Nimona from Netflix, M3GAN and all the new movies to watch at home this week

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 has some highly anticipated releases on Netflix as well as some fantasy action and dystopian satirical films on VOD.

Nimonathe long-awaited adaptation of ND Stevenson’s acclaimed graphic novel starring Chloë Grace Moretz (Excellent) and Riz Ahmed (sound of metal), is available to stream on Netflix, as well as a new psychological horror thriller starring Sarah Snook (successor). The science fiction horror comedy M3GAN is finally available to stream on Max while the new children of the corn The remake is now streaming on Peacock. On the VOD side we have the live action adaptation of Masami Kurumada’s classic mythological action manga Holy Seiya with Mackenyu (Rurouuni Kenshin, One piece) and Sean Bean, as well as a wild grindhouse-style parody of the classic Swiss children’s story Heidi.

Let’s start!

New on Netflix

Nimona

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Fantasy adventure comedy
Duration: 1h 41m
Directors: Troy Quane, Nick Bruno
Pour: Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed

Inspired by ND Stevenson’s popular 2015 graphic novel, this animated comedy adventure stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Excellent) as Nimona, a teenage shapeshifter who teams up with the knight (Riz Ahmed) to assassinate her in order to clear him of a crime and save her own life.

run rabbit run

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: psychological thriller
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Daina Reid
Pour: Sarah Snook, Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman

Sarah (Sarah Snook), a fertility doctor, is increasingly troubled by the strange behavior of her daughter (Lily LaTorre), whose demeanor and personality resemble that of her long-lost sister, Alice. As she tries to understand the cause of her daughter’s condition, Sarah must confront her own beliefs about life after death while processing the repressed trauma of her past.

New to Max

Rock Hudson: Anything Heaven Allowed

Where to see: Available for streaming Max

Image: Max

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: Stephen Kijak
Pour: Rock Hudson, Illeana Douglas, Carole Cook

This documentary follows the career of Rock Hudson, one of the most famous and celebrated leading actors of Hollywood’s golden age, as well as his private life as a closed gay man and his tragic death in 1985 from complications from AIDS.

Taylor Mac’s 24-decade history of popular music

Image: HBO

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 46m
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

In 2016, queer theater luminary Taylor Mac presented a one-off 24-hour show that flamboyantly traversed the history of American popular music. Seven years later we have a documentary about that day, following the exciting (and tiring) process of the 24-hour performance with all the costume changes, musical numbers and audience interaction that the show entailed.

New to Prime

M3GAN

Where to see: Available for streaming Prime

Image: Universal Pictures

Genre: Science fiction horror comedy
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Pour: Allison Williams, Jenna Davis, Violet McGraw

The latest horror film from Tied to the house Director Gerard Johnstone and Malignant Screenwriter Akela Cooper follows Gemma (Allison Williams), a roboticist for a Seattle toy company who creates an artificially intelligent doll to care for her orphaned niece, Cady (Violet McGraw). But when the doll begins a series of violent murders, ostensibly in the service of her highest directive, Gemma must fight to protect her niece and the world from what she created.

From our review:

The graveyard of terrible horror comedies is among the saddest and most boring in all of film. It’s filled with hundreds of parodies of bad taste, laughable messes, silly trash, and probably a few unfortunate movies that aren’t intentionally meant to be laughed at. The worst films in this subgenre act like tightrope walkers, trying too hard to balance what the creators seem to think are two opposite extremes, hoping audiences will be laughing one moment and screaming the next. But in the footsteps of classics like the original Chucky movie child’s playDirector Gerard Johnstone and the team behind new horror comedy M3GAN realize that laughing and screaming aren’t all that different – and more importantly, that both can be the key to having a great time.

New to Peacock

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Where to see: Available for streaming peacock

Image: focus functions

Genre: comedy
Duration: 1h 47m
Director: Bill Holderman
Pour: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen

Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen reprise their roles as Diane, Vivian, Sharon and Carol in the sequel to the 2018 romantic comedy book club. For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the four friends meet in person and travel to Italy to celebrate Vivian’s upcoming wedding.

New to Shudder

children of the corn

Where to see: Available for streaming Shudder

Image: RLJE Films

Genre: horror
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Pour: Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey

Kurt Wimmer’s 2020 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 short story is about Boleyn Williams (Elena Kampouris), a high school girl who conflicts with a psychopathic 12-year-old who harms the other kids in her small town in Nebraska to kill any adult who kills them stands in their way. It is the 11th Children of the Corn film but it bears no relation to the previous ones.

New on VOD

Knights of the Zodiac

Where to see: Available for $14.99 Amazon, AppleAnd vudu

Photo: Stage 6/Toei Animation

Genre: fantasy action
Duration: 1h 52m
Director: Thomas Baginski
Pour: Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, and Mackenyu

This mythological martial arts fantasy film is based on the manga by Masami Kurumada Holy Seiya tells the story of teenage orphan Seiya (Mackenyu) who, after being recruited by a wealthy billionaire (Sean Bean), learns that he is destined to protect the reincarnation of the goddess Athena (Madison Iseman). Wearing the armor of the Pegasus Knight, Seiya must fight against supernatural forces to protect humanity from harm.

From our review:

[There are] Two things new viewers can enjoy: Bean’s and Janssen’s sadly brief appearances, and brief, erratic bursts of creative action. It seems like the people are behind it Knights of the Zodiac I first resorted to the worst part of the franchise and then made worse and worse choices. The film’s only saving grace is that there once was a live-action American TV pilot from the ’90s (only 19 seconds of which survive). Knights of the Zodiac At the very least, it can’t be called the worst piece of Saint Seiya media out there.

Turn up

Where to see: Available for $5.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Photo: Allyson Riggs/A24

Genre: drama
Duration: 1h 47m
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Pour: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André 3000

Kelly Reichardt (First cow) is a special filmmaker whose latest work is always date performances. your newest is Turn upabout a sculptor (Michelle Williams) who balances her professional life with her personal life as she prepares to start a new life.

Are you there, God, it’s me, Margaret

Where to see: Available for $5.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Photo: Dana Hawley/Lionsgate

Genre: Coming-of-age dramedy
Duration: 1h 46m
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Pour: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates

Judy Blume’s iconic coming-of-age story gets this adaptation by Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen), starring Abby Ryder Fortson (the original Cassie from the Ant-Man films) as Margaret and Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Benny Safdie as her family.

Crazy Heidi

Where to see: Can be rented for $2.99 Amazon

Image: Raven Banner Entertainment

Genre: Dystopian action-adventure
Duration: 1h 32m
Directors: Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein
Pour: Alice Lucy, Kel Matsena, Casper Van Dien

This action thriller reinterprets the classic Swiss children’s story of Heidi in a gory, grindhouse-style exploitation parody. In a dystopian Switzerland ruled by a tyrannical cheese baron (Casper Van Dien), Heidi embarks on a violent campaign to liberate her country and avenge her murdered lover.

Love gets a room

Where to see: Can be rented from Vudu for $3.99

Image: Nostromo Productions

Genre: theatre
Duration: 1h 43m
Director: Rodrigo Cortes
Pour: Clara Rugaard, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Mark Ryder

Inspired by a true story, Love gets a room is a real-time WWII drama that follows a Jewish actress implicated in the Nazi occupation of Poland and her theater company’s brave efforts to bring the play that gives the film its title to the stage in the face of this occupation .