As the weather gets warmer, you might be tempted to take to the outdoors when the weekend comes. If you’re the kind of person who would rather draw the shades and avoid the UV rays, though, then we’ve got you covered.
We’ve pulled together a list of underrated Amazon Prime Video movies that you should watch this weekend. These movies will, at least hopefully, save you the time you might have taken scrolling through Prime Video and instead give you something to watch right away.
Need more recommendations? Then check out the best new movies to stream this week, as well as the best shows on Netflix, the best shows on Hulu, the best shows on Amazon Prime Video, and the best shows on Disney+.
Alec Baldwin was never the A-list movie star he probably could have been, and it’s in part because he took on roles like Miami Blues. In the film, Baldwin plays a sociopathic criminal who becomes romantically involved with a prostitute.
He then assumes the identity of a police officer and goes on a crime spree. All the while, he’s trying to convince his new love that everything is fine. Miami Blues is demented, hilarious, and dark in ways that movies rarely get to be anymore. Of all the movies to ape the style of the Coen brothers in this era, Miami Blues is one of the very best.
You can watch Miami Blues on Amazon Prime Video.
This sideways sequel to Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, follows a young woman who wakes up in a bunker after what she’s been told is some sort of apocalyptic event. As she bonds with the two men she’s trapped with, she begins to suspect that the older one (John Goodman) is more sinister than he appears.
The movie’s slow-drip tension culminates in a stunning climax, but part of what makes 10 Cloverfield Lane so good is that it doesn’t feel like a Cloverfield sequel at all. It’s an entirely different kind of movie, and that’s part of what makes it so exciting.
You can watch 10 Cloverfield Lane on Amazon Prime Video.
The movie that definitively proved that Ryan Gosling has the juice, Half Nelson, tells the story of a middle school teacher who bonds with one of his students as he continues to nurse a heroin addiction.
The movie, which is quiet, observational, and never preachy, manages to avoid the cliches that define most movies about teachers and their students. Instead, Half Nelson is about two people trying to survive their circumstances and help one another when they can. Gosling is brilliant, subtle, and devastating.
You can watch Half Nelson on Amazon Prime Video.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.