For the week of April 11th, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray and 4K UHD for Jon Watts' Spider-Man: No Way Home, starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalon, and Tony Revolori. The third film in Sony's latest Spider-Man franchise picks up immediately from its predecessor, with Peter Parker having been outed as Spider-Man. In desperation, Peter turns to Doctor Strange to try and find a way to make the public forget his identity, but Strange's spell rips open the multiverse and allows enemies from alternate realities to wreak havoc. Opening in December 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home heralded a return to the cinema for much of the world after almost two years of worldwide pandemic that saw many people stay out of the cinema since March 2020. With marketing that teased appearances from characters in previous Sony Spider-Man film series, fan excitement was at a fever pitch. Topping the box office in its opening weekend with an incredible $260 million and receiving critical acclaim, Spider-Man: No Way Home went on to make over $800 million at the domestic box office alone and almost $1.9 billion worldwide so far, proving that with the right material at the right time, people will get out to their theaters to enjoy the big screen experience.
Also new this week from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is a Blu-ray for Chucky: Season One (2021), starring Brad Dourif, Zackary Arthur, Teo Briones, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Fiona Dourif.
Description: In the new CHUCKY television series, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos after a vintage 'Good Guy' doll turns up at a suburban yard sale. Soon, everyone must grapple with a series of horrifying murders that begin to expose the town's deep hypocrisies and hidden secrets. Meanwhile, friends and foes from Chucky's past creep back into his world and threaten to expose the truth behind his mysterious origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became this notorious monster.
Universal's Blu-ray for Chucky: Season One is a two-disc set with all eight episodes, as well as deleted scenes and the featurette The Legacy of Chucky.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment have two new releases on Blu-ray this week. First is Mike Mills' C'mon C'mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, and Elaine Kagan.
Synopsis: Johnny is an emotionally stunted and softspoken radio journalist who travels the country interviewing a variety of kids about their thoughts concerning their world and their future. Then Johnny's saddled with caring for his young nephew Jesse. Jesse brings a new perspective and, as they travel from state to state, effectively turns the emotional tables on Johnny.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray of C'mon C'mon includes an audio commentary with Mills and a making of featurette. Reviewer Jeffrey Kauffman has a perfect 5/5 score for the Blu-ray's picture quality, praising the "incredibly moody, lustrous presentation that has gorgeous and often really evocative cinematography". For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey's Blu-ray review.
Also from Lionsgate is a Blu-ray for Mauro Borrelli's action thriller WarHunt, starring Mickey Rourke, Jackson Rathbone, Robert Knepper, Josh Burdett, Alex Mills, and Fredrik Wagner.
Synopsis: A military commander (Mickey Rourke) dispatches an elite team of American soldiers on a deadly rescue mission after a WWII plane crashes. Trapped behind enemy lines in Germany's Black Forest, the men are confronted by a coven of witches.
New this week on Blu-ray from RLJE Films is Tim Kirkby's Last Looks, starring Mel Gibson, Charlie Hunnam, Morena Baccarin, Clancy Brown, and Dominic Monaghan.
Official description: Charlie Waldo (Charlie Hunnam) is an ex-LAPD superstar who left the force and now lives a life of simplicity and solitude deep in the woods. Alastair Pinch (Mel Gibson) is an eccentric actor who spends his days drunk on the set of his TV show. When Pinch's wife is found dead, he is the prime suspect and Waldo is convinced to come out of retirement to investigate what happened. The case finds Waldo contending with gangsters, Hollywood executives and pre-school teachers, all in pursuit of clearing Pinch's name … or confirming his guilt.
RLJE Films' Blu-ray of Last Looks includes a making of featurette and a trailer.
Finally this week, we have two films from Arrow Video. First is a 4K UHD upgrade for Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987), starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith and Miguel Ferrer. Mastered from the 4K scan of the original camera negative done by MGM in 2013, Arrow's new two-disc 4K UHD set improves on their 2019 Blu-ray set by adding both Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos track for both cuts of the film, in addition to the 5.1, 4.0 and 2.0 DTS-HD MA audio tracks that were on their Blu-ray. Extras have been ported over to the 4K UHD discs, including the edited-for-TV cut of the film in standard definition. As with their Blu-ray release, Arrow will also re-issue their SteelBook edition for the new 4K UHD release.
Finally this week, Arrow adds a new title on both Blu-ray and 4K UHD: Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), starring Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, Aidan Quinn and Ian Holm. Newly remastered from a 4K scan of the original negative by Sony Pictures, Arrow's releases contain Dolby Vision HDR and numerous extras on Blu-ray or 4K UHD, including a new audio commentary by film historians Michael Brooke and Johnny Mains, new interviews with composer Patrick Doyle, costumer designer James Acheson and make-up designer Daniel Parker, a 2K remaster of Frankenstein: A Liberal Adaptation from Mrs. Shelley's Famous Story for Edison Production (1910), which is the first screen adaptaion of the novel, and more. Limited edition packaging features a collector's booklet. Note that while the amaray case editions are single disc releases, there is a Zavvi Exclusive Dual Format SteelBook edition which includes both the 4K UHD and Blu-ray.