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 hire 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 One in all Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, involves streaming on Netflix.

Right here’s all the things new that’s obtainable to look at this weekend!

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Netflix

Style: Buddy comedy
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Lawrence Lamont
Forged: Keke Palmer, SZA, Katt Williams

SZA and Keke Palmer star on this buddy comedy by which they play two greatest mates who’ve sooner or later to seek out the $1,500 they want for hire, as a result of considered one of their boyfriends blew via 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 look at: Obtainable to stream on Max

Style: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kyle Mooney
Forged: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison

Keep in mind when everybody thought the yr 2000 would trigger a bunch of electronics errors? Nicely, in Kyle Mooney’s Y2K, the error isn’t a lot an error as it’s digital gadgets coming to life and making an attempt 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 look at: Obtainable to stream on Shudder

Style: Horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Stephen Cognetti
Forged: 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 along with his spouse (Elizabeth Vermilyea) and sister (Kathryn Miller) in hopes of beginning a brand new life. Upon transferring into their new residence, nonetheless, the household finds themselves stalked by a malevolent presence whose affect runs deep all through the city’s historical past.

The place to look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Spy thriller
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Forged: 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 will belief one another in a discipline the place practically everybody is aware of lie.

The place to look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Drama
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Naoko Yamada
Forged: Akari Takaishi, Sayu Suzukawa, Taisei Kido

On this quiet, contemplative film from Okay-On! and Sound! Euphonium director Naoko Yamada, three lonely youngsters begin a band. It’s much less a couple of love for music and extra concerning the three of them discovering kindred spirits with one another. The principle character has a type of synesthesia the place she sees explicit feelings and other people as colours. The splashes of attractive watercolor hues add some stunning emotional influence to the in any other case grounded visuals.

What makes The Colours Inside work so effectively is how the naturalistic animation mixed with the particular set-pieces and conditions create such a definite feeling and ambiance. There are simply so many attractive, 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 soppy loneliness that slowly lessens because the characters develop nearer and nearer.

Style: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Osgood Perkins
Forged: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery

Coming off the power of final yr’s breakout horror thriller Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins is again with a brand new black comedy horror primarily based on Stephen King’s 1980 quick story. The Monkey stars Theo James (Divergent) as Hal and Invoice, equivalent twins who need to discover a strategy to destroy a cursed cymbal-banging monkey toy with the facility to kill anybody unlucky sufficient to cross its path.

As Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante places it:

The Monkey, for the entire acquainted trappings, isn’t simply one other horror-tinged distraction. Because the kills grow to be gnarlier — and extra, how do I put this?… spectacular? — it turns into clear that Perkins is utilizing a well-recognized 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 look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Mark Anthony Inexperienced
Forged: 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 look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Journey
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Dougal Wilson
Forged: 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 potential of an empty nest. However Paddington known as to Peru as a result of his expensive Aunt Lucy has vanished from the house for retired bears! Paddington and his household trek via the Peruvian jungles and shortly be taught that Aunt Lucy isn’t the one misplaced factor persons are trying to find. Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas be part of the forged and commit absolutely to the little bit of campy Paddington forged member.

The place to look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Thriller thriller
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Duke Johnson
Forged: André Holland, Gemma Chan, Might 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 a neighborhood costume designer named Edna (Chan), Paul begins to get well fragments and traces of his earlier life as an actor, forcing him to query who he’s now and what he actually needs out of life.

Night time of the Zoopocalypse

The place to look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Administrators: Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro
Forged: David Harbour, Bryn McAuley, Paul Solar-Hyung Lee

This animated journey follows the antics of a bunch of zoo animals… who discover themselves dealing with 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 be taught to work with all the opposite animals with a view to save their residence from the creepy alien zombies. David Harbour voices the mountain lion! Acceptable!