Avatar, the upcoming adaptation of James Cameron's popular franchise, received a new gameplay during Sony's State of Play in September.
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Happy Friday, Polygon readers!
Each week, we round up the most notable releases new to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week we have the streaming debut of the new DC Universe superhero movie starring Ezra Miller, a beautiful romantic drama from director Celine Song, and much more.
Big George Foreman, the recent theatrical biopic based on the life of the former heavyweight boxing champion and grill entrepreneur, comes to Netflix this weekend.Vacation Friends 2, the sequel to the 2021 buddy comedy starring Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) and John Cena arrives on Hulu alongside the exhilarating eco-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline. That’s not even mentioning The Flash on Max, or the other exciting new releases on Criterion Channel, on AMC Plus, and available to rent or purchase on VOD services.
Here’s everything new to watch over the weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Sammi Cohen
Cast: Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Idina Menzel
This coming-of-age teen comedy follows two best friends whose dreams of planning their own epic bat mitzvahs are thrown for a loop when the affections of their school’s most popular boy throw a wrench in their otherwise flawless friendship. Can they mend the rift in time to go to each other’s parties and celebrate this exciting new phase of their lives?
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Biographical sports drama
Run time: 2h 9m
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cast: Khris Davis, Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro
This 2023 biopic stars Khris Davis (Judas and the Black Messiah) as George Foreman, charting the life of the former heavyweight boxing champ from his humble beginnings to his late-career comeback. The film covers his time as an amateur boxer, his near-death experience in the ring, his period as a Baptist minister, and yes— his promotion of the George Foreman grill.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Eco-thriller
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Cast: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage
Director Daniel Goldhaber (Cam) adapts Andreas Malm’s incendiary 2021 nonfiction book into a fictional crime thriller. The movie follows a group of climate activists who, disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of divestment movements and the inaction of government regulation, band together to pull off a politically charged act of property damage as environmental protest: blowing up an oil pipeline in West Texas.
From our review:
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is the rare movie that effectively weaponizes a radical political message by marrying it to conventional genre storytelling. It feels like a game-changer: the kind of movie that will
Avatar, the upcoming adaptation of James Cameron's popular franchise, received a new gameplay during Sony's State of Play in September.
Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The trailer show off the upcoming open-world title’s gameplay, while also giving us a glimpse into its story. Check out the trailer below.
Redeeming trade codes to acquire specific Pokémon has always been a practice that many players indulge in while playing any of the mainstream Pokémon games, and this is also the case with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Fortunately, we already have a plethora of codes available for the recently released Generation IX games that players can utilize.
If things were up to Marvel Studios, Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man would have made a cameo in. However, the originally planned Marvel Cinematic Universe plans were shaken up. What happened to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man cameo in Multiverse of Madness? Here’s what you need to know.
By Brandon Widder, a senior editor overseeing deals, gift guides, and commerce. He spent six years spearheading buying guides and consumer tech coverage at Digital Trends.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers!
As another week draws to a close, we're back with some more streaming recommendations. From brand new releases to opportunities to catch up on cinema releases at home, there's something for everyone here.
Stray, the post-apocalyptic puzzle-platformer about a cat, a drone, and a bizarre city populated entirely by robots, is being made into an animated movie that Annapurna Animation head Robert Baird said will be «the first and greatest hopepunk movie that's ever been made.»
After multiple delays, Payday 3 finally arrives this month, but if you just can’t wait to get your hands on the game, a free open beta is being held this weekend. The Payday 3 Technical Open Beta won’t require you to have pre-ordered the game – anybody on Steam or Xbox Series X/S can jump in (PS5 is excluded for whatever reason). Starbreeze does warn the beta build is from a few months back, so it doesn’t necessarily represent the final state of the game – the beta is more about testing the capacity of the Payday 3 servers.
No one should have to go too long without new Star Trek, and thankfully Paramount agrees: A month after Strange New Worlds wrapped up season 2, Star Trek: Lower Decks is back with its fourth season to bring some wacky fun to the Federation (which, the rest of the Star Trek universe aside, the Federation could sorely use; they can get a bit self-serious).
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Have you ever witnessed a fire in the shape of a ring in the sky? Well, that spectacular phenomenon happens because of a solar eclipse and one is coming very soon. According to NASA, an annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun while it's at its farthest point from our planet. This unique positioning results in the Moon appearing slightly smaller than the Sun, leaving a radiant "ring of fire" around the edges of the solar disk.