The Stanford Prison Experiment documentary on National Geographic and Hulu

The Stanford Prison Experiment

It was one of the most notorious and eye-opening social psychology studies — 24 top male college students randomly assigned to become prisoners or guards — and for the first time, the former participants are speaking out and asking bigger questions about the nature of the experiments, the man who led them, and what they

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Bad Sisters

Bad Sisters S2

“There’s something bigger afoot” in the long-awaited Season 2 of this twisty murder mystery farce set in Ireland. Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) stars as the matriarch of five sisters bound by the premature deaths of their parents — and now under suspicion by life insurance investigators after the death of a brother-in-law. The cast is full

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Emilia Perez

France’s official submission to next year’s Academy Awards is this bold, chaotic musical drama about a lawyer (Zoe Saldana) who helps a cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) leave the business and his wife (Selena Gomez) and kids to become the woman he has always imagined himself to be. One of the buzziest films to come

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My Old Ass

The Watercooler’s pick from Sundance is finally available to stream, a clever comedy about a free-spirited 18-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella) who drinks a hallucinogenic mushroom tea and comes face-to-face with her older, wiser 38-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Elliott’s “old ass” serves up just the kind of advice and warnings she (and we) need — especially

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In the Summers

Spanning two decades and told in four chapters, the intimate indie drama follows two sisters from adolescence to adulthood as they visit their volatile yet vulnerable father in New Mexico, and learn to process all of the complexities of the man and the places they call home. From the Los Angeles Times‘ Tim Grierson:  “It

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The Diplomat S2

Keri Russell returns as the US Ambassador to the UK in the long-awaited Season 2 of the hit Netflix drama, which picks up immediately after a bombing in Season 1’s cliffhanger and finds the former boots-on-the-ground intelligence officer thrust into several new high-level geopolitical crises…with some eerily timely plots.  “The truth keeps catching up with

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Family TV night waverly place

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place

Save this one for family TV night. Thirteen years after the original Wizards of Waverly Place ended, Justin (David Henrie) is now a grownup living the average (human normie) life with his family when his sister Alex (Selena Gomez) brings him a young wizard needing help in this fantasy sequel full of life lessons that

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Shackleton shipwreck natgeo movie

Endurance

Billed as “the greatest survival story ever told,” National Geographic and the award-winning filmmakers behind Free Solo intertwine two stories over 100 years apart: The story of how explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton kept his crew of 27 men alive for over a year after losing this ship, Endurance, in a pack of Antarctic ice stuck

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Like Water for Chocolate

Adapted from the now-iconic 1989 novel by Laura Esquivel and bringing a bold and sweeping interpretation to the Golden Globe-winning 1992 film, Like Water for Chocolate is a mystical romance about a passionate young cook named Tita who is trapped with her tyrannical mother and in love with a young revolutionary, the son of wealthy

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Daaaaaaali!

A surreal comedy about the iconic, surreal Salvador Dalí, the film follows a French journalist as she attempts to interview “Dalí” — who is portrayed by multiple actors in various over the top incarnations. There are dream sequences and tributes to the man’s work, and inventive sequences that defy explanation — but ensure that you

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