Stream on Demand: Netflix celebrates Fonda, Redford reunion

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

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Jane Fonda and Robert Redford reunite in “Our Souls at Night” (2017), which comes to Netflix direct from the Venice Film Festival where the actors were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards. Netflix celebrates with their three earlier collaborations: thriller “The Chase” (1966, not rated) with Marlon Brando, Neil Simon comedy “Barefoot in the Park” (1967, G) and modern Western “The Electric Horseman” (1979, PG).

Tim Roth stars in Amazon Original crime drama “Tin Star” as an alcoholic small town police chief with a violent alter ego serving in the Canadian Rockies. 10 episodes now available.

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“Transformers: The Last Knight” (2017, PG-13), the sixth film in the action franchise of giant robot wars, adds a little gravitas to the cast: Anthony Hopkins joins Mark Wahlberg and Josh Duhamel. And of course, a platoon of giant mechanical monsters that fold themselves like origami. Also on DVD and Blu-ray and at Redbox.

Also new: thriller “47 Meters Down” (2017, PG-13), which strands Claire Holt and Mandy Moore in a shark cage at the bottom of the sea; ’70s-era coming-of-age drama “Lane 1974” (2017, not rated); and comedy “Crash Pad” (2017, R) with Thomas Haden Church and Christina Applegate.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is romantic comedy “Literally, Right Before Aaron” (2017, not rated) with Justin Long and Cobie Smulders, sci-fi thriller “The Sound” (2017, not rated) with Rose McGowan and Christopher Lloyd; and horror film “Don’t Sleep” (2017, not rated) with Cary Elwes and Drea de Matteo.

Netflix

Carla Gugino stars in “Gerald’s Game” (2017, not rated), based on the Stephen King thriller. It debuts directly on Netflix.

Also new: thrillers “The Bad Batch” (2017, R), Ana Lily Amirpour’s dystopian horror about cannibals in the Texas wastelands and Tarantino-esque “The Bar” (2017, not rated, with subtitles) from Spain.

Streaming TV: Netflix debuts the animated comedy “Big Mouth” (Netflix Original), featuring comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney as sex-crazed, pubescent teenagers, plus “Paul Hollywood’s Big Continental Road Trip,” a car show hosted by a celebrity chef, and “The Magic School Bus Rides Again,” a revival of the popular animated kids show.

True stories: education and inequity is focus of “Night School” (2016, not rated) and “Teach Us All” (2017, not rated).

Stand-up: “Def Comedy Jam 25” (2017) celebrates 25 years of the comedian showcase.

Amazon Prime Video

Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace star in Brian De Palma’s sexy European thriller “Passion” (2012, R), which doesn’t have a lot of passion but does engage in a love of kinkiness, flirtation, sensation and the thrill of playing big business games.

“Parkland” (2013, PG-13) dramatizes the assassination of JFK with a cast that includes Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thornton and Paul Giamatti.

True stories: “Elián” (2017) is Elián González, who in 1995 was a 5-year-old Cuban boy in Florida at the center of a political struggle between the U.S. and Cuba.

Cult movies: a whole batch of Japanese crime thrillers arrive, including Takashi Miike’s gonzo gangster apocalypse “Dead or Alive” (1999, R, with subtitles), Sonny Chiba as “Doberman Cop” (Japan, 1977, not rated, with subtitles) and girl gang freak-out “Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss” (Japan, 1970, not rated, with subtitles).

Streaming TV: British sitcom “Father Ted: Seasons 1-3” and the first season of the 1960s American road show drama “Route 66.”

Hulu

Just in time for the revival, Hulu now offers the entire eight-season run of the original “Will & Grace,” the Emmy-winning sitcom with Eric McCormack and Debra Messing. That’s 198 episodes now ready to stream.

Streaming TV flashback: Hulu now has the complete runs of the original “Full House” and other ABC family sitcoms of the ’80s and ’90s, including “Perfect Strangers” with Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker and “Family Matters” with Jaleel White as Urkel.

Also new: Starz crime drama “Power: Season 3” and Disney kid show “Miles From Tomorrowland: Season 2.”

Jesse Eisenberg meets his doppelganger in “The Double” (2013, R), a dark drama inspired by the Dostoyevsky novella.

Hulu gets a jump-start on Halloween with the original Swedish vampire film “Let the Right One In” (2008, R, with subtitles), South Korean thriller “I Saw the Devil” (2010, not rated, with subtitles), George Romero’s “Survival of the Dead” (2009, R), his sixth living dead picture and his final film, and the anthology films “The ABCs of Death” (2012, not rated), “V/H/S” (2012, R), and “V/H/S 2” (2013, R).

HBO Now

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in the video game adaptation “Assassin’s Creed” (2016, PG-13).

Arriving Saturday night is the comedy “Why Him?” (2016, R) with James Franco and Bryan Cranston.

FilmStruck/Criterion Channel

FilmStruck celebrates the work of pioneering independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke with a collection of recent restorations, including her innovative drama “The Connection” (1962), landmark documentary “Portrait of Jason” (1967) and Oscar-nominated short “Skyscraper” (1958).

Debuting this week on The Criterion Channel are Lucrecia Martel’s drama “The Headless Woman” (2008) from Argentina and the warm Japanese character comedy “Mr. Thank You” (1936) from director Hiroshi Shimizu.

Acorn TV

Beloved British comedy “Doc Martin: Season 8” shows on Acorn TV in the U.S. concurrent with its British broadcast debut. New episodes on Thursday nights.

At Redbox:

“Wonder Woman,” “Transformers: The Last Knight,” “47 Meter Down,” “The Layover,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas”