Prime Video has an unusually full schedule in January, with new shows like Sophie Turner‘s to steal and movies like Jason Momoa‘s The Wrecking Crew making the expensive annual subscription worth it.
While February is a bit quieter, there are still plenty of new movies worth streaming.
this weekend, Watch with us has selected three movies to watch this weekend.
Take the flight with Robin Williams in hooksolve a mysterious murder with Kevin Costner in no way out and put on your record Paul Newman in slap.
‘No Way Out’ (1987)
If you like your thrillers full of wild plot twists, steamy sex scenes and big shoulders, no way out it’s for you Kevin Costner plays Tom Farrell, a Navy officer who has a passionate affair with Susan Atwell (Sean Young). This is risky because Susan is the mistress of the current Secretary of Defense, David Brice (Gene Hackman), who has a bad drinking habit. When Tom witnesses David kill Susan in a drunken stupor, he must figure out a way to bring him to justice. The only problem? Tom hides a secret of his own, which cannot be revealed under any circumstances.
I won’t tell you exactly what Tom’s secret is, except that he’s a fool, a spinster no way out from a conventional thriller to a political melodrama with shades of The Manchurian candidate. Costner has never been more engaging than he is here, while Young brings his usual sugar-and-spice persona to an underwritten role. As David, Hackman is wonderfully sordid, and only an actor of his caliber can make you sympathize with him when he mourns the lover he just killed.
no way out is streaming on Prime Video.
‘Hook’ (1991)
Live-action Peter Pan movies have a bad track record; in fact, there is only one successful version, Steven Spielbergit is flawed and imaginative hook. In this adaptation, Peter Pan (Robin Williams) grew up to become the worst of humanity: a corporate lawyer too busy to pay attention to his children, Jack (Charlie Korsmo) and Maggie (Amber Scott). When their children are unexpectedly kidnapped one night by their old nemesis, Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman), Peter must regain his childhood wonder (and flying powers) to travel to Neverland and retrieve them.
hook received mixed reviews at the time, but plays better now than it did in 1991. No one can direct a fantasy like Spielberg, and he permeates hook with an appropriate sense of awe given the fantastic material he is working with. Williams, Hoffman and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell are all miscast in their roles, but they still make it work, with each of them giving a deeper performance than you’d expect. The film has a composer John Williamsthe best scores of which rival his works in the Harry Potter films.
hook is streaming on Prime Video.
‘Slapshot’ (1977)
Hockey is all the rage right now, thanks to Heated rivalrybut if you’re in the mood for more puck-on-ice action, there’s not much else to watch. The best of all is probably slapa winning 1977 sports film with one of the Paul Newman‘s most relaxed and fun performances.
It stars Reggie Dunlop, a burned-out manager of a minor league hockey team, the Charleston Chiefs. When a nearby steel mill plans to lay off most of the town’s citizens, heads are almost certain to fall. Desperate, Reggie recruits the volatile Hanson brothers (Jeff, Steve and Jack Hanson), who are less hockey players than violent killers who like to start fights on the ice. This new infusion of unexpected violence draws in the crowds, but Dunlop soon realizes that he can’t rely on mayhem to win the big championship match. Can he somehow rally his rebel team to win big?
Lewd and raw, slap is a gorgeous snapshot of working-class life in late 1970s Pennsylvania. From its cozy, seedy bars to its sprawling abandoned factories, Charleston (a fictional stand-in for the real-life Jamestown) isn’t much, but it’s all Dunlop and his men have, and they wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. Newman is fantastic here – those famous blue eyes have never shone so brightly as when he’s letting the profanity fly. slap it’s dated in all the right ways; like Rocky before that, it’s a gritty sports movie that’s of its time but always timeless.