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Stream on Demand: Disney’s ‘Moana,’ ‘Star Trek: Beyond,’ and ‘Paterson’ now streaming

By Sean Axmaker For The Spokesman-Review

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Astronauts Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ryan Reynolds discover a new form of “Life” in space that threatens all life on Earth (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray and at Redbox.

Also new: comedy “Wilson” with Woody Harrelson as a neurotic curmudgeon who discovers he has a grown daughter (R), British comic drama “This Beautiful Fantastic” with Jessica Brown Findlay and Tom Wilkinson (PG) and Spanish-language romantic comedy “Everybody Loves Somebody” (PG-13).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is “The Bad Batch,” a horror film about cannibals in the Texas wastelands from indie filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour (R).

Netflix

The Netflix original comedy “GLOW: Season 1” stars Alison Brie as a frustrated actress in 1980s Los Angeles who answers a casting call for a women’s wrestling reality show. The reality show was real but this take is pure fiction. 10 episodes. You can also stream the documentary that inspired the series: “GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling“ (2012, not rated).

Disney’s animated musical adventure “Moana” (2016) sends a different kind of princess on a quest with a demigod (voices by Dwayne Johnson) in ancient Polynesia. “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda co-wrote the original songs (PG). Also for kids is the new animated short “Puss in Boots: Trapped in an Epic Tale” (2017).

Also new: “The Stanford Prison Experiment” (2015) with Billy Crudup, which dramatizes the real-life 1971 social behavior experiment that got terrifyingly out of hand (R), and the young adult thriller “You Get Me” (not rated)

More streaming TV: the Shonda Rhimes hit shows “Grey’s Anatomy: Season 13” and “Scandal: Season 6” and USA action drama “Shooter: Season 1” with Ryan Phillippe.

For teens and tweens is “Free Rein: Season 1,” about an urban American teenager in rural England who bonds with a wild horse, and FreeForm comedies “Baby Daddy: Season 6” and “Young & Hungry: Season 5.”

True stories: “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” looks at modern assaults on the media through Hulk Hogan’s case against Gawker Media (not rated)

Stand-up: “Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up For The First Time

Amazon Prime Video

Paterson” (2016), Jim Jarmusch’s meandering tour through a week with Adam Driver’s bus driver-poet, is a warmly eccentric character piece that celebrates everyday American dreamers (R). Reviewed on streamondemandathome.com.

The Oscar-winning short “The Accountant” (2001) is an offbeat comedy from filmmaker/actor Ray McKinnon and producer/co-star Walton Goggins (not rated).

Frankenstein’s Army” (2013) pits Russian soldiers against monsters developed in a secret Nazi lab in the final days of World War II (R).

Crying Freeman” (1995), the live action adaptation of the hit anime, is an English language co-production with a French director (Christoph Gans) and an international cast (Mark Dacascos, Tcheky Karyo, Mako) shot in Vancouver (not rated).

Foreign affairs: “Therese” (France, 2013) with Audrey Tautou and “The Power of Kangwon Province” (South Korea, 1998) from Hong Sang-soo (not rated, with subtitles).

True stories: “The Last Man on the Moon” (2016) features interviews with astronaut Eugene Cernan, who walked on the moon on the final Apollo mission (not rated).

Amazon Prime and Hulu

Star Trek: Beyond” (2016), the third film in the “when they were young” reboot, delivers a warp-speed adventure (PG-13). (Amazon Prime and Hulu)

Hulu

Disney’s animated “Tarzan” (1999) retells the classic story as a colorful G-rated version.

Also new: romantic drama “Song One” (2014) with Anne Hathaway (PG-13) and thriller “Grand Piano” (2013) with Elijah Wood and John Cusack (R).

HBO Now

The Conjuring 2” (2016) sends the paranormal investigators (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson) to the “Enfield Poltergeist” in Britain (R).

Stand-up: “T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous.”

Arriving Saturday night is Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation“ (2016, R).

FilmStruck / Criterion Channel

FilmStruck presents the cinema of Indian director Satyajit Ray with more than a dozen films, including the recently restored Apu trilogy – “Pather Panchali” (1955), his debut feature, “Aparajito” (1957), and “Apur Sansar” (1959) – and “The Music Room” (1959), set in the dying days of India’s feudal system.

On the Criterion Channel is Olivier Assayas’s delicate “Summer Hours” (France, 2008), a touching story of family, and Anthony Asquith’s crisp adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1952) (not rated).

Sundance Now

The Bureau: Season 3” (2017) of the riveting French espionage drama opens with their top deep cover agent in the hands of ISIS.

Also new: Abbas Kiarostami’s “The Wind Will Carry Us” (1999) from Iran (not rated, with subtitles and Seattle filmmaker Megan Griffiths’s breakthrough feature “The Off Hours” (2011, not rated).

Acorn

The British miniseries “Loch Ness,” starring Laura Fraser as a cop searching for a serial killer in the Scottish Highlands, makes its stateside debut. New episodes each Monday.

New on disc:

“Life,” “Wilson,” “This Beautiful Fantastic,” “Railroad Tigers,” “The Marseille Trilogy”

At Redbox: “The LEGO Batman Movie,” “Logan,” “Life,” “Get Out”

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