We’re into June and that means plenty of interesting films making their way to our homes via streaming. This week I’m looking at a couple interesting ones I saw this week. You can keep up with everything I’m watching by following me on Letterboxd @knighthawk7734.

Am I OK? (Max)
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Sonia Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, and Molly Gordon
Synopsis: We all have a best friend—that one person who knows us best and who we share everything with. In the new streaming film Am I OK?, a pair of best friends get thrown for a loop. Jane (Mizuno) gets offered a big promotion, but it means relocating to London. Lucy (Johnson), still reeling from the prospect of her friend leaving comes to a realization—she’s a lesbian. The two big changes throw the friendship for a loop, as both women deal with the fallout. For Jane, that means navigating her relationship with Danny (Fowler) and for Lucy, it means exploring a crush on her co-worker (Clemons). This film comes from Tig Notaro—who also appears in the film—and Stephanie Allyne, based on a script from Lauren Pomerantz. The film debut at Sundance last year and now makes its way on to streaming. The back-and-forth with Johnson and Mizuno is great. Their easy rapport, the dialogue, and the story really pull you in. You are invested in these friends, and in a friendship that at times during the film is sorely tested. The rest of the cast is fine, but this is about one of the central relationships that helps define your life. In this case, it’s a beautiful friendship that is played out beautifully on screen.
Rating: Rated R for language, sexual references and some drug use.

Under Paris (Netflix)
Starring: Bernice Bejo and Nassim Lyes
Synopsis: A staple of filmgoing is the killer shark genre. Each year we get a few, with some being more memorable than others. To be clear, even a bad shark movie can still be fun. That certainly helps Under Paris, a French film that is now streaming on Netflix. In the film, we open with a group of researchers who have been tracking a Mako shark near the great trash pile in the Pacific Ocean. A group goes in the water to run tests and finds more sharks than expected, and that the shark their tracking has gone from a respectable 2.5 meters to 7 meters. When the shark turns and kills the team, the group leader Sophia (Bejo) is left devastated. Now, three years later, Sophia is working to protect the Oceans from an aquarium in Paris. When a couple girls say they’ve tracked her shark and that it’s now in the Seine River in the city, Sophia is alarmed. Together with a member of the River Patrol, Adil (Lyes), they discover not only Sophia shark, but many more, creating a dangerous threat to the city. Can they get the powers that be to listen and make changes before it’s too late? I saw someone online say this is the best shark film since Jaws. It’s not. That’s a pretty big stretch, too, if we’re being honest. However, it might be successful in one-upping Jaws when it comes to a clueless mayor. In this case, the Mayor of Paris not only denies the danger but sets up an epic third act that borders on the ridiculous. Despite that, I had some fun here. I liked Bejo and Lyes in these roles. I liked the general premise here, too. While some of the special effects and sequences seemed a little cheesy, and the ending will not doubt be polarizing, this was a more fun watch than I was expecting.
Rating: TV-MA

Matthew Fox is a graduate of the Radio, Television and Film program at Biola University, and a giant nerd. He spends his free time watching movies, TV, and obsessing about football. He is a member of the FSWA. You can find him @knighthawk7734 on Twitter and as co-host of the Fantasy Football Roundtable Podcast.