The 15 best films hitting Amazon Prime in April 2022
Lots of Bruce Willis’ best work, along with Blow Out, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, and more "B" titles are coming to the streaming service
Film News Peter Stormare
Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis in M. Night Shyalaman’s Unbreakable Photo: Touchstone Pictures
Despite the explosion of content available online, people have spent so much time indoors over the last two-plus years that it’s easy to forget that Amazon Prime offers a lot more than free shipping for all of the knick-knacks they’ve ordered to pass that time. The streaming service is dropping a terrific slate of titles in April to keep subscribers entertained.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild came up in a recent conversation, which immediately reminded me of that ill-advised “That Quvenzhané Wallis sure is a cunt” comment The Onion tweeted on Oscar night, and I about fell out of my chair at work, laughing. Not because the tweet was funny, but the whole surreal thing: The reaction to it, the fact that some people thought The Onion seriously believed that, the blowback A.V. Club got, that someone at The Onion thought it was a funny thing to tweet (I think I get what they were going for, but Jesus, dude), and then it hit me — maybe that’s the laugh the writer of that tweet was going for all along — the “ten year later, remember it and drop dead laughing” joke. That’s 8-dimensional comedy, people.
That still from Unbreakable looks so ancient