11 movies to check out on Prime Video in November
Batman Returns, Evil Dead Rise, A Good Person, and Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story highlight the month's Amazon offerings
Film Lists Sid Haig
It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means streaming services are starting to add holiday-themed movies—or just movies set on or around Christmas—to their libraries. Prime Video gets in on the action by adding Batman Returns, Tim Burton’s Christmastime-set Batman movie featuring Michael Keaton as the Dark Knight, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and Danny DeVito as Penguin. If you’re still feeling Halloween and not yet ready to jump into the holly-jolly holiday season, Evil Dead Rise—the fifth installment in the Evil Dead horror franchise—arrives on Prime Video after its theatrical run earlier this year. Other additions to Prime Video’s library this November include Morgan Freeman in the drama A Good Person, the documentary Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, the camp classic Showgirls, the new Christmas movie Elf Me, and much more.
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Ah, Hollow Man, a forgettable thriller except for the fact that it pioneered the creation of a literal fake movie critic, David Manning, who was created around 2000 in order to create positive quotes for films no real movie critic liked, such as Hollow Man and The Animal.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writer)
What’s really funny is just how unnecessary it was. They had press junkets with all the random nobodies from obscure outlets who would say pretty much anything, they could easily find a dozen people who were technically critics that would gladly say that The Animal was hilarious or that Heath Ledger was “the year’s hottest new star,” so they’d get their name on the ad and keep getting invited to the parties. That’s why you always had to look at who was saying it, see if all the gushing praise was coming from outlets like Entertainment Weekly, or like, The North-West Tryon Daily Bulletin.
“Two Thumbs Up” from Siskel and Ebert means they both liked it. A good quotation from either Siskel or Ebert means the other one didn’t like it, and if neither of them is quoted, they both panned it.
Looking forward to Tyler Perry Presents Tyler Perry in Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, featuring Tyler Perry