What to stream: more ‘Altered Carbon’ and ‘I Am Not Okay with This’ on Netflix, ‘Frozen II’ and ‘Knives Out’ on VOD

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services …   A new cast is in place for the second season of the Netflix Original Series “Altered Carbon” (2020, TV-MA), a science fiction thriller based on the novels of Richard K. Morgan, set in […]

What to stream: a new ‘Watchmen’ on HBO, ‘Dolemite’ on Netflix, ‘Castle Rock’ on Hulu and more

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services …  The weekly column is featured in The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, The Spokesman-Review, and other newspapers. Disney brings photo-realistic 3D animation to its remake of the animated musical “The Lion King” (2019, PG), featuring […]

What to stream: ‘Umbrella Academy’ on Netflix, ‘Lorena’ on Amazon, ‘Rhapsody’ on VOD

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Bohemian Rhapsody (2018, PG-13) has been criticized for its simplistic (and in some places inaccurate) portrait of the life of singer and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, but it is a rousing, […]

What to stream: ‘First Man’ on VOD, ‘Black Moon Rising’ and ‘Polar’ on Netflix, ‘Four More Shots’ on Amazon

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Ryan Gosling is astronaut Neil Armstrong in First Man (2018, PG-13), an intimate look at the story behind the first human to set foot on the moon. Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle (La La Land) […]

What to stream: ‘Leave No Trace’ on Amazon, ‘Support the Girls’ on Hulu, ‘Hell or High Water’ on Netflix

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Start 2019 with some of the best films of last year. Leave No Trace (2018, PG), inspired by a true story and shot in and around Portland, Oregon, is a touching […]

Constance Wu and Awkwafina star in the hit 2018 romantic comedy.

What to stream: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ on VOD, ‘First Reformed’ on Amazon, ‘Sorry to Bother You’ on Hulu

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … A Chinese-American professor (Constance Wu) collides with the culture of the ultra-rich in Singapore when she meets her boyfriend’s family in Crazy Rich Asians (2018, PG-13), the hit romantic comedy based […]

Anthony Hopkins in the new version of the Shakespeare classic co-starring Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Florence Pugh, and Jim Broadbent

What to stream: Anthony Hopkins is ‘King Lear’ on Amazon, ‘Hold the Dark’ on Netflix, ‘Solo’ on VOD

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Anthony Hopkins plays King Lear in the Amazon Prime Original miniseries, which relocates the setting to a military dictatorship in contemporary England, and Emily Watson, Emma Thompson, and Florence Pugh plays […]

What to stream: ‘Maniac’ and ‘The Witch’ on Netflix, ‘The Conformist’ on Amazon Prime Video, ‘Citizen Kane’ on FilmStruck

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Emma Stone and Jonah Hill play traumatized test subjects in a pharmaceutical trial that promises to take away their pain in Maniac (2018), a Netflix Original limited series that combines science […]

What to stream: Hulu’s ‘Castle Rock,’ a new season of ‘Orange’ on Netflix, film noir on Amazon Prime and ‘Ready Player One’

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The sixth season of the popular Netflix Original series Orange Is the New Black opens in the aftermath of a failed prison riot and occupation and sends the inmates of the […]