This Week in Streaming (June 24th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
A Minecraft Movie (HBO Max) Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in the superfluous but fine enough adaptation of the juggernaut video game from the director of Napoleon Dynamite. Now you can see the year’s highest-grossing movie free from Gen Zers yelling “chicken jockey” and committing other sundry misanthropic antics.
The Waterfront (Netflix) The sudsy Southern melodrama makes a return to Dallas/Dynasty form with this new series about the scions of a North Carolina fishing empire fighting for the family name. Starring former Supergirl Melissa Benoist and endlessly watchable character actor Holt McCallany (The Iron Claw, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning).
Jaws: 50th Anniversary (Peacock) The original summer blockbuster celebrated its semi-centennial last Friday. To commemorate, NBC Universal has a restored version, a host of documentaries about the making-of, and all of the classic’s subpar (but unfairly maligned) sequels. We opted to take home the 4K steelbook instead, but to each their own.