Prime Video's lineup for the week of August 24 to 30 actually has some range this time, which I can't always say. The one I keep seeing people talk about is The Last Sunrise, the Eva Longoria romance that's rated R, and yes that rating is doing real work in the marketing because everyone I know mentioned it within like an hour of the news dropping.

An R-rated romance is kind of a rare bird right now? Everything in that genre got sanded down to a cozy 14A comfort-blanket thing over the last few years, so when someone actually commits to the rating it usually means the movie has teeth. Or at least scenes they couldn't cut. And just to be clear, this is me saying it's the week's headline grabber, the Yahoo rundown only confirms it's among the week's releases, but come on. It's an R-rated Longoria romance. It's the one people will be discussing at brunch on Sunday, and that matters, cause most weeks the streaming slates are 90 percent filler nobody asked for and one thing that cuts through.

I don't wanna over-promise because I haven't seen it, obviously. Longoria stars alongside Maia Reficco and Fernando Lindez, and it lands August 26. I know basically nothing else going in, which is lowkey my favorite way to start a movie.

Beyond that, the week fills out with the usual mix Prime does well. some library titles shuffling in, a few catalog movies you forgot existed until they show up in your Continue Watching row like a ghost. I keep telling myself I'm going to use weeks like this to catch up on stuff I missed and then I just rewatch the same three comfort shows. anyway.

My grandma always told me to check what you're actually paying for before you get excited, and that applies to subscription apps too. So: check the release day on this one before you plan your night around it, sometimes these drop Thursday midnight, sometimes Friday morning, and Prime is not consistent about it.

If you watch it, come find me. I need someone to talk about that ending with and Dante refuses to watch romance movies, he says they're "not cinema," which is the most 50-year-old man sentence ever written.