June 2025’s Best Streaming Titles: Phineas and Ferb, Fight Club, Squid Game, Vertigo, Jaws, MacGyver
Summertime adventures, Tyler Durden, the Front Man, Hitchcock thrills, sharks, a man and his Swiss Army knife, and more.
As Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, et al. add more content, it can be difficult to know what to look for amidst all of the new titles. I’ve compiled a list of particularly noteworthy and interesting movies and TV shows to add to your streaming queues in the coming month.
Disney+
Phineas and Ferb, Season Five (Jun 6)
Phineas and Ferb are back, just in time make some big plans for summer vacation. Plans that will almost certainly involve wild inventions, wacky adventures, wonderful musical numbers, and big sister Candace doing her darndest to bust them. Meanwhile, the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz will continue his quest to take over the entire Tri-State area — with Perry the Platypus, aka, Agent P, hot on his heels.
Here’s everything arriving on Disney+ in June 2025.
Hulu
Aliens (Jun 1)
Ridley Scott’s original Alien was as much a horror movie as it was a sci-fi flick. But with Aliens, director James Cameron decided to throw in lots of action, as well. Set nearly 60 years after the original film, Aliens finds Ellen Ripley returning to the moon where the xenomorphs were first encountered in order to investigate why the human colony there has gone silent. Joining her are a colorful bunch of Colonial Marines, and they’ll need all of the firepower they can muster to deal with what awaits them.
Big Fish (Jun 1)
Tim Burton is, to put it mildly, an eccentric director. But Big Fish finds him channelling those eccentricities into one of his most straightforward and charming movies, about a man who discovers that there might be some truth to all of his father’s tall tales. Both of Burton’s parents died in the years leading up to his work on Big Fish, which almost certainly informs its storyline and gives it some emotional heft.
Edge of Tomorrow (Jun 1)
In this time twisty sci-fi actioner, Tom Cruise plays a disgraced soldier who’s quickly killed while trying to defend Earth from mysterious alien invaders — only to discover that he now relives the same day over and over again. Not only does this allow him to become a super-soldier Groundhog Day-style, but it might also be the key to defeating the aliens once and for all. In the hands of a lesser cast and crew, Edge of Tomorrow’s premise could be ridiculous and boring, but that is most certainly not the case here (read my review).
Happy Gilmore (Jun 1)
This classic Adam Sandler comedy from 1996 stars Sandler as a wannabe hockey player who discovers a secret talent at playing golf — which comes in handy when he needs to save his grandmother’s house from foreclosure. Needless to say, Happy Gilmore’s unorthodox playing raises the ire of professional golfers, most notably Shooter McGavin (played with slimy glee by Christopher McDonald). Happy Gilmore also stars Carl Weathers as Happy’s one-handed coach and The Price Is Right’s Bob Barker in a truly glorious cameo.