Now Streaming: Watch ‘Destroyer’ while waiting for ‘Thrones’

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

TOP STREAMS  FOR THE WEEK

• Nicole Kidman delivers a ferocious performance as a damaged police detective in Karyn Kusama’s hard-edged “Destroyer” (2018, R), a neo-noir crime thriller with a sun-blasted look and a sleek narrative that jumps back in time to revisit the undercover case that haunts the drama. Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany and Sebastian Stan co-star, but Kidman dominates this savage film. Streaming on Hulu.

• Netflix launches a half-dozen new shows this week, but I call your attention to “Special,” a semi-autobiographical comedy created by and starring Ryan O’Connell as a young gay man with cerebral palsy (eight episodes under 15 minutes each), and “Huge in France” with Gad Elmaleh as a French comedy star (which in fact he is) who moves to Los Angeles and becomes an instant nobody. Elmaleh developed the Netflix Original Series for his English language debut. Both begins streaming Friday.

• “Queens of Mystery” stars Olivia Vinall as a newly promoted police detective who gets unsolicited help from her three aunts (Sarah Woodward, Julie Graham and Siobhan Redmond), all successful crime writers eager to dive into real-life cases. The first two-part mystery is now streaming on Acorn TV and new mysteries debut each Monday through April 22.

• Appointment TV becomes appointment streaming as the eighth and the final season of “Game of Thrones” begins Sunday night on all HBO services.

• The Criterion Channel has relaunched as a new streaming service spotlighting classic and contemporary films from around the world, from international masterpieces to Hollywood classics to American independent visions.

The opening launch spotlights a trove of American film noir classics from “Mildred Pierce” (1945) and the newly restored “Detour” (1945) to “The Big Heat” (1954) and “Murder by Contract” (1958), plus a collection of films from David Lynch, a selection of Italian masterpieces scripted by Suso Checci d’Amico including “Bicycle Thieves” (Italy, 1948, with subtitles) and “Rocco and His Brothers” (Italy, 1960, with subtitles), and the landmark American independent drama “Wanda” (1970, not rated) from director Barbara Loden.

That is in addition to hundreds of classics from such filmmakers as Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Michael Powell, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Agnes Varda.

The Criterion Channel costs $10.99 a month or $99.99 a year (after a 14-day free trial) and is available via Roku, Amazon Fire and AppleTV as well as browsers and mobile devices.

PAY PER VIEW/ VIDEO ON DEMAND

• Felicity Jones is Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “On the Basis of Sex” (2018, PG-13), and Steve Carell stars in the drama “Welcome to Marwen” (2018, PG-13). Both also on DVD and at Redbox.

NETFLIX

• Kiernan Shipka is a deaf teenager surviving in an alien invasion with her father (Stanley Tucci) in the Netflix Original film “The Silence” (2019, PG-13).

• Streaming TV: Jamie King is a mother searching for her daughter in the zombie drama “Black Summer: Season 1,” and “New Girl: Season 7” concludes the hit sitcom starring Zoey Deschanel and Jake Johnson.

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

• The landmark anthology series “Outer Limits: Season 1” (1963-64) remains a classic of science fiction, and the crime procedural “Spiral: Seasons 1-6” (France, with subtitles) is the most celebrated crime drama on French TV.

PRIME VIDEO/HULU

• Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall star in “Finding Your Feet” (2018, PG-13), a British comedy about starting over.

HBO NOW

• The new screen adaptation of Richard Wright’s “Native Son” (2019, TV-MA) comes to HBO from the Sundance Film Festival.

NEW ON DISC/REDBOX

• “On the Basis of Sex,” “Welcome to Marwen,” “Holmes and Watson,” “A Dog’s Way Home.”

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

This article originally ran on yakimaherald.com.