Season’s Greetings, Polygon readers!This week violent night“Santa Claus meets die hardAn action-comedy starring David Harbor (stranger things) as the not-so-jolly St. Nick has finally arrived to stream on Peacock. If watching the anthropomorphic embodiment of Christmas cheer killing a group of mercenaries doesn’t sound like your leisure-time viewing idea, don’t worry, it’s available to stream and rent on VOD this weekend. There are many new movies.
JUNG_EThe new sci-fi action thriller from , Train to Busan When Hellbound Director Yeon Sang-ho, Alex Garland’s Freaky Folk Horror Movie, Arrives This Weekend On Netflix male Showtime, horror thriller old man Starring Stephen Lang (Avatar, don’t breath) AMC Plus, and recent releases like VOD after sun, menuWhen to at a discounted price.
Here are some new movies you can watch at home this weekend.
What’s new on Netflix
JUNG_E
Where to watch: Streamable on Netflix
Genre: science fiction/action
Execution time: 1 hour 38 minutes
directed by: Yeon Sang Ho
cast: Kim Hyun-joo, Kang Soo-yeon, Ryu Kyung-soo
The director’s new sci-fi action thriller set in the distant future. Train to Busan When Hellbound It follows a legendary soldier whose spirit was preserved after death by his daughter and who was brought back to life as an army of cyborg drones. When her primal spirit craves freedom, she must battle herself and the unscrupulous military scientist to win freedom and the future of humanity.
From our review:
JUNG_E open in [an] It’s an exciting fight scene, capped off by a bigger and better action sequence, with somewhat cartoonish but effective (and weighted appropriately, if you will) visual effects. But it’s not exactly an action movie. With long stretches between instances of mayhem, it has a lot of world-building, contemplative drama, and some intentionally undermining both the characters’ and the audience’s expectations of where the story is logically going. Go through plot twists.
What’s New in Peacock
violent night
Where to watch: Streamable peacock
Genre: action
Execution time: 1 hour 52 minutes
directed by: Tommy Wirkola
cast: David Harbor, John Leguizamo, Beverly D’Angelo
This action movie starring David Harbor as Santa Claus is produced by 87North Productions. 87North Productions is a legendary Hollywood action studio that brought you many of your favorite parts from John Wick and other recent action classics.
From our review:
violent night It works best, especially when it captures the warped sensibilities of early 90’s Chris Columbus movies. home aloneThe events of that film are actually horrifyingly traumatic and violent, and are pointed out so often that it hardly needs to be said that Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister is a pint-sized sociopath. Trudy Lightstone also has a sadistic streak in her, and the film’s most insane scenes are played out with oversized cheers that effectively create a giggling disgust. The moment is intentionally designed. The film revels in snarky one-liners and outrageous gore for the audience, but overall, violent nightThe big red bag of self-awareness tricks is overstuffed.
What’s new in Showtime
male
Where to watch: Streamable show time
Genre: folk horror
Execution time: 1 hour 40 minutes
directed by: Alex Garland
cast: Jesse Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Papa Esidu
Alex Garland’s 2022 Folk Horror Thriller Star Jesse Buckley (i’m thinking of ending things) as a recently widowed woman who travels to a rural village in the English countryside to recuperate. But she knows very little about the strangely all-male inhabitants of this quaint little town. black mirror fame) is about to face her biggest nightmare.
From our review:
male Other recent horror films, especially those built around small, convey aggression that represent greater divisions in society, and have some echoes.looks like jordan peele Get out In some structural way: Get out‘s black protagonist Chris embraces phone contact with his black friend Rod (Lil Rell Howery) as a lifeline, while Harper receives support only by phone from his friend Riley (Gail Rankin). , another important woman in the film. (Other notable similarities cannot be discussed without spoilers.) And the lush surroundings, the gender tensions, the focus on grief and the way it is expressed, the anger that boils beneath the surface, and the ensuing consequences. All the primitive screams of Ari Aster midsommar, Another movie steeped in fear and inevitability.
What’s New in AMC Plus
old man
Where to watch: Streamable AMC Plus
Genre: horror/thriller
Execution time: 1 hour 37 minutes
directed by: Lucky McKee
cast: Stephen Lang, Mark Center, Leanna Wright-Mark
Not to be confused with the 2022 drama thriller series starring Jeff Bridges. This his 2022 horror thriller follows the story of Joe (Mark Center), a lost traveler who stumbles upon the remote cabin of an old man living alone in the woods. The old man has something far more sinister in mind than being a simple good Samaritan, so Joe gets more than he bargained for.
