By Phillip Swann
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Amazon’s Prime Video next month (May 2024) plans to add 150 new TV shows and movies to its Prime membership lineup. Here’s the four most interesting, in my humble opinion:

American Fiction (2023)
Jeffrey Wright stars in this smart and sweet satire of racial stereotypes in our culture and literary world. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, American Fiction features Wright as a serious (and somewhat pretentious) author who discovers the ticket to fame and fortune as an African-American writer is feigning he’s a criminal who lives and breathes the hood. The publishing world, filled with white do-gooders, anoint the fake novelist as a literary genius much to Wright’s chagrin. American Fiction is a rare film that challenges perceptions of race and perceptions themselves which makes it worth a watch. There’s also a standout performance by Sterling K. Brown as the newly-out-of-the-closet brother to Jeffrey Wright’s protagonist. Debuts May 14.

The Idea of You (Amazon Original)
Anne Hathaway plays a single 40-ish mother who falls in love with the much younger lead singer of a ‘boy band.’ Hathaway is never bad and Rotten Tomatoes currently gives the movie a score of 90 based on 21 critical reviews. Sounds like a winner. Debuts May 2.

The Academy of Country Music Awards
For the third straight year, Prime Video will offer an exclusive livestream of the annual music-fest from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The show, which will stream at 8 p.m. ET on May 16, will be hosted by Reba McEntire. The Red Carpet show will begin at 7 p.m. ET.

WNBA
Amazon will again be the exclusive national streaming partner of the WNBA with 21 games this season. The first game will be 7 p.m. ET on May 16 with the New York Liberty facing Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever.

Complete List Of New Titles Coming to Prime Video In May 2024

May 1
12 Angry Men (1957)
3:10 To Yuma (1957)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Airplane! (1980)

All That Heaven Allows (1955)
American Me (1992)
Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
Atonement (2008)
Bachelor Party Vegas (2006)

Beautiful And Twisted (2015)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Because I Said So (2007)
Ben Hur (2013)
Biloxi Blues (1988)

Blame It On Rio (1984)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Breach (2007)
Breathless (1983)

Brigsby Bear (2017)
California Suite (1978)
Call Me By Your Name (2018)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Capote (2006)

Chocolat (2001)
Clockstoppers (2002)
Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Cry Macho (2021)

Dead Reckoning (1947)
Death Race (2008)
Death Race 2 (2011)
Death Race 3: Inferno (2013)
Delta Force (1986)

Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)
Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012)
Emma (2020)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Europa Report (2013)

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Fire In The Sky (1993)
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
Fluke (1995)

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1992)
Gattaca (1997)
Gilda (1946)
Glory (1990)

Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man (1991)
Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992)
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
Hellraiser V: Inferno (2022)
Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker (2002)

Hellraiser VII: Deader (2005)
Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld (2005)
Imagine That (2009)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Indecent Proposal (1993)

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Isle Of The Dead (2016)
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
Knock On Any Door (1949)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Lassie: The Road Back (1970)
Lizzie Borden Took An Ax (2014)
Lone Wolf Mcquade (1983)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Malcolm X (1992)

Men At Work (1990)
Night School (2018)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1969)

Open Wide (2024)
Pal Joey (1957)
Panic Room (2002)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Pompeii (2014)

Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
Reindeer Games Homecoming (2022)
Repo Men (2010)
Roboshark (2015)

Rolling Thunder (1977)
Rope (1948)
Run Lola Run (1999)
Schindler’s List (1994)
Serpico (1973)

Shampoo (1975)
Sliver (1993)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Soul Plane (2004)
Stargate: Continuum (2008)

Stargate: The Ark Of Truth (2008)
Steel Magnolias (2012)
Steppin’ Into The Holiday (2022)
The Accused (1988)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)

The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999)
The Advocate’s Devil (1997)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Birdcage (1996)

The Birds (1963)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Change-Up (2011)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Deer Hunter (1979)

The Harder They Fall (1956)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
The Last Detail (1974)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Mountain Men (1980)
The Night of The Hunter (1955)
The One (2001)
The Ring (2002)
The Swimmer (1968)

The Tarnished Angels (1957)
The Wiz (1978)
Tom & Jerry (2021)
Undercover Brother (2002)
Vertigo (1958)

Virtuosity (1995)
Whiplash (2014)
With This Ring (2015)
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)

May 3 
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Idea of You (2024)
Clarkson’s Farm (2024)
NWSL (2024)

May 4 
Premiere Boxing Champions Pay-Per-View Event (2024)

May 8
Maxton Hall – The World Between Us (2024)
Oh My Ghost (2015)
The GOAT (2024)

May 14
American Fiction (2023)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Muppets From Space (2020)

May 15
Fifty Shades Of Black (2016)

May 16
Creed (2015)
Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story (2022)
Academy of Country Music Awards (2024)
Outer Range Season 2 (2024)
WNBA (2024)

May 17
99 (2024)

May 23
The Blue Angels (2024)
The 1% Club (2024)

May 24
DOM Season 3 (2024)

May 25
Bombshell (2019)

May 28
The Boys in The Boat (2023)

May 30
Die Hart 2: Die Harter (2024)

May 31
The Outlaws Season 3 (2024)

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