Stream on Demand: ‘Suicide Squad,’ ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ come to home viewing

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 bad guys take the lead in “Suicide Squad,” a darker, nastier comic book movie starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Jared Leto as The Joker (PG-13). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.

Meryl Streep is the worst singer ever in “Florence Foster Jenkins,” which is as compassionate and tender as it is funny (PG-13), and Parker Sawyers is young Barack Obama on a first date with Michelle Robinson (TikaSumpter) in the gentle romantic drama “Southside With You” (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.

Also new: the fantasy “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” from Tim Burton (PG-13), comedy “Bridget Jones’s Baby” with Renée Zellweger (R), the Biblical epic “Ben-Hur” with Jack Huston (PG-13), and Korean zombie thriller “Train to Busan” (not rated, with subtitles).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide are the thrillers “A Kind Of Murder” with Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel and “The Hollow Point” with Patrick Wilson and Ian McShane (R).

Free on Demand: Turn your screen into a virtual fireplace with the “Yule Log.”

Netflix

The Netflix original movie “Barry” follows Barack Obama (Devon Terrell) as a student at Columbia University in the early 1980s (not rated).

Also new: the indie dramedy “Other People” (2016) with Jesse Plemons and Molly Shannon (not rated) and the family Christmas comedy “The Santa Clause” (1994) with Tim Allen (PG).

Streaming TV: the Netflix original series “The OA” from writer/actress Brit Marling is a psychological mystery in eight episodes.

Also new: the debut seasons of the alien occupation drama “Colony,” English-language historical drama “Versailles,” and foreign-language shows from France (“No Second Chance”), Spain (“Call Me Francis”), and Norway (“Nobel” ).

Amazon Prime Video

The first season of the SyFy series “The Expanse,” based on the bestselling novels of James S.A. Corey, delivers interplanetary conspiracy and grown-up space opera for the small screen. 10 episodes.

More streaming TV: “The A Word: Season 1” explores family life with an autistic child and the heady alternate history science fiction show “The Man in the High Castle: Season 2” continues.

Amazon Prime Video / Hulu

The comedy “Daddy’s Home” (2015) stars Will Ferrell as a stepdad humiliated by his wife’s macho ex-husband (Mark Wahlberg) (PG-13).

Hulu

Hulu offers the first hour of the fifth season premiere of “Nashville” three weeks before it debuts on CMT.

HBO Now

Nia Vardalos and John Corbett are back for “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2” (2016) (PG-13).

At Redbox

“Ben-Hur,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “Southside With You,” “Army of One”

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