Every week on Polygon, we round up the hottest new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week, beetle juice beetle juiceThe long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton's horror comedy starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder, bursts onto VOD after its theatrical release last month. That's not all, though: this week we also have a new Hellboy movie, as well as a new short from acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt. There are more new releases to stream, like Bad Boys: Ride or Die on Netflix, the thriller produced by M. Night Shyamalan Caddo Lake about Max and the spooky new horror thriller dad's head in Shudder.
Here's everything new that's available to check out this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Photo: Frank Masi/Columbia Pictures
Gender: Friend-Cop Action
Execution time: 1h 55m
Directors: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens
The Bad Boys are back for another walk around the block! bad boys for life Directors Adil and Bilall return for the latest installment in the franchise, this time following partners and best friends Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) as they work to clear the name of their late boss, Captain Howard. (Joe Pantoliano). ), when he is posthumously implicated in a criminal conspiracy.
El Arbi and Fallah's direction is the brightest aspect of ride or die. The couple has leveled up since bad boys for lifecoming across as eager students of Bayhem, happy to display camera work as exciting as the gunfights it captures. Frantic drone shots zoom in through gunshots, cameras pan around on a gun barrel, and nothing stays still. It's a bit overwhelming: restrained compared to Bay's previous effort, they overreach a bit here. His action shines brightest when he introduces someone capable of believably kicking ass on screen, like Jacob Scipio, who returns as Mike Lowrey's long-lost son. bad boys for life.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Vertical Entertainment
Gender: Psychological thriller
Execution time: 1h 34m
Director: jordan scott
Cast: Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, Sylvia Hoeks
In this thriller, Eric Bana plays a psychiatrist who investigates a cult responsible for a mass suicide in Berlin, while also helping local authorities. But the already tense events become more personal when his daughter (Sadie Sink) falls in love with the son of the charismatic cult leader and is drawn even deeper into his machinations.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Gender: romantic drama
Execution time: 1h 34m
Director: Susana Grant
Cast: Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth, Diana Silvers
Between The idea of you and A family affair, It's been a year of romances between older women and younger men. Lonely Planet This trend continues. This time it's Laura Dern playing a newly single novelist at a writers' retreat in Morocco who finds an unexpected connection with a young man played by Liam Hemsworth, who's on this trip only because he's with his girlfriend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Hulu
Gender: Horror
Execution time: 1h 28m
Director: Brandon Espy
Cast: Jerrika Hinton, Elvis Nolasco, Alex Akpobome
If you saw and enjoyed the first season of Channel Zeroyou probably like it Mr. Crocket. The directorial debut of filmmaker Brandon Espy, this horror thriller follows the story of a mother (Jerrika Hinton) who must embark on a journey to rescue her son after being kidnapped by a Freddy Krueger-style demonic children's show host who can climb. televisions.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Well, come on, US Entertainment.
Gender: Horror
Execution time: 1h 32m
Director: Kiah Roache
Cast: Alyla Browne, Penelope Mitchell, Ryan Corr
Alyla Browne (who plays a young Furiosa in George Miller's recent apocalyptic action film) stars in this horror thriller as a rebellious 12-year-old girl who adopts a small spider after discovering it in her apartment. Simple, right? Well, it would be if the spider were just a normal Earth spider and not an alien arachnid with a predilection for eating birds, small children, and full-grown adults. Grab the Raid can!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Image: Maximum
Gender: Suspense
Execution time: 1h 39m
Directors: Celine Held, Logan George
Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Lauren Ambrose
Produced by M. Night Shyamalan, this thriller follows Ellie (Eliza Scanlen), a woman in her 20s searching for her younger sister-in-law after she disappears, and Paris (Dylan O'Brien), a young man tormented by guilt. for not having been able to save his mother from drowning. Their two stories intersect in the most unexpected way after discovering a life-changing secret in the sinister waters of Caddo Lake.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Image: A24
Gender: fantasy drama
Execution time: 1h 50m
Director: Daina O. Pusić
Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Leah Harvey
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in Daina O. Pusić's directorial debut as Zora, a mother caring for her sick daughter Tuesday (Lola Petticrew). When the specter of death, disguised in the form of a talking parrot, arrives to carry her daughter's soul to the afterlife, Zora will have to confront her impending loss and cherish the time she has left with her daughter.
