3 Best Prime Video Movies to Watch This Weekend (Nov 7-8)

Whether it’s the viral sensation You Can See Everything — which looks set to become the first documentary to earn a Best Picture nomination — LAIKA‘s new animated masterpiece, Wildwood, director Kitao Sakurai‘s live-action Street Fighter reboot, the NSFW new fairy tale Wicker, or a brand-new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, there seems to be something for everyone at the box office. But what if you can’t get out to the big screen? How should you stay entertained from the comfort of your own couch? With that in mind, here’s a look at three Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.

1

‘Blink Twice’ (2024)

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Rotten Tomatoes: 74% | IMDb: 6.5/10

This December, Channing Tatum returns to the MCU following his surprise Deadpool & Wolverine appearance, as Avengers: Doomsday is set to dominate the box office. The Magic Mike star reprises his role as Gambit in a jaw-dropping cast list packed with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Ahead of his return, don’t miss out on one of his best recent movies, the psychological thriller Blink Twice, on Prime Video.

The film follows Tatum’s sinister tech billionaire Slater King as he invites cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) to his private island. What begins as the vacation of a lifetime soon turns sour as dark secrets are uncovered. A timely, intense thriller with great performances and a killer score from Chanda Dancy, Blink Twice will certainly keep you hooked this weekend.

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

• The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
  reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
• You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
  real entry requirement here.
• The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
  usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
• When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

• This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
  wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
• You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
  not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
• The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
  to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
• You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.

• Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
  villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
• You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
  which is far less lonely than being the only one.
• The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
  honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
• The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

• The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
  patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
• You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
  not to mention.
• This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
  people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
• You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

2

‘Elf’ (2003)

Rotten Tomatoes: 85% | IMDb: 7.1/10

The spooky nights of Halloween season are in the rearview mirror, and the road to Christmas has well and truly begun. If you’re already in the festive mood, then this yuletide classic is sure to keep your Christmas cheer singing loud for all to hear this weekend. Elf, from Iron Man director Jon Favreau, stars Will Ferrell as the iconic Buddy the Elf, who travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father. However, his father doesn’t even know he exists, and the busy human world is a lot for Buddy to handle.

An undeniable modern Christmas classic, Elf is hilarious, heartwarming, and packed with festive spirit, as all good Christmas films should be. Ferrell is joined in a strong cast by the likes of Mary Steenburgen, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel, and the late great James Caan, who passed away in 2022, with this one of his lightest and most memorable performances.

3

‘Death Becomes Her’ (1992)

Rotten Tomatoes: 58% | IMDb: 6.7/10

For those who reject the festive spirit and are still clinging to spooky season, Prime Video also has you covered. Death Becomes Her, directed and produced by Back to the Future‘s Robert Zemeckis, follows Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) and actress Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) as they fight for eternal beauty and the affection of a man, only for the consequences to change both their lives forever.

One of Zemeckis’ most underrated movies, made from a David Koepp and Martin Donovan script, Death Becomes Her is packed with fantasy comedy and superb performances, including a scene-stealing turn from the great Bruce Willis. Some of the film’s themes haven’t aged well in a post-The Substance era, but let that take nothing away from the sheer entertainment value of Death Becomes Her.

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