Wrote Peter Bowen in Filmmaker, “To avoid the sensationalistic and cloying aesthetic that marks films of abuse, Araki worked with d.p. Gregg Araki’s adaptation of Scott Heim’s book stars Brady Corbet and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as teenagers who have found different ways of coping with childhood abuse by their Little League coach. Here are 25 Filmmaker-approved movies Amazon Prime members can stream now.ġ. For now, though, there are some gems in Amazon’s back catalog.
(The discrepancy was chalked up to counting each episode of a TV series as a separate title.) So, Amazon hasn’t got anything on Netflix with its 11,000+ titles… yet. It’s obviously a soft-launch for something bigger, and, for those who plunk down their $75 yearly fee for the shipping benefits, a really good deal.Īmazon claims to have launched with 5,000 titles, but one article cited only 1,668 films and 484 TV shows. In the meantime, we’ll work on another post with an entirely up-to-date selection of films.Īmazon has dipped its toe into the subscription streaming-video business, competing with Netflix by turning its Amazon Prime free-shipping service into a source for not just holiday gifts, books and tax-free, two-day-shipped sundries but also movies. It’s thus possible that missing titles could return in the near future.
We apologize for any inconvenience, but, as we are learning, streaming windows can be short, and films can rotate on and off the various services. Now, a year later, we have been informed by our readers that a number of them are no longer listed on the service. Bold, shocking and sexually charged, The Prince should interest anyone that is–or has ever met–a man.A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy, a walk into the sea, Afterschool, Amazon Prime, Cavite, choking man, Crush, Ellie Parker, Following, half nelson, Helvetica, Humpday, hunger, jesus camp, Keane, Manito, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Murder Party, Mutual Appreciation, Mysterious Skin, No End in Sight, Nobody Knows, Okie Noodling, Old Boy, Paranoid Park, Streaming VideoĮDITOR’S NOTE, May 28, 2012: At the time of this blog post, all the below 25 films were available on Amazon Prime. Juan Carlos Maldonato, as Jamie, gives a fearless performance, and the plot has some very interesting twists to provoke thought as to the film’s ultimate message. Rather, the film meditates on the contradictions of masculinity–obsession over genital size, number of sexual partners, the constant need for body contact with other men, and how all of those qualities also have innate homoeroticism. We’re guessing that’s why Amazon banned it. At one point, several of the actors even appear to get aroused on camera.
That includes lots of man-on-man sex and full frontal nudity so graphic the movie skirts the edge of pornography. From there The Prince goes on to follow Jamie’s coming of age, and examine some very strange contradictions in the ultra-macho–and very homoerotic–world of masculine identity. Upon his arrival, he immediately becomes the bottom for a prison crime lord of sorts. The Prince tells the story of Jamie, a young gay man sent to prison in Chile in the 1970s. Whatever it says, this excellent Chilean film ended up on a list of banned titles by Amazon the first week of its release. Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.