For the week of January 2nd, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release Jaume Collet-Serra's Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo and Sarah Shahi.
Studio description: From New Line Cinema, Dwayne Johnson stars in the action adventure "Black Adam." The first-ever feature film to explore the story of the DC Super Hero comes to the big screen under the direction of Jaume Collet-Serra ("Jungle Cruise").
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the ancient gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Warner Bros.' releases of Black Adam feature the film's Dolby Atmos audio, while the 4K UHD disc additionally features Dolby Vision HDR. Extras consist of several featurettes, including The History of Black Adam, Who Is the Justice Society?, From Soul to Screen and Black Adam: A New Type of Action, amongst others. In addition to standard packaging, a Best Buy Exclusive 4K UHD SteelBook, Target Exclusive Blu-ray and Walmart Exclusive 4K UHD Limited Edition Funko Pop Gift Set will also be available. Reviewer Randy Miller gives the 4K UHD five stars for picture quality and says the picture is "a top-tier transfer that will certainly please fans with larger displays, and may even be worth a second watch just for those striking visuals". For a full release breakdowns, read Randy's 4K UHD review and Blu-ray review.
New this week on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is Daniel Stamm's Prey for the Devil, starring Jacqueline Byers, Virginia Madsen, Colin Salmon, Nicholas Ralph and Ben Cross.
Description: Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) believes she is answering a calling to be the first female exorcist… but who, or what, called her? In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, Ann seeks out a place at an exorcism school reopened by the Catholic Church. Until now these schools have only trained priests in the Rite of Exorcism – but a professor (Colin Salmon) recognizes Sister Ann's gifts and agrees to train her. Thrust onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro), Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl, who Sister Ann believes is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago. Determined to root out the evil, Ann soon realizes the Devil has her right where he wants her.
Lionsgate's releases of Prey for the Devil contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, while the 4K UHD disc additionally features Dolby Vision HDR. Extras include audio commentary with Daniel Stamm and Jacqueline Byers, a 41-minute making of featurette, a hour-long interview on possession with a church psychologist and a real exorcist, and more . For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review and Blu-ray review.
New on Blu-ray this week from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is James Gray's Armageddon Time, starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Anthony Hopkins and Tovah Feldshuh.
Studio description: From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray and featuring an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong comes Armageddon Time. Set in 1980s Queens, New York, it is a deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
Universal's Blu-ray of Armageddon Time contains deleted scenes and three featurettes.
New this week from Paramount Home Media Distribution is a Blu-ray for Star Trek: Prodigy: Season 1: Episodes 1-10 (2022). The two-disc set features the first ten episodes of the series and bonus content, as well as exclusive cards featuring key art from the series.
New on Blu-ray this week from Cohen Media Group is Fernando Trueba's Memories of My Father (El olvido que seremos), starring Javier Cámara, Sebastián Giraldo, Aída Morales, Whit Stillman, and Patricia Tamayo.
Description: The life of Héctor Abad Gómez, one of Colombia's most beloved national figures, is beautifully dramatized by Fernando Trueba, the director of Academy Award Winning Belle Epoque.
Almodóvar regular Javier Cámara plays Gómez, in this adaptation of his son's Héctor Abad Faciolince richly evocative memoir. It recounts life in the turbulent South American country in the 1970s and 1980s, charting how the city of Medellín's descent into corruption transformed the halcyon days of Héctor's youth as his father became an increasingly outspoken critic of the government.
Shifting between the stark black and white images of the 1980s and warmer color tones that define life the 1970s, Fernando Trueba's film balances a nuanced portrait of family life with the harsher realities of a rapidly changing world. Cámara, who excelled as the nurse in 'Talk to Her', movingly captures Gómez as both caring father and activist whose politics were based less on ideology and more on the human rights of everyday people in being able to access the necessities of life: Food, water and adequate shelter.
Cohen's Blu-ray of Memories of My Father contains an interview with Fernando Trueba and Javier Cámara by film historian Annette Insdorf, making of featurettes and trailers.
New this week from Vertical Entertainment is a Blu-ray for Dallas Jackson's The System, starring Tyrese Gibson, Terrence Howard, Lil Yachty, Jeremy Piven and Ric Reitz.
Description: When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Finally this week, the Criterion Collection have a 4K UHD and remastered Blu-ray for Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), starring John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman and Oliver Reed. Presented from a new 4K master approved by Gilliam, with a DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio track and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc, Criterion's edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen includes the significant extras from the previous Blu-ray release, but also adds more across two Blu-ray discs, including a new video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns on the Baron Munchausen character, Gilliam's animated short film Miracle of Flight (1974) and a 1991 episode of The South Bank Show on Gilliam.