This Week on Blu-ray: November 7-13

For the week of November 7th, Warner Bros Home Entertainment will release a 4K UHD upgrade for Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Conrad Veidt. The classic Best Picture Oscar winner celebrates its 80th anniversary with a new 4K remaster with HDR, as well as a newly remastered mono audio track presented in DTS-HD MA 2.0. A plethora of legacy bonus content includes audio commentary by Rudy Behlmer, an introduction by Lauren Bacall, the 1988 PBS special Great Performances: Bacall on Bogart and the 1992 documentary You Must Remember This: A Tribute to Casablanca, along with many other extras.

New this week from Warner is a 4K UHD and Blu-ray for 's Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm, starring Carey Means, Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Peter Serafinowicz, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Rothwell, Robert Smigel and Tim Robinson.

Official description: Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm features everyone's favorite rascals, the Aqua Teens: the brainy Frylock, the mouthy Master Shake, the loveable Meatwad, and everyone's favorite perverted neighbor, Carl, as they split up then get back together to fight everyone's favorite corporate overlord, Amazin, led by everyone's favorite tech mogul, Neil (voiced by everyone's favorite Peter Serafinowicz) and his trusty scientist sidekick, Elmer (Paul Walter Hauser, who is everyone's favorite).

Warner's 4K UHD and Blu-ray releases of Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm contain audio commentary, deleted scenes, a music video, an alternate cut and a behind-the-scenes featurette.

New this week from the Criterion Collection is a 4K UHD and Blu-ray for Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Geneviève Lemon.

Description: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape—pulsating with both freedom and menace—that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-Mcphee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse Plemons), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers.

Criterion's releases of The Power of the Dog contain the film's Dolby Atmos soundtrack, as well as Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include interviews, featurettes and the film's theatrical trailer. For full disc breakdowns, read Randy Miller's 4K UHD review and Blu-ray review.

New this week from Well Go USA is a Blu-ray for Park Hoon-jung's The Witch 2: The Other One (마녀 Part 2: The Other One), starring Shin Siah, Park Eun-bin, Seo Eun-soo, Jin Goo and Sung Yoo-been.

Official description: In this sequel to the popular Korean horror-thriller The Witch: Subversion, the story moves away from a confined secret lab and out into the real world.

After a mysterious girl emerges as the sole survivor of a bloody raid on the research facility behind the top-secret Witch Program, she is rescued by a couple who understands the grave danger the girl now faces. However, as the assassins tasked with locating and silencing the girl move ever closer, the lives of all three fall under increasingly great peril.

Well Go's Blu-ray for The Witch 2: The Other One contains a behind-the-scenes featurette and a trailer. Reviewer Jeffrey Kauffman calls the disc "another very striking presentation that is very much in line with the first film". For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey's Blu-ray review.

New this week from Arrow Video is a Blu-ray for Quentin Dupieux's Incredible But True (Incroyable mais vrai), starring Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, Anaïs Demoustier, Marie-Christine Orry and Roxane Arnal.

Description: Quirky, deadpan humor, an absurdist eye for French social etiquette and a keen sense of the folly of existence are among the hallmarks of the oddball comedies of director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin), and Incredible But True is no different. The film has been described as "a fun little trinket that unmistakably comes from Dupieux's far-out perspective" (Jessica Kiang, Variety) and "a film with something of Charlie Kaufman or Spike Jonze" (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian).

Alain (Alain Chabat, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) and Marie (Léa Drucker, War of the Worlds) are a middle-aged bourgeois couple who move to their new house in a quiet suburb. A key feature of their new abode that the estate agent points out to them is a mysterious tunnel in the basement. Little do they realise that it will turn their lives upside down...

Incredible But True is an inventive and nimble tale that perfectly showcases the singular and eccentric vision that has made Dupieux the most exciting director working in France today.

Arrow's Blu-ray for Incredible But True includes cast abd director interviews, an appreciation of the films of Quentin Dupieux by critic Elena Lazic and a trailer gallery. Collectible packaging includes reversible artwork and in the first pressing only, a collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anton Bitel and interviews with the cast.

