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, Captain America: Brave New WorldThe latest Marvel superhero film featuring Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford, goes on video on demand after his first theatrical in February. There are a few other exciting titles to rent this weekend, especially The day the earth exploded: a movie Looney Tunes,, The woman in the courtyardand the action thriller A work Man With Jason Statham. There is also a lot of new streaming this week, like Pedro Almodóvar The room next to On Netflix, the science fiction comedy Companion On max, the Lycanthropic corporeal twist thriller Wolf on Peacock and the special version of James Cameron de The abyss On Disney Plus!
Here is everything that is available to watch this weekend!
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Netflix
Gender: Psychological drama
Execution time: 1 hour 47m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Casting: Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore play two friends, Martha and Ingrid, who reconnect after Martha received a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Martha plans to end his life with euthanasia pills, instead of spending his last days of pain and anxiety. She invites Ingrid on a trip to her country house so that the two can spend the last moments of Martha together. The room next to is based on What are you going through by Sigrid Nunez. He won the Golden Lion at 2024 Venice International Film Festival.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Hulu
Image: Vertical entertainment
Gender: Criminal drama
Execution time: 1h 56m
Director: Justin Kurzel
Casting: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan
An action thriller based on a true story, Order Follows an FBI agent who realizes that a reason in recent crimes indicates the white supremacist group The Silent Brotherhood – also known as the order. Led by the cult leader Bob Mathews (played here by Nicholas Hoult), the silent brotherhood was active in the United States in the 1980s. Order Competed for the Golden Lion at 2024 Venice International Film Festival.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Hulu
Image: Lionsgate
Gender: Historical drama
Execution time: 1 hour 38m
Director: Tim Mielants
Casting: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) Play in this drama of period like Bill Furlong, a devoted father and coal merchant who discovers a terrible revelation behind a convent in his city, which in turn obliges him to count with a shocking truth. Based on Claire Keegan’s novel in 2021, Little things like these Takes the persistent controversy behind the “Magdalene laundromat” of Ireland.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Disney Plus
Gender: Science fiction
Execution time: 2h 20m
Director: James Cameron
Casting: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrarantio, Michael Biehn
If there is one thing that James Cameron loves more than films, it’s the ocean. Cameron’s love for the deep exploration of races, well, deep – He was appointed Explorer of National Geographic in residence and even became the first person to make a solo descent at the bottom of the Mariana trench. All this to say: man knows his submersibles.
The abyssThe science fiction drama of Cameron in 1989 with Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastraunio, was one of the most elusive films of the director to find streaming. The premise focuses on a divorced couple of oil engineers who, with a Navy Seal (Michael Biehn), embarks on a top secret mission to recover a nuclear submarine which is mysteriously pressed into the deepest waters of the planet. Fans of James Cameron can finally experience the film in all its 4K glory on Disney Plus this week.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on max
Image: New Line Cinema / Warner Bros.
Gender: Science fiction
Execution time: 1 hour 37m
Director: Drew Hancock
Casting: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage
Sophie Thatcher plays in this dark science fiction comedy as Iris, a young woman in a weekend getaway with her boyfriend and friends. But, surprise! Iris is actually a companion robot rented by her boyfriend, capable of controlling his emotions and intelligence via an application on his phone. It is not the only big secret that appears, because the weekend takes place quickly in bloody chaos.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Peacock
Image: Universal images
Gender: Wolf’s horror
Execution time: 1 hour 43m
Director: Leigh Whannell
Casting: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth
The last of the current and accidental restart of the dark universe, Wolf Follows a man (Christopher Abbott) and his family traveling in his childhood house in the woods of Oregon. The only problem is that there is a loose monster in these woods, and he is looking for new victims.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on Mubi Us
Gender: Historical drama
Execution time: 2h 8m
Director: Miguel Gomes
Casting: Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaaita
Located in Burma under British control in 1918, this historic dramatic focuses on an unconventional couple: Edward (Gonçalo Waddington), a British official who abandons his fiancée on the eve of their marriage, and Molly (Crista Alfaaita), his fiancée. Combining 16 mm black and white cinematography with archive images, Gomes won the prize for best director at the 2024 Cannes Festival, where Tall tour competed for the Palme d’Or.
