Posted September 28, 2025 11:25 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of September 29th, Decal Releasing and Neon have a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck, starring Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Jacob Tremblay and Mark Hamill.
Description: From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes THE LIFE OF CHUCK, the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This unforgettable, genre-bending tale celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
Decal Releasing's Blu-ray releases of The Life of Chuck contain audio commentary with Mike Flanagan, a making of featurette and on-set interviews with Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mark Hamill.
New on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is Alain Guiraudie's Misericordia (Miséricorde), starring Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay, Jean-Baptiste Durand, David Ayala and Sébastien Faglain.
Description: A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Returning to his rural hometown to attend the funeral of the mentor he loved, enigmatic, sexually fluid drifter Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) stirs up long-simmering feelings of lust, jealousy, and rage among those he left behind—including the dead man's widow (Catherine Frot), her hot-tempered son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), and a curiously protective local priest (Jacques Develay) with whom Jérémie forges a twisted bond. Amid the evocatively earthy milieu, Guiraudie constructs a slippery, continuously surprising moral universe where love and hatred, eroticism and violence, spiritual grace and mortal sin, are intimately entwined.
Criterion's Blu-ray of Misericordia contains an interview with Alain Guiraudie, a trailer and notes by critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Also coming from Criterion is The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years (1996-2021), a twenty-disc set featuring the 4K UHD premieres of Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), in addition to the first Criterion editions of Isle of Dogs (2018) and The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021), both of which will also be released separately by Criterion on the same date. All ten films will have new or existing 4K masters, with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD discs. Specifically for Isle of Dogs, Criterion includes an audio commentary by Wes Anderson and actor Jeff Goldblum, a storyboard animatic, a making of program, a video essay by filmmakers Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou, animation tests, visual-effects breakdowns, behind-the-scenes and time-lapse footage, a trailer and more. Specifically for The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, Criterion includes an audio commentary with Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, a selected-scene storyboard animatic, a behind-the-scenes featurette, a visual essay by film scholar David Bordwell, read by Rupert Friend, an episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour featuring Wes Anderson, Jeffrey Wright and New Yorker editor David Remnick, an interview with artist Sandro Kopp, Wes Anderson's music video for "Aline" by Jarvis Cocker, a trailer and more. Criterion describes the set as coming with "ten illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition" and having "over twenty-five hours of special features, including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photographs, discussions/analyses, and visual essays". Also included are "essays by Richard Brody, James L. Brooks, Bilge Ebiri, Moeko Fujii, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Geoffrey O'Brien, Martin Scorsese and Erica Wagner".
New on Blu-ray from Music Box Films is Valérie Donzelli's Just the Two of Us (L'Amour et les Forêts), starring Virginie Efira, Melvil Poupaud, Marie Rivière, Dominique Reymond, Romane Bohringer and Virginie Ledoyen.
Description: When Blanche meets the charismatic Gregoire, she thinks she has found the one. Their passionate affair develops quickly, and they soon marry and relocate far from Blanche's family. As her new life begins, Blanche finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man, desperate to escape. JUST THE TWO OF US is a closely observed and emotional domestic thriller by Valérie Donzelli.
Music Box's Blu-ray of Just the Two of Us contains audio commentary with film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, an interview with Valérie Donzelli, a photo gallery and a theatrical trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Osciloscope Laboratories is Chloe Abrahams' documentary The Taste of Mango.
Description: The Taste of Mango, the debut feature from filmmaker and video artist Chloe Abrahams, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its center are three extraordinary women: the director's mother, Rozana; her grandmother, Jean; and the director herself. Their stories, by turns difficult and jubilant, testify to the entangled and ever-changing nature of inheritance, and the ways in which we both hurt and protect the ones we love.
Oscilloscope's Blu-ray of The Taste of Mango contains a conversation between Chloe Abrahams and Sara Dorsa, short films and a theatrical trailer.
Turning to catalog titles, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has a 4K UHD upgrade for its Dracula Complete Legacy Collection (1931-1948), a four-disc box set featuring the previously-released 4K UHD of Dracula (1931) along with the 4K UHD premieres of Dracula's Daughter (1936), Son of Dracula (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). All films contain HDR and original DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio tracks. Previously-released extras include Drácula (1931), the contemporaneous Spanish version of Dracula, in 4K HDR with Spanish: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio and optional subtitles, as well as audio commentaries, featurettes and other extras for both Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, as well as trailers for all six main films.
