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Stream on Demand: The final ‘Resident Evil’ on VOD, ‘Riverdale’ begins and ‘Royal Pains’ ends on Netflix.

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

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter pits Alice (Milla Jovovich) and friends against the zombies of the Umbrella corporation one last time in the sixth film in the resilient big screen adaptation of the hit video game (R).

Also new: the extreme sports spy movie sequel xXx: Return of Xander Cage with Vin Diesel (PG-13), dramedy The Last Word with Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried (R), young adult science fiction romance The Space Between Us with Asa Butterfield and Britt Robertson (PG-13), and French fantasy comedy The New Adventures of Aladdin(not rated, subtitled and dubbed versions).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the documentary Fight for Space about the American Space Program (not rated) and available before theaters is the thriller Kill Switch with Dan Stevens (not rated).

Netflix

Rebecca Hall stars in the real-life drama Christine (2016) as the Florida TV reporter who committed suicide on live TV in the 1970s (R).

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) stars Ryan Gosling as a motorcycle stunt rider turned bank robber and Bradley Cooper as the rookie cop on his trail (R).

Also new: indie dramas Lovesong with Riley Keogh and Jena Malone and Between Us with Olivia Thirlby and Ben Feldman (both 2016, not rated), surveillance thriller Enemy of the State(1998) with Will Smith and Gene Hackman (R) and comedy The Break-Up (2006) with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston (PG-13).

Foreign affairs: Lída Baarová (2016, Czech Republic) dramatizes the true story of the superstar Czech actress who turned down Hollywood to be with her lover, Joseph Goebbels (not rated, with subtitles).

Streaming TV: “Archie” meets “Twin Peaks in Riverdale: Season 1,” the sinister CW young adult melodrama that drops the sunny comic book into a town of dark secrets.

Also new: Netflix original comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 3,” BBC’s Sherlock: Series 4with Benedict Cumberbatch, and final season of USA’s sunny medical show Royal Pains.”

True stories: the seven-part series The Keepers delves into the unsolved murder of a Baltimore nun almost 50 years ago (not rated) and Laerte-se profiles the famed Brazilian cartoonist Laerte Coutinho who, at the age of 60, transitioned from male to female (not rated, with subtitles).

From Britain comes the music documentaries Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World(2016) and Sinatra: To Be Frank(2016) and natural history documentaries Animal House (2011) and The Hunt (2011), both hosted by David Attenborough.

Stand-up: Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive.”

Amazon Prime Video

Billy Crystal is a therapist to mobster Robert De Niro in the comedy Analyze This (1999, R) and Jodie Foster makes Contact (1997) in the science-fiction drama based on the Carl Sagan novel (PG).

Lisa Bowman and Larry Fessenden are shaggy slacker outlaws in the River of Grass (1995), the newly restored debut feature from indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (not rated).

Stand-up: Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said Was Nothing (2008).

Amazon Prime / Hulu

The romantic weepy “Me Before You” (2016) stars Emilia Clarke as an adorably awkward caregiver who falls for her patient (Sam Claflin) (PG-13). (Amazon Prime and Hulu)

Hulu

Indie drama Before I Disappear (2014) stars Shawn Christensen as a suicidal misanthrope and Emmy Rossum as his estranged sister (not rated).

Blue Caprice (2013) with Isaiah Washington and Tim Blake Nelson is based on the true story of the 2002 Beltway Shooter (R).

Streaming TV: Underground: Season 2,” the compelling WGN drama built around the Underground Railroad in the pre-Civil War south, and thriller The Last Ship: Season 3 from TNT.

HBO Now

Matt Damon returns in Jason Bourne (2016), the fourth film in the action series (PG-13).

The true-crime documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest delves into the devastating story behind a high profile murder (not rated).

Debuting Saturday night is the HBO original movie The Wizard of Liesstarring Robert De Niro as Bernie Madoff (not rated).

Showtime Anytime

The comedy Bad Moms (2016) lets Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Christina Applegate escape the kids and let loose for a night of R-rated antics.

Debuting Sunday night: David Lynch’s return to Twin Peaks.”

Acorn TV

The BBC mini-series Decline and Fall,” based on the comic novel by Evelyn Waugh and starring Jack Whitehall, David Suchet, and Eva Longoria, makes its stateside debut on the streaming service.

New on disc

“xXx: The Return of Xander Cage,” “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter,” “The Space Between Us,” “Love Song”

At Redbox: “Split,” “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage,” “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter,” “Sleepless”

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