Now Streaming: Atwood's everywhere: Check out 'Alias Grace

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Here’s what’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services.

TOP STREAMS FOR THE WEEK

• The Netflix original miniseries “Alias Grace,” based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, explores the true story of a servant girl (Sarah Gadon) convicted of murder in 19th century Canada. The six-episode series is scripted by Sarah Polley and directed by Mary Harron and co-stars Edward Holcroft, Anna Paquin, Paul Gross, and David Cronenberg.

• “Arrival” (2016, PG-13), starring Amy Adams as a linguist making first contact with an alien race with no spoken language, is both a brainy science fiction drama and a touching human story. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve went on to direct “Blade Runner 2049.” Now streaming on Amazon Prime and Hulu.

• “Winter’s Bone” (2010, R), a coming-of-age survival story set in the crime and poverty of the Ozark Mountains, features a superb break-out performance by Jennifer Lawrence and a rich sense of place and culture. It was the Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival. Now streaming on Hulu.

PAY-PER-VIEW/VIDEO-ON-DEMAND

• Idris Elba is the last Gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey is his evil nemesis in “The Dark Tower” (2017, PG-13 and unrated versions), based on the novel by Stephen King. Also on DVD and Blu-ray and at Redbox.

• Also new: the action thriller “Kidnap” (2017, R) with Halle Berry, the family drama “Columbus” (2017, not rated) with John Cho, and the documentary “Frank Serpico” (2017, not rated).

• Available before theaters is the hitman thriller “24 Hours to Live” (2017, R) with Ethan Hawke, and the same day as theaters is the war drama “On Wings of Eagles” (2016, PG-13, with subtitles).

NETFLIX

• “42” (2013, PG-13) stars Chadwick Boseman as baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who integrated Major League Baseball.

• Netflix debuts two new foodie programs: the competition series “Zumbo’s Just Desserts” (Netflix Original) and the unscripted British show “The Big Family Cooking Showdown.”

• Kid stuff: Julia Roberts is the voice of Charlotte in “Charlotte’s Web” (2006, G).

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

• Jeff Bridges is an alcoholic writer giving life lessons to a privileged teenager (Callum Turner) in the coming-of-age drama “The Only Living Boy in New York”(2017, R).

• Streaming TV: the first season of the USA series “Falling Water” follows three characters whose lives are entwined by a shared dream. Ten episodes.

• Get a start on your Christmas watchlist by adding the classic TV special “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” (1963).

HULU

• Anne Hathaway is a different kind of Cinderella in “Ella Enchanted” (2004, PG), and for younger kids there are the animated Disney classics “The Sword in the Stone” (1963, G), “The Aristocats” (1970, G) and “The Rescuers” (1977, G).

HBO NOW

• James McAvoy is a kidnapper with multiple personalities in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split” (2017, PG-13), and Anya Taylor Joy attempts to navigate the personalities to escape.

NEW ON DISC

• “The Dark Tower,” “Kidnap,” “Dawson City: Frozen Time”

REDBOX

• “War for the Planet of the Apes,” “The Dark Tower,” “The Book of Henry,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”

Source: yakimaherald