Overstuffed ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ now on pay-per-view
What’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services.
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand
Marvel’s
Melissa McCarthy becomes an unlikely
Also new: the big screen sequel to the HBO series “Entourage” (R); the remake of “Poltergeist” (PG-13); the French crime drama “The Connection” starring Jean Dujardin (R, in French with subtitles), and the offbeat documentary “Finders Keepers,” which also opens in select theaters nationwide (R).
Netflix
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (2013) charts the life and transformation of Nelson Mandela (Idris Elba) from inspirational activist to the first democratically elected president of South Africa. (PG-13.)
Clint Eastwood earned his second Oscar double-play (best director and best picture) for
Also new this month: Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins” (2005) (PG-13) and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights” (1997) (R).
“The Walking Dead: Season 5,” the top-rated series on commercial cable, arrives a week before the new season premieres on AMC.
More streaming TV: the lighthearted procedural “Bones: Season 10,” royal soap opera “Reign: Season 2,” supernatural soap opera “The Vampire Diaries: Season 6,” and the British import “Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Series 12.”
Amazon Prime Video
The sad, funny and imaginative “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) features the least affected performance of Jim Carrey’s career. R for language and drug and sexual references.
The Oscar-winning nature documentary “March of the Penguins” (2005), narrated by Morgan Freeman, is rated G, as is the 1993 version of “The Secret Garden,” still considered the finest screen adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved novel.
Streaming TV: the supernatural series “Grimm: Season 4” is available a month before the new season begins on NBC.
Hulu
Hulu picks up many of the films that Netflix lost this month, among them “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” (2013), “Nebraska” (2013), “Star Trek Into Darkness” (2013), “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013) and “World War Z” (2013). They’re also available on Amazon Prime.
Now available at Redbox
“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” “Cop Car“ and “Aloft.”
Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and TV can be found at http://streamondemandathome.com.