Furiosa, Netflix’s A Family Affair, The Boy and the Heron, and every movie new to streaming this week
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, The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning fantasy and his first film in over a decade, is finally available to watch on VOD this weekend. If that doesn’t entice you, might I interest you in A Family Affair, the new age-gap rom-com starring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron and streaming on Netflix? Don’t worry, there’s tons of other exciting new releases to choose from this week, including the VOD debut of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Problemistastreaming on Max, Fancy Dance on Apple TV Plus, and more.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Rom-com
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King
Another age-gap romance à la Prime Video’s The Idea of You,A Family Affair follows a personal assistant (Joey King) to a Hollywood star (Zac Efron). When she finds out he’s having a relationship with her mother (Nicole Kidman), things get awkward. A Family Affair is the first feature from director Richard LaGravenese since 2014’s The Last Five Years.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Action thriller
Run time: 1h 51m
Directors: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Garret Dillahunt, Andie MacDowell
In this new action thriller from directing duo Eshom and Ian Nelms, Orlando Bloom stars as Cash, a man with a checkered past struggling to provide a safe life for his orphaned niece (Chapel Oaks). When a violent local crime boss (Andie MacDowell) forces him back into her employment, Cash finds himself unable to discern the moral light between right and wrong.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Genre: Surrealist comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Julio Torres
Cast: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA
This irreverent comedy follows the story of Alejandro
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