• Fri, Sep 11, 26
  • 11:43:58 am

New DVD release

Recent release DVD and blu-rays for sale near you. See more at DVD Guide about the latest release DVD and movie information.

16 Jun

Spiderhead Review: You’ll Get a Chris Hemsworth High

New DVD release
Marvel actors must be desperate to play something, anything, that isn’t run of the mill heroics. Since retiring his shield, Chris Evans has launched an entire second career by portraying heels and a-holes, including on Netflix; you could sense Scarlett Johansson’s joy as she shouted Adam Driver into submission in Marriage Story, also on Netflix; and now Chris Hemsworth appears downright giddy as he shimmies across the screen as the most malevolent tech bro this side of Palo Alto in Spiderhead—which is about to debut on Netflix. Yet more than just a showcase for the insidious side of Hemsworth’s now…
Read More
15 Jun

Joker 2: Musicals That Could Influence Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn

New DVD release
It’s a funny world we live in when a single bit of possible casting news can turn Film Twitter on its head. Overnight, the fans of 2019’s Joker and those more skeptical toward Todd Phillips making a sequel titled Joker: Folie à Deux switched places when it was confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter that Lady Gaga is in talks to play Dr. Harleen Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn… and that the movie is going to be a musical. Suddenly those of us who were ambivalent toward the prospect of more Scorsese allusions in murderous clown makeup sat up and took notice…
Read More
15 Jun

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Slices Up a Classic Beatles Song

New DVD release
When Netflix is desperate, the knives come out, but fine cutlery is useless on glass. In the Knives Out sequel, the gentleman detective Benoit Blanc, once again played by Daniel Craig with that unplaceable Southern accent, travels to Greece to solve a new crime. He’s apparently been listening to the Beatles for inspiration. Directed by a returning Rian Johnson, the follow-up film will be called Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Here’s another clue for you all. The Walrus did it, and the Walrus was Paul. “That’s some heavy-duty conjecture,” the Knives Out sleuths might say, but “Glass Onion” was…
Read More
14 Jun

New Star Wars Movies Must Leave Nostalgia Behind

New DVD release
While Taika Waititi is currently very busy promoting two big Disney releases out in the next few weeks — Lightyear and Thor: Love and Thunder — the writer-director is also preparing to jump to a third major property for the House of Mouse: Star Wars. According to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, Waititi’s mystery movie could take the “late 2023” release date previously reserved for Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron, which has been delayed due to alleged “creative differences” behind the scenes. How likely it is that Waititi will be able to deliver a blockbuster Star Wars movie in less than 18…
Read More
14 Jun

Sam Neill on James Bond: ‘I Wouldn’t Have Taken the Role’

New DVD release
During the first half of the 1980s, the announcement of every new James Bond film was met with speculation about whether then-current 007 Roger Moore would continue in the role. At that point, Moore did not have a long term contract but negotiated his deal on a film-by-film appearance, which sometimes resulted in producer Albert Broccoli’s Eon Productions auditioning new actors for the part as a means of leveraging their position with Moore. However, by the time of his seventh Bond effort, 1985’s A View to a Kill, it was clear that the 57-year-old Moore was simply aging out of…
Read More
13 Jun

Lightyear Review: Pixar at Its Most Visually Eye-Popping

New DVD release
Lightyear is a movie that no one asked for, an odd spin-off of a beloved movie franchise that many felt should finally be put up on the shelf for good. But as they’ve done many times before, Pixar has taken a seemingly ill-conceived concept and proven that the weirdest ideas are often some of the best ones.  The secret to Lightyear’s success is that it stands on its own. The clever opening text explains that this is the movie that Andy’s Buzz Lightyear toy was based on, which is useful in that it places it neatly within the Toy Story…
Read More
13 Jun

