FIELD OF STREAMS highlights some of the great features available now on Amazon Prime Video
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For this week’s edition of streaming recommendations, we’ve gone to the vault and found five movies now showing on Prime that Cinapse has recommended over the last few years. Enjoy!
ZOMBIELAND
In 2009, a fresh, fun zombie comedy hit the world by storm. Young burgeoning stars Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone, and Jesse Eisenberg were joined by comedy veteran Woody Harrelson in one of the most fun takes on a zombie ridden post-apocalyptic landscape the world had ever seen.
THE LIGHTHOUSE
The Lighthouse is dense, repulsive, verbose, and is shot in black and white with an unusual aspect ratio. It’s also hilarious.
It’s a primal, unrelenting film about two men tasked with up-keeping a lighthouse on a remote island. Put a crotchety old sailor and a rebellious young man on a cold, rainy, remote, solitary shithole, and there’s no chance things go well.
RAMBO: LAST BLOOD
37 years after First Blood, The John Rambo saga which began in 1982 gets its final chapter. The franchise has seemed to make its natural exit more than once before, but this time the writing is literally on the wall with the denotatively questionable but very conclusive title Last Blood.
HOTEL ARTEMIS
Hotel Artemis centers around a very bad night at the titular establishment, a semi-mythical hotel/hospital operated by and for criminals. It’s a hot summer’s day in 2028, and riots are sweeping through LA. While the streets simmer, a bank job goes wrong and the heist’s mastermind (Sterling K. Brown) drags his injured brother (Brian Tyree Henry) to the Artemis for treatment. Already there are an obnoxious arms dealer (Charlie Day) and a high-priced assassin (Sofia Boutella). Tending to this motley cruel is the dogged, agoraphobic Nurse (Jodie Foster) and her hulking but soft-hearted assistant, Everest (Dave Bautista).
LES MISÉRABLES
Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables documents a violent, lawless day in les Bosquets, the housing projects in Montfermeil, the setting of the Victor Hugo novel from which the film draws its title. … Special police forces patrol the streets, keeping an accusing eye on citizens who may or may not have been swept up in sectarian gang violence. Switching between the perspectives of the police, gang members, and innocent bystanders who all share some claim to Les Bosquets, Ly doesn’t seek to provide any easy answers to the generations of social conflict plaguing France. Instead, Les Misérables examines the valid reasons why those without a social voice turn to violence for expression, while acknowledging that violence as part of a cycle of retribution that must be broken at all costs.
There are countless services to explore and great things to watch on all of them. Which ones did we miss that you would suggest to us? And, as always, if you’ve got thoughts on titles we’re missing out on or new services to check out, leave a comment below.
Till next week, stream on, stream away.