Stream on Demand: “La La Land” dances to VOD, Hulu launches “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Queen of Katwe” checks Netflix

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

“La La Land” brought the classic Hollywood musical into the modern age and earned six Academy Awards in the process. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are the beautiful and charismatic young adults who romance one another in song and dance while pursuing their show business dreams in Los Angeles. Deep? No, but it’s sweet and colorful and energetic and full of heart (PG-13). Also on Blu-ray and DVD and at Redbox.

Kate Beckinsale in back in black for “Underworld: Blood Wars,” the fifth film in the vampires-versus-werewolves series, this time with “Divergent” hunk Theo James as co-star (R). Also on Blu-ray and DVD and at Redbox.

Also new: indie drama “Those Left Behind” (not rated) and documentary “We Are X” about the cult band from Japan (R).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide are the Steven Shainberg’s sci-fi/horror hybrid “Rupture” with Noomi Rapace and Peter Stormare (not rated), and the thriller “Voice from the Stone” with Emilia Clarke and Marton Csokas (R).

Netflix

“Queen of Katwe” (2016) dramatizes the true story of an unschooled girl (Madina Nalwanga) from an impoverished village in Uganda who nurtures a talent for chess to become a world class chess champion. David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o star in the uplifting and colorful Disney drama (PG).

The animated family comedy “The Secret Life of Pets” (2016) reveals what your pets are actually up to when you leave the house (PG).

“Dear White People: Season 1” – Justin Simien spins acclaimed satirical college comedy into a Netflix original series that explores race, sex, class, and identity at an Ivy League school with humor and irony. 10 half-hour episodes.

Also new: The twisty pulp fiction thriller “Small Crimes” direct from SXSW (not rated); Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show “Rodney King,” directed by Spike Lee (not rated); Cold War submarine thriller “Phantom” (2013) with David Duchovny and Ed Harris (R); and drama “Trust” (2010) with Clive Owen and Catherine Keener as parents of a teenage daughter targeted by a sexual predator RR).

Foreign affairs: Natalie Portman’s Hebrew-language “A Tale of Love and Darkness” (2015) set at the birth of Israel (PG-13, with subtitles); Swedish comedy “The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared” (2016, not rated, with subtitles); and Spanish series “Cable Girls: Season 1” about telephone operators in 1920s Madrid (with subtitles).

True stories: “Casting JonBenet” explores the issues surrounding the unsolved murder case through a series of auditions recreating real-life scenes (not rated); “Mifune: The Last Samurai” (2016), about the great Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune (not rated); and “A Murder in the Park” (2014), which profiles a rare failure in the Innocence Project (not rated).

More streaming TV: “The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass: Seasons 1-3” for foodies and the Disney Channel comedy “Liv and Maddie: Season 4” for teens and tweens.

Stand-up: “Vir Das: Abroad Understanding.”

Amazon Prime Video

The sprawling “American Honey” (2016), an American indie drama from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, stars newcomer Sasha Lane as a restless teenager hitting the road with a gypsy sales crew (R).

Streaming TV: The third season of Amazon’s British-American sitcom “Catastrophe,” about a mismatched couple brought together by pregnancy, debuts with six new episodes.

Cult: Dan Curtis’ TV horror “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) presents the homicidal Zuni fetish doll (not rated).

Stand-up: “Whitney Cummings: Money Shot” and “Nick DiPaolo: Raw Nerve,” both from 2011.

Hulu

Hulu’s new original series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, stars Elisabeth Moss as an enslaved women struggling to retain her identity in an oppressive dystopian dictatorship. It is being hailed as one of the best new shows of the year. The first three episodes now available with new episodes arriving every Wednesday.

More streaming TV: the dynastic family drama “Queen Sugar: Season 1,” created by Ava DuVernay for OWN, Fox thriller “Wayward Pines: Season 2,” produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and Jane Campion’s 2013 mini-series “Top of the Lake“ with Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter.

HBO Now

Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne star in “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (2017), an original HBO movie based on the nonfiction book by Rebecca Skloot (not rated).

Arriving Saturday night is “Victor Frankenstein“ (2015) with Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy (PG-13).

FilmStruck / Criterion Channel

Ermanno Olmi’s “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” (Italy, 1978), an epic about families battling dire poverty in 19th century Italy, won the Palm d’Or at Cannes. The Criterion Channel presents the new restoration along with all the supplements featured on its recent special edition DVD and Blu-ray release.

Aki Kaurismäki presents Finland’s maddest bar band. Americans discovered Leningrad Cowboys in the deadpan rock and roll road movie comedy “Leningrad Cowboys Go America” (Finland, 1989) and in the sequel, “Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses” (Finland, 1994) (not rated, with subtitles).

Acorn TV

The award-winning Irish drama “Dominion Creek: Series 2,” about three Irish emigrants in the American Gold Rush, debuts stateside on Acorn TV.

Also new this week: all five seasons and forty episodes of the lighthearted British mystery series “Pie in the Sky“ with Richard Griffiths solving crimes between baking dishes for his restaurant.

On disc

“La La Land,” “Underworld: Blood Wars,” “The Girl with All the Gifts,” “The Daughter,” “Tampopo”

At Redbox

“La La Land,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” “A Monster Calls,” “Why Him?,” “Underworld: Blood Wars”