Every novel in Martha Wells’ hit sci-fi series The Murderbot Diaries is currently on sale through Amazon. You can pick up hardcover copies of each book for anywhere between 40% and 45% off, with prices ranging from $11.69 to $15.99 per book. A box set of the first three books is also on sale for $43.99 (45% of its typically price of $79.96). The timing of these sales couldn’t be...

A new series of Taskmaster is always an event worth celebrating, but series 19 is a special occasion for the rapidly growing American fan base of the British comedy panel game show: American comedian and nexus of chaos Jason Mantzoukas is officially joining the action.  The show has had North American contestants before (Desiree Burch, Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin), but Mantzoukas is the first contestant to be based professionally in...

Hong Kong’s action cinema of the 1980s and ’90s featured some of the most ambitious filmmakers, charismatic stars, and memorable set pieces of any era of moviemaking anywhere. But for the last 20 years, almost all of the era’s classics have been unavailable for digital rental, purchase, or streaming in the U.S. due to international rights issues. Shout! Studios is changing that, with an announcement Monday of an exciting upcoming...

Just like the season before it, The Last of Us season 2 walks a line between faithfully adapting its source’s already cinema-inspired material and expanding on that material to meet the medium of television. And so, as players watched in 2020’s The Last of Us Part 2 and viewers watched a few weeks ago in The Last of Us season 2, there’s a scene early in the story when Ellie...

The day action fans have been waiting over four years for has finally arrived: The Raid franchise mastermind Gareth Evans’ new action movie, Havoc, has finally dropped. The Netflix original — made under Evans’ deal with the streamer, which also resulted in the Dan Stevens-starring horror-mystery Apostle — stars Tom Hardy and is already, in my view, the standout in a strong crop of 2025 action movies. It’s also a...

The horror movie Until Dawn doesn’t exactly follow the video game it’s based on. In fact, it has an entirely new cast of characters and a totally different story. But that doesn’t mean the filmmakers abandoned their source material entirely. In fact, the movie’s scariest scene feels like it was pulled directly out of the game. Polygon sat down with director David F. Sandberg and co-writer Gary Dauberman to talk...

In A24’s new fantasy adventure movie The Legend of Ochi, the titular apelike creatures communicate via strange chirps and whistles. Their unique vocals become a pivotal plot point, especially after lonely 12-year-old Yuri (Helena Zengel) runs off to return a baby ochi to its colony deep in the forest. For the most part, people like Yuri’s father (Willem Dafoe) view the ochi as aggressive, but Yuri learns that they’re not as...

Spring is here, and for some that means it’s time to get outside and start enjoying the fresh air. If that doesn’t sound like you, then Netflix has quite a few great horror movies to fill your time with instead. This month, we handpicked a few of the best horror movies on Netflix that fit the current season. Sometimes they pair well with an upcoming release. Other titles might be...

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. This week, Havoc, the long-awaited new film from The Raid director Gareth Evans and starring Tom Hardy, bursts its way onto Netflix. There are tons of other new releases on Netflix alone, including a Japanese action thriller perfect for fans of...

The very same day Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins’ fifth Hunger Games book, was announced, so was a movie adaptation. Lionsgate had previously jumped on announcing the movie version of Collins’ other Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, but the sheer speed on this announcement was even quicker. The movie is set to come out November 2026, and with the book out just this past March,...