Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies. Image via Universal Pictures
As Johnny Depp mounts a return to the mainstream following a decade spent on the sidelines because of personal legal issues, one of his last real hits is coming to Prime Video. The movie can ease the audience back into Depp’s corner, provided that they’re interested in being there. The crime drama was released at a time when Depp was experiencing something of a purple patch at the box office. In a few years, his commercial pull would take a major hit. This was one of the many reasons why studios severed ties with him when his legal troubles overshadowed every other aspect of his career.
The movie also marked one of the rare occasions on which Depp agreed to work with an American auteur who wasn’t Tim Burton, at least during the 2000s. In 2009, he agreed to appear in Terry Gilliam‘s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, where he filled in for the late Heath Ledger along with Colin Farrell and Jude Law. It was in that same year that Depp headlined the crime drama we’re talking about. He played a notorious real-life gangster who was viewed as a Robin Hood-type figure during the Great Depression. Incidentally, Depp’s movie was released in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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Here’s When You Can Watch Johnny Depp’s Gangster Movie on Prime Video
We’re talking, of course, about Public Enemies, directed by Michael Mann. The movie grossed over $210 million worldwide against a reported budget of around $100 million, making it the second-most successful film of Mann’s career behind Collateral. Public Enemies featured Depp as John Dillinger, a Chicago bank robber who is tailed by FBI agent Melvin Purvis, played by Christian Bale. Marion Cotillardappeared as Dillinger’s girlfriend, while a murderer’s row of acclaimed character actors played supporting roles. This group included Jason Clarke, Stephen Graham, Bill Camp, Shawn Hatosy, Giovanni Ribisi, and John Ortiz, among others. Interestingly, Public Enemies also featured Channing Tatum and Carey Mulligan in cameos. The movie holds a 68% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Michael Mann’s latest is a competent and technically impressive gangster flick with charismatic lead performances, but some may find the film lacks truly compelling drama.” Mann is now putting together his most ambitious project yet: Heat 2, which will reportedly enter production with some of the biggest stars in the world shortly. You can watch Public Enemies on Prime Video from June 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
There were a lot of Westerns made in the 1950s and 1960s, but this one in particular holds a very special place in the history of the genre. This smashed box office expectations, earned an Oscar at long last for its legendary star, and is probably on the Mount Rushmore of horseback movies. Now, it’s streaming once again, so saddle up.
True Grit is moseying onto Paramount+ in June, bringing the legendary 1969 Western back for viewers who want to revisit the adventures of the iconic Rooster Cogburn. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film is based on Charles Portis’ 1968 novel of the same name and remains one of the most recognizable Westerns of its era. The cast includes John Wayne (The Searchers) as Rooster Cogburn, Kim Darby (Better Off Dead) as Mattie Ross, Glen Campbell (Norwood) as La Boeuf, Robert Duvall (The Godfather) as Ned Pepper, Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider) as Moon, Jeremy Slate (The Born Losers) as Emmett Quincy, and Strother Martin (Cool Hand Luke) as Colonel Stonehill.
The story follows Mattie Ross, a young woman that won’t take no for an answer who hires aging U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn to help track down the man who murdered her father. Along the way, they are joined by Texas Ranger La Boeuf, creating a strange, prickly trio as they head into dangerous territory in pursuit of justice.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Was ‘True Grit’ Successful?
The movie ended up being one of the defining films of Wayne’s career. The movie earned about $31.1 million domestically, which is roughly $275 million in today’s money, and around $37.7 million worldwide, which works out to around $333 million today. AFI also notes that it earned $11.5 million in film rentals in 1969, equal to roughly $102 million today. And not just that, it was a major success on the awards circuit, with Wayne winning his first and only Academy Award for playing Rooster Cogburn, while it also received a nomination for Best Original Song.
The Coen brothers later adapted the same novel in 2010 with Jeff Bridges and a wonderful debuting Hailee Steinfeld, but the Wayne version still has its own appeal. It’s a broader and more traditional movie, but more than anything, it’s a classic studio Western firing on all cylinders.
Nothing unites the world better than comedy, and sitcoms have long been one of television’s greatest sources of laughter. From early classics likeI Love Lucy to modern hits like St. Denis Medical, the genre has constantly reinvented itself to reflect changing times and audiences. Yet despite those changes, certain sitcoms have managed to stand the test of time — not always because they are technically the best, but because they hold a special place in viewers’ lives.
Whether it’s a sitcom broadcast in over 100 countries across the globe or one that has surpassed 805 episodes and counting, these series have become beloved comfort watches for generations of audiences. Their memorable characters, timeless humor, and relatable stories continue to resonate no matter the era. Without further ado, here are the most universally beloved sitcoms of all time.
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‘The Office’ (2005–2013)
Steve Carell’s Michael Scott talking at a podium in The Office.Image via NBC
Corporate culture is usually the last place people try to be funny. That’s not the case with The Office, which shows what happens when the stuffiest workplace turns into one of television’s quirkiest and most chaotic comedies. In the beginning, the Dunder Mifflin paper company branch looks like nothing more than a washed-out office stranded in the middle of nowhere in Scranton. The most exciting thing that probably happens there is the arrival of new office supplies. But The Office has a charm that sneaks up on audiences, and it’s all thanks to its beloved manager and eccentric staff.
