Stream on Demand: Grown-up superhero drama ‘Logan’ and savvy horror film ‘Get Out’ now on VOD
What’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services.
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand
“Logan,” starring Hugh Jackman in his final screen appearance as X-Men hero Wolverine, shows that superhero movies can tell a human story. This near-future thriller delivers gritty action and ruthless R-rated battles, but at heart it’s about mortality, aging, and what we do for family (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.
“Get Out” from comedian turned filmmaker Jordan Peele masters a delicate balance of witty thriller, social satire, modern horror, and commentary on race in the so-called “post-racial” era. It’s funny, scary, and very smart (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.
Also new: U.S.-China historical fantasy “The Great Wall” with Matt Damon in ancient China (PG-13), spiritual drama “The Shack” with Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer, acclaimed French horror film “Raw” (R, with subtitles), and animated features “My Life as a Zucchini” from France (PG-13, English version available) and “Rock Dog” (PG).
Available same day as select theaters nationwide is psychological drama “Wakefield” with Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner (R) and thriller “Berlin Syndrome” with Teresa Palmer (R).
Netflix
Brad Pitt is an American career officer charged with winding down the war in Afghanistan in the satirical “War Machine,” a fictionalized version of a true story reworked as a black comedy of bureaucratic dysfunction and military arrogance. David Michod directs this Netflix original film (not rated).
“Southpaw” (2015) rolls all of the “Rocky” movies into a single film with Jake Gyllenhaal as a hot-headed boxer, Rachel McAdams as the wife that grounds him, and Forest Whitaker as the philosophical trainer who rebuilds him after a tragic fall (R).
Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” (2009) is a wild, violent pulp fiction World War II fantasy starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, and Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz (R).
Streaming TV: “Bloodline: Season 3” brings the Netflix original dark family drama with Kyle Chandler and Linda Cardellini to a close (13 episodes) and from Germany comes the Cold War espionage mini-series “The Same Sky” from “Downfall” director Oliver Hirschbiegel.
Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel are “Beauty and the Beast” (2014) in the lavish French version of the classic fairy tale (PG-13, French and English language versions).
More foreign affairs: from Japan comes the animated “Blame!” (2017), a sci-fi thriller in a future where the virtual world is overriding the physical world, and the surreal (and gory) high school nightmare “Tag” (2015) from maverick filmmaker Sion Sono (not rated, with subtitles).
True stories: “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower” profiles the Hong Kong teen who led a student protest against China when it reneged on its promise to give Hong Kong political autonomy in 2014. The Netflix original documentary is also receiving a limited run in theaters (not rated).
Also new: “I Am Jane Doe” (2017), about the battle against sex trafficking abetted by Backpage.com, and “What’s With Wheat?” (2017), which looks at dangerous changes in wheat production (both not rated).
Stand-up: “Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King.”
Amazon Prime Video
“Moonlight” (2016) is both a poetic and provocative portrait of a young black child, the sensitive, bullied son of a crack-addict single mom in a tough Miami neighborhood, presented through three acts of his life from childhood to adulthood. It earned three Academy Awards including Best Picture (in a now-infamous Oscar moment) and Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali’s tender performance as a drug dealer who shows the boy compassion and concern (R).
Streaming TV: “Boardwalk Empire: Season 5,” the final season of the HBO drama about the birth of organized crime in America during Prohibition, is now streaming, which gives Prime members the entire run of the acclaimed series.
Kid stuff: “Dino Dana: Season 1” combines live action and CGI for an educational series featuring two young sisters whose imaginations brings paleontology to life. 13 episodes.
True stories: “Seasons” (2016), which looks at the life cycle of the forest, is a natural history documentary from the team that made “Winged Migration” (PG) and “Bonhoeffer” (Germany, 2003), about the religious philosopher who fought back against the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany (not rated, with subtitles).
Amazon Prime / Hulu
Tongue-in-cheek comic book movie “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” (2016) stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett, and the four heroes in a half shell of the title (PG-13).
Hulu
Documentary and memoir intermingle in “Becoming Bond” (2017), an entertaining profile of George Lazenby, who played James Bond in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (one of the best) and then almost disappeared from sight (not rated).
“Casual: Season 3,” the acclaimed Hulu original comedy of a divorced mother (Michaela Watkins) and her bachelor brother (Tommy Dewey) fumbling through adulthood, kicks off with new episodes each Wednesday.
Foreign affairs: “I Am Love” (Italy, 2010) stars Tilda Swinton as the Russian wife of an Italian industrialist who falls for a young chef with a love of life. Also new: the searing drama “The Hunt” (Denmark, 2012) with Mads Mikkelson and action thriller “District B13” (France, 2006) with eye-popping stunt work (all rated R, with subtitles).
Also new: the documentary “Client 9” (2010) on the scandalous fall of New York governor Elliot Spitzer (R) and the snowbound crime thriller “Deadfall” (2012) with Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde (R).
HBO Now
Robert De Niro plays Bernie Madoff in “The Wizard of Lies,” an HBO original feature about the superstar financier whose famed investment fund was a fraudulent Ponzi scheme, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Hank Azaria (not rated).
Showtime Anytime
“Twin Peaks” (or “Twin Peaks: The Return,” as many are a calling it) brings David Lynch back to the small screen with most of his original cast for more Pacific Northwest noir. It is weird and enigmatic and creative and still unlike anything else on TV and Lynch directs every single episode himself. The first four episodes of the eighteen-episode TV event are now available to stream; new episodes arrive each Sunday.
Sundance Now
A pair of animated features debut: “Waltz With Bashir”(2008), an autobiographical tale of memory and repression turned oral history of the Lebanon war (R), and the made-for-TV family film “The Point”(1971), with songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not rated).