Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s March 27 Digital HD, Blu-ray and DVD column! As you can see, we’ve added a video player at the top highlighting this week’s releases, and you can find more detailed write-ups of different titles and exclusive clips below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!
New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The biggest movie of 2017 is now the must-own movie of 2018, as the eighth film in the Skywalker saga brings dramatic developments to the galaxy far far away. The disc features a music-only cut set only to John Williams score, as well as the in-depth feature-length documentary following Rian Johnson titled The Director and the Jedi.
The Last Movie Star
Burt Reynolds makes an acclaimed comeback in this new film from director Adam Rifkin as a Burt Reynolds-esque aging superstar. Chevy Chase, Ariel Winter and Clark Duke co-star.
The Thousand Faces of Dunjia
Legendary director Yuen Wo Ping and writer/producer Tsui Hark breathe new life into the wuxia genre, weaving together fantasy, humor, and breathtaking martial arts action.
Reissues
The Sandlot
This 25th Anniversary edition of the childhood baseball favorite comes with 10 exclusive Topps baseball cards and an all-new booklet and poster!
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Scott Glosserman’s 2006 horror mockumentary gets the full Scream Factory Collector’s Edition treatment, complete with new interviews with actors Angela Goethals, Ben Pace, and Co-writer/Co-producer David Stieve, plus a new HD master of the film.
The Teenage Prostitution Racket
Young girls are bought and sold like slaves in this Italian cult thriller from 1975, which Raro has supplemented with an Italian documentary as well as cut scenes.
Sacha Guitry: Four Films 1936-1938
The celebrated French filmmaker, playwright and actor of the stage and screen gets a box set of four of his earlier works: Indiscretions, My Father Was Right, Let’s Dream and Up the Champs-Élysées.
The Crazies, There’s Always Vanilla, and Season of the Witch
These three early films from late director George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) were issued as a box set from Arrow Video last year, but now you can buy all three individually.
New on Digital HD
I Kill Giants (exclusive clip)
Based on the graphic novel, this fantasy follows a teenage girl who escapes the realities of school and a troubled family life by retreating into her magical world of fighting evil giants. Check out an exclusive clip below featuring Zoe Saldana!
Proud Mary (exclusive clip)
Check out an exclusive behind-the scenes clip featuring Taraji P. Henson as a Boston hitwoman below!
All the Money in the World
Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Christopher Plummer star in Ridley Scott’s true story of the infamous kidnapping of John Paul Getty III.
Phantom Thread
The unparalleled Daniel Day-Lewis stars as a renowned dressmaker in 1950s London who falls in love in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Best Picture Oscar nominee.
Paddington 2
This delightful sequel to the 2014 hit once again features the gentle voice of Ben Whishaw as the famous London bear, who this time gets set up and jailed for a crime he didn’t commit.
All I Wish (In Theaters, on VOD and Digital HD March 30)
Sharon Stone stars as a clothing designer desperate to find her soulmate who meets a new man (Tony Goldwyn) on her 46th birthday.
TV on Blu-ray and DVD
The Outer Limits: Season One
A truly must-have release for classic sci-fi fans, this box set from Kino Lorber features all 32 episodes of the first season of this 1963 sci-fi anthology, known as a more monster-oriented version of The Twilight Zone. Featuring classic episodes like “The Architects of Fear” and “The Zanti Misfits” in crystal Blu-ray clarity, plus audio commentaries and a 40 page booklet.
Legion: The Complete Season One
The first season of Noah Hawley’s surreal take on the X-Men universe is now on Blu-ray, just in time to catch up for Season 2!
The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who’s Walking
This animated zombie apocalypse special partners Robot Chicken’s Seth Green and Matthew Senreich with The Walking Dead creator/executive producer Robert Kirkman and showrunner/executive producer Scott M. Gimple. The half-hour special will geature original talent from the show lending voices to their characters including Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Steve Yeun, Sara Wayne Callies, and more.
The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 4 and Love, Lies & Records
Acorn TV brings you more British television goodness this week with the New Zealand mystery series The Brokenwood Mysteries on Blu-ray, in which Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) knows all is not well in the picturesque but murder-ridden town of Brokenwood. On DVD they also have the complete series of Love, Lies & Records, starring Ashley Jensen and following the personal and professional lives of employees at the Leeds Register Office.
The Americans: The Complete Fifth Season
Season 5 of the critically-acclaimed FX series comes to DVD, KGB agents The Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) finding their spy work tearing their lives apart more and more.
