Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video Australia: February 2022

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video‘s Australian library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks

I Want You Back (February 11)

You’ve got a pre-Valentines double date with two of comedy’s most eligible romantic leads: effervescent Obvious Child lead Jenny Slate, and gravelly-voiced It’s Always Sunny freak Charlie Day. They’re both so damn charming, and will probably still delight you while they’re wrongfully trying to wrangle their exes back into a relationship.

As two freshly-dumped single people, they’re putting their heads together to destroy their exes’ (Scott Eastwood and Gina Rodriguez) comically perfect new romances. We’re expecting a wry yet nicely predictable happy ending for our leads, à la Sleeping With Other People.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 4 (February 18)

She’s always been well before her time, but Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) finally busts into the 1960s in this latest season of fluffy retro comedy. At times I’ve found her rise to anachronistic stand-up fame a tad rushed, and now she’s practically at the top of the world, commanding huge audiences and donning ever more elaborate hats each episode.

Is there no other direction to go but down? Long-suffering manager Susie (Alex Borstein) probably thinks so, still finding Midge unmanageable as her TV appearances bloom. I hope she can hook up with legend Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) in the meantime, even if that’d be extremely disrespectful to the real person’s memory: the actors have heaps of chemistry together.

Old (February 27)

You can rent or buy M. Night Shyamalan’s latest high-concept environment-based thriller on Prime Video right now, or you can wait around until the 27th to get it for free as part of your subscription. Of course, letting time take its toll is a death sentence in this particular film’s messed-up horror logic…

An ensemble cast of clueless tourists trade wooden dialogue and dumb ideas as they age rapidly on a mysterious beach: toddlers get pregnant (just as awful as it sounds), beauty turns beastly, and Alex Wolff and Thomasin McKenzie grow up before their parents’ (Vicky Krieps and Gael García Bernal) very eyes. I promise you’ll laugh, cringe, and apply heaps of moisturiser after watching.

All titles arriving on Prime Video Australia in February

February 1

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Another 48 Hrs.
Barnyard
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
Cast Away
Central Intelligence
Charlotte’s Web
Clear and Present Danger
Coming to America
Coneheads
The Croods
Days of Thunder
Enemy At The Gates
Event Horizon
Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious 6
Fast and Furious, The
Fast Five
Fifty Shades Of Grey
Flight
Forces of Nature
Furious 7
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
Home
Hotel For Dogs
How To Train Your Dragon
Imagine That
It’s A Wonderful Life
Just Like Heaven
Kung Fu Panda 3
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Law & Order: Season 15-17
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 17-20
Madagascar
Mamma Mia!
Manchester By The Sea
Minority Report
Overlord
The Peacemaker
Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect 2
The Purge: Election Year
Salt
Scarface
Scent of a Woman
School Of Rock
Scrooged
The Secret Life of Pets
Shooter
Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures: Season 2
Superstar
Switchback
Ted
Ted 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
The American
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
The Firm
The Game
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Truman Show
The Witch
Top Gun
Trainwreck
Trolls
Tropic Thunder
True Grit
Turbo