New To Amazon Prime Video In January 2021: Face/Off, Dexter, Star Trek Beyond, And More

There's no way around it--2020 has been an unusual year many of us will likely be thankful to put behind us. Luckily, the handful of days left for this year still have exciting new releases to look forward to (like Wonder Woman 1984 and Pixar's Soul, both on Christmas Day). The less than two weeks 2020 has ahead will be a great runway for looking forward to what's on offer from the likes of Hulu, Netflix, Shudder, and of course Amazon Prime Video. Check out Amazon's release list for the month below.

Easily the most packed day for releases will be New Year's Day, which will see a staggering 76 newcomers to Amazon's platform. There's pretty much something for everyone that day, but it'd be hard to top Face/Off as something to help set the appropriate tone for 2021. If you are correctly sensing a lack of any sarcasm whatsoever in the previous sentence, you should also check out our recent overview of 23 things you need to know before watching (or rewatching) the utterly ridiculous and awesome 1997 action epic starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.

But if that doesn't do it for you, also arriving that day is Star Trek Beyond, the 2016 sequel in the reboot series which also is the 13th film in the Star Trek film franchise overall. By all standards, the film didn't dazzle critics or audiences, but its conventional plot and interest in having both Spock and Kirk searching for something different--they're bored of going where no one has gone before--makes the film a bit of a curiosity. Even if you've seen it before, a rewatch is merited--it's one of the quieter and more unusual entries in the Star Trek canon.

A lot of Amazon's offerings next month will be heavy on everything in between the suggestions above, with no real rhyme or reason to them--a big grab bag. Again, on January 1, the 1990 dark humor-horror film Arachnophobia starring John Goodman and Jeff Daniels--which is about newly discovered prehistoric spiders wreaking havoc--is good cheesy fun. Of a similar vibe are the first eight seasons of Dexter, the Showtime drama about a forensic analyst who serially murders all his problems away. As a revival of that series is due out sometime fall 2021, now wouldn't be a bad time to get hooked and give it a binge.

Below, you'll find everything coming to Amazon Prime Video for the month of January.

New to Amazon in January 2021

January 1

• 1900
• A Night At The Roxbury
• Arachnophobia
• Bloody Sunday
• Broken Arrow
• Brothers
• Chaplin
• Cloverfield
• Coneheads
• Confessions Of A Shopaholic
• Donnie Brasco
• Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
• Escape From Alcatraz
• Eve's Bayou
• Face/Off
• Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell
• Girl Most Likely
• Good Luck Chuck
• Gun Duel In Durango
• Gunfight At The O.K. Corral
• In & Out
• Jazz
• Kiss The Girls
• Last Of The Mohicans
• Legion
• Like A Boss
• Love The Coopers
• Major League (2015)
• Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• Places In The Heart
• Premonition
• Pride
• Push
• Regarding Henry
• Ride Out For Revenge
• Salt
• Signed, Sealed, Delivered
• Signs
• Soul Food
• St. Elmo's Fire
• Starman
• Star Trek Beyond
• The Brass Legend
• The Brothers Mcmullen
• The Cooler
• The Devil's Own
• The Firm
• The Interview
• The Legend Of Bagger Vance
• The Longest Yard
• The Peacemaker
• The Quick And The Dead
• The Sons Of Katie Elder
• The Town
• The Truman Show
• Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
• Vampire In Brooklyn
• Virtuosity
• Walking Tall
• War
• When A Man Loves A Woman
• Where Hope Grows
• Wonder Boys
• Ancient Civilizations of North America: Season 1
• Baby Looney Tunes: Season 1
• Beecham House: Season 1
• Bringing up Bates: Season 1
• Changing Body Composition through Diet and Exercise: Season 1
• Commandments: Season 1
• Dexter: Seasons 1-8
• I Survived . . . Beyond and Back: Season 1
• Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders: Season 1
• Simply Ming: Season 14
• Texas Metal: Season 1
• The Universe : Season 1

January 6

• Mighty Oak

January 7

• Gretel & Hansel

January 8

• Herself
• The Silencing

January 11

• The Rhythm Section

January 15

• One Night In Miami
• Tandav: Season 1

January 18

• Alone
• Pandora: Season 2

January 19

• Grantchester

January 22

• Flack
• Jessy and Nessy

January 29

• Chick Fight
• Mortal