Posted November 16, 2025 09:23 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of November 17th, Decal Releasing and Neon will release Michael Angelo Covino's Splitsville, starring Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin, Michael Angelo Covino, Nicholas Braun and David Castañeda.
Description: After Ashley (Arjona) asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey (Marvin) runs to his friends, Julie (Johnson) and Paul (Covino), for support. He's shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
Decal Releasing's Blu-ray of Splitsville contains a making of featurette, TV spots and a trailer.
New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is the limited series The Americas (2025), narrated by Tom Hanks.
Description: The Americas explores the extraordinary worlds and wildlife of North and South America lands full of wonder and inspiring moments alongside the creatures that call them home. This incomparable series showcases The Americas using cutting-edge technology to uncover never-before-seen behaviors and highlight extraordinary, untold wildlife stories that will resonate deeply with audiences around the world. Five years in the making and filmed across 180 expeditions, this groundbreaking series reveals the spectacular landscapes of Earth's most diverse landmass, the only one to stretch from pole to pole. With unprecedented scale and ambition, The Americas delivers remarkable world firsts: new species, intimate courtship rituals, dramatic deep-sea hunts, and some of nature's strangest stories including a frog that appears to defy death every day.
This spectacular, 10-part nature documentary event is narrated by Tom Hanks, with a score composed by Oscar® winner Hans Zimmer.
Universal's Blu-ray releases of The Americas are two-disc sets on Blu-ray or 4K UHD, with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include a making of.
Also coming to 4K UHD from Universal is Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985), starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Gough, Michael Kitchen and Leslie Phillips. Sourced from a new 4K master, Universal presents Out of Africa with Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos audio remix. Extras include audio commentary with Sydney Pollack, the feature-length documentary A Song of Africa (2000), deleted scenes and a theatrical trailer. A legacy Blu-ray copy is also included.
New on Blu-ray from Oscilloscope Laboratories is Matthew Rankin's Universal Language (Une langue universelle), starring Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Pirouz Nemati, Sobhan Javadi, Baharan Baniahmadi and Nora Zarkandi.
Description: In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.
Oscilloscope's Blu-ray of Universal Language contains audio commentary, deleted and extended scenes, a theatrical trailer and more.
New on Blu-ray from PBS is Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt's documentary miniseries The American Revolution (2025), narrated by Peter Coyote.
Description: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America's founding turned the world upside-down.
Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe.
An expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of America, the film follows dozens of figures from a wide variety of backgrounds. Through their individual stories, viewers experience the war through the memories of the men and women who experienced it: the rank-and-file Continental soldiers and American militiamen (some of them teenagers), Patriot political and military leaders, British Army officers, American Loyalists, Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German soldiers in the British service, French and Spanish allies, and various civilians living in North America, Loyalist as well as Patriot, including many made refugees by the war.
The Revolution began a movement for people around the world to imagine new and better futures for themselves, their nations, and for humanity. It declared American independence with promises that we continue to strive for. The American Revolution opened the door to advance civil liberties and human rights, and it asked questions that we are still trying to answer today.
PBS' Blu-ray of The American Revolution is a six-disc set with all six episodes.
New from Alliance Entertainment is the 4K UHD compilation Ultraman: 4K Discovery, starring Koji Ishizaka.
Description: Koji Ishizaka, who narrated the original Ultraman, appears as the theater manager of a mysterious movie theater where all kinds of stories from around the world can be watched. He and a mysterious girl (the audience) explore the charm of Ultraman through four collections of episodes from the original Ultraman series centered around the themes of life, romance, friendship, and justice.
Alliance's 4K UHD release of Ultraman: 4K Discovery contains original Japanese (with English subtitles) or dubbed English audio options.
Description: For ten years, comedian Connor Ratliff (creator of podcast series Dead Eyes) has performed as filmmaker George Lucas in his cult comedy act The George Lucas Talk Show. Co-hosted by actor Griffin Newman (The Tick) and featuring A-list guests booked by producer Patrick Cotnoir (including Saturday Night Live's Heidi Gardner and Severance's Zach Cherry), the show allows Connor to both exalt and poke fun at the vast world of Lucas, including Star Wars. However, Connor begins to question if the show should continue due to its ongoing stress with little financial and career gain. I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story explores the mysteries of Connor's inner self in this portrait of an artist, and his own feelings on his history, value, and legacy are revealed.
