Credit: Lucas Gouveia/How-To GeekRight now, half the planet is still glued to their TVs watching the World Cup, screaming at their TVs for ninety minutes at a time (they should take a break for one of these soccer movies instead). Netflix, on the other hand, keeps doing what Netflix does, which is to crank out content. Whether you’re now scrolling past Office Romance or waiting for Enola Holmes 3 to arrive (July 1), your hungry scrolling thumb is just waiting to press play on a good movie this week, and that’s where we come in.
Here’s a small menu for the week of June 29 to July 5 (is it July already?!). One’s a grim Polish thriller set in a small town with some dark secrets, one’s a legendary Coen Brothers comedy about a really, really laid-back dude, and the last one is a genre-defining music-snob romance set in a record store.
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Colors of Evil: Black
A bleak Polish-language thriller with buried small-town secrets
Poland has entered the chat as another European country building a reputation for its dark, twisting thrillers that keep your cuticles in a state of disrepair. Colors of Evil: Black is a haunting Polish-language crime thriller that follows prosecutor Leopold Bilski (Jakub Gierszał), who’s been reassigned to a quiet religious town in the northern region of Kashubia after the fallout of the events of 2024’s Colors of Evil: Red. Bilski finds himself investigating the disappearance of a young boy named Piotruś, but as he digs in, he finds only resistance from the tight-knit community that would rather protect its reputation than its missing children.
As the layers are peeled back, Bilski and the grieving boy’s mother, Julia (Marianna Zydek), expose corrupt police and a deep cover-up of child abuse, murder, an older vanishing, and decades of buried secrets. It’s the second film in director Adrian Panek’s series adapting Małgorzata Oliwia Sobczak’s bestselling Polish crime novels, and is the direct sequel to Colors of Evil: Red, and 80% Rotten Tomatoes-rated thriller which became one of Netflix’s most-watched Polish titles.
Colors of Evil: Black
Release Date
June 10, 2026
WHERE TO WATCH
Cast
Jakub Gierszał, Marianna Zydek, Łukasz Pawłowski, Zdzisław Wardejn, Andrzej Chyra, Robert Gonera, Beata Ścibakówna, Piotr Żurawski, Julian Świeżewski, Adam Bobik, Bartosz Mikulak, Cezary Łukaszewicz, Dariusz Starczewski
Director
Adrian Panek
Writers
Adrian Panek
Producers
Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham, Leszek Bodzak, Piotr Walter
Main Genre
Crime
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The Big Lebowski
The Dude abides
It’s one of the greatest, if not the greatest, slacker movies of all time, that has inspired countless other slouch movies, a festival (Kentucky’s Lebowski Fest), and even a federally recognized religion (Dudeism, look it up, man).
The Coen Brothers’ 1998 masterpiece is all about Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), a gloriously unmotivated L.A. slacker who just wants to live a simple life of bowling with his pals and drinking White Russians. When The Dude gets roughed up after two thugs mistake him for a millionaire with the same name, he goes on a quest of principle, chasing compensation for the rug that the thugs ruined (it really tied the room together). In doing so, he stumbles into a botched kidnapping plot and drags his hot-headed bowling buddy Walter (John Goodman) and perpetually confused sidekick Donny (Steve Buscemi) along for the ride.
QuizJulianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, and Sam Elliott fill out the incredible ensemble cast. While it didn’t kill at the box office on its release, and it never won any Oscars, it has grown into one of the movie world’s great cult classics, full of quotable dialogue. The Dude, as promised, abides. The Big Lebowski has a 79% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes (it should be higher).
Cast
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Philip Moon, Mark Pellegrino, Peter Stormare, Flea, Torsten Voges, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jack Kehler, John Turturro, James G. Hoosier, Carlos Leon, Richard Gant, Christian Clemenson, Dom Irrera, Gérard L’Heureux, David Thewlis, Lu Elrod, Mike Gomez, Peter Siragusa
Runtime
117 minutes
Director
Joel Coen
Writers
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Producers
Ethan Coen
Main Genre
Comedy
Budget
$15 Million
Studio(s)
Working Title Films
Distributor(s)
Gramercy Pictures
Executive Producer(s)
Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
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High Fidelity
Top 5 reasons you should totally see this movie
This bucket-list cult classic romantic comedy for music nerds and slackers did a lot for me when it was originally released in 2000. It introduced me (and the world) to Jack Black, who is chaotically annoying as Barry the music snob; it delivered excellently quotable lines that are still staples of my vocabulary; and it introduced me to the Beta Band.
Based on Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel, High Fidelity (coming to Netflix on July 1st) follows Rob Gordon (John Cusack), a self-absorbed, slightly burned-out Chicago record-store owner who goes through an existential crisis after being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle). To cope, he does what he does best: ranks his all-time “top five” breakups and tracks down his exes to ask what went wrong—narrating every neurotic step with fourth-wall breaks that would make Fleabag look amateurish.
Back at his record store, Championship Vinyl, the once-brilliant DJ trades insults with elitist clerks Barry and Dick (Todd Louiso), as they sling vinyl and talk crap to customers. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack, and Tim Robbins round out the cast of the film that has become a Gen-X beacon, and later inspired an underrated gender-flipped 2020 Hulu series starring Zoë Kravitz. Fun fact, Lisa Bonet, Zoe’s mom, played the club singer that Rob falls for in this original classic.
Cast
Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack
Runtime
113 minutes
Director
Stephen Frears
Writers
D.V. DeVincentis, John Cusack, Scott Rosenberg, Steve Pink
Budget
$30 million
Studio(s)
Disney
Distributor(s)
Disney
So long, June
As we wrap up June and start to say goodbye to a bunch of its movies and shows, there’s still never a shortage of flicks to watch on the streaming service. But if you’re still on the hunt for something good to watch, be sure to head to How-To Geek’s streaming section for more great ideas.
Subscription with ads
Yes, $8/month
Simultaneous streams
Two or four
Live TV
No
Price
Starting at $8/month
