Like Netflix and Disney+, Amazon Prime Video announces its new films and series for January 2023. A very big month with film and television nuggets.
After picking up Prime Gaming’s free January 2023 games, you’re going to have more than one reason to squat Amazon Prime Video at the start of the year. Big names from cinema and the small screen are on the program.
The new Amazon Prime Video movies of January 2023
The year 2023 has started very strong on Amazon Prime Video with a double dose Stanley Kubrickof Steven Spielberg which will be followed by two feature films by Quentin Tarantino. Just that ! Here is the full list without further ado.
Full Metal Jacket (available)
If there is a different war movie, one of the greatest ever made, it’s Full Metal Jacket. A masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick that was in the running to win prestigious prizes such as the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, but which never won anything.
1968. In the American base on Paris Island, young recruits are waiting to leave for Vietnam. They undergo Marine training under Sergeant Hartman, a sadistic instructor who takes Private “Whale” as a Turk. Private Guignol tries to help Baleine get out of his anguish, but Hartman decides to punish the whole room, except Baleine.
- Eyes Wide Shut (available)
- Love is a Party (available)
- Lead in the Head (Available)
- The Loyalty Prize (Available)
- Out of Time (available)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (available)
- Jurassic Park 3 (available)
- Jurassic World (available)
Jurassic Park (available)
Like John Hammond, Steven Spielberg spent lavishly to deliver one of cinema’s most defining blockbusters: Jurassic Park. Or when the dinosaurs live only in a quest for profits, inevitably, things go wrong.
- Uncontrollable College Mom (Available)
- Sex Tape (available)
- Shazam! (January 2)
- Game Night (January 9)
- Escape Game 2; The World is a Trap (January 11)
- Boulevard of Death (January 15)
- Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (January 15)
Reservoir Dogs (January 15)
A robbery that quickly turns into a nightmare, Michael Madsen who plays a surgical butcher while taking out his finest dance steps on the song “Stuck in the middle with you”, that’s Reservoir Dogs. One of Quentin Tarantino’s best movies to watch over and over again
- Dune (January 15)
- American Assassin (January 15)
- The Mist (January 15)
- Blade Runner 2049 (January 18)
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage (January 20)
- Godzilla II – King of the Monsters (January 25)
- Don’t Breathe 2 (January 25)
- Shotgun Wedding – Amazon Original (January 27)
- Aquaman (January 30)
Halloween (January 15)
It’s not really the good time anymore but too bad, Michael Myers will try to gut the most people in Halloween. This is not John Carpenter’s but the 2018 version directed by David Gordon Green. A good isolated surprise because the two sequels failed miserably to convince. Fortunately, there shouldn’t be any more… except in 10, 20, 30 years…
It’s been 40 years since Laurie Strode survived an attack by Michael Myers on Halloween night. Locked up in an institution, Myers manages to escape when his bus transfer goes horribly wrong. She now faces a terrifying confrontation when the masked killer returns to Haddonfield — but this time, Laurie is ready.
The series of January 2023
Hunters – season 2 (January 13)
The immense Al Pacino returns to hunt Nazis with the arrival of Jennifer Jason Leigh (eXistenZ, The Dirty Eight…) in the casting.
- This is Us – season 6 (January 5)
- Cosmic Love – Season 1 – Amazon Original (January 6)
- The Rig: Into the Fog – Amazon Original (January 6)
- Last Night – Season 1 – Amazon Exclusive (January 6)
- The Test – Season 2 – Amazon Original (January 11)
- The Legend of Vox Machina – Season 2 – Amazon Original (January 20)
Mad Men – seasons 1 to 7 (January 15)
If cult series are normally the prerogative of HBO, AMC has hit hard with madmen which is a reference for many. The entire show is coming to Amazon Prime Video.
In 1960s New York, Don Draper was one of the big names in advertising. A master manipulator, he has enemies around him who await his downfall.