Kino's Blu-ray of I'm 'George Lucas': A Connor Ratliff Story is a two-disc set with 30 audio commentary tracks by Jacobi, Ratliff and other cast and crew, deleted and extended scenes, including outtakes, extended interviews with Connor Ratliff, Griffin Newman, Patrick Cotnoir, Bill and Gretta Ratliff, Bobby Moynihan, Shaun Diston, Zach Cherry and Alex Song-xia, an Alamo Drafthouse introduction and Q&A with comedian Paul Scheer and the full show from the 2019 Star Wars Day with John Hodgman, Marina Cockenberg, Ethan Slater and Julie Cohen. Also included is a "booklet with a message from the director and digital access to hours of additional bonus features we couldn't fit on the discs!".
Also new on Blu-ray from Kino is Andres Veiel's documentary Riefenstahl.
Description: Filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her films Triumph of the Will and Olympia are defined by their fascist aesthetics, perfectly-staged body worship, and the celebration of all that is "superior" and victorious, simultaneously projecting contempt for the imperfect and weak. But Riefenstahl – who first broke into the German film industry as an actress – spent decades after the war denying her association with Nazi ideology, and claiming ignorance of the Holocaust. How did she become the Reich's preeminent filmmaker if she was just a hired hand? Riefenstahl examines this question using never-before-seen documents from Leni Riefenstahl's estate, including private films, photos, recordings and letters, uncovering fragments of her biography and placing them in an extended historical context. During her long life after the fall of Nazism, she remained unapologetic, managing to control and shape her legacy; in personal documents, she mourns her "murdered ideals." Meanwhile, her work would experience a renaissance, gaining esteem for its masterful technical skill. Today, Riefenstahl's aesthetics are more present than ever. Is that also true for their message? In an era where fascism is on the rise again, fake news is prevalent, and the meaning of political imagery is constantly dissected and debated, Andres Veiel's mesmerizing new film shows that Leni Riefenstahl is more relevant than ever.
Kino's Blu-ray of Riefenstahl contains trailers.
Also coming from Kino are several catalog titles. They are:
Alfred E. Green's The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939), starring Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor, Donald MacBride and H.B. Warner. Kino's Blu-ray contains a new audio commentary with film historian Bernie Prokop.
A 4K UHD or Blu-ray boxed set release for Airport: The Complete Collection (1970-1979), which was scheduled to be released on September 30th, 2025, alongside individual 4K UHD and remastered Blu-ray editions of Airport (1970), Airport 1975 (1975), Airport '77 (1977) and The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979). The Complete Collection exclusively includes a booklet essay by Julie Kirgo. For more information, see the article here.
A Blu-ray box set for No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B and Scott B (1978-1983), a two-disc set with the films / short films G-Man (1978), Black Box (1979), Letters to Dad (1979) The Offenders (1979). The Trap Door (1981) and Vortex (1983). Extras include introductions by Scott B and an interview with Beth B by IndieCollect president Sandra Schulberg.
New on Blu-ray from Shudder is Kris Collins' House on Eden, starring Kris Collins, Celina Myers and Jason-Christopher Mayer.
Description: When Kris, Celina, and their videographer Jay set out to film a paranormal investigation, they expect the usual chills and shadows. But when their plans are mysteriously rerouted to a pristine, abandoned house deep in the woods, what unfolds is far beyond anything they've encountered before. As the night continues, strange behavior, a missing crew, and a chilling atmosphere suggest that something far more ancient is at play.
Shudder's Blu-ray of House on Eden contains audio commentary with Kris Collins, Celina Myers and Jason-Christopher Mayer, bloopers and a making of featurette.
New on Blu-ray from Music Box Films is Jeremy Workman's documentary Secret Mall Apartment, starring Michael Townsend, Colin Bliss, James Mercer, Andrew Oesch, Greta Scheing, Emily Ustach, Adriana Valdez-Young and Jay Zehngebot.
Description: In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall's electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling in more than two tons of cinderblock.
Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for its inhabitants. It was a personal expression of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, a clubhouse in which large-scale charitable art projects were planned, and, finally, a 750 square-foot middle finger to The Man.
Featuring never-before-seen footage of the space and revealing the identities of all the participants for the first time, SECRET MALL APARTMENT is more than just a bonkers true story. Director Jeremy Workman (Lily Topples The World, The World Before Your Feet, Deciding Vote) delivers a poignant exploration of a group of artists who discovered their purpose within the most commercial and improbable places. Produced by Jesse Eisenberg.
Music Box Films' Blu-ray of Secret Mall Apartment contains Q&A featurettes with Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Workman, The Mall and the Movie mini-doc, a photo montage, deleted and additional scenes, Jesse Eisenberg Reads Letterboxd Reviