I’d call this another light week, but I’m not sure that’s a really good way to describe a week that marks the release of a long-unavailable-in-the-States Studio Ghibli classic on Blu-Ray, the wonderful Only Yesterday. Not to mention the delayed U.S. release of Arrow’s luxurious treatment of Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace (alongside their UK special edition of The Ox-Bow Incident and their worldwide special edition of the Steven Soderbergh-produced indie neo-noir Suture). And a special edition of former Dissolve Movie of the Week The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. And Criterion’s release of the classic 70s comedy The In-Laws. And Sony giving Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid any kind of release. But other than those (and the Best Animated Feature nominee Boy & the World and Anthony Page’s Absolution and the sanitation and the roads), what has this week done for us? And I guess some people’s directorial nemesis isn’t Angelina Jolie and they may want to see By the Sea, too.

Absolution (Kino)
The Adderall Diaries (Lionsgate)
Blood and Black Lace (Arrow)
Boy & the World (Universal)
By the Sea (Universal)
Cabin Fever (Shout Factory)
The Dark Knight Trilogy (Warner)
House of Cards: The Complete Fourth Season (Sony)
I Saw the Light (Sony)
The In-Laws (Criterion)
The Mermaid (Sony)
Only Yesterday (Universal)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)
Search Party (Universal)
Suture (Arrow)
The Swinging Cheerleaders (Arrow)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (42nd Anniversary Special Edition) (Kino)
Term Life (Universal)