If you didn’t already think Disney was taking over the world, their latest announcement alongside Epic Games should terrify you.
26.01.2024 - 23:47 / polygon.com / Hayley Atwell / Jason Momoa / Tom Cruise
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, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the final installment in the “Snyderverse” era of the DC cinematic universe and the sequel to James Wan’s 2018 original starring Jason Momoa, splashes its way onto VOD this month alongside Ferrari, the Enzo Ferrari biopic from director Michael Mann and starring Adam Driver. Badland Hunters, the sequel to the 2023 Korean dystopian drama Concrete Jungle, arrives on Netflix, and that’s not the only new movie coming to streaming this week. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One arrives on Paramount Plus this week and the new horror-thriller Trunk: Locked In comes to Prime Video, among other exciting new releases to choose from.
Here’s everything new to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Dystopian action
Run time: 1h 47m
Director: Heo Myung-haeng
Cast: Ma Dong-seok, Lee Hee-joon, Lee Jun-young
Ma Dong-seok (Train to Busan,Eternals) stars in Heo Myung-haeng’s sequel to Um Tae-hwa’s 2023 film Concrete Utopia as Nam San, a survivalist living in a lawless wasteland following an apocalyptic earthquake. After being hired to thwart a mad scientist (Lee Hee-joon) hellbent on human experimentation, he and his trusted partner (Lee Jun-young) will have to face off against heavily armed militia and ravenous zombie creatures in order to save the day. Prooobably with some big punches.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Violent action thriller
Run time: 3h 24m
Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol
One of the biggest and most controversial movies out of India last year lands on Netflix stateside. Animal is notable for its sprawling length, hyper violence, and “alpha male” themes that have brought criticism of misogyny.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 36m
Director: Marc Schießer
Cast: Sina Martens, Luise Helm, Artjom Gilz
This new horror thriller follows Malina (Sina Martens), a 28-year-old medical student who wakes up disoriented in the trunk of a moving car. With nothing save her partially charged smartphone, Malina must rely on every ounce of her survival instincts to contact the police, deduce the identity of her kidnappers, and safely escape.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus
Genre: Spy action thriller
Run time: 2h 43m
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Ethan Hunt is back in the seventh (and possibly penultimate) installment in the Mission: Impossible spy-action franchise. This time, Hunt and the IMF
If you didn’t already think Disney was taking over the world, their latest announcement alongside Epic Games should terrify you.
Grand Theft Auto fans waited years for an official reveal of the next game. After an unfortunate leak for Rockstar Games, fans were given a small look into Grand Theft Auto VI. However, it wasn’t until December last year that Rockstar Games offered their first trailer announcing the game and highlighting the protagonist. Today, a discovery has fans hopeful a second trailer is coming sooner rather than later.
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.
Wordle today: The past week has been extremely easy for Wordle players as they have come across words such as PLACE, AFTER, WHICH, and REPEL. All of these words are common and are often used in daily conversations, making them easy to guess. This is the case with Wordle today as well. The answer to Wordle 965 for February 9 is fairly straightforward and can be guessed without too much stress. To ensure the winning streak, you can easily access check Wordle hints and clues. It will help you gain a deeper understanding of the words and make a strategy before haphazardly beginning your Wordle.
Today the Konami team is thrilled to share Silent Hill news coming out of State of Play. Fans will be able to play a new Silent Hill game starting today, and we have a new look at the anticipated Silent Hill 2 remake.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, US President Joe Biden will soon announce subsidies top semiconductor companies like Samsung, Intel, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co) and others to make advanced chips in the US. The strategy is to keep the US and its allies as ahead of fierce rivals like China as is possible.
This initial report on A Real Paincomes from our team following the premieres at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. We’ll update this piece when there’s more information about the movie’s release.
In a recent interview, game director Jerk Gustafsson discussed the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. He explained the meaning behind the game’s title, MachineGame’s inspiration for its story, and what the studio hopes to accomplish with gameplay.
Now see here Ollie Toms, supposed guides editor of this supposed videogames website - if Enshrouded really does have "the best building system in the survival genre" then why does the floor of my hovel look like a petrified sneeze? I was innocently carving myself a nice stone foundation last night when the Devil jogged my elbow and I dug a massive, raggedy trench straight through it. I've spent an hour now trying to fill in the trench and flatten it out, to no avail. There's always a jaggedy bit right in the middle, and I'm getting displaced trypophobia from the awareness that my efforts have seeded the terrain beneath with random cavities.
The Nintendo Switch version of the farm life simulator My Time at Sandrock has just received a major update that added a lot of new content. This update also addressed many issues that have plagued the handheld port for weeks.
The Sims 4 recently released a kit focused on castle building, and a player has managed to make an incredible castle, resorting only to the items available in the base game and this new pack. The Sims 4 went free-to-play in 2022, and this made it possible for a greater number of gamers to enjoy the game. While players can enjoy dozens of features with the base game, they can also significantly diversify the type of gameplay they get access to by purchasing additional content.
is a bit of a misnomer. It certainly ups the visuals from the original 2020 release of, but it also provides a fair amount of new content. The most significant is No Return, a roguelike game mode, but it also includes three Lost Levels, galleries of concept art, new skins for characters and weapons, a developer commentary track for the main game, and a few more odds and ends. Developer commentary piques interest, and its implementation in the campaign is middling, but the Lost Levels, which also include it, are a revelation.