A new era of streaming selections is here. For the past several years, our monthly column, the Nerd’s Watch, has been the place to find out all the best genre titles coming to the biggest streaming services. It wasn’t a complete list. We just posted the titles we think you’d care about, but it was still long, and frankly, hard to pick out the best of the best.
Well, over the past few months, that changed. What follows isn’t a list of all the best stuff streaming on all the big streaming services. We’ve looked at all those lists and come up with a few dozen titles that we think are noteworthy this month. Some are new, some are old, but either way, we’ll tell you why you should care. Or at least joke about it. So sit back, grab your remote, and get ready for the new and improved Nerd’s Watch, highlighting the best movies and shows coming to streamers this month.
17 Again (July 1 on Netflix)
The late, great Matthew Perry gets to relive his high school days in the body of Zac Efron in this adorable, hilarious body-swap sports comedy. Highly underrated in our opinion.
Pacific Rim (July 1 on Netflix)
It’s still wild to think we live in a world where Guillermo del Toro got to make a massive, kick-ass movie about giant robots fighting one another. But he did, and it’s coming back to Netflix.
V for Vendetta (July 1 on Netflix)
Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving star in, easily, one of the best comic book adaptations of all time. One that maybe doesn’t get the love it should because it’s so surprisingly dark. But very, very much worth your time.
Zathura: A Space Adventure (July 1 on Netflix)
Before he became a master of Star Wars and Marvel, Jon Favreau used those instincts for this delightful family space adventure co-starring Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, and Josh Hutchinson.
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