For the week of April 28th, the Criterion Collection will release Sean Baker's Anora, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan and Luna Sofia Miranda.
Description: Contemporary cinema's foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti–Cinderella story—a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. In an electric, star-is-born performance, Mikey Madison soars as Anora, an enterprising, ferociously foulmouthed Brooklyn erotic dancer and sex worker whose Prince Not-So-Charming comes along in the form of a Russian oligarch's wild-child son (Mark Eydelshteyn). This is the beginning of a fractured fairy tale—also featuring standout performances from Karren Karagulian, Yura Borisov, and Vache Tovmasyan—that turns the cruel realities of class inside out. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Anora confirms Baker as one of our preeminent auteurs.
Criterion's Blu-ray releases of Anora are sourced from a 4K master (supervised by Sean Baker and producer Alex Coco) and feature DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio (as well as English SDH subtitles and a descriptive audio track) and HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two audio commentary tracks: one with Sean Baker, Alex Coco, producer Samantha Quan, and cinematographer Drew Daniels, and another featuring Baker and Yura Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mikey Madison and Vache Tovmasyan. Video extras are spread over two Blu-rays and include a making of documentary, interviews with Sean Baker and Mikey Madison, footage from the film's Cannes Film Festival press conference, a Q&A with Mikey Madison and actor / stripper Lindsey Normington, deleted scenes, audition footage and three trailers for the film. Also included is a booklet with essays by film critic Dennis Lim and author Kier-La Janisse. For full release breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Also coming from Criterion is a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for a black-and-white version of Julian Schnabel's Basquiat (1996), starring Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Michael Wincott and Benicio Del Toro. Criterion presents the 2024 black-and-white version of the film (supervised and approved by Julian Schnabel) with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. A Blu-ray with the original 1996 color version of the film (sourced from a 4K master) is also included. Extras include audio commentary with Julian Schnabel and writer and curator Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, a new interview with Jeffrey Wright, interviews from 1996 with Julian Schnabel and David Bowie, as well as a trailer. Also included is an essay by film scholar Roger Durling.
New on Blu-ray from Music Box Films is Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren's Heavier Trip (Hevimpi reissu), starring Johannes Holopainen, Max Ovaska, Chike Ohanwe, Samuli Jaskio, Anatole Taubman and David Bredin.
Description: Death metal band Impaled Rektum escapes prison to perform at Wacken, Germany's iconic music festival. Their wild and perilous adventure into the metal music scene challenges the band's integrity in the sequel to cult classic HEAVY TRIP.
Music Box Films' Blu-ray of Heavier Trip contains Behind the Scenes of Heavier Trip, an interview with BABYMETAL, Heavier Trip at Fantastic Fest an image gallery and a theatrical trailer and teaser.
Also coming from Music Box Films is a Blu-ray for Alison Bagnall's The Dish & the Spoon (2011), starring Greta Gerwig, Olly Alexander, Eleonore Hendricks, Amy Seimetz, Adam Rothenberg and Dan Seely. The worldwide premiere of the film on Blu-ray, Music Box Films' release of The Dish & the Spoon contains deleted scenes and outtakes, a SXSW interview with Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander, a location scouting featurette, "The Whale" by Olly Alexander and a trailer.
New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Paramount Home Media Distribution is Olatunde Osunsanmi's Star Trek: Section 31, starring Michelle Yeoh, Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, Robert Kazinsky, Kacey Rohl and Sven Ruygrok.
Description: STAR TREK: SECTION 31 stars Academy Award® winner* Michelle Yeoh, who reprises her fan-favorite role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou. She joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets, while facing the sins of her past.
Paramount's Blu-ray editions of Star Trek: Section 31 contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include the featurettes Art Squad, Alpha Squad, Stunts Squad and Gear Squad, as well as a gag reel. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available.
New on Blu-ray from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is Alex Parkinson's Last Breath (2025), starring Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Mark Bonnar and MyAnna Buring.
