Pete Volk

Curation Editor

Pete Volk (he/they) leads Polygon’s entertainment curation efforts, highlighting the best movies, TV, 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 both the WGA Awards and Vulture’s Stunt Awards.

A working journalist for a decade, Pete previously covered League of Legends for Polygon, and college football and Maryland Terrapin athletics for SB Nation.

10 great horror movies currently haunting Netflix

By Toussaint Egan, Pete Volk, and 1 more September 27

The best shows to watch on Prime

By Pete Volk, Toussaint Egan, and 2 more September 25

Movies

Expend4bles director wants you to have as much fun watching the movie as he did making it

‘It feels like an amusement ride, right?’

By Pete Volk September 24

The best movies to watch before they leave streaming next month

By Toussaint Egan, Pete Volk, and 1 more September 23

Bottoms, new TMNT movie, The Machine on Netflix, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend

By Pete Volk and Toussaint Egan September 22

The best movies on Netflix right now

By Toussaint Egan, Pete Volk, and 1 more September 22

Terrence Howard and Dolph Lundgren defend a movie theater from greedy capitalists in Showdown at the Grand trailer

By Pete Volk September 21

TV

The Continental picked the right guy to define its retro John Wick action

Action director Larnell Stovall spoke to Polygon about how the Peacock show found its voice but kept ‘that Wick-ish flavor’

By Pete Volk and Austen Goslin September 21

The best thrillers you can stream right now

By Toussaint Egan and Pete Volk September 20

The best shows to watch on Max

By Pete Volk, Zosha Millman, and 2 more September 17