10 movies to check out on Prime Video this April

If seeing Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire in theaters reminded you of how much you enjoy seeing movies about giant monsters knocking buildings over, revisit Matt Reeves’ tense found-footage monster film Cloverfield, which sparked its own franchise. The A.V. Club’s writes: “The filmmakers have gone to great lengths to keep the nature of the threat a secret, so let’s just say that it couldn’t have existed without H.P. Lovecraft, H.R. Giger, or Ishirô Honda, the director who gave Japan an embodiment of its then-recent nuclear attacks with Godzilla. Also, it’s absolutely terrifying, and it’s all the more effective for the way it lets viewers spend time getting to know the terrified stars, and the emotions and regrets behind their seemingly futile efforts to survive. It puts human faces on the victims of mass destruction, faces that might easily have been yours or mine, staring down the maw of something we don’t understand.”