Stream on Demand: ‘Joy,’ ‘The Choice’ make the trip home

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” recreates the innocence and energy of the original “Star Wars” for a new generation. It’s a blast of nostalgia for adults and an inclusive space opera adventure for kids, with Daisy Ridley and John Boyega as the new generation of plucky young heroes and Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill reprising their old roles as the older and wiser veterans. PG-13. Also on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats.

Jennifer Lawrence earned an Oscar nomination as “Joy,” a single mother turned self-made entrepreneur, in the drama inspired by the true story of Joy Mangano. Robert De Niro, Édgar Ramírez and Bradley Cooper co-star. PG-13. (Also on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats.)

Also new this week: the young adult invasion thriller “The 5th Wave” with Chloe Grace Moretz (PG-13), the Nicholas Sparks romantic drama “The Choice” (PG-13), “A Royal Night Out” with the British Princesses at the end of World War II (PG-13), the Holocaust survivor drama “Remember” with Christopher Plummer (R), and the foodie culture- clash comedy “East Side Sushi” (PG).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is “The Family Fang,” an offbeat drama with Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman and Christopher Walken (R), and “Mothers and Daughters” with Susan Sarandon and Christina Ricci (PG-13).

Netflix

“Marseille” is an original French-language series starring Gerard Depardieu as the longtime mayor of the French port city who is ready to do anything to seal his legacy. Eight episodes, French with subtitles.

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are back in the second season of Netflix original sitcom “Grace and Frankie” with co-stars Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston and guest star Sam Elliot. 13 episodes.

Among the many films new to the Netflix catalog this month are Oscar winner “There Will Be Blood” (2007) with Daniel Day-Lewis (R) and Oscar nominee “Into the Wild” (2007) (R), Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible III” (2006) (PG-13), the teen comedies “Sixteen Candles” (1984) with Molly Ringwald (PG) and “Bring It On” (2000) with Kirsten Dunst (PG-13), and Alfred Hitchcock’s elegant romantic thriller “To Catch a Thief” (1955) with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on the Riviera (no rating).

And here are a couple of films with a Pacific Northwest connection: “Meek’s Cutoff” (2011) with Michelle Williams as a settler lost on the Oregon Trail (PG), and “Lucky Them” (2013) with Toni Collette navigating the Seattle music scene (R).

Amazon Prime Video

George Clooney is a born candidate in “Ides of March” (2011), a political thriller starring Ryan Gosling (R).

Steven Soderbergh’s feature debut “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” (1989), with James Spader and Andie MacDowell, is still a refreshingly mature film about sex, love, commitment and the fear of intimacy (R).

Amazon Prime Video and Hulu

“Hot Pursuit” (2015), a comedy with Reese Witherspoon as an uptight cop and Sofia Varga as an uninhibited mob widow, is new to both services this month (PG-13).

Other new additions include “Election” (1999), a sharp R-rated political satire set in a high school hothouse also starring Witherspoon (R), the disaster movie spoof “Airplane!” (1980) (PG), the caustic comedy “Ghost World” (2001) (R), the clever crime thriller “Best Seller” (1987) (R), and another round of James Bond classics, including the iconic “Goldfinger” (1964) with Sean Connery (PG) and “Live and Let Die” (1973) with Roger Moore (PG).

Hulu

Also new to Hulu is a collection of newly acquired series, including the complete runs of “The Client List” with Jennifer Love Hewitt, the legal comedy “Drop Dead Diva” from Lifetime, British crime thriller mini-series “The Shadow Line” with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christopher Eccleston, and the zombie drama “In the Flesh” from BBC. Also from BBC comes the low-key mystery series “DCI Banks: Complete Seasons 1-3” and the comedy “Almost Royal: Complete Season 1.”

HBO Now

“The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (2015), Guy Ritchie’s big-screen revival of the 1960s secret agent series, hasn’t much to do with the original show, but it does have fun with sleek ’60s spy movie style and shows a charming side of Henry Cavill. PG-13.

“2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony” features performances by inductees Steve Miller, Cheap Trick and Chicago.

Oscar nominated short documentary “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” profiles the filmmaker who has spent his life documenting the Holocaust.

Showtime Anytime

The Gothic horror series “Penny Dreadful: Season 3” is now underway, with new episodes available every Sunday.

At Redbox

“The 5th Wave,” “The Choice,” “Remember” and “East Side Sushi”

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