12 movies to check out on Prime Video this June

is set in a dystopic Detroit that is overwhelmed by crime. Peter Weller plays a mortally wounded police officer who gets a whopper of an upgrade to become the titular cyborg cop. Although the movie still holds up as an ’80s sci-fi/action classic, director Paul Verhoeven also has a lot to say about greed, corruption, and the Reaganomics that shaped our culture in 1987. The movie spawned two inferior sequels and a remake, so it’s the original that you want to stream on Prime Video.

In Edgar Wright’s zombie comedy , Simon Pegg plays the titular, listless electronics salesman who is slow to notice the zombie apocalypse happening all around him. Pegg’s frequent costar Nick Frost plays his deadbeat roommate as the two deal with their new reality in which actual zombies are a lot more dangerous than the iPhone, selfie-snapping zombies seen shuffling around town on any given day. Shaun Of The Dead is the movie that introduced Pegg to a worldwide audience, so revisit his breakout role before you see him in theaters this summer in Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning Part One.

Before he got preoccupied with making Avatar movies, James Cameron wrote and directed the ridiculously entertaining 1994 summer blockbuster starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a globetrotting secret agent and Jamie Lee Curtis as his in-the-dark wife. Curtis, who is now an Oscar winner, won a Golden Globe for Best Actress—Motion Picture Musical Or Comedy for her hilarious turn (and sultry striptease) as Helen Tasker. True Lies has been available on different streaming platforms in various levels of quality, so here’s hoping Prime Video pumps out a solid stream. The movie inspired a 2023 TV series of the same name, which has already been cancelled before Prime Video even got around to streaming the 1994 original this June.

Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic is about a team of astronauts who embark on a mission through a wormhole near Saturn in an attempt to save humanity. The movie has a stacked cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, and Ellen Burstyn. Nolan’s 2014 follow-up to The Dark Knight Rises won a Best Visual Effects Oscar and was nominated for several others. Since Interstellar’s release it has developed a cult following and astronomers have praised it for its scientific accuracy and interpretation of theoretical astrophysics. If you were making a list of the best sci-fi films of all time, Interstellar would likely be in your top 10.

Set in 1980, is a coming-of-age story written and directed by James Gray about a young Jewish-American boy who befriends an African-American classmate in Queens, New York. The movie premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and stars Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, and Jeremy Strong. Despite being praised by critics, the prestige film failed to find an audience in theaters and only earned a worldwide total of $6.1 million. Now is your chance to stream the film at home as counter-programming to all the robots and superheroes in theaters.

Speaking of robots … we’re not sure what kind of night you’re having on June 27, but if you start it by streaming , it’s going to be a PARTY (in all caps). The sci-fi/horror movie starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, and Ronny Chieng was a surprise hit and has developed a cult following of fans drawn to the campy premise of a lifelike, violently sassy robotic doll who protects a little girl from bullies. We’re not sure if Prime Video is streaming the theatrical or unrated version, but we’re hoping it’s the latter.