New Witcher on Netflix, Flow, and every movie new to streaming

Every week on Polygon, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the most important and greatest new motion pictures so that you can watch at house.

This week, there’s a brand new Witcher animated film, that includes the return of Geralt’s online game voice actor, the superb animated film Movement, a few cat escaping a flood, the filmed model of Waitress: The Musical, the newest Bridget Jones film, an Apple TV Plus thriller that includes Anya Taylor-Pleasure as a crack sniper who fights monsters, and extra.

Right here’s the whole lot new that’s out there to look at this weekend!

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Netflix

Style: Animated fantasy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kang Hei Chul
Solid: Doug Cockle, Anya Chalotra, Emily Carey

Primarily based on among the best brief tales writer Andrzej Sapkowski ever wrote in his Witcher universe (“A Little Sacrifice”), this new animated film follows Geralt and Jaskier because the Witcher makes an attempt to take care of an age-old battle between a kingdom of people and the individuals of the ocean that reside close by. Animated by the identical group that made 2021’s The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Sirens of the Deep is certain to have some fairly incredible motion, and as an added bonus for longtime Witcher followers, actor Doug Cockle might be reprising his position of Geralt from the online game sequence.

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Max

Style: Animated cat journey
Run time: 1h 25m
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Solid: N/A

Movement is a post-apocalyptic Homeward Certain, the place one little darkish gray kitty tries to seek out its manner in a flooding world. The cat joins up with a grumpy capybara, an overly-friendly Labrador, an inquisitive lemur, and an aloof secretary fowl. On a lonely little boat, they navigate the rising waters. It’s advised solely with out dialogue and simply via the amazingly animated physique language of the animal principal characters.

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Max

Style: Musical comedy
Run time: 2h 24m
Director: Brett Sullivan (reside movie), Diane Paulus (stage)
Solid: Sara Bareilles, Drew Gehling, Joe Tippett

Waitress: The Musical is the skilled reside stage recording of Waitress, which is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, which is predicated on the 2007 film Waitress. Like the unique film, Waitress: The Musical follows a small city waitress trapped in an abusive marriage as she navigates an sudden being pregnant and desires of escaping. The reside stage recording stars Bareilles, who took up the position throughout a really restricted run in 2021 that was staged as a part of an effort to slowly reopen Broadway after COVID-19.

Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Peacock

Style: Romantic comedy
Run time: 2h 4m
Director: Michael Morris
Solid: Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Hugh Grant

In the event you thought this was one more Bridget Jones film the place she’s caught between Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy and one other man, you’d be improper! As a result of Mark is lifeless! What! (Plainly Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver is alive). The film picks up roughly 4 years after Mark’s loss of life, as Bridget ideas her toe again into the courting pool. Sparks fly between her and a 29-year outdated hottie — however she’s additionally bought some mad chemistry with a trainer at her kids’s faculty. What’s a gal to do? In contrast to each different time, apparently she gained’t find yourself with Mark :’)

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Hulu

Style: Satanic horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Osgood Perkins
Solid:Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood

One of many strangest and most fascinating horror motion pictures of final yr, Longlegs follows a younger lady within the FBI who stumbles on a breakthrough on a serial killer chilly case that has baffled the company for years. However the deeper she will get into the case, the nearer to hell she feels — thanks in no small half to the killer himself, performed by Nicolas Cage. For all of the darkness of Longlegs although, the true shock is simply how humorous this film is, and the way typically that may play into the discomfort the film is aiming for too.

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Hulu

Style: Sci-fi drama
Run time: 1h 52,
Director: Bernardo Britto
Solid: Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Carlos Jacott

Omni Loop follows a time journey researcher named Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker) who will get advised that she’s solely bought a couple of days left to reside, because of a black gap that’s rising in her chest. To forestall her destiny, she enlists the assistance of Paula (Ayo Edebiri), who helps her analysis mysterious capsules that enable the one that takes them to enter a time loop.

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Hulu

Style: Music documentary
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Questlove
Solid: André 3000, Chaka Khan, George Clinton

Sly Lives is a documentary all about Sly and the Household Stone. However even for those who aren’t already conversant in the groundbreaking band, director Questlove brings in an all-star solid of musical collaborators that can assist you perceive together with, André 3000, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Q-Tip, D’Angelo, Ruth Copeland, Clive Davis, and extra.

The place to look at: Out there to stream on Apple TV Plus

Style: Sci-fi, motion, romance
Run time: 2h 7m
Director: Scott Derrickson
Solid: Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Miles Teller, Sigourney Weaver

The Gorge sits on the precise intersection of lots of totally different genres. It’s half sci-fi motion pictures, half motion, half horror, and no less than half romance, and it manages to steadiness every of them surprisingly effectively. The movie follows two snipers (performed by Anya Taylor-Pleasure and Miles Teller) who sit on opposites sides of a large Gorge and are advised to kill something that tries to get out. As the 2 get to know one another from throughout the divide, additionally they get to know the horror they’re guarding the world from too.

The place to look at: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Monkey-based music biopic
Run time: 2h 15m
Director: Michael Gracey
Solid: Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton

We’re within the period the place musicians have determined that boring biopics are out, and ones with a bizarre twist are in. Pharrell made his a Lego film. And Robbie Williams determined that he was going to inform his life story the place the whole lot was largely the identical, besides he simply occurs to be a chimpanzee. No different character feedback on this. He simply is a monkey. This does enable him to play himself for many of the film, so hey! That’s an awesome hack, since there was no manner Bob Dylan might play his younger unwashed vagabond self the best way Timotheé Chalamet did.

The place to look at: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Buddy comedy
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Lawrence Lamont
Solid: Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Bell Callow

Sza and Keke Palmer star on this buddy comedy, the place they play two greatest buddies who’ve sooner or later to seek out the $1500 they want for lease, as a result of certainly one of their boyfriends blew via all their money. Hilarity and hijinks ensue, as the 2 desperately attempt to give you the money, resorting to taking out sketchy loans, donating plasma, and climbing up a phone pole to retrieve a pair of Jordans.

The place to look at: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Drama
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Mike Leigh
Solid: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber

On this English comedy-drama, two sisters with vastly totally different personalities grapple with the anniversary of their mom’s loss of life. Pansy (Marianna Jean-Baptiste) is bitter and depressed, and so anxious that she hardly ever leaves the home. Jovial Chantelle (Michele Austin) is without doubt one of the few individuals who continuously sticks by her facet. Arduous Truths premiered on the 2024 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition to vital acclaim, particularly Jean-Baptiste’s efficiency.