What’s New on DVD and Blu-Ray

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After a couple weeks of slow DVD days, finally we’re getting a wide array of big releases. The biggest is, arguably, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the second in the series of young adult dystopian future novels about a special kid who is out to break a system of oppressive abels and vocabulary tests. Our own Nerd in the Basement called, “a relentless, and occasionally mind-boggling, failure,” which isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement to most ears, but is almost a siren song to yours truly.

In the cultured world, Far From the Madding Crowd comes out on DVD and Blu. It’s a sped-up adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel that maintains a modern feminist tone, but remembers that Hardy never had much respect for any of his characters and routinely spun fine comedy out of their foibles. Handsome, not that respectable, and quick-witted, this is the type of movie I want more of.

Coming out in the gay world, Patrik-Ian Polk’s Blackbird gets a Blu and a DVD this week. I sing the praises of this spin on the gospel movie where a boy struggles between his homosexuality and his southern baptist upbringing, while his little sister has been kidnapped, his mother has been driven to insanity, his friends are all having rampant sex, and he helps make a movie with the college kids. Polk’s film is a deliberate one-of-our-own movies in the style of the rampantly religious gospel movie, which may prove daunting to anybody who hasn’t spent their time rummaging through the passion genre. I truly fell in love with it, finding it to be a massively witty and thoroughly enjoyable twist of the knife.

Joe Dante’s Innerspace gets a release on blu-ray to match the DVD release of Burying the Ex, which, according to ye old Dissolve, might be a case of the less said the better. But, Innerspace is a delight! Criterion’s edition of Jules’ Dassin’s classic noir Night and the City comes out on blu and DVD, which is a must see if you haven’t, if only for a young Gene Tierney. As a final note: according to The B-Movies Podcast, Lake Placid vs Anaconda, the Syfy original movie, that is the fifth in both serieses, is not really worth watching. If you’re going to watch any, it should be Anaconda 1, 2, and 4 and Lake Placid 1, 3, and 4 (unrated editions for all).

Blu-Ray and DVD

  • Adult Beginners
  • Barely Lethal
  • Black & White: The Dawn of Assault
  • Blackbird
  • Brother’s Keeper
  • The Casual Vacancy
  • Child 44
  • The Dead Lands
  • The Divergent Series: Insurgent
  • Do you Believe?
  • Far From the Madding Crowd
  • Flamenco, Flamenco
  • He Ran All the Way
  • Hitman
  • The Last Survivors
  • A Little Chaos
  • Love Me
  • Madame Bovary
  • Murdoch Mysteries: Series 8
  • Night and the City
  • Orphan Black: Season 3
  • The Salvation
  • Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
  • Storm Fear
  • Strike Back: Cinemax Season 3
  • Toolbox Murders 2
  • The Transporter
  • The Transporter 2
  • The Transporter Collection
  • True Story
  • Wyrmwood

Blu-Ray

  • Big House, USA
  • Blast from the Past
  • Free Willy
  • I Love Lucy: The Complete Second Season
  • Innerspace

DVD

  • 10.0 Earthquake
  • 3 Headed Shark Attack
  • The Affair: Season One
  • Alpha & Omega: Family Vacation
  • Always Watching: A Marble Hornet’s Story
  • America’s Test Kitchen: Season 15
  • American Masters: Louisa May Alcott – The Woman Behind Little Women
  • Anarctic Edge: 70 Degrees South
  • Any Day
  • Appetites
  • Beetle Bailey: Complete Cartoon Collection
  • A Bunch of Munsch: The Complete Series
  • Burying the Ex
  • The Busy World of Richard Scarry: The Complete Series
  • Chespirito Gift Set
  • Chocolate City
  • Civil Way Stalemate
  • The Comeback: The Complete Second Season
  • The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
  • The Culpepper Cattle Company
  • Death Machine
  • Designer Pups
  • Dora & Friends: Doggie Day!
  • Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Double-Length Adventures
  • El Chapulin
  • El Chavo
  • Elvis: Summer of ’56
  • Every Secret Thing
  • Faults
  • Frontline: The Trouble with Chicken
  • Gallows Road
  • The Games
  • A Good Day to Die
  • Gundam Turn: DVD Collection Part 2
  • Hood
  • How to Get Away With Murder: The Complete First Season
  • Humanity from Space
  • I Dream of Wires
  • Inner Demons
  • Into the Grizzly Maze
  • Jackie & Ryan
  • Jungle Book
  • A La Mala
  • Lake Placid vs Anaconda
  • The Last Heroes of WWII
  • Last Tango in Halifax: Season 3
  • Leslie Sansone: Walk to the Hits
  • Little Loopers
  • Little Princess
  • Loony Tunes: Rabbits Run
  • Madeline: The Complete Collection
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete First Season
  • Masada
  • Peppa Pig: School Bus Trip
  • Phantom Halo
  • Please Twins Complete Collection
  • Pokemon Series: XY
  • Pressure
  • Rapture: The Beginning of the End
  • Rescue from Gilligan’s Island
  • Resident Advisors
  • Rick Sebak’s Summer Fun
  • Ride
  • The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Route 66: The Ultimate Road Trip
  • Seashore
  • Sgt Bilko: The Third Season
  • Single in South Beach
  • Stand
  • TCM Spotlight: Charlie Chan Collection
  • Teacher of the Year
  • Tormented
  • UFC 185/186
  • Venom
  • Wasp
  • When Calls the Heart: Heart of the Family
  • When the Checks Stop Coming In
  • The White Storm
  • Wicked Tuna: Season 4
  • The Wild West with Ray Mears