May 30, 2017: Here’s what’s hitting Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD this week
Recent big-screen releases coming to Blu-ray and DVD this week include the YA adaptation Before I Fall (starring Zoey Deutch), the action thriller Collide (starring Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones), the R-rated comedy Fist Fight (starring Ice Cube and Charlie Day) and the faith-based drama The Shack (starring Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer).
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Younger audiences should be able to look forward to the animated feature Strawberry Shortcake: Dance Berry Dance.
When it comes to horror titles, May 30 brings home writer and director Oz Perkins’s 2015 feature The Blackcoat’s Daughter, starring Emma Roberts and Kiernan Shipka. Arrow Films, meanwhile, delivers a special edition of the 1995 slasher Evil Ed.
The Criterion Collection this week brings to Blu-ray Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 Daniel Clowes adaptation Ghost World and also issues a second box set in their Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project. This new collection includes Mário Peixoto’s Limite (1931), Lütfi Ö. Akad’s Law of the Border (1966), Lino Brocka’s Insiang (1976), Edward Yang’s Taipei Story (1985), Ermek Shinarbaev’s Revenge (1989), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Mysterious Object at Noon (2000).
Coming from the small screen this week is a new definitive version of the classic animated series Speed Racer. Also of historical significance is this week’s Decoy, a late 1950s police procedural starring Beverly Garland as often-undercover LAPD Officer Casey Jones. You’ll also find the complete Beauty and the Beast hits DVD this week, collecting all four seasons of the series starring Smallville‘s Kristin Kreuk, and the second season of the BBC’s The Last Kingdom.
Arriving via Digital HD on May 30 is director Gore Verbinski’s recent psychological thriller A Cure for Wellness and Chapter & Verse, a tale of redemption written by and starring Daniel Beaty. The science fiction thriller Life, meanwhile, is set to debut on Digital HD this Friday, June 2.
You can check out cover art for all the May 30, 2017 releases in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable).
May 30, 2017: This Week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD
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Before I Fall
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Collide
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Fist Fight
- Deleted Scenes
- Georgia Film Commission -
The Shack
- Audio Commentary with Director Stuart Hazeldine
- "Touched by God: A Writer's Journey" Featurette
- "God's Heart for Humanity" Featurette
- ""Heaven Knows": The Power of Song with Hillsong United" Featurette
- "Something Bigger than Ourselves: The Making of The Shack" Featurette
- "Premiere Night: A Blessed Evening" Featurette
- Deleted Scene -
The Blackcoat's Daughter
- Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Osgood Perkins
- "The Dead of Winter: Making The Blackcoat's Daughter" Featurette -
Ghost World
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cowriter-director Terry Zwigoff, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring Zwigoff, Ghost World comic creator and film cowriter Daniel Clowes, and producer Lianne Halfon
- New interviews with actors Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Illeana Douglas
- Extended excerpt from Gumnaam (1965) featuring the Bollywood number that appears in Ghost World’s opening title sequence, with commentary
- Deleted scenes
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Howard Hampton, a 2001 piece by Zwigoff on the film’s soundtrack, and reprinted excerpts from Clowes’s comic Ghost World -
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2
- 2K, 3K, or 4K digital restorations of all six films, presented courtesy of the World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural or 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on the Blu-rays
- Remastered digital soundtrack for Limite, created from archival recordings
- New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
- New interview programs featuring film historian Pierre Rissient (on Insiang), director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (on Mysterious Object at Noon), director Ermek Shinarbaev
(on Revenge), filmmaker Walter Salles (on Limite), film producer Mevlüt Akkaya (on Law of the Border), and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edmond Wong in conversation (on Taipei Story, which Hou cowrote and acted in)
- Updated English subtitle translations
- Three Blu-rays and six DVDs, with all content available in both formats
- A booklet featuring an introduction and essays on the films by Phillip Lopate, Dennis Lim, Kent Jones, Fábio Andrade, Bilge Ebiri, and Andrew Chan -
Evil Ed
DISCS 1 & 2 (BLU-RAY + DVD) – THE SPECIAL ED-ITION CUT
- World premiere of the newly-extended version of the feature [95 min]
- Keep ’Em Heads Rollin’ – making-of documentary
- Reconstructing Edward – featurette on the creation of the Special ED-ition cut
- Deleted scenes
- Bloopers
- Teasers and Trailers Still Gallery
DISC 3 (BLU-RAY) – THE ORIGINAL CUT [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]
- Original Cut [93 mins]
- Lost in Brainland – never-before-seen extended 3 hour version of the making-of documentary -
Speed Racer
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Beauty and the Beast - The Complete Series
- Dressing the Beauty
- Creating the Beast
- A Day in the Life of the Writer's Room
- Gag Reels
- Deleted Scenes -
Decoy
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The Last Kingdom - Season Two
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Strawberry Shortcake: Dance Berry Dance
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A Cure for Wellness
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Life
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Chapter & Verse
