New on DVD and Blu-Ray

What comes up must come down. After last week’s insanely rich release schedule, we have more than a bit of a comedown this week, although there are still some goodies to be found. If you’re like me and you missed your one chance to see Spike Lee’s Chi-raq in theaters (no, I don’t have Prime, thank you very much), it’s now out on Blu-Ray, so you can get your second Matthew Libatique fix in two weeks. And Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin is also out, whose cinematography has been drooled over by everyone and their mother (if I could’ve seen in theaters, I most certainly would have). In terms of catalog titles, the UK gets a brand-spanking-new 4K restoration of King Hu’s A Touch of Zen, as well as a Blu-Ray edition of Miller favorite The Friends of Eddie Coyle. And in this region, Arrow digs up three underseen Nikkatsu crime pictures (directed by Seijun Suzuki, Toshio Masuda, and Buichi Saito), and Warner Bros. gives one of Alfred Hitchcock’s more underheralded films, The Wrong Man, its Blu-Ray debut.

The Assassin (Well Go USA)
Burnt (Anchor Bay)
Chi-Raq (Lionsgate)
Comin’ at Ya! 3D (MVD Visual)
Doctor Who: Series 9 Part 2 (BBC)
Downton Abbey: Season 6 (PBS)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
Goosebumps (Sony)
Jack’s Back (Shout Factory)
The New Girlfriend (Cohen Media Group)
Nikkatsu Diamond Guys: Vol 1 (Arrow)
A Touch of Zen (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
The Wrong Man (Warner Archive Collection)