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 Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.” – Criterion.com
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
Steve Jobs was the most enjoyable, I-need-to-watch-that-again-right-now experience I had at the movies this year, and it was also the best-made. From Aaron Sorkin’s sharp, witty script — playing with truth to craft a tale of hubris, genius, and the sociopath who led a revolution that needed fifteen years for the world to catch up — to Danny Boyle‘s electric direction, which keeps a triptych of vignettes as dissimilar to each other as they are identical, it’s a feat of expert precision. And that doesn’t even mention the stellar acting: Michael Fassbender kills it as the flawed egomaniac, Kate Winslet is flawless as his conscience, and Michael Stuhlbarg steals the show with his biting and subtly hilarious retorts. Don’t ever let me hear you say computers aren’t art. – Jared M.
Also Arriving This Week
The 33 (review)
Black Mass (review)
Labyrinth of Lies
Trumbo (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
A Clockwork Orange (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Serious Man (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The American (Blu-ray) – $7.06
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $8.12
The Assassin (Blu-ray) – $14.99
Attack the Block (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $8.69
Brokeback Mountain (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $9.90
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Casino (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Dear White People (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Eastern Promises (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $7.74
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $5.99
A History of Violence (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Jaws (Blu-ray) – $7.88
John Wick (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Blu-ray) – $9.69
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $8.77
Looper (Blu-ray) – $9.93
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Magic Mike (Blu-ray) – $7.49
Magnolia (Blu-ray) – $9.50
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $9.19
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $6.40
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.63
Munich (Blu-ray) – $12.49
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $8.00
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Obvious Child (Blu-ray) – $9.99
ParaNorman (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Pariah (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $6.23
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Re-Animator (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Road to Perdition (Blu-ray) – $9.95
Seven (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Shaun the Sheep (Blu-ray) – $13.00
Short Term 12 (Blu-ray) – $9.89
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $4.99
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $6.25
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $9.18
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $5.89
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Blu-ray) – $5.20
True Grit (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Volver (Blu-ray) – $5.55
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $7.58
Whiplash (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $7.19
What are you picking up this week?