
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 the major new releases and catalogue titles hitting shelves on Tuesday, June 30. Ordinarily, we have a few television sets as well, but this looks to be a pretty quiet week on the small screen front.
Get Hard, this year’s big screen comedy starring Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell, comes home this week. If you missed it, be sure to check out our video interview with the comedic duo wherein they answer questions about the New Line comedy and, of course, also go in-depth about baboon DJs.
Also arriving this week from a recent theatrical release is The Gunman, an action thriller starring Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem and more. There’s also the sweet family drama Danny Collins, starring Al Pacino as an aging pop star who begins to rethink his entire life after receiving a letter from John Lennon several decades later than originally intended.
Elsewhere, Ben Stiller headlines While We’re Young, the latest comedy drama from Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, Greenberg) while Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman lead the action adventure Last Knights.
Wrapping up the new releases is David Zellner’s Kumiko the Treasure Hunter. Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim) stars in the darkly comic tale of a Japanese woman (and her scene stealing rabbit, Bunzo) who sets out to find the fictional treasure from the Coen Brothers’ 1996 masterpiece, Fargo.
Cameron Crowe fans are in for a treat this week as we’re finally getting a features-laden Blu-ray edition of his 2001 surreal dramatic thriller Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz.
The Criterion Collection has two offerings from 1970 this week, releasing by itself the Jack Nicholson drama Five Easy Pieces (previously available only as part of their America Lost and Found box set) as well as, for the first time in HD, Jaromil Jires’s surrealist fairytale Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.
Scream Factory wraps things up with another double-feature release celebrating two 1988 cult titles, Ghost House and Witchery.
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 - June 30, 2015
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Danny Collins
- Behind the Scenes of Danny Collins
- Danny Collins - Album Covers Through the Years -
Get Hard
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The Gunman
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Kumiko the Treasure Hunter
- Audio commentary with the Zellner Brothers and producer Chris Ohlson
- Deleted and alternate scenes -
Last Knights
- "Behind the Scenes of Last Knights" featurette
- "A Look at the Special Effects of Last Knights" featurette
- Cast and Crew Interviews -
Vanilla Sky
- Alternate Ending Version of the Film
- 13 Deleted, alternate and extended scenes with commentary by director Cameron Crowe
- Vignette: Mask Test
- Vignette: Kurt Russell Single Take
- Feature Commentary by Cameron Crowe, Nancy Wilson and Tom Cruise
- Photo Gallery with audio introduction by photographer Neal Preston, including new behind the scenes photos
- Interview with Paul McCartney
- Music Video "Afrika Shox" by Leftfield/Afrika Bambaataa
- Gag Reel -
While We're Young
- Six Behind-the-Scenes Vignettes:
"The Cast"
"Working with Filmmaker Noah Baumbach"
"Generation Tech"
"Working with Charles Grodin"
"Ayahuasca Ceremony"
"Hip-Hop Class" -
Five Easy Pieces
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
- Soul Searching in “Five Easy Pieces,” a 2009 video piece featuring Rafelson
- BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom; and others
- Documentary from 2009 about BBS featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
- Audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson
- Trailers and teasers
- An essay by critic Kent Jones -
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Three early shorts by director Jaromil Jireš: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960)
- New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames
- Interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava Schallerová and Jan Klusák
- Alternate 2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the music’s origins
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by critic Jana Prikryl -
Ghosthouse / Witchery