Netflix’s Unfrosted and all the new movies to watch at home this weekend

Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week we round up the most notable new releases coming to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new films you can watch at home.

This week, Unfrosted, Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy about the invention of Pop-Tarts, premieres on Netflix. If brand bios aren’t your thing, there’s certainly no shortage of new releases to choose from this week. The coming-of-age teenage drama Turtles at the bottom is out this weekend on Max, alongside the remaster of Jonathan Demme’s classic concert film Stop making sensea new romantic comedy with Anne Hathaway on Prime Video and much more.

Here’s everything new to see this weekend!

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New on Netflix

Unfrosted

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: John P. Johnson / Netflix

Genre: comedy
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Jerry Seinfeld
Pour: Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan

These days it feels like everyone’s thing gets the treatment as a biopic comedy film. Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Blackberry phones, Nike Jordan sneakers – you name it. Unfrosted is the latest in this emerging trend and tells the somewhat true story of how Kellog’s beat its competitors to market with its patented Pop-Tart product.

From our review:

Despite its family-friendly appearance Unfrosted is a decidedly cynical work. Once you step outside the candy-colored glow of the warm cinematography, the picture is bleak. Just as Pop-Tarts come from film executives dealing with garbage, Hollywood’s desperation for marketable intellectual property means studios are happy to greenlight literal garbage. What does it mean that Jerry Seinfeld – a man who will never have to work again in his life if he doesn’t want to, a guy who is mostly known these days for just hanging out – is back with a movie that proves it that Hollywood will give the green light? Movie about some old brand, no matter how nonsensical?

New on Hulu

Prom dates

Where to see: Available to stream Hulu

Photo: Brett Roedel/Disney

Genre: Coming-of-age comedy
Duration: 1h 30m
Director: Kim O. Nguyen
Pour: Julia Lester, Antonia Gentry, JT Neal

After unexpectedly breaking up with both of their dates, two high school friends hatch a plan to find new dates in time for their prom. With their prospects dwindling, the two have no other choice: they sneak into a college party and find new dates there.

New at Max

Turtles at the bottom

Where to see: Available to stream Max

Genre: Romantic drama
Duration: 1h 51m
Director: Hannah Marks
Pour: Isabela Merced, Cree Cicchino, Felix Mallard

Based on John Green’s 2017 young adult novel Isabela Merced (Dora and the Lost City of Gold) plays Aza Holmes, a 16-year-old struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder who reunites with her childhood crush, the son of a fugitive billionaire. As Aza tries to track the disappearance of her crush’s billionaire father, she will learn to live with and overcome her challenges to achieve her happiness.

From our review:

In a way, Max’s Turtles at the bottom is an anti-John Green adaptation – at least an anti-preconception about John Green. Since his first novel, he has attempted to deconstruct the tropes for which he accidentally became known. But sometimes it takes an outside hand to free a story from judgment and give it a new shape so it can shine without an author’s reputation (however bad) weighing on it. Marks creates a fulfilling coming-of-age story from Green’s book. Turtles has familiar John Green touchpoints – a tricky story structure, a teenage romance, a quirky best friend – but it turns the story inward and creates fantastic character exploration that, in its best moments, feels like a punch in the gut feels.

Stop making sense

Where to see: Available to stream Max

Image: A24

Genre: Concert film
Duration: 1h 28m
Director: Jonathan Demme

You may be sitting on your couch at home looking for something to watch. And maybe check out what’s new in the streaming and VOD space. And you might also be intrigued by the latest 4K remaster of Jonathan Demme’s acclaimed Talking Heads concert film. And you may be wondering: Why don’t I take a look at this?

New to Prime Video

Your idea

Where to see: Available to stream Prime Video

Image: Prime Video

Genre: Romantic comedy
Duration: 1h 55m
Director: Michael Showalter
Pour: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin

Is it really possible for a 20-something rock star and a 40-something single mother to have a relationship? Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine) and Solène Marchand (Anne Hathaway) will find out in this romantic comedy based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel.

New to Peacock

The American Society of Magical Negroes

Where to see: Available to stream peacock

Photo: Tobin Yelland/Focus Features

Genre: Fantasy romantic comedy
Duration: 1h 45m
Director: Kobi Libya
Pour: Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan

Kobi Libii’s directorial debut stars Justice Smith (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) as Aren, a young biracial artist who is recruited to join a secret group of magical black people who secretly help white people in their mission to solve racism. You can probably imagine how well this works.

New to AMC Plus

American star

Where to see: Available to stream on AMC Plus

Image: IFC Films

Genre: Action thriller
Duration: 1h 47m
Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego
Pour: Ian McShane, Nora Arnezeder, Thomas Kretschmann

Ian McShane (John Wick, Dead wood) plays an over-the-top hitman who heads to the tropical island of Fuerteventura to complete his last assignment before retirement. As he waits for his destination, he finds himself drawn to the people on the island and their life there, and begins to think about what kind of life he wants to build after leaving his career as an assassin behind him.

New to Metrograph At Home

Pamphyr

Where to see: Available to stream on Metrograph At Home

Image: Directors’ Fortnight

Genre: Fantasy drama
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyj-Sobchuk
Pour: Oleksandr Yatsentyuk, Stanislav Potiak, Solomiia Kyrylova

This Ukrainian drama tells the story of Leonid (Oleksandr Yatsentyuk), a reformed smuggler who gave up his life of crime to become a family man. Despite his best efforts, Leonid is unable to earn an honest living and recruits his brother to care for his wife and teenage son. Caught between a local crime syndicate and local law enforcement, Leonid must find a way to secure a better life for himself.

New for rent

Arcadian

Where to see: Available for purchase at Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Photo: Patrick Redmond/RLJE Films

Genre: Action horror
Duration: 1h 31m
Director: Ben Brewer
Pour: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins

Nicolas Cage stars as a father of two sons desperate to protect and raise his family in a near future where the Earth is being decimated by the arrival of ferocious nocturnal creatures. When their father is wounded by one of these creatures, his sons must band together and use every lesson of their training to survive.

Blue giant

Where to see: Available for purchase at Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: NUT/GKIDS

Genre: theatre
Duration: 1h 31m
Director: Yuzuru Tachikawa
Pour: Yuki Yamada, Shotaro Mamiya, Amane Okayama

Yuzuru Tachikawa (Mob Psycho 100, Death parade) returns with an animated drama based on Shinichi Ishizuka’s 2013 manga. Blue giant The focus is on Dai Miyamoto, a high school basketball player who gives up his athletic ambitions and becomes a jazz saxophonist. Dai moves to Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming the best saxophonist alive. If he is to have any hope of achieving his goal, he must overcome more than just his inexperience.

Woman

Where to see: Available for rent Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: Anton/Utopia

Genre: thriller
Duration: 1h 39m
Directors: Sam H. Freeman, by Choon Ping
Pour: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, George MacKay, Aaron Heffernan

After being brutally attacked by an unknown man and a group of friends, a drag queen named Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) confronts her attacker – a closeted young man named Preston (George MacKay) – in a gay sauna. Jules begins an affair and seeks revenge against Preston, who is unaware of Jules’ true identity and intentions.

They shot the piano player

Where to see: Available for purchase at Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre: Musical docudrama
Duration: 1h 43m
Directors: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
Pour: Jeff Goldblum, Tony Ramos, Abel Ayala

This animated docudrama follows a music journalist (voiced by Jeff Goldblum) who embarks on a journey around the world to uncover the truth behind Francisco Tenório Júnior, a Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who was instrumental in popularizing bossa nova music contributed, and the reason for this sudden mysterious disappearance.