New to streaming services this week, we have a couple of notable popcorn flicks, including a triumphant new Disney film and the latest in the rebooted Star Trek saga, a couple seasons of highly watchable television, some classic horror, and a couple of indies. Read on for the full list.
In this season of Marvel’s popular ABC series, Ghost Rider and Quake look into a ghostly situation, while Agents Coulson and May deal with an android gone rogue.
Available now on: Netflix
Kerry Washington stars in this Shonda Rhimes-created series about a high-profile fixer whose ties to the White House complicate her personal and professional relationships.
Available now on: Netflix
Dwayne Johnson and newcomer Auli’i Cravalho lend their voices to Disney’s latest animated treat, a Polynesian tale about an island chief’s teen daughter, who sets out across the ocean to save her people with the help of the demigod Maui.
Available now on: Netflix
Kim Hye-Ja and Won Bin star in South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s mystery about a developmentally challenged man, accused of murdering a young girl, and his doting mother who goes to extreme lengths to prove his innocence.
Available now on: Netflix
Billy Crudup and Ezra Miller star in this Certified Fresh drama based on the famous psychological study, in which Stanford University students were asked to play either prison guards or inmates, and the situation quickly devolved into chaos.
Available now on: Netflix
Vincent Price stars in this classic horror film about a wealthy man who throws a haunted house party and offers a $10,000 reward to any of his guests if they can survive the night.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
This eerie film from the early days of cinema comes from Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen, who explores witchcraft in the Middle Ages with stark lighting effects and chilling imagery.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
The third chapter in the rebooted Star Trek saga finds the crew of the Enterprise marooned and separated on an unfamiliar planet, where they discover a new foe may have been waiting for them all along.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Bette Midler and Danny DeVito star in this Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy — their last together — about a bankrupted couple who kidnap their ex-boss’s spoiled wife, only to befriend her and get revenge on her evil husband together.
Available now on: FandangoNOW
Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman square off in Tony Scott’s tense action thriller set aboard a nuclear submarine.
Available now on: FandangoNOW
Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, and Rosalind Chao lead an ensemble cast in Wayne Wang’s layered drama about four elderly Chinese women and their American-born daughters telling their generation-spanning stories over a game of mah-jongg.
Available now on: FandangoNOW
Bette Midler, Nick Nolte, and Richard Dreyfuss star in this comedy about a wealthy family who adopt a homeless man when they catch him attempting to drown himself in their swimming pool.
Available now on: FandangoNOW
Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, and John Goodman star in this reimagining of the classic tale, which finds a group of adventurers traveling to a secret island where giant creatures live, untouched by humanity, and one ape in particular reigns supreme.
Available now on: FandangoNOW
Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl star in this fact-based drama about a Warsaw zookeeper and his wife, who put their lives on the line during World War II to help save innocent lives.
Available now on: FandangoNOW
Demi Lovato, Mandy Patinkin, and Rain Wilson lend their voices to the third Smurfs film — the first to be completely animated — which follows the little blue hobgoblins as they search for a secret village in the Forbidden Forest.
Available now on: FandangoNOW