The thing about The Office is that it takes familiar office tropes and pushes them to hilarious extremes. Not every viewer has worked in corporate, but almost everyone has dealt with an incompetent and wildly unprofessional boss like Michael Scott (Steve Carell). We’ve all encountered uptight coworkers like Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) and jokesters like Jim Halpert (John Krasinski). What most people don’t have is the ability to turn the most awkward and inappropriate workplace situations into genuine comedy. If there’s any show where ignoring HR policies and doing anything except actual work literally feels acceptable, it’s The Office.
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‘The Simpsons’ (1989–Present)
No other dysfunctional fictional family has kept the world entertained quite like The Simpsons. If its 36 years on air aren’t proof enough of its timeless appeal — alongside its eerily accurate real-life predictions — the show has become a television staple because of its slice-of-life adventures that remain relatable no matter what era audiences watch them in. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) is the kind of father nobody would want in real life, yet viewers can’t help but feel both dumbstruck and amazed by his immature shenanigans.
The chaos is balanced out by the rest of the family, especially the far more emotionally grounded Marge Simpson (Julie Kavner) and her troupe of rowdy children. While they began as America’s most scandalous, dysfunctional family, The Simpsons has spent decades showing that families are meant to be imperfect. Most families may not cause riots in elementary schools or meltdowns across small-town Springfield. Still, it’s refreshing to see the series tear down the stereotypical white-picket-fence family image that television had pushed for generations.
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‘Friends’ (1994–2004)
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Loyalty, dependability, and compassion are universal languages that anyone around the world can understand. That’s why a show like Friends, despite being firmly rooted in New York City, didn’t just attract an average of 25 million viewers per episode in the United States, but also became a global pop culture phenomenon syndicated in over 100 countries. Not everyone gets along with their own family, but audiences have always found comfort in the idea of a chosen family. That’s exactly what Friends is about: a group of late twenty-somethings who feel like they should have their lives figured out by now, but absolutely don’t. But that’s okay, because they have each other to sort it all out together.
Just like the audience watching them, the Friends gang thinks they have this whole adulthood thing under control. But Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston) literally walks out of her own wedding, Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) quits his stable data-processing job in his thirties to pursue a marketing internship, and Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow) barely knows who her biological father is. Life may be unpredictable, but what remains constant is that they always have friends they can rely on when everything falls apart. In a generation where everyone seems socially disconnected despite being constantly linked through technology, the camaraderie in Friends feels like a bittersweet reminder of just how important friendship really is.
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Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
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Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
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🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
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Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
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County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
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Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
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Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
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Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
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‘Schitt’s Creek (2015–2020)
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Schitt’s Creekfollows the once-wealthy Rose family after they lose their fortune to fraud. Left with almost nothing, former video store mogul Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) discovers the only asset he still owns is Schitt’s Creek, a rundown town he jokingly bought years ago for his son David. Forced to abandon their lavish lifestyle, Johnny, his dramatic soap-star wife Moira (Catherine O’Hara), socialite daughter Alexis (Annie Murphy), and eccentric David (Dan Levy) must adjust to life in a shabby motel while navigating the quirky townspeople they once considered beneath them.
Part of the show’s appeal comes from watching the Roses stumble through everyday life completely out of touch with reality. Their arrogance and cluelessness make for endless laughs, but over six seasons, Schitt’s Creek gradually reveals how much these characters are capable of changing. What begins as a story about a spoiled family losing everything slowly becomes one about personal growth, humility, and finding purpose. Johnny rebuilds the motel business, Alexis pursues her education and career, Moira becomes involved in the town, and David follows his father’s entrepreneurial footsteps.
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‘Abbott Elementary’ (2021–Present)
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Teaching is a noble profession, but it doesn’t always receive the respect it deserves.Abbott Elementary tells a story that both school staff and students can relate to. There are the teachers who do everything in their power with limited resources to provide the best learning experience for their students, and then there are the students, who, despite still being in kindergarten and elementary school, are incredibly bright for their age. Which brings us to one of the show’s funniest aspects: sometimes your biggest critics aren’t your fellow teachers, but your own students.
The teaching staff at Abbott Elementary is a rowdy bunch. While there are teachers like the overly passionate yet naive Janine Teagues (Quinta Brunson) and the seasoned veteran Barbara Howard (Sheryl Lee Ralph), there’s also the low-key gangster Melissa Schemmenti (Lisa Ann Walter) and the questionable hustler Ava Coleman (Janelle James). Although they always have the kids’ best interests at heart, their methods don’t always translate well, leading to plenty of hilarious moments. From teachers getting caught “smoking” by a student to one becoming far too attached to a class pet, the show proves that no matter how imperfect these teachers may be, they’re still willing to learn and grow alongside their classes.
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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ (2013–2021)
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“Nine-nine!” Chaos is practically part of the job description in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Set inside the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department, the series follows Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), a talented investigator whose immature antics and sloppy habits constantly test the patience of his coworkers. His biggest rival, the ambitious and highly organized Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero), is determined to outshine him at every turn. Things become even more chaotic when the strict and emotionless Captain Ray Holt (Andre Braugher) takes command of the precinct and clashes with Jake’s carefree attitude.