Also coming from Arrow is a remastered Blu-ray for Robert Wise's Audrey Rose (1977), starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd and John Hillerman. Remastered in 2K from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, Arrow presents Audrey Rose with LPCM Mono audio and a selection of new and legacy extras. Reviewer Jeffrey Kauffman says: "[Arrow's] new effort helps to improve things measurably in the video department on this release when compared to the Twilight Time disc...There's generally an uptick all around here in terms of everything from saturation to fine detail levels". For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey's Blu-ray review.

New this week from RLJE Films is a Blu-ray for A Discovery of Witches: Season 3 (2022). The two-disc set contains all seven episodes. Note that in one week on November 15th, RLJE will release A Discovery of Witches: The Complete Trilogy (2019-2022), a six-disc box set with all three seasons of the series.

New on Blu-ray this week from IFC Films is Charlotte Colbert's She Will, starring Malcolm McDowell, Alice Krige, Rupert Everett, Amy Manson and Olwen Fouéré.

Description: An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned.

New on Blu-ray from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is Chris von Hoffmann's Devil's Workshop, starring Radha Mitchell, Timothy Granaderos and Emile Hirsch.

Studio description: In this chilling psychological thriller featuring Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), struggling actor Clayton (Timothy Granaderos, "13 Reasons Why") is desperate for a role as a demonologist. He contacts Eliza (Radha Mitchell, Man on Fire), an expert in devil lore, to help him prepare and spends the weekend at her home. Eliza forces Clayton to confront his troubling past, perform dark rituals, and sacrifice a goat. Does she want to help Clayton, seduce him—or destroy him? The shocking climax will set your soul ablaze.

Lionsgate's Blu-ray of Devil's Workshop contains a trailer. For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.

Also new from Lionsgate is a Blu-ray for K. Asher Levin's Dig (2022), starring Thomas Jane, Harlow Jane, Emile Hirsch, and Liana Liberato.

Official description: Contracted for home demolition, a widowed father (Thomas Jane) and his daughter suffering from major hearing loss (Harlow Jane) arrive at the construction site. They are soon taken hostage by a dangerous couple (Hirsch and Liberato), who will stop at nothing to retrieve what lies beneath the property. The father and daughter must work together to outsmart their captors and survive the grueling night.

Lionsgate's Blu-ray of Dig (2022) contains an audio commentary by K. Asher Levin and Thomas Jane. For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.

Also coming from Lionsgate is another in the Vestron Video Collector's Series of Blu-rays: Julien Temple's Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans and Julie Brown. The sci-fi comedy makes its worldiwde debut on Blu-ray and comes with DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio and the usual assortment of new extras common to the Vestron releases. Included here is an audio commentary, interviews, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes, vintage interviews, trailers, TV spots and radio spots and stills and storyboards galleries. Collectible packaging includes a slipcover. For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.

New from Mill Creek Entertainment is a Blu-ray for Justin Lee's The Most Dangerous Game (2022), starring Judd Nelson, Tom Berenger, Bruce Dern, Casper Van Dien and Kevin Porter.

Official description: A father and son are shipwrecked on a remote island where they are caught up in a trophy hunt held by its mysterious owner, a merciless man who uses the land as an elite hunting preserve for stalking the most dangerous game of all: human.

Mill Creek's Blu-ray of The Most Dangerous Game (2022) contains a short featurette and a photo gallery. For a full disc breakdown, read Martin Liebman's Blu-ray review.

New this week on Blu-ray from Music Box Films is Xavier Giannoli's Lost Illusions (Illusions perdues), starring Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Xavier Dolan, Benjamin Voisin, and Jean-François Stévenin.

Label description: Lucien de Rubempré (Benjamin Voisin) is an ambitious and unknown aspiring poet in 19th century France. He leaves his provincial town, arriving in Paris on the arm of his admirer, Louise de Bargeton (Cécile de France). Outmatched in elite circles, Lucien's naive etiquette prompts Louise to retreat back to her husband, leaving the young poet to forge a new path. Lucien makes a new friend in another young writer, Etienne Lousteau (Vincent Lacoste), who introduces him to the business of journalism where a salon of wordsmiths and wunderkinds make or break the reputations of actors and artists with insouciant impunity. Lucien agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit.

New on Blu-ray from Screen Media is W. Peter Iliff's The Enforcer (2022), starring Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth, Natalie Burn, Mojean Aria and Mark Rhino Smith.

