This week on streaming video, we’ve got Netflix’s latest original series, a few smaller films, and some worthy television shows. Read on for details:
Bill Burr, Laura Dern, and Jason Long lend their voices to Burr’s animated sitcom about a family living during the 1970s.
Available now on: Netflix
This documentary follows six teen magicians as they enter the World Magic Seminar and compete to become Teen World Champion.
Available now on: Netflix
Richard Gere and Jena Malonestar in a Certified Fresh drama about a day in the life of a homeless man in Manhattan.
Available now on: Netflix
SyFy’s series about scientists attempting to fight the outbreak of a deadly disease ended after two seasons, but both are viewable on Netflix now.
Available now on: Netflix
Sundance’s Certified Fresh German-language period drama centers around a spy in the 1980s who goes undercover in West Germany as a soldier.
Available now on: Hulu
Featuring an astonishing performance from David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Selma is an account of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, where demonstrators met serious resistance at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, as well as from local and national politicians.
Available now on: Amazon Prime, Hulu
While investigating the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is caught up in a violent storm and presumed dead by his departing crewmates. Utilizing whatever he has on hand, Mark must attempt to survive until NASA can figure out a way to bring him home.
Ben (Robert De Niro) is a widowed retiree whose boredom leads him to apply for a job as a “senior intern” at an online fashion startup; the company’s thirtysomething CEO Jules (Anne Hathaway) eventually takes a shine to her older employee, and the two of them become good friends.
