28 Years Later might be the third entry in the horror series, but the moody film feels like it could be a standalone work – right up until its final moments. The post-apocalyptic coming-of-age story from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and writer Alex Garland (Civil War) plays with time and perspective, only revealing the importance of its first scene with a cliffhanger ending that sets up the next film...

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. After nearly 15 years, the Final Destination horror franchise returned to theaters last month with Final Destination: Bloodlines from Freaks writer-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein. The film about death pursuing an entire family is available to rent for the...

Ryan Coogler’s vampiric box office hit Sinners is coming home to Max this summer. The film, starring Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld, will make its streaming debut on July 4. The Black Panther and Creed director reunited with Jordan for Sinners, in which he plays identical twin gangsters Smoke and Stack. Set in 1932, the movie follows the brothers as they return home to Mississippi with the goal of using their ill-gotten money and...

Last month, Marvel and DC dropped a bombshell: The rival comic publishers will release crossover one-shots featuring Deadpool and Batman teaming up later this year. DC will publish Batman/Deadpool #1 from Grant Morrison and Dan Mora, while Marvel has tapped Zeb Wells and Greg Capullo for Deadpool/Batman #1. The backup stories and their creative pairs for Marvel’s book were announced Friday, and they might end up being more fun than the main...

The 2025 anime spring season came on strong. Lazarus, the new project from Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichiro Watanabe, launched in April, alongside Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Wind Breaker season 2 brought more intense fighting scenes, while Kowloon Generic Romance proved to be the existential posthuman sci-fi I didn’t know I needed. This season, I also found a small gem: YAIBA: Samurai Legend, available on Netflix and Hulu. This adaptation of...

Ask five random people to name one Alfred Hitchcock movie, and chances are good they’ll all say Psycho first, whether they’re  classic-movie superfans who could name all his works going back to the British silent-movie days, or they couldn’t pick Hitch out of a crowd in one of his famous director’s cameos. You could argue all day with those people about whether Psycho is Hitchcock’s best movie, but it’d be...

2002’s 28 Days Later objectively revitalized the zombie genre through fast-paced action and human drama. In fact, director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and writer Alex Garland (Civil War) inspired so many imitators that it’s hard to believe there could be more life to wring out of the survivors of a viral apocalypse being hunted by the infected. Yet with 28 Years Later, Boyle and Garland have once again produced a...

Twenty-seven years ago, Spider-Man: The Animated Series saw Spider-Man and Madame Web en route through the multiverse to locate the real Mary Jane Watson. But before fans could see MJ and Peter Parker reunited, Spider-Man: TAS ended. Yes, Marvel Studios’ X-Men ’97 finale showed us Mary Jane and Peter Parker together again, but the show didn’t explain exactly how. Marvel Comics is ready remedy that in its new book, Spider-Man...

Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding already has a live-action movie adaptation in the works with A24 and director Michael Sarnoski attached, but it’s not the only cinematic project in the works. Animation studio Line Mileage and Kojima Productions announced Wednesday that they’re teaming up for an animated adaptation of the 2019 game, which is described as an adult-targeted animated feature — a la Predator: Killer of Killers and the upcoming animated John...

Vin Diesel’s 2015 film The Last Witch Hunter is currently popping on Netflix — currently the 5th most-viewed movie across the entire streaming platform, as of publication. And while many consider it a flop, the madcap fantasy film, the star’s ode to Dungeons & Dragons in many ways, is truly the only Diesel joint that deserves a sequel. The story follows warrior Kaulder (Diesel), who avenges his fallen family by...