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.
Swiss Army Man (Daniels)
It’s rare we’d offer a recommendation of a film we didn’t love, but the mere fact that you won’t witness any other film like Swiss Army Man in this calendar year — or any other, for that matter — makes it worth a watch. Affectionally dubbed the “farting corpse drama” at Sundance this year, it finds Hank (Paul Dano) on a remote island by himself after a boating trip stranded him. Seconds away from ending this desolate existence by hanging himself, he spots a washed up body on the beach, “played” by Daniel Radcliffe. I said in my review, “This set-up could easily make for one of the silliest, off-putting films that has ever graced Sundance — in U.S. Dramatic competition, no less — yet the directing duo bring an unexpected layer of emotion to the story, even if it ends up getting eventually repetitively muddled. As Hank and “Manny,” as Radcliffe’s corpse is later dubbed, progress on their journey, themes of loneliness, isolation, true love, and more emerge.” – Jordan R.
The Wailing (Na Hong-jin)
Since the early aughts, South Korea has been one of the most prolific and exciting exporters of genre cinema, giving us such indelible gems as Oldboy, The Host, Snowpiercer, to name but a few. The country made its prowess felt again at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with no fewer than three high-profile titles covering historical suspense (The Handmaiden), zombie action (Train to Busan), and, perhaps most memorably, supernatural horror in the form of The Wailing. – Zhuo-Ning S. (full review)
Also Arriving This Week
Chevalier (review)
Complete Unknown (review)
Diary of a Chambermaid (review)
Joshy (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
Top Deal: Criterion is having a Halloween sale featuring films from David Lynch, Brian De Palma & more.
10 Cloverfield Lane (Blu-ray) – $9.99
99 Homes (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The American (Blu-ray) – $7.38
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $6.91
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Blu-ray) – $8.91
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $6.01
Birdman (Blu-ray) – $5.99
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Carrie (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Casino (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Cloud Atlas (Blu-ray) – $7.72
Creed (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Eastern Promises (Blu-ray) – $7.19
Everybody Wants Some!! (Blu-ray) – $14.99
Ex Machina (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Godzilla (Blu-ray) – $10.00
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Greenberg (Blu-ray) – $5.10
Hail, Caesar! (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Heat (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Holy Motors (Blu-ray) – $10.15
Incendies (Blu-ray) – $9.53
The Informant! (Blu-ray) – $7.90
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Inherent Vice (Blu-ray) – $10.75
Interstellar (Blu-ray) – $8.99
It Follows (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Jaws (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Blu-ray) – $9.89
Lincoln (Blu-ray) – $9.94
Looper (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Magic Mike XXL (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Magnolia (Blu-ray) – $8.49
The Magnificent Seven (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Blu-ray) – $9.53
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $5.26
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Moneyball (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Nebraska (Blu-ray) – $8.70
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $7.00
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $4.96
ParaNorman (Blu-ray) – $6.70
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $9.90
The Piano (Blu-ray) – $7.34
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $8.74
Road to Perdition (Blu-ray) – $8.65
The Searchers / Wild Bunch / How the West Was Won (Blu-ray) – $10.69
Selma (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Blu-ray) – $6.32
Short Term 12 (Blu-ray) – $9.39
Shutter Island (Blu-ray) – $6.79
A Serious Man (Blu-ray) – $5.35
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Blu-ray) – $8.79
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $5.80
Somewhere (Blu-ray) – $5.20
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Blu-ray) – $7.57
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy (Blu-ray) – $5.98
To the Wonder (Blu-ray) – $6.70
Volver (Blu-ray) – $5.95
Waltz With Bashir (Blu-ray) – $6.50
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $7.14
Whiplash (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Wolf of Wall Street (Blu-ray) – $9.99
What are you picking up this week?