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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.
Director Dean BeBlois’ live-action remake of his 2010 DreamWorks Animation film How to Train Your Dragon (co-directed with Chris Sanders) proved once again why studios keep doing these remakes as it quickly outpaced the original’s lifetime theatrical earnings. Nostalgic fans and new audiences can watch Vikings make friends with dragons across VOD services this weekend. Proving teens are safer hanging out with fire-breathing lizards than AI companions, the murderous dancing robot M3GAN returns for M3GAN 2.0. Also available to rent is Die Hard knockoff Bride Hard, where Rebel Wilson has to save her best friend’s wedding.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch on streaming this weekend!
New on Netflix
Wall to Wall
Genre: Thriller
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kim Tae-joon
Cast: Kang Ha-neul, Yeom Hye-ran, Seo Hyun-woo
Dealing with your apartment neighbors is often awkward, but it’s downright nightmarish in Wall to Wall. Woo-sung (Kang Ha-neul of Squid Game) poured all his money into buying a Seoul apartment he hopes will be a good investment, but becomes increasingly enraged and paranoid when he’s unable to stop the noise all around him.
New on Hulu
The Amateur
Genre: Action thriller
Run time: 2h 4m
Director: James Hawes
Cast: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe
Oscar winner Rami Malek plays a CIA cryptographer who goes on a quest for answers after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack in this globe-trotting thriller from Black Hawk Down and Transformers: The Last Knight writer Ken Nolan. Malek’s analyst uses his information-gathering skills and unconventional tactics to get what he needs along the way, including training from Lawrence Fishburne.
The Assessment
Genre: Dystopian science fiction
Run time: 1h 54m
Director: Fleur Fortune
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, Alicia Vikander
In a not-so-distant future, scarce resources mean that prospective parents must undergo a grueling week-long psychological assessment to earn permission to have a child. A couple living in a remote beach-side home is pushed to the breaking point by their assessor, who watches them in their most intimate moments and acts like a child to see how they react.
New to rent
Bride Hard
Genre: Action comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Simon West
Cast: Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Anna Chlumsky
It’s wedding season again for Bridesmaids star Rebel Wilson. This time she’s playing Sam, a spy who’s managed to hide her line of work from everyone including her childhood best friend Betsy (Anna Camp of Pitch Perfect). But when Betsy’s swanky wedding is taken hostage, Sam must use her skills to save the big day.
How to Train Your Dragon
Genre: Fantasy adventure
Run time: 2h 5m
Director: Dean DeBlois
Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gabriel Howell
Golden Globe winner Dean DeBlois, who helmed the original How to Train Your Dragon films, wrote and directed the live-action version of the story about a teenage Viking befriending an injured dragon. The new version is longer to add more detail to the story and spend extra time showing Hiccup (Mason Thames) and the sleek catlike dragon Toothless enjoying flying together.
Iconic
Genre: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Matthew Freiheit
Cast: Emma Jade, Alyssa Anthony, Noor Dabash
A bipolar beauty influencer’s life gets extremely ugly after her makeup disfigures another influencer’s face. Harassed by a disturbed stalker and entangled in a volatile romance with another bipolar woman, Rose (Emma Jade) becomes increasingly paranoid and jealous as she tries to maintain her picture perfect lifestyle.
M3GAN 2.0
Genre: Science fiction action
Run time: 2h
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Cast: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ivanna Sakhno
Gerard Johnstone channels AI anxieties again in the sequel to 2023’s horror comedy M3GAN, swapping domestic horror for action. When the tech meant to create the perfect friend to a lonely tween is used in a military robot that tries to take over the world, the rogue robotic doll M3GAN (Amie Donald, voiced by Jenna Davis) gets the chance to redeem herself by stopping the threat.
