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About Pete Volk

Pete Volk (he/they) leads Polygon’s curation efforts, highlighting the best movies, TV, games, and everything else that you can enjoy from home. Pete loves genre movies (especially martial arts films) and the cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, and is a proud voter in the Dorian Awards, the WGA Awards, and Vulture’s Stunt Awards. A working journalist for more than a decade, Pete previously covered League of Legends for Polygon, and college football and Maryland Terrapin athletics for SB Nation.

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The bright Star Wars logo on a black field.
The latest news on every Star Wars movie and TV show on Lucasfilm’s slate

The future of a galaxy far, far away

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A gigantic hulking warrior sits before two cowering humans in A Writer’s Odyssey.
15 Elden Ring-like movies to watch while you wait for the Elden Ring movie

Get your popcorn ready, Tarnished

A brown-haired anime man in a black jacket and red shirt running in Lazarus.
John Wick’s director breaks down how he got to design action on Lazarus, ‘the funnest job’ he’s ever done

‘I don’t think you should take things that don’t scare the shit out of you a little bit’

In The Eternaut, Ricardo Darín wears a gas mask and an outfit that covers his whole body, and carries a shotgun
Netflix’s The Eternaut is an apocalyptic puzzle box
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A grounded, tense sci-fi story with a lot to unpack

Two characters in Like a Dragon point guns at each other, wearing colorful outfits and in front of a red staircase with bodies on it.
The video game movie and TV adaptations that actually work

The best movies and TV to watch at home that started as video games

Alex Horne and Jason Mantzoukas laughing on the set of Taskmaster
‘It was real cat wrangling’: Alex Horne and Greg Davies on Taskmaster’s ‘chaotic’ series 19
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‘If we’d known Jason [Mantzoukas] before he arrived, we could have just had four sleepy people. He could power a city’

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Long-lost Hong Kong action classics from John Woo, Tsui Hark, and more finally getting 4K and digital releases

Fans have been waiting for some of these titles for decades

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Tom Hardy pointing a pistol in Havoc
Watch the all-time action classics that inspired Netflix’s Havoc

The Raid director Gareth Evans’ new movie has strong Hong Kong influences in all the best ways

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RoboCop autotargets an enemy in an office hallway in a screenshot from RoboCop: Rogue City
Get kick-ass FPS throwback RoboCop: Rogue City before it leaves PS Plus soon

The game instantly brought me back to playing arcade shooters as a kid in the best way possible

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The best sci-fi movies you can watch at home

From old classics to new, under-the-radar gems

In Zero, a bomb vest-wearing Hus Miller stares into a camera, with his face showing up on the monitor next to it
How GTA 5 inspired one of the year’s most compelling action-thrillers

Some directors give their actors movies to watch — Jean Luc Herbulot gives his games to play

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In Zero, Hus Miller, wearing a bule suit, has a bomb vest on and a very surprised look on his face
Saloum director’s new thriller is so relevant in 2025, he’s not sure how to feel

Zero’s creators are both happy and concerned with how accurately their action movie predicted real-world conflict

Revolutionary brother Karim (Sami Slimane) stands in the street with a crowd, smoke grenades leaving streaks through the sky behind them, in Athena
The 25 best movies on Netflix right now

Skip the algorithm and go straight to the good stuff

Danny McBride, flying in an astronaut suit, looks upwards in the Righteous Gemstones
How the Righteous Gemstones brought sci-fi to church with the magic of jetpacks

Stunt coordinator Cory DeMeyers dishes on one of the season’s biggest productions

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If John Wick director Chad Stahelski ‘could get away with it,’ he’d fully pivot to anime

‘If I could draw an eighth as good as Watanabe-san, I would never leave this room. I would draw all day long’

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AC Shadows’ Naoe sits on a perch and looks out over a snowy town.
It’s surprisingly hard to find things to do in Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ empty world

The game’s sprawl makes the pacing of the narrative extremely fractured

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Detective Takabe (Kôji Yakusho) claspes his hands over his face in exhaustion and horror in Cure (1997)
The best thrillers to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Max, and more

The most pulse-pounding, nerve-wracking films available to stream

In Lazarus, Axel winks while pointing towards the camera
Lazarus is so stylish, I don’t need to care about its mystery

A murderers’ row of talent combines for a snazzy anime about the end of the world

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In The Man Who Feels No Pain, a bloodied Abhimanyu Dassani blocks a punch.
Netflix’s hidden action-comedy gem The Man Who Feels No Pain delivers on all fronts

The Man Who Feels No Pain is a well-rounded action comedy with laughs, thrills, and great fight design

A World War II-era Thai soldier holds his rifle and has blood on his face in Operation Undead
The Thai horror gem Operation Undead takes a big swing with its zombie twist

A bold new entry in the zombie canon

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