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Stream on Demand: Netflix debuts ‘Okja’ with Tilda Swinton and ‘Gypsy’ with Naomi Watts

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

T2 Trainspotting” reunites the original cast with director Danny Boyle to bring us up to date with Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his old pals Sick Boy, Spud, and the psychotic Begbie twenty years after the first film (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.

Kristen Stewart is an American “Personal Shopper” to a French celebrity in Paris in the enigmatic ghost story/murder mystery from filmmaker Olivier Assayas (R, in English and French with subtitles). Available before disc.

The big screen takes on TV cop drama “CHiPs,” now a comedy with Dax Shepard and Michael Pena (R), and afterschool superhero show “Power Rangers” (PG-13), arrive on the small screen.

Also new:

social experiment-turned-bloodthirsty thriller “The Belko Experiment” with John Gallagher Jr. and Tony Goldwyn (PG-13)

murder mystery “Grey Lady” with Eric Dane and Natalie Zea (R)

Scottish golf drama “Tommy’s Honour” with Peter Mullan and Sam Neill (PG)

documentary “Legion of Brothers” about the first American forces in Afghanistan after 9/11 (not rated).

Available before theaters is drama “A Family Man” with Gerard Butler and Willem Dafoe (R) and same day as select theaters nationwide is “Inconceivable,” a thriller with Nicolas Cage and Gina Gershon (R), and sci-fi drama “2:22” with Teresa Palmer and Michiel Huisman (PG-13).

Netflix

Okja,” a mix of social satire, political allegory, and action fantasy from filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (“Snowpiercer”), comes directly to Netflix from Cannes. Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, and Jake Gyllenhaal co-star with a giant super-pig and the little Korean girl (Ahn Seo-hyun) who raised it from a super-piglet (not rated).

Naomi Watts is a therapist who gets dangerously involved in the lives of her patients in the Netflix original series “Gypsy” (10 episodes).

Also new: survival drama “No Escape” (2015) with Owen Wilson and Lake Bell (R), indie drama “I Am Michael” (2015) with James Franco and Zachary Quinto (not rated), and femme-centered horror anthology “XX” (2017, R).

Foreign affairs: “Neruda” (Chile, 2016) from filmmaker Pablo Larraín reimagines the flight of poet and politician Pablo Neruda from Chile as a crime thriller (R, with subtitles) and “Dangal” (India, 2016), the all-time highest grossing film from India, stars Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan as a wrestler who trains his two daughters to become wrestling champions (not rated, with subtitles).

More streaming TV: historical drama “Reign: Season 4” from CW and dysfunctional family comedy “Shameless: Season 7” from Showtime.

Kid stuff: from Japan comes the animated fantasy “Little Witch Academia: Season 1,” joining previously available “Little Witch Academia” (2013) and “Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade” (2015) (English and Japanese language versions). Also new: the British boarding school comedies “Bruno and Boots: Go Jump in the Pool” (2016) and “Bruno and Boots: This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall” (2017) (both TV-PG) and summer camp comedy “Bunk’d: Season 2” from Disney Channel.

Stand-up: “Chris D’Elia: Man on Fire.”

Amazon Prime Video

True stories: “David Lynch: The Art Life” (2016) looks at the creative process of Lynch’s work as a painter and sculptor, and filmmakers discuss the legacy of Ingmar Bergman in “Trespassing Bergman“ (2015), featuring Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Michele Haneke, Lars von Trier, and Claire Denis (among many others) (not rated).

Streaming TV: for young kids there’s the animated “Danger & Eggs: Season 1,” for sports fans comes “All or Nothing: Season 2 – A Season with the Los Angeles Rams,” and classic TV fans will appreciate the classic sixties show “I Spy: Season 1” with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby.

Hulu

Stephen Chow’s fantasy epic “Journey to the West” (China, 2013) was the number one film in China (PG-13, with subtitles). From Thailand comes action sensation “Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior” (Thailand, 2003) and two sequels featuring jaw-dropping stunts from star Tony Jaa (R, with subtitles).

Streaming TV: the first three seasons of “Younger” with Sutton Foster arrive as the fourth season of the sitcom debuts on TV Land. Also new: Canadian medical drama “Saving Hope: Seasons 1-4” and action thriller “Matador: Season 1” from the El Rey network.

HBO Now

Nate Parker writes, directs, and stars in “The Birth of a Nation” (2016), a provocative drama about Nat Turner’s slave uprising in antebellum South co-starring Armie Hammer and Aunjanue Ellis (R).

The finales of “Veep: Season 5” and “Silicon Valley: Season 4” are now streaming.

At Redbox:

“Power Rangers,” “Before I Fall,” “Collide”

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