Best new movies and TV series on Stan: June 2020

Each month, lots of new films and TV shows are added to Stan‘s library. Critic Craig Mathieson surveys each month’s selections and picks for titles mostworth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

The Bold Type season four (June 12)

It’s a mid-season premiere for this glossy tale of empowerment and 20-something stress tests, which uses the Manhattan publishing industry—complete with its current financial struggles—as the setting for a trio of best friends to rise up the ladder of a fictional fashion magazine. Sarah Watson’s show is a mix of giddy fantasy fulfillment and sincere melodrama; an episode can hold a promotion, a break-up, a farcical misadventure and a politically progressive lesson.

The Other Two season one (June 18)

An astute comedy about a pair of wayward millennial siblings whose lives are turned upside down when their younger brother becomes a teen pop superstar? You better Belieber it. An aimless former dancer and an aspiring gay actor, Brooke (Helene Yorke) and Cary (Drew Tarver) can’t help but ride the coattails of 13-year-old internet sensation Chase (Case Walker). The show is acidic about their misdeeds even as it makes clear that there’s genuine love and care in this family. It’s a comedy of flawed characters, not a satire of celebrity, complete with the great Molly Shannon as the family matriarch.

Yellowstone season three (June 22)

After writing Sicario and Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan sidestepped into television by creating this panoramic hinterland drama, which updates 1950s Hollywood family property epics such as Giant by positioning Kevin Costner as John Dutton, the wealthy owner of the largest ranch in the heart of America. Political, cultural, and commercial rivals dot the storylines, although the real conflict is within John’s fractious family—Kelly Reilly and Wes Bentley play his adult children. It’s an old-fashioned concept, but a successful one: Yellowstone has become a major hit in America.

Black Monday season two (June 28)

Don Cheadle is a venal delight in this uproarious comedy, which plunders the period setting of late 1980s Wall Street—the titular crash is on the way— and some filthy comic excess to create a portrait of hustlers lurking inside a less than storied securities trading firm. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg directed the pilot, which is indicative of the sardonic tone. The first season’s key supporting cast return, including Andrew Rannells as a straitlaced Ivy league graduate shanghaied into the orbit of Cheadle’s Maurice Monroe. But the standout is Regina Hall as Dawn Darcy, a female trader who gives as good as she gets and a little more.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

Fast & Furious collection (June 2)

In 2001 The Fast and the Furious was a nifty throwback B-movie about street racing culture and the bonds between a garage outlaw (Vin Diesel) and an undercover cop (Paul Walker). Somehow from that successful outline a vast franchise, soaked in familial affection and topped with ludicrous digital car chases, took unwieldy shape, complete with an injection of high performance muscle from Dwayne Johnson. Marathon watch all seven instalments and you can follow just how it happened.

The Heiresses (June 8)

In this bittersweet Paraguayan drama, the security and stasis that wealth has bestowed on a pair of ageing lesbians comes to an abrupt halt when economic hardship force one of the women, Chiquita (Margarita Irun), into debtor’s prison and leaves the other, Chela (Ana Brun), to venture out into the world to make both connections and ends meet. Acclaimed at the Berlin Film Festival, Marcelo Martinessi’s movie is a deep study of need and accommodation, alert to social standing, desire, and second chances. It is also unvarnished in how it depicts Chela’s new reality and her connection to a younger woman.

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (June 15)

Kudos to Stan for getting into the Jacques Demy business. Steeped in cinema tradition but impelled to innovate, the French director forged a singular career in the 1960s. His early features Lola and Bay of Angels are already streaming, but Umbrellas of Cherbourg was a step beyond. A fully formed musical (and a huge influence on La La Land), with a score by Michel Legrand, it stars Catherine Deneuve as a 17-year-old whose first love with a mechanic (Nino Castelnuovo) is not to her mother’s approval. The colour palette is pastel vibrant, the mood poignant, and the cinematic technique delicious.

All titles arriving on Stan in June

June 1

Killing Eve: Season 2
Angus, Thongs and PErfect Snogging
Standing Up For Sunny
Ghost

June 2

The Baker and the Beauty: Season 1, Episode 8 & 9 -Final
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast and Furious
Fast Five
Fast & Furious 6
Furious 7
9 Songs

June 3

The Last OG: Season 3, Episode 9
Love Life: Season 1, Episode 4
Rocco And His Brothers

June 4

Better Man
Bixler High Private Eye

June 5

The Wiggles, Wiggle, Wiggle Wiggle: Season 1
Thomas and Friends: Big World, Big Adventures
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1, Part 1
While We Live

June 6

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Season 5, Episode 1
Fragments of Love
Apple and Onion: Season 1, Episodes 31

June 7

Billions: Season 5, Episode 6
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Season 1, Episode 7
Hightown: Season 1, Episode 4
Apple and Onion: Season 1, Episodes 32

June 8

Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonB
ridget Jones’s Baby
The Heiresses

June 9

My Night at Maud’s
At War With Love

June 10

The Last OG: season 3, episode 19
Love Life: season 1, episode 5

June 11

Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

June 12

The Bold Type: Season 4, Episode 11
Top Wing: Season 1, Part 2
Geordie Shore: Seasons 17-19
Apple and Onion: Season 1, Episodes 33

June 13

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Season 5, Episode 2
Bridesmaids
Here is Harold
Apple and Onion: Season 1, Episodes 34

June 14

Billions: Season 5, Episode 7 -Midseason finalePenny Dreadful: City of Angels: Season 1, Episode 8
Hightown: Season 1, Episode 5

June 15

Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Amateur Teens

June 16

Windermere Children

June 17

Love Life: season 1, episode 6
Sex Life of Plants

June 18

Notting Hill
The Other Two: season 1
Lucky

June 19

The Bold Type: Season 4, Episode 12S
himmer & Shine: Season 3, Part 2 & Season 4, Part 1
Rugrats: Season 7
I Got Life! (Aurore)

June 20

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Season 5, Episode 3
Steven Universe Future: Season 1, Episodes 7 & 8
Apple and Onion: Season 1, Episodes 35

June 21

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Season 1, Episode 9
Hightown: Season 1, Episode 6
Steven Universe Future: Season 1, Episodes 9 & 10
Apple and Onion: Season 1, Episode36

June 22

Yellowstone season 3, episode 1
Sons of Denmark

June 23

Schapelle

June 24

The Miracle of The Sargasso Sea
Summer 1993

June 26

The Bold Type: Season 4, Episode 13
Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce: Seasons 1 -5
Bing: Season 1
Normandy Nude

June 27

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Season 5, Episode 4
Knocked Up
Steven Universe Future: Season 1, Episodes 11 & 12

June 28

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Season 1, Episode 10
Hightown: Season 1, Episode 7
Black Monday: Season 2, Episode 7
Steven Universe Future: Season 1, Episodes 13 & 14