Not gonna lie, we got some anemic selection this week. But that’s all the better because it leaves you with plenty of money to purchase the Blu-Ray of Mike Nichols’ searing debut, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the high-def images and lossless sound likely adding new dimensions to Edward Albee’s scathing words and the late Haskell Wexler’s gorgeous black-and-white cinematography. Other than that, well, you can now buy Easy Rider individually from Criterion’s BBS set, even though you risk my supreme judgment if you do so (c’mon, man, pony up for the whole set, it’s a beaut), you can now enjoy Independence Day in its newly remastered glory, and you can now inexplicably buy Flash Gordon packaged with both Ted films. New releases are the teeniest bit better, with David O. Russell’s most frustrating film to date, Joy and Atom Egoyan’s minor-key return to form, the trashy but entertaining Remember, plus the much more critically acclaimed likes of Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights.

The 5th Wave (Sony, also in 4K)
American Sniper (The Chris Kyle Commemorative Edition) (Warner)
Arabian Nights (Kino)
Assassination (Kino)
The Choice (Lionsgate)
Easy Rider (Criterion)
Independence Day (20th Anniversary Edition) (Fox)
Joy (Fox, also in 4K)
A Kiss Before Dying (Kino)
The Last Ship: The Complete Second Season (Warner)
The Messenger (Kino)
Remember (Lionsgate)
Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre (Shout Factory)
Steele Justice (Kino)
Submerged (Shout Factory)
Ted vs. Flash Gordon: The Ultimate Collection (Universal)
True Crime (Warner)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Warner Archive Collection)