Activision Blizzard's controversial boss Bobby Kotick has said he will stay on as the company's CEO for the remainder of 2023, following Microsoft's long-awaited acquisition of the company today.
23.09.2023 - 13:59 / polygon.com / Jamie Foxx / Sylvester Stallone / Best
We’re almost there, folks. October is right around the corner.
We celebrate horror year-round here at Polygon, but Halloween is a special time of year, and we’re excited to celebrate it with you. But first, some business: There are some great movies leaving streaming services at the end of September, and you should watch them before they’re gone.
You want a feel-good classic? Netflix has got you. What about a side-splitting comedy? Head on over to Prime. And Netflix, Max, and Hulu each have a modern classic for you… whether you’re looking for fast-paced medieval action or the unique voice of Wes Anderson.
Here are the best movies to watch before they leave streaming services at the end of September.
Year: 1976
Genre: Sports drama
Run time: 2h
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers
Leaving Netflix: Oct. 1
I hadn’t actually watched Rocky until recently. With the release of Creed III, I felt inspired to finally go back and experience the series’ origins.
After finally sitting down and watching it, I realized just how much of an unforced error my hesitation was. Rocky is one of the greatest sports movies I have ever seen, not for what it has to say about the sport of boxing itself, but for what it says about why the sport means anything to anyone at all. It’s a love letter to a downtrodden and disaffected working class of people who are too often overlooked and neglected by their own society.
Rocky is so much more than a “boxing movie.” It’s a story about how the American dream itself is inextricably the summation of every thwarted hope, missed opportunity, precarious mistake, and inevitable heartbreak that precedes it. It’s an unapologetically earnest story about the stubborn yet unassailable persistence of hope in the face of adversity, of choosing to believe in yourself when no one else will, save for those who stand closest to you in your darkest moments. It’s not just about boxing; it’s about the life-changing power of simply choosing to take your shot in this life. Question is: What shot are you gonna take? —Toussaint Egan
Year: 2006
Genre: Crime thriller
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li
Leaving Netflix: Oct. 1
Michael Mann has made a number of certified cinematic bangers across his long and illustrious career, like his 1995 symphonic crime drama Heat — one of my all-time favorite movies. But no other film in his oeuvre is more quintessentially “Mann-core” than Miami Vice, the feature-length adaptation of the 1984 crime drama series Mann produced starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.
The plot couldn’t be any further from the point. Here’s the real heart of Miami Vice’s enduring appeal: It simply doesn’t look or
Activision Blizzard's controversial boss Bobby Kotick has said he will stay on as the company's CEO for the remainder of 2023, following Microsoft's long-awaited acquisition of the company today.
Alienware 34 AW3423DWF | 34-inch | 165Hz | QD-OLED | $1,099.99$849.99 at Best Buy (save $250) Alienware's fancy QD-OLED panel just got that little bit cheaper. It's still not exactly entry-level at $850, but it was $1,000 very recently. And think of it as a long term investment that will make every single gaming session pop. Once you've experienced per-pixel OLED-style lighting, you won't want to go back to LCD tech. You can read our Alienware QD-OLED review for more.
Amazon’s October Prime Day event, also known as Prime Big Deal Days, includes a vast array of video game deals, board game deals, D&D deals, and so much more. While big-ticket items like gaming monitors and TVs are what Prime Days are best known for, smaller items like toys and plushies are also discounted during the two-day event — and great stocking stuffers to, well, stock up on.
Apple announced the new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max with a wide range of novelties and changes. The new models feature the same powerful chip, different from the standard models, to keep a performance gap. However, only the iPhone 15 Pro Max features a 5x tetraprism lens, while the standard model features an optical zoom lens from last year that features only 3x capabilities. A prominent industry analyst suggests that Apple is looking to offer the new tetraprims lens on the iPhone 16 Pro as well as the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
The list of great horror movies to watch can be daunting, and finding the best titles in the tangled mess of streaming services makes things ever harder. But this Halloween, you can simplify the entire spooky movie process by checking out a few horror classics streaming for free on services like Freevee and Tubi.
One of the absolute best pieces of Iconic Cyberware in Cyberpunk 2077 is locked behind a specific ending choice. Exclusive to the Phantom Liberty DLC, the Quantum Tuner is your secret reward for following a certain ending path. The Cyberware doesn’t just boost damage, it also instantly resets cooldowns for Berserk, Sandovistan and Optical Camo. That makes this an easy pick for one of the best upgrades you can get surgically inserted into your brain.
It’s been a bittersweet weekend for the Overwatch League. On October 1, the Florida Mayhem defeated the Houston Outlaws within Overwatch 2 in the Overwatch League Grand Finals, but although this is a reason to celebrate — the Overwatch League may be saying its final farewell.
is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It is the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and the fifth live-action film in the Spider-Man film series.
Bethesda boss Todd Howard says Starfield was "basically done" by holiday 2022, and to help test the mammoth RPG, virtually everyone on the development team got a build to play on their own Xbox consoles and PCs at home.
Patch 3 for Baldur's Gate 3 is finally live, and with it comes a whole host of patch notes addressing various bug fixes and improvements - but there's nothing sweeter than better performance in Act 3.
As part of Capcom's Tokyo Game Show presentation, we've gotten our most extensive look yet at Dragon's Dogma 2, and it's looking like exactly what I want out of a follow-up to the cult classic open-world RPG.
We know precious little about The Movie Critic, the project slated to be Quentin Tarantino’s tenth (and final) movie. A new cast report, however, has suggested that the director is aiming for a Pulp Fiction reunion.