Streaming Shockers: 28 Years Later Returns to Netflix, Fantastic Four Hits VOD, Ballerina and M3GAN 2.0 Drop This Week

This week’s streaming drop brings a mix of big studio fare and smaller thrills. New movies are arriving on Netflix, Apple TV Plus, Hulu, Peacock, Shudder, Starz, and VOD services — so whether you want post-apocalyptic drama, sci-fi romance, a killer doll sequel, or a John Wick spinoff, there’s something new to queue up.

1. New on Netflix
2. New on Apple TV Plus
3. New on Hulu
4. New on Peacock
5. New on Shudder
6. New on Starz
7. New to rent (VOD)

New on Netflix

28 Years Later

Genre: Post-apocalyptic horror. Run time: 1h 55m. Director: Danny Boyle. Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell.

Set 28 years after the Rage Virus swept Britain, survivors live on an island that only connects to the mainland at low tide. A 12-year-old named Spike travels to the mainland to seek help for his mother. The film reteams Danny Boyle and Alex Garland.

From our review :

28 Days Later’s successors like I Am Legend, The Girl with All the Gifts and The Last of Us have also focused on the ways the initial infection evolves, but 28 Years Later stands apart by never searching for a larger cure or answers. Like the original, the film is firmly rooted in deeply personal drama, focusing on the questions of how to remember the dead and what human endeavors will stand the test of time. One of the many evocative and uncommented on shots of the film features a church spraypainted with an apocalyptic message, tagged with the name of a man who presumably came long after. 28 Years Later argues that the world is always ending for someone – what matters is how you handle the end and whatever comes next.

New on Apple TV Plus

All of You

Genre: Science fiction romance. Run time: 1h 38m. Director: William Bridges. Cast: Brett Goldstein, Imogen Poots, Zawe Ashton.

This film, co-written and directed by a Black Mirror writer, takes place in a world where a test can point people to their soulmate. The story follows two longtime friends whose lives and choices shift after one of them is matched with a different person.

New on Hulu

The Man in My Basement

Genre: Thriller. Run time: 1h 55m. Director: Nadia Latif. Cast: Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop.

A man facing foreclosure rents his basement to a mysterious tenant who offers to pay. The arrangement becomes a tense power struggle with racial undertones.

The Surfer

Genre: Psychological thriller. Run time: 1h 39m. Director: Lorcan Finnegan. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Finn Little.

Nicolas Cage plays a man who returns to his childhood home in Australia to surf with his son, but local resistance turns the simple wish into a conflict that escalates and costs him dearly.

Valiant One

Genre: Action thriller. Run time: 1h 26m. Director: Steve Barnett. Cast: Chase Stokes, Lana Condor, Desmin Borges.

A routine mission in the demilitarized zone goes wrong when a U.S. Army helicopter crew crashes in North Korea. With no help coming, a sergeant must get his unit and a civilian tech specialist back across the border.

New on Peacock

M3GAN 2.0

Genre: Science fiction action. Run time: 2h. Director: Gerard Johnstone. Cast: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ivanna Sakhno.

The sequel shifts from domestic horror to action. The technology behind the original doll is repurposed into a military robot, and the sentient doll M3GAN returns to stop a larger AI-driven threat.

New on Shudder

House on Eden

Genre: Horror. Run time: 1h 18m. Director: Kris Collins. Cast: Kris Collins, Celina Myers, Jason-Christopher Mayer.

A found-footage film in which a team of ghost-hunting vloggers investigate an abandoned house and find more than they expected. The writer-director also stars as a version of herself.

New on Starz

Ballerina

Genre: Action thriller. Run time: 2h 5m. Director: Len Wiseman. Cast: Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne.

Set between two John Wick movies, this spinoff follows a ballerina-turned-assassin who seeks revenge and crosses paths with John Wick’s world.

From our review :

While Ballerina’s wafer-thin plot leaves a thousand open questions about how this world could possibly work (honestly, another Wickiverse trademark), and several of the plot beats make no sense (like Winston casually breaking the rules of his vaunted, beloved assassin-safehouse hotel The Continental), in the end, most audiences are only really going to care about, and remember, Ballerina’s fight sequences. And while they aren’t all stunning — particularly in the draggy first act, as Eve learns to fight — the movie builds up to some sequences that stand out among the franchise’s most ambitious, wild efforts.

New to rent (VOD)

All the Devils Are Here

Genre: Thriller. Run time: 1h 30m. Director: Barnaby Roper. Cast: Eddie Marsan, Sam Claflin, Burn Gorman.

Four thieves hide out at a rural home after a heist. As boredom and suspicion grow, the group starts to turn on one another and question loyalties.

The Cut

Genre: Psychological thriller. Run time: 1h 36m. Director: Sean Ellis. Cast: Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, John Turturro.

A boxer gets one last shot at a comeback but must lose a dangerous amount of weight in six days. The film follows his physical and mental limits as he prepares for a championship fight.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Genre: Superhero. Run time: 1h 54m. Director: Matt Shakman. Cast: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

Four astronauts gain powers after exposure to cosmic rays and shape a retro-futuristic Earth as the Fantastic Four. The film introduces an alien visitor and the looming threat of Galactus.

From our review :

Apocalyptic stakes are nothing new for the MCU, though this film can at least milk some tension from the fact that since its setting is an alternate Earth, it doesn’t actually need to survive for the franchise to continue. The bigger problem is the tonal disconnect of inserting a galaxy-spanning threat into a movie that’s at its best as an intimate story about family bonds.

Went Up the Hill

Genre: Psychological drama. Run time: 1h 40m. Director: Samuel Van Grinsven. Cast: Dacre Montgomery, Vicky Krieps.

A man returns to New Zealand for his estranged mother’s funeral and meets her grieving widow. The dead woman’s presence forces the two survivors to confront loss and try to stay alive.