Star Wars: Hayden Christensen Invented Wattanese for Attack of the Clones

New DVD release
This post contains light spoilers for OBI-WAN KENOBI Star Wars is famous for its alien languages. Even in the original film, audiences heard Chewbacca speak in Shyriiwook, Greedo speak in Rodese, and Jawas speak in, uh, Jawaese. Because the series eschews the universal translators found in Star Trek or Doctor Who, new aliens bring with them new speech styles. You would think that inventing new languages would put a great demand on writers and actors, as when Troy Kotsur helped create Tusken sign language for Book of Boba Fett. But that wasn’t the case for one of the prequel trilogy’s most notorious characters. Reflecting on his…
Read More
13 Jun

Sam Neill Wishes Event Horizon Was Longer

New DVD release
Sam Neill’s been thinking a lot about the movies of the 90s. The occasion, of course, is his return to the world of thunder lizards for Jurassic World: Dominion, in which he reprises his role as Dr. Alan Grant, the palaeontologist he first played in 1993’s Jurassic Park. Acknowledged by all as a classic, Jurassic Park has spawned five sequels, two of which feature Neill’s Grant. But there’s another classic from the 90s, one that has much more of a cult status, that deserves more. Not just more love, but more running time, apparently. While talking about his many genre…
Read More
13 Jun

Jurassic World Dominion Post-Credits Worthy Moment Suggests This Isn’t the End

New DVD release
This article contains Jurassic World Dominion spoilers. It all has been building to this. So goes the marketing for Jurassic World Dominion, the first film in 29 years to feature Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum all back together onscreen as their beloved characters of Dr. Alan Grant, Dr. Ellie Satler, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, respectively. As such it is being sold as the end of the “Jurassic Era,” as well as the culmination of the original Jurassic Park movies from the 1990s on top of being the finale to the Jurassic World movies, which began by focusing on…
Read More
13 Jun

E.T.: The Kids Movie That Is Really About Divorce

New DVD release
The scene is familiar to every child of the ‘80s. Little 10-year-old Elliott and his older brother Michae —still learning how to drive a car—have stolen a van in order to help their newfound alien friend E.T. After rescuing him from the clutches of a team of government agents intent on studying the creature, they rendezvous with Michael’s buddies at a local park. Elliott explains to them that E.T. is a man from outer space and that they’re taking him, via their bicycles, to his spaceship. “Well, can’t he just…beam up?” asks one of the boys. “This is REALITY, Greg,”…
Read More
13 Jun

Jurassic Park ‘Wasn’t Just Another Job’ for Sam Neill

New DVD release
It was 29 years ago that a movie came out and changed the course of film history. Jurassic Park, based on the novel by Michael Crichton and directed by Steven Spielberg, came roaring into theaters in June 1993 and ushered in a whole new era of visual effects-driven filmmaking. Not since the halcyon days of Ray Harryhausen’s pioneering work with stop-motion animation had anyone attempted to realistically put dinosaurs on the big screen, using groundbreaking new advancements in the still relatively new field (for film, anyway) of computer-generated imagery along with the latest developments in animatronics and other traditional effects…
Read More
13 Jun

Léa Seydoux: No Time to Die Ending ‘Made Me Really Sad’

New DVD release
This article contains No Time to Die spoilers. One of the most surprising pop culture moments of last year was the climax of No Time to Die, the 25th film in the James Bond franchise and the final to star Daniel Craig as 007. There’s a fuller explanation of the story and ending here but what it comes down to is that, at the end of his battle with the villainous Safin (Rami Malek), a gravely wounded and infected Bond chooses not to make a spectacular escape and sacrifices himself so that Safin’s lair and the deadly pathogen he had…
Read More
13 Jun

Taika Waititi’s Star Wars Movie Release Date Plans in Doubt After Script Update

New DVD release
While Lucasfilm’s slate of Star Wars live-action series continues to expand out from The Mandalorian and into new corners of the in-universe timeline, it’s hard to tell what exactly is going on with the movies. The studio didn’t bring any film updates to Star Wars Celebration Anaheim last month, and the movie it planned to release in 2023, Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron, will miss that slot due to alleged “creative differences” during the script writing process. It now seems very possible we won’t see the galaxy far, far away on the big screen again for another couple of years. That…
Read More
12 Jun

