10 movies to check out on Prime Video this May

A new romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway, the Oscar-winning American Fiction, Mia Goth in the horror prequel Pearl, and a number of Alfred Hitchcock classics lead the offerings from Amazon’s Prime Video this May. In The Idea Of You, Anne Hathaway plays a single mother who gets her groove back with the much younger lead singer of a famous boy band. Before you see Ti West’s MaXXXine in theaters this July, check out Mia Goth in the prequel Pearl. Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Several Alfred Hitchcock classics arrive on Prime Video this month, including Psycho and Rear Window. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video library this May include The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, Sixteen Candles, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and many more.

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956, available May 1)

We’ve lost track of how many versions of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers are out there, and we’re not even counting the countless rip-offs. The black-and-white 1956 original directed by Walter Wangers stars Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, and Ralph Dumke. The A.V. Club’s writes, “The plot, taken from Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers, concerns a town being taken over, one resident at a time, by aliens who resemble their victims to the last detail. They even retain their memories and personalities, so much so that only those closest to them can tell something’s wrong, and that beneath the surface they lack anything resembling human emotion as they work toward the advancement of their alien race.” If you ever wondered where the term “pod people” comes from, this is it.