We don’t usually have theme weeks in home video, but this week looks an awful lot like it was designed exclusively around flops/failed Oscar contenders. Starting with the good, as I’m wont to do, there’s Bridge of Spies, a successful Oscar contender and a solid-as-all-fuck movie that was overlooked because Steven Spielberg’s talents are increasingly getting taken for granted. It’s not perfect (I had issues with the underuse of Amy Ryan and Eve Hewson, and the score, shocker, lays it on a little thick at times), but it’s pretty goddamn close in its own, small little way. I’ve heard great things about David Simon and Paul Haggis’s Show Me a Hero, for more reasons than just Oscar Isaac being Oscar Isaac, presumably. And after an aborted Blu-Ray in 2014, Terrence Malick’s favorite film, Zoolander, is now available for mass consumption on the format. Now that we’ve gotten past that, there’s… not a lot. If you want to watch the Maryse Alberti-shot joint that get snubbed at the Oscars, the one where no one even remotely cared when it was overlooked, there’s Freeheld, supposedly featuring a truly awful comic relief performance by Steve Carell. If you’re in the mood for Hollywood wasting David Gordon Green’s talents once again, journalism-based dramas besides the obvious or good ones, good old wasted potential, or whatever the fuck Rock the Kasbah is, then check out, respectively, Our Brand is Crisis, Truth, Suffragette, and The Last Witch Hunter Rock the Kasbah.

Big Stone Gap (Universal)
Bridge of Spies (Disney)
Delirious (Kino Lorber)
Edge of Seventeen (Strand Releasing)
Extraordinary Tales (Cinedigm)
Falling Skies: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner Bros.)
Freeheld (Lionsgate)
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series – Seasons One & Two (Entertainment One)
The Giant Spider Invasion (VCI)
Gorp (Kino Lorber)
Hellions (Shout Factory)
Highway to Hell (Kino Lorber)
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Kino Lorber)
The Keeping Room (Drafthouse)
The Last Witch Hunter (Lionsgate)
Man Up (Lionsgate)
Martyrs (Anchor Bay)
Our Brand Is Crisis (Warner Bros.)
Rock the Kasbah (Universal)
Show Me a Hero (HBO)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney)
Suffragette (Universal)
Truth (Sony)
Up the Creek (Kino Lorber)
The World of Kanako (Drafthouse)
Zoolander (Paramount)