Amazon’s Prime Video Just Added 52 New Movies – Here Are the 3 to Watch

By Phillip Swann
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Amazon’s Prime Video this week has added 52 new movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the three to watch, in my humble opinion:

Mississippi Burning (1988)
The 1988 crime drama was based loosely on the real-life murders of three civil rights activists in the 1960s Jim Crow South. The film captured an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as did Gene Hackman for Best Actor. While director Alan Parker took significant liberties with the real story, Hackman is the reason to watch. His performance is part Popeye Doyle from The French Connection and part Coach Norman Dale of Hoosiers. A total force of nature as he corrals the people responsible for the murders.

Moneyball (2011) 
Brad Pitt (pictured above) stars as Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane who uses modern analytics to assemble a playoff team on a shoestring budget. Based on Michael Lewis’ book, the movie glosses over some of the real reasons why the A’s made it to the playoffs (the team had one of the best trio of starters in the game: Tim Hudson, Barry Zito and Mark Mulder) but Pitt wins the day with a real movie star performance. You root for him from beginning to end as he schools the old school crowd. 

Platoon (1986)
Director Oliver Stone’s 1986 Vietnam drama stars Charlie Sheen as a grunt in the brush who’s torn between two sergeants (Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) who have violently different views of how to conduct the war. This is Stone’s masterpiece, perhaps even surpassing 1991’s JFK, in large part because it feels so authentic thanks to the director’s personal experience in the war. Sheen is particularly good and a rewatching of this film and 1987’s Wall Street will make you wonder why he didn’t become a top-tier actor instead of a late-night punchline.

List Of Movies Just Added to Amazon’s Prime Video

12 Angry Men (1957)
Annie (2014)
At First Sight (1999)
Bad Teacher (2011)
Benny & Joon (1993)
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Billy Madison (1995)
Bloodsport (1998)
Brokeback Mountain (2006)
Capote (2006)
Chips (2017)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Daddy Day Care (2003)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Fled (1996)
Godzilla (2014)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
Half Baked (1998)
Happy Feet (2006)
Happy Feet Two (2001)
Heartbreakers (2001)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2007)
Life (1999)
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mississippi Burning (1989)
Moneyball (2011)
Nanny McPhee (2006)
Oblivion (2013)
Platoon (1987)
Pixels (2015)
Red Corner (1997)
Return of the Seven (1966)
Rings (2017)
Road House (1989)
Ronin (1998)
Serenity (2005)
Stargate (1994)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Birdcage (1996)
The Brothers (2001)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Perfect Guy (2015)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Twins (1988)
Valkyrie (2008)
White Chicks (2004)

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