FAST COLOR (2019) Stream on Amazon and Hulu; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. The director Julia Hart combines two popular genres — post-apocalyptic thriller and superhero movie — in “Fast Color,” which stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a recovering addict and mother whose mind has the ability to both disintegrate objects and put them back together. Set in an America plagued by extended drought, the plot involves Mbatha-Raw’s character reuniting with her mother (played by Lorraine Toussaint) and daughter (Saniyya Sidney), both of whom also possess supernatural powers. “Rewarding despite its restraint,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times, “the movie has an elasticity that pushes the imagination in any number of directions, offering an expressive allegory for a lineage of powerful black women whose strength, unleashed, could literally shake the earth.”

ROCKETMAN (2019) Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. The nominees for the 77th Golden Globe Awards were announced Monday, and this Elton John biopic is up for three awards in movie categories: best comedy or musical, best song and best actor in a musical or comedy. That acting nod is for Taron Egerton, who plays John on a rocky brick road to stardom.