Where to look: Available to broadcast on chills
Gender: Horror
Execution time: 1h 46m
Directors: Joe Deboer, Kyle McConaghy
Casting: Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, Tomas Boykin
After having received a mysterious note stained with a bloody man from a captive man, an experienced investigator of dead letters goes hunting to return it to his sender. Obviously, things take a tour for the worst.
Captain America: Brave New World
Where to look: Available for rental on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Disney / YouTube
Gender: Superhero action
Execution time: 1 hour 58m
Director: Julius Onah
Casting: Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Harrison Ford
Define after the events of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,, Captain America: Brave New World sees Sam Wilson – having fully adopted his role as new Captain America – being called upon to resolve an international incident following an attempted assassination failed by the newly elected president Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford). With the exhausting time and the walls approaching, will Sam be able to go out at the top and save the world from the edge of devastation? Probably!
As a Captain America film, Brave New World Strong it highly below average. Its plot recalls at least slightly 2014 Captain America: The Winter SoldierBut it is both fair and unfair to compare both. Unfair in this Winter soldier is still among the best considered MCU films, while Bnw goes up the table of the table of a new potential Captain America franchise, dealing with post-production rewritings and reshuffles, and the general discomfort of the post-Avengers: end of game audience. But just in there, like Winter soldier,, Bnw has also been clearly designed as an anchored thriller (by the mobile scale of “founded” in the MCU) with global political issues and a superpowering conspiracy in its heart.
The day the earth exploded: a movie Looney Tunes
Where to look: Available for rental on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Gender: Science fiction comedy
Execution time: 1h 31m
Director: Pete Browngardt
Casting: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter Macnicol
The new movie Looney Tunes was supposed To be published on Max – But Warner Bros. decided to make a lot of animation projects. Fortunately, the independent film distributor Ketchup Entertainment plunged and managed the American theatrical release. The wacky comedy follows Porky Pig and Daffy Duck as they jostle to save the world from an extraterrestrial invasion. The film has an impressive cartoon and at the height of the Pedigree Looney Tunes.
Where to look: Available for rental on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Gender: Sports dramatic
Execution time: 1 hour 39m
Director: Carson Lund
Casting: Keith William Richards, Frederick Wiseman, Cliff Blake
This sports dramatic follows a recreational baseball league while they play a last match before their beloved field is demolished in order to make room for a new college. Men all come together to celebrate the love of their game and their muse on where they go from here. Although the field is based on a real one, the history of the team is fictitious. And a fun fact: the title of the film comes from a slowly curve!
Where to look: Available for rental on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Universal images
Gender: Psychological horror
Execution time: 1h 28m
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Casting: Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peyton Jackson
The new horror thriller by Jaume Collet-Serra focuses on Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler), a single mother recently widow crying the loss of her husband. Left to raise her two children alone in a rural farm, Ramona’s fears are only intensified by the strange appearance of a woman dressed in a black veil on her lawyer before, warning her disturbingly that “today is the day”. While the presence of the woman regularly becomes alarming and invasive, Ramona is pushed to her point of rupture as she fights to protect everything she left.
Where to look: Available for rental on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Amazon MGM Studios
Gender: Action thriller
Execution time: 1h 56m
Director: David Ayer
Casting: Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Arianna Rivas
Jason Statham is back, and he is no longer a beekeeper! No siree, here is a man who works: a proud worker of the construction of the salt of the earth earning an honest life in Chicago, the city of Broad shoulders! When human traffickers kidnap the daughter of his boss (Arianna Rivas), he will have to do overtime to ensure that work is well done and that it is delivered safely because of the damage. It’s time to break someone’s face with a hammer!
