Each week on Polygon, 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, The Monkey, the new black comedy horror thriller from director Osgood Perkins (Longlegs), screeches and bangs its way onto VOD. That’s not all that’s new to rent and purchase this week, as Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller Black Bag, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, also comes to VOD, along with Naoko Yamada’s The Colors Within, Paddington in Peru, and more. Plus, the new buddy comedy One of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, comes to streaming on Netflix.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Sony Pictures
Genre: Buddy comedy
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Lawrence Lamont
Cast: Keke Palmer, SZA, Katt Williams
SZA and Keke Palmer star in this buddy comedy in which they play two best friends who have one day to find the $1,500 they need for rent, because one of their boyfriends blew through all their cash. Hilarity and hijinks ensue, as the two desperately try to come up with the cash, resorting to taking out sketchy loans, donating plasma, and climbing up a telephone pole to retrieve a pair of Jordans.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kyle Mooney
Cast: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison
Remember when everyone thought the year 2000 would cause a bunch of electronics errors? Well, in Kyle Mooney’s Y2K, the error isn’t so much an error as it is electronic devices coming to life and trying to enslave humanity. Aren’t we glad that that didn’t happen IRL? There are some brutal and hilarious deaths, including a kill by Tamagotchi, a very 2000 soundtrack, and one great cameo.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder
Image: Blue Finch Film Releasing
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Stephen Cognetti
Cast: Lorenzo Beronilla, Brian Anthony Wilson, Elizabeth Vermilyea
Director Stephen Cognetti (Hell House LLC) is back with a new supernatural horror thriller. After a grisly family tragedy, Chuck Wilson (Joe Falcone) moves to the town of Ashland Falls with his wife (Elizabeth Vermilyea) and sister (Kathryn Miller) in hopes of starting a new life. Upon moving into their new home, however, the family finds themselves stalked by a malevolent presence whose influence runs deep throughout the town’s history.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Photo: Claudette Barius/Focus Features
Genre: Spy thriller
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela
Steven Soderbergh returns for his second feature film of 2025, this time a sultry spy thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as a happily married couple of British intelligence officers. When a top-secret malware program is stolen, Kathryn (Blanchett) is implicated and George (Fassbender) is secretly tasked with investigating her. As the plot unfolds, the couple is faced with the challenge of whether or not they can trust each other in a field where nearly everyone knows how to lie.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Naoko Yamada
Cast: Akari Takaishi, Sayu Suzukawa, Taisei Kido
In this quiet, contemplative movie from K-On! and Sound! Euphonium director Naoko Yamada, three lonely teenagers start a band. It’s less about a love for music and more about the three of them finding kindred spirits with each other. The main character has a form of synesthesia where she sees particular emotions and people as colors. The splashes of gorgeous watercolor hues add some beautiful emotional impact to the otherwise grounded visuals.
What makes The Colors Within work so well is how the naturalistic animation combined with the specific set-pieces and situations create such a distinct feeling and atmosphere. There are just so many gorgeous, evocative moments where the movie lingers: Kimi’s forlorn reflection in a set of Newton balls; the slightly fuzzy city lights behind Totsuko’s hand as she waves goodbye to Kimi; Rui’s sneakers on the snow-covered steps of the church, shifting as he calls his mother. All the small details contribute to a feeling of soft loneliness that slowly lessens as the characters grow closer and closer.
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Neo-Western thriller
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Francis Galluppi
Cast: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Sierra McCormick
This neo-Western crime thriller centers on a travelling knife salesman who unwittingly finds himself in an unconventional hostage situation after being stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop. Held at gunpoint by two ruthless bank robbers, both he and the rest stop’s waitress (Jocelin Donahue) must find a way to escape without arousing the robbers’ suspicions, all the while carrying on a normal workday like nothing’s happened. Things only get weirder and worse from there.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Image: Neon/YouTube
Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Osgood Perkins
Cast: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery
Coming off the strength of last year’s breakout horror thriller Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins is back with a new black comedy horror based on Stephen King’s 1980 short story. The Monkey stars Theo James (Divergent) as Hal and Bill, identical twins who have to find a way to destroy a cursed cymbal-banging monkey toy with the power to kill anyone unfortunate enough to cross its path.
As Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante puts it:
The Monkey, for all of the familiar trappings, isn’t just another horror-tinged distraction. As the kills become gnarlier — and more, how do I put this?… impressive? — it becomes clear that Perkins is using a familiar skeleton to support something muscular and human. He once again borrows from the works of some of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Not the ones that get added to the Criterion Collection, but those you see get loving 4K discs from boutique brands like Arrow and Vinegar Syndrome.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Mark Anthony Green
Cast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis
Ayo Edebiri (Bottoms) stars in this psychological horror thriller as Ariel Ecton, a young music journalist who is invited to the remote compound of a reclusive pop star (John Malkovich) who has been unseen for the past 30 years. What at first seems a once-in-a-lifetime interview opportunity quickly morphs into a nightmarish scenario as Ariel finds herself surrounded by cultish sycophants, intoxicated colleagues, and a nefarious idol with a lot more than music on his mind.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Image: Sony Pictures
Genre: Adventure
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Dougal Wilson
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer
Everyone’s favorite polite, marmalade-loving bear is back! His adopted siblings are all getting older and his parents face the possibility of an empty nest. But Paddington is called to Peru because his dear Aunt Lucy has vanished from the home for retired bears! Paddington and his family trek through the Peruvian jungles and soon learn that Aunt Lucy isn’t the only lost thing people are searching for. Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas join the cast and commit fully to the bit of campy Paddington cast member.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Mystery thriller
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Duke Johnson
Cast: André Holland, Gemma Chan, May Calamawy
Duke Johnson (Anomalisa) makes his solo directorial debut with this crime mystery romance starring André Holland (Moonlight) and Gemma Chan (The Creator). Having lost his memory following an assault in Idaho, Paul Cole (Holland) attempts to put his life back together in an unfamiliar town. While courting a local costume designer named Edna (Chan), Paul begins to recover fragments and traces of his previous life as an actor, forcing him to question who he is now and what he truly wants out of life.
Night of the Zoopocalypse
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Image: Viva Pictures
Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Directors: Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro
Cast: David Harbour, Bryn McAuley, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
This animated adventure follows the antics of a bunch of zoo animals… who find themselves facing off against a bunch of zombie-like aliens. A quirky timberwolf teams up with a gruff mountain lion to protect the zoo. They need to learn to work with all the other animals in order to save their home from the creepy alien zombies. David Harbour voices the mountain lion! Appropriate!
