Amazon Prime, the free streaming service, rolls out an impressive roster of new movies, TV shows, and even a couple of Amazon Studios original series in April, a roster that ranges from such big screen classics as The Coen Brothers’ brilliant and dark comedy The Big Lebowski to the second season of the HBO political satire Veep — just in time for campaign season — to a revival of the beloved 1960s Saturday morning show Thunderbirds Are Go!
Yes, Thunderbirds Are Go! , which first aired on British TV in 1965 under the title Thunderbirds , has been born again 50 years after the last original episode aired. But unlike the 1960s version of the show, the new Amazon Prime series of Thunderbirds Are Go! features CGI animation, rather than string-controlled marionettes.
Watch the trailer for the new Amazon Prime Thunderbirds Are Go! in the video below.
There are a few other differences as well, according to the show’s creators.
“There are 100% less martinis — and no smoking,” said the show’s head writer Rob Hoegee. “The original series was a product of its time. It was Mad Men with rescue ships.”
Also on the list of Amazon Prime originals — though the show actually airs on Britain’s Channel 4 — is the second season of Catastrophe , a quirky romantic comedy starring Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan as an unlikely couple forced together when a one-night stand leads to an unexpected pregnancy.
The trailer for Season 2 of Catastrophe can be seen in the video below.
Catastrophe goes online on Amazon Prime April 8, while Thunderbirds Are Go! fans will need to hang in there until April 15.
But the biggest day on the Amazon Prime April calendar is the first of the month, where a slate of classic movies premieres on the streaming service. In addition to cult classic The Big Lebowski , a pair of Woody Allen’s best films, released 18 years apart, also debut.
Bananas , a slapstick satire with Woody Allen as an unlikely South American revolutionary that came out in 1971, debuts at the same time as Crimes and Misdemeanors — a grim drama about guilt and responsibility, released in 1989.
Below is the full list of Amazon Prime new movies, TV shows, and Amazon Originals for April 2016.
April 1
Amistad
Bananas
Batman (1989)
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Cube (1997)
Cube 2: Hypercube
Cube Zero
Death Wish
Dennis the Menace
Deuces Wild
Dr. T. and the Women
Dream Lover (1993)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Gang Related
Gremlins
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
Peacemaker, The (1997)
Pootie Tang
Pumpkin
Pumpkinhead
Rare Birds
Rescue Dawn
Risky Business (1983)
Ronin
Santee
Simon Says (2006)
Skipped Parts
Step Into Liquid
Swimming With Sharks
Teen Wolf Too
The Arrival (1996)
The Big Lebowski
The Dead Zone
The Devil’s Advocate
The Holiday (2006)
You’ve Got Mail
April 6
The Transporter Refueled
April 7
Nasty Baby
April 8
Catastrophe (AMAZON ORIGINAL): Season 2
April 9
Maggie
Sliding Doors
April 12
Mad Max (1979)
April 15
Thunderbirds are Go! (AMAZON ORIGINAL): Season 1
The Whistleblower (2010)
April 18
Home Fires : Season 1
The Widower : Season 1
April 19
Tangerines
April 21
Veep : Season 2
April 22
Pawn Sacrifice
April 25
Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson
April 27th
The Great Fire : Season 1
April 30th
Ides of March
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Some of the other notable Amazon Prime new movies, TV shows, and Amazon Originals hitting the service in April include the Charles Bronson vigilante thriller Death Wish , released in 1974 at the height of New York City’s decades-long crime wave; The Dead Zone , a Stephen King supernatural horror flick about an insane United States president; and Batman , the original, 1989 comic book blockbuster starring Michael Keaton as the “Dark Knight.”
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