For the week of April 24th, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray and 4K UHD Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One, starring Natalie Alyn Lind, Chandler Riggs, Nat Wolff, Tru Valentino and Aaron Dismuke.
Studio description: Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One finds the Justice League facing off against a new horror: adolescence! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Cyborg, Green Lantern and Vixen are surprised to find that not only have they materialized on a strange world called Remnant, but they've also been transformed into teenagers. Meanwhile, the heroes of Remnant – Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang – find their world has been mysteriously altered. Can the combined forces of the Justice League and Team RWBY return Remnant to normal before a superpowered Grimm destroys everything they know?
Warner's releases of contain Justice Comes to Remnant, You Look … Different: The Design of Justice League x RWBY and two cartoons from the DC Vault: "Kid Stuff" from Justice League Unlimited and "Plastic Man Saves the World" from Justice League Action.
Finally from Warner this week, the Warner Archive Collection has five titles coming to Blu-ray. They are:
William A. Wellman's Safe in Hell (1931), starring Dorothy Mackaill, John Wray, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Ivan F. Simpson and Victor Varconi. Sourced from a new 4K Scan of nitrate 35mm elements, Warner Archive presents Safe in Hell with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include two WB short films: Crimes Square and George Jessel and His Russian Art Choir (both 1931), the Looney Tunes short Dumb Patrol (1931) and the film's theatrical trailer.
Tay Garnett's One Way Passage (1932), starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon, Frank McHugh, Warren Hymer and Frederick Burton. Sourced from a new 4K Scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents One Way Passage with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies short A Great Big Bunch of You (1932), the WB short film Buzzin' Around (1933), two radio adaptations from 1939 and 1949 and the film's theatrical trailer.
Raoul Walsh's The Strawberry Blonde (1941), starring James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson and George Tobias. Sourced from a new 4K Scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Strawberry Blonde with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies short Tortoise Beats Hare (1941), the WB short film Polo with the Stars (1941), two radio adaptations from 1941 and 1942 and the film's theatrical trailer.
Stuart Heisler's Storm Warning (1951), starring Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders and Lloyd Gough. Sourced from a new 4K Scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents Storm Warning with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies short Bunny Hugged (1951), the documentary short One Who Came Back (1951) and the film's theatrical trailer.
Raoul Walsh's A Lion Is in the Streets (1953), starring James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire and Jeanne Cagney. Sourced from a new 4K Scan of the original Technicolor camera negative, Warner Archive presents A Lion Is in the Streets with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies short Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953), the WB short film So You Think You Can't Sleep (1953) and the film's theatrical trailer.
New to Blu-ray this week from the Criterion Collection is Steve McQueen's Small Axe, a three-disc Blu-ray box set:
Description: With the five films that make up his Small Axe anthology (Mangrove; Lovers Rock; Red, White and Blue; Alex Wheatle; and Education), director Steve McQueen offers a richly evocative panorama of West Indian life in London from the 1960s through the '80s—a time defined for the community by the terror of police violence, the empowering awakening of political consciousness, and the ecstatic escape of a vibrant reggae scene. Ranging in tone from the tenderly impressionistic to the devastatingly clear-eyed, these powerfully performed portraits of Black resistance, joy, creativity, and collective action—all sumptuously shot by Shabier Kirchner—form a revolutionary counterhistory of mid-twentieth-century Britain at a transformational moment.
Criterion presents the films in the Small Axe anthology with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include a new conversation between McQueen and writer and professor Paul Gilroy, behind-the-scenes featurettes, Uprising (2021), a three-part documentary about the 1981 New Cross house fire and more.
Also new from Criterion is a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness, starring Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić and Iris Berben.
Description: Master of social discomfort Ruben Östlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d'Or–winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple (Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean) get a ticket to the luxe life when they're invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish—but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece to its outré extreme, Östlund maps the shifting social hierarchies with the irreverence of a modern-day Luis Buñuel and the incisiveness of a cinematic anthropologist.
Criterion's releases of Triangle of Sadness contain DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras on the Blu-ray include a new interview with Östlund and filmmaker and actor Johan Jonason, two featurettes, deleted scenes and a trailer. Reviewer Svet Atanasov gives the releases top scores for picture and sound quality. For full disc breakdowns, read Svet's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
New this week from Paramount Home Media Distribution is a Blu-ray for Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season 3 (2022). The two-disc set will contain all ten episodes.
Also new on Blu-ray this week from Paramount is Cheers: The Complete Series (1982-1993). The 33-disc box set contains all eleven seasons of the series remastered in HD in the original 1.33:1 aspect ratio and with DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio. Extras are ported from previous home video releases and include featurettes, a trivia game, deleted scenes, and select episode promos.
New this week from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is a Blu-ray for Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle's Jesus Revolution, starring Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Anna Grace Barlow and Kelsey Grammer.
Description: In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith's languishing church to an unexpected revival of radical and newfound love, leading to what TIME Magazine dubbed a JESUS REVOLUTION.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray of Jesus Revolution contains Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include filmmaker audio commentary, the Blu-ray Exclusive When God Has a Plan: Making Jesus Revolution, deleted scenes with optional commentary and featurettes.
Also coming from Lionsgate is a 4K UHD upgrade for Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey and Jackson D. Kane. Newly remastered in 4K, Lionsgate presents The Man Who Fell to Earth with LPCM 2.0 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. An included Blu-ray features legacy extras, including over 160 minutes of interviews and a featurette on the soundtrack, as well as a 1977 French TV interview with David Bowie. Note that the 4K UHD is currently only available as a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook edition.
New this week from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Blu-ray for Davy Chou's Return to Seoul, starring Park Ji-Min, Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han, and Kim Sun-Young.
Description: After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
New on Blu-ray from Magnolia Home Entertainment is Jérôme Salle's Kompromat, starring Gilles Lellouche, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Michael Gor, Aleksey Gorbunov and Elisa Lasowski.
Studio description: Based on incredible true events, Jérome Salle's gripping new espionage thriller depicts the remarkable story of a French public servant who unwittingly finds himself in conflict with one of the modern era's most powerful and dangerous forces: Russia's FSB.
Magnolia's Blu-ray of Kompromat contains DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio in both the original French and an English dub. Extras include a deleted scene and a behind-the-scenes featurette.
Turning to catalog titles, VCI have a Blu-ray for Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor's The Green Hornet (1940), starring Gordon Jones, Wade Boteler, Keye Luke, Anne Nagel, Cy Kendall and Phillip Trent. All 13 episodes of the serial have been remastered in HD with LPCM 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include two radio adaptations and the audio piece I am the Green Hornet by Clifford Weimar, as well as a trivia and photo gallery.
Finally this week, 88 Films have a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Stanley Tong's Police Story 3: Supercop (1992), starring Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, Kenneth Tsang, Wah Yuen and Bill Tung. Newly remastered in 4K, 88 Films presents Police Story 3: Supercop with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of a new Dolby Atmos mix, or 2.0 Mono in the original Cantonese, as well as DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 Mono audio in English. Both the Hong Kong and US versions of the film are available. Extras on the 4K UHD disc include audio commentary by Hong Kong cinema expert Frank Djeng, trailers and teasers from Hong Kong, the US and Japan, and a 1984 Guy Laroche commercial with Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh. An included Blu-ray additionally includes several cast and crew interviews, as well as a lengthy supplement of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. Limited edition packaging features a slipcase with an 80-page book and six lobby cards. For full disc breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.