It’s Oscar weekend, and Prime Video is now streaming a few of this 12 months’s nominees, like Sinners with Michael B. Jordan.
The streamer additionally has previous Oscar-nominated movies, like Parenthood, Ron Howard’s irresistible 1989 comedy starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis and Keanu Reeves.
The primary Resident Evil flick definitely wasn’t an Oscar contender, however its entertaining mixture of horror and motion makes it value streaming over twenty years after its launch.
And if the Academy ever gave out awards for campy enjoyable, the zany satire Josie and the Pussycats would absolutely seize a number of statuettes.
‘Resident Evil’ (2002)
Normally, online game film diversifications stink, particularly once they change nearly the whole lot concerning the supply materials that made them value adapting within the first place. However 2002’s Resident Evil is an oddity — it’s an adaptation that throws out many of the first sport’s plot, characters and tone, and but in some way continues to be enjoyable to observe. Thank model-turned-actress Milla Jovovich for that; as the brand new character Alice, she’s silly enjoyable because the reluctant motion heroine who wears a slinky crimson gown whereas capturing zombies and touchdown roundhouse kicks to rabid canine in mid-air. That occurs to me, too.
Alice is caught in a big mansion in Raccoon Metropolis with no reminiscence of her previous. Issues go from dangerous to worse as a commando unit working for the Umbrella Company breaks into the mansion and warns her of a virus outbreak that has turned nearly everybody into zombies. Alice has no alternative however to align herself along with her gun-toting buddies, however can she belief individuals who work for Umbrella, which seems to be behind the virus that brought on the mess they’re in within the first place?
Resident Evil is streaming on Prime Video.
‘Parenthood’ (1989)
Rising up is difficult, however being a grown-up is even more durable. That’s what Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) finds out all through Parenthood, Ron Howard’s successful 1989 comedy that also feels contemporary and humorous in 2026. Gil and his siblings, Helen (Dianne Wiest) and Susan (Harley Jane Kozack), navigate the highs and lows of elevating kids whereas additionally in some way looking for sufficient time and power to dedicate to their love lives. When black sheep brother Larry (Tom Hulce) returns with a toddler of his personal in tow, the Buckman household’s sturdy bonds are examined.
Later tailored right into a profitable NBC drama sequence starring Craig T. Nelson, Parenthood is as humorous as it’s shifting. The film’s massive ensemble is terrific, with nice performances from an Oscar-nominated Wiest as a divorced mother on the finish of her rope and a younger Joaquin Phoenix (then known as Leaf) as her withdrawn son. Martin’s wild-and-crazy-guy comedian power works effectively for Gil, who has to at all times keep up to the mark or else he thinks the whole lot — and everybody — will collapse. The film tells some laborious truths about what it prices to be a very good mum or dad, however it sugarcoats that with some good comedic bits (search for the scene when Martin has to fake to be a cowboy to please his son) and an irresistible Randy Newman soundtrack.
Parenthood is streaming on Prime Video.
‘Josie and the Pussycats’ (2001)
When massively profitable boy band DuJour is seemingly killed in a airplane crash, oily music producer Wyatt Body (Alan Cumming) wants a brand new money cow to exploit. He finds it in Riverdale with Josie and the Pussycats, an all-female rock band led by singer Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook dinner) and that includes badass bassist Valerie (Rosario Dawson) and dim-blonde drummer Melody (Tara Reid).
The band turns into massively widespread, however their lives are quickly at risk once they uncover an enormous conspiracy led by document label proprietor Fiona (Parker Posey). Can Josie and her pussy posse expose Fiona, save the world’s youngsters from corrupt companies and nonetheless discover love and pop music success?
An enormous dud in its preliminary launch, Josie and the Pussycats has since turn into a cult movie favourite. It’s not laborious to see why: its weird plot, non-sequitur dialogue and over-the-top performances make it enjoyable to observe and re-watch. Like several good dangerous film, it’s the villains that make all of it worthwhile, and Cumming and Posey are a match made in camp baddie heaven.
Josie and the Pussycats is streaming on Prime Video.
