Stream on Demand: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team up for ‘The Defenders’ on Netflix

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

Netflix hosts the small screen superhero event of the year: “The Defenders,” the long-promised team-up of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. More down to earth than “The Avengers,” they aren’t necessarily team players, which is part of the fun. Sigourney Weaver takes villain duties for this series and characters from the solo series make appearances, including Elektra (Elodie Yung) and, of course, Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson), who has appeared in all four shows and makes the initial introductions. 8 episodes.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

“Alien: Covenant,” the sixth film in the series, detours a ship filled with colonists en route to populate a new world and drops them on a planet filled with … well, you know how it works. Katherine Waterston leads the human resistance to the alien threat and Michael Fassbender plays two roles (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.

Doug Liman directs the cat-and-mouse war thriller “The Wall” with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena as American soldiers trapped by a crack Iraqi sniper (R).

Liev Schreiber is “Chuck” in the story of the real-life underdog boxer who inspired “Rocky” (R).

Also new: comedy “How to be a Latin Lover” with Eugenio Derbez and Salma Hayek (PG-13), and teen romantic drama “Everything, Everything” (PG-13).

Foreign language offerings include “Fanny’s Journey” from France and “The Passion of Augustine” from French Canada (both not rated, with subtitles)

Available same day as select theaters nationwide are hostage thriller “6 Days” with Abbie Cornish and Mark Strong (not rated), crime drama “Shot Caller” with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jon Bernthal (R), offbeat comedy “Lemon” with Brett Gelman and Judy Greer (not rated), and Slamdance award winner “Dave Made a Maze,” a slacker comedy with Nick Thune (not rated).

Netflix

Noomi Rapace plays multiple roles in “What Happened to Monday” (2017), a science fiction thriller about identical septuplets on the run from a draconian government (not rated).

Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star in the border thriller “Desierto” (2015, R).

Adam Rayner is “The Saint” (2017) in the direct-to-VOD action reboot with Eliza Dushku and a cameo by Sir Roger Moore (not rated).

Also new: romantic drama “The Sweet Life” (2016) with Chris Messina and Abigail Spencer (not rated), hockey comedy “Goon” (2011) with Seann William Scott (R), and gambling thriller “21” (2008) with Jim Sturgess and Kevin Spacey (PG-13).

Kid stuff: From Japan comes the animated series “Glitter Force Doki Doki: Season 1.” Also new: “Dinotrux: Season 5” and the family-friendly adventure “Arthur and the Invisibles” (2006), a mix of live-action and animation from “Valerian” director Luc Besson (PG).

Stand-up: “Brad Paisley’s Comedy Rodeo.”

Amazon Prime Video

The BBC mini-series “Undercover” stars Sophie Okonedo as a barrister committed to social justice and Adrian Lester as her husband, who has been hiding a secret from her for 20 years. 6 episodes.

“The Honeymooners: The Lost Episodes” (1951-53) presents 37 episodes of the landmark sitcom when it was still part of “The Jackie Gleason Show.”

More streaming TV: “Being Human: Season 1” from Britain, the first seasons of the 1960s sitcoms “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Petticoat Junction,” and “The Doris Day Show,” and five seasons of the 1980s college sitcom “A Different World.”

Classics: the “Roy Rogers” collection features 28 full-length oaters from the 1930s and 1940s with the singing cowboy (not rated) and “The Complete Superman Collection” (1941-42) presents all 17 gorgeous Superman cartoons produced and directed by the Fleischer Bros. (not rated).

Kid stuff: Emmy-winning animated series “Tumble Leaf: Season 3” for preschoolers.

Stand-up: “Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally: Summer of 69 (No Apostrophe).”

Hulu

Marion Cotillard earned an Oscar nomination for her raw performance as a woman struggling to save her job in “Two Days, One Night” (Belgium, 2014), directed by the Dardennes Brothers (with subtitles, PG-13).

Streaming TV: Pamela Adlon is up for an Emmy for the FX comedy “Better Things: Season 1.” Also new: Lifetime drama “Mary Kills People: Season 1,” which takes on the issue of euthanasia, and IFC comedy “Stan Against Evil: Season 1” with John C. McGinley.

Also new: “Hamlet” (1990) with Mel Gibson and Glenn Close (PG), undercover thriller “Narc” (2002) with Ray Liotta and Jason Patric (R), and the original “Love Story” (1970) with Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw (PG).

HBO Now

The Harry Potter spin-off / prequel “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (2016) sends British magic scholar Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to 1920s New York and unleashes magical creatures into the human world (PG-13).

Warren Beatty directs and stars as Howard Hughes in “Rules Don’t Apply” (2016) (R).

Arriving on Saturday is the dark, often brutal thriller “Nocturnal Animals” (2016) with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal (R).

Showtime Anytime

Stand-up: “Tiffany Haddish: She Ready! From the Hood to Hollywood”

FilmStruck / Criterion Channel

FilmStruck showcases films of Richard Lester, including “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) with the Beatles and the comic swashbucklers “The Three Musketeers” (1973) and “The Four Musketeers” (1974) (both PG).

FilmStruck’s curated collection of eighties indies include the Coen Bros.’s debut “Blood Simple” (1984, R), Jim Jarmusch’s deadpan “Stranger Than Paradise” (1984, R), Jonathan Demme’s screwball thriller “Something Wild” (1986, R), and the groundbreaking “Losing Ground” (1982) from Kathleen Collins (not rated).

Acorn

The American premiere of the British documentary “Hunting the KGB Killers” plus the cheeky Australian legal comic drama “Rake: Series 4.”

At Redbox: “Snatched,” “King Arthur,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul,” “The Wall.”

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