Also coming to 4K UHD from Universal is Paul Weitz's American Pie (1999), starring Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne and Thomas Ian Nicholas. Sourced from a new 4K master, Universal presents both the R-rated theatrical and unrated versions of American Pie with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and Dolby Vision HDR. Extras include audio commentary, deleted scenes, outtakes, the three-and-a-half-hour long documentary American Pie Revealed: The Complete Story of All Three Comedies (2004) and more. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available.
Also this week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Warner Archive Collection has five more titles coming to Blu-ray. They are:
Charles Brabin's The Beast of the City (1932), starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson and Tully Marshall. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the best preservation elements, Warner Archive presents The Beast of the City with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Looney Tunes short Bosko and Bruno and the Merrie Melodies short Goopy Geer (both 1932).
Peter Brook's The Beggar's Opera (1953), starring Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway, Daphne Anderson and Athene Seyler. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original Technicolor negatives, Warner Archive presents The Beggar's Opera with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies shorts Hare Trimmed and Much Ado About Nutting (both 1953).
Stuart Heisler's I Died a Thousand Times (1955), starring Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez and Lon Chaney Jr. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents I Died a Thousand Times with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies short Hare Brush and the Looney Tunes short Sahara Hare (both 1955), as well as the film's original theatrical trailer.
Hanna-Barbera's animated Touché Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series (1962-1963), featuring the voices of Alan Reed, Bill Thompson, Don Messick, Doug Young, Daws Butler and Jean Vander Pyl. Sourced from new 4K scans of the "original episodic negatives", Warner Archive presents Touché Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series as a two-disc set with all 52 episodes and DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio.
Charles Bail's Black Samson (1974), starring Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Carol Speed, Joe Tornatore, Titos Vandis and Napoleon Whiting. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents Black Samson with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the film's original theatrical trailer.
Coming to remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Kino Lorber are separate releases for George Seaton's Airport (1970), starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy and Helen Hayes, Airport 1975 (1975), starring Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark and Helen Reddy, Jerry Jameson's Airport '77 (1977), starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland and Darren McGavin, and David Lowell Rich's The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979), starring Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy and Eddie Albert. Airport is sourced from a new 4K scan of "35mm inter-positive reduction elements", while its three sequels are sourced from new 4K scans of their original camera negatives. All four films are presented with lossless 5.1 and 2.0 audio options and in Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD discs. New extras include audio commentaries by film historian / writer Julie Kirgo and author / screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner (on Airport), film historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson (on Airport 1975 and The Concorde: Airport '79) and Julie Kirgo and writer / filmmaker Peter Hankoff (on Airport '77), as well as newly remastered trailers on all four films.
Note: Kino's box set release of Airport: The Complete Collection (1970-1979), which was scheduled to be released this week along with the standalone releases, has been delayed to October 28th, 2025.
Then from Kino is a Blu-ray for Dan Curtis' Late-Night Mysteries (1974), a collection of four TV films: Herbert Kenwith's Shadow of Fear, starring Claude Akins, Anjanette Comer, Jason Evers, Tom Selleck, John Arnatt and Philip Carey, Burt Brinckerhoff's The Invasion of Carol Enders, starring Meredith Baxter, Charles Aidman, Christopher Connelly, George DiCenzo, Patricia Hindy and John Karlen, Burt Brinckerhoff's Come Die with Me, starring George Maharis, Eileen Brennan, Alan Napier, Nick Ferrari, William Lanteau and Charles Macaulay and Dan Curtis and Lela Swift's Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest, starring Walter Brooke, Linda Curtis, David Dreyer, Don Dubbins, Mariette Hartley and Emmaline Henry. All four films were originally shot on videotape and have been upscaled for this release. Extras include new introductions to all four films by author Jeff Thompson (House of Dan Curtis: The Television Mysteries of the Dark Shadows Auteur) and audio commentary on Shadow of Fear by author Amanda Reyes (Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999), on The Invasion of Carol Enders by television historian Scott Skelton, on Come Die With Me by author / podcaster Dan Budnik and film historian Robert Kelly and on Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest by Amanda Reyes and author Heidi Honeycutt (I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies).
