It is entirely conceivable that you did not see Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper in theaters. Conceivable, sure, but not totally believable. The late 2014 feature ended up becoming the highest-grossing feature film of the year (it made nearly $350 million domestically, besting second-place winner The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 by over $12 million), which basically translates to “a whole lot of people saw this movie in theaters.” If you somehow missed it—sure you did—the film is now hitting home video, ensuring that it will haunt you as you wander grocery store aisles, your local Best Buy, and your high school friend Steve’s living room.
If, however, you have already seen American Sniper, the rest of the week’s home-video releases offer up some exciting counterprogramming, including the Criterion Collection release of The Rose (humblebrag: during a recent visit to the Criterion offices, I watched some of their ace restoration artists work on Mark Rydell’s 1979 feature and perhaps yelped in a way that was unsettling to them, though it was a noise that came from a place of pleasure), Celine Sciamma’s stellar Girlhood, and a collection of all three Meet The Parents films that should really have been delivered under the title The Whole Fockin’ Collection, but what can ya do?
DVD and Blu-ray (* = combo pack)
American Sniper (Warner Bros.)*
Cymbeline (Lionsgate)
Extremities (Olive Films)
Flawless (Olive Films)
Girlhood (Strand Releasing)
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Paramount)*
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (Olive Films)
Leviathan (Sony)
Limelight (Criterion)
Maya The Bee Movie (Shout! Factory)*
Peter Benchley’s Creature (Olive Films)
Poltergeist II and III (MGM)
The Evil Eye (Kino)
The Osterman Weekend (Starz/Anchor Bay)
The Rose (Criterion)
Zombeavers (Epic)
DVD
3 Holes And A Smoking Gun (ITN Distribution)
All Sinners Night (World Wide Multi Media)
All The Wilderness (Screen Media)
American Poltergeist (Wild Eye Releasing)
Angel Baby (Kino Lorber)
Awake In The Woods (Shami Media Group)
Awaken The Devil (Bayview)
A Zombie Exorcism (Wild Eye Releasing)
Before I Disappear (MBI Home Video)
Black Church, Inc. (Cinedigm)
Bordering On Bad Behavior (Inception Media)
Camp Massacre (ITN Distribution)
Cinderella (Full Moon Pictures)
Curse Of The Witching Tree (4 Digital Media)
Daddy’s Home (Image Entertainment)
Day Of The Outlaw (Shout! Factory)
Despite The Gods (Brink)
Gunland (Cinedigm)
Last, Love, Lost (Shami Media Group)
Lovesick (Anchor Bay)
Matthew 18 (Virgil Films)
My Dad’s A Soccer Mom (Alchemy)
On Wings Of Eagles (Shout! Factory)
Raiders Of The Lost Shark (Wild Eye Releasing)
Roommate Wanted (Lionsgate)
Seek (TLA Releasing)
Smokey And The Hotwire Gang (Peter Rodgers Organization)
Strange Magic (Disney)
The Blue Room (MPI Home Video)
The Cat, The Reverend And The Slave (Pathfinder Entertainment)
The Father’s Love (Word Entertainment)
The Last Hijack (Kino Lorber)
The Living (Monterey Video)
The Pirate (Vision Films)
The Vatican Exorcisms (Anchor Bay)
They Will Outlive Us All! (Wild Eye Releasing)
Valley Of The Cycle Sluts (Peter Rodgers Organization)
Wuthering High (Asylum)
Blu-ray
Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man (Shout! Factory)
Laurel & Hardy: The Flying Deuces (VCI Entertainment)
Meet The Parents: The Whole Focker Collection (Universal)
Stigmata (Scream Factory)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Warner Archive)
Trancers 2: The Return Of Jack Deth (Full Moon)