What to Stream This Weekend: Jurassic Park Rebirth, Ballad of a Small Player, and Every New Movie Available to Stream

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Jurassic World Rebirth arrived in July and quickly dominated box-office conversations. The dino spectacle is now available to stream on Peacock. If you want something grittier, Colin Farrell headlines the tense, character-driven Ballad of a Small Player on Netflix, where a gambler’s worst impulses drive the drama.

For fans of scares, new horror entries have landed: Stephen Cognetti’s final chapter, Hell House LLC: Lineage, debuts on Shudder, while the eerie Malaysian folk-horror Indera is now available on VOD.

Below is a curated list of notable new releases now streaming or newly available to rent, including prominent releases and standout genre fare you can watch at home today.

New on Netflix

Ballad of a Small Player

• Genre: Psychological thriller
• Run time: 1h 42m
• Director: Edward Berger
• Cast: Colin Farrell, Tilda Swinton, Fala Chen

Colin Farrell plays Doyle, a compulsive gambler sinking deeper into debt amid Macau’s glittering casinos. Directed by Academy Award-nominated Edward Berger, the film tracks Doyle’s desperate attempts at redemption as he’s hunted by a dogged private investigator (Tilda Swinton) and entangled with a mysterious casino insider (Fala Chen). It’s a taut, character-first thriller about risk, delusion, and the cost of obsession.

New on Peacock

Jurassic World Rebirth

• Genre: Science-fiction action
• Run time: 2h 13m
• Director: Gareth Edwards
• Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend

Set five years after the events of Jurassic Park Dominion, Jurassic World Rebirth sends a team to a long-abandoned research island where surviving dinosaurs may hold unexpected scientific value. A pharmaceutical researcher (Rupert Friend) believes the creatures could unlock new medical possibilities, while Scarlett Johansson’s covert-ops specialist tries to keep the mission and its participants alive amid escalating danger.

New on Prime Video

Project Silence

• Genre: Disaster thriller
• Run time: 1h 36m
• Director: Kim Tae-gon
• Cast: Lee Sun-kyun, Ju Ji-hoon, Kim Hee-won

When a severe storm causes an airport bridge to begin collapsing, trapped travelers face mounting peril — and a far more sinister threat. One vehicle on the bridge is transporting militarized animals from a covert project, and those creatures soon turn the evacuation into a brutal fight for survival.

Watch the Skies

• Genre: Science fiction
• Run time: 1h 55m
• Director: Victor Danell
• Cast: Inez Dahl Torhaug, Jesper Barkselius, Sara Shirpey

Following the disappearance of her UFO-obsessed father, a teenager joins his friends to search for answers, questioning whether he was abducted or silenced by shadowy government forces. Shot in Swedish, Watch the Skies notably uses AI-assisted lip-syncing to match the performers to English-language dialogue — a technical curiosity that supports a melancholy, mystery-driven narrative.

New on Shudder

Hell House LLC: Lineage

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 48m
• Director: Stephen Cognetti
• Cast: Elizabeth Vermilyea, Searra Sawka, Mike Sutton

The concluding installment of the Hell House LLC saga links the Abaddon Hotel to the Carmichael Manor and a string of decades-old murders. Haunted by escalating visions, Vanessa Shepard (Elizabeth Vermilyea) seeks an exorcism in an effort to sever the hotel’s malevolent hold.

New to rent

Indera

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 44m
• Director: Ming Jin Woo
• Cast: Shaheizy Sam, Azira Shafinaz, Samara Kenzo

Widower Joe (Shaheizy Sam) clings to hope for work and a better future for his nonverbal daughter, Sophia. When a mysterious rural woman offers a treatment she claims will help Sophia speak, the family’s fragile stability begins to fray as unsettling visions and strange occurrences suggest darker motives.

Source: Polygon