Description: A heart-pounding film that follows seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. Based on a true story, LAST BREATH is an electrifying story about teamwork, resilience, and a race against time to do the impossible.
Universal's Blu-ray of Last Breath contains filmmaker commentary, the featurette Into the Deep: Making Last Breath and more.
New on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is Dougal Wilson's Paddington in Peru, starring Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent and Olivia Colman.
Studio description: Full of Paddington's signature blend of wit, charm, and laugh-out-loud humor, Paddington in Peru finds the beloved, marmalade-loving bear lost in the jungle on an exciting, high-stakes adventure. When Paddington discovers his beloved Aunt Lucy has gone missing from the Home for Retired Bears, he and the Brown family head to the wilds of Peru to look for her, the only clue to her whereabouts a spot marked on an enigmatic map. Determined to solve the mystery, Paddington embarks on a thrilling quest through the rainforests of the Amazon to find his aunt…and may also uncover one of the world's most legendary treasures.
Sony's Blu-ray of Paddington in Peru contains The Making of Paddington in Peru, Set Tour: The Browns' House, Set Tour: The Home for Retired Bears, Create Your Own Adventure Map and Friendship Bracelet and a "Let's Prepare for Paddington" sing-along.
Also coming from Sony are two new 4K UHD editions: one for Ivan Reitman's Stripes (1981), starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Judge Reinhold, P.J. Soles and Warren Oates and another for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), starring Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard and John Mills. Both films were previously released with HDR in the Columbia Classics Collection: Volume 2 and Columbia Classics Collection: Volume 1, respectively, but now they are being released individually with new encoding and Dolby Vision HDR. Extras and audio specifications are identical to the previous editions, with both films featuring Dolby Atmos remixes (in addition to lossless original audio tracks), Stripes featuring both its theatrical and extended versions and Gandhi receiving four discs, with the film now split across two 100 GB discs and two Blu-rays with the film and extras.
Note: As of this writing, Sony's new 4K UHD editions of Stripes and Gandhi are only available in SteelBook packaging.
New on Blu-ray from AMC Studios is Mayfair Witches: Season 2 (2025). The Extras include Show Me More: Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches Season 2, a Comic-Con 2024 panel and Episode Insiders.
New on Blu-ray from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is Takashi Sano's Rick and Morty: The Anime (2024). starring the voices of Youhei Tadano, Keisuke Chiba, Akiha Matsui, Manabu Muraji and Takako Fuji.
From the world of "Rick and Morty," Rick relaxes in a pseudo-world between multiverses, Summer helps Space Beth fight the evil Galactic Federation, and Morty falls in love with a mysterious girl who happens to be an atemporal being.
Warner's Blu-ray of Rick and Morty: The Anime contains both original Japanese and dubbed English audio tracks.
Also coming from Warner are six more Blu-rays from the Warner Archive Collection: They are:
Anthony Mann's Side Street (1950), starring Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen and Paul Harvey. Sourced from a new 4K scan of best preservation elements, Warner Archive presents Side Street with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include audio commentary by Richard Schickel, the featurette Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks (2007), the Crime Does Not Pay short film The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947), the Barney Bear cartoon Goggle-Fishing Bear and Tom and Jerry cartoon Polka Dot Puss (both 1949) and the film's original theatrical trailer.
André De Toth's Springfield Rifle (1952), starring Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Philip Carey and Lon Chaney Jr. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents Springfield Rifle with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies cartoons Feed the Kitty and Rabbit's Kin (both 1952) and the film's original theatrical trailer.
Charles Walters' Lili (1953), starring Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar and Amanda Blake. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original Technicolor camera negatives, Warner Archive presents Lili with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Barney Bear cartoon The Impossible Possum (1954), the Tom and Jerry cartoons Puppy Tale (1954) and Pecos Pest (1955), as well as the film's original theatrical trailer.
Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races: The Complete Series (1968), starring the voices of Janet Waldo, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Daws Butler, Paul Winchell and Dave Willock. Sourced from new 4K scans of the original camera negatives, Warner Archive presents Wacky Races: The Complete Series in a two-disc set with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio.
Gordon Parks Jr.'s Three The Hard Way (1974), starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier, Jay Robinson and Charles McGregor. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents Three The Hard Way with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the film's original theatrical trailer.
Glenn Gordon Caron's Clean and Sober (1988), starring Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Tate Donovan and Luca Bercovici. Sourced from a new 2025 HD master, Warner Archive presents Clean and Sober with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the film's original theatrical trailer.
Finally from Warner are 4K UHD upgrades for three titles starring Clint Eastwood. They are:
Don Siegel's Dirty Harry (1971), starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson and John Larch. Sourced from a new 4K master, Warner presents Dirty Harry with HDR and a choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix or original DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. New extras include the featurettes Generations and Dirty Harry and Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of Dirty Harry. Also included is audio commentary by film critic Richard Schickel, the documentaries Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows and Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso, the featurettes Clint Eastwood - A Cinematic Legacy: Fighting for Justice, Dirty Harry's Way and Dirty Harry: The Original, as well as an interview gallery. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available. For full release breakdowns, read Randy Miller's 4K UHD review and 4K UHD SteelBook review.
Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon and Paula Trueman. Sourced from a new 4K master, Warner presents The Outlaw Josey Wales with HDR and a choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix or original DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. New extras include the featurettes An Outlaw and An Antihero and The Cinematography of an Outlaw: Crafting Josey Wales. Also included is audio commentary by film critic Richard Schickel, the featurettes Clint Eastwood's West, Eastwood in Action and Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales along with the 2021 featurette Reinventing Westerns. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available. For full release breakdowns, read Randy Miller's 4K UHD review and 4K UHD SteelBook review.
Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985), starring Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard Dysart and Sydney Penny. Sourced from a new 4K master, Warner presents Pale Rider with HDR and a choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix or original DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo audio. New extras include the featurettes The Diary of Sydney Penny: Lessons From the Set and Painting the Preacher: The Cinematography of Pale Rider. Also included is the 2021 featurette Reinventing Westerns and the documentaries Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story and The Eastwood Factor. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available. For full release breakdowns, read Randy Miller's 4K UHD review and 4K UHD SteelBook review.
New on Blu-ray from Well Go USA is Bobby Boermans' Invasion (Invasie) (2024), starring Matteo van der Grijn, Gijs Blom, Fedja van Huêt, Raymond Thiry, Nyncke Beekhuyzen and Gijs Scholten van Aschat.
Description: When a rogue nation launches an unexpected attack on Curaçao and Aruba, the Dutch military has no idea what to do. As the violence escalates, it's ultimately up to three young marines to do the right thing and save the day if they can.
Well Go USA's Blu-ray of Invasion contains both original Dutch (with optional English or French subtitles) or dubbed English: DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio tracks. Extras include a trailer. For a full disc breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Turning to catalog titles, Celluloid Dreams will release a 4K UHD upgrade for Aldo Lado's Short Night of Glass Dolls (La corta notte delle bambole di vetro) (AKA Paralyzed) (1971), starring Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach, Fabijan Šovagović and José Quaglio. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Celluloid Dreams presents Short Night of Glass Dolls with a choice of Italian or English: DTS-HD MA Mono audio tracks and optional English or English SDH subtitles, while HDR is included on the 4K UHD disc. Extras are spread over multiple discs and include two audio commentaries: one by Aldo Lado and Frederico Caddeo and another by Guido Henkel. Also included on the 4K UHD disc and feature Blu-ray are an isolated score track, Italian and English trailers, a grindhouse trailer and a "Catalepsis" trailer. A Blu-ray of special features includes a feature-length 2015 interview with Aldo Lado, a half-hour 2018 interview with Lado, interviews with producers Enzo Doria and Dieter Geissler, singer Edda Dell'Orso and editor Mario Morra, the visual essay The Man on the Bridge: Philosophy, Perception and Imprisonment in Aldo Lado's Short Night of Glass Dolls, credits for the German export cut of the film and an image gallery. A fourth disc is a third Blu-ray with a feature-length Grindhouse version (via a 35mm print) and Paralyzed VHS versions of the film. Also included is a 64-page book, eight lobby card reproductions and an original film strip. For a full release breakdown, read Justin Dekker's 4K UHD review.
