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.
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck fight sentient bubblegum monsters animated with John Carpenter-style body horror in The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Moviewhich pops onto Max following its March theatrical release. For a less zany, more psychological spin on horror, today’s the day to watch Orphan and Carry-On Director Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Woman in the Yard on Peacock. For some video game-inspired sci-fi fun, rent the time travel comedy Escape From the 21st Centurywhere three nerds gain the ability to jump into their future adult bodies whenever they sneeze, or The Jurassic Games: Extinctionwhere contestants fight dinosaurs to the death.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch on streaming this weekend!
Genre: Comedy thriller
Run time: 1h 37 minutes
Director: Laura Murphy
Cast: Lucy Hale, Virginia Gardner, Brooke Nevin
A true crime fan (Lucy Hale of Pretty Little Liars) becomes convinced that one of the three guys she’s seeing is a serial killer who’s been targeting women through dating apps. Using clues revealed through her favorite podcast and her own investigations, she’ll have to piece together who she actually wants to be in a relationship with, and who’s a murderer.
Genre: Post-apocalyptic thriller
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Frédéric Jardin
Cast: Émilie Dequenne, Andreas Piettschmann, Lisa Delamar
A family trip at sea takes a very unexpected turn when the Earth’s magnetic poles reverse, causing the oceans to flood the land and leaving their boat stranded in a desert. Before the waters come back, they’ll need to cross the hostile land to find another stranded vessel while being pursued by some very angry crabs.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Genre: Animated science fiction comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Pete Browngardt
Cast: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter Macnicol
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck (both voiced by Eric Bauza) get a job at a bubblegum factory to pay for home repairs in this feature film spinoff of Pete Browngardt’s Looney Tunes Cartoons. Unfortunately, the factory is at the center of an alien plot to turn the denizens of Earth into zombies, and the duo have to fight a horrifying gum monster to stop it.
Genre: Action thriller
Run time: 1h 56m
Director: David yesterday
Cast: Jason Statham, David Harbour, Michael Peña
Entertaining on a screen of any size, Jason Statham’s latest thriller follows Levon Cade, an ex-black ops soldier trying to start a new life as a Chicago construction foreman while fighting to retain custody of his daughter. But when his boss’ daughter is kidnapped, Cade must put his old skills to use by running and gunning his way through the Russian mob.
Genre: Psychological horror
Run time: 1h 27m
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peyton Jackson
Still injured from the car accident that killed her husband, Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler of Carry-On and Station Eleven) struggles to care for her two kids in their rural home. Things get really stressful when a mysterious woman covered in black clothing appears in their front yard saying only “Today’s the day.” As she gets closer, the family is plagued by misfortune until Ramona has to confront her head-on.
Please Don’t Feed the Children
Genre: Science fiction thriller
Run time: 1h 34m
Director: Destry Allyn Spielberg
Cast: Michelle Dockery, Zoe Colletti, Andrew Liner
After a virus carried by kids turned adults into cannibals, anyone under 18 is rounded up and kept in camps. A group of renegade teens looking for freedom across the border take refuge with a woman who welcomes them with milk and cookies but then holds them prisoner. To survive, they’ll have to learn her twisted secret.
Escape from the 21st Century
Genre: Science fiction comedy
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Yang Li
Cast: Ruoyun Zhang, Elaine Zhong, Yang Song
Fans of Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer should check out this high-energy film about three teenage nerds who get the power to travel 20 years into the future into their adult bodies. Discovering that the world isn’t as good as they’d like it to be, they fight for their future through a training montage and battles spiced up with stylized animation.
Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 36
Director: David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano
Cast: Nick Kroll, Andrew Rannells, Morgan Spector
Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells of Big Mouth play a gay couple looking to celebrate their anniversary with a dream vacation in Italy before they adopt a child. Unfortunately, they end up accidentally killing a nice old lady in an isolated farmhouse, and the language barrier leads to a series of miscommunications and dark comedy twists.
The Jurassic Games: Extinction
Genre: Science fiction
Run time: 1 h 42m
Director: Ryan Bellgardt
Cast: Todd Terry, Ryan Francis, Todd Jenkins
The sequel to 2018’s The Jurassic Games continues the premise of a virtual reality competition where death row inmates fight dinosaurs to entertain audiences. The prisoners fight and ride raptors and even use power-ups to turn into dinosaurs themselves while trying to fight the game itself from the inside and shut the spectacle down for good.
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 21m
Director: James Villeneuve
Cast: Chelsea Clark, Kate Corbett, Ryan McDonald
When her car breaks down on the way to campus, a diabetic biology grad student looks for help and instead finds herself drawn into a twisted experiment meant to find a way to extend the lives of the wealthy. As her insulin supply dwindles, she’ll need to find to escape in time.
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