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Amazon Prime Day is here, and with it, a bevy of deals for your entertainment-loving heart. In order to plow through the massive list of deals being offered to Amazon Prime members — it is called Amazon Prime Day for a reason — we’ve narrowed down some of the many offerings for 18 tried and tested IndieWire favorites, spanning both film and television, available with some very special streaming deals today only. Take a look, and start saving now.

“Edge of Tomorrow” ($0.99, 80% off)

In a summer full of lousy Hollywood fare, go back to 2014 and re-experience Doug Liman’s brilliant sci-fi romp. Written by master screenwriter Chris McQuarrie, “Edge of Tomorrow” pushes Tom Cruise to rock bottom and kills him off in the first 10 minutes. And then does it again, and again and a few dozen more times. Consider it a video game movie that doesn’t need video game source material to make it work,...

Today was a busy day for some of the smaller guilds with the Visual Effects Society, the Cinema Audio Society, and the Makeup and Hairstylists Guilds all announcing their nominations for 2013.

First, we have the Ves, whose main category to look at is “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture,” where we find Gravity and four other nominees that are just going to have to be happy with the fact that they got nominated. This is perhaps the easiest category to call in the entirety of awards season, and I don’t mean just here, but for the Oscar as well (Last year’s winner, Life of Pi, easily took this category before going on to claim the Oscar). It’s true that films like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Star Trek Into Darkness had outstanding effects as well, but nothing even came close to the amazing,...

Actor Stephen Dunham (né Bowers) is dead at age 48. According Variety, the cause of death was a heart attack the television actor had suffered a few days earlier, before passing away on Sept. 14, at Providence St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank, Calif.

Dunham was a prolific actor who appeared on a number of television shows, including ABC's "Hot Properties," "Just Shoot Me!" and, perhaps most memorably, "DAG," on which he played Edward Pillows. He also made appearances in 1999's "The Mummy" and in 2005's "Monster-in-Law." He is set to star as part of a wedded couple in the upcoming "Paranormal Activity" with his real-life wife, actress Alexondra Lee.

Lee and Dunham had been married since 2005; the pair met while acting in 1999's ABC college comedy, "Oh Grow Up," created by Alan Ball. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Dunham's family is asking that donations be made in honor of Dunham to...

Actor Stephen Dunham (né Bowers) is dead at age 48. According to Variety, the cause of death was a heart attack the television actor had suffered a few days earlier, before dying on Sept. 14 at Providence St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, Calif.

Dunham was a prolific actor who appeared on a number of television shows, including ABC's "Hot Properties," "Just Shoot Me!" and, perhaps most memorably, "Dag," on which he played Edward Pillows. He also made appearances in the films "The Mummy" and "Monster-in-Law." He is set to star as part of a wedded couple in the upcoming "Paranormal Activity" with his real-life wife, actress Alexondra Lee.

Lee and Dunham had been married since 2005; the pair met while acting in 1999's ABC college comedy, "Oh Grow Up," created by Alan Ball. The Hollywood Reporter reports Dunham's family is asking that donations be made in honor of Dunham to the National Brain Tumor Society or Kiva.

Stephen Dunham dead at 48 Best known for his roles in the television series Dag, What I Like About You, and Hot Properties, Dunham died of a heart attack in Burbank on Monday, Sept. 17.

The Boston native (born in 1964) had turned 48 a mere three days earlier. Among his other television appearances were those in the series Oh, Grow Up, The Chronicle, D.O.T.S. Last year, he guested in the popular Hot in Cleveland. Dunham movies In addition to his TV work, the actor was featured in about a dozen films, almost invariably in minor supporting roles. Those include The Mummy (1999), with Brendan Fraser; Steven Soderbergh's acclaimed Traffic (2000), with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro, and Michael Douglas; Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002), with Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Walken; and the comedy Monster-in-Law, starring Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan,...

David Alan Grier may have not felt the love from the "Dancing with the Stars" judges this season, but Dag has comedic skills and TBS is using them to bring an evening of comedy in June. Comedy superstar Martin Short has also signed on to host a showcase from TBS Presents A .Very Funny. Festival: Just For Laughs, joining Ellen DeGeneres and David Alan Grier in presenting TBS televised specials from the premiere Chicago event. Let Freedom Hum . An Evening of Comedy hosted by Martin Short will also feature stand up kingpins John Pinette, Kathleen Madigan, Greg Giraldo, Tom Papa and Jeremy Hotz The shows will be taped during the Festival, which takes place Wednesday, June...

Going To Network -- Upon hearing these three words, many budding thespians can't help but imagine a grim sea of suit-clad executives, all staring the new actors down as they attempt to deliver the auditions of their lives, the ones that will catapult them to small-screen fame and add the magic words "series regular" to their résumés. Actors who have been through this process would like to say it's not as nerve-racking as it sounds. But, in many cases, it is. "It's basically the Olympics," says Alexie Gilmore, who was a series regular on the short-lived 2008 series New Amsterdam. "You've got to come in with your top game. You have to be off book; you want to be the best possible." Still, even though the prospect of going to network can be terrifying, it doesn't have to be mysterious. Going to network, simply put, is the final stop in the process of auditioning for pilots.