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“Futurama” - Season 12

After debuting its first new season in a decade in 2023, “Futurama” is forging ahead into the future once more. Season 12 of the hit adult animated series, from “The Simpsons” and “Disenchant­ment’s” Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, premieres Monday, July 29, on Hulu. The series follows Phillip J. Fry (Billy West, “Disenchant­ment”), a New York City pizza delivery boy who accidental­ly freezes himself in 1999 and gets defrosted in the year 3000. In this unfamiliar New York City, Fry quickly befriends a robot named Bender (John Dimaggio, “The Loud House”) and falls in love with the cyclops Leela (Katey Sagal, “Married... With Children”). Finding jobs at the Planet Express Delivery Company, the trio works together with accountant Hermes Conrad (Phil Lamarr, “Pulp Fiction,” 1994), assistant Amy Wong (Lauren Tom, “Andi Mack”) and alien lobster Dr. John Zoidberg (West) as they embark on adventures across the universe. This new season sees “our occasional­ly heroic crew [embark] on mind-bending adventures involving birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender’s ancestral robot village, AI friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the true five-million-year-old story behind the consciousn­ess-altering substance known as coffee. And, of course, the next chapter in Fry and Leela’s fateful, time-twisted romance” (per Hulu). Regulars in the series’ voice cast also include Tress Macneille (“The Simpsons”), Maurice Lamarche (“Pinky and the Brain”) and David Herman (“Bob’s Burgers”).

“The Man Who Knew Too Little” (1997)

While the world of fictional spies is dominated by the likes of James Bond, Ethan Hunt, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer and many others, there is no fictional spy quite like Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray, “Lost in Translatio­n,” 2003).Witness Wallace’s unfathomab­le exploits in the 1997 comedy “The Man Who Knew Too Little,” available now on Hulu.when Wallace travels to London to spend his birthday with his brother (Peter Gallagher, “American Beauty,” 1999), he is mistaken for a real secret agent by Sir Roger Daggenhurs­t (“One Foot in the Grave”) and his cronies. Daggenhurs­t plots to assassinat­e internatio­nal leaders at a dinner between British and Russian dignitarie­s as a way to reignite the Cold War, and needs Wallace to eliminate a female escort (Joanne Whalley, “Willow,” 1988) who knows too much. However, believing that this is part of some intricate improv theater performanc­e set up by his brother,wallace takes it upon himself to foil Daggenhurs­t’s plot. Directed by Jon Amiel (“The Core,” 2003) and written by Robert Farrar (“Bedrooms and Hallways,” 1998) and Howard Franklin (“The Public Eye,” 1992), “The Man Who Knew Too Little” also stars Alfred Molina (“Spider-man 2,” 2004), Geraldine James (“Sherlock Holmes,” 2009), John Standing (“V for Vendetta,” 2005),Anna Chancellor (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” 2005), Nicholas Woodeson (“Skyfall,” 2012), Simon Chandler (“The King’s Speech,” 2010), John Thomson (“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit,” 2005), Cliff Parisi (“Kavanagh QC”), Dexter Fletcher (“Rocketman,” 2019), Eddie Marsan (“The World’s End,” 2013) and Sheila Reid (“Brazil,” 1985).

“Get Out” (2017)

Catch the film that catapulted the careers of Jordan Peele (“Nope,” 2022) and Daniel Kaluuya (“Black Panther,” 2018) in 2017’s breakout horror “Get Out,” available to stream now on Hulu. Serving as Peele’s directoria­l debut, “Get Out” follows Chris Washington (Kaluuya), a young Black photograph­er, as he heads out to visit his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams, “Girls”) parents, Dean (Bradley Whitford, “The West Wing”) and Missy (Catherine Keener, “The 40-Year-old Virgin,” 2005), for a weekend getaway. However, when the loving couple arrives, Chris is greeted by uncomforta­ble conversati­ons and a simmering uneasiness from the community and odd behaviour from Dean and Missy’s servants, Walter (Marcus Henderson, “Pete’s Dragon,” 2016) and Georgina (Betty Gabriel, “The Purge: Election Year,” 2016). As the weekend progresses, things get much stranger for Chris as the community turns on him. Produced by Peele, Jason Blum (“Blackkklan­sman,” 2018), Edward H. Hamm Jr. (“Southland Tales,” 2006) and Sean Mckittrick (“Donnie Darko,” 2001), the cast is rounded out by Caleb Landry Jones (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” 2017), Stephen Root (“Office Space,” 1999), Lakeith Stanfield (“Knives Out,” 2019), Lil Rel Howery (“Free Guy,” 2021), Erika Alexander (“Living Single”), Richard Herd (“All the President’s Men,” 1976), Jeronimo Spinx (“The Winchester­s”), Ian Casselberr­y (“Keanu,” 2016), Trey Burvant (“NCIS: New Orleans”) and Geraldine Singer (“Mayfair Witches”).