Netflix's admirable efforts to keep people inside, healthy and social distanced with an avalanche of movies and television continues on – or at least that's what I'm going to take from the Big Red Streaming Monolith's list of new arrivals for June, which is packed with a ton of exciting stuff to last you hopefully at least another month.
For those harkening back to the days when people could go out in public, there's nostalgic '90s favorites like "Twister" and "Clueless." For those catching up on Oscar winners and nominees, there's old greats ("West Side Story") along with new honorees ("The Help," "Lady Bird," "Frost/Nixon"). For those wanting to watch masters at work, there's several auteurs getting added to Netflix's library – little known names such as Spike Lee ("Inside Man"), Steven Spielberg ("E.T."), David Fincher ("Zodiac"), Martin Scorsese ("Cape Fear") and Paul Verhoeven ("Starship Troopers"). And for viewers who want something from all three of those categories, "The Silence of the Lambs" will be available next month too. You can even make a feast of America's favorite cannibal by following up the Best Picture winner with all three seasons of NBC's ultra-violent and ultra-stylish TV adaptation "Hannibal." You'll have to bring your own fava beans and chianti, though.
That's all before I bring up the Netflix Originals for next month, which include some of the streaming service's biggest TV names: "Queer Eye," "13 Reasons Why" and the mercifully final season of "Fuller House." I mentioned Spike Lee above, and I'll mention him again as he'll attempt to follow-up his Oscar-winning hit "BlacKkKlansman" with the star-studded Vietnam War drama "Da 5 Bloods." And on the complete other side of the tonal spectrum, Will Ferrell will release a new comedy with Rachel McAdams about the Eurovision song contest.
But perhaps most exciting of all? There's a new competition show coming out called "Floor is Lava" that's exactly what it sounds like – and what it sounds like is genius. Hopefully it's great – and hopefully it succeeds, opening the door for my game show pitch centered on Red Rover.
We'll find out when it arrives on June 19. Until then, here's the rest of next month's new arrivals on Netflix.
June 1
"Act of Valor"
"All Dogs Go to Heaven"
"Bad News Bears"
"The Boy"
"Cape Fear"
"The Car"
"Casper"
"Cardcaptor Sakura: Clow Card"
"Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura Card"
"Clueless"
"Cocomelon" season 1
"The Disaster Artist"
"E.T. the Extra Terrestrial"
"The Healer"
"The Help"
"Inside Man"
"The Lake House"
"Lust, Caution"
"Observe and Report"
"Priest"
"The Queen"
"The Silence of the Lambs"
"Starship Troopers"
"Twister"
"V for Vendetta"
"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"
"West Side Story"
"You Don't Mess with the Zohan"
"Zodiac"
June 2
"Alone" season 6
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Fuller House: The Farewell Season"
"Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On" season 1
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "True: Rainbow Rescue"
June 3
"Killing Gunther"
"Lady Bird"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Spelling the Dream"
June 4
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Baki: The Great Raitai Tournament Saga"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Can You Hear Me?"
June 5
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "13 Reasons Why" season 4
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Choked: Pasai Bolta Hai"
"Hannibal" seasons 1-3
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Last Days of American Crime"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Queer Eye" season 5
June 6
"Queen of the South" season 4
June 7
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj" volume 6 (new episodes weekly)
June 8
"Before I Fall"
June 10
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Curon"
"Legends of Tomorrow" season 5
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Lenox Hill"
"Middle Men"
"My Mister" season 1
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Reality Z"
June 11
"Pose" season 2
June 12
"Addicted to Life"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Da 5 Bloods"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Dating Around" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "F is for Family" season 4
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Jo Koy: In His Elements"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts" season 2
"One Piece: Alabasta"
"One Piece: East Blue"
"One Piece: Enter Chopper at the Winter Island"
"One Piece: Entering Into the Grand Line"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Pokemon Journeys: The Series"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Search"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Woods"
June 13
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Alexa & Katie" part 4
"How to Get Away with Murder" season 6
"Milea"
June 14
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Marcella" season 3
June 15
"Underdogs"
June 16
"Baby Mama"
"Charlie St. Cloud"
"The Darkness"
"Frost/Nixon"
June 17
"An Evening with Beverly Luff Lynn"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Mr. Iglesias" part 2
June 18
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "A Whisker Away"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Order" season 2
June 19
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Babies" part 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Father Soldier Son"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Feel the Beat"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Floor is Lava"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Girls from Ipanema" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Lost Bullet"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "One Way to Tomorrow"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "The Politician" season 2
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Rhyme Time Town"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Wasp Network"
June 21
"Goldie"
June 22
"Dark Skies"
June 23
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Eric Andre: Legalize Everything"
June 24
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Athlete A"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Crazy Delicious"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Nobody Knows I'm Here"
June 26
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Amar y Vivir"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Home Game"
"Straight Up"
June 29
"Bratz: The Movie"
June 30
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "Adu"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "BNA"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "George Lopez: We'll Do It For Half"
June TBA
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "It's Okay Not to Be Okay"
NETFLIX ORIGINAL: "One Take"
"Roswell: New Mexico" season 2
"The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story"
As much as it is a gigantic cliché to say that one has always had a passion for film, Matt Mueller has always had a passion for film. Whether it was bringing in the latest movie reviews for his first grade show-and-tell or writing film reviews for the St. Norbert College Times as a high school student, Matt is way too obsessed with movies for his own good.
When he's not writing about the latest blockbuster or talking much too glowingly about "Piranha 3D," Matt can probably be found watching literally any sport (minus cricket) or working at - get this - a local movie theater. Or watching a movie. Yeah, he's probably watching a movie.