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 Gift (Joel Edgerton)
In his thoroughly strategized directorial debut The Gift, actor-writer Joel Edgerton recognizes curiosity as a seed. He plants one hardly five minutes in, based on the relatable subject of weird people you know in high school, and the self-amusement in seeing how they’ve turned out years later. Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall play Simon and Robyn, a married couple who have moved back to his neck of the woods after a personal tragedy in Chicago. In a furniture store, they meet Edgerton’s Gordo, high school classmate of Simon, who talks sheepishly but with interest in reconnecting. Harnessing the throwaway sentiment of “we should catch up sometime,” Simon kind of blows him off, while muttering to Robyn that Gordo (“The Weirdo”) was a joke decades ago, too.
– Nick A. (full review)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
One of the most long-awaited Criterion titles finally arrives to the collection today: David Lynch‘s Mulholland Drive, a 21st century masterpiece will be burned into your mind like few others. While the release isn’t packed with extra, it does feature a new Lynch-approved transfer, along with interviews from much of the cast and crew, as well as deleted scene and some on-set footage. While many question if this truly a horror film — like much of Lynch’s work — we can think of no better viewing experience this Halloween. – Jordan R.
My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
As far as Best Picture winners go, few are as pleasant as this Audrey Hepburn-led musical adaptation. Yes, perhaps more than a few minutes can be shaved off the nearly three-hour runtime, but we welcome the new4K restoration, which comes from an 8K scan of the original negative and what’s surviving from the 65mm print. On the Blu-ray is over 90 minutes of special features including a variety of original trailers and featurettes that were used in theaters to promote the feature film, as well as footage from the film’s Los Angeles and British premieres in 1964. – Jordan R.
Also Arriving This Week
Army of Darkness: Collector’s Edition
Phase IV
Tu dors Nicole (review)
Southpaw (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
Adaptation (Blu-ray) – $7.89
A Clockwork Orange (Blu-ray) – $6.99
A Most Wanted Man (Blu-ray) – $8.99
A Separation (Blu-ray) – $8.97
A Serious Man (Blu-ray) – $7.78
The American (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $7.07
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $6.54
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $8.30
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $6.78
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $7.52
Casablanca and The African Queen (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Casino (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Children of Men (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) – $9.04
Collateral (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Damsels in Distress (Blu-ray) – $8.56
Drive (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $6.99
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Grandmaster (Blu-ray) – $8.99
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) – $8.23
Kingdom of Heaven 10th Anniversary (Blu-ray) – $5.46
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) – $9.65
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) – $8.99
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $5.76
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.65
Mother (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $6.58
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $4.96
Observe & Report (Blu-ray) – $7.49
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) – $7.89
Rear Window (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Road to Perdition (Blu-ray) – $9.69
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $6.46
Seven (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Shining (Blu-ray) – $9.99
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $6.14
Snowpiercer (Blu-ray) – $10.49
Stoker (Blu-ray) – $7.43
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $6.25
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $8.69
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $6.79
Trick ‘r Treat (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Truman Show (Blu-ray) – $7.84
True Grit (Blu-ray) – $9.99
This is the End (Blu-ray) – $7.39
Under the Skin (Blu-ray) – $7.99
We Own the Night (Blu-ray) – $6.89
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $7.36
Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray) – $9.99
What are you picking up this week?