Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.Disney’s live-action Snow White was box office poison thanks to bad reviews, controversy about the dwarves, and a scaled-back promotional tour, but...
The Last of Us season 2 writer says ridiculed ‘dad’ line just popped into his head
There are no shortage of reasons why The Last of Us season 2 has proven controversial, but many of those criticisms have a common root: the script. As dissatisfied fans tell it, the protagonist of the show is an immature and incompetent interpretation of Ellie, the character portrayed in the...
Netflix’s science fiction romance Our Times breaks the time travel movie rules
From The Flash to Avengers: Endgame to 2002’s The Time Machine, time travel movies often follow characters hoping to prevent a present personal tragedy or larger calamity by tweaking some event in the past. The sweetly funny Our Times, now streaming on Netflix, breaks that mold by sending its characters...
Nintendo just gave the Zelda movie a major vote of confidence
The bad news: Nintendo and Sony Pictures have delayed the live-action The Legend of Zelda movie. The good? That delay is a mere six weeks, and puts The Legend of Zelda right at the beginning of summer blockbuster season, an indication that Nintendo and Sony are confident in Link’s ability...
You should watch dumb Jason Statham plane movies at home, too
As I see it, Hollywood currently has four stables of movie talent: Movie-movie stars (Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep)HBO-movie stars (Colin Farrell, Steve Carell, Anthony Mackie, and anyone whose TV shows have movie vibes and movies have TV vibes)Streaming-movie stars (Millie Bobby Brown, post-Avengers: Endgame Chris Pratt)Plane-movie starsAs I...
Dangerous Animals, a giddy slasher where the knife is a shark
Australian director Sean Byrne is one of horror’s premiere mixologists. His debut, 2009’s The Loved Ones, meshed teen romance with gruesome Hostel-style extremism. 2015’s The Devil’s Candy put a heavy metal spin on the haunted-house romp. His new film, Dangerous Animals, in theaters now, raises a question no one was...
The John Wick spin-off Ballerina adds some fresh moves to the series’ formula
Deep into the action of Len Wiseman’s action-thriller Ballerina, there’s a moment that clearly places the action within the continuity of the John Wick movies, starring Keanu Reeves as a former assassin who tries and fails to get out of the killer game. Ballerina protagonist Eve (Ana de Armas) eavesdrops...
Alan Tudyk, master of disguise, just faced his greatest challenge
Alan Tudyk is everywhere — you just haven’t seen his face much.Since his starring run on Firefly and the spin-off movie Serenity, he’s thrown himself into voice acting, recently reprising his Rogue One role as the sassy droid K-2SO on Andor, and playing a different robot opposite Stranger Things’ Millie...
Gen V season 2 finally gets a first look
As the rest of America adjusts to Homelander’s iron fist, back at Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that promises to make students more powerful than ever. Cate and Sam are celebrated heroes, while Marie, Jordan, and Emma reluctantly return to college, burdened by months of trauma...
How Bring Her Back’s most stomach-churning shot happened
There’s a scene in Bring Her Back, the latest A24 horror movie from Talk To Me writer-directors (and twin brothers) Danny and Michael Philippou, that’s so violently grotesque, I actually closed my eyes to shut it out. Trying to deny what was going on on the screen just made what...