Stream on Demand: Isaac, Fassbender, Lawrence and McAvoy bring ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ to home screens

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

“X-Men: Apocalypse,” the sixth official film in the mutant superhero series, reunites the fractured team to battle the world’s first mutant (Oscar Isaac). Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy mentor the next generation of heroes to save mankind… again (PG). Also on Blu-ray and DVD.

Also new: “The Purge: Election Year,” the third in the horror series (R), the French teen buddy comedy “Microbe & Gasoline” (R, with subtitles), the animated video game fantasy “Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV” (PG-13), and the poultry power documentary “Chicken People” (not rated).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide are “Phantasm: Ravager,” the fifth film in the horror franchise (not rated), and the comedies “The Late Bloomer” with Johnny Simmons and Brittany Snow (R) and “The Great Gilly Hopkins,” based on the children’s novel by Katherine Paterson (PG).

Netflix

Jamie Dornan and Mark Strong are Irish soldiers in a small UN unit under attack in the Congo in “The Siege of Jadotville” (2016), a drama based on real events from 1961 (not rated).

Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th” (2016) casts a critical lens on mass incarceration and the private prison industry in America (not rated).

Streaming TV: the CW superhero shows “The Flash: Season 2” and “Arrow: Season 4” arrive as the new seasons begin on TV. Also new: “iZombie: Season 2,” the apparently eternal “Supernatural: Season 11” and the comedy “The Grinder: Season 1,” and from Netflix comes “The Ranch: Season 1 Part 2” and the animated “Dinotrux: Season 3.”

“American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5)” isn’t playing favorites; it’s on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu.

Foreign affairs: from France comes the period comedy “Marguerite” (2015), inspired by the story of “Florence Foster Jenkins,” and the immigrant drama “Dheepan” (2015) from Jacques Audiard (both R), from Hong Kong come the kidnap thriller “Saving Mr. Wu” (2015) with Andy Lau and the action drama “The Bodyguard” (2016) with Sammo Hung (both unrated), and from Greece comes the comedy “Chevalier” (2015, not rated).

The first of the month adds a new batch of older movies to the catalog. Here are a few stand-outs: Oscar winners “Unforgiven” (1992) with Clint Eastwood (R) and “Patton” (1970) with George C. Scott (PG) and Oscar nominee “Quiz Show” (1994) from Robert Redford (PG-13), comedies “Dazed and Confused” (1993, R) and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986, PG-13), the epic western “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) from Sergio Leone (PG-13), the military caper drama “Three Kings” (1999) with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg (R), and the classics “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961) with Audrey Hepburn (not rated) and “Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947) with Gregory Peck (not rated).

Stand-up: “Russell Peters: Almost Famous” debuts exclusively on Netflix (not rated).

Amazon Prime Video

“Pride and Prejudice” (2005) stars Keira Knightly as the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew Macfadyen as the starchy Mr. Darcy (PG).

“Monsters” (2010) is an ingenious mix of alien invasion and giant monster movie on an indie movie budget (R). Director Gareth Edwards went on to make the 2014 “Godzilla” and the upcoming “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”

Also new: Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” (1995, R) and “Before Sunset” (2004, R), all four “Lethal Weapon” (1987, R) films, the original “The Pink Panther” (1963, not rated) and five sequels with Peter Sellers, Walter Hill’s cult gang fight fantasy “The Warriors” (1979, R), and the 40th anniversary restoration of the original “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974), one of many horror films ready to stream for Halloween (not rated).

Here are a few more new additions for Halloween: the horror comedy “Tucker and Dale vs Evil” (2010, R), indie horror anthology “V/H/S” (2010, R), and the horrors “The Host” (2006, R) and “I Saw the Devil” (2010, not rated) from South Korea, “Let the Right One In” (2008) from Sweden (R), “Trollhunter” (2010) from Norway (PG-13), and “Timecrimes” (2007) from Spain (R).

Amazon Prime and Hulu

Jennifer Lawrence leads the revolution in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” (2015), the fourth and final film in the young adult franchise of teen gladiators-turned-rebel liberators (PG-13). Amazon Prime and Hulu.

Also new: the classic “Chinatown” (1974) with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway (R) (Amazon Prime and Hulu) and the kinky “Secretary” (2002) with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenghaal (R) (Amazon Prime and Hulu).

Hulu

Mindy Kaling’s sitcom “The Mindy Project: Season 5” returns with new episodes every Tuesday.

More streaming TV: “Smallville: The Complete Series” ran for 10 seasons combining teen superhero drama with young adult soap opera in a show where the Clark Kent (Tom Welling) never donned the iconic costume until the series finale.

Also new: Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004) (R) and the eternal comedy “Groundhog Day” (1993) with Bill Murray (PG).

HBO Now

HBO’s ambitious new series “Westworld” reworks the ’70s science film with lifelike robots in an adult theme park developing artificial intelligence. Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden and Ed Harris star. Not rated but features nudity and violence. New episodes arrive every Sunday.

“Deadpool” (2016) is a superhero film with a sardonic sense of humor, violence splashed across the screen, and self-aware commentary from its disfigured hero (Ryan Reynolds) (R).

“Cop Car” (2015) stars Kevin Bacon as a corrupt sheriff on the trail of two boys who stole his police cruiser, which has a dead body in the trunk (R).

At Redbox

“Swiss Army Man,” “Into the Forest,” “The Darkness,” “Love & Friendship,” “A Bigger Splash”

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