How Jurassic World Dominion ‘Fixes’ Jurassic Park III

New DVD release
This article contains Jurassic World Dominion spoilers. Were Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) an item in the original Jurassic Park movie from 1993? Fans still debate the issue almost 30 years later. While the characters never embrace with more than a hug over the course of that Steven Spielberg classic, and refer to each other as almost anything other than friends or colleagues, it was long assumed by most who viewed the movie in ’93 that they were a couple. After all, Alan is quite defensive of Ellie when he sees Jeff Goldblum’s Ian…
Read More
11 Jun

Mission: Impossible Movies – Best Action Scenes Ranked

New DVD release
In one of several meaty monologues Sean Harris gets to chew on in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, his villainous Solomon Lane turns the franchise’s most famous line in on itself. “Your mission, should you choose to accept it,” he whispers with the conspiratorial undertones of Lucifer. “I wonder, Ethan, did you ever choose not to? Did you ever stop and ask yourself who it was giving you the orders or why?” It’s a great smaller moment in a movie remembered largely for its epic bombast (as you’ll see below), and another example of writer-director Christopher McQuarrie digging down into the…
Read More
11 Jun

Jurassic World: Best Dinosaurs Ranked

New DVD release
This article contains mild Jurassic World Dominion spoilers. We all agree that Jurassic Park is a masterpiece, right? Perfectly directed and acted, and augmented by one of John Williams’ best scores. And we should also agree that the rest of them are trash. To be clear, I don’t mean that derisively—killer dinosaur movies should be kind of trashy. While Steven Spielberg brought a sense of wonder and genuine emotion to the first film, not even he could make the sequel anything more than a nasty movie about dinosaurs eating people.  That fact has been the blessing and curse of the…
Read More
10 Jun

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Is Where It Became a True Team Ensemble

New DVD release
Don’t worry; this message will not self-destruct. Tom Cruise is flying high following the box office haul of Top Gun: Maverick this summer. And next year, Cruise will look to unseat his now highest domestic earner with the next installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. While Top Gun: Maverick was a triumphant return to mega-star status, cashing in on the legacy sequel trend with a lean, effective script and dazzling practical stunts, it can be argued that Cruise’s recent M:I films laid the groundwork with audiences. It’s easy to forget, but the mid-2000s…
Read More
10 Jun

Chris Evans Mulls Possible MCU Return as Captain America

New DVD release
Anyone even remotely familiar with comic books knows that superheroes never die. Peter Parker’s beloved Uncle Ben may be forever pushing up daisies, but if even Jason Todd and Bucky Barnes can return from the grave, then nobody is gone forever. That might even be true for live-action (at least, in Disney-owned properties), as Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing appeared in Star Wars films after their deaths and even a young Mark Hamill popped up in The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett. With these possibilities out there, it’s no wonder that so many Marvel fans hope to see Chris Evans once again as the…
Read More
10 Jun

Jurassic World: Will There Be More Sequels?

New DVD release
It’s a major part of the advertising for Jurassic World Dominion: the new movie, sixth in the overall franchise and third in the Jurassic World trilogy, is being billed as the “epic conclusion to the Jurassic era,” a sneaky combination of words that makes it seem as if this will be the last movie in the entire Jurassic Park/World saga that started back in 1993. Even the original stars of the first film—Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum—are back alongside current leads Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard for what has been advertised as a true grand finale. But…
Read More
10 Jun

Black Adam Trailer: Meet Doctor Fate, Hawkman, and Atom Smasher

New DVD release
Even though they debuted in 1941’s All Star Comics #3, and have had several incarnations on TV, the Justice Society of America has never made it to the big screen. That’s all set to change this year when Black Adam hits theaters. In the highly-anticipated first full-length trailer for Dwayne Johnson’s DC Comics passion project we’re introduced to three members of the DCEU’s JSA. And they look cool as heck! If you haven’t seen that trailer yet, check it out here! But who are the JSA members? What are their powers? Where did they originate? We’re here to answer all…
Read More