Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt)
The last two trips director James Ponsoldt made to Sundance it was with two excellent dramas: Smashed and The Spectacular Now. This year, Ponsoldt returns with the often moving and consistently funny The End of the Tour. While the director’s latest may not be on par with his past two efforts, that’s not much of a problem considering the level of quality he achieves here. The End of the Tour follows a failed author, David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg), interviewing one of the most talked-about writers of the moment, David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), for Rolling Stone magazine in 1996. Lipsky spends time with Wallace on the final days of his book tour for Infinite Jest. For the most part, the two get off to a good start, in spite of Wallace hoping to maintain his privacy. Things get bumpy when Lipsky starts to wonder: how can someone so brilliant be so normal? Wallace is a guy who eats burgers at McDonalds, teaches at a college, and, despite his success, struggles with depression and everyday problems. Their time together ultimately becomes more than just another interview. – Jack G. (full review)
Inside Out (Peter Docter)
Ever since Disney and Pixar announced that they’d begun working on Inside Out, it was clear that the concept had a wealth of of potential. This, despite the studio experiencing its first bad run of form at the time. Cars 2 had underperformed at the box office, Monsters University failed to live up to its predecessor. Indeed, if the house that Pixar built had lost its sheen, this high-concept idea seemed to be offering a new lick of paint. As it happened, despite some visual irregularities, Inside Out (directed by Pete Docter of Up fame) isn’t just a step in the right direction or simply a return to form; it’s amongst the smartest, funniest, and saddest films in the studio’s history. – Rory O. (full review)
She’s Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich)
The contemporary is overrated; sometimes, we have to look back in order to move forward; the new is always found in the old. These are some of the obvious mantras of Peter Bogdanovich, quite possibly the most misunderstood filmmaker in all of American cinema. (Just read Vincent Canby’s dumfounded reviews of the otherwise brilliant Saint Jack and They All Laughed.) The plot of his latest film, She’s Funny That Way, is a wish-wash of knots and tangles where, through sheer coincidence, the characters end up whimsically encountering each other. “A city of eight million people and everybody knows everybody. – James K. (full review)
Also Arriving This Week
Before We Go
Best of Enemies
Croupier
The Final Girls (review)
Roar
Vacation (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
Adaptation (Blu-ray) – $7.89
A Clockwork Orange (Blu-ray) – $9.65
A Most Wanted Man (Blu-ray) – $9.96
A Most Violent Year (Blu-ray) – $10
A Separation (Blu-ray) – $8.00
A Serious Man (Blu-ray) – $7.73
The American (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $6.98
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $6.54
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $8.30
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $8.16
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $7.65
Casino (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Children of Men (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Collateral (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Damsels in Distress (Blu-ray) – $8.34
Drive (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $5.99
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Grandmaster (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Halloween (Blu-ray) – $7.88
A History of Violence (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray) – $7.82
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) – $8.29
Kingdom of Heaven 10th Anniversary (Blu-ray) – $8.70
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $7.49
Laura (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Looper (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Mad Max: Fury Road (Blu-ray) – $14.99
Magic Mike (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Magnolia (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $5.89
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $9.18
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $4.96
Observe & Report (Blu-ray) – $7.49
ParaNorman (Blu-ray) – $7.52
Pariah (Blu-ray) – $6.73
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Public Enemies (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Re-Animator (Blu-ray) – $8.05
Road to Perdition (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Saint Laurent (Blu-ray) – $14.99
The Salt of the Earth (Blu-ray) -$14.99
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $6.50
Seven (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $6.99
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $6.14
Stoker (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Blu-ray) – $10.99
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $5.99
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $8.69
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $6.79
Trick ‘r Treat (Blu-ray) – $9.69
The Truman Show (Blu-ray) – $7.84
True Grit (Blu-ray) – $9.99
This is the End (Blu-ray) – $7.77
Under the Skin (Blu-ray) – $9.99
We Own the Night (Blu-ray) – $6.89
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Wild Tales (Blu-ray) – $14.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $7.36
Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray) – $9.99
What are you picking up this week?