Don’t let the slim look of this week’s new-on-home-video rolls fool you: There’s a ton of good stuff available for purchase (or rental? are we still doing that? I miss that) that’s well worth your hard-earned dollar bills. The big ones—While We’re Young and Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter—provide a microcosmic look at some recent festival favorites. (Personally speaking, While We’re Young is one of my favorite films of 2014, and one that really benefits from further watches.)
Dig a little deeper, though, and this week has a handful of other offerings that are pretty hard to turn down, including a special-anniversary edition of UHF and a long-touted “alternate ending” cut of Vanilla Sky. (The Blu-ray’s details are listed at Cameron Crowe’s own The Uncool website). It sounds nothing short of essential. Slightly less essential? Last Knights and The Gunman, which both feature star-studded casts and a whole lot of slack-jawed confusion. Also, my parents loved Danny Collins, so do with that information what you will.
DVD and Blu-ray (* = combo pack)
Danny Collins (Universal)*
Five Easy Pieces (Criterion)
Get Hard (Warner Bros.)*
Hard To Be A God (Kino International)
I Am Evel Knievel (Virgil Films)
Last Knights (Lionsgate)
The Gunman (Universal)*
The Dovekeepers (Paramount)
UHF (25th Anniversary Edition) (Shout Factory)
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (Criterion)
While We’re Young (Lionsgate)
DVD
A Global Affair (Warner Archive)
All The Wrong Reasons (Monarch)
A Woman (Anderson Digital)
Before You Know It (Passion River)
Bullish (Maverick Entertainment Group)
Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb Vs. Gravity (Kino Lorber)
Childless (Monterey Media)
Come Fly With Me (Warner Archive)
Downtown 81 (Submarine)
Forbidden Empire (Entertainment One)
Frog Kingdom (Lionsgate)
Honeymoon Hotel (Warner Archive)
Mom (MGM)
Of Girls And Horses (Wolfe Video)
Rivers 9 (Entertainment One)
Saugatuck Cures (Breaking Glass)
Still (Omnibus Entertainment)
The Adventures Of Huck Finn (Entertainment One)
Treading Water (Team Marketing)
Blu-ray
1990: The Bronx Warriors (Blue Underground)
Escape From The Bronx (Blue Underground)
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (Starz/Anchor Bay)
The New Barbarians (Blue Underground)
Vanilla Sky (Warner Bros.)