Amazon's Prime Video to Add 132 New Titles This Week - Here's the 3 Most Interesting
By Phillip Swann
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Amazon’s Prime Video this week (June 30-July 6, 2024) plans to add 132 new TV shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the three most interesting new titles, in my humble opinion:
The Beekeeper (2024)
The box office hit ($152 million worldwide) stars Jason Statham as a member of a secret organization who employs his special skills to get some justice when his kindly landlady commits suicide after falling victim to a phishing scam. Statham, the star of such ‘lone man on a mission’ films as The Transporter series and Crank, is the right man for the job here. Despite the predictable nature of the plot, The Beekeeper generated strong reviews from critics and moviegoers alike. Debuts Tuesday, July 2.
Space Cadet (2024, Amazon Original Movie)
Emma Roberts stars as Tiffany Simpson, a spunky Florida gal who manages to enter NASA’s astronaut training program via a doctored application. Once in, hijinks (and hopefully comedy) ensue. If this movie was made two decades ago, it would have been Reese Witherspoon in the starring role. (Think Goldie Hawn if we go back an additional 20 years.) But now we get Emma who has been honing her dramedy chops lately in American Horror Story and Madame Web. She’s good; we’ll see about Space Cadet on Thursday, July 4 when the film debuts.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Robert De Niro stars as a New York cabbie in this brilliant character study of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese. The graphic violence has polarized film critics and fans over the years, but no film has better depicted the rage found in so many American males and explained the reasons why it’s there. De Niro is fascinating as Travis Bickle, the taxi driver, showing him capable of appearing normal and almost suave at one point, only to succumb to his worst instincts after any momentary setback. The superb supporting cast includes Cybill Shepherd as the icy-blonde Travis longs for; Albert Brooks as her coworker; Jodie Foster as an underaged sex worker; Harvey Keitel as her pimp; and Peter Boyle as a fellow driver. Very, very powerful film. Debuts Monday, July 1.
Complete List Of New Titles Coming to Amazon Prime Video This Week:
Sunday, June 30
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Zoolander No. 2: The Magnum Edition
The K2 S1
Monday, July 1
A Fistful of Dollars
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982)
A Separation (2011)
Absence of Malice (1981)
American Outlaws (2001)
Amistad (1997)
Animal House (1978)
Bananas (1971)
Billy Madison (1995)
Blue Chips (1994)
Blue Crush (2002)
Blue Crush 2 (2011)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Charlie Bartlett (2008)
Chato’s Land (1972)
Code Of Silence (1985)
Colors (1988)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Death Rides A Horse (1969)
Death Warrant (1990)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Easy Rider (1969)
El Dorado (1967)
Event Horizon (1997)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
For a Few Dollars More (1967)
From Here To Eternity (1953)
Gladiator (2000)
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Hang ’em High (1968)
Hannibal (2001)
Hard Target (1993)
Harsh Times (2006)
Jagged Edge (1985)
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Love & Mercy (2015)
Masquerade (1988)
Mermaids (1990)
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
My Left Foot (1990)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Non-Stop (2014)
Original Sin (2001)
Picture This (2008)
Pompeii (2014)
Postcards From The Edge (1990)
Private Parts (1997)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
Sahara (2005)
Savages (2012)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Scorpion King 4: Quest For Power (2015)
Scorpion King: Book of Souls (2018)
Seventh Son (2015)
Shane (1953)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Spy Game (2001)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Star Trek VII: Generations (1994)
Star Trek VIII: First Contact (1996)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Star Trek X: Nemesis (2002)
Stephen King’s Thinner (1996)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Ted (2012)
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Armstrong Lie (2013)
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Babysitter (1995)
The Black Stallion (1971)
The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
The Bone Collector (1999)
The Bridge At Remagen (1969)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Comedian (2017)
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
The First Wives Club (1996)
The Golden Child (1986)
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1967)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Last Airbender (2010)
The Love Letter (2013)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
The Remains Of The Day (1993)
The Running Man (1981)
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)
The Scorpion King 2: Rise Of A Warrior (2008)
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
The Wolfman (2010)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
Timeline (2003)
Trainspotting (1996)
Unforgiven (1992)
Walking Tall: The Payback (2007)
Wanderlust (2012)
Wayne’s World (1992)
Witness (1985)
Young Adult (2011)
Yours, Mine & Ours (1968)
JAG S1-10 (1995)
The Chosen S4 (2024)
The Way West (1995)
Tyler Perry’s Sistas S1-S3 (2020)
Tuesday, July 2
Evil Dead Rise (2023)
The Beekeeper (2024)
Thursday, July 4
Space Cadet (2024)
Friday, July 5
NWSL on Prime Video (2024)
Temptation Island Mexico (2024)
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