This Week on Blu-ray: February 14-20

For the week of February 14th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Chloé Zhao's Eternals, starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, and Brian Tyree Henry. The 26th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Zhao's epic opened atop of the box office in November 2021 with over $71 million. Eventually, it grossed over $164 million domestically and has a current global total of over $402 million.This week, Disney's 4K UHD disc features Dolby Atmos audio and HDR picture, while several extras are on the Blu-ray, including an audio commentary with Zhao, featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel. In keeping with several recent major Disney releases, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook edition, a Target Exclusive Art Edition and a Walmart Exclusive with Limited Edition Enamel Pin will also be available.

Reviewer Martin Liebman has mixed feelings about the 4K UHD disc of Eternals, saying that "The HDR color grading certainly renders the movie appearing darker, darker in even brighter exteriors and well-lit interiors and far darker in low light interiors...The adds to sharpness and detail are there, but not really all that dramatic. This UHD offers the usual stable of basic upgrades: improved sharpness, more overall clarity, finer attention to individual detail, and the like...Regardless of how dark it might look, there is no mistaking the improvements to clarity and definition at close- and medium-distance". For a full disc breakdown, read Martin's 4K UHD review and Blu-ray review.

New this week on Blu-ray from RLJE Films is Wyatt Rockefeller's Settlers, starring Sofia Boutella, Jonny Lee Miller, Nell Tiger Free, Brooklynn Prince, and Ismael Cruz Cordova.

Official description: Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier, llsa (Sofia Boutella) and Reza (Johnny Lee Miller) inhabit a desolate farmstead with their child Remmy (Brooklynn Prince and Nell Tiger Free). They work the land and shield their daughter from the dangers of the harsh surroundings. When hostile intruders threaten to expel them from the compound the family is forced to fight to survive in this science-fiction thrill ride.

RLJE Films Blu-ray for Settlers contains the featurette Becoming Settlers as an extra.

Also new this week on Blu-ray from Well Go USA is Lee Yong-ju's Seobok: Project Clone, starring Park Bo-Gum, Gong Yoo, and Jang Young-Nam.

Synopsis: Former intelligence agent Ki Heon is tasked with safely transporting Seo Bok, the first ever human clone, who holds the secret of eternal life. Several forces try to take control of Seo Bok to serve their own agendas.

Reviewer Jeffrey Kauffman is impressed with the A/V presentation of Well Go's Seobok: Project Clone, saying: "This is a nicely sharp and well detailed looking presentation, with some really appealing choices in the palette...Detail levels are typically excellent throughout", while of the audio, he continues: "The sound design is frequently quite hyperbolic, with a lot of nice side and rear engagement and some extremely forceful LFE". Read more in Jeffrey's Blu-ray review.

Finally for new releases, Strand Releasing has a Blu-ray for Bassam Tariq's Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Kiran Sonia Sawar, and Anjana Vasan.

Official description: The debut narrative feature from award-winning documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq, MOGUL MOWGLI follows the story of a rapper (Academy Award Nominee RIZ AHMED, The Sound of Metal) who, on the cusp of his first world tour, is struck down by an illness that forces him to face his past, his family, and the uncertainty of his legacy.

Turning to catalog titles, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has a 4K UHD upgrade for Rian Johnson's Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan and Piper Perabo.

Studio description: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good…until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, and also starring Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels.

Sony's 4K UHD of Looper features a new Dolby Vision HDR master that has been reviewed and approved by the filmmakers, as well as a new director-approved Dolby Atmos audio track, in addition to the original DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras on the included Blu-ray are the same as Sony's previous 2012 disc, including an audio commentary, making of, 22 deleted scenes with optional commentary, and more.

Also this week, Shout Factory has a 4K UHD for Joe Dante's The Howling, starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski and Kevin McCarthy.

Description: Severely shaken after a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace, E.T. Tthe Extra-Terrestrial) takes some much-needed time off. Hoping to conquer her inner demons, she heads for "the Colony," a secluded retreat where her new neighbors are just a tad too eager to make her feel at home. Also, there seems to be a bizarre link between her would-be attacker and this supposedly safe haven. And when, after nights of being tormented by savage shrieks and unearthly cries, Karen ventures into the forest to find answers, she makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must fight not only for her life ... but for her very soul!

Shout's 4K UHD and included remastered Blu-ray discs contain a new 4K master produced by StudioCanal and approved by director Joe Dante. Archival extras include two audio commentaries, cast and crew interviews, deleted scenes with optional commentary, recent and vintage featurettes and more.

Also from Shout this week is a Blu-ray for Lamont Johnson's Lipstick, starring Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Robin Gammell, and Mariel Hemingway.

Description: Margaux Hemingway makes her film debut portraying a high-fashion model who is victimized by a brutal assailant and then again by the judicial system that's supposed to protect her. Chris Sarandon plays the music teacher who brutally attacks her and forces her to the point of desperation – and revenge.

As Margaux's lawyer, Academy Award® winner Anne Bancroft gives a brilliant, uncompromising portrayal of a woman who takes on the legal system in an attempt to define the rights of women in this complex and controversial issue. Mariel Hemingway, nominated for a Golden Globe, delivers an "immensely moving, utterly unaffected performance" (The New York Times) and director Lamont Johnson ably brings the film to its shocking and violent conclusion.

Shout's Blu-ray for Lipstick contains several extras, including new video interviews wit stars Chris Sarandon and Mariel Hemingway (which are not mentioned on the back cover), a new video interview with actor Perry King, a new audio commentary with critic Justin Kerswell and critic/author Amanda Reyes, a theatrical trailer and an extensive stills gallery.

Finally this week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment adds another Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection: George Sidney's The Three Musketeers (1948), starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin and Angela Lansbury.

Official description: Gene Kelly stars as the swashbuckling young French nobleman D'Artagnan who, possessing nothing more than his title, travels to Paris to join The Three Musketeers. D'Artagnan no sooner arrives in the capital, than he insults Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Academy Award winner Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote), the most feared of the musketeers. Challenged to a duel by each, D'Artagnan earns their respect with his courage, if not by his fighting prowess. But his courage, skill and wit are quickly needed to help the musketeers thwart a plot by the powerful Prime Minister Richelieu (Vincent Price) to overthrow King Louis XIII (Frank Morgan), save Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury) and win the heart of Lady de Winter (Lana Turner). This all-star frolic was a box-office hit as M-G-M and director George Sidney pulled out the stops to bring together its finest talents, and now it's been restored and remastered for its Blu-ray debut.

The WAC Blu-ray of The Three Musketeers (1948) comes from a new 4K scan of the original Technicolor nitrate negative. Extras include the vintage "FitzPatrick Traveltalks" short Looking at London, the Tex Avery cartoon White Price Fleadom, a vintage radio promo with Lana Turner and the film's theatrical trailer.