This Week in Streaming (June 17th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Presence (Hulu) Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven) kicked off a great year in film with January’s lean ghost story about a suburban family who can’t shake the feeling they are alone. Shot entirely from the spirit’s POV, it, as we said last winter, “finds its real terror in the hollowness of the urbane secular upper-middle class ideal.”
NewsRadio (Pluto TV) Though it stood in the shadows of Frasier and Seinfeld, NBC’s smartest and most inventive 90s sitcom focuses on the staff of New York’s second most popular talk radio station. With an A-Game ensemble including Dave Foley, Joe Rogan, Maura Tierney, Stephen Root, and the late Phil Hartman, it’s still sharper than anything this side of Parks and Rec.
Rear Window (Netflix) We’ve been scouring Netflix like an invalid Jimmy Stewart looking for anything older than 1990 and finally hit pay dirt. Witness Hitchcock’s stone-cold American classic that features Stewart’s laid-up photographer (and his put-upon gal Grace Kelly) obsessing over whether or not he saw a murder as it was never meant to be seen.