Finally from Kino is a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD upgrade for Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth (Κυνόδοντας) (2009), starring Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Christos Passalis and Anna Kalaitzidou. Sourced from a new 4K master, Kino presents Dogtooth with original Greek: DTS-HD MA 5.1 (or 2.0) audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include two audio commentaries: one with Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis and another with film critic Adam Nyman, interviews from 2009 and 2019 with Yorgos Lanthimos, deleted scenes and both original and new trailers for the film. Also included is a booklet with an interview with Yorgos Lanthimos. For full release breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Coming to remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Blue Underground is Gary Sherman's Death Line (AKA Raw Meat) (1972), starring Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney, Hugh Armstrong and June Turner. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Blue Underground presents Death Line with a choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix, DTS-HD MA 5.1 or original DTS-HD MA Mono audio tracks (English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles are also included, along with a French: DTS-HD MA Mono dub) and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary by critics Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth and a newly-expended poster and stills gallery, as well as audio commentary by Gary Sherman, producer Paul Maslansky and assistant director Lewis More O'Ferrall, interviews with Gary Sherman and executive producers Jay Kanter and Alan Ladd Jr., David Ladd and producer Paul Maslansky and Hugh Armstrong, both Death Line and Raw Meat trailers, three TV spots and two radio spots. Packaging includes a reversible cover and an embossed slipcover. For full release breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Coming to 4K UHD from Kani is Lino Brocka's Bona (1980), starring Nora Aunor, Phillip Salvador, Marissa Delgado, Raquel Monteza, Venchito Galvez and Rustica Carpio. Sourced from a new 4K master, Kani presents Bona with Tagalog: DTS-HD MA Mono audio and optional English (and French) subtitles. Extras include new interviews with assistant director Jeric Soriano and actor Nanding Josef, a 2024 Q&A with Allan Brocka at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Clodualdo "Doy" Del Mundo Jr.'s short film Superfan (2009) and a new trailer for the film.
Finally this week, Arrow Video has two 4K UHD upgrades to offer. First up is Michael Gornick's Creepshow 2 (1987), starring Tom Savini, George Kennedy, Lois Chiles, Don Harvey, Stephen King and Dorothy Lamour. Sourced from a new 4K master, Arrow presents Creepshow 2 in Dolby Vision HDR, with a choice of LPCM Mono, LPCM 2.0 or DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio tracks. Extras replicate Arrow's 2016 Blu-ray edition and include audio commentary by Michael Gornick, interviews with screenwriter George A. Romero, actor and make-up artist Tom Savini, and actors Daniel Beer and Tom Wright, the featurettes Nightmares in Foam Rubber and My Friend Rick, behind-the-scenes footage, an image gallery and original screenplay galleries, as well as trailers and TV spots. Limited edition content includes a comic book adaptation of the unfilmed segment "Pinfall" by artist Jason Mayoh and an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by festival programmer Michael Blyth". Packaging features a reversible cover with new and original artwork. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Also coming to 4K UHD from Arrow is Kim Jee-woon's The Good, the Bad, the Weird (좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈) (2008), starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sung, Ryu Seung-su, Zhang Qi and Yun Je-mun. Sourced from a 4K master (approved by Kim Jee-woon), Arrow presents both the international and Korean versions of The Good, the Bad, the Weird in Dolby Vision HDR with Korean: DTS-HD MA 7.1 audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include three audio commentaries: one on the international version by film critic James Marsh and film critic and producer Pierce Conran, another on the international version by Kim Jee-woon and actors Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung and a third track on the Korean version by Kim Jee-woon, cinematographer Lee Mogae, lighting director Oh Seung-chul, and art director Cho Hwa-sung, an introduction by Kim Jee-woon, new interviews with Kim Jee-woon and martial arts coordinator Jung Doo-hong, the feature-length documentary Running Fast archival making-of films and featurettes as well as trailers and image galleries. Limited edition content includes a "perfect bound collector's book featuring writing by Darcy Paquet, Kyu Hyun Kim, Cho Jae-whee and Ariel Schudson", three artcards and a double-sided fold-out poster with new and original artwork. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.