Popes, pilots, singers and Brits ready to come home

What’s new for home viewing on Video on Demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other streaming services.

Top streams

for the week

Anthony Hopkins is Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce plays Jorge Bergoglio, the Cardinal from South America who became his successor, in “The Two Popes” (2019, PG-13). On Netflix a week after playing theaters.

Jessie Buckley delivers a star-making performance as a passionate, reckless, single mother in Scotland who dreams of becomes a Nashville country singer in “Wild Rose” (2019, R). Streaming on Hulu.

“The Aeronauts” (2019, PG-13) reunites “The Theory of Everything” stars Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne as a 19th-century daredevil balloon pilot and a stuffy scientist (respectively). On Amazon Prime Video two weeks after theaters.

“The Witcher,” the new fantasy series based on the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski, stars Henry Cavill as a monster hunter in a fictional medieval world of elves, gnomes and magic. Eight episodes streaming on Netflix.

“Downton Abbey” (2019, PG), the big-screen sequel to the British TV series, was a surprise hit in the U.S. Think of it as the show’s grandest episode ever. On Cable On Demand and VOD, also on DVD and at Redbox.

Pay-Per-View /

Video on Demand

Brad Pitt stars in James Gray’s space travel epic “Ad Astra” (2019, PG-13). For kids, the gentle animated adventure “Abominable” (2019, PG) offers a friendly Yeti on a journey home.

Netflix

True crime documentary “Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer” (2019, not rated) presents amateur internet sleuths trying to track a killer who posts videos of his acts.

Romantic drama “Soundtrack: Season 1” follows a diverse group of hopefuls trying to break into the Los Angeles music scene. Ten episodes.

Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander star in “The Danish Girl” (2015, R), the Oscar-winning drama based on the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener, who underwent experimental sexual reassignment surgery in the 1920s.

More streaming TV: “The Magicians: Season 4” (TV-MA) follows our young heroes in a world without magic as they regain their memories and go on a quest to open the magic wellspring once again.

Amazon Prime Video

Taissa Farmiga and Crispin Glover star in the gothic horror “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” (2019, not rated), based on the Shirley Jackson novel. Andrew Scott stars in the crime thriller “A Dark Place” (2019, not rated).

Hulu

Hulu streams the first four films in the unexpected hit action franchise launched with “The Fast and the Furious” (2001, PG-13), but it was the fourth film “Fast & Furious” (2009, PG-13), that gave birth to the heist-oriented series that has become so popular.

Streaming TV: The most interesting love-hate relationship on TV continues in “Killing Eve: Season 2” (2019, PG-14).

Other streams

Nordic noir series “Wisting” debuts on Sundance Now, with new episodes each Wednesday.

A resourceful child takes on a psycho Santa in cult action-horror film “Game Over” (France, 1989, with subtitles). On Shudder.

New on disc

and at Redbox

“Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture,” “Abominable,” “Ad Astra,” “Rambo: Last Blood”