Netflix’s Unfrosted, Turtles All The Way Down and every new movie you can watch at home this weekend
Greetings, Polygon readers! Every week we round up the hottest new releases in streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week, Immature, Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy about the invention of Pop-Tarts, premieres on Netflix. If branded biopics aren’t your thing, there’s certainly no shortage of new releases to choose from this week. The coming-of-age teen drama Turtles all the way down will be released this weekend on Max, alongside the remaster of Jonathan Demme’s classic concert film Stop making sensea new rom-com starring Anne Hathaway on Prime Video, and much more.
Here’s everything new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Immature
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Photo: John P. Johnson / Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Jerry Seinfeld
Form: Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan
Nowadays it feels like anyone and everyone thing gets the biopic-comedy film treatment. Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Blackberry cell phones, Nike Jordan sneakers – you name it. Immature is the latest in this emerging trend and chronicles the somewhat true story of how Kellog’s beat their competitors to market with their patented Pop-Tart product.
From our review:
Despite the family-friendly veneer, Immature is a resolutely cynical work. Step outside the candy-colored glow of the warm cinematography and the picture is gloomy. Just as Pop-Tarts come from the film executives studying waste, Hollywood’s desperation for marketable IP means studios are happy to greenlight literal waste. What does it mean that Jerry Seinfeld—a man who will never have to work a day in his life if he doesn’t want to, a man who’s mostly famous these days for just hanging out—is back with a movie that proves Hollywood will greenlight give for a film about any old brand, no matter how nonsensical?
New on Hulu
Prom dates
Where to watch: Available to stream Hulu
Photo: Brett Roedel/Disney
Genre: Coming-of-age comedy
Duration: 1h 30m
Director: Kim O.Nguyen
Form: Julia Lester, Antonia Gentry, JT Neal
After unexpectedly breaking off their dates, a pair of high school friends hatch a plot to find new dates in time for their senior prom. As their prospects diminish, the two have no other choice: sneak into a college party and find new dates there.
New on Max
Turtles all the way down
Where to watch: Available to stream Max
Genre: Romantic drama
Duration: 1h 51m
Director: Hannah Marks
Form: Isabela Merced, Cree Cicchino, Felix Mallard
Based on John Green’s 2017 young adult novel, Isabela Merced (Dora and the Lost City of Gold) stars as Aza Holmes, a 16-year-old who struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and reunites with her childhood sweetheart, the son of a fugitive billionaire. As Aza tries to navigate the disappearance of her lover’s billionaire father, she will learn to live with and overcome her challenges to pursue her happiness.
From our review:
In a sense Max’s Turtles all the way down is an anti-John Green adaptation – at least it’s anti-John Green prejudice. From his very first novel, he tries to deconstruct the tropes for which he accidentally became known. But sometimes it takes an outside hand to free a story from judgment and reshape it so it can shine without an author’s reputation (no matter how poorly attributed) on it. Marks crafts a satisfying coming-of-age story from Green’s book. Turtles has familiar John Green touches – a gimmicky story setup, a teen romance, a quirky best friend – but it turns the story inward and makes for a fantastic character exploration, one that feels like a gut punch in its best moments.
Stop making sense
Where to watch: Available to stream Max
Image: A24
Genre: Concert film
Duration: 1h 28m
Director: Jonathan Demme
You may be sitting on the couch at home, looking for something to watch. And you might find yourself scrutinizing what’s new in streaming and VOD. And you might be intrigued by the latest 4K remaster of Jonathan Demme’s critically acclaimed concert film about the Talking Heads’ performance. And you may wonder: Why don’t I look at that?
New on Prime Video
The idea of you
Where to watch: Available to stream Prime Video
Image: Primevideo
Genre: Romantic comedy
Duration: 1h 55m
Director: Michael Showalter
Form: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin
Is it really possible for a 20-something rock star and a 40-something single mother to be in a relationship? Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine) and Solène Marchand (Anne Hathaway) are about to find out in this romantic comedy based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel.
New at Pauw
The American Society of Magical Negroes
Where to watch: Available to stream Peacock
Photo: Tobin Yelland/Focus Features
Genre: Fantasy rom-com
Duration: 1h 45m
Director: Kobi Libii
Form: Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan
Kobi Libii’s directorial debut stars Justice Smith (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) as Aren, a young biracial artist who is recruited to join a clandestine group of magical black people who secretly help white people in their mission to solve racism. You can probably guess how well that goes.
New on AMC Plus
American star
Where to watch: Available to stream on AMC Plus
Image: IFC Films
Genre: Action thriller
Duration: 1h 47m
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Form: Ian McShane, Nora Arnezeder, Thomas Kretschmann
Ian McShane (John Wick, Dead wood) stars as an over-the-hill assassin who heads to the tropical island of Fuerteventura to fulfill his final assignment before retiring. While waiting for his goal, he is drawn to the people of the island and their lives there, and begins to think about what life he would like to build after leaving his career as an assassin behind.
New at Metrograph At Home
Pamphir
Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph At Home
Image: Director’s fortnight
Genre: Fantasy drama
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Form: Oleksandr Yatsentyuk, Stanislav Potiak, Solomiia Kyrylova
This Ukrainian drama follows the story of Leonid (Oleksandr Yatsentyuk), a reformed smuggler who has given up his life of crime to become a family man. Despite his efforts, Leonid cannot find an honest way to make a living and recruits his brother into a scheme to care for his wife and teenage son. Caught between a local crime syndicate and the local police, Leonid will have to find a way to secure a better life.
New for rent
Arcadian
Where to watch: Available to purchase at Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Photo: Patrick Redmond/RLJE Films
Genre: Action horror
Duration: 1h 31m
Director: Ben Brouwer
Form: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins
Nicolas Cage stars as the father of two sons desperate to protect and raise his family in a near future that will devastate Earth with the arrival of ferocious nocturnal creatures. When their father is injured by one of these creatures, his sons must work together and call upon every lesson of their training to survive.
Blue Giant
Where to watch: Available to purchase at Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: NUT/GKIDS
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 31m
Director: Yuzuru Tachikawa
Form: Yuki Yamada, Shotaro Mamiya, Amane Okama
Yuzuru Tachikawa (Mobpsycho 100, Death Parade) returns with an animated drama based on Shinichi Ishizuka’s 2013 manga. Blue Giant centers on Dai Miyamoto, a high school basketball player who puts aside his sports ambitions to become a jazz saxophonist. When he moves to Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming the best saxophonist in the world, Dai will have to overcome more than just his inexperience if he has any hope of achieving his goal.
Woman
Where to watch: Available to rent Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Anton/Utopia
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 1h 39m
Directors: Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
Form: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, George MacKay, Aaron Heffernan
After being viciously attacked by an unknown man and their group of friends, a drag queen named Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) confronts their attacker – a closeted young man named Preston (George MacKay) in a gay sauna. Jules begins an affair and plots revenge on Preston, who is unaware of Jules’ true identity and intentions.
They shot the pianist
Where to watch: Available to purchase at Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Sony Pictures Classics
Genre: Musical docudrama
Duration: 1h 43m
Directors: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
Form: Jeff Goldblum, Tony Ramos, Abel Ayala
This animated docudrama follows a music journalist (voiced by Jeff Goldblum) who embarks on a journey across the world to discover the truth behind Francisco Tenório Júnior, a Brazilian samba jazz pianist who was instrumental in popularizing Bossa Nova music, and the reason behind his sudden mysterious disappearance.