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It ’s fourth dimension to say goodbye to 2024 . Whether your year was just or bad , you should ring in 2025 on the correct note . While some prefer to attend party or go out , there are others who want to stay in and watch a good movie or two .
I ’m one of those people , and if you ’re like me , then you ’re reading the right article . The following list contains five wildly different motion-picture show that have two things in common : They ’re fun to watch and are all on Amazon Prime Video . So sit down back , make relaxed , and receive the fresh year with Hercule Poirot , James Bond , and a squad of ogre - hunting kids .
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A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Sometimes , you want to watch a moving picture set in an alien locale to escape whatever situation you ’re presently in . Usually , I turn to two kind of movies that do this : James Bond activeness moving-picture show andAgatha Christie whodunit . The latter has seen a revivification of late , with Kenneth Branagh helming relatively successful adaptations ofMurder on the Orient ExpressandDeath on the Nile . His latest , A Haunting in Venice , is perhaps his upright yet , and is a cracking manner to say goodbye to 2024 .
Master detective Hercule Poirot ( Branagh ) is lured out of retirement by the strange case of Rowena Drake , who is host a séance at her lavish Venetian palazzo to communicate with her dead girl Alicia ( Rowan Robinson ) . When Joyce Reynolds ( Wickedstar Michelle Yeoh ) , the medium comport the séance , turns up dead , Poirot must find out who among the seance ’s guests had the motive and means to commit such a savage criminal offence .
In add-on , Poirot must confront the hypothesis that Alicia is really haunting her mother and the other guests . What ’s real , and what ’s simply an deception ? WatchA Haunting in Veniceand ascertain out for yourself .
Skyfall (2012)
Some have made the shell thatSkyfallis thebest James Bond movie ever . I ’m not one of those people ; I ’d rankCasino Royale , On Her Majesty ’s Secret Service , andGoldfingerhigher , and I ’d even placeThe Spy Who know Me , Goldeneye , andFrom Russia with Loveover Sam Mendes ’ acclaimed , Oscar - winning spy film . ( As for Bond films likeThe Man with the Golden Gun , they are advantageously provide unwatched and forgotten . )
But that does n’t makeSkyfallany less impressive ; indeed , it ’s one of the good action movies of the 2010s , and it ’s a testament to the durability of the Bond enfranchisement that it can be so good and still place seventh on my listing of best Bonds . It ’s one of the best looking and best act Bond movies ever , and its action set part like the chase in the London Underground are truly astonishing to watch .
Daniel Craig is 007 , and he ’s in a bit of a temper this clip around . take for granted dead after a botched missionary station , he begrudgingly returns to his quondam problem to combat the threat of cyberterrorist Raoul Silva , a former MI6 agent . Unlike mostBond villains , he ’s not after James but rather M ( Judi Dench ) , whom he think betrayed him by leaving him to cash in one’s chips in a missionary post class ago . Now , Bond must protect M and somehow incur a way of life to track down Silva and capture him before it ’s too late .
Quick Change (1990)
Everyone do it Bill Murray is mirthful , but chances are , most people have n’t see one of his funniest films . That’sQuick Change , a 1990 black-market drollery that quickly kick the bucket at the box office and has n’t been reference much since then . Murray stars as Grimm , a down - on - his - luck New Yorker who decide to dress up as a clown and rob a midtown Manhattan bank . aid by his lady friend Phyllis ( Geena Davis ) and salutary champion Loomis ( Randy Quaid ) , Grimm keeps the police at bay by kidnapping two hostages , who are Phyllis and Loomis in camouflage , and escaping with a bag full of hard currency .
Turns out , robbing the bank was the easy part ; it ’s getting out of the city that proves to be the problem . The rest of the movie chronicles the trio ’s increasingly heroic , and frequently hilarious , attempt to get to the drome and evade the police . Murray , Davis , and Quaid are all in top form here , and the pile supporting form have Jason Robards , Phil Hartman , Tony Shalhoub , and Stanley Tucci ( Conclave ) avail makeQuick Changea memorable funniness of errors .
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
When you remember of action - adventures heroes , you probably do n’t think of Chevy Chase . TheSaturday Night Livevet closed out the ’ 80s on a high banknote withNational Lampoon ’s Christmas Vacation , and began the next X with a role that Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson would ’ve normally played . InMemoirs of an Invisible Man , Chase plays Nick Halloway , a bored parentage psychoanalyst in San Francisco whose life is upend when he ’s get in a flaky fortuity at a science laboratory .
Now for good inconspicuous , most people remember he ’s dead and , much to his dismay , they do n’t seem to drop him all that much . The few citizenry who know he ’s still alive are Alice Monroe ( Blade Runner‘s Darryl Hannah ) , a love interest who facilitate him in his quest to find an antidote , and David Jenkins ( Jurassic Park‘s Sam Neill ) , a CIA agent who want to study Nick and expend him as a weapon against foreign adversaries . If Nick baulk , David will defeat him and dissect his remains .
memoir of an inconspicuous Manwas a vast bomb when it was released in 1992 , but it deserves a second chance in 2025 . Chase is surprisingly good as a wild-eyed hero with a sarcastic edge , and Hannah is charismatic and winsome as Alice . The movie is directed by John Carpenter , and he show the same skill at blending sci - fi and action that he used so well inThe ThingandBig problem in Little China .
The Monster Squad (1987)
Old - school moving-picture show monsters are all the rage these days . Nosferatu , Robert Eggers ’ Helen Wills re - imagining of the Dracula fib , is out now in theaters , andWolf Manwill soon be scaring moviegoers in 2025 . One movie bestow both of those characters together , along with the Mummy , Frankenstein ’s monster , and the fauna from the Black Lagoon , and that wasThe Monster Squad , a funniness - adventure that owe a fully grown debt toThe gooney .
untried teen Sean Crenshaw forms The Monster Club with his friends Patrick and Horace , rebellious Rudy , jejune Eugene , and Sean ’s kid babe Phoebe to finish Dracula from bringing back monsters from Limbo to take over the world . Some of them break through , but one , Frankenstein ’s devil , befriends Phoebe and aids in their quest to stop Dracula and his minions .
The Monster Squadisn’t a serious flick but it is a fun one , and if you ’ve ever pretended to off monsters when you were a kid , you ’ll like this movie . It has the very best elements of mid - to - late ’ 80s child cinema , with imaginative practical effect , a cast full of relatable protagonist , and a sophomoric mother wit of humor that now comes across as endear . “ Wolfman ’s got nards ! ” indeed .
