Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the top entertainment hitting this week on Blu-ray and DVD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at all the major new releases, TV series sets and catalogue titles hitting the shelves Tuesday, May 25.
Headlining a relatively quiet week for new releases is Universal Pictures and Legendary’s Seventh Son, reteaming The Big Lebowski‘s Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in the adaptation of Joseph DeLaney’s fantasy novel, “The Spook’s Apprentice.” Also arriving from recent smaller theatrical runs are the darkly comedic crime thriller Cut Bank (starring Liam Hemsworth, Billy Bob Thornton, John Malkovich, Teresa Palmer and Michael Stuhlbarg) and The Loft, a remake of the 2010 Belgian erotic thriller. The new take offers an ensemble cast that includes Karl Urban and James Marsden opposite the original film’s Matthias Schoenaerts.
It’s a busy week for The Criterion Collection with three brand-new titles hitting shelves. Criterion continues to bring Rainer Werner Fassbinder to HD with the 1971 drama The Merchant of Four Seasons while serving up a double helping of Costa-Gavras thriller with both 1970’s The Confession and 1972’sState of Siege.
Scream Factory, meanwhile, has two double-feature discs hitting this week that bring to HD some cult horror favorites involving animals. The first set offers both 1972’s Frogs (in which a southern estate comes under attack from local wildlife) and 1976’s Food of the Gods (featuring giant killer rats in an adaptation of the H.G. Wells story). Another set, then, offers both 1977’s Empire of the Ants (giant killer ants) and 1981’s Jaws of Satan (wherein the devil himself takes on the form of a cobra to lead a snake attack against mankind).
On the television front, we’re getting History’s full event series Sons of Liberty as well as the second season of Showtime’s Ray Donovan in advance of the series’ return in July.
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: May 26, 2015
-
Seventh Son
- Deleted/Alternate Scenes
- Defenders of Good
- Resurrecting the Wicked
- Forging a Medieval Realm
- The Legend and Lore of the Seventh Son
- Visual Effects Gallery -
Cut Bank
- Audio Commentary with Director Matt Shankman and Writer Roberto Patino
- "Bad Karma: Life in Cut Bank" featurette
- Deleted Scenes
- Extended Scenes -
The Loft
-
Empire of the Ants / Jaws of Satan
EMPIRE OF THE ANTS
- New Audio Commentary With Director Bert I. Gordon
- Photo Gallery
- Radio Spots
- Theatrical TrailerJAWS OF SATAN
- Theatrical Trailer -
Food of the Gods / Frogs
THE FOOD OF THE GODS
- New Audio Commentary With Director Bert I. Gordon
- New Interview With Actress Belinda Balaski
- Radio Spot
- Photo Gallery
- Theatrical TrailerFROGS
- New HD Transfer Of The Film
- New Interview With Actress Joan Van Ark
- Radio Spot
- Photo Gallery
- Theatrical Trailer -
The Confession
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Costa-Gavras, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London, a 1970 on-set documentary by set photographer Chris Marker, featuring Costa-Gavras, source book coauthor Artur London, actors Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, and screenwriter Jorge Semprún
- Portrait London, a 1981 French program featuring Artur and Lise London discussing their experiences as political prisoners
- Interview with Montand from 1970
- New interview with editor Françoise Bonnot
- One-hour conversation between Costa-Gavras and film scholar Peter von Bagh from 1998
- New interview with John Michalczyk, author of Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova -
The Merchant of Four Seasons
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring filmmaker Wim Wenders
- New interviews with actors Irm Hermann and Hans Hirschmüller
- New interview with film scholar Eric Rentschler
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser -
State of Siege
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Costa-Gavras, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between Costa-Gavras and film scholar Peter Cowie
- NBC News excerpts from 1970 on the kidnapping of Dan A. Mitrione, on which the film is based
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by journalist Mark Danner -
Sons of Liberty
- "Lensing Liberty: The Making of Sons of Liberty" featurette
- "Men of Independence: The Historic Figures of Sons of Liberty" featurette
- "The Choreography of War: Creating the Battles and SPFX of Sons of Liberty" featurette -
Ray Donovan - Season Two
- Audio Commentary: "Yo Soy Capitan" by Jon Voight and Pooch Hall
- Audio Commentary: "Walk This Way" by Liev Schreiber
Shooting Ray Donovan
- Liev on Ray
- Jon on Mickey
- Musically Ray (via eBridge technology)
- "The Affair" Season One, Episodes 1 & 2
- "Penny Dreadful" Season One, Episodes 1 & 2
- "Happyish" Season One, Episodes 1 & 2 (via eBridge technology)
