Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release a Blu-ray for Sean Durkin's The Iron Claw, starring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Stanley Simons and Holt McCallany.
Description: The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray of The Iron Claw contains the featurette Brotherhood Is Forever: Making Iron Claw, a cast and crew Q&A and a theatrical trailer. For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
New from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is a Blu-ray for Wednesday: The Complete First Season (2022), starring Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Percy Hynes White and Emma Myers.
Synopsis: "Wednesday" is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday's attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.
Warner's Blu-ray of Wednesday: The Complete First Season contains no extras. For a full disc breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Also coming from Warner is another round of Blu-rays from the Warner Archive Collection. They are:
A double feature of William A. Seiter's / William A. Wellman's The Boob / Why Be Good? (1926-1929), starring Colleen Moore, Gertrude Olmstead, Neil Hamilton, George K. Arthur, Joan Crawford and Edward Martindel. Warner Archive presents The Boob with a 2003 score in DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo, while Why Be Good? has its original Vitaphone synchronized score in DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono.
Raoul Walsh's They Drive by Night (1940), starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page and Alan Hale. Warner Archive presents They Drive by Night from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the featurette Divided Highway: The Story of They Drive by Night (2003), the short film Swingtime in the Movies (1938), and a 1941 Lux Radio Theater broadcast.
John Ford's 3 Godfathers (1948), starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Mildred Natwick. Warner Archive presents 3 Godfathers from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate Technicolor camera negative, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include a new remaster of Richard Boleslawski's Three Godfathers (1936) (sourced from a 4K scan of preservation elements) and theatrical trailers for both films.
George Roy Hill's The Little Drummer Girl (1984), starring Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Cristofer and David Suchet. Warner Archive presents The Little Drummer Girl with DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio. Extras include the film's original theatrical trailer.
Ramon Menendez's Stand and Deliver (1988), starring Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy Garcia, Will Gotay and Ingrid Oliu. Warner Archive presents Stand and Deliver from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio. Extras include the film's original theatrical trailer.
Brett Ratner's Money Talks (1997), starring Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Gérard Ismaël, Damian Chapa and Elise Neal. Warner Archive presents Money Talks with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include the film's original theatrical trailer.
New from RLJE Films is a Blu-ray for Démian Rugna's When Evil Lurks (Cuando acecha la maldad), starring Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater, Virginia Garófalo, Emilio Vodanovich and Paula Rubinsztein.
Description: The residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.
RLJE Films' Blu-ray of When Evil Lurks contains a behind-the-scenes photo gallery and a trailer.
New from Paramount Home Media Distribution is a Blu-ray for Phil Traill's Good Burger 2, starring Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Kamaia Fairburn, Alex R. Hibbert, Lil Rel Howery and Jillian Bell.
Description: Calling all dudes—buckle up, because the new adventures of Ed and Dex start now! Your favorite fast-food duo is back and serving up nostalgic laughs and new antics in Good Burger 2. Follow Dexter Reed (Kenan Thompson) and original cashier Ed (Kel Mitchell) as they reunite in the present day at fast-food restaurant Good Burger with a hilarious new group of employees. Dexter is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open arms and gives him his old job back. With a new crew working at Good Burger, Dex devises a plan to get back on his feet but unfortunately puts the fate of Good Burger at risk once again.
Paramount's Blu-ray of Good Burger 2 contains Home of the Good Bloopers (Extended Version), The Comfort Food Classic, Behind the Scenes with Kenan and Kel, MEAT the Employees, Q&A with the New Crew, Employee Training Video and Good Burger 1 Movie Recap as extras.
Also coming from Paramount is a 4K UHD upgrade for Gregory Hoblit's Primal Fear (1996), starring Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard and Frances McDormand. Sourced from a new 4K master, Paramount brings Primal Fear to 4K UHD as part of its Paramount Presents series, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. New extras on the included remastered Blu-ray include a Filmmaker Focus featurette with executive producer Hawk Koch, as well as legacy filmmaker commentary, three featurettes and the film's theatrical trailer.
New on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is Alice Diop's Saint Omer, starring Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville,
Aurélia Petit, Xavier Maly and Robert Cantarella.
Description: Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman (Guslagie Malanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence in order to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.
Criterion's Blu-ray of Saint Omer contains a French: DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio track, with newly-translated optional English subtitles. Extras include new and archival interviews with Alice Diop, a conversation between Diop and author Hélčne Frappat, a conversation between Diop and filmmaker Dee Rees and the film's trailer. Also included is an essay by critic Jennifer Padjemi.
