Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video UK: January 2023

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video’s UK library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks

Harold and Maude (January 1)

There’s a metric buttload of wonderful films arriving on Prime Video this New Years Day (Indy!! Ethan Hunt!! Sorry To Bother You, and multiple Oscar winners!!). But the one that’s closest to my heart is this absolutely enchanting cult comedy, directed by Hollywood hippy Hal Ashby with wisdom and whimsy. Dark and sentimental all at once, it chronicles the unlikely romance between a suicidal spoiled kid (Bud Cort) and the octogenarian Holocaust survivor (Ruth Gordon) who inspires him to appreciate life. The Cat Stevens soundtrack of folky, bittersweet melodies has never been bested in terms of perfectly matching a film’s tone, especially one this eccentric.

The Rig: Miniseries (January 6)

One of the world’s most extreme working environment only gets extremer-er in this limited series, following a communication crisis on an oil rig off the coast of Scotland. GoT stars Iain Glen and Mark Addy already have plenty on their hands—a mysterious fog obscuring the shore, supplies dwindling, no rescue in sight—before their crew start to turn on each other, paranoia rising after a devastating accident turns things from bad to worse. Prime promises a “character-driven mystery thriller”, with the merciless North Sea roiling in the background as a reminder of just how small and petty our human workplace squabbles can get.

Shotgun Wedding (January 27)

This action rom-com completely sold itself with the trailer’s scene of Jennifer Coolidge with a machine gun, so hopefully the gags and setpieces live up to that delirious grab at memedom. Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel star as a couple trying to reconcile their boisterous families whilst at their glam destination wedding, only for the whole event to turn very Die Hard when they’re all taken hostage. We’re sure that their cold feet and last-minute regrets will get warmed up by a few explosions, ending the whole thing in a well-earned “I do”.

January 1

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Mission: Impossible
Dharma & Greg: Season 1-5
Invader Zim
Nella the Princess Knight
Shimmer and Shine
12 O’Clock High: Season 1-3
Welcome to Flatch
50/50
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
After Earth
Akeelah and the Bee
Ali
Antwone Fisher
Are We There Yet?
Baby Boy
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Beauty Shop
Black Dynamite
Blankman
Blue Chips
Breakdown
Breakin’ All the Rules
Broken City
Brown Sugar
Clue
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Downsizing
El Dorado
El Mariachi
Election
Employee of the Month
Europa Report
Failure to Launch
Forces of Nature
Frankie & Alice
Friday the 13th (1980)
Gamer
God’s Not Dead
Guess Who

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