Lisa Frankenstein, Imaginary, and every new movie to watch this weekend

March 29, 20248 Mins Read

Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, 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, Imaginary, the new horror movie from Blumhouse, finally comes to VOD. Not interested? That’s all right; there’s tons of other exciting new releases to choose from this weekend. Lisa Frankenstein, the new horror comedy from Jennifer’s Body writer-producer Diablo Cody, comes to Peacock this weekend, along with the dark comedy When You Finish Saving the World starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard on Netflix. There’s also plenty of other intriguing VOD releases, including the 4K remaster of Stop Making Sense, the culinary romance drama The Taste of Things, and more.

Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!

New on Netflix

The Beautiful Game

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Two men standing beside a goalpost holding a soccer ball.

Genre: Sports drama
Run time: 2h 5m
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Bill Nighy, Micheal Ward, Susan Wokoma

Bill Nighy stars as the manager of England’s homeless football team who coaches them to compete at a global tournament in Rome in this new sports drama. Micheal Ward (Empire of Light) also stars as Vinny, the talented but troubled player on the team whose skills might deliver them the championship.

The Wages of Fear

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Genre: Thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Julien Leclercq
Cast: Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot

The third remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s classic 1953 thriller follows a team of drivers who are tasked with a deadly mission: Deliver two truckloads of highly volatile nitroglycerine across a desert to douse a deadly gas explosion. This version of The Wages of Fear stars a cast of big-name French talent, including Alban Lenoir of Lost Bullet fame.

When You Finish Saving the World

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

A teenage boy (Finn Wolfhard) with a guitar case on his back stands next to a older, long-haired woman (Julianne Moore) wearing glasses.

Genre: Black comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Jesse Eisenberg
Cast: Julianne Moore, Finn Wolfhard, Alisha Boe

Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), a high school student with a passion for folk music, and his mother, Evelyn (Julianne Moore), the head of a women’s shelter, just can’t seem to get along. As their relationship increasingly frays, the two begin to seek out emotional reciprocity in others and question what it is exactly they are searching for in their relationship, in Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut.

The Miracle Club

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Genre: Comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan
Cast: Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates

Set in 1967, this comedy follows a group of three close friends who reunite with the daughter of their late friend Chrissie while vacationing in the French town of Lourdes.

New on MGM Plus

The Boys in the Boat

Where to watch: Available to stream on MGM Plus

Genre: Sports biopic
Run time: 2h 3m
Director: George Clooney
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Callum Turner, Jack Mulhern

When I think of the 1936 Summer Olympics, I think of Jesse Owens and the incredible things he accomplished in the sprint and long jump events in front of a German crowd passionately rooting against him. But another group of Americans also made history while vying for Olympic glory — the University of Washington rowing team, a group of working-class athletes whose story is told in George Clooney’s latest directorial effort.

New on Peacock

Lisa Frankenstein

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

Lisa laying in bed beside the Creature, stroking his hair.

Genre: Comedy horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Zelda Williams
Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano

Writer-producer Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body) and director Zelda Williams’ latest film is a fiendishly funny horror comedy inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Kathryn Newton (Freaky) stars as Lisa, a lonely and misunderstood teenage girl who finds love in the most unexpected of places: the reanimated corpse of a Victorian-era man (Cole Sprouse).

From our review:

Many of Lisa Frankenstein’s individual scenes are strong, but like the decaying male lead, the movie could use more connective tissue. One of the movie’s first scenes takes place at a party, and drags on way longer than it needs to, burying Lisa in the shuffle of moving parts. When Lisa first encounters the Creature, there’s an involved sequence as she runs away from him, through the house, ultimately dangling out of a window in an effort to get away. But not even a full minute later, she’s tenderly taking care of him, before she even recognizes that he’s the same man whose grave she’s been enamored with.

New on Mubi

The Settlers

Where to watch: Available to stream on Mubi

Three stern-looking men mounted on horseback with a forest of trees and bushes in the distance.

Genre: Crime drama
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle
Cast: Camilo Arancibia, Mark Stanley, Benjamin Westfall

This revisionist Western follows three horsemen: a Chilean marksman (Camilo Arancibia), British lieutenant (Mark Stanley), and an American mercenary (Benjamin Westfall) who embark on a mission to “secure” a wealthy landowner’s plot of land. After realizing the true scope and intent of their expedition, tensions flare between the men.