Nostalgia reigns supreme in pop culture right now, and that’s especially true with some of Prime Video’s new offerings in June.
Watch With Us’ streaming recommendations for this June 12-14 weekend all look back to the past for inspiration – not to mention laughs.
At the top of our bingewatch list is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the hit sequel to the beloved Tim Burton classic starring Michael Keaton.
We also suggest you check out Dragonfly, a little-seen supernatural thriller starring Yellowstone’s Kevin Costner and Matlock’s Kathy Bates.
Finally, journey back to the ‘80s when Michael J. Fox was a star and Hollywood still made blockbuster comedies like The Secret of My Success.
You can’t keep a good bio-exorcist down, especially when there’s money to be made off of easy nostalgia. The years have been kind to Beetlejuice, the hit 1988 Tim Burton comedy starring Michael Keaton as the “Ghost with the Most,” and a long-in-development sequel was finally unleashed in 2024 to a largely appreciative audience – and a mixed critical reception. While it’s not nearly as good as its predecessor, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has enough jokes and crazy visuals to make it worth a watch.
The teenage protagonist of Beetlejuice, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder), is all grown up and now the mother to a rebellious teen daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega). After they move back to Lydia’s family home in Connecticut, the mother-and-daughter duo soon find themselves in need of help only one man can provide – Beetlejuice (Keaton). Astrid’s been kidnapped by a wayward ghost, and only Beetlejuice can help Lydia save her daughter. But can she trust someone who once tried to kill her parents and forced her to marry him?
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is streaming on Prime Video.
Kevin Costner is best known now as the star of Westerns like Yellowstone and Horizon: An American Saga, but the actor has dabbled in other genres over the years, including the supernatural thriller. In the kooky but entertaining Dragonfly, Costner plays Joe Darrow, a Chicago doctor who has just lost his pregnant wife, Emily (Susanna Thompson), in a bus accident in Venezuela. He buries himself in work to avoid dealing with her death, which may explain why he believes Emily’s spirit somehow revived a medically dead patient. Is Joe going crazy, or is Emily trying to communicate something from beyond the grave?
On paper, Dragonfly sounds ridiculous; when you actually watch it, it’s even sillier. But that’s part of the movie’s charm – it fully commits to its supernatural premise, and it’s Ghost-like “you will believe” way of thinking about the afterlife. Costner is credible as a man of science who gradually becomes a spiritual believer. Kathy Bates makes a brief appearance, providing some welcome salty swagger as Joe’s blunt, matter-of-fact neighbor. She doesn’t believe a lick of what Joe says about his talky dead wife, but she’s nice enough not to commit the poor doc to the insane asylum.
Dragonfly is streaming on Prime Video.
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What’s the secret to young Brantley Foster’s (Michael J. Fox) success? It’s certainly not money – he comes from a poor Kansas town – or his education. Instead, it’s his hustle – who else would get a job as a mail clerk at a big corporation and pose as a high-level executive to connect with the powerful elite? But Brantley’s high-wire double act is jeopardized when he falls for a coworker, Christy Wills (Helen Slater), who is involved in an extramarital affair with the company president, Howard (Richard Jordan), who just happens to be his distant uncle. Brantley’s short-term success could spell long-term trouble, sending him back to Kansas for good.
A slick yuppie comedy about climbing the corporate ladder, The Secret of My Success is a movie steeped in its time. Released in the same year as Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street, it adopts that film’s “Greed is good” mentality and applies it to a screwball comedy that relies a lot on mistaken identity. Fortunately, that combination works, resulting in a film that’s much like its lead star: unassuming, innocuous and totally charming. Fox makes Brantley a hero anyone can root for, even if what he wants – to be a corporate bro with a large bank account – is anathematic to most audiences in 2026.
The Secret of My Success is streaming on Prime Video.
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