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.
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reunited for 28 Years Later, revolutionizing the zombie horror genre once again by combining it with a British family drama. The infected rush onto VOD this weekend and you’ll want to be sure to catch the film before 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple releases next year. Also available to rent is Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Life of Chuck, which chronicles a man’s life in reverse. Final Destination: Bloodlines revived the horror franchise after nearly 15 years, and the hit film is now available to stream on HBO Max.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch on streaming this weekend!
New on Netflix
An Honest Life
Genre: Thriller
Run Time: 2h 2m
Director: Mikael Marcimain
Cast: Simon Lööf, Nora Rios, Peter Andersson
Law school student Simon (Simon Lööf) stumbles onto a protest and meets an anarchist who recruits him to join a group that steals from the wealthy. Bullied by his rich roommates and disillusioned with his ordinary life, Simon is seduced by their lifestyle but winds up just being a pawn in their schemes.
New on HBO Max
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 50m
Director: Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
Cast: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon
The revival of the long-running franchise, where death comes for people who’ve escaped its grasp through laying elaborate traps, quickly became the most successful film in the series at the box office. This version follows the family of a woman whose premonition in 1969 saved her life as her descendants, who shouldn’t exist, improbably die one by one.
New on Hulu
William Tell
Genre: Action epic
Run time: 2h 14m
Director: Nick Hamm
Cast: Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Golshifteh Farahani
The legendary archer and folk hero William Tell (Claes Bang) leads the Swiss to rise up against the brutality of the Austrian Habsburgs in this bloody historical epic. Beyond shooting an apple off his son’s head, Tell uses his skills as a Crusader to train resistance fighters to face superior numbers in big battles against villains sporting ridiculous costumes.
New on Peacock
Borderline
Genre: Thriller
Run time: 1h 34m
Director: Jimmy Warden
Cast: Samara Weaving, Ray Nicholson, Jimmie Fails
Pop star Sofia (Samara Weaving) is taken hostage by Paul (Ray Nicholson), an obsessive fan who’s just escaped from a mental hospital. While Paul tries to orchestrate a wedding, complete with abducting a pastor for the ceremony, Sofia and her bodyguard have to fight to get free from Paul and his delusions.
New to rent
28 Years Later
Genre: Post-apocalyptic horror
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell
28 years after the Rage Virus spread across Britain, survivors have eked out a community on an island only connected to the mainland during low tide. Worried about a mysterious illness afflicting his mother (Jodio Comer), 12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) makes the dangerous journey to look for help in a beautiful and very scary world.
From our review:
28 Days Later’s successors like I Am Legend, The Girl with All the Gifts and The Last of Us have also focused on the ways the initial infection evolves, but 28 Years Later stands apart by never searching for a larger cure or answers. Like the original, the film is firmly rooted in deeply personal drama, focusing on the questions of how to remember the dead and what human endeavors will stand the test of time. One of the many evocative and uncommented on shots of the film features a church spraypainted with an apocalyptic message, tagged with the name of a man who presumably came long after. 28 Years Later argues that the world is always ending for someone – what matters is how you handle the end and whatever comes next.
The Life of Chuck
Genre: Fantasy drama
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan
Mike Flanagan writes and directs this adaptation of Stephen King’s novella, where the end of the world is tied to the death of a 39-year-old accountant Chuck (Tom Hiddleston). The film moves backwards in time for a sweet story about living life to its fullest. The movie is packed with star power, with Mark Hamill playing Chuck’s grandfather and Nick Offerman serving as narrator.