With lives at stake, a police precinct should remain vigilant and ready for action. But Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the complete opposite of that. Almost everyone on the force possesses exceptional talent, but it’s what they do with those talents that makes the show so hilarious. They still solve cases, though usually on their own terms, leading to shenanigans like Peralta going completely off the book or one of Santiago’s perfectly planned schemes falling absolutely haywire. No matter how big their egos may be, however, protecting the people of Brooklyn always remains their top priority.
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Hulu’s 83% Rotten Tomatoes sci-fi series is dominating Netflix charts globally just days after arriving on the streaming giant, and its momentum shows no signs of slowing down. Its spin-off, which recently ended its first season with a game-changing finale, has partly contributed to the renewed success, alongside the show’s consistently powerful episodes. Running for six seasons from April 26, 2017, to May 27, 2025, the series was created by Bruce Miller, whose work on the show earned Emmy wins in 2017 for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
As the first streaming series ever to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed remarkable success since its debut. Based on Margaret Atwood’s bestselling novel, the dystopian drama is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society established in what was once part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as state property, forcing fertile women, known as “Handmaids,” into child-bearing servitude in a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world.
The Handmaid’s Tale was added to Netflix’s catalog in select regions in early May and quickly captured the attention of viewers worldwide. This week alone, the series has surged on the platform’s charts, ranking among the Top 10 most-watched shows in international territories, including Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, and Mexico, among others. That makes it the perfect binge-watch heading into the weekend, especially since its spin-off, The Testaments, just concluded its first season and is already expected to return for Season 2.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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‘The Testaments’ Is a Gripping Spin-Off of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Also created by Miller, The Handmaid’s Tale spin-off premiered on April 8, 2026, with its Season 1 finale airing on May 27. The Testaments follows Agnes (Chase Infiniti), a young woman raised in upper-class Gilead society and educated at a prestigious girls’ school overseen by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), all in preparation for a prosperous marriage. But then there’s Daisy (Lucy Halliday) from the independent city of Toronto, whom Aunt Lydia orders Agnes to mentor, not knowing she’s a spy.
Agnes is the daughter of June (Elisabeth Moss), the central protagonist of The Handmaid’s Tale, who successfully escaped Gilead but was tragically separated from her first child. In The Testaments‘ finale, titled “Secateurs,” mother and daughter are still not reunited, but Agnes finally learns the truth about her birth mother after Daisy reveals that Agnes’ birth name is actually Hannah.
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Bruce Miller
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Mike Barker, Kari Skogland, Daina Reid, Reed Morano, Floria Sigismondi, Jeremy Podeswa, Kate Dennis, Richard Shepard, Amma Asante, Christina Choe, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Bradley Whitford, Dearbhla Walsh, Liz Garbus
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Kira Snyder, Eric Tuchman, Yahlin Chang, John Herrera, Jacey Heldrich, Dorothy Fortenberry, Marissa Jo Cerar, Lynn Renee Maxcy
Tom Parker’s widow, Kelsey Parker, is expanding her family.
“A year ago next month, we lost our beautiful baby boy, Phoenix 🤍,” Kelsey wrote via Instagram on Sunday, May 31. “And somehow, through all the heartbreak, it feels like Tom and Phoenix have sent us another little gift from heaven our little rainbow baby ✨.”
In the clip shared via Instagram, Kelsey and her family piled their hands on top of each other before unveiling a black-and-white ultrasound image of the pregnancy. A feather was then placed over the pic.
Kelsey’s pregnancy announcement comes nearly one year after she shared the loss of her son with boyfriend Will Lindsay.
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“Phoenix Parker-Lindsay, you will forever be loved,” Kelsey wrote via an Instagram post at the time.
“For Phoenix, Born Sleeping, Forever Loved,” the poem began. “The world grew quiet as you arrived / So loved, so longed for, yet not alive / Our precious boy, our angel light / Born with wings, took silent flight. We named you Phoenix, brave and bright / A soul of love, of warmth and light / Though we never heard you cry / You’ll live in hearts that won’t ask why. No breath you drew, no eyes to see / Still, you mean everything to me / You’ll journey with us, softly near / In every sigh, in every tear.”
Kelsey also shared a message via her Instagram Story, where she asked for privacy for her and her family.
“Before I receive an influx of lovely messages and heart-felt well wishes, I want to just say that I truly appreciate everything you are all going to say and share,” she wrote. “But with the news being so raw, I would really like to ensure that we as a family are given space and time to process this devastating and earth-shattering news.”
Tom Parker’s widow, Kelsey Parker, is pregnant and expecting a baby with boyfriend Will Lindsay. “Tom and I always said we wanted four, but life had other plans,” Kelsey, 34, told the U.K.’s The Mirror in an interview published on Sunday, January 26. “So yes, this is amazing but also bittersweet. The joys of finding […]
Kelsey became a mom when she and Tom welcomed their children, Aurelia and Bohi. Tom died in 2022 at the age of 33 after a stage four glioblastoma diagnosis.
“Tom and I always said we wanted four — but life had other plans,” she told The Mirror in 2025, while confirming her pregnancy. “So yes, this is amazing but also bittersweet. The joys of finding out I’m pregnant and moving forward with my life, while thinking, ‘My life could have been so different. I’ve felt every emotion under the sun.”
She continued, “I’m still getting my head around it, but I’m so excited. And I know I’m putting myself out there, telling people. I just want everyone to be as happy as I am.”
