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Stream on Demand: ‘Spectre’ on Amazon Prime, ‘Black Mirror’ at Netflix

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Woody Allen’s Café Society is a love story wrapped in a wry comedy of celebrity and glamor in 1930s Hollywood and New York City. Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Steve Carell star. PG-13. Also on DVD and Blu-ray and at Redbox.

Also new: the summer movie sequels Alice Through the Looking Glass with Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp (PG) and Independence Day: Resurgencewith Jeff Goldblum and Liam Hemsworth (PG-13), Our Kind of Traitor from the John le Carré novel (R), and Mr. Church with Eddie Murphy (PG-13).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the western In a Valley of Violence with Ethan Hawke (R) and the thriller King Cobra with James Franco (not rated).

Netflix

The audacious Black Mirror,” a provocative “The Twilight Zone” for the social media culture, launches its third season as a Netflix original. Six new episodes now available.

More streaming TV: Glitch,” an Australian cop drama with a horror twist; the French crime thriller Spotless (with subtitles); and the Japanese anthology series Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (with subtitles).

Kid stuff: The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show: Season 3 and Word Party: Season 2.”

True stories: Being George Clooney (2016) looks at voice actors who dub American movies for foreign audiences (not rated).

Amazon Prime Video

Louder Than Bombs (2015) is a drama of loss and grief with Jesse Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert (R).

Foreign affairs: from France come the dramas For a Woman (2013, not rated) andMarie’s Story (2014, not rated) and Eric Rohmer classics Full Moon in Paris (1984, R) and The Marquise of O…(1976, PG). All subtitled.

Amazon Prime

and Hulu

Spectre (2015), the 24th James Bond film, chronicles the birth of a 007 supervillain (PG-13).

Hulu

Hugh Laurie is Chance,” a forensic neuro-psychiatrist caught up in the underworld, in the new Hulu original series. New episodes each Wednesday.

More streaming TV: The Librarians: Complete Season 2 and the animated Adventure Time: Complete Season 7.”

Binge watch: The Criterion Collection leaves Hulu on Nov. 11, at which point it will exclusively reside on FilmStruck, a new subscription streaming service launching in November.

HBO Now

Jennifer Lawrence earned an Oscar nomination for Joy (2015), inspired by the true story of entrepreneur Joy Mangano (PG-13).

At Redbox

“Ghostbusters: Answer the Call,” “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” “Café Society,” “Our Kind of Traitor,” “Free State of Jones”

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