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Stream on Demand:

By Sean Axmaker Correspondent

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is disillusioned idealist Edward Snowden in Snowden,” Oliver Stone’s drama about the NSA whistleblower who leaked thousands of classified documents revealing illegal government surveillance (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray.

Also new: the sprawling indie drama American Honey,” starring newcomer Sasha Lane as neglected teenager who runs off with a gypsy sales crew (R) and the romantic thriller When the Bough Breakswith Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall (PG-13).

Netflix

Captain America: Civil War (2016, PG-13) is an Avengers movie everything but name, with the star spangled boy scout (Chris Evans) battling Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and the rest of the Marvel Comics Universe picking sides for the big superhero showdown.

Also new: Disorder (2015, not rated), a thriller starring Diane Kruger as a client protected by a delusional bodyguard, and the Oscar-nominated German drama Downfall (2004) about the last days of Hitler (R, with subtitles).

Streaming TV: Think of The Magicians,” a SyFy Channel series based on the Lev Grossman novels, as “Harry Potter” for the American college experience. Thirteen episodes.

Also new: the Netflix original series Chasing Cameron follows social media celebrity Cameron Dallas.

True stories: Werner Herzog explores the Internet in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016, PG-13) and Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me profiles the Broadway legend (not rated).

Amazon Prime / Hulu

Tina Fey is an American TV journalist turned combat reporter in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016, R), a comedy inspired by the memoir by Kim Barker, a former Spokesman-Review reporter.

Hulu

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, PG-13) is a sweetly eccentric comedy about a problem child orphan (Julian Dennison) and a grumpy old man (Sam Neill) who become unlikely outlaws in the New Zealand wilds.

Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man (2008, PG-13) in the film that launched the modern Marvel Comics movie universe, and Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are back on the runway as Derek and Hansel in Zoolander 2 (2016, PG-13).

HBO Now

Hail, Caesar! (2016, PG-13), the Coen brothers’ sly yet affectionate satire of 1950s Hollywood, stars Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum and Tilda Swinton. Also from the Coen brothers: the Oscar-nominated A Serious Man (2009, R).

Every Brilliant Thing brings British comedian Jonny Donahoe’s celebrated off-Broadway show to the small screen (not rated).

AcornTV

The seven-part miniseries Close to the Enemy is a compelling drama about the early stirrings of the Cold War in 1946 Britain.

At Redbox

“Sully,” “Storks,” “In a Valley of Vengeance,” “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie”

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