Amazon Video Announces New TV Shows And Movies For May

Photo: Peter Rabbit, Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation

Also notable in Amazon’s list of new homegrown Original content is a new film by the usually excellent Richard Linklater. Last Flag Flying follows three Vietnam war vets who reunite after 30 years on a road trip to bury a young marine from the Iraq War. It doesn’t sound like a barrel of laughs, granted – but Linklater has an uncanny knack of finding bittersweet humor and beauty in pretty much anything.

When it comes to newly added third party stuff, there are some cracking films to look out for.

Stellar sports movie (though it’s obviously a lot more than that) Bull Durham is my personal favorite on the May list, but also essential viewing if you’ve not seen them before are outstanding Michael Mann serial killer movie Manhunter, and David Lynch’s almost unwatchably brilliant The Elephant Man.

Worth your time, too, if you’ve got some to spare, is the original 1974 Murder On The Orient Express starring Albert Finney; bleak and often overlooked Christopher Nolan thriller Insomnia; flawed but creepily beautiful Steven Spielberg sci-fi epic A.I. Artificial Intelligence; and another strong sports movie in the shape of Eight Men Out.

If you’re in a ‘franchise’ kind of mood, meanwhile, Amazon welcomes all five Rocky films to its Amazon Video platform, as well as a selection of classic James Bond titles.

Photo: Manhunter

One disappointment in all this is that so far I can tell from the information provided so far, the only new Amazon content that will be available in 4K HDR is season two of You Are Wanted.

Here, organized by launch date, is the full list of everything Amazon has announced for May so far.

Available for Streaming on Prime Video on May 1st

Movies

3 Ways to Get a Husband (2009)

40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

A Very Brady Sequel (1996)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Baby Boom (1987)

Back to School (1986)

Bad News Bears (1976)

Barefoot (2014)

Beyond Borders (2003)

Blame (2017)

Brother Nature (2016)

Bull Durham (1988)

Cool World (1992)

Cyborg (1989)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Dr. No (1962)

Eight Men Out (1988)

Elizabethtown (2005)

Evolution (2001)

Foxfire (1996)

Frailty (2001)

From Russia with Love (1964)

Gator (1976)

Ghost Town (2008)

Goat (2016)

Goldfinger (1964)

Holy Air (2017)

Hot Boyz (2000)

Immigration Tango (2011)

Insomnia (2002)

Photo: Insomnia, Warner Home Video

Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack (1999)

Kalifornia (1993)

Live And Let Die (1973)

Love Is A Gun (1994)

Manhunter (1986)

Men with Brooms (2002)

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Never Say Never Again (1983)

New Rose Hotel (1999)

Ninja Masters (2009)

Octopussy (1983)

Outcast (2014)

Perfect Score (2004)

Perfume: Story of a Murderer (2006)

Psychopaths (2017)

Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky II (1979)

Rocky III (1982)

Rocky IV (1985)

Rocky V (1990)

Sabrina (1995)

Saturday Church (2017)

School Ties (1992)

Set Up (2011)

Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

Strategic Air Command (1955)

The Benchwarmers (2006)

The Benefactor (2015)

The Box (2007)

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

The Crow (1994)

The Elephant Man (1980)

Photo: The Elephant Man, Warner Home Video

The Golden Compass (2007)

The Hangman (1959)

The House I Live In (2013)

The Hurt Locker (2008)

The Last Castle (2001)

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

The Saint (1997)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Thief (1981)

Thirst Street (2017)

Thunderball (1965)

Twisted (2004)

Untamed Heart (1993)

Wild Thornberrys (2002)

Wish Upon a Star (1996)

Wonder Boys (2000)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

TV Series

Aristocrats: Limited Series

Banished: Limited Series

Charles II – The Power and The Passion: Limited Series

Daniel Deronda: Limited Series

David Copperfield: Limited Series

Desperate Romantics: Limited Series

Ivanhoe: Limited Series

Jane Eyre (1983): Limited Series

Jane Erye (2006): Limited Series

Life in Squares: Limited Series

Little Dorrit: Limited Series

Lorna Doone: Limited Series

Love in A Cold Climate: Limited Series

Mansfield Park: Limited Series

Martin Chuzzlewit: Limited Series

Middlemarch: Limited Series

Oliver Twist (1985): Limited Series

Oliver Twist (2007): Limited Series

Our Mutual Friend: Limited Series

Pride and Prejudice: Limited Series

Sense and Sensibility (1981): Limited Series

Sense and Sensibility (2008): Limited Series

Sinbad: Limited Series

Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Limited Series

The Buccaneers: Limited Series

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Limited Series

The Lost World: Limited Series

The Office: Limited Series

The Pickwick Papers: Limited Series

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Limited Series

The Way We Live Now: Limited Series

Tom Jones: Limited Series

Vanity Fair (1998): Limited Series

Photo: Rocky

Launching May 4

Movies

Last Flag Flying (Amazon Original movie) (2017)

