New on DVD and Blu-Ray

The Criterion sale rages on, and Criterion has so kindly provided yet another title to blow your nest egg on this week. It’s Albert Brooks’ Lost in America, a stinging, hilarious satire on the flimsiness of the American Dream and the values that go with it. It also has maybe the funniest single scene of Brooks’ career, which is also easily the funniest thing Garry Marshall has ever done. God willing, Criterion will afford its attention to some of Brooks’ other films at a later date, but this will tide you over until then. And there are some other titles this week that can tide you over, although not much in the way of new releases, which include the Ghost in the Shell remake, this year’s less insanely bad entry in the “smart kid” genre from an indie upstart-turned-blockbuster director, Gifted, and, uh, Boss Baby. Catalog titles are better, with Batman: Mask of the Phantasm getting a long-awaited HD release, along with Mike Nichols’ Silkwood and all the Billy Jack films. There’s also Arrow giving us the (hopefully) definitive Blu-Ray of Re-Animator, Blue Underground releasing one of the less painful of Dario Argento’s later works, The Stendhal Syndrome, and Shout Factory backing up Julius’s recent recommendation of Scorchy.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Warner Archive Collection)
The Boss Baby (DreamWorks)
The Complete Billy Jack Collection (Shout Factory)
Ghost in the Shell (Paramount)
Gifted (Fox)
Girls: The Complete Sixth Season (HBO)
Lost in America (Criterion)
Re-Animator (Arrow)
Scorchy (Shout Factory)
Silkwood (Kino)
The Stendhal Syndrome (Blue Underground)
Unforgettable (Warner)
Warlock Collection (Lionsgate)
Where the Boys Are (Warner Archive Collection)
The Zodiac Killer (AGFA)