The Monkey, Certainly one of Them Days on Netflix, and each film new to streaming Avid gamers Area

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 approach onto VOD. That’s not all that’s new to lease 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 Certainly one of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, involves streaming on Netflix.

Right here’s the whole lot new that’s out there to observe this weekend!

The place to observe: Out there to stream on Netflix

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

SZA and Keke Palmer star on this buddy comedy through which they play two greatest associates who’ve someday to search out the $1,500 they want for lease, as a result of one in every of their boyfriends blew via all their money. Hilarity and hijinks ensue, as the 2 desperately attempt to give you 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 observe: Out there to stream on Max

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

Bear in mind when everybody thought the yr 2000 would trigger a bunch of electronics errors? Properly, in Kyle Mooney’s Y2K, the error isn’t a lot an error as it’s digital units coming to life and attempting 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 observe: Out there to stream on Shudder

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

The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Spy thriller
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Solid: 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 subject the place almost everybody is aware of how one can lie.

The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

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

On this quiet, contemplative film from Ok-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 in regards to the three of them discovering kindred spirits with one another. The primary 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 lovely emotional impression to the in any other case grounded visuals.

What makes The Colours Inside work so nicely is how the naturalistic animation mixed with the particular set-pieces and conditions create such a definite feeling and environment. 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 sentimental loneliness that slowly lessens because the characters develop nearer and nearer.

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

Coming off the energy 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 brief story. The Monkey stars Theo James (Divergent) as Hal and Invoice, similar twins who should discover a approach 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 all the 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 observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Mark Anthony Inexperienced
Solid: 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 shortly morphs right into a nightmarish situation 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 observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Journey
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Dougal Wilson
Solid: 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 for an empty nest. However Paddington known as to Peru as a result of his pricey 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 looking for. 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 observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Thriller thriller
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Duke Johnson
Solid: André Holland, Gemma Chan, Could 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 really needs out of life.

Night time of the Zoopocalypse

The place to observe: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Administrators: Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro
Solid: 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 towards 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 in an effort to save their residence from the creepy alien zombies. David Harbour voices the mountain lion! Applicable!