Top streams for the week

"A Star Is Born" (2018, R), Bradley Cooper's latest remake of the Hollywood classic with Lady Gaga in the starring role, earned eight Academy Award nominations. You can catch up with the film before the Oscars are handed out on Sunday, along with "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" (2018, R) featuring Oscar nominees Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, on Cable On Demand and VOD. Also on DVD and at Redbox.

https://youtu.be/nSbzyEJ8X9E

https://youtu.be/UvJIaNsf_bY

Foreign language film nominee "Shoplifters" (2018, Japan, R, with subtitles), which took home the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, is on Cable On Demand, VOD, and DVD.

https://youtu.be/9382rwoMiRc

Ray Romano and Mark Duplass play neighbors and best friends in "Paddleton" (2019, not rated), a low-key comedy with a dramatic gut-punch: one of them is dying of cancer and the two reminisce and argue on a road trip to secure end-of-life drugs. The film, co-written and produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, comes to Netflix direct from its premiere at Sundance.

https://youtu.be/rs9YpUktrWw

Actor and former member of President Obama's White House team Kal Penn hosts "This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy," an eight-part documentary series from producers Adam McKay and Will Ferrell that uses humor to explore the complexities of the world economy. Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

https://youtu.be/1JVjoh6xzIA

Pay-Per-View / Video on Demand

World War II action meets monster movie in "Overlord" (2018, R), a thriller with Nazi super-soldier zombies. Also new:


  • the latest revival of "Robin     Hood" (2018, PG-13), this one with Taron Egerton and     Jamie Foxx;

  • drama "The     Maestro" (2018, not rated) with Xander Berkeley as     real-life composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco;

  • "Lords     of Chaos" (2018, R), a based-on-a-true-story drama that     arrives two weeks after its theatrical debut.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is thriller "The Changeover" (2019, not rated), based on the award-winning children's novel by Margaret Mahy and starring Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynksey, and Lucy Lawless, and racing drama "Trading Paint" (2019, R) with John Travolta.

Netflix

"The Photographer of Mauthausen" (2018, Spain, not rated, with subtitles) dramatizes the true story of Catalan photographer Francesc Boix, who documented and smuggled evidence of atrocities out of a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.

Also new: Jude Law leads a shady submarine crew into the "Black Sea" (2015, R) to find a fortune in sunken gold;

"Spy Kids: All the Time in the World" (2011, PG) brings a new team of junior agents into the kids adventure franchise;

Steve Carrell is "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005, R) in the hit comedy from director Judd Apatow.

Foreign affairs: Korean superstar Song Kang-ho is "The Drug King" (South Korea, 2018, not rated, with subtitles) in this crime thriller starring Doona Bae. Also new:

https://youtu.be/NYCLXB5JNv8


  • "Paris     Is Us" (France, 2019, not rated, with subtitles),     starring a young woman stars to lose her grip on reality after     missing an airline flight that crashes in

  • "Firebrand"     (India, 2019, not rated, with subtitles), a Marathi-language drama     about sexism and trauma produced by Priyank Chopra.

True stories: "Studio 54" (2018, not rated) looks back on the iconic club that epitomized the glamor and excess of the disco era and "Period. End of Sentence." (not rated, with subtitles) is nominated in the documentary short subjects category at this year's Oscars.

Streaming TV: the Canadian comedy "Workin' Moms: Season 1" follows four thirtysomething friends trying to balance jobs, family, and love lives in Toronto. Also new:

Amazon Prime Video

Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon star in the drama "What They Had" (2018, R), playing siblings with an ailing mother (Blythe Danner) and a father (Robert Forster) resistant to letting her go to a care facility.

Two of the best crime dramas of the 1980s are now streaming in their entirety. "Wiseguy: Complete Series" (1987-1990), starring Ken Wahl as a deep-cover cop, pioneered the long-form storytelling now familiar on cable TV with multi-episode stories featuring such actors as Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Maximilian Schell, and (in a rare dramatic role) Jerry Lewis. "Crime Story: Complete Series" (1986-1988), produced by Michael Mann, is a stylish series starring Denis Farina as the head of a squad taking on organized crime in Chicago and Las Vegas.

Also newly arrived is "Naked City: Season 1" (1958-1959), one of the first great TV crime dramas, and from Canada comes the smart and nuanced "Intelligence: Complete Series" (2006-2007).

More streaming TV: Louis C.K. writes, directs, and stars in "Horace & Pete: Complete Series" (2016) with Steve Buscemi and Edie Falco and Brian Cox stars in the Australian crime drama "The Straits: Complete Series" (2012). Both ran a single season.

Foreign affairs: Jiri Menzel's Oscar-nominated comedy "My Sweet Little Village" (Czechoslovakia, 1985, not rated, with subtitles) is still considered the most popular film of all time in the former Czechoslovakia.

Kid stuff: "Odd Squad: Odds and Ends" (2018) is a special double-length episode of the PBS kids series.

Also newly arrived: John Travolta and Gene Hackman in "Get Shorty" (1995, R), based on the Elmore Leonard novel;


  • comedy "The     Birdcage" (1996, R) with Robin Williams and Nathan     Lane;

  • the original "The     Terminator" (1984, R) with Arnold Schwarzenegger;

  • "Glastonbury     Fayre" (1972), a documentary about the seventies music     festival featuring Fairport Convention, Linda Lewis, Arthur Brown,     and Traffic. Nicolas Roeg is an uncredited co-director.

Prime Video and Hulu

Sally Potter's "The Party" (2017, R) is a satirical look at politics and personal relations starring Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Cillian Murphy (Prime Video and Hulu).

https://youtu.be/Wb4FF6lCqFw

Hulu

Benicio Del Toro and Tim Robbins play aid workers in a war zone in the political satire "A Perfect Day" (2016, R).

Streaming TV: Jennifer Lopez, Ed Sheeran, Josh Groban, John Legend, and Carrie Underwood are among the stars of the "Elvis All-Star Tribute" (2019, TV-PG). Also new: "Stan Against Evil: Season 3" with John C. McGinley.

HBO Now

"Deadpool 2 (Super Duper Cut)" (2018, not rated) is a longer cut of the cheeky, super-violent Ryan Reynolds superhero hit that includes footage unseen in theaters.

https://youtu.be/20bpjtCbCz0

The sixth season of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" is now on with new episodes on HBO Sunday nights and streaming the next day.

True stories: "United Skates" (2018, TVG-14) looks as the roller skating culture in African-American communities.

Available Saturday night is the HBO original movie "O.G." (2019, not rated) starring Jeffrey Wright and the companion documentary "It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It" (2019, not rated).

https://youtu.be/oVZevJr-WQ8

Other streams

The new "Desus & Mero" features TV and podcast personalities hosting a weekly talk show. New episodes Thursday nights on Showtime Anytime.

The 12-part Dutch crime thriller "The Oldenheim Twelve" (Netherlands, with subtitles) debuts in the U.S. on Acorn TV. Also new is the TV movie "Marvellous" (2014, not rated), a heart-warming, based-on-a-true-story drama starring Toby Jones.

Jo Joyner and Mark Benton are "Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators" in the first season of the comic mystery series set in modern Stratford-Upon-Avon. Streaming on BritBox.

New on disc this week:

"A Star is Born," "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," "Overlord," "Robin Hood," "The Maestro"

Now available at Redbox:

"A Star is Born," "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," "Overlord," "Robin Hood,"

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

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