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. Disney’s live-action Snow White was box office poison thanks to bad reviews, controversy about the dwarves, and a scaled-back promotional tour, but it could still find new life if viewers fall in love with it on Disney Plus. This is a...

“Steve’s Lava Chicken” fans, rejoice: A Minecraft Movie will make its global streaming debut on Max starting next week. A Minecraft Movie follows four everyday misfits — newly orphaned siblings Henry (Sebastian Hansen) and Natalie (Emma Myers), down-on-his-luck ’80s arcade champion Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), and real-estate hustler Dawn (Danielle Brooks) — as they’re pulled into the pixelated world of Minecraft. The group must learn to survive...

Devil May Cry 5 has officially crossed 10 million units sold since its 2019 release, and according to Capcom, the boost came largely thanks to Netflix’s anime adaptation reigniting interest in the franchise. “Recently, on April 3, 2025, the company released the new Devil May Cry animated series on Netflix,” said Capcom’s press release, “in line with the company’s Single Content Multiple Usage strategy,” which sees the company adapting its...

Coraline, the debut feature of the stop-motion studio Laika, was a modest hit in 2009, earning just over $75 million in the U.S.. But over the years, the macabre coming-of-age tale earned cult status, and when Fathom Events put it back in theaters last summer, it made another $33 million — a total that’s basically unheard of for most modern re-releases. So it’s no surprise that Laika is hoping a...

There are no shortage of reasons why The Last of Us season 2 has proven controversial, but many of those criticisms have a common root: the script. As dissatisfied fans tell it, the protagonist of the show is an immature and incompetent interpretation of Ellie, the character portrayed in the Naughty Dog games. There’s one moment in the show in particular that was so emblematic of that tonal discrepancy, fans...

Actor-producer Dave Bautista (Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy) and developer Titan1Studios have announced a major partnership to launch the multimedia Cat Assassin franchise that includes an animated series, publishing efforts, and a stealth-action video game already in development. Created by Steve Lerner, the mind behind hit games Stray and Twelve Minutes, Cat Assassin is set in a gritty neo-noir city populated by anthropomorphic felines. The story follows Hugh, a skilled assassin navigating...

Even before the news broke about the unconventional rights-reversion deal Black Panther writer-director Ryan Coogler negotiated with Warner Bros. for his horror movie Sinners, the movie was already one of 2025’s most-discussed releases. Michael B. Jordan’s dual role as twin gangster brothers Smoke and Stack, the movie’s bold themes around racial identity and community, Coogler’s intense approach to creature-feature violence, and a particularly ambitious, gorgeous scene connecting the past and...

From The Flash to Avengers: Endgame to 2002’s The Time Machine, time travel movies often follow characters hoping to prevent a present personal tragedy or larger calamity by tweaking some event in the past. The sweetly funny Our Times, now streaming on Netflix, breaks that mold by sending its characters to the future and focusing on how they make the most of their present — a novel, forward-looking reframing of the...

Cartoon Network’s Peabody Award-winning series Steven Universe earned a huge following in the 2010s for its unusual mix of rich and complicated space opera with tight stories about life in a small beachside town, along with its commitment to pushing the boundaries of queer representation in children’s television. After concluding its run with a movie, a limited series tied up loose ends and examined what life was like after the...

Story Kitchen and MoonHood Studios have teamed up to create TV and film adaptations of The Midnight Walk. Producers and writers are currently meeting to discuss the game becoming a TV and film project — which is in early development. An official press release also noted that Story Kitchen does have first-look deals with Amazon MGM Studios and DreamWorks Animation for the TV and film adaptations, respectively. Story Kitchen previously...