What's New To Streaming In June 2022

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Jun 03, 2022

How’s it going, DYLAers? Hope you had a nice short week after Memorial Day. Let’s line up something for you to watch this weekend with the best of new to streaming movies in June. Enjoy and please like, share, and subscribe!

Billy recommends…

Galaxy Quest (streaming on Amazon Prime)

Galaxy Quest is a spoof of the Star Trek genre while being the best Star Trek movie ever created (hot take alert!). It’s in on the joke while enhancing and loving the product they are spoofing. It was a tumultuous journey to get this movie made. Originally a massive studio comedy directed by comedy legend Harold Ramis and Kevin Kline rumored to be the first choice by Ramos to be in the starring role. The studio was not on board with the ideas that Ramis had. As a result, he left the project. When you have that pedigree you don’t have to be bullied by the studio. We still get a studio-backed comedy, but much smaller with an up-and-coming director (Dean Parisot) that they can bully a bit.

Our story follows the cast of the Galaxy Quest TV show that took the world by storm in the 70s. Conventions pop up with fans dressing up and screaming praise at the original cast of the show. It becomes so big that the actors are only ever known by their character names and this show. Leading to a shallow existence centered around conventions and promotional opportunities. The lead, our William Shatner, is Jason Nesmith played by Tim Allen. From Kevin Kline to Tim Allen? Not a great omen for our movie. But Allen perfectly encapsulates the type of person that is comfortable being famous/a cocky asshole because of this one successful thing. Sustainable fame that brings grandeur, but eventually, does it become a little pathetic living in the past too much? The rest of the cast is rounded out by:

Love interest to Nesmith who repeats the computer, Gwen DeMarco (Sigourney Weaver), whose entire presence as this character are questions about her boobs fitting into her character's uniform.
Theater actor who is a little too good to be in this show and turned frenemy to Nesmith, Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman), is over this whole experience. A still reluctant participator of these events for the money, but is now a perfect example of a “you don’t want to meet your heroes” type of person
The rest are side characters with their own quirk. Tony Shalhoub playing the food-obsessed Fred Kwan. Sam Rockwell playing an expendable crewman that just wants to be a part of the group. And lastly, our young child actor who is now an adult, that’s always trying to prove himself in the group (Daryl Mitchell).

Galaxy Quest is a wonderful example of a movie being a love letter to something while standing on its own as a great comedy for anyone who is not up to date on sci-fi/nerd culture from the 70s and 80s. This movie has united all ages in my family. All laughing throughout, but the hardest at different scenes because our experience with the things Galaxy Quest is making fun of are so different. And if you have seen Galaxy Quest before, please re-watch, and then check out the documentary of the making of this movie on Prime Video called Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary. It will hit you right in the feels and give you even more appreciation for a small spoof comedy that has only become more popular with age.

Drew recommends…

Aliens (streaming on Hulu)

Did we need a sequel to a masterpiece like 1979’s Alien? Not really, but we got a great one anyway with Aliens in 1986. This is a franchise that fortunately gave the keys to its first three movies to talented young directors that went on to legendary careers. Alien was Ridley Scott’s second film, Aliens was James Cameron’s third, and David Fincher’s debut feature was the awful Alien 3. So, necessary sequel or not, these films were an important training ground for filmmakers developing their action and suspense muscles.

Fresh off the success of The Terminator, Cameron had written a script for an Alien sequel and was eventually offered the directorial job. With only a budget of $18 million, Cameron crafted an intense piece of popcorn entertainment. While Alien was an expert horror sci-fi experience, Aliens was engineered as more of a sci-fi war movie. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, who agrees to join a group of soldiers investigating the site where she encountered the alien in the first movie. What follows is two hours of pure adrenaline and mayhem. Even with relatively little experience and a meager budget, Cameron impressively stages his futuristic sci-fi world and then executes masterful action within it.

If the original didn’t make it clear enough, Aliens confirmed Ripley as one of the great action heroines in movie history. Weaver’s performance was even nominated for an Oscar, extremely rare for an action movie. She gets to be even more of a badass in the sequel, which features a rousing and unforgettable final scene. With filmmaking this exciting and a starring performance this outstanding, who cares if we really needed a sequel.

Netflix

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Dumb and Dumber
Edge of Seventeen
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Steel Magnolias
The Departed
The Fighter
The Hurt Locker
Titanic
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (June 16)
It (June 19)

Amazon Prime

Call Me By Your Name
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Black Swan
Juno
Mother!
The Sandlot
Groundhog Day
Shaun Of The Dead
Annie Hall
Top Gun
Twilight
Rosemary’s Baby
No Time To Die (June 10)
The Wolf of Wall Street (June 12)

Hulu

Alien
Bridesmaids
Burn After Reading
The Devil Wears Prada
Die Hard
The Fifth Element
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Pineapple Express
Predator
Prometheus
Slumdog Millionaire
There’s Something About Mary
The Wedding Singer
Weekend at Bernie’s

HBO and HBO Max

13 Going on 30
300
A Star is Born (2018)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Firm
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Klute
Total Recall
Watchmen
The Card Counter (June 10)

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