Thunderbolts* Lands on Disney+ This Labor Day — Plus Red Sonja, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Together and More
Have some bloody fun this Labor Day weekend: several new movies and shows arrive on streaming and VOD, from Marvel’s Thunderbolts* to slasher comedies and sword-and-sorcery rentals.
- What’s new on Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu and for rent this weekend.
- Notable titles: The Thursday Murder Club, Thunderbolts*, Hell of a Summer, Red Sonja, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and more.
- Quick facts for each release — genre, runtime, director and main cast — so you can pick what to watch fast.
New on Netflix
The Thursday Murder Club — Genre: Crime comedy. Run time: 1h 58m. Director: Chris Columbus. Cast: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley.
Based on Richard Osman’s 2020 novel, the film follows a group of retirees who trade knitting and puzzles for an evidence board as they try to solve a local murder.
New on Disney Plus
Thunderbolts* — Genre: Superhero. Run time: 2h 7m. Director: Jake Schreier. Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell.
The film gathers misfit characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who are forced to team up; each character gets a brief backstory and an emotional arc so new viewers won’t be lost.
From our review :
For the first time since Avengers: Endgame , Thunderbolts* feels like a starting point, something great that Disney can use to build toward the future. More important than all that, however, is the fact that Thunderbolts* is the first time in a long time that Marvel has actually made a good movie — one that cares about story and characters more than it cares about references and multiverses.
New on Hulu
Hell of a Summer — Genre: Horror comedy. Run time: 1h 25m. Directors: Billy Bryk and Finn Wolfhard. Cast: Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai.
The film spoofs summer-camp slashers: after Camp Pineaway’s owners are murdered, a young adult staffer must watch a group of teens while a masked killer stalks the camp.
New to rent
The Home
The Home — Genre: Psychological horror. Run time: 1h 35m. Director: James DeMonaco. Cast: Pete Davidson, John Glover, Bruce Altman.
Created by the director of The Purge, the story follows a graffiti artist ordered to do community service at a retirement home; after a death, he investigates unusual activity on a forbidden floor.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Know What You Did Last Summer — Genre: Slasher horror. Run time: 1h 51m. Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Cast: Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King.
The film follows a group of friends who cover up a car accident and then face a hook-handed killer; Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles from the 1998 film in a seaside town tie-in.
Red Sonja
Red Sonja — Genre: Sword and sorcery. Run time: 1h 50m. Director: M. J. Bassett. Cast: Matilda Lutz, Wallis Day, Robert Sheehan.
Based on the Robert E. Howard-inspired character, Red Sonja is forced to fight in gladiatorial games and then leads a revolt to protect people and a forest from an oppressive emperor.
She Rides Shotgun
She Rides Shotgun — Genre: Crime thriller. Run time: 2h. Director: Nick Rowland. Cast: Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang.
After prison, Nate (Taron Egerton) goes on the run with his estranged 11-year-old daughter while hunted by a gang and corrupt police, and tries to protect her while rebuilding trust.
Sketch
Sketch — Genre: Fantasy comedy. Run time: 1h 32m. Director: Seth Worley. Cast: Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle.
The film centers on a girl whose drawings come to life after her sketchbook falls into a magical pond; she and her brother must use her art to stop the creatures and set things right.
From our review :
The effects are believable enough, in fact, for Sketch to work as a horror-adjacent introduction to the genre; it even has a barely metaphorical treatment of grief, like so many “elevated” grown-up horror movies of recent years . Sketch’s mixture of grade-school-appropriate scares, humor that lands (young Kalen Cox is particularly funny as Bowman), and heartfelt performances lets it stand out among other family films in a summer full of diminished live-action remakes and uninspired animation.
Together
Together — Genre: Body horror. Run time: 1h 42m. Director: Michael Shanks. Cast: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman.
The film follows an isolated, codependent couple whose fears about intimacy manifest as a supernatural force binding them together, mixing unsettling imagery with dark comedy.
From our review :
The metaphorical monster in this movie is just the idea of commitment. But that monster is also a visceral, messy Cronenbergian horror when Millie and Tim encounter a carefully foreshadowed force that wants to literally bind them together — not just as a couple, but to a grotesque, unnervingly physical degree hinted at in the trailer.
