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Netflix is constantly expanding and evolving, so you can always count on multiple weekly updates to their extensive list of movies and TV shows. Among the various titles released this week, we’ve seen the service drop a forgotten Zac Efron flick, Charlie St. Cloud, and the unexpectedly popular horror stinker, The Darkness. It can go either way – some days are filled to the brim with popular hits, and some days are just a bunch of junk no one actually cares about. Then you have days like today where it’s a mixed bag of both – but let’s focus on a few of the positives, shall we?

Hitting the platform today is season 2 of the snarky and humorous teen fantasy show, The Order. The series follows a college student as he uncovers the mysteries of a secret organization that teaches and uses magic, but not everything is as it originally seems.

With a new week beginning, Netflix has a ton of new content arriving to stream. The following few days will see a bunch of original movies and TV series hit the site, as well as a few underrated films from the past decade or so that you should definitely check out. Whether you’ve got a hankering for horror, comedy, drama or documentaries, Netflix should have you covered.

Here’s a full list of everything coming to the service in the U.S. from Monday June 15th to Sunday June 21st:

Released June 15

Underdogs (2013)

Borgen: Seasons 1-3

Last Flight to Abuja (2012)

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (2019)

Wira (2019)

Released June 16

Coronavirus Explained: Episode 2 *Netflix Documentary

Baby Mama (2008)

Charlie St. Cloud (2010

The Darkness (2016)

Frost/Nixon (2008)

Released June 17

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)

Hope Ranch (2020)

Mr. Iglesias: Part 2 *Netflix Original

Released June 18

A Whisker Away *Netflix Anime...

Egyptian moviemaker Youssef Chahine has died, just weeks after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

The celebrated director, 82, passed away at Al Maadi Military Hospital in Cairo on Sunday.

Chahine was originally admitted to a hospital in the Egyptian capital in June after falling into a coma following a brain haemorrhage.

He was flown to Paris, France for treatment and returned to Cairo soon afterwards while he was still in a critical condition.

His health continued to deteriorate until his death on Sunday, according to local news reports.

Chahine, who was born into a Christian family originating from Lebanon, enjoyed a career spanning almost 50 years and was considered to be one of Egypt's top filmmakers.

He won international acclaim for his work in pioneering Egypt's film industry and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at France's Cannes International Film Festival in 1997.

Chahine made over 40 films and documentaries in his lifetime, including 1985's Adieu Bonaparte, 1997's Destiny, and 2002's 11'09'01 - September 11, but is perhaps best known for 1969's The Land.

He was nominated for the Cannes International Film Festival's most prestigious prize, the Palm D'or, three times, and the Venice Film Festival in Italy's Golden Lion once - for his final film Heya fawda, which was released in 2007.

The star is also credited with launching the career of fellow Egyptian legend Omar Sharif who shot to fame with roles in 1962's Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago in 1965.

However, he was not always so treasured in his homeland, and his films often drew controversy for their sexual overtones and their criticism of political oppression.

In 1994, his movie The Emigrant, based on the Biblical story of Joseph, was banned in Egypt after a fundamentalist lawyer argued the film was a depiction of a prophet - an action that is banned in most Islamic countries.

Chahine is survived by his French wife Colette; the couple had no children.