Netflix’s Trigger Warning, The Beast, 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, Trigger Warning, the new action thriller starring Jessica Alba as a hardened Special Forces commando, premieres on Netflix. That’s not all, as plenty of other exciting new releases make their streaming debuts this week, including a documentary on tennis legend Roger Federer on Prime Video, Kung Fu Panda 4 on Peacock, Sometimes I Think About Dying on MUBI, and more. There’s also several highly anticipated releases on VOD this week, including animated sci-fi noir mystery Mars Express and dystopian sci-fi romance The Beast starring Léa Seydoux.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Action thriller
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Mouly Surya
Cast: Jessica Alba, Anthony Michael Hall, Mark Webber
The Alba-naissance is here. Five years after her last film role (crime thriller Killers Anonymous), the onetime Sue Storm is teaming up with Indonesian director Mouly Surya in an action-packed movie inspired by the John Wick franchise (and produced by John Wick producer Basil Iwanyk). Trigger Warning is Surya’s English-language debut and was filmed three years ago, but is finally dropping on Netflix this week.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Lagueria Davis
This doc from Shondaland digs into the first Black Barbie and three Black women at Mattel who made it happen: Beulah Mae Mitchell, Kitty Black Perkins, and Stacey McBride-Irby.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Directors: Asif Kapadia, Joe Sabia
Cast: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic
Arguably the greatest men’s tennis player to ever live, Roger Federer finally hung up his racket for good in 2022. This documentary, co-directed by Senna and Amy director
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