Launching May 5th

Movies

Warrior (2011)

TV Series

Diablo Guardian (Prime Original series), Season 1

Launching May 11

TV Series

*Rocky & Bullwinkle (Prime Original series), Season 1

Launching May 12

Movies

Baywatch (2017)

Still Mine (2012)

TV Series

Orphan Black, Season 5

Launching May 15

Movies

How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)

Launching May 18

TV Series

You Are Wanted (Prime Original series), Season 2

May 18-May 20

Live TV

Pro Beach Volleyball Tour (Austin Open)

Launching May 19

Movies

Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

Shooters (2003)

Launching May 22

TV Series

Dino Dana (Prime Original series), Season 2

Launching May 23

Movies

Beast of Burden (2018)

Launching May 25

TV Series

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Prime Original series), Season 1

Launching May 27

Movies

Just Getting Started (2017)

The Wedding Plan (2016)

Photo: Picnic At Hanging Rock, Amazon Originals

Launching May 29

TV Series

Howards End, Season 1

Available to RENT on Prime Video in May

Launching on May 1

Movies

12 Strong (2018)

Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2018)

Peter Rabbit (2018)

Stephanie (2017)

Batman Ninja (2018)

Fifty Shades Freed (2018)

Fifty Shades Freed (Unrated) (2018)

Annihilation (2018)

Available for Streaming on Prime Video CHANNELS in May

Launching on May 2

Movies

Being Serena, HBO

Launching on May 5

Movies

Lego Ninjago, HBO

Launching on May 6

TV Series

Sweetbitter, Season 1, STARZ

Vida, Season 1, STARZ

I’m Dying Up Here, Season 2, Showtime

Launching on May 12

Movies

Dunkirk, HBO

TV Series

Patrick Melrose, Mini-Series, Showtime

Live TV:

UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington, UFC (Pay Per View)

Launching on May 14

TV Series

Little Women, Season 1, PBS Masterpiece

Launching on May 19

Movies

Fahrenheit 451, HBO Original

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Amazon has released details on all of the 150 or so TV shows and films it’s going to be adding to its Amazon Video platform in May 2018. And it’s one of the most diverse lists we’ve seen yet, taking in everything from such child-friendly fare as Peter Rabbit and the Amazon Original series of Rocky And Bullwinkle to the guileless smut fests of Fifty Shades Freed and recent Golden Raspberry winner, Baywatch.

There’s some pretty interesting stuff tucked away between these ‘extremes’, too. For starters, as a massive fan of Peter Weir’s film of Picnic At Hanging Rock, I’m looking forward to seeing what Amazon makes of the same Australian novel source material when it launches its six-part Original series on May 25. Though I strongly recommend that you watch the film first if you haven’t seen it before – and it’s a pity this series doesn’t seem to have been made in 4K or HDR.

Photo: Peter Rabbit, Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation

Also notable in Amazon’s list of new homegrown Original content is a new film by the usually excellent Richard Linklater. Last Flag Flying follows three Vietnam war vets who reunite after 30 years on a road trip to bury a young marine from the Iraq War. It doesn’t sound like a barrel of laughs, granted – but Linklater has an uncanny knack of finding bittersweet humor and beauty in pretty much anything.

When it comes to newly added third party stuff, there are some cracking films to look out for.

Stellar sports movie (though it’s obviously a lot more than that) Bull Durham is my personal favorite on the May list, but also essential viewing if you’ve not seen them before are outstanding Michael Mann serial killer movie Manhunter, and David Lynch’s almost unwatchably brilliant The Elephant Man.

Worth your time, too, if you’ve got some to spare, is the original 1974 Murder On The Orient Express starring Albert Finney; bleak and often overlooked Christopher Nolan thriller Insomnia; flawed but creepily beautiful Steven Spielberg sci-fi epic A.I. Artificial Intelligence; and another strong sports movie in the shape of Eight Men Out.

If you’re in a ‘franchise’ kind of mood, meanwhile, Amazon welcomes all five Rocky films to its Amazon Video platform, as well as a selection of classic James Bond titles.

Photo: Manhunter

One disappointment in all this is that so far I can tell from the information provided so far, the only new Amazon content that will be available in 4K HDR is season two of You Are Wanted.

Here, organized by launch date, is the full list of everything Amazon has announced for May so far.

