This summer at the movies: a whole lot of stuff you’ve seen before. Quite literally, given that this season at the multiplex is crowded with a cornucopia of remakes, retreads, prequels, sequels, and perhaps even a re-prequel or two (that’s the next big thing, right?). Fear not, however, because we’ve got just the ticket to get you pumped for the new/old features, thanks to this week’s home-video offerings, which all seem eerily interested in priming audiences to follow up home viewings with a quick trip to the local movie theater.
In the coming weeks, moviegoers will be exposed to a new Pitch Perfect movie (aca-awesome), a new Terminator (timely, sort of), and a new Mad Max sequel (get your motor running, head out on the highway, etc.), and this week’s new home-video picks reflect the apparent viability of franchise features. Warm up your a cappella-loving vocal chords with Pitch Perfect: Sing-Along Aca-Awesome Edition (if you find yourself on an especially bad Anna Kendrick-bender post-sing-a-long, the Kendrick-starring musical The Last Five Years is also hitting DVD this week), which should at least keep you relatively peppy during a viewing of the near-apocalyptic wasteland of a new Mad Max: Collector’s Edition, before finding the time to revisit a fresh Terminator Blu-ray. Look at that, now you’re ready for the summer! (Or, alternatively, ready to just stay inside and watch the original movies you love, whichever, really.)
DVD and Blu-ray (* = combo pack)
All The King’s Men (Mill Creek)
Amira & Sam (Cinedigm)
Black Or White (Fox)
Black Sea (Universal)*
Days Of Grace (Cinema Libre)
Fifty Shades Of Grey (Universal)* (releases on May 8)
Futuro Beach (Strand Releasing)
Hoovey (Funimation Productions)
Kiss Of The Dragon (Starz/Anchor Bay)
Lost River (Warner Home Video)
Mr. Turner (Sony)
Murder Of A Cat (Gravitas Ventures)
Pitch Perfect: Sing-Along Aca-Awesome Edition (Universal)
Selma (Paramount)*
Supercross (Starz/Anchor Bay)
The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane (Starz/Anchor Bay)
The Nun (Film Movement)
The Ocean Of Helena Lee (Shootist Films)
The Pyramid (Fox)
The Secret Invasion (Kino Lorber)
The Terminator (MGM)
Winter Sleep (Adopt Films)
DVD
A Few Best Men (Universal)
Against The Sun (Anchor Bay)
Apparition (Revolver Entertainment)
Concerning Violence (Kino Lorber)
Crash! (Full Moon Features)
Diplomacy (Zeitgeist Films)
Elza (Kino Lorber)
Foolish Love (New Kingdom Films)
God’s Slave (Film Movement)
Hating Obama (Cinedigm)
Immigrant (Crystal Sky)
Love, Rosie (Universal)
Mahogany (Paramount)
Mansion Of The Doomed (Full Moon Features)
Miss Julie (Universal)
My Mistress (Omnibus)
Polycarp (Henline Productions)
Road Wars (Asylum)
Shadow Zombie (Brink)
Spare Parts (Lionsgate)
Superfast! (Ketchup)
The Demon (VCI Entertaiment)
The Frontier (Virgil Films)
The Last Five Years (Starz/Anchor Bay)
We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (Universal)
Blu-ray
1941 (Universal)
Always (Universal)
Anchors Aweigh (Warner Bros.)
Dollman Vs. Demonic Toys (Full Moon Features)
Duel (Universal)
Goodfellas: 25th Anniversary Edition (Warner Bros.)
Ladyhawke (Warner Archive)
Mad Max: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory)
Munich (Universal)
Old Gringo (Mill Creek Entertainment)
On The Town (Warner Bros.)
Robin And The 7 Hoods (Warner Bros.)
The Sugarland Express (Universal)
Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard (Anchor Bay)