Every week on Polygon, we spherical up probably the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and greatest new films so that you can watch at residence.
This week, The Monkey, the brand new black comedy horror thriller from director Osgood Perkins (Longlegs), screeches and bangs its manner onto VOD. That’s not all that’s new to lease and buy this week, as Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller Black Bag, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, additionally involves VOD, together with Naoko Yamada’s The Colours Inside, Paddington in Peru, and extra. Plus, the brand new buddy comedy Certainly one of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, involves streaming on Netflix.
Right here’s all the things new that’s obtainable to observe this weekend!
The place to observe: Out there to stream on Netflix
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Style: Buddy comedyRun time: 1h 37mDirector: Lawrence LamontCast: Keke Palmer, SZA, Katt Williams
SZA and Keke Palmer star on this buddy comedy wherein they play two greatest mates who’ve in the future to search out the $1,500 they want for lease, as a result of certainly one of their boyfriends blew by all their money. Hilarity and hijinks ensue, as the 2 desperately attempt to provide you with the money, resorting to taking out sketchy loans, donating plasma, and climbing up a phone pole to retrieve a pair of Jordans.
The place to observe: Out there to stream on Max
Style: Horror comedyRun time: 1h 31mDirector: Kyle MooneyCast: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison
Bear in mind when everybody thought the 12 months 2000 would trigger a bunch of electronics errors? Effectively, in Kyle Mooney’s Y2K, the error isn’t a lot an error as it’s digital gadgets coming to life and attempting to enslave humanity. Aren’t we glad that that didn’t occur IRL? There are some brutal and hilarious deaths, together with a kill by Tamagotchi, a really 2000 soundtrack, and one nice cameo.
The place to observe: Out there to stream on Shudder
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Style: HorrorRun time: 1h 41mDirector: Stephen CognettiCast: Lorenzo Beronilla, Brian Anthony Wilson, Elizabeth Vermilyea
Director Stephen Cognetti (Hell Home LLC) is again with a brand new supernatural horror thriller. After a grisly household tragedy, Chuck Wilson (Joe Falcone) strikes to the city of Ashland Falls together with his spouse (Elizabeth Vermilyea) and sister (Kathryn Miller) in hopes of beginning a brand new life. Upon transferring into their new residence, nevertheless, the household finds themselves stalked by a malevolent presence whose affect runs deep all through the city’s historical past.
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Style: Spy thrillerRun time: 1h 33mDirector: Steven SoderberghCast: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela
Steven Soderbergh returns for his second characteristic movie of 2025, this time a sultry spy thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as a fortunately married couple of British intelligence officers. When a top-secret malware program is stolen, Kathryn (Blanchett) is implicated and George (Fassbender) is secretly tasked with investigating her. Because the plot unfolds, the couple is confronted with the problem of whether or not or not they’ll belief one another in a subject the place almost everybody is aware of the right way to lie.
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Style: DramaRun time: 1h 41mDirector: Naoko YamadaCast: Akari Takaishi, Sayu Suzukawa, Taisei Kido
On this quiet, contemplative film from Ok-On! and Sound! Euphonium director Naoko Yamada, three lonely youngsters begin a band. It’s much less a few love for music and extra concerning the three of them discovering kindred spirits with one another. The primary character has a type of synesthesia the place she sees specific feelings and other people as colours. The splashes of beautiful watercolor hues add some lovely emotional influence to the in any other case grounded visuals.
What makes The Colours Inside work so nicely is how the naturalistic animation mixed with the precise set-pieces and conditions create such a definite feeling and environment. There are simply so many beautiful, evocative moments the place the film lingers: Kimi’s forlorn reflection in a set of Newton balls; the marginally fuzzy metropolis lights behind Totsuko’s hand as she waves goodbye to Kimi; Rui’s sneakers on the snow-covered steps of the church, shifting as he calls his mom. All of the small particulars contribute to a sense of sentimental loneliness that slowly lessens because the characters develop nearer and nearer.