The last of the women of the sea
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus
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Gender: Documentary
Execution time: 1h 27m
Director: Sue Kim
This documentary follows a group of elderly female divers, known as haenyeo, from South Korea's Jeju Island, who maintain a long tradition of harvesting shellfish for their communities. Historically, the haenyeo have enjoyed a sense of status in an otherwise patriarchal society, although increasing pollution and changes in global temperatures threaten their trade and cultural tradition.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder
Photo: Rob Baker Ashton/Shudder
Gender: Horror
Execution time: 1h 37m
Director: Benjamin Barfoot
Cast: Rupert Turnbull, Julia Brown, Mary Woodvine
After the untimely loss of his father, a young man named Isaac (Rupert Turnbull) is left to live with his emotionally absent stepmother (Julia Brown). While dealing with their grief, the couple faces a terrifying new threat after being visited by a disturbing hunchbacked creature that resembles Isaac's late father.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Warner Bros./Everett Collection
Gender: horror comedy
Execution time: 1h 45m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega
Michael Keaton is back as Betelgeuse, and this time, he's decided to torment Astrid, the teenage daughter of poor Lydia Deetz (played by Generation Z goth queen Jenna Ortega). Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara return for this legacy sequel, and all three generations of Deetz women find themselves back in Connecticut on Halloween. What supernatural antics!
There's a real sense that the writers left the building after finishing the first hour of the movie, leaving Burton to fill out the rest of its running time with “Hey, remember that from the first movie?” references. Stop-motion sandworms are back. Bureaucracy jokes about the afterlife are back. The broad-shouldered, shrunken-headed corpse has returned, and now there are many more. Betelgeuse is still doing his face explosion routine seen from behind to scare people. A children's choir sings Harry Belafonte's “Banana Boat (Day-O)” in a setting that doesn't make the slightest sense as anything more than a callback. Once again, a big lip-synced musical number is forced on a group of reluctant participants. It's the laziest possible way to put together a sequel: nostalgia with only the slightest new spin on anything, until a climax that's more or less the end of the first film with some old names hastily crossed out and some new ones. scribbled.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Millennium Media, Dark Horse Entertainment
Gender: Superhero (dark)
Execution time: 1h 39m
Director: Brian Taylor
Cast: Jack Kesy, Jefferson White, Adeline Rudolph
This standalone adaptation of Mike Mignola's acclaimed Hellboy comics stars Jack Kesy as the paranormal investigator/monster fighter of the same name as he faces a terrifying new threat. The film follows Hellboy and his colleague Bobbie Jo Song (Adeline Rudolph) as they battle The Crooked Man, a malevolent agent of the devil bent on wreaking havoc on Earth.
Hellboy: the crooked man has a lot of piecemeal problems, but there's a major misconception here that should serve as a warning to anyone trying to reboot Mike Mignola's comic as a film franchise for the fourth time. Filmmakers should stop trying to directly adapt Hellboy stories into feature films built around visual realism. It does a disservice to the character, in fact, to the entire concept.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Gender: horror thriller
Execution time: 1h 41m
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cast: Halle Berry, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins
Halle Berry stars in this new horror thriller as a single mother living in a post-apocalyptic world. With no one else to trust, she must raise her two young children and protect them against a dark threat that has taken over the world and all its inhabitants.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Vimeo
Gender: musical tragicomedy
Execution time: 21m
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
More than four years after the release of his third Tomorrow's world In short, Don Hertzfeldt is back with a new animated short film! With less than half an hour, ME It is described as “a musical odyssey about trauma and humanity's retreat into itself.” If it is anything like Hertzfeldt's previous work, it will be (a) nothing short of a masterpiece and (b) a true disappointment.