Not gonna lie, we got ourselves a pretty damn subpar week for home video releases, catalog or new. Obviously, the big one is Jurassic World, and I am the only person on planet Earth who hasn’t caved in and watched it already (I don’t think I’ll be anymore tempted by the Blu-Ray release). There’s also the acclaimed documentary The Wolfpack and the middling-or-worse John Green adaptation Paper Towns. The catalog titles are a little better, with the highlight being Masaki Kobayashi’s horror anthology Kwaidan, newly remastered by Criterion and looking a lot better (and having more footage) than the kinda awful old DVD. And if you’re getting impatient waiting for Criterion to release them on Blu-Ray in the states, Masters of Cinema and Arrow Video have Blu-Rays of The Naked Prey and Thieves’ Highway for sale in the U.K.
About Alex (Screen Media)
Alex of Venice (Screen Media)
Back to the Future Trilogy (30th Anniversary Edition) (Universal)
The Bat (The Film Detective)
The Benoit Jacquot Collection (Cohen Film Collection)
A Birder’s Guide to Everything (Screen Media)
A Bucket of Blood (The Film Detective)
Demonoid: Messenger of Death (Vinegar Syndrome)
Diary of a Lost Girl (Kino Lorber)
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Warner Bros.)
Frightmare (Vinegar Syndrome)
A Good Marriage (Screen Media)
Jurassic World (Universal)
King of the Hill: The Complete Thirteenth Season (Olive Films)
Kwaidan (Criterion)
The Larry Fessenden Collection (Shout Factory)
The Lifeguard (Screen Media)
Lonesome Dove (Mill Creek)
The Marquise of O (Film Movement)
The Naked Prey (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
The Oblong Box (Kino Lorber)
Paper Towns (Fox)
Peaky Blinders: The Complete First Season (BBC)
Slam Dance (Kino Lorber)
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (Shout Factory)
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (Shout Factory)
Testament of Youth (Sony)
Thieves’ Highway (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)
The Vatican Tapes (Lionsgate)
The Wolfpack (Magnolia)
Z for Zachariah (Lionsgate)