Netflix is a bounty of entertaining content. The platform has produced countless original series over the years, but only a select few from the streaming service’s massive library have managed to feel genuinely near-perfect from beginning to end. Whether through consistently gripping pacing, emotionally layered storytelling, breathtaking visuals, or unforgettable characters, those select few are some of Netflix’s most rewarding series that should honestly be consistently shared with others.
Near-perfect icons of the streaming service like sci-fi watch Alice in Borderland, which transforms its survival drama into a tense psychological thriller filled with unpredictable twists and emotional desperation, and Stranger Things, another bout of sci-fi brilliance on Netflix that stands as a global phenomenon, are just two examples of what the platform has produced in recent years. On this list are some of Netflix’s near-perfect watches that are definitely worth spending time watching once or even twice.
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‘Arcane’ (2021–2024)
Jinx’s sacrifice in ‘Arcane.’Image via Netflix
Arcaneis a fantastic Netflix series that counts as a great success among the best video game adaptations. Set between Piltover and Zaun, the show features technological transformation, class fracture, and family rupture through the eyes of figures like Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Caitlyn (Katie Leung), as they become entrenched in violent unrest, political conflict, and the increasingly rapid divide between the two cities.
Few animated series in recent years have succeeded in the ways that Arcane has. It’s a meticulously crafted gem that wields every frame, action sequence, and emotional beat to reflect the extraordinary level of artistic precision the fantasy drama has. What makes Arcane a near-perfect watch is the show’s outright clearing of three bars all at once: it is critically bulletproof, visually revolutionary, and emotionally legible to non-gamers, marking it a perfect match for this list of near-perfect Netflix greats that all subscribers should take the time out to watch.
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‘Stranger Things’ (2016–2025)
Stranger Things Season 5: Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp.Image: Courtesy of Netflix
Stranger Things is a Netflix sci-fi original series that has truly captured mainstream audiences quite thoroughly. The series follows the mysterious disappearance of the young Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), as his family and friends find themselves desperate in search of him, stumbling across a troubling conspiracy of experiments, alternate dimensions, supernatural predation, and telepathic, waffle-loving little girls.
Stranger Things is its own cultural phenomenon thanks to its genuinely lovable cast, nostalgic atmosphere, and absolutely thrilling supernatural mystery. The series is a hypnotizing blend of Spielberg-inspired adventure with heartfelt coming-of-age storytelling and horror, making this list because it stands as one of the clearest examples of understanding how to create event television. Stranger Things is well-deserving of its status as one of Netflix’s near-perfect works because even with its quieter moments, it remains a deeply entertaining and emotionally engaging series rife with suspenseful storytelling, unforgettable characters, and massive crowd-pleasing spectacles.
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‘Derry Girls’ (2018–2022)
Michelle, Claire, and Erin from Derry Girls standing together in school.Image via Channel 4
This underrated good time is one of Netflix’s best-kept secrets. Derry Girlscenters on a chaotic friend group, including Erin Quinn (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Orla McCool (Louisa Harland), Clare Devlin (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle Mallon (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), and James Maguire (Dylan Llewellyn), as they bumble, panic, posture, and self-mythologize their way through adolescence in 1990s Derry during a rather overall troubling time.
Derry Girls is an extremely charming watch. The Netflix comedy-drama deserves far more attention than it’s ever received. It’s impossibly funny, with outrageous characters that add to the show’s hilarity while still delivering heartfelt, wholesome moments and a surprisingly sincere coming-of-age story buried underneath all the often-frantic madness. Derry Girls is no doubt an outstanding series, with emotional warmth, sharp writing, and endlessly lovable character dynamics that make every chaotic episode feel incredibly memorable, marking it as a watch worth diving into.
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‘Sex Education’ (2019–2023)
Asa Butterfield as Otis and Gillian Anderson as Jean on the couch on ‘Sex Education.’Image via Netflix
Sex Education is another teen drama that is hilariously adult in the most important ways. The drama focuses on the horribly awkward and anxious teen Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield), as he uses the knowledge he’s gained from his sex therapist mother, Jean (Gillian Anderson), to start an underground clinic at school, where he advises other teens on all things sex.
Sex Education may be a teen drama, but its balance of coming-of-age storytelling and mature discussions about relationships and emotional honesty makes it the perfect watch for most adults. The show may be incredibly bawdy, yes, but it’s also extremely sex-positive, humane, and strangely attentive to things like shame, religion, disabilities, identity, friendship, and emotional education. Sex Education is a British drama that deserves far more attention than it’s ever received simply because it’s honestly one of the best shows Netflix has ever produced.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
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Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
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🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
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The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
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Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
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Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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‘The Last Kingdom’ (2015–2022)
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This thrilling historical drama is genuinely consistent in its high quality across its multiple seasons. The Last Kingdomfollows Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon-born man who was once raised by Danes, and is constantly forced to keep choosing between blood, belief, and ambition in a Britain being violently remade.
The Last Kingdom is for anyone who desires a gripping historical drama rife with political betrayal, brutal warfare, emotional character arcs, and deeply satisfying long-form storytelling. Even beyond its absolutely thrilling action and historical spectacle, The Last Kingdom delivers a strong emotional core, memorable characters, and consistently engaging pacing. It’s one of those rare watches that feels insanely rewarding with each season. The Last Kingdom is entertainment brilliance that succeeds as a Netflix epic for viewers addicted to layered conflicts, large-scale historical storytelling, and emotionally driven warrior journeys.
