Stream on Demand: ‘Rogue One’ comes to Netflix
Netflix is now streaming “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (2016) starring Felicity Jones a scruffy survivor who takes on the Empire with a team of outcasts and mavericks. This action packed mission thriller plays out in the margins of “Star Wars” with a darker portrait of rebellion and war (PG-13).
It also launches the new original series: “Ozark,” a crime thriller starring Jason Bateman as a Chicago money manager to a drug lord who uproots his family to hide out in rural Missouri (10 episodes).
Here’s what else is streaming on the major services:
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand
Part remake and part prequel, “Kong: Skull Island” pits a team of scientists and soldiers against the giant ape on a remote tropical island in the early 1970s. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, and John C. Reilly represent the human race in the battle for the jungle (PG-13). Also on Blu-ray and DVD.
Also new: action comedy “Free Fire,” a feature-length gunfight starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer (R), historical drama “The Promise” with Oscar Isaac and Charlotte Le Bon as lovers caught in the fall of the Ottoman Empire (PG-13), and the Bulgarian drama “Glory” (not rated, with subtitles).
Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the action thriller “First Kill” with Bruce Willis and Hayden Christensen (R) and the French drama “Amnesia” from Barbet Schroeder with Marthe Keller and Bruno Ganz (not rated, with subtitles).
Netflix
The thriller “Vantage Point” (2008) with Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox pieces together an assassination attempt from multiple points of view (PG-13).
Streaming TV: “Pretty Little Liars: Season 7B” delivers the final episodes of the young adult melodrama from FreeForm, plus “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: Season 3” from Bravo, wicked legal satire “Rake: Season 4” from Australia, and “The Worst Witch: Season 1,” a magical fantasy for kids from Britain.
Stand-up: “Aditi Mittal: Things They Wouldn’t Let Me Say” and “Ari Shaffir: Double Negative.”
Amazon Prime Video
Jessica Chastain is “Miss Sloane“ (2016), a high-powered lobbyist who takes on the gun lobby in this drama of cold-blooded politics and morality for sale (R).
Malcolm McDowell stars in the British rebel classic “If…” (1968) from Lindsay Anderson (R), and Dario Argento directs the iconic cult Italian horror “
Streaming TV: the Amazon original animated series “Niko and the Sword of Light” is a fantasy adventure for kids (10 episodes).
Hulu
Emma Watson infiltrates an oppressive religious cult in Chile to rescue her boyfriend (Daniel Bruhl) in the thriller “Colonia” (2015, R).
The Oscar-winning documentary “Inside Job” (2010) is a damning exposé of the 2008 financial crisis (PG-13).
Sci-fi mind-bender “John Dies at the End” (2012) sends two college dropouts on a drug-induced journey into another dimension to stop an invasion … or maybe it’s just the drugs (R).
HBO Now
Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher are a suburban couple “Keeping Up with the Joneses” (2016) in the spy comedy with Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot (PG-13).
And yes, winter is now here: “Game of Thrones: Season 7“ has begun with new episodes arriving Sunday nights.
FilmStruck / Criterion Channel
A collection of films starring French superstar Alain Delon are now on FilmStruck, including “Purple Noon” (France, 1961), the first screen version of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” and the crime movie classics “Le Samourai” (France, 1997) and “Le Cercle Rouge” (France, 1970) from director Jean-Pierre Melville (not rated, with subtitles). Also newly added is the superb American ’70s crime drama “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (1973) with Robert Mitchum (R).
Two film documentaries debut on the Criterion Channel: the touching “Cameraperson” (2016), created by Kirsten Johnson from unused footage from a career shooting documentaries, and “Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff” (2010), about the Oscar-winning cinematographer (not rated).
At Redbox:
“Wilson,” “Free Fire,” “The Promise,” “This Beautiful Fantastic”
Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and TV can be found at http://streamondemandathome.com.