Label description: Miami's top mob enforcer Cuda (Antonio Banderas) sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organization he's spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss Estelle (Kate Bosworth) is putting a young runaway's life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption - both for himself and his family - before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal.

New from Vertical Entretainment is a Blu-ray for Castille Landon's After Ever Happy, starring Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Kiana Madeira, Louise Lombard and Rob Estes. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on November 8.

Official description: After Ever Happy finds Tessa and Hardin at a crossroads: Does Tessa continue trying to save him and their relationship, or is it time to save herself? While Hardin remains in London after his mother's wedding and sinks deeper into darkness, Tessa returns to Seattle and endures a tragedy. If they want their love to survive, they'll need to work on themselves first. But will their paths lead them back to each other?

New from Magnolia Home Entertainment is a Blu-ray for James Morosini's I Love My Dad, starring Patton Oswalt, James Morosini, Claudia Sulewski, Amy Landecker and Lil Rel Howery.

Official label description: Inspired by writer, director, and star James Morosini's true life experience, I LOVE MY DAD follows Chuck (Patton Oswalt), a hopelessly estranged father who desperately wants to reconnect with his troubled son, Franklin (Morosini). Blocked on social media and concerned for his son's life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl (Claudia Sulewski) and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son. A thrilling comedy with an unexpected twist, I LOVE MY DAD also stars Rachel Dratch, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker and Ricky Velez.

Finally for new releases this week, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray for Young Rock: Season Two (2022).

Official description: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's hit coming-of-age comedy returns with more incredible stories from his formative years. Season 2 of "Young Rock" continues to explore seminal chapters in Dwayne Johnson's extraordinary life, from his early years growing up surrounded by wrestling icons in Hawaii, to his rebellious teen years navigating new surroundings in Nashville, to his early twenties playing in the Canadian Football League. Dwayne Johnson himself takes a look back on the memorable moments and remarkable people that helped shape him into the global superstar he is today.

Also coming from Universal is a 4K UHD upgrade for Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile (2002), starring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Evan Jones and Omar Benson Miller. The film is presented with HDR and a new DTS:X audio track (with a DTS-HD MA 7.1 core), while extras are the same as the previous Blu-ray release. In addition to standard packaging, a GRUV Exclusive SteelBook will also be available.

Continuing with catalog titles, Classic Flix has a special 4K UHD / Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray set for Harry Essex's I, the Jury (1953), starring Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan and Alan Reed. Remastered in 4K by UCLA Film and Television Archive in collaboration with PKL Pictures and Romulus Films, Classic Flix presents this film not only in 4K SDR on the 4K UHD disc, but also presents this native 3D film on the Blu-ray 3D format, which doubles as a standard 2D 1080p presentation. Extras include new audio commentary with Max Allan Collins and archival audio commentary with Biff Elliot, while the Blu-ray also includes an archival interview with Elliot, a featurette on the 3D filming and technology of I, the Jury with Mike Bellew, and four HD TV episodes: An unaired TV pilot for Mike Hammer starring Brian Keith, two episodes of the O. Henry Playhouse, featuring Preston Foster and Peggie Castle, respectively, and finally an episode of Public Defender featuring Biff Eliott. For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.

Also this week, Paramount Home Media Distribution has a 4K UHD upgrade for John Badham's Saturday Night Fever (1977), starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape and Donna Pescow. Presented on 4K UHD with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio, Paramount's 4K UHD of Saturday Night Fever also contains a Blu-ray with the film's director's cut.

Also coming from Paramount is a Blu-ray for Frasier: The Complete Series (1993-2004). The thirty-three-disc box set contains all eleven seasons as well as legacy extras.

Finally this week, Kino Lorber have a 4K UHD upgrade for Don Siegel's Escape From Alcatraz (1979), starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau and Fred Ward. Newly remastered from a 4K Scan of the original camera negative by Paramount Pictures, Kino's 4K UHD disc contains Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo audio tracks. Extras include a new audio commentary by critics Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson, while the included remastered Blu-ray additionally features new interviews with screenwriter Richard Tuggle and actor Larry Hankin, as well as a newly remastered theatrical trailer.