Coming to 4K UHD from Raro Video is Lina Wertmüller's Swept Away (Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto) (1974), starring Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli, Aldo Puglisi and Anna Melita. Sourced from a 2024 scan of the original camera negative by L'Immagine Ritrovata, Raro Video presents Swept Away with two audio commentaries: one by film historian Samm Deighan and another by filmmaker Valerio Ruiz (director of the Lina Wertmüller documentary Behind the White Glasses), while an included Blu-ray copy additionally features an interview with director Amy Heckerling and trailers.
Coming to Blu-ray from Kino Lorber is Kirk Douglas' Posse (1975), starring Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew and Alfonso Arau. Sourced from a new 4K master, Kino presents Posse with a new audio commentary by filmmaker / historian Steve Mitchell and a theatrical trailer.
Also coming to Blu-ray from Kino is Richard Friedenberg's The Bermuda Triangle (1979), starring Brad Crandall, Tony Clark, Albert Hall, Lin Berlitz, Ron Jackson and Harriet Medin. Sourced from a 2017 4K scan by Paramount Pictures, Kino presents The Bermuda Triangle with a new audio commentary by producer James L. Conway, moderated by film historian Howard S. Berger.
And finally from Kino is the Blu-ray and 4K UHD premiere of Gary Fleder's Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), starring Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Walken, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn and Treat Williams. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead with a choice of lossless 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two new audio commentaries: one by Gary Fleder and writer Scott Rosenberg and another by filmmaker / historian Daniel Kremer. Also included are interviews with Fleder, Rosenberg, Andy Garcia and production designer Nelson Coates, as well as a featurette and a trailer.
Coming to Blu-ray from Arrow Video is the box set V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal (1989-1994), a five-disc set with the films Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage (クライムハンタ－ 怒りの銃弾) (1989), Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet (ネオチンピラ 鉄砲玉ぴゅ〜) (1990), Stranger (夜のストレンジャー 恐怖), Carlos (カルロス), Burning Dog (襲撃 BURNING DOG), Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat (女囚さそり 殺人予告), The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses (ザ・ヒットマン 血はバラの匂い), Danger Point: The Road to Hell (DANGER POINT 地獄への道を観る) (all 1991) and XX: Beautiful Hunter (XX ダブルエックス 美しき狩人) (1994). All films in the set are sourced from HD masters provided by Toei in their original aspect ratio of 1.33:1, with Japanese: LPCM 2.0 Stereo (Mono for Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage) audio and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include new introductions to all nine films by Japanese film critic Masaki Tanioka, five new interviews with director Shundo Okawa, writer Hiroshi Takahashi and writers / directors Banmei Takahashi, Shunichi Nagasaki and Kazuhiro Kiuchi, seven new video essays by film historian Samm Deighan and Japanese cinema experts Tom Mes, Jonathan Clements, Mark Schilling, Frankie Balboa, James Balmont and Patrick Macias, as well as trailers for six of the nine films. Limited edition content includes nine art cards, reversible jackets and an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Earl Jackson, Daisuke Miyao, and Hayley Scanlon". For a full box set breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Finally this week, Shout Factory has a 4K UHD upgrade for Peter Hyams' Timecop (1994), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben and Scott Bellis. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents Timecop with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc.