Netflix Nimona, M3GAN and every new movie to watch at home this week

Happy Friday, Polygon readers!

Each week, we round up the hottest new VOD and online releases, highlighting the best and hottest new movies for you to watch at home. This week he has some highly anticipated releases on Netflix, as well as some out-of-date satire and fantasy action on VOD.

Nimonalong-awaited adaptation of ND Stevenson’s popular graphic novel starring Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick in the butt) and Riz Ahmed (the sound of metal), available to stream on Netflix, as well as a new psychological thriller starring Sarah Snook (heir). Sci-fi horror comedy M3GAN is finally available to stream on Max, while the new version Corn’s children remake is now streaming on Peacock. In terms of VOD, we’ve got a live-action adaptation of Masami Kurumada’s classic mythical action manga. Saint Seiya main actor Mackenyu (Rurouni Kenshin, A piece) and Sean Bean, as well as a wild millennial imitation of the classic Swiss children’s story Heidi.

Let’s go into it!

New on Netflix

Nimona

See where: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

category: Comedy fantasy adventure
run time: 1 hour 41 minutes
Director: Troy Quane, Nick Bruno
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed

Inspired by ND Stevenson favorite 2015 graphic novelsthis animated comedy adventure starring Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick in the butt) as Nimona, a teenage shapeshifter who teams up with the knight (Riz Ahmed) tasked with assassinating her to clear his criminal name and save her own life.

Run rabbit run

See where: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

category: Psychological thriller
run time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Manager: Daina Reid
Cast: Starring: Sarah SnookLily LaTorreDamon Herriman

Sarah (Sarah Snook), a fertility doctor, becomes confused by the strange behavior of her daughter (Lily LaTorre), whose style and personality begins to resemble her long-lost sister. you, Alice. As she tries to get to the root of her daughter’s condition, Sarah is forced to confront her own beliefs about life after death as she processes a repressed heartbreak in the past.

New on Max

Rock Hudson: All God Allowed

See where: Available to stream on maximum

Image: Max

category: Documentary
run time: 1 hour 44 minutes
Manager: Stephen Kijak
Cast: Actor: Rock Hudson Illeana Douglas Carole Cook

This documentary delves into the career of Rock Hudson, one of the most famous and iconic leading actors in Hollywood’s golden age, as well as his private life as an actor. reclusive gay man and his tragic death in 1985 from AIDS complications.

Taylor Mac’s 24 Decades of Popular Music

Image: HBO

category: Documentary
run time: 1 hour 46 minutes
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

In 2016, gay theater luminary Taylor Mac gave a one-time 24-hour performance that went down in American pop music history in lavish style. Seven years later, we have a documentary about that day, tracking the exhilarating (and exhausting) performance 24 hours in a row, with all the costume changes, the amount of music. and interact with the audience.

New on Prime

M3GAN

See where: Available to stream on Excellent

Image: Universal Image

category: Sci-fi horror comedy
run time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Manager: Gerard Johnstone
Cast: Starring: Allison Williams, Jenna Davis, Violet McGraw

The latest horror movie of family Directed by Gerard Johnstone and Malignant Screenwriter Akela Cooper follows Gemma (Allison Williams), a robot builder for a toy company in Seattle, who creates an artificially intelligent doll to care for her orphaned niece Cady (Violet). McGraw). But when the doll begins to commit a series of violent murders ostensibly in the service of its primary directive, Gemma will have to fight to protect her niece and the world from what she has done. create.

Our word review:

The Graveyard of Horror Comedies is one of the saddest and most boring of all. It’s filled with hundreds of lousy parodies, non-laughing jumbles, silly trash, and perhaps a few unfortunate movies that weren’t intentionally designed to be amusing. The worst movies in the sub-genre are like tight-lipped acts that try too hard to balance what the creators seem to think are polar opposites, hopefully the audience laughs at this and screams in. after. But following in the footsteps of classics like the original Chucky movie Child’s playDirector Gerard Johnstone and the team behind the new horror comedy M3GAN realize that laughing and shouting aren’t really that different — and most importantly, both can be the key to a great time.

New to the peacock

Book Club: Next Chapter

See where: Available to stream on Peacock

Image: Focus feature

category: Comedy
run time: 1 hour 47 minutes
Manager: bill holder
Cast: Starring: Diane KeatonJane FondaCandice BergenMary Steenburgen

Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen reprise their roles as Diane, Vivian, Sharon and Carol in the 2018 romantic comedy sequel Book Club. Meeting face-to-face for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, four friends travel to Italy to celebrate Vivian’s impending marriage.

New to Shudder

Corn’s children

See where: Available to stream on Creepy

Image: Movie RLJE

category: Horrified
run time: 1 hour 33 minutes
Manager: Kurt Wimmer
Cast: Actor: Elena Kampouris Kate Moyer Callan Mulvey

Kurt Wimmer’s 2020 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 short story focuses on Boleyn Williams (Elena Kampouris), a high school girl who finds herself at odds with a mentally ill 12-year-old, bringing together the another kid in her small Nebraska town to kill every adult. stand in their way. This is the 11th Children of the Corn film, but it is not related to any of the previous installments.

New on VOD

Zodiac Knight

See where: Available for purchase for $14.99 on Amazon, AppleAnd vudu

Photo: Stage 6/Toei Animation

category: Fantasy action
run time: 1 hour 52 minutes
Manager: Tomasz Baginski
Cast: Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, Mackenyu

This mythical martial arts fantasy drama is based on the manga by Masami Kurumada Saint Seiya tells the story of orphaned teenager Seiya (Mackenyu), who, after being recruited by a wealthy billionaire (Sean Bean), learns that he is destined to protect the reincarnation of the goddess Athena (Madison Iseman). ). Dressed in the armor of the Knight of the Horse, Seiya must fight against supernatural forces to protect humanity from harm.

Our word review:

[There are] There are two things for new viewers to enjoy: Bean and Janssen’s unfortunate short performance and short, erratic creative action sequences. Looks like the people behind Zodiac Knight Start by drawing out the worst part of the franchise, then go on to make worse and worse decisions. The only good thing about the movie is that there was an American TV pilot in the ’90s (who only survived 19 seconds), so Zodiac Knight at least it can’t be called the worst work that Saint Seiya media has ever made.

Display

See where: Available for purchase for $5.99 on Amazon, AppleAnd vudu

Photo: Allyson Riggs/A24

category: comedy
run time: 1 hour 47 minutes
Manager: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André 3000

Kelly Reichardt (first cow) is a special filmmaker, the type whose latest work is always checking the appointment. Her latest is Displaytells the story of a sculptor (Michelle Williams) balancing her professional life with her personal life as she’s ready to open up to a new way of doing things.

Are you there God, it’s me, Margaret

See where: Available for purchase for $5.99 on Amazon, AppleAnd vudu

Photo: Dana Hawley/Lionsgate

category: Teen dramas
run time: 1 hour 46 minutes
Manager: Kelly Fremon Craig
Cast: Actors: Abby Ryder Fortson Rachel McAdams Kathy Bates

Judy Blume’s iconic coming-of-age story adapted from Kelly Fremon Craig (Edge of Seventeen), starring Abby Ryder Fortson (the original Cassie in Ant-Man) as Margaret and Rachel McAdams, and Kathy Bates and Benny Safdie as her family.

Crazy Heidi

See where: Available to rent for $2.99 ​​on Amazon

Image: Raven Banner Entertainment

category: Dark action adventure
run time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Director: Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein
Cast: Alice Lucy, Kel Matsena, Casper Van Dien

This action-thriller reimagines the classic Swiss children’s tale of Heidi into a bloody crushing mill-style exploitative scam. In a dark Switzerland ruled by a tyrannical cheese magnate (Casper Van Dien), Heidi embarks on a violent campaign to free her country and avenge her murdered lover.

Love gets a room

See where: Available to rent for $3.99 on vudu

Photo: Production Nostromo

category: Dramatic
run time: 1 hour 43 minutes
Manager: Rodrigo Cortes
Cast: Starring:Clara RugaardFerdia Walsh-PeeloMark Ryder

Inspired by a true story, Love gets a room is a real-time World War II drama about a Jewish actress captured during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and her troupe’s daring efforts to staged the play, the film takes its title from in the face of that occupation.