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Coming to Amazon Prime in April 2016

Sean Axmaker

Amazon has announced what’s coming to Amazon Prime Video in April for Prime members to stream as part of their subscription. Highlights this month include the chess-as-war drama Pawn Sacrifice with Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky, the George Clooney-directed election drama Ides of March (2011), the animated British series Thunderbirds are GO!: Season 1, the second season of the Amazon original series Catastrophe, and the British TV drama Home Fires: Season 1.

Note that these are just highlights; Stream On Demand will be keeping an eye out for other notable films and TV shows that arrive through the month.

April 1

Amistad (1997)

The Arrival (1996)

Bananas

Batman (1989)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Cube 1997

Cube 2: Hypercube

Cube Zero

Death Wish

The Dead Zone

Dennis the Menace

Deuces Wild

The Devil’s Advocate

Dr. T. and the Women

Dream Lover

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Gang Related

Gremlins

The Holiday (2006)

Into the Blue

Lars and the Real Girl

Liberty Stands Still

Maximum Overdrive

Men in Black II (2002)

Music from Another Room

Naked Gun 2 & 1/2: The Smell of Fear

Nurse (2013)

Payback (1999)

The Peacemaker (1997)

Pootie Tang (2001)

Pumpkin

Pumpkinhead

Rare Birds

Rescue Dawn

Risky Business

Ronin

Santee

Simon Says (2006)

Skipped Parts

Step into Liquid

Swimming with Sharks

Teen Wolf Too

You’ve Got Mail

April 6

The Transporter Refueled (2015)

April 7

Nasty Baby

April 8

Catastrophe: Season 2 (Amazon original)

April 9

Maggie

Sliding Doors

April 12

Mad Max (1979)

April 15

Thunderbirds are GO!: Season 1 (Amazon exclusive)

The Whistleblower (2010)

April 18

Home Fires: Season 1

The Widower (2013)

April 19

Tangerines

April 21

Veep: Season 2

April 22

Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

April 25

Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson

April 27

The Great Fire (2014)

April 30

Ides of March (2011)

Dates are subject to change without notice.

Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and TV can be found at http://streamondemandathome.com.