Also from Criterion is a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995), starring Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Illeana Douglas, Dan Hedaya and Casey Affleck. Sourced from a new 4K master (approved by Gus Van Sant and cinematographer Eric Alan Edwards), Criterion presents To Die For with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary with Van Sant, Edwards, and editor Curtiss Clayton, deleted scenes and a trailer for the film. Also included is an essay by film critic Jessica Kiang. For full disc breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's 4K UHD review and Blu-ray review.
New on Blu-ray from Decal Releasing is Andrew Cumming's Out of Darkness, starring Safia Oakley-Green, Chuku Modu, Iola Evans, Arno Lüning and Luna Mwezi.
Description: A small boat reaches the shores of a raw and desolate landscape. A group of six have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving, desperate, and living 45,000 years ago. First they must find shelter, and they strike out across the tundra wastes towards the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, anticipation turns to fear and doubt as they realize they are not alone. Terrifying sounds suggest something monstrous at large in this landscape, something that could kill or steal them away. As relationships in the group fracture, the determination of one young woman reveals the terrible actions taken to survive.
New on Blu-ray from Music Box Films is Francois Ozon's The Crime is Mine (Mon crime), starring Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon and André Dussollier.
Description: Paris in the 1930s — a playground for industrial heirs and debonair architects, but the City of Lights does not shine evenly for all. Struggling actress Madeleine (Nadia Terezkiewicz) and her best friend Pauline (Rebecca Marder), an unemployed lawyer, live in a cramped flat and owe five months' rent. Opportunity knocks after a lascivious theatrical producer who made an inappropriate advance towards Madeleine turns up dead. Madeleine stands trial for murder and ascends to decadent stardom, with Pauline serving as defense counsel and media circus ringmaster. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits — until the truth comes out.
New on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is Jeymes Samuel's The Book of Clarence, starring Lakeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, Anna Diop, RJ Cyler, David Oyelowo and Alfre Woodard.
Description: From visionary filmmaker Jeymes Samuel, The Book of Clarence is a bold new take on the timeless Hollywood era Biblical epic. Streetwise but struggling, Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) is trying to find a better life for himself and his family, make himself worthy to the woman he loves, and prove that he's not a nobody. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, a journey through which he finds redemption and faith, power and knowledge.
Sony's Blu-ray of The Book of Clarence contains deleted scenes (with filmmaker introductions), audio commentary with Jeymes Samuel and Lakeith Stanfield, Band of Brothers: Meet the Cast, Song of Songs: An Epic Collaboration, The Gospel of Jeymes: On the Set with Jeymes Samuel, Book 4: Making the Film and a gag reel as extras.
Also coming from Sony is a Blu-ray re-release for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001), starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau, Artus de Penguern and Urbain Cancelier. New extras include Jean-Pierre Jeunet Looks Back, while legacy extras include filmmaker commentary, 2 Q&As, featurettes, storyboard comparisons, a trailer and more.
Staying with catalog titles, coming to Blu-ray from Kino Lorber is Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVIII (1955), a three-disc set which contains William Witney's City of Shadows (1955), Lewis R. Foster's Crashout (1955) and Harold D. Schuster's Finger Man (1955). Extras include new audio commentaries with film historian / screenwriter Gary Gerani (City of Shadows), author / film historian Alan K. Rode (Crashout) and professor and film scholar Jason A. Ney (Finger Man).
Coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Kino Lorber is Joshua Logan's Paint Your Wagon (1969), starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston and Tom Ligon. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Paint Your Wagon with lossless 2.0 and 5.1 tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary by Lee Marvin biographer Dwayne Epstein and screenwriter / author C. Courtney Joyner and a theatrical trailer.
Also from Kino on 4K UHD and Blu-ray is Ted Kotcheff's North Dallas Forty (1979), starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson and John Matuszak. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Paint Your Wagon with lossless 2.0 and 5.1 tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary by film historians Daniel Kremer and Daniel Waters, with Ted Kotcheff, an introduction by Kotcheff, two featurettes and a theatrical trailer.
Finally this week, Radiance Films has a Blu-ray box set: The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (1969-1972), a two-disc set which marks the worldwide Blu-ray debuts of Shigehiro Ozawa's Killer's Mission (1969), Eiichi Kudo's The Fort of Death (1969) and Shigehiro Ozawa's Eight Men to Kill (1972), with all three films featuring actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Radiance presents all three films with LPCM 2.0 Mono audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include Audio commentary by Tom Mes (on Killer's Mission) an interview with film historian Akihito Ito on Shigehiro Ozawa, a visual essay on Eiichi Kudo by Robin Gatto, image galleries and trailers. Packaging includes six postcards as well as a "Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by samurai film expert Alain Silver, an obituary of Eiichi Kudo by Kinji Fukasaku and an interview piece on Shigehiro Ozawa after his retirement from filmmaking".