New on DVD and Blu-Ray

This is a very light week in terms of quantity, and not a particularly great one in terms of quality either, but we’ve at least got two BIG titles to fill that gap. And unusually, those two are both new titles, them being Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out (which thankfully looks to be starting the career of someone devoted to telling original socially conscious stories, instead of someone carelessly thrown into the gears of franchise filmmaking), and James Mangold’s Logan (which shows the very occasional upsides of throwing someone into the gears of franchise filmmaking). Logan comes with a black-and-white version of the film (entitled Logan Noir), a blatant attempt to bite Mad Max: Fury Road‘s steez, although it apparently does genuinely work for this film (and even if this continues into movies that absolutely don’t need it, at least it’s an easily ignorable annoying trend). Looking past those two, there’s also the Oscar-nominated French animated film My Life as a Zucchini, the female-directed horror anthology XX (with entries by the likes of Karyn Kusama and Annie “St. Vincent” Clark), the recent exercise in Lovecraftian horror, The Void, and Jacques Audiard’s shrugworthy Palme d’Or winner Dheepan (just in time for the Cannes jury to get it wrong a third time in a row). Arrow is really the only one keeping catalog titles afloat this week (Disney releasing The Mighty Ducks and its sequels exclusively to members of their website doesn’t really count), with the U.S. release of their Jacques Rivette box set (sans Out 1) and their release of the uber-rare Sonny Chiba lycanthropic genre mishmash Wolf Guy.

Dheepan (Criterion)
Get Out (Universal)
The Great Wall (Universal)
The Jacques Rivette Collection (Arrow)
Logan (Fox)
Max 2: White House Hero (Warner)
The Mighty Ducks (Disney)
My Life as a Zucchini (Universal)
Rock Dog (Lionsgate)
The Void (Screen Media)
Wolf Guy (Arrow)
XX (Magnolia)