Instead of wasting hours traveling and waiting in endless lines this Memorial Day weekend, why not stay at home and watch some good movies?
Hulu has tons of them, and they just added a few new films Watch With Us thinks you’ll like.
At the top of our binge-watch list is Alien: Romulus, the successful prequel that garnered the best reviews for an Alien film since — well, since we can remember.
Horror fans should check into The Home with Pete Davidson, while comedy lovers will check at least a dozen times while watching the cult classic, Super Troopers.
‘Alien: Romulus’ (2024)
Archie Renaux and Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection
Sometime in the future, humanity has travelled the stars and colonized numerous worlds, but some evergreen problems remain: low wages, poor working conditions and corporations prioritizing profits over their employees’ lives. Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and her android “brother” Andy (David Jonsson) are stuck in their dead-end mining jobs, and they’re desperate to escape.
That’s why they join their friends when they secretly hijack a transport vehicle that takes them to an abandoned space vessel, which promises them permanent freedom from their indentured servitude. But instead of the hope for a new future, they find something that threatens their lives — a Xenomorph! Well, not just one Xenomorph, but dozens, and they’re hungry to tear apart any human that comes close to them.
That’s right, the aliens from the Alien franchise are back and for once, they’re in a good movie. After years of disappointing sequels, prequels and reboots, Alien: Romulus does right by the franchise by being a well-paced sci-fi thriller with some characters you actually care about. That sounds like a low bar, but so few movies pass it nowadays, and Romulus deserves props for being mostly decent. It’s an ideal film to watch on summer vacation, when you don’t ask for too much from a film.
‘The Home’ (2025)
Max (Pete Davidson) is in big trouble. He’s just been arrested for vandalism, and he’s looking at some hard jail time. Luckily, he strikes a deal with the prosecution — he’ll perform community service at a local retirement home to pay for his crimes. Sounds like a sweet deal, right? It is at first, especially when he grows close to some of the home’s residents like Norma (Mary Beth Peil). But then people start dying, and Max notices it’s not from natural causes. Is something sinister going on at the home? Or is it all in Max’s head?
The Home stems from the same minds who made The Purge, and you can tell — it likes to mess with your head a lot. The film’s concept is intriguing enough to hook in, and its execution makes it an effective horror movie with just the right amount of scares. SNL veteran Davidson stands out as an unusual horror protagonist, who is more laid back than the hysterical final girls the genre typically features.
‘Super Troopers’ (2001)
Scary Movie starring Anna Faris is just around the corner, but those impatient to watch a stupid, laugh-out-loud comedy can tune into Super Troopers and be satisfied. In Spurbury, Vermont, four Vermont state troopers prefer to pull practical jokes on each other rather than actually do their jobs. When a dead body is discovered in a Winnebago, they’re forced to actually enforce the law — and it turns out, they’re actually pretty good at it. But is it enough to save their already imperiled jobs from being taken over by Spurbury’s corrupt police force?
Are you ready for May? Hulu sure is. The Disney-owned streamer is ready to convince you to ignore the sunshine, stay in and tune into its programming. And who are we to stop them? Hulu has scheduled enough exciting content to keep you indoors for days at a time. At the top of Watch With […]
How stupid is Super Troopers? When it came out, The New York Times called it “bad and tasteless.” There’s a scene involving a curbed driver talking to a trooper, who casually says “meow” intermittently for no real reason. The movie works, though, because it feels like a series of funny skits loosely connected by a barely coherent plot. Super Troopers’ jokes hit more than they miss, and that’s the best thing you can say about a comedy like this.