What’s new in VOD
After-sun (discounted price)
Where to watch: Available to rent for $5.99 Amazon, appleand voodoo
Genre: Drama
Execution time: 1 hour 42 minutes
directed by: Charlotte Wells
cast: Frankie Corio, Paul Mezcal, Celia Rawlson-Hall
Polygon’s #8 best movie of the year is filmmaker Charlotte Wells’ impressive feature debut, which you can finally watch at home.let us advertise after sun speaks for itself.
Human memory is notoriously unreliable — even your sworn testimony is flawed enough to be discarded. Childhood memories are perhaps the best example of this: even small and isolated memories, when viewed on the full spectrum of adulthood, can be filtered through the prism of concern and care that accompanies them, completely changing tone. It can be a difficult concept to wrap your head around.Such after sun It feels like a small miracle in that we were able to not only capture the scope, but gracefully frame the whole concept.
Young father Callum (Paul Mezcal) and his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio) are on a rare resort vacation. teasing the video camera). Its plot is simple in composition but far more profound in its execution, capturing with equal vivid clarity the poignant perspective of both Calum and Sophie’s vacation experiences.of after sunhands, memory is as slippery as ever. At times, conversations haunt Sophie and threaten to drown Callum. Growth is about seeing the full picture of their journey, after sun The ability to capture it is quietly devastating. It’s a testament to the performances (most of all Mezcal’s compassionate fatigue) at the heart of how the film manages to suggest so much without overdoing its point. It may be, but other times it’s all we have just a memory echoing in a grainy video camera or a memory of a warm hug.
Blaze
Where to watch: Available to rent for $6.99 apple and vudu
Genre: Crime/fantasy drama
Execution time: 1 hour 41 minutes
directed by: Del Kathryn Burton
cast: Julia Savage, Simon Baker, Yael Stone
The drama follows an imaginative 12-year-old girl, Blaise (Julia Savage), who is traumatized when she inadvertently witnesses a woman being assaulted in a neighborhood alleyway. Cared for by her father (Simon Baker), she retreats to the safety of her own fantasy as she tries to confront the horrors she has witnessed and the greater atrocities of the world at large.
kids vs aliens
Where to watch: Available to rent for $6.99 Amazon, appleand voodoo
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
Execution time: 1 hour 15 minutes
directed by: Jason Eisner
cast: Dominic Marrish, Phoebe Rex, Karem McDonald
You’re looking for 80’s throwback sci-fi horror with the synthwave score you need. stranger thingsNow let’s watch the new movie from hobo with a shotgun Directed by Jason Eisner, it’s about a group of kids whose raucous pajama party goes from bad to worse when bloodthirsty aliens descend on a quiet little suburb with plans to take over Earth.
menu
Where to watch: Available to rent for $5.99 Amazon, appleand Vudu (also streaming HBO Max)
Genre: dark comedy/horror
Execution time: 1 hour 47 minutes
directed by: Mark Myrod
cast: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult
Anya Taylor-Joy (norseman) star opposite Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max Fury Road) as Margot, is invited on a “date” with a wealthy foodie named Tyler (Holt) to dine at Hawthorne, a fine dining restaurant owned by reclusive world-famous chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). do. But it didn’t take long before they realized Slowik was thinking of something else besides bourguignon for overpriced oysters and beef.
From our review:
menu Often read like an extended version of a set of plays. A group of people forced into close proximity gradually crack under pressure to reveal new things about themselves. It’s the staging itself that keeps it going, not the energy of that stage. Production designer Ethan Tobuman was inspired by all of Luis Buñuel’s devastating 1962 film. angel of extinction (another film about self-righteous elites who cannot escape each other) to German Expressionist architecture. He and cinematographer Peter Deming give the film a harsh, punishing chill that highlights both the lack of comfort and warmth in haute cuisine and the state of mind of Chef Slowwick. It’s a suitably gorgeous, sensory-driven film, with something eye-catching in every frame.
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Where to watch: Available to rent for $5.99 Amazon, appleand voodoo
Genre: biographical drama
Execution time: 2 hours 10 minutes
directed by: Shinonie Chukwu
cast: Daniel Deadweiler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison
Daniel Deadweiler stars in Mamie Till’s Chinonye Chukwu biopic drama, a woman who campaigned for justice after her son Emmett Till was violently lynched while visiting family in Mississippi. increase.