Top Gun: Maverick, Nope, and every other new movie you can watch at home this weekend
This week, Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski’s legacy sequel to the classic 1986 aerial action drama starring Tom Cruise, finally lands on VOD. That’s not the only tentpole feature soaring through the skies, though, as Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror thriller Nope also comes to VOD this weekend.
There’s plenty more new movies to choose from, with the release of the superhero drama Samaritan starring Sylvester Stallone on Prime Video, Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg’s Netflix buddy comedy Me Time, the streaming premiere of the serial killer thrillerWatcher on Shudder, the animated superhero comedy DC League of Super-Pets on VOD, and many more.
Here’s everything new you can watch at home this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to rent for $19.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
One of the best movies of the year, Top Gun: Maverick has been a smash box office success, with sustained interest in theatergoing audiences not seen in years. Director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) teamed up with Tom Cruise to revitalize the old franchise, and made planes (and theatrical movies) cool again.
From our review:
The aerial action sequences, shot practically with real aircraft, are astounding. Kosinski lacks Tony Scott’s stylistic eye (though he can crib Scott’s sultry look well enough when he needs to), but he’s a formidable technician and a careful architect. The sheer veracity of the footage, much of it captured by the cast in-cockpit as they physically strain through high-G maneuvers, will — sorry, there’s no other way to put it — take your breath away. The compositions are sharp, the editing propulsive. The sound design and music (credited to the unimaginable power trio of Hans Zimmer, Harold Faltermeyer, and Lady Gaga, with Lorne
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