It’s formally Black Friday, however Amazon isn’t only a vacation spot for excellent offers on blenders.
Its streaming service, Prime Video, is a good platform to look at films from all genres.
Watch With Us has curated a listing of three totally different films to look at this weekend.
Sci-fi nerds will like 2025’s Mickey 17, whereas ‘80s teen film followers will get a nostalgic kick out of WarGames.
Lastly, the rom-com movie The Break-Up is ideal for individuals who like love tales with somewhat edge to them.
‘Mickey 17’ (2025)
Within the close to future, area journey is widespread and human cloning is a truth of life. For Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson), all he cares about is fleeing from a mortgage shark who desires to be paid. That’s why he volunteers to develop into an “Expendable,” a laborer who performs harmful duties and is introduced again to life by way of a mixed course of involving cloning and reminiscence imprinting. When everybody thinks Mickey has died whereas on a piece project, Mickey 18 takes his place. However when he returns to take his rightful place, he discovers that Mickey 18 doesn’t need to go — or depart behind Nasha (Naomi Ackie), the thing of each Mickeys’ affections. How do you do away with your personal worst enemy when it’s your self?
Mickey 17 is directed by the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, who gained an armful of Oscars for his social satire, Parasite, in 2020. Like that movie, Mickey 17 is continually shocking — you by no means know for those who’re going to get a simple sci-fi story, a bureaucratic comedy or a barely twisted love story.
Two clones have a look at one another in ‘Mickey 17.’ Warner Bros.
That he’s capable of mix all three in a narrative that is smart is a small miracle, which nonetheless doesn’t clarify why audiences largely rejected the film when it was launched earlier this 12 months. Now that it’s streaming on Prime Video, keep away from the identical mistake they made. Watch Mickey 17, and get in on the bottom flooring of what’s certain to be a cult traditional for future generations.
Mickey 17 is streaming on Prime Video.
‘WarGames’ (1983)
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is a Seattle teenager with a knack for hacking into pc techniques he has no place being in. When he tries to hack a pc sport system’s working system, he begins to play an odd sport of International Thermonuclear Warfare with the corporate’s synthetic intelligence. This harmless sport has lethal real-world penalties as David realizes he hacked into the North American Aerospace Protection Command and unintentionally satisfied its AI, nicknamed WOPR, to assault the Soviet Union. It’s a race in opposition to time as David should persuade the U.S. army that he’s the one one who can “speak” to WOPR and cease it from beginning World Warfare III.
In some ways, WarGames is hopelessly outdated. From its early ‘80s expertise to its Chilly Warfare politics, it’s very a lot a film of its time. However its central premise stays related — what if a pc grew to become self-aware and determined to provoke a army strike by itself? Paranoia about AI is already a part of our lives, and while you watch WarGames, you see the seeds of that concern.
WarGames stays a tense thriller that exhibits simply how precarious the way forward for the world actually is within the age of nuclear weapons. Just like the current 2025 Netflix movie, A House of Dynamite, it reminds you that we nonetheless dwell in a world that may very well be gone at a second’s discover with the push of some buttons.
WarGames is streaming on Prime Video.
‘The Break-Up’ (2006)
Gary (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) are a longtime Chicago couple who’re getting on one another’s nerves. Brooke thinks Gary is just too immature, whereas Gary thinks Brooke is just too controlling. After a cocktail party goes awry, they resolve to interrupt up — however stay in the identical rental as roommates. That’s a recipe for catastrophe, as each attempt to sabotage the opposite after they attempt to transfer on and begin relationship different folks. Gary and Brook nonetheless have emotions for one another, however is that sufficient to reconcile? Or is it simply higher for them to maneuver on?
A giant hit in 2006, The Break-Up hasn’t misplaced any of its enchantment all these years later. That’s due largely to the 2 leads, who play to their particular person strengths. Vaughn’s Gary is a working-class dude you possibly can relate to — certain, he’s a bit messy and irresponsible, however he means nicely and doesn’t need to damage Brooke. In distinction, Aniston’s Brooke is a perfectionist who is just too fussy to simply accept Gary’s flaws — or her personal. Directed by future MCU helmer Peyton Reed, The Break-Up is a surprisingly sincere portrait of a dysfunctional relationship. Simply because Gary and Brooke take care of one another doesn’t imply they need to be collectively, and the movie permits its characters to develop sufficient by the tip to acknowledge that.
