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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Adapted from the bestselling novel, the six-episode French drama (with English subtitles) pivots around the sudden disappearance of a six-year-old YouTube star, whose Gypsy Rose Lee mom was pulling the strings behind her kid’s brand-driven Happy Fans channel. It’s left to a detective to sort through the mad world of modern “influencer life” and its
An Aussie version of Yellowstone with a twist of Succession, Territory follows the drama around the world’s largest fictional cattle station in Northern Australia in the wake of the heir apparent’s shocking death. If it sounds a little too cow pasture for your tastes, there are billionaire miners, cattle baron showdowns, explosive action scenes, and
Amazon Prime offers up a female-led spy thriller as a response to its more testosterone-led Tom Clancy and Reacher series. The new series stars Kate Beckinsale as a CIA agent who has to infiltrate a secret terrorist cell to rescue her kidnapped husband (Rupert Friend), and she’s up against “digital nukes” and big geopolitical stakes.