Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
Blackhat (Michael Mann)
Although it came and went faster than a hacker can execute a line of code, Michael Mann‘s Blackhat remains one of the best-directed films of the year thus far. A visceral thriller that admittedly could have used another pass or two on the script, we showered it with some love on our official podcast. So, if you passed by it in January, now makes for a perfect time to give it a look, as it arrives on Blu-ray today, complete with a few behind-the-scenes featurettes. – Jordan R.
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey)
Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring’s selfish whims. An inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema’s purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure. – Criterion.com
Still Alice (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland)
What Still Alice posits on the most basic level about its title character’s decline is profoundly counterintuitive. Highly intelligent people, Alice’s doctor suggests, are naturally more adept at hiding the effects of early-onset Alzheimer’s with mnemonic devices than people of average intelligence, and therefore undergo mental decline far more rapidly. This counterintuitive sense extends to the film itself, which values outward grace over traceable decline. As the disease progresses, filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmore refuse to upend that grace—it merely changes shape. – Sky H. (full review)
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
Ideally timed for the season and the forthcoming Netflix show, David Wain‘s break-out debut feature Wet Hot American Summer will be arriving on Blu-ray for the first time today. Featuring a wealth of extras, including highlights from their 10th anniversary festival, deleted scenes with commentary, a full feature commentary, and much more. Not just the first glimpses of the talents of Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, and more, it also holds up incredibly. – Jordan R.
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
The American (Blu-ray) – $6.75
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $6.69
A Most Violent Year (Blu-ray) – $14.96
Anna Karenina (Blu-ray) – $12.02
The Babadook (Blu-ray) – $14.97
Before Midnight (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $9.10
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $6.70
The Bling Ring (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Boogie Nights (Blu-ray) – $10.42
Bronson (Blu-ray) – $10.91
Burn After Reading (Blu-ray) – $8.52
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Casino (Blu-ray) – $8.93
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Cloud Atlas (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Collateral (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Do the Right Thing (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Drive (Blu-ray) – $7.88
The Fly (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $8.35
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $7.50
The Grandmaster (Blu-ray) – $8.99
The Grey (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Haywire (Blu-ray) – $7.64
Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray) – $8.73
The Illusionist (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Immigrant (Blu-ray) – $14.99
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $8.73
Jackie Brown (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) – $7.84
Killing Them Softly (Blu-ray) – $7.99
L.A. Confidential (Blu-ray) – $8.55
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $8.49
The Last Waltz (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Looper (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $8.71
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $7.44
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $6.19
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $4.96
Observe & Report (Blu-ray) – $7.49
Office Space (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Pariah (Blu-ray) – $6.13
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $6.90
Public Enemies (Blu-ray) – $8.72
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $7.00
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $8.49
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $6.70
A Serious Man (Blu-ray) – $7.98
Seven (Blu-ray) – $7.00
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Shutter Island (Blu-ray) – $6.94
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $7.87
Spring Breakers (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $6.92
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $7.88
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $6.44
The Truman Show (Blu-ray) – $7.99
True Grit (Blu-ray) – $7.99
This is the End (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Vanilla Sky (Blu-ray pre-order) – $8.35
Waltz with Bashir (Blu-ray) – $9.09
We Own the Night (Blu-ray) – $9.09
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $6.94
Whiplash (Blu-ray) – $14.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $6.73
Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray) – $9.96
What are you picking up this week?