This Week on Blu-ray: June 13-19

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This Week on Blu-ray: June 13-19

Posted June 12, 2022 11:03 PM by Sean Greenwood

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Michael Bay's Ambulance (2022), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, and Keir O'Donnell.

Studio description: In this action thriller directed by Michael Bay, veteran Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman), desperate for money, turns to his adoptive brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal, End of Watch) for help. A career criminal, Danny instead offers him a huge score. But when their heist goes awry, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop and paramedic (Eiza González, Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw) onboard. Will and Danny must evade a city-wide law enforcement response, keep their hostages alive, and somehow try not to kill each other, all while executing the most insane escape LA has ever seen.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Daniél Espinosa's Morbius (2022), starring Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, and Al Madrigal.

Description: One of the most compelling and conflicted characters in Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil – or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Rosalind Ross' Father Stu (2022), starring Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, Jacki Weaver, Annet Mahendru, and Teresa Ruiz.

Description: Based on a true story, Father Stu is an unflinchingly honest, funny and uplifting story about finding purpose in a most unexpected place. After surviving a terrible motorcycle accident, Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) wonders if he can use his second chance to help others find their way — and leads this former amateur boxer to the surprising realization that he is meant to be a priest. Despite a devastating health crisis and the skepticism of Church officials and his estranged parents (Mel Gibson and Jacki Weaver), Stu pursues his vocation with courage and compassion, inspiring not only those closest to him but countless others along the way.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, in association with Netflix, is preparing a Blu-ray release of Paul Weitz's Fatherhood (2021), starring Kevin Hart, Alfre Woodard, Paul Reiser, Anthony Carrigan, and DeWanda Wise.

Official description: This Father's Day weekend, Kevin Hart stars in a heartwarming, funny and emotional true story about a widower taking on one of the toughest jobs in the world: fatherhood.

Finally from Sony, two catalog titles:

Love and Human Remains

Description: In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David (Thomas Gibson) shares a place with the bookish Candy (Ruth Marshall), whom he dated before coming out as a homosexual. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends -- including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie -- pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.

Wilde

Description: Author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry) returns from a successful 1882 lecture tour of America to wed Constance Lloyd (Jennifer Ehle). However, having accepted that he is in fact attracted to men, Wilde embarks on a long, passionate and tempestuous affair with Lord Alfred Douglas (Jude Law), known as 'Bosie'. Although winning great critical and public success with works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde's homosexuality is at ends with his repressive Victorian society and sets him on the path to a very public, brutal fall from grace.

Featuring Stephen Fry in a role he was born to play and a stellar supporting British cast which includes Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Sheen, Tom Wilkinson and Zoe Wanamaker, WILDE celebrates one of English literature's greatest, most flamboyant and tragic figures.

Decal Releasing and Bleecker Street have dated the upcoming Blu-ray release of Malgorzata Szumowska's Infinite Storm (2022), starring Naomi Watts and Billy Howle.

Official synopsis: As an experienced climber (Naomi Watts) ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded man, and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. Based on a true story.

RLJE Films is preparing a Blu-ray release of Mickey Keating's thriller Offseason (2021), starring Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Richard Brake, and Melora Walters. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on June 14.

Official description: Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave site has been vandalized, Marie quickly returns to the isolated offshore island where her late mother is buried. When she arrives, she discovers that the island is closing for the offseason with the bridges raised until Spring, leaving her stranded. One strange interaction with the local townspeople after another, Marie soon realizes that something is not quite right in this small town. She must unveil the mystery behind her mother's troubled past in order to make it out alive.

IFC Films is preparing a Blu-ray release of Paul Verhoeven's latest film Benedetta (2021), starring Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, and Lambert Wilson. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on June 14.

Synopsis: Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.