At the weekend …
It’s been a pretty big week on the front of “movies that were accidentally added to a great streaming service.”
On Tuesday, in the midst of the Storm Barra massacre, we brought you a complete list of eight new movies that were silently added to the Amazon Prime Video Library.
Get these here if you are interested.
But they went and did it again, just as the weekend approached.
If you are an Amazon Prime Video subscriber, choose from …
The departed
One of the most remarkable films of the last two decades, The Departed needs a little introduction but a sure look, we will give it anyway.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon face off under the shadow of Jack Nicholson’s gangster’s Oscar-winning Martin Scorsese crime epic in Boston.
A strong support cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga, Ray Winstone and Alec Baldwin among other celebrities.
You’ve almost certainly seen The Departed once or twice before, but few two-and-a-half-hour movies move that fast.
By the way, do not forget to do the quiz for the 15th anniversary.
Whipping
Are you in a hurry or crawling?
JK Simmons won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role here as a militaristic music teacher under the tutelage of talented drummer Miles Teller.
A richly fascinating and often upsetting obsession story, Whiplash leaves a damn mark.
Cardiac Invaders
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sigourney Weaver trick men into falling in love with them as part of an intricate money-making scam.
Gene Hackman, Ray Liotta and Jason Lee are caught in the crossfire.
Wildcard
Jason Statham mixes dangerous work with violent pleasure in Las Vegas.
Hair spray
The 2007 edition of the Broadway musical of the same name saw John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden and Zac Efron dance in a storm.
Room 237
If you’re a fan of The Shining, you’ll appreciate a great, academic documentary on the subject in which various talking heads present many theories about what a movie is. Really about.
The legend of Tarzan
Alexander Skarsgård glides on the fabric of the famous fictional hunter’s back with Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Djimon Hounsou and Christoph Waltz.
Surf’s Up
Mixed cartoon comedy with the vocal talents of Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges and Zooey Deschanel.