Amazon Prime Video teams up with SXSW to hold online film festival

“My Spy” is the latest big-screen movie heading to a streaming service.

By Antonia Blyth

Why go outside against the advice of doctors, scientists, and your overly concerned mom, when you can stay inside and be safe? Be a good human and watch TV in your house. If you need something to watch on Amazon Prime Video, these are the best TV show and movie options coming to the service in April 2020. Highlights include arthouse horror movie The Lighthouse and sweet sci-fi series Tales From the Loop.

Along with Netflix and Hulu, Amazon Prime Video is one of the leading streaming platforms with an award-winning collection of original films and TV series as well as buzzworthy acquisitions that have crossed over from the U.K. In the 13 years since it first launched in September 2006 with its pilot TV program, the service has found its footing with popular series like and its series adaptation.

Last summer's version of theLos Angeles Latino International Film Festival took place at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, this year — rather than scrap the event — organizers are forging ahead with an online edition amid a pandemic. "We are living in unprecedented times and we must find unprecedented solutions to continue to support our Latino filmmakers and provide them with a platform to showcase their work," stated actor Edward James Olmos, who co-founded the festival in 1997.

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By Todd Spangler

There’s a silver lining for the silver screen after the industry came to a halt at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Amazon Prime Video announced that it will host a handful of titles that were set to screen at this year’s SXSW film festival. The SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection will be open to all users with an Amazon login in the United States, not just those with a Prime subscription, for ten days. A launch date for the online festival has yet to be announced. See more details about the program here.

We’re all going to SXSW this year, and we don't even have to drag ourselves off the couch.

We’re all going to SXSW this year, and we don't even have to drag ourselves off the couch.

Amazon Prime Video is joining forces with the SXSW Festival!

Amazon Prime Video is joining forces with the SXSW Festival!

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Amazon, in partnership with Apple, has quietly turned on a new feature in Prime Video’s apps for Apple devices that lets users buy or rent TV shows and movies, using the in-app payment feature.

You're still staying inside, right? Good. While you're cooped up for a cause, you may want some help choosing something good to watch. If you're looking for something to stream on Amazon Prime Video, here are the best TV shows and movies coming to the service in April 2020.

Amazon Prime Video has revealed its list of incoming movies and shows for the month of April 2020, and there are some great options, both in the streaming service's originals and its licensed content. Amazon original highlights include Tales from the Loop, a retrofuturist sci-fi series from executive producer Matt Reeves (April 3), and Bosch, the dependable cop show that's back for Season 6 (April 17).

We now find ourselves with a fair amount of time on our hands, time we are looking to fill with food, fun and lots of TV. Whether you’re in the mood for something uplifting or something that will have you traveling to another world and thinking “what if,” there are tons of shows on Amazon Prime Video that will help quench your television thirst. Below we’ve gathered 11 shows that we absolutely love and think you will too.