not have bothered picking it up.

FunLover18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118862701#Comment_118862701

Excellent! I've heard great things!

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118862721#Comment_118862721

It is terrific, Jean Smart is brilliant in it. Wonder why it took so long to come to tv/streaming here.

Full_Circle_81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118862701#Comment_118862701

Its so bizarre to see which shows Sky cherry pick from HBO to air.......

Prefer to see it on Prime though, much better streaming quality!

S.M.B.

I don't mind when Sky pick them up as it usually means little to no wait. I'd love to know their thought process though.

Hacks has yet to appear. Not sure what time amazon add content. Others are enquiring about it in the announcement tweet from yesterday which is where I spotted it.

https://twitter.com/primevideouk/status/1509551012780064774?t=sKcnTxVMHKsKd1tGaBKw9A&s=19

shanmo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118864986#Comment_118864986

I was just coming on to ask if Hacks is showing for anyone else. Hope it isn't just released for UK viewers.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Hacks isn't listed on JustWatch under todays new additions either 😕

S.M.B.

It is now available for me here in the UK. It's also being heavily promoted within the user interface which I wasn't expecting.

Full_Circle_81

If it's Prime UK only I'll be raging!

Wrongway1985

Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

12 Strong

Abandoned (Original Title: Gli sbandati)

Adulthood

A Day in Court (Original Title: Un giorno in pretura)

American Pie

American Pie 2

American Wedding

American Reunion

A United Kingdom

Back to the Future

Back to the Future II

Back to the Future III

Bend It Like Beckham

A Bigger Splash

The Big Lebowski

Bridesmaids

The Butler

Cape Fear (De Niro/Lange/Nolte)

Driving Miss Daisy

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Ex Machina

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

The Girl in the Spider's Web (Foy)

The Happytime Murders

Hercules (The Rock/J.Hurt/McShane)

Home Again (Witherspoon)

Hostage

I, Robot

In Bruges

Inkheart

Jaws

Jaws 2

Jaws 3-D (D.Quaid)

Jaws: The Revenge (Caine)

Joe Bell (Amazon Original)(2020)

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass 2

Killing Them Softly

Mirror Mirror

Layer Cake

Les Misérables

Let's Be Cops

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Matilda

Passengers (Pratt/Lawrence)

Piercing

Robocop 2

Runaway Bride

Schindler's List (Neeson/Kingsley/R.Fiennes)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Selma

Showgirls

Slumdog Millionaire

Speed

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Snowpiercer

Step Brothers

Thillu Mullu (Original Title: தில்லு முல்லு)

This Is the End

Unbroken

Van Helsing

Viceroy's House (Bonneville/G.Anderson)

White House Down

The Big Bang Theory (Season 1-12)

Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (Amazon Original)(2022)

Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

Jennifer's Body -14/4

Little Miss Sunshine - 16/4

ixoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118867547#Comment_118867547

Start to rage then - it's only in the UK! One Tweet I saw said we didn't get it, according to Amazon customer support, because of Brexit although I see another saying we will be getting it soon. We'll see (or not).

Full_Circle_81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118886172#Comment_118886172

Blast. I figured their days of UK vs Ireland content had more or less finished, at least in regards to new shows/movies.

Maybe RTE have it pencilled in sometime over the coming year(s)........

peteeeed

Amazon Prime Video adding all 25 Bond movies: Here's when you can stream 007

from 15 April

They will be available for a "limited time"

https://www.pocket-lint.com/tv/news/amazon/160709-amazon-prime-video-adding-all-25-bond-movies-here-s-when-you-can-stream-007

Hurrache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118581664#Comment_118581664

One good benefit of Prime membership is the discount you get on Amazon Music Unlimited. The quality is far superior to that you get with Spotify, but they could do with investing a bit more into their app, Spotify's wins hands down on that.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118896045#Comment_118896045

Apparently they're not on Prime in Ireland until May.

Wonder what other MGM films will appear, although Bond is probably their biggest property.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118897708#Comment_118897708

Is this discount on Music Unlimited new?

I’ve subscribed to Music before and never been able to pay it in a bubble with Amazon Prime and Prime Video.

Spon Farmer

a recent update to the Prime Video app brought in being able to skip forward and and backwards in 20 seconds segments

it is useful for finding a specific moment but a pain for by dragging forward if you need to go for a point more than 20 seconds

is there an option for a normal “fast forward” like it used to be ?