
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the major releases hitting this week on Blu-ray and DVD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at all the major new releases and catalogue titles hitting the shelves!
Walt Disney Pictures kicks things off this week with their recent adaptation of the enduring children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Last fall, ComingSoon.net chatted with the cast and, before that, we took a visit to the set.
It was also last year that we spoke with Jeremy Renner and co-star Rosemarie DeWitt about their latest, the disturbingly true political drama Kill the Messenger, which arrives today on both Blu-ray and DVD.
Critically acclaimed and currently nominated for an Academy Award for its screenplay by Dan Gilroy (who also directs), Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a stylish Los Angeles neo-noir. Check out our conversation with Gyllenhaal and co-star Rene Russo right here.
The directorial debut of “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, the true drama Rosewater also debuts today. You can view our chat with Stewart and the real life Maziar Bahari by clicking here.
One of the first 2015 releases to come to home video, Michael and Peter Spierig’s Predestination stars Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook and offers a trippy take on Robert Heinlein’s time travel tale “All You Zombies.” Watch our conversation with Hawke about the film right here.
Also hitting today is Ruben Östlund acclaimed disaster drama Force Majeure and director Lynn Shelton’s romantic comedy drama Laggies, starring Keira Knightley, Chloe Grace Moretz and Sam Rockwell.
Debuting exclusively on home video is the animated adventure LEGO: DC Comics Superheroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, featuring the return of “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” star Diedrich Bader as the Dark Knight.
Walt Disney Pictures, meanwhile, releases “from the vault” their 1961 animated classic 101 Dalmatians on Blu-ray for the first time in an edition jam-packed with bonus features.
Joining the Criterion Collection this week are both Nicolas Roeg’s intense 1973 thriller Don’t Look Now, starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as two parents trying to cope with the unexpected loss of their daughter, and A Day in the Country, a 1936 short feature in which Renoir himself stars.
Shout Factory, finally, rounds things out with a pair of Blu-ray double features. The first offers two different takes on vampire comedy, offering Stan Dragoti’s 1979 feature Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Dracula, and Howard Storm’s Once Bitten, released in 1985 with Jim Carrey starring as a young man who may be in over his head when he meets an alluring vampire countess. In the next set, we get both the 1989 comedy Vampire’s Kiss (starring Nicolas Cage, who also provides a commentary track) and Neil Jordan’s 1988 ghost romance, High Spirits, starring Daryl Hannah and Peter O’Toole.
You can check out all the cover art in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable):
This Week on Blu-ray and DVD: February 10, 2015
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101 Dalmatians
- All New Short: "The Further Adventures of Thunderbolt"
- Walt Disney Presents "The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" (1961 Version)
- Dalmatians 101: Hosted by Cameron Boyce (Disney Channel's "The Descendants")
- Lucky Dogs
- DisneyView
- A Selection of Classic Bonus Features -
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- Alexander…In Real Life
- Snappy Crocs & Punch Roos: The Australian Outback Party
- Walkabout: A Video Diary
- And The Delightful, Magnificent, Very Good Bloopers
- "Hurricane" by the Vamps music video -
A Day in the Country
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
- The Road to “A Day in the Country,” a new interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film’s production
- Renoir at Work, a new video essay by Faulkner on Renoir’s methods
- Un tournage à la campagne, an eighty-nine-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
- Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
- Screen tests
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez -
Don't Look Now
- New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Nicolas Roeg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between editor Graeme Clifford and film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen
- Don’t Look Now, Looking Back, a short 2002 documentary featuring Roeg, Clifford, and cinematographer Anthony Richmond
- Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio
- Something Interesting, a new piece on the writing and making of the film, featuring recent interviews with Richmond, actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, and coscreenwriter Allan Scott
- Nicolas Roeg: The Enigma of Film, a new piece on Roeg’s style, featuring recent interviews with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh
- Q&A with Roeg from 2003 at London’s Ciné Lumière
- Trailer
- An essay by film critic David Thompson -
Force Majeure
- AXS TV: A Look at Force Majeure
- Interview With Writer/Director Ruben Östlund and Actor Johannes Bah Kuhnke -
Kill the Messenger
- Feature Commentary with Director Michael Cuesta
- Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Cuesta
- Kill the Messenger: The All-Star Cast
- Crack in America
- Filming in Georgia -
Laggies
- Audio Commentary with Lynn Shelton
- "Lagging On with Lynn Shelton" featurette
- "Shooting Seattle: The Look of Laggies" featurette
- Deleted Scenes -
LEGO DC Super Heroes: Justice League vs Bizarro League
- LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Batman Be-Leaguered TV Special
- Me Am BIZARRO! The League of Opposites Featurette
- Be-Leaguered Bloopers -
Love at First Bite / Once Bitten
- Theatrical Trailers for both films
- Radio Spots for "Love at First Bite" -
Nightcrawler
- If It Bleeds, It Leads: Making Nightcrawler
- Feature Commentary with Writer/Director Dan Gilroy, Producer Tony Gilroy, and Editor John Gilroy -
Predestination
- Featurette: A Journey Through Time
- 75-minute documentary on bring Predestination to life
- Bloopers -
Rosewater
- Iran's Controversial Election
- The Story of Maziar Bahari
- Real Spies Have TV Shows
- What Happens in New Jersey...
- A Director's Perspective -
Vampire's Kiss / High Spirits
- "Vampire's Kiss" commentary track featuring director Robert Bierman and star Nicolas Cage
- "Vampire's Kiss" Theatrical Trailer