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Whether you stream, buy or rent, here’s a look at what’s new or notable in home video. Movies are available on streaming sites such as iTunes, Amazon and Vudu unless otherwise noted.
In the spotlight
“Beaty and the Beast”: With Disney’s big-budget, live-action musical on the horizon, here’s a reminder that while Belle may be a princess, she also has a life outside the Mouse House. This 2014 French production, just out on Blu-ray (good timing, huh?), gives “B&B” a sumptuous fairy tale treatment, with lots of cool if slightly corny special effects. Lea Seydoux (“Blue Is the Warmest Color”) stars as Belle. There are no singing dishes. There is a cute pack of enchanted doggies and more violence and nudity — just a glimpse — than Disney would condone. (Shout! Factory Blu-ray)
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“Nocturnal Animals”: “On one level, Tom Ford’s ultra-stylish, cold-as-ice thriller is about an author (Jake Gyllenhaal) who pours 20 years of pent-up rage over a bad breakup into a novel in which he symbolically kills his ex-wife (Amy Adams) and their — unborn? imaginary? — daughter. Who wants to see that? Maybe you, because the novel is presented as a movie within the movie, a lurid West Texas tale with striking performances by Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a crazy drifter and Oscar nominee Michael Shannon as the lawman on his trail.
Also: “Bad Santa 2,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Manchester by the Sea”
Television
“Deep Water”: Yael Stone is an actress, not a sweet psychopath from New York (or is that Boston). Stone is so good as Morello on “Orange is the New Black,” though, that it’s initially startling to see her as a detective in this Australian miniseries. Set that aside, and “Deep Water” turns out to be an engrossing police procedural. It’s set in a beachfront suburb of Sydney, where what first appears to be a crime of passion may be connected to a series of hate crimes agaisnt gay men during the AIDS epidemic of the late ’80s.
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