This Week on Blu-ray: November 16-22

For the week of November 16th, Twentieth Century Studios and Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Josh Boone's The New Mutants on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. Initially produced in 2017 by Twentieth Century Fox before that studio was acquired by The Walt Disney Company, the film endured a turbulent post-production that saw its theatrical release delayed several times from April 2018 to April 2020, before it was again delayed by the coronavirus pandemic to an August 2020 theatrical release. Now available this week on Blu-ray, 4K UHD, and Best Buy Exclusive 4K UHD SteelBook editions, The New Mutants stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Charlie Heaton, Henry Zaga, and Blu Hunt as five young people who demonstrate special powers and are forced to undergo treatment at a secret institution. However, it's soon clear that their containment is part of a much bigger battle between the forces of good and evil. The 4K UHD contains a Dolby Atmos audio track and several extras are included on the Blu-ray, such as the featurettes "Origins & Influences" and "Meet the New Mutants", along with deleted scenes.

Shout Factory will release of Ivan Reitman's Twins. The comedy classic ,featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as long-lost twin brothers who reunite and set out to find their mother, was the fifth-highest grossing film of 1988 and made $216 million worldwide and is undoubtedly one of the most popular catalog titles yet to reach Blu-ray in the US. Shout's Blu-ray contains a trailer, still gallery and two new interviews: "Delivering Twins" – A Conversation With Director Ivan Reitman and "Conceiving Twins" – A Look Back With Writer Herschel Weingrod.

Also this week, Shout Factory, in association with GKIDS, will release their 4K UHD version of Makoto Shinkai's anime film Weathering with You. This Collector's Edition features the film on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, a bonus Blu-ray with the feature-length documentary "The Making Of Weathering With You", a CD with the original soundtrack for the film and a 104-page book. The Blu-ray version was released back in September and received outstanding marks from reviewer Neil Lumbard, whose review with screenshots can be found here.

Next up, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases Resident Evil: The Complete Collection 4K. This limited edition giftset featuring all six films together on 4K UHD for the first time, each with High Dynamic Range and Dolby Atmos audio. Additionally, all films include DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 original theatrical audio tracks (DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter) and there are hours of bonus content across all six films, including rare archival featurettes never before on disc. Blu-ray copies of all six films are also included in this 12-disc set.

Sony will also release Greg Berlanti's romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Gallery on Blu-ray. Starring Dacre Montgomery, Molly Gordon, Suki Waterhouse, Bernadette Peters, and Geraldine Viswanathan, The Broken Hearts Gallery tells the story of Lucy, a 20-something art gallery assistant who also happens to be an emotional hoarder. After she gets dumped by her latest boyfriend, Lucy is inspired to create The Broken Heart Gallery, a pop-up space for the items love has left behind. Word of the gallery spreads, encouraging a movement and a fresh start for all the romantics out there, including Lucy herself. The Blu-ray includes a gag reel and behind-the-scenes vignettes.

Criterion have two new releases this week. First is the Blu-ray debut of Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. The crime thriller starring Forest Whitaker has been given a brand new 4K master supervised and approved by the director, and features a bevy of supplements, including an isolated stereo music track, new interviews with actors Forest Whitaker and Isaach De Bankolé, deleted scenes, new and archival featurettes, and even a new Q&A session with Jarmusch, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans, which we reported on back in June of this year.

Also from Criterion is a newly remastered edition of Norman Jewison's Moonstruck. The 1987 romantic comedy starring Cher and Nicolas Cage was nominated for six Oscars (including Best Picture) and won three, including Best Actress for Cher. The film is presented in a new 4K master, and Criterion also include a new interview with screenwriter John Patrick Shanley and a new interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the use of opera in the film. Several archival extras are included, including an audio commentary, cast and crew interviews and featurettes.

Fans of TV series can snap up Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Westworld: Season Three. The rare television release available on not just Blu-ray but also 4K UHD (not to mention a Best Buy Exclusive 4K UHD SteelBook, as well), Westworld: Season Three arrives as a six-disc set (three on Blu-ray) with HDR and Dolby Vision picture and Dolby Atmos audio on the 4K UHD discs. Reviewing the release, Jeffrey Kauffman writes that "The upgrade in detail and some of the new highlights courtesy of Dolby Vision make this another outstanding 4K UHD presentation for this frequently luxe looking series. Fine detail enjoys a measurable uptick, including everything from the animated interstitials detailing things like "divergence", which now have an almost granular precision, or more practical elements, like the baroque stonework in the village in the World War II sequences...HDR is rather expressive as well, and that extends not just to the blue, green and teal tones that I mentioned in our Westworld: Season Three Blu-ray review of the 1080 version, but also quite noticeably in some of the white and beige material that's so prevalent in some of the Delos scenes featuring Charlotte". Speaking about the Dolby Atmos audio, he continues: "Engagement of the Atmos channels is nicely consistent, and in fact it seems that many episodes have been designed to open with overhead effects. There are some expected uses, as in some of the World War II material, where sounds of overhead flights are noticeable...[b]ut there are some other rather cool uses, including some of the maybe, maybe not voices William is maybe, maybe not hallucinating". Westworld: Season Three contains several featurettes, including "Welcome to Westworld" and "Creating Westworld's Reality", the details of which can be read in the linked review.

Tuesday is also the day that Lionsgate will release Derrick Borte's Unhinged on Blu-ray. The action thriller starring Russell Crowe became famous this summer as the first film released after a five-month absence of wide releases due to the coronavirus pandemic, and it eventually grossed over $42 million. Unhinged features a Dolby Atmos audio track, and an audio commentary with the director and crew, as well as the featurette "This Side of Rage".

Finally this week, IFC Films will release a Blu-ray of Jessica Swale's Summerland. The World War II drama stars Gemma Arterton as Alice, a reclusive writer on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel who opens her heart to a London evacuee after initially resisting taking him in. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton, and Tom Courtenay co-star.