Every week on Polygon, 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, Transformers Onethe animated science fiction adventure film starring Chris Hemsworth (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) and Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta), is rolling out to VOD following its theatrical premiere last month. That’s not all, though; there are tons of other exciting new releases coming to streaming this week, like M. Night Shyamalan’s horror thriller Fall about Max, the Kate Beckinsale-led action drama Canary Black on Prime Video, the horror drama Don’t move on Netflix, and much more!
Here’s everything new to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Horror thriller
Duration: 1h 32m
Director: Adam Schindler, Brian Netto
Form: Kelsey Asbille, Finn Wittrock, Daniel Francis
This Sam Raimi-produced thriller is about a serial killer who drugs a woman with a paralyzing drug. She has only twenty minutes to flee and fight for her life before the drug takes effect and leaves her unable to move or even speak properly. Finn Wittrock, who once played a serial killer American Horror Story: Freak Showshines like the killer, with One Tree Hill‘s Kelsey Asbille as the woman who is drugged.
Don’t move isn’t actually a film about the crippling effects of grief, even if the writers once thought it was. It’s, well, a movie about how scary it would be not to be able to move, just like the title says. And sometimes – like when firing up Netflix on a Friday evening after an exhausting week – that kind of efficient delivery on expectations is all you really need.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Christy Hall
Form: Sean Penn, Dakota Johnson
To remind Lockethat 2013 chamber piece starring Tom Hardy as a construction foreman who talks to himself and a number of off-screen characters while driving on the highway? Good, Dad is something like this, but there is a crucial difference: instead of one there are two characters on screen talking to each other! Dakota Johnson stars as a woman who has a candid conversation with Clark (Sean Penn), a taxi driver who gives her a ride to her Manhattan apartment from JFK International Airport. What are they talking about? Oh, you know, life and love and vulnerability and stuff like that.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Genre: Horror thriller
Duration: 1h 45m
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Form: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan is back with another horror thriller, this time starring Josh Hartnett (Oppenheimer) as Cooper, a father who takes his teenage daughter to a concert by her favorite pop star, Lady Raven (Saleka Shyamalan). Isn’t that nice? Unfortunately, Cooper is also a serial killer and the entire concert is basically an elaborate trap to catch him. Oh no!
Within the Shyamalan pantheon, Fall comes closer to the superficial tension of Old or the campy pleasures of It happen then the raw, tension-filled brutality of Split. It has a little too much on its plate and a little too much heart to be a pure thrill ride, and it’s worth adjusting your expectations accordingly. Whatever Fall Either way, it’s a Shyamalan film through and through: ambitious in its original concept, derivative in its thematic exploration, and delighting in its own twists.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Action drama
Duration: 1h 41m
Director: Pierre Morel
Form: Kate Beckinsale, Rupert Friend, Ray Stevenson
Not to be confused with DC superheroine Black Canary, Canary Black follows a CIA agent (Kate Beckinsale) who must track down her husband after he is kidnapped by terrorists. It’s almost a sex change Takenthat follows because it comes from Taken director Pierre Morel! Let’s see if Officer Avery Graves also has certain skills that make her a nightmare for people like the kidnappers.
Genre: Mecha action
Duration: 1h 58m
Director: Akira Amemiya
Form: Hikaru Midorikawa, Yuya Hirose, Yume Miyamoto
The long sequel to that of 2018 SSSS.Gridman and 2021 SSSS.Dynazenone is finally available to stream in North America, thanks to Crunchyroll! One year after the events of SSSS.Gridmanthe world is finally at peace after the disappearance of the Kaiju, Gridman and Akane Shinjou. But when a new kaiju suddenly emerges, Yuuta will have to regain his lost memories and become Gridman again to save the day.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder
Genre: Action horror
Duration: 1h 26m
Director: EL Katz
Form: Samara Weaving, Vic Carmen Sonne, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
This movie is not just horror. It’s post-apocalyptic horror, except the apocalypse in question is the biblical Rapture. All humans who have not ascended to Heaven are now plagued by demonic beings known as the Burned Ones. Azrael (Samara Weaving), the main character, is banished from her cult, which believes speaking is the sin that caused the Rapture (so they cut off their own vocal cords), and the film continues with her set to be used as a human sacrifice.
Genre: Sci-fi adventure
Duration: 1h 17m
Director: Jos Cooley
Form: Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson
This animated prequel to the Transformers franchise tells the origin story of Orion Pax (Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Brian Tyree Henry) – years before they would later become known as Optimus Prime and Megatron. Located on the planet Cybertron, Transformers One revolves around the friendship between Orion and D-16, before a twist of fate puts them on the path to becoming bitter enemies.
Director Josh Cooley’s semi-reboot of the Transformers cinematic universe – whether it has any association with the Transformers Bay-verse is unclear one way or another – is better than the prequel premise (and the trailers) would suggest. Transformers One is funny, sometimes sweet, sometimes heartbreaking, and utterly compelling in telling an origin story for friends turned enemies Optimus Prime and Megatron. Thanks to a strong cast and a solid story, underpinned by the journey of a classic hero, Transformers One has a spark that we’ve rarely seen in a Transformers movie outside of 2018 Bumblebee.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Genre: Comic horror
Duration: 1h 25m
Director: Steven Kostansky
Form: Conor Sweeney, Kristy Wordsworth, Matthew Kennedy
Are you ready to make your crazy on? Then you have to look Frankie Freakothe latest horror comedy from Psycho Goreman director Steven Kostanski! After boring workaholic Conor (Conor Sweeney) calls a hotline for a late party while his wife (Kristy Wordsworth) is away, he gets more than he bargained for when Frankie (Matthew Kennedy), a monster from another dimension, joins his friends arrives to liven up his mundane life. It’s like Gremlins meet cool world, if you are looking for an explanation for the atmosphere of this film.
Kostanski could have been satisfied with business as usual Critters and the joys of bad horror movie dialogue with Frankie Freako. Sweeney knows how to follow the cadence of every schlock actor he attacks Mystery Science Theater 3000and Kostanski’s script provides him with groan-worthy one-liners that make a knowing audience laugh. The set pieces of the rampaging freakos are at once familiar and extraordinary: as Conor’s house is destroyed, every bit of vulgar, graffiti-sprayed profanity or vandalized wall art seems perfectly placed and in character. While Wes Anderson’s attention to detail is easier to spot, the Frankie Freako The production design team is equally determined to dazzle viewers with every frame.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Genre: Comedy-drama
Duration: 1h 17m
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Form: Anaïs Demoustier, Édouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen
Billed as a “real fake biopic,” this farcical comedy follows Judith (Anaïs Demoustier), a beleaguered journalist who repeatedly tries (and fails) to make a documentary about her most elusive subject yet: the eccentric, inscrutable and often insufferable. artist Salvador Dalí (Édouard Baer).