Netflix’s Choose or Die, Ti West’s X, and every other movie you can stream from home this weekend
This weekend Choose or Die, the 2022 video-game horror film starring Iola Evans (Carnival Row) and Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), premieres on Netflix. If you’re not looking for 1980s-themed throwback horror and haunted technology à la 2004’s Stay Alive, not to worry — there’s plenty of great new releases on streaming and VOD this week to choose from.
In addition to Choose or Die, the Spanish comedy drama Today We Fix The World, the Polish romantic comedy The Taming of The Shrewd, and the Nigerian drama The Man of God all come to Netflix this weekend. The latest horror film from The House of the Devil director Ti West starring Mia Goth finally comes to VOD, as well as the Australian action-horror film Wyrmwood: Apocalypse and the cerebral sci-fi thriller Chariot starring John Malkovich.
The Philippine-Japanese sports biopic Gensan Punch comes to HBO Max, while the haunted house thriller The Cellar on Shudder. Oh, and did I mention that another critically acclaimed 2021 movie from the director of Drive My Car comes to Criterion Channel this weekend? Like I said, there’s a lot of great movies to choose from!
To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch on streaming and VOD this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
The 2022 horror film Choose or Die stars Iola Evans as Kayla, a broke college student and coder who stumbles upon an obscure ’80s text-based survival game supposedly tied to a still-unclaimed $100,000 prize. However, this is no Ready Player One; think Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Aided by her friend Isaac (Asa Butterfield), Kayla quickly discovers that the game, named “CURS>R,” is (unsurprisingly) cursed as the choices made in the game begin to
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