If you’re looking for and beating the heat with a new movie, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve put together a list of some of the most productive new videos streaming on Hulu this month, from Brat Pack. from classics (and a new documentary about them) to incredible superhero videos and an underrated actor. There’s something for everyone, so avoid scrolling and put on one of those smart videos.
Check out our list of new videos on Hulu in June 2024 below.
Andrew McCarthy’s new documentary, “Brats,” explores the Brat Pack or, more specifically, the effect the nickname “Brat Pack” had on the careers of young stars of the ’80s. McCarthy sits down with Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, and others to have candid conversations about the videos they previously made and how they felt about the Brat Pack moniker. It doesn’t take much longer than that, but it’s still exciting to see those other people reunite so many years later, amidst snippets of “Beauty in Rose,” “The Breakfast Club” and “St. Louis. “John’s. ” Elmo’s fire.
Filmmaker Matt Reeves breathed new life into the masked crusader with 2022’s “The Batman,” a blackish edition of the beloved comic book character that owes more to David Fincher’s films than to the superhero genre. It’s a gloomy, rainy, and evocative film in which Robert Pattinson offers his own tortured edit of Bruce Wayne. Paul Dano is scary as the villain The Riddler, Colin Farrell is unrecognizable as the Penguin, but it’s Zoe Kravitz who steals the screen as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. Greig Fraser’s excellent cinematography offers us Gotham. The city is like you’ve never seen it before, and Michael Giacchino’s music is a must-see.
Chances are, you’ve never noticed “Anchorman” or you’ve noticed it many, many times. The 2004 comedy wasn’t a ruinous hit when it first hit theaters, but it exploded once it aired on internal video and became one of the most cited movies of the 2000s. Will Ferrell plays a pompous and goofy host in ’70s San Diego whose job is threatened when the network hires a woman as co-host, played by Christina Applegate. Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, and David Koechner are his fellow news anchors. and filmmaker Adam McKay manages to make a film that is as much about sexism and gender inequality as it is about surely ridiculously stupid jokes.
There’s nothing like a very productive movie that makes you feel overcome, and if you’re looking for something along those lines, you can’t pass up “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. “This 1986 comedy by writer-director John Hughes literally tells the story of an excellent school student named Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) who makes the decision to gamble with health issues and skip school. She drags her most productive friend into a day full of laughter and existential crises. The combination of comedy, wish-fulfillment, and pathos is why this movie has been streamed for over 3 decades. This is a wonderful combination with “Brats”.
David Fincher’s 1999 film, “Fight Club,” is extraordinarily misunderstood and, in this regard, deserves to be revisited if you haven’t noticed it for a while. Based on the novel of the same title written by Chuck Palahniuk, the story follows a disillusioned young man. (played by Edward Norton) whose life suddenly makes sense when he meets a carefree soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). The two create a combat club, which then leads them to unleash a totally lawless business that temporarily spirals out of control. But “Fight Club” is rarely about a fight club, but about a poisonous masculinity or, more accurately, about the fragility of the male ego and the effect of consumerism on male culture in the ’90s. He is also something of a rogue. Twisted comedy in the background, with Helena Bonham Carter’s colorful Marla serving as an object for Tyler’s and the narrator’s affections.
One of the most creative horror films of the last decade, 2014’s “It Follows” is all the more impressive because the supernatural presence at the center of the film isn’t truly visual on screen. It’s like this: if you have it, it follows you until you pass it to another user during sex, so that’s its problem. Writer-director David Robert Mitchell creates a scary and patient horror film, anchored through a very good performance through Maika Monroe as the new victim of “it” trying to figure out how to get rid of this supernatural follower. And there’s a sequel in form!
Brad Pitt goes absolutely silly in “Bullet Train,” which makes perfect use of his comedic sensibilities and movie star aesthetic. Directed by former Pitt stuntman David Leitch (who also directed “Atomic Blonde” and “Deadpool 2”), the film follows a murderer in the midst of something of a nervous breakdown and tasked with retrieving a briefcase from a bullet exercise in Japan. Pretty easy, right? Well, the exercise is full of assassins and Pitt’s character soon realizes that he is lost. This was followed by standout performances from Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree-Henry, Hiroyuki Sanada, Joey King and (REDACTED). Plus, cameos galore.