This has piqued my interest.
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.
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
I didn't notice Spencer in the list above when I skimmed through it earlier but just saw it mentioned on their twitter.
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.
The HBO show Hacks is arriving on prime UK tomorrow, sky must not have bothered picking it up.
Excellent! I've heard great things!
It is terrific, Jean Smart is brilliant in it. Wonder why it took so long to come to tv/streaming here.
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!
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.
I was just coming on to ask if Hacks is showing for anyone else. Hope it isn't just released for UK viewers.
Hacks isn't listed on JustWatch under todays new additions either 😕
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.
If it's Prime UK only I'll be raging!
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)
Jennifer's Body -14/4
Little Miss Sunshine - 16/4
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).
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)........
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
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.
Apparently they're not on Prime in Ireland until May.
Wonder what other MGM films will appear, although Bond is probably their biggest property.
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.
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 ?
I don't use it myself but here in the UK it's £9.99 normally but £7.99 if you're a Prime member.
You also get access to the limited Amazon Music Prime without paying anything.
Yes you can get them all in a bundle in the U.K. but if I remember correctly the music service that U.K. customers get is different somehow to the one customers in other countries get.
Think it came in last year at some point, but not sure.
However in the US to start anyway an upcoming price increase effectively wipes out the the discount.
Hacks seems to be up now for anyone who was looking for it.
I have had Prime Video support claiming Brexit - but is rubbish.
They even claimed it was Brexit and then licensing l when random episodes of Vikings disappeared. It was a technical problem and I don’t think they ever fixed it.
I also reported The Legend of Wyatt Earp Season 2 was missing while they had all the other seasons. Every support agent I tried claimed Brexit or licensing. I contacted the distributor who said it was nonsense. They got in touch with Amazon and had to jump through hoops for two months to get them to put it up. It is now listed on Prime Video but Season 2 is “ unavailable”.
Binged watched it tonight, bizarre never seen the likes of it before really - don't know what to make of it😐️
I started it today but got bored half way through episode 2. I've heard so many people praising it, and then there was the chat in here a few weeks ago when it was supposed to go up but only went on the UK Prime, so when I saw it was actually up I thought I'd give it a look. But yeah, I'll watch a bit more but I'm not really getting it so far.
