Netflix’s 65, Guardians 3 and all the new movies to watch at home

Happy Friday, Polygon readers!

Each week we round up the most notable new releases in streaming and VOD, and highlight the biggest and best new movies to watch at home. This week he brings some highly anticipated releases to Netflix as well as one of the best superhero movies of the year on VOD.

65the prehistoric sci-fi action thriller starring Adam Driver is available to stream alongside the action comedy on Netflix this weekend The Out Laws with Pierce Brosnan and more. The coming of age drama The quiet girl sneaks onto Hulu and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 – James Gunn’s farewell to the MCU before heading to DC Studios – is finally coming to VOD. There’s plenty more new, little-known releases to discover this week, including the post-apocalyptic comedy biosphere with Sterling K. Brown (Hotel Artemis) and Mark Duplass (To sneak) and the new horror comedy The Blackening.

Let’s dive in!

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New on Netflix

65

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Image: SonyPictures

Genre: Science fiction action thriller
Duration: 1h 33m
Directors: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Pour: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt

Adam Driver stars as an alien astronaut who crashes on a prehistoric Earth and must fight the planet’s hostile creatures to escape along with the only other survivor of the crash (Ariana Greenblatt) in this sci-fi action thriller. If you want to see a bearded, grieving man shooting at dinosaurs with a laser gun, then this is the movie for you.

The Out Laws

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix

Genre: action comedy
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Tyler Spindle
Pour: Adam DeVine, Pierce Brosnan, Ellen Barkin

When a “straightforward bank executive” (Adam DeVine, according to the character’s Netflix description) finally meets his future in-laws (Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin), he’s quick to believe they’re dealing with an infamous bank robbery duo. Lil Rel Howery, Richard Kind, Michael Rooker and DeVine’s workaholics Co-star Blake Anderson is a supporting cast member.

the tutor

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Image: Vertical

Genre: psychological thriller
Duration: 1h 32m
Director: Jordan Ross
Pour: Garrett Hedlund, Victoria Justice, Noah Schnapp

This crime thriller is about a young man (Garrett Hedlund) who is given the task of tutoring his strange son (stranger things‘ Noah Schnapp) of a billionaire. Things take a turn as the boy becomes more and more obsessed with his teacher’s life.

wham!

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 32m
Director: ChrisSmith
Pour: George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley

Using archive footage and interviews, this documentary tells the story of pop duo Wham through the eyes of its two members, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.

New on Hulu

The quiet girl

Where to see: Available for streaming hulu

Image: Great

Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Duration: 1h 36m
Director: Colm Barrett
Pour: Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch

Cáit (Catherine Clinch), a 9-year-old girl, is sent to rural Ireland to escape her immediate family’s dysfunction. Cáit finds solace in the care of two middle-aged farmers until the uncovering of a secret threatens to shatter the fragile peace of her adopted homeland.

New on VOD

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

Where to see: Available for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Photo Credit: Jessica Miglio/Marvel Studios

Genre: superhero action
Duration: 2h 29m
Director: James Gunn
Pour: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista

The third and final part of James Gunn’s MCU Trilogy is one of the best-received superhero movies of the year and it’s finally available to watch at home.

From our review:

This is a film featuring a planet-sized laboratory made of flesh held together by bone, where data is stored in pus-covered capsules, and where a private security company led by Nathan Fillion hides a hideous body armor in the Power Rangers style wears that looks tough musculature. It’s a film in which a Russian cosmonaut Golden Retriever has telekinesis and a family of humanoid vampire bats serve the heroes blue lemonade in an otherwise quaint Norman Rockwell home. In other words, it’s a film full of real fantasy, real and strange sets, costumes and makeup, wacky visual humor and more than a little horror.

The Blackening

Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu for $19.99

Photo: Glenn Wilson/Lionsgate

Genre: horror comedy
Duration: 1h 36m
Director: Tim story
Pour: Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, and Melvin Gregg

This horror comedy follows a group of black friends who fall into the clutches of a deadly killer. The friends are forced to play a dangerous board game where “proving” their blackness is the key to survival. They must use all their assets to defeat their captor and get safely to freedom. Remember scary movie 2? Yes, that is very similar.

biosphere

Where to see: Can be rented for $6.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Image: IFC Films

Genre: science fiction comedy
Duration: 1h 46m
Director: Mel Eslyn
Pour: Sterling K. Brown, Mark Duplass

This sci-fi comedy follows two men trapped in a self-sustaining biosphere as the last living humans on Earth. Fearing their predicament, they must find a way to move forward and find a new way to ensure humanity’s survival.