11 movies to check out on Prime Video this October

Totally Killer, The Burial, Renfield, and Polite Society highlight this month's Amazon offerings

By Robert DeSalvo | September 28, 2023 | 3:00pm

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11 movies to check out on Prime Video this October

Clockwise from top left: Polite Society (Focus Features), Totally Killer (Amazon), The Burial (Amazon), Surrounded (MGM) Image: The A.V. Club

Amazon Prime Video has a diverse selection of originals, indies, and recent theatrical releases this October. Tommy Lee Jones plays a funeral home owner and Jamie Foxx is his attorney in The Burial, which was based on a true story from The New Yorker and was a hit with attendees at the Toronto Film Festival. Fans missing Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka won’t want to miss her time-traveling comedy-horror Totally Killer. Other new additions to Prime Video’s library this October include Nicolas Cage in Renfield, Godzilla Vs. Kong, A Fish Called Wanda, A View To A Kill (and pretty much every other James Bond film), the British marital arts action comedy Polite Society, the Western drama Surrounded, and so much more.

A Fish Called Wanda (1988, available October 1)

A Fish Called Wanda (1988) | Official Trailer | MGM Studios

The heist comedy directed by Charles Crichton is about a gang of thieves who double-cross one another to get their hands on some hidden jewels. The critically acclaimed movie starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin was nominated for three Oscars. The A.V. Club’s writes, “A Fish Called Wanda winds up being a very personal film for Cleese, and not just because he cast his daughter in a key role (as his daughter, appropriately enough), and allowed himself to give the sweetest, fullest performance of his acting career. For all its dead dogs, swallowed fish, misquoted philosophy, and accidental nudity, A Fish Called Wanda is really about how Cleese admires the endless inventiveness and bravado of the Yank.”

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