best new – From a newly premiered comedy about finishing high school decades later to a sleek true-crime caper and a haunting 1930s drama, Hulu’s June lineup is stacked for the June 19-21 weekend.
It’s the kind of weekend that practically dares you to press play and disappear for a few hours—especially with Hulu’s latest drop. The streamer just debuted the comedy Never Change!. where adults are forced back to high school to complete coursework they never finished. Hulu also added the classic comedic thriller Catch Me If You Can. starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in a fast. playful cat-and-mouse chase. And for something quieter. older. and aching in all the right places. The Remains of the Day is streaming on Hulu.
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives like a rumor—fast-talking. constantly rebranding. and somehow convincing people he’s a pilot and a doctor in the 1960s. The reason he keeps it all going is money, at least on the surface. Underneath that jet-setting hustle is something messier: a deep hurt that keeps him running from lawmen like Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks). an FBI agent determined to catch him. Through the decade. Carl pursues Frank relentlessly. even as he begins—deep down—to respect the man whose crimes hurt him more than anyone else.
The film is based on Abagnale Jr.’s 1980 autobiography of the same name. but it has been largely debunked by experts since the movie’s release in 2002. That doesn’t slow the momentum. Director Steven Spielberg keeps the tone light and playful in a way that feels almost surprising next to bigger spectacle work like Jaws and Jurassic Park. DiCaprio and Hanks turn their rivalry into a deft game of pursuit that plays with the giddy delight of a Christmas-morning gift. Add John Williams’ jazzy score and Christopher Walken’s note-perfect supporting performance as Frank’s small-time criminal father. and it’s the rare caper that feels both entertaining and somehow strangely warm.
Catch Me If You Can is streaming on Hulu.
Never Change!. (2026)
There are a lot of nightmares you can laugh at later. Being forced to return to high school to finish coursework that somehow never got completed—right when you’re already far past it—isn’t one of them. That’s the premise powering Hulu’s new comedy Never Change!. which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival at the beginning of the month and is now streaming on Hulu.
Back in 2008. a tornado shut down North Meadows High School. disrupting the final weeks of high school seniors Sunny (John Reynolds). Katie (Sofia Black-D’Elia). and the rest of their small class. Almost 20 years later. they learn they have to finish those last two weeks of high school or else their diplomas will be rescinded.
The setup is dark, but Never Change!. keeps charging forward with a kind of blunt comedic insistence. There are gags about school shootings. There’s also a staging of a horrible play overseen by Topher Grace, who appears wearing a deliberately hideous wig. The film’s humor carries a similar vibe to Wet Hot American Summer. with envelope-pushing and absurdist jokes thrown in to see what lands. Some gags fail miserably—you’ll likely groan at least once—but enough work that you end up staying for the ride. The result is a comedy that can be worthwhile even if it also feels instantly forgettable once the credits roll.
Never Change! is streaming on Hulu.
The Remains of the Day (1993)
If you want a different kind of pull—something slower, heavier, and packed with repressed feeling—The Remains of the Day is waiting on Hulu.
Set in 1930s Great Britain, the story follows James Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), the head butler at Darlington Hall. He’s devoted to his profession and doesn’t make time for what he calls trivial things like a personal life. That carefully sealed way of living is thrown off when Sally Kenton (Emma Thompson). a young maid with a warm demeanor. arrives and disturbs Stevens in ways he can’t even fully explain. Could it be love?. Stevens has never acknowledged he has feelings like that, let alone expressed them. The question lingers through the years: will Kenton become the catalyst for him to finally change?.
The film is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Prize-winning book of the same name. It leans into repressed emotions, pregnant pauses, and stolen glances that suggest more than they state. The time and place matter—duty still towers over emotion. and men like Stevens are almost invisible to the people he loyally served for decades.
Hopkins. a two-time Oscar winner for The Silence of the Lambs and The Father. delivers a performance that deserves its own quiet applause: subtle. controlled. and heartbreaking in the way it refuses to fully open itself to love. It’s exactly the kind of film that stays with you after the screen goes dark.
The Remains of the Day is streaming on Hulu.
The pairing of this weekend’s Hulu picks is striking: Never Change!. turns a 2008 tornado disruption into a 20-years-later diploma threat. Catch Me If You Can swings between crime and charm through the 1960s. and The Remains of the Day traps emotion behind duty in 1930s Great Britain. Three different tones—one shared promise that the story doesn’t waste your time.
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