11 movies to check out on Prime Video in August 2023

Cocaine Bear, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and Red, White & Royal Blue highlight this month's Prime offerings

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11 movies to check out on Prime Video in August 2023
Clockwise from top left: Cocaine Bear (Universal Pictures), Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Paramount Pictures) Photo: The A.V. Club

Are you ready to do the streaming-service shuffle? You may have noticed that many catalog titles and new releases ping-pong around to different streaming providers every few months in an attempt to make you subscribe to ALL of them to maintain access to your favorite movies. If you’re in an exclusive streaming relationship with Prime Video, you’ll be excited that it’s now Amazon’s turn to add the surprise hits Cocaine Bear and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves to its roster. Also on deck in August is Galaxy Quest, Snowpiercer, the Amazon original romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue, the Oscar-winning Women Talking, Timothée Chalamet’s romantic horror film Bones And All, and many more.

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American Gigolo - Trailer

The recent American Gigolo TV series starring Jon Bernthal only lasted one season on Showtime, but that doesn’t mean you should dismiss the O.G. (original gigolo) played by Richard Gere in Paul Schrader’s seminal 1980 neo-noir crime drama . The stylish and gorgeously filmed movie established Gere as a leading man and was one of the first mainstream films to show frontal male nudity. The movie also prominently features the No. 1 hit song “Call Me” by Blondie, which feels so summertime and is impossible to get out of your head—even 43 years later.Stream it now:

4 Comments

  • bloggymcblogblog-av says:

    I’ll watch Dungeons & Dragons now that it’s been freed from the shackles of Paramount+.

    • sarcastro7-av says:

      Same here.  I missed it in the theaters and have been looking forward to it coming to one of the services I already pay for.

    • coatituesday-av says:

      Yep – I’m looking forward to the D&D movie. Never played the game but the trailer made it look good.And I’ll watch Galaxy Quest… even though I have it on DVD. Because I will always watch Galaxy Quest.

  • joeleearound-av says:

    did you know captain america eats babies

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