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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 latest news on every Star Wars movie and TV show on Lucasfilm’s slate
The future of a galaxy far, far away
15 Elden Ring-like movies to watch while you wait for the Elden Ring movie
Get your popcorn ready, Tarnished
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’
Netflix’s The Eternaut is an apocalyptic puzzle box
A grounded, tense sci-fi story with a lot to unpack
The video game movie and TV adaptations that actually work
The best movies and TV to watch at home that started as video games
‘It was real cat wrangling’: Alex Horne and Greg Davies on Taskmaster’s ‘chaotic’ series 19
‘If we’d known Jason [Mantzoukas] before he arrived, we could have just had four sleepy people. He could power a city’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
The best thrillers to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Max, and more
The most pulse-pounding, nerve-wracking films available to stream
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
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
The Thai horror gem Operation Undead takes a big swing with its zombie twist
A bold new entry in the zombie canon