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Stream on Demand: Pride, prejudice, and zombies, oh my!

By Sean Axmaker Correspondent

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

In Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” the wit and social manners of the Jane Austen romantic drama meets bloody combat with the hungry undead, with Lily James as an elegant, sword-wielding Elizabeth Bennet and Sam Riley as arrogant zombie killer Mr. Darcy. A clever genre mash-up with a limited audience. PG-13. There’s a bonus featurette on VOD. Also on Blu-ray and DVD.

Also new: the historical drama Race with Stephan James as Olympic champion Jesse Owens (PG-13) and the crime thriller Triple 9 with Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kate Winslet (R). Both also available on DVD.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the designer drug thriller Urge with Pierce Brosnan and Ashley Greene. R.

Netflix

The new month brings a new batch of films. Here are a few choice picks: Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar (2011, R) with Leonardo DiCaprio, the historical drama Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007, PG-13) with Cate Blanchett (joining the original 1998 Elizabeth,” R), the indie thriller Cold in July(2014, R) with Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard, and Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park (1993, PG-13) and sequels The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, PG-13) and Jurassic Park III (2001, PG-13).

The new Netflix original series HIBANA-Spark-,” based on the award-winning Japanese novel of the friendship between two comedians over the course of a decade, premieres in America and Japan simultaneously. 10 episodes, Japanese with subtitles.

David Duchovny stars in Aquarius: Season 1,” a ’60s flashback cop drama set during the rise of Charles Manson’s cult. Also new: the ABC Family Channel show Pretty Little Liars: Season 6,” the CW supernatural thriller Beauty & the Beast: Season 3,” and the final season of the AMC old west drama Hell on Wheels.”

Amazon Prime Video

The sixth and final season of Downton Abbey is now streaming on Amazon. That means you can now binge-watch the entire Grantham family saga. That will be all, Carson.

Ben Foster is cycling champion Lance Armstrong in The Program (2016), co-starring Chris O’Dowd as the Irish journalist who exposed his doping scandal. Rated R.

Amazon Prime Video and Hulu

Josh Brolin is President George W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s W. (2008, PG-13), which arrives on both services this month. Also new: Ulee’s Gold (1997, R) with Peter Fonda in his Oscar-nominated performance, the comedy Wayne’s World (1992, PG-13) with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, the spaghetti Western epic The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(1966, not rated) with Clint Eastwood, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now(1979) and his extended Apocalypse Now: Redux (2001) (both rated R).

Hulu

Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy Midnight in Paris (2011) sends Owen Wilson back to the literary glory days of 1920s Paris, where he meets F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston), Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates), Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll), Salvador Dali (Adrien Brody), and others. Rated PG-13.

Also new: all five seasons of Southland,” the award-winning L.A. cop drama with Ben McKenzie as a rookie patrolman.

HBO Now

The Intern (2015) stars Robert De Niro as a widower retiree who becomes a senior intern to young entrepreneur Anne Hathaway. Nancy Meyers directs the lightweight but optimistic drama. Rated PG-13.

Also new: David Cronenberg’s scathing Hollywood drama Maps to the Stars (2014, R) with Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska and the documentary Quincy Jones: Burning the Light (not rated).

New at the Redbox: “Joy,” “Gods of Egypt,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” “A Royal Night Out”

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