Available for Streaming on Prime Video on May 1st

Movies

3 Ways to Get a Husband (2009)

40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

A Very Brady Sequel (1996)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Baby Boom (1987)

Back to School (1986)

Bad News Bears (1976)

Barefoot (2014)

Beyond Borders (2003)

Blame (2017)

Brother Nature (2016)

Bull Durham (1988)

Cool World (1992)

Cyborg (1989)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Dr. No (1962)

Eight Men Out (1988)

Elizabethtown (2005)

Evolution (2001)

Foxfire (1996)

Frailty (2001)

From Russia with Love (1964)

Gator (1976)

Ghost Town (2008)

Goat (2016)

Goldfinger (1964)

Holy Air (2017)

Hot Boyz (2000)

Immigration Tango (2011)

Insomnia (2002)

Photo: Insomnia, Warner Home Video

Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack (1999)

Kalifornia (1993)

Live And Let Die (1973)

Love Is A Gun (1994)

Manhunter (1986)

Men with Brooms (2002)

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Never Say Never Again (1983)

New Rose Hotel (1999)

Ninja Masters (2009)

Octopussy (1983)

Outcast (2014)

Perfect Score (2004)

Perfume: Story of a Murderer (2006)

Psychopaths (2017)

Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky II (1979)

Rocky III (1982)

Rocky IV (1985)

Rocky V (1990)

Sabrina (1995)

Saturday Church (2017)

School Ties (1992)

Set Up (2011)

Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

Strategic Air Command (1955)

The Benchwarmers (2006)

The Benefactor (2015)

The Box (2007)

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

The Crow (1994)

The Elephant Man (1980)

Photo: The Elephant Man, Warner Home Video

The Golden Compass (2007)

The Hangman (1959)

The House I Live In (2013)

The Hurt Locker (2008)

The Last Castle (2001)

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

The Saint (1997)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Thief (1981)

Thirst Street (2017)

Thunderball (1965)

Twisted (2004)

Untamed Heart (1993)

Wild Thornberrys (2002)

Wish Upon a Star (1996)

Wonder Boys (2000)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

TV Series

Aristocrats: Limited Series

Banished: Limited Series

Charles II – The Power and The Passion: Limited Series

Daniel Deronda: Limited Series

David Copperfield: Limited Series

Desperate Romantics: Limited Series

Ivanhoe: Limited Series

Jane Eyre (1983): Limited Series

Jane Erye (2006): Limited Series

Life in Squares: Limited Series

Little Dorrit: Limited Series

Lorna Doone: Limited Series

Love in A Cold Climate: Limited Series

Mansfield Park: Limited Series

Martin Chuzzlewit: Limited Series

Middlemarch: Limited Series

Oliver Twist (1985): Limited Series

Oliver Twist (2007): Limited Series

Our Mutual Friend: Limited Series

Pride and Prejudice: Limited Series

Sense and Sensibility (1981): Limited Series

Sense and Sensibility (2008): Limited Series

Sinbad: Limited Series

Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Limited Series

The Buccaneers: Limited Series

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Limited Series

The Lost World: Limited Series

The Office: Limited Series

The Pickwick Papers: Limited Series

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Limited Series

The Way We Live Now: Limited Series

Tom Jones: Limited Series

Vanity Fair (1998): Limited Series

Photo: Rocky

Launching May 4

Movies

Last Flag Flying (Amazon Original movie) (2017)

Launching May 5th

Movies

Warrior (2011)

TV Series

Diablo Guardian (Prime Original series), Season 1

Launching May 11

TV Series

*Rocky & Bullwinkle (Prime Original series), Season 1

Launching May 12

Movies

Baywatch (2017)

Still Mine (2012)

TV Series

Orphan Black, Season 5

Launching May 15

Movies

How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)

Launching May 18

TV Series

You Are Wanted (Prime Original series), Season 2

May 18-May 20

Live TV

Pro Beach Volleyball Tour (Austin Open)

Launching May 19

Movies

Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

Shooters (2003)

Launching May 22

TV Series

Dino Dana (Prime Original series), Season 2

Launching May 23

Movies

Beast of Burden (2018)

Launching May 25

TV Series

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Prime Original series), Season 1

Launching May 27

Movies

Just Getting Started (2017)

The Wedding Plan (2016)

Photo: Picnic At Hanging Rock, Amazon Originals

Launching May 29

TV Series

Howards End, Season 1

Available to RENT on Prime Video in May

Launching on May 1

Movies

12 Strong (2018)

Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2018)

Peter Rabbit (2018)

Stephanie (2017)

Batman Ninja (2018)

Fifty Shades Freed (2018)

Fifty Shades Freed (Unrated) (2018)

Annihilation (2018)

Available for Streaming on Prime Video CHANNELS in May

Launching on May 2

Movies

Being Serena, HBO

Launching on May 5

Movies

Lego Ninjago, HBO

Launching on May 6

TV Series

Sweetbitter, Season 1, STARZ

Vida, Season 1, STARZ

I’m Dying Up Here, Season 2, Showtime

Launching on May 12

Movies

Dunkirk, HBO

TV Series

Patrick Melrose, Mini-Series, Showtime

Live TV:

UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington, UFC (Pay Per View)

Launching on May 14

TV Series

Little Women, Season 1, PBS Masterpiece

Launching on May 19

Movies

Fahrenheit 451, HBO Original

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