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‘Alice in Borderland’ (2020–Present)
Tao Tsuchiya as Usagi, Kento Yamazaki as Arisu looking spooked in Alice in Borderland Season 2.Image via Netflix
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Alice in Borderland is a constantly overlooked gem, whose near-perfection isn’t acknowledged nearly enough. The series centers on the drifting gamer with no clear place in ordinary life, Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), as he and his two friends wake up in an emptied-out Tokyo where survival depends on deadly games that expose intellect, fear, selfishness, and despair.
Alice in Borderland is quality sci-fi television. Viewers who have seen the series have lauded it as an underrated bout of perfection that offers thrills, fright, and emotional sincerity. The Netflix series is impeccably bingeable, a hard-hitting action with a crisp survival design and enough emotional seriousness to keep it from becoming just another empty spectacle. Alice in Borderland may have its flaws in its much later seasons, but the series is a quality watch that creates a viewing experience that feels constantly suspenseful.
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‘Black Mirror’ (2011–Present)
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This compellingly brilliant sci-fi spectacle is one of the finest, most unpredictable anthology series ever created. Black Mirror centers around episodic, standalone stories. Black Mirror stands as an incredibly compelling and rather unsettling examination of humanity’s relationship with technology — it’s amazingly ambitious in its concepts and haunting social commentary.
It’s a watch that very few shows even come close to matching in creativity and quality. Netflix subscribers who haven’t seen the show should definitely dive into the series, as it offers episode after episode of new worlds, moral dilemmas, and emotional nightmares, constantly exploring how things like social media, innovation, surveillance, and outright digital obsession can reshape human behavior in deeply disturbing ways. Black Mirror is no doubt extremely bleak, but it also stands as one of Netflix’s bright spots that has had a hand in setting the standard for quality sci-fi series.
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‘Sense8’ (2015–2018)
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Sense8 is an underrated sci-fi masterpiece that tells an emotionally expansive story. The incredible series follows eight perfect strangers around the world who become inexplicably linked and must survive being hunted by malicious forces that see them as a threat.
Sense8 is a bout of brilliance that everyone should indulge in. It’s an extremely underrated Netflix beauty that never truly found its way into mainstream conversations. Sense8 actually stands as one of the streaming platform’s most bold and most emotionally ambitious originals, delivering a quality series that at its core explores connection. It’s a masterful sci-fi watch that is genuinely unforgettable. Most who have seen the series have praised it for its groundbreaking representation and creative storytelling. Sense8 may have never succeeded in gaining an overwhelming audience, but it’s a near-perfect Netflix gem that is definitely worth taking the chance on.
Influencer Estee Williams is paying tribute to her 8-month-old daughter, Estelle, after her death.
“Until we meet again, my sweet Estelle,” Williams wrote via her Instagram Story on Saturday, May 30, alongside a photo of her holding her daughter. She added an angel wings emoji to the image.
Williams confirmed to People on Sunday, May 31, that Estelle died from multiple organ failure and had spent several months hooked up to various hospital machines.
Williams gave birth to Estelle in 2025. The baby was born with the congenital heart defect known as ventricular septal defect.
Influencer Esther Thomas has died after undergoing surgery. “Greetings … We the family of Esther Thomas [A.K.A Sunshine] with pain in our heart we regret to announce the sudden demise of our beloved sister and daughter Esther Thomas who suddenly passed away on the 9th of January 2026 after an unsuccessful surgery,” a statement shared […]
“After a two-day long labor and complete exhaustion, my midwife and I agreed that transferring to the hospital was the best decision. Estelle was born another 24 hours later — healthy and absolutely beautiful. It wasn’t until a day and a half later that she failed two oxygen saturation screenings and a heart murmur was detected, at which point she was admitted to the NICU for further evaluation,” Williams wrote via Instagram in 2025.
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She continued, “The cardiologist performed an echocardiogram, and that’s when we learned she had two VSDs — one large and one moderate. We were told the larger hole measured 11 mm and that, sometime during her infancy, she would likely begin to show symptoms and need open-heart surgery to repair the VSDs with patches. Four days later, we were able to go home and begin our baby girl’s heart journey.”
Williams shared that Estelle’s surgery was scheduled in November 2025, which was expected to be a “relatively short hospital stay” meaning about three to six days after surgery.
“Our baby girl’s surgery was a success! The surgeon shared that hers was the largest VSD he had ever seen or repaired — measuring 30 mm and requiring a 3cm patch. A Healthy baby’s heart her age/weight would typically be about the size of a walnut, but because of the immense work her heart was doing to keep her alive, hers had grown to the size of an orange. It truly felt miraculous that we were able to bring our baby home from the NICU and that she was able to grow, even if only a little, before her surgery,” Williams wrote at the time.
Australian influencer Erin Oudshoorn is mourning the death of her 6-year-old daughter, Luella “Lulu.” “It is with the most painful, shattered heart to share that our darling Lulu passed away peacefully in our arms yesterday, surrounded and profoundly loved on by all of her extended family,” Oudshoorn wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, January 27. “Dave […]
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Williams explained that because the “patch was so extensive and unable to contract like a normal septum,” Estelle’s “postoperative court became entirely unanticipated and was marked by significant complications.” Within two weeks, Estelle had “undergone her second heart surgery due to her complete heart block.”
