Challengers, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Madame Web on Netflix, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, 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.
This week, Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s erotic sports drama starring Zendaya (Dune: Part Two), arrives on VOD follow its theatrical premiere last month. If watching a feuding throuple fight and flirt with one another to one of the best scores ever composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross doesn’t sound like your idea of a good time, not to worry: There’s plenty of other new releases to watch this weekend. We’ve got the serial killer crime drama He Went That Way on Hulu, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire on VOD, and Madame Web on Netflix, if you’re into that!
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Superhero action
Run time: 1h 54m
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced
Sony’s latest entry in its Spidey-less Spidey Universe stars Dakota Johnson as Cassie Webb, a paramedic living in Manhattan who gains the ability to see visions of the future after a near-death experience. When a mysterious superpowered stranger (who was with Cassie’s mom when she was in the Amazon researching spiders right before she died) begins hunting a trio of young girls, Cassie takes it upon herself to protect them.
From our review:
Madame Web might be the most shameless superhero movie of all time. Far from just the cash-in that it seemed like a few years ago when this movie headlined by an F-tier superhero was first announced, Sony’s latest Marvel offshoot is a two-hour post-credits scene, made only intermittently tolerable by Dakota Johnson’s underappreciated knack for comedy.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Musical comedy
Run time: 1h 33m
Directors: Jared Hess, Lynn Wang
Cast: Brittany Howard, Will Forte, Jemaine Clement
This animated musical comedy follows Thelma (Brittany Howard), a
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