The Final Cease in Yuma County
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Style: Neo-Western thrillerRun time: 1h 30mDirector: Francis GalluppiCast: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Sierra McCormick
This neo-Western crime thriller facilities on a travelling knife salesman who unwittingly finds himself in an unconventional hostage state of affairs after being stranded at a rural Arizona relaxation cease. Held at gunpoint by two ruthless financial institution robbers, each he and the remainder cease’s waitress (Jocelin Donahue) should discover a solution to escape with out arousing the robbers’ suspicions, all of the whereas carrying on a traditional workday like nothing’s occurred. Issues solely get weirder and worse from there.
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Style: Horror comedyRun time: 1h 38mDirector: Osgood PerkinsCast: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery
Coming off the power of final 12 months’s breakout horror thriller Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins is again with a brand new black comedy horror based mostly on Stephen King’s 1980 brief story. The Monkey stars Theo James (Divergent) as Hal and Invoice, similar twins who should discover a solution to destroy a cursed cymbal-banging monkey toy with the ability to kill anybody unlucky sufficient to cross its path.
As Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante places it:
The Monkey, for all the acquainted trappings, isn’t simply one other horror-tinged distraction. Because the kills change into gnarlier — and extra, how do I put this?… spectacular? — it turns into clear that Perkins is utilizing a well-known skeleton to help one thing muscular and human. He as soon as once more borrows from the works of among the best filmmakers of all time. Not those that get added to the Criterion Assortment, however these you see get loving 4K discs from boutique manufacturers like Arrow and Vinegar Syndrome.
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Style: Psychological thrillerRun time: 1h 44mDirector: Mark Anthony GreenCast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis
Ayo Edebiri (Bottoms) stars on this psychological horror thriller as Ariel Ecton, a younger music journalist who’s invited to the distant compound of a reclusive pop star (John Malkovich) who has been unseen for the previous 30 years. What at first appears a once-in-a-lifetime interview alternative rapidly morphs right into a nightmarish state of affairs as Ariel finds herself surrounded by cultish sycophants, intoxicated colleagues, and a nefarious idol with much more than music on his thoughts.
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Style: AdventureRun time: 1h 46mDirector: Dougal WilsonCast: Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer
Everybody’s favourite well mannered, marmalade-loving bear is again! His adopted siblings are all getting older and his mother and father face the opportunity of an empty nest. However Paddington is known as to Peru as a result of his pricey Aunt Lucy has vanished from the house for retired bears! Paddington and his household trek by the Peruvian jungles and shortly study that Aunt Lucy isn’t the one misplaced factor persons are trying to find. Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas be a part of the solid and commit absolutely to the little bit of campy Paddington solid member.
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Style: Thriller thrillerRun time: 1h 38mDirector: Duke JohnsonCast: André Holland, Gemma Chan, Could Calamawy
Duke Johnson (Anomalisa) makes his solo directorial debut with this crime thriller romance starring André Holland (Moonlight) and Gemma Chan (The Creator). Having misplaced his reminiscence following an assault in Idaho, Paul Cole (Holland) makes an attempt to place his life again collectively in an unfamiliar city. Whereas courting an area costume designer named Edna (Chan), Paul begins to recuperate fragments and traces of his earlier life as an actor, forcing him to query who he’s now and what he actually desires out of life.
Evening of the Zoopocalypse
The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Style: Horror comedyRun time: 1h 31mDirectors: Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-CastroCast: David Harbour, Bryn McAuley, Paul Solar-Hyung Lee
This animated journey follows the antics of a bunch of zoo animals… who discover themselves going through off in opposition to a bunch of zombie-like aliens. A unusual timberwolf groups up with a gruff mountain lion to guard the zoo. They should study to work with all the opposite animals in an effort to save their residence from the creepy alien zombies. David Harbour voices the mountain lion! Acceptable!