After Estelle went into cardiac arrest in December 2025, she was placed on life support. Williams was told that her daughter could not leave the hospital until she had a heart transplant.
In April, Williams shared that Estelle was considered ineligible because of various health complications, including sepsis and issues with blood clotting. After the situation improved, Williams shared that Estelle was granted eligibility again. Earlier this month, Williams explained that Estelle had been removed from the transplant list for a second time.
The sprawling new documentary series World War II with Tom Hanks isn’t the only History Channel title breaking into the domestic viewership charts this week. An entirely different sort of show — it’s certainly more controversial, despite having nothing to do with geopolitics — is currently among the most-watched titles on Amazon and iTunes, according to FlixPatrol. The series premiered in 2020 and returned with a seventh season on May 19 this year. The series is so popular with its target audience that it has inspired a spin-off that has aired three seasons itself. The show is a throwback to the Zak Bagans era of television, in that it’s technically a documentary, but the subject it deals with makes that claim rather iffy indeed.
In its own way, the series in question should appeal to crowds at the intersection of Taylor Sheridan‘s Yellowstone spin-off Dutton Ranch and Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming movie Disclosure Day, were such an intersection to actually exist. It follows the owner of a 500-acre ranch in Utah, who teams up with various others to investigate claims of alien activity on his property. And they’re not hunting down illegal migrants. The property has inspired a sci-fi movie, and has been featured in an episode of a paranormal reality series hosted by Ozzy Osbourne‘s son, Jack, and an episode of a television show where Joe Rogan investigated phenomena such as Bigfoot sightings and UFOs.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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It’s Also ‘X-Files’ Meets ‘Men in Black’ Meets Apple TV’s ‘Sugar’
The show we’re talking about is called The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, and it has aired over 70 episodes so far. Interest in the show no doubt increased in recent months, with the release of the Pentagon’s UFO files. Believers in UFOs also propelled the documentary film The Age of Disclosure — 27% critics’ score and 91% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes — to similar streaming success a few months ago. And now, Spielberg will add more fuel to the fire with Disclosure Day, due for release on June 12. It’s his first sci-fi film in eight years and has already received strong early buzz. However, the “We Deserve to Know” tagline certainly functions as a dog-whistle in this era of pseudoscience. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Thrillers from the ‘90s just hit differently. For some reason, films from that era had a way of crawling under the audience’s skin without needing to rely on hollow twists every 10 minutes or turning everything into franchise bait. They felt darker, stranger, and far more willing to leave the audience with a sense of discomfort.
That’s because these stories never followed a set formula. The best ’90s thrillers cared less about nonstop spectacle and more about atmosphere, character psychology, and trusting the audience to make peace with ambiguity. Here is a list of six such ‘90s thrillers that still hold up better than today’s movies because they were actually willing to take risks.
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‘Seven’ (1995)
A close-up of Detective Mills (Brad Pitt) crying while holding a gun in Se7en.Image via New Line Cinema
To this day, Seven remains one of the most disturbing thrillers ever made because it understands that real horror comes from psychology, not just spectacle. David Fincher’s masterpiece follows exhausted detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and impulsive younger cop David Mills (Brad Pitt) as they investigate a series of gruesome murders inspired by the seven deadly sins. The killer, John Doe (Kevin Spacey), seems to be carrying out some twisted form of moral punishment, which makes Seven so much more unsettling than a standard serial-killer thriller. Fincher strays away from excessive exposition and overcomplicated action sequences to keep the audience invested.
The dreary atmosphere of the unnamed city in which the story takes place practically embodies Somerset and Mills’s exhaustion. Seven doesn’t rush to catch the murderer because it understands that the ending only works if the audience has been slowly consumed by the same sense of fear as the characters. The film’s unforgettable climaxstill hits like a sucker punch while also feeling completely inevitable at the same time. Many thrillers have tried copying Seven over the years, but have failed to understand that the film’s stylistic choices alone aren’t what made it work. Seven still holds up today because it’s intelligent in how it treats its violence with a larger purpose. That unique angle is something many modern thrillers just can’t seem to recreate.
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‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991)
Anthony Hopkins staring intently at a small metal object in The Silence of the Lambs.Image via Orion Pictures
The Silence of the Lambsis another genre-defining thriller that understands the art of blending style with substance. The film follows FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), who is assigned to interview imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in the hope that he can help authorities catch another serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. The investigation gradually evolves into something much more intense as every conversation between the two feels psychologically intense and manipulative. The story is constantly focused on her perspective, especially her experience navigating male-dominated institutions where she is routinely underestimated.
