Netflix’s Unfrosted, Turtles All The Way Down, 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, Unfrosted, Jerry Seinfeld's comedy about the invention of Pop-Tarts, premieres on Netflix. If brand biopics aren’t your bag, there’s certainly no shortage of new releases to choose from this week. The coming-of-age teen drama Turtles All The Way Down releases on Max this weekend, alongside the remaster of Jonathan Demme’s classic concert film Stop Making Sense, a new romcom starring Anne Hathaway on Prime Video, and much more.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jerry Seinfeld
Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan
Nowadays it feels like everyone and every thing is getting the biopic-comedy movie treatment. Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Blackberry mobile phones, Nike Jordan sneakers — you name it. Unfrosted is the latest in this emerging trend, chronicling the sorta-true story of how Kellog’s beat their competitors to market with their patented Pop-Tart product.
From our review:
Despite its family-friendly veneer, Unfrosted is a resolutely cynical work. Step outside of the candy-colored glow of its warm cinematography and the picture is bleak. Just as Pop-Tarts come from the executives in the film studying trash, Hollywood’s desperation for marketable IP means studios are happy to greenlight literal garbage. What does it mean that Jerry Seinfeld — a man who never needs to work another day in his life if he doesn’t want to, a guy mostly famous these days for simply hanging out — is back with a movie that proves Hollywood will greenlight a film about any old brand, no matter how nonsensical?
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Coming-of-age comedy
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Kim O. Nguyen
Cast: Julia Lester, Antonia Gentry, JT Neal
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