{"id":841402,"date":"2026-08-02T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841402\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:40:13","slug":"3-best-movies-to-watch-on-prime-video-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841402\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Best Movies to Watch on Prime Video This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Video is flexing some of the biggest movies of the year on its service \u2014 and they\u2019re all ready for you to sit back and watch this week. <\/p>\n

Among them is the Ryan Gosling-starring smash hit \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d and the based-on-beloved-fantasy-IP \u201cMasters of the Universe.\u201d The first is one of the most successful movies of the year, and while the second is by many counts a box office disappointment, it\u2019s ripe for cult classic status. You heard it here first. And then if you\u2019re not looking for something more contemporary, one of the best Stephen King adaptations out there also just got added to the Prime Video.<\/p>\n

Here are the three movies on Prime Video to check out this week.<\/p>\n

\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Zoe\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RyanRyan Gosling in \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d (Amazon MGM Studios)<\/p>\n

Project Hail Mary<\/p>\n

\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d remains one of the best movies of 2026. The film adapts the book by Andy Weir \u2013 who also wrote \u201cThe Martian\u201d \u2013 and stars Ryan Gosling as a man who has to team up with an alien to solve a problem that is threatening the suns in both their solar systems. <\/p>\n

Penned by Drew Goddard and directed by beloved filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is brimming over with Spielbergian goodness and was one of the first big hits of the year. Check in now before it likely makes a showing at the upcoming Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nicholas Galitzine in \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d (Amazon MGM Studios)<\/p>\n

Masters of the Universe<\/p>\n

\u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d wanted to be \u201cBarbie\u201d for boys \u2014 and in a lot of ways it landed that plane. But the film had a lot working against it, mostly that nostalgia for He-Man and his friends is held predominantly by men in their 40s and above and struggled at the box office to gain the interest of younger moviegoers. <\/p>\n

But the result is still a film that captures that original magic for the modern age \u2014 and star Nicholas Galitzine makes a convincing He-Man coming back into his inner power. Also a surprising scene stealer are the film\u2019s villains, namely Alison Brie as Evil-Lynn going full camp. Now that \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d is on Prime Video, people can finally give the Travis Knight-directed feature at the very least the cult status it deserves.<\/p>\n

\"TheThomas Jane in \u201cThe Mist\u201d (Dimension\/MGM\/Lionsgate)<\/p>\n

The Mist<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mist\u201d remains one of the best Stephen King adaptations every put to screen. The story is simple: A creepy fog rolls into a small town and forces some residents into the local grocery store for shelter because they discover there are monsters hiding in the mist. <\/p>\n

A mini society of sorts forms among the surviving townspeople \u2014 and its breakdown in the store is just as harrowing as the attempts to fend off the monsters encroaching on the shelter. And what can we say about the ending? It\u2019s a gut punch. The less you know about it going in the better, but even if this is a rewatch its an ending that\u2019s both hard to sit through but impossible to look away from.<\/p>\n

\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"spider-man-andrew-garfield-tobey-maguire-tom-holland\"\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video is flexing some of the biggest movies of the year on its service \u2014 and they\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,1912,3598],"class_list":["post-841402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-prime-video","tag-what-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}