If you’ve already taken in Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, you’ll understand why it’s not exactly easy to recommend the film for home-video consumption. Viewed as a possible Oscar contender last year, Miller’s dark drama never really caught on, and despite a pair of acting nominations for Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo and three other nods for Directing, Original Screenplay, and Makeup and Hairstyling, the film left the Academy Awards without a single statue. In a year filled with dark biopics, Foxcatcher might have been the most overwrought, and the choking sense of unease that clouds it—paired with Carell’s distracting prosthetic nose—makes it a hard watch. Make no mistake, I liked Foxcatcher, but it’s one of those films I have zero desire to ever see again, it made me just that unhappy. But if you haven’t seen it…! Well, you should, if only to see Carell make a go of this drama thing and to watch Channing Tatum ruthlessly put his cranium through a mirror.

Foxcatcher isn’t the only film hitting home video this week that is rooted in murder, but at least we’ve got a pair of more light-hearted offerings to soften things up. On the more amusing end of the spectrum, Scott Foley’s Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife imagines what happens when a group of friends (semi-accidentally) kill their buddy’s terrible wife. It’s amiable and fun and an easy watch, and it certainly makes an argument for Foley’s ability to direct comedy. Another dark option? (Though, one that’s still lighter than Foxcatcher). The third film in the Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1, which arrives on Friday for some reason. Sure, ratcheting up stakes and televised child murder are always fun to watch, but the film is mainly of interest because of a final, oddly affecting turn from Philip Seymour Hoffman. 

DVD and Blu-ray (* = combo pack)
Believe Me (Virgil Films)
Blood Car (Kino Lorber)
Equilibrium (Miramax)
Foxcatcher (Sony)
Fresh (Lionsgate)
Full Frontal (Miramax)
Innocence (Cinedigm)
Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife (Well Go USA)
Life Partners (Magnolia)
The Captive (Lionsgate)
The Humbling (Millennium Media)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay–Part 1 (Lionsgate) (Available March 6)
The Last Of Robin Hood (Universal)
Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The NeverBeast (Disney/Buena Vista)

DVD
Ask Me Anything (Phase 4)
Big Muddy (Monterey Media)
Black November (Phase 4)
Captive (First Run Features)
Drumline: A New Beat (Fox)
Farmland (Freestyle Digital)
Footprints (Mill Creek)
Friends For Life (Mill Creek)
Fresh Horses (Sony)
Horton Hears A Who! (Fox)
Ilya And Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here (First Run Features)
Jaws 3-Movie Collection (Universal)
Loitering With Intent (Team Marketing)
Messenger Of The Truth (Millennium)
Misogynist (Midnight Releasing)
Pastor Shepherd (Phase 4)
Private Peaceful (BBC Warner)
Psychotic (Midnight Releasing)
Splash Area: Night Of The Freaks (Eagle One)
The Better Angels (Anchor Bay)
The Final Song (Crystal Sky)
The Spring Break Murders (Hannover House)
The Three Investigators And The Secret Of The Haunted Castle (Phase 4)
To Write Love On Her Arms (Sony)
Web Junkie (Alive Mind)
What Planet Are You From? (Sony)

Blu-ray
Calamity Jane (Warner Bros.)
Kiss Me Kate – 3D (Warner Bros.)
Mobsters (Universal)
The Band Wagon (Warner Bros.)
The Grifters (Miramax)
The Yards (Miramax)
The Yards / The Lookout (Miramax)