That detail becomes important in her scenes with Lecter because, despite how terrifying he is, he also becomes one of the few characters who fully recognize her intelligence. Hopkins’s performance as the notorious serial killer is controlled, yet suffocating because the audience knows that he is always ahead of the curve. The Silence of the Lambs is a masterclass in character building and demands the audience’s full attention. Many modern thrillers still borrow elements from the film, especially the archetypes of the brilliant serial killer and morally complex investigator. However, very few manage to replicate the film’s emotional depth.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
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🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
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Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
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Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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‘A Few Good Men’ (1992)
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A Few Good Men proves that dialogue can be just as intense as action. Rob Reiner’s courtroom drama follows Navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), who is assigned to defend two Marines accused of murdering a fellow soldier at Guantanamo Bay. At first, the case appears fairly straightforward, but things become far more complicated once Kaffee and fellow lawyer Joanne Galloway (Demi Moore) begin suspecting that the accused Marines were acting under orders as part of an illegal disciplinary hazing known as a code red. The investigation slowly leads them toward the intimidating Colonel Nathan Jessep (Jack Nicholson), whose rigid worldview and obsession with military order fuel the central conflict of the story.
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A Few Good Men features Cruise in one of the strongest performances of his career as he perfectly portrays Kaffee’s transformation from a smug lawyer who avoids difficult trials into someone genuinely willing to risk his career to uncover the truth. The final courtroom confrontation remains one of the most iconic climaxes in thriller history thanks to the psychological battle leading up to it. A Few Good Men never overcomplicates its story with unnecessary twists or shock factors. Instead, it trusts its characters, performances, and writing to carry the suspense, which is exactly why the film still feels so gripping more than 30 years later.
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‘Heat’ (1995)
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Heat is the rare crime thriller that feels massive in scale yet intimate at the same time. The gripping story follows expert thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and obsessive LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), two men who are standing on opposite sides of the law but are more similar than they might think. Both characters are brilliant at their jobs and terrible at maintaining pretty much anything outside of them. This dynamic is what hooks the audience as the story slowly brings these two men closer together. However, Heat never feels like a standard cop-versus-criminal showdown, but rather more like something inevitable because of its refusal to portray these characters as simply good or bad.
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In fact, it constantly blurs the line between hunter and hunted until Hanna and Neil begin to feel almost interchangeable. The storytelling is patient and focuses just as much time on McCauley and Hanna’s personal lives as it does on the robberies themselves. Speaking of which, Neil’s final heist culminates in one of the most iconic shootouts ever put on screen. Aside from the thrill of it all, the sequence feels extremely realistic since it’s shot with brutal precision rather than flashy editing or exaggerated action. By the end, Heat goes behind the excitement of the heists and becomes a surprisingly sad story about two men who sacrificed everything for lives they know they can never escape.
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‘12 Monkeys’ (1995)
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Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi thriller, 12 Monkeys, has only gotten more unsettling with time. The story takes place in a future where a deadly virus has wiped out most of humanity and follows prisoner James Cole (Bruce Willis), who is sent back in time to gather information about the outbreak before it happens. However, things quickly spiral once Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996 and ends up trapped inside a psychiatric hospital. There, he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) and unpredictable mental patient Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), whose connection to the mysterious Army of the Twelve Monkeys slowly drives the film deeper into paranoia and uncertainty.
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The plot constantly shifts between reality, memory, dreams, and possible delusion, which gives the movie its unique, disorienting atmosphere.12 Monkeys never treats time travel like a pure gimmick and actually focuses on its psychological consequences. The protagonist is trapped in this almost nightmarish world where both he and the audience are forced to question everything. By the end, 12 Monkeys turns into something far more tragic than a standard sci-fi thriller with a haunting conclusion that feels impossible to escape.
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‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (1990)
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Jacob’s Ladder is easily one of the most disturbing psychological horror films ever made. The story follows Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), whose life slowly begins falling apart after returning home from the war. He starts experiencing terrifying hallucinations, violent flashes of imagery, and moments where reality feels unstable. As these visions become more intense, Jacob starts believing that something happened to his platoon in Vietnam, possibly involving a secret military experiment, and his desperate search for answers slowly turns into something much darker.
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The film traps the audience inside Jacob’s perspective and blurs the line between nightmare, memory, and reality until the viewers become just as disoriented as Jacob. This sense of uncertainty makes the horror scenes genuinely terrifying instead of being driven by shock value. Robbins gives one of the best performances of his career thanks to the vulnerability and exhaustion he brings to Jacob’s character. The movie’s spiritual themes also give it far more depth than most horror films from that era. Beneath the paranoia and surreal imagery, Jacob’s Ladder is really about accepting death, letting go of suffering, and finding peace in the middle of chaos.
Westerns don’t need to be complicated to become iconic, and in fact, that might be what makes a Western a true Western. That’s especially true of this latest movie, 73 years later, as it hits streaming and prepares to wow audiences for the latest time, the first time, or perhaps even the last time. Even if you’ve never seen it, you’ve almost definitely seen movies influenced by it. Now, one of the most important Westerns ever made is back.
Shane arrives on Paramount+ June 1, and the film remains one of the genre’s most adored entries, currently holding a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. More than seven decades after its release, its influence is still everywhere. The film follows Shane, a mysterious drifter and gunfighter who rides into a Wyoming valley and becomes involved with a family of homesteaders being threatened by a ruthless cattle baron. As tensions build between settlers and ranchers, Shane tries desperately to avoid using violence, but the world around him keeps pulling him back toward the gun.
The cast includes Alan Ladd (This Gun for Hire) as Shane, Jean Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) as Marian Starrett, Van Heflin (3:10 to Yuma) as Joe Starrett, Brandon De Wilde (Hud) as Joey Starrett, Jack Palance (City Slickers) as Jack Wilson, and Emile Meyer (Paths of Glory) as Rufus Ryker.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Was ‘Shane’ Successful?
Where to begin? Shane was very successful, both commercially, critically and perhaps more importantly, culturally. The film cost around $1.5 million to produce, earning $9 million in domestic theatrical rentals, so it was a huge commercial hit for Paramount. Some box office trackers list its domestic gross as around $20 million, but either way, the result was strong for the era. In today’s money, those theatrical rentals would be worth $108.4 million (based on the $9 million figure), but as much as $240.8 million going off the $20 million figure.
Critically, it was also a major success. Shane earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and two Supporting Actor nominations for Brandon De Wilde and Jack Palance. It won Best Cinematography, Color. But the enduring power of the movie is perhaps even more important than how it did theatrically, because the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1993 for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and the AFI later ranked it among the greatest American films and one of the greatest Westerns ever made.
It’s already June, which means a slew of new content is being added to popular streamers like Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu and more.
Prime Video is no different, as the Jeff Bezos-owned platform is looking to bulk up its library with original films and fan-favorite films of all types of genres.
The most anticipated title of the month is probably the steamy sequel Your Fault: London, a follow-up to the streamer’s hit original romance, My Fault: London.
Other movies worth checking out include the biopic Priscilla with Jacob Elordi, the blockbuster comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega, the ridiculously fun action flick Plane with Gerard Butler and more.
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Read on to see the full list of all the new movies, TV shows and sports coming to Prime Video in June 2026.
Prime Video has such a diverse selection of films that it’s not hard to find Oscar-winning movies among them. The difficult part is narrowing the list down. For this month, the streamer has added a trio of films from the ’90s that earned several Academy Awards between them. Watch With Us has chosen those films […]
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June 1
12 Angry Men (1957) A Bridge Too Far (1977) A Cinderella Story (2004) A Man Called Otto (2023) A Walk Among The Tombstones (2014) Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle (2000) Barb Wire (1996) Beethoven (1992) Ben-Hur (2016) Bill & Ted Face The Music (2020) Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) Birds Like Us (2022) Bloodsport (1988) Blown Away (1994) Brewster’s Millions (1985) Bring It On (2000) Bull Durham (1988) Career Opportunities (1991) Crooklyn (1994) Cyrano (2022) Deliver Us From Eva (2003) Doom: Annihilation (2019) Double Impact (1991) Dragonfly (2002) End Of Watch (2012) Escape Room (2019) Four Weddings And A Funeral (2019) Guns Akimbo (2020) Hackers (1995) Heartbreakers (2001) Hellfighters (1968) Hoosiers (1987) How It Ends (2021) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) Larry Crowne (2011) Legally Blonde (2001) Legally Blonde 2: Red, White And Blonde (2003) Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) Mad Max (1980) Mallrats (1995) Masters of the Universe (1987) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Milk (2009) Mississippi Burning (1988) Out Of Time (2003) Paths Of Glory (1957) Platoon (1987) Public Enemies (2009) Red River (1948) Rob Roy (1995) Stargate (1994) Stargate Origins: Catherine (2018) The Apartment (1960) The Big Country (1958) The Birdcage (1996) The Borrowers (1997) The Debt (2011) The Emoji Movie (2017) The Jackal (1997) The Man In The Iron Mask (1998) The Night Of The Hunter (1955) The Notebook (2004) The Protege (2021) The Secret Of My Success (1987) Thoroughbreds (2018) Trolls (2016) West Side Story (1961) Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022) Wimbledon (2004) Xanadu (1980)
June 3
The Legend of Vox Machina S4 (2026) Clarkson’s Farm season 5 The Nut Job (2014)
June 5
Asterix: The Mansions Of The Gods (2017) Asterix: The Secret Of The Magic Potion (2018) Boonie Bears Guardian Code (2025) Hitpig! (2024) The Blackening (2023) The Pout-Pout Fish (2026) Wow: Message From Outer Space (2025)
June 6
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
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Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega, Winona Ryder and Justin Theroux in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.’Warner Bros. / courtesy of Everett Collection
June 10
Every Year After (2026)
June 11
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret (2023)
June 12
Plane (2023)
June 16
Race (2016)
June 17
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Your Fault: London (2026)
June 19
The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants (2025)
June 22
See You at Work Tomorrow! (2026) ACES: The ATP No. 1 Club (2026)
June 23
Priscilla (2023)
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Thursday, June 4: Atlanta Dream at Indiana Fever – 7 p.m. ET Thursday, June 4: Golden State Valkyries at Minnesota Lynx – 9 p.m. ET Thursday, June 11: Chicago Sky at Indiana Fever – 7 p.m. ET Thursday, June 11: Phoenix Mercury at Dallas Wings – 9 p.m. ET Thursday, June 18: Atlanta Dream at Indiana Fever – 7:30 p.m. ET Thursday, June 25: Los Angeles Sparks at Toronto Tempo – 7 p.m. ET Tuesday, June 30: WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Championship
NASCAR
Sunday, June 7, 2 p.m. – Firekeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway Sunday, June 14, 2 p.m. – NASCAR Cup Series Race at Pocono Raceway Sunday, June 21, 2:30 p.m. – Anduril 250 at Naval Base Coronado
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