Each week on Polygon, we bring together the new most notable versions in streaming and VOD, highlighting the new and the best new films to watch at home.
This week, RavagedThe long -awaited new film of The raid Director Gareth Evans and with Tom Hardy, burst on Netflix. There are tons of other new versions on Netflix alone, including a Japanese action thriller perfect for fans of Unstoppable Or Speed. There is also a lot to look at other streaming services, such as Babygirl With Nicole Kidman on Max, The return On Paramount Plus, My university hero: you are the next On Crunchyroll, and the Thriller of Horror of Science Fiction Ash On thrill. Finally and above all, this week’s VOD versions include No other landThe Oscar winner documentary which is currently available for rental for a limited period only.
Here is everything that is available to watch this weekend!
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Netflix
Gender: Action thriller
Execution time: 1 hour 45m
Director: Gareth Evans
Casting: Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant
Director Gareth Evans (The raid,, London gangs) is back with his first new film in almost seven years and her first action thriller since 2014 RAID 2. Tom Hardy plays the role of Walker, a police detective who is sent on a perilous mission to save the distant son from a powerful politician after a drug agreement was wrong. Driven throughout the city, Walker will have to use each ounce of his cunning and each ball in his name to make himself alive.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Gender: Action in the event of a disaster
Execution time: 2h 14m
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Casting: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kanata Hosoda, no
From Shin Godzilla director Shinji Higuchi, High -speed explosion Follows a high -speed Japanese train which is diverted by a mysterious terrorist. If the train exceeds 100 kilometers per hour, a bomb is triggered, killing everyone on board – unless the price of 100 billion yen is paid. Will the ransom be paid? Will the government let the train explode? Can the driver somehow put innocent passengers in safety? Will they adopt an extravagant rescue mission involving two Trains? I have no idea, but guy, the situation is tense. The film is a suite of the 1975 classic The high -speed trainwho himself had a great influence on Speed.
Pangolin: Kulu’s journey
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Netflix
Photo: Gareth Thomas / Netflix
Gender: Documentary
Execution time: 1h 28m
Director: Pippa Ehrlich
Pangolins are among the coolest and most adorable creatures on the planet. Look at them; They look like real Pokémon. Unfortunately, this quality even made it the target of poachers and one of the most tampered animal species in the world. This documentary follows the story of a man who finds a new goal after saving a baby pangolin, healing him with health and working tirelessly to rehabilitate him to return to nature.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on max
Image: Niko Tavernise / A24
Gender: Erotic thriller
Execution time: 1 hour 54m
Director: Halina Reijn
Casting: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas
In BabygirlRomy, a stressed and sexually dissatisfied CEO (Nicole Kidman) begins a dominant-submissive affair with her intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson). While the case intensifies, Samuel begins to take more interjected in Romy’s life, threatening to upset both his career and his family life. The erotic thriller generated a lot of buzz when it was released, with comparisons with Fifty shades of gray And Secretary and the praise of Kidman’s vulnerable performance.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Paramount Plus
Image: Bleecker Street
Gender: Drama
Execution time: 1h 56m
Director: Uberto Pasolini
Casting: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer
Homer’s dramatization by Uberto Pasolini Odyssey Stars Ralph Fiennes like Ulysses, the king of Ithaca who washed on the ground in his homeland 20 years after his departure for the Trojan War. Mentally and physically marked by her decades to go home, Ulysses must gather all his cunning and strength to recover his house in a band of contenders squatting in the running to marry his wife, Penelope (Juliette Binoche).
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Peacock
Gender: Thriller
Execution time: 1 hour 33m
Director: Alex Parkinson
Casting: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole
Director Alex Parkinson returns with a survival thriller remake of his 2019 documentary Last breath. Based on a true story, the film focuses on a team of experienced divers on the high seas while they run against time to save their teammate after the separation of its umbilical cable, leaving it blocked at 330 feet under the sea level without light or heat and a quantity of declining oxygen.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Kanopy
Gender: Documentary
Execution time: 1 hour 33m
Directors: Kate Way, Tom Wiggin
Casting: Juno Dawson, Jodi Picoult, Isabella Troy Brazoban
Three adolescent students and their adult allies come together in order to fight a sudden ban on books that has drawn 97 pounds from their school libraries. Prohibited Presentation of their trip as they attend demonstrations, make speeches and go to meetings of local school boards at the US Congress in order to present their case and fight for the right to read. The documentary also plunges into Moms for Liberty, the conservative organization responsible for many disputed books in American libraries.
My university hero: you are the next
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Crunchyroll
Gender: Superhero action
Execution time: 1h50m
Director: Tensai Okamura
Casting: Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yuki Kaji
The most recent film by My Hero Academia takes place just after the Catering ARC in the manga. A villain imitates all the powers, so Izuku Midoriya and the rest of his friends in class 1-A team to stop the villain! Along the way, the gang meets new characters with new cool quirks … and they are also involved in a mafia plot! Isn’t that just the way of things in my hero’s world?
Where to look: Available to broadcast on chills
Image: shiver
Gender: Science fiction
Execution time: 1h 35m
Director: Flying lotus
Casting: Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais
Flying Lotus is back on the director’s chair with a new science fiction horror thriller. Located on an extraterrestrial world light year of the earth, Ash Stars Eiza González (3 bodily problems) As Riya, a colonist who wakes up to discover his teammates was viciously massacred. Without a memory of what happened, she will have to decide if she can trust Brio (Aaron Paul), the only other surviving member of the expedition, if she must have a hope to unravel the mysteries of her hostile world and escape. Polygon interviewed Flying Lotus on production behind the film, as well as González and Paul on their experience on the set.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on chills
Gender: Horror
Execution time: 1 hour 43m
Director: Aislinn Clarke
Casting: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya
Fans of Intermediate bank,, ENYS MENAnd The ritual I would love this new folk horror thriller by director Aislinn Clarke. Haunted by a recent loss, the home care worker Shoo (Clare Monnelly) is sent to an isolated village of the Irish countryside to take care of an agoraphobe woman who fears that she is removed by a supernatural force. While at the beginning, she doubts her new charge, Shoo develops slowly but surely to suspect that something is wrong in this village.
Where to look: Available for rental on supportmasferyatta.com
Gender: Documentary
Execution time: 1 hour 32m
Directors: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Recorded between 2019 and 2023, this documentary designed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of activists follows the devastation of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank following the declaration of an Israeli “shooting zone” on their land. Despite the best price documentary for the Oscars of his year, No other land has not been able to find a distributor in the United States, with the only way to see the film being limited projections in certain theaters across the country. That is to say so far.
Last week, the creators did No other land Available for rental for a limited period to collect funds for Masafer Yatta, the community represented in the film. If you are interested in watching the film, act quickly – you have until May 9 to rent it.
Where to look: Available for rental on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Gender: Action thriller
Execution time: 1h 35m
Director: David Yarovesky
Casting: Bill Skarsgård, Anthony Hopkins
When Eddie (Bill Skarsgård), a young car thief, is divided into a luxury SUV on which he occurs in an isolated parking lot, he obtains more than what he negotiated when he discovers that he was trapped inside. When the owner of the vehicle, William (Anthony Hopkins), puts it through a series of tests with the potential of the escape, Eddie trapped in a hell of his own manufacture. Produced by Sam Raimi, Farm looks like a damn version of Carpooling karaoke by way of SawAnd if it doesn’t look like a fun moment, I don’t know what is doing.
