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Stream on Demand: Two critter tales, ‘Secret Life of Pets’ and ‘Keanu’ come to streaming

By Sean Axmaker Correspondent

What’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

The Secret Life of Pets,” an animated family comedy from the director of “Despicable Me,” reveals what your pets really do when you leave the house (PG). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.

Don’t Think Twice is a bittersweet comedy about members of an improv comedy group moving on after a decade together. Keegan-Michael Key and Gillian Jacobs star (R). Also on DVD.

Also new: Jason Bourne with Matt Damon in his fourth film in the action franchise (PG-13), the family comedy The Hollars from director/star John Krasinski with Margo Martindale and Richard Jenkins (PG-13), and the Polish thriller Demon (R).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide are the indie dramas Frank & Lola with Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots and Burn Country with James Franco and Rachel Brosnahan (all unrated).

Netflix

“Mythbusters” hosts Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara reunite for the new Netflix series White Rabbit Project to investigate and recreate strange events and weird inventions from pop culture, science and history.

It’s James Caan versus high school pranksters Logan Miller and Keir Gilchrist in The Good Neighbor(2016, not rated).

More streaming TV: The second season of the sitcom revival Fuller House offers 13 new episodes of Netflix’s most popular series. Also debuting: Medici: Masters of Florence,” an Italian historical drama with Richard Madden and Dustin Hoffman, and Four Seasons in Havana,” a crime drama from Cuba.

True stories: the documentary series Captive (Netflix Original) takes viewers into the hostage negotiations of real-life kidnappings.

Amazon Prime Video

Foreign affairs: the undead meet Sigmund Freud in the German comedy Therapy for a Vampire (2014, not rated, with subtitles).

True stories: Somm (2012) follows four sommeliers as they prepare to take the demanding Master Sommelier exam, and A Year in Burgundy (2013) follows seven winemaking families in France through four seasons (not rated).

Streaming TV: more melodrama in New York’s classical music world in Mozart in the Jungle: Season 3.”

Hulu

The new original series Shut Eye,” starring Jeffrey Donovan as a con man who gets genuine psychic visions, is available to stream in its entirety. KaDee Strickland and Isabella Rossellini co-star. 10 episodes.

Also new: the NBC musical special Hairspray Live!

HBO Now

The comedy Keanu (2016) stars Keegan-Michal Key, Jordan Peele and the cutest kitten ever (R).

A diverse group of transgender individuals share their experiences in the documentary The Trans List(not rated).

At Redbox

“Don’t Breathe,” “Hands of Stone,” “The Great Gilly Hopkins,” “Krampus Unleashed”

Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and TV can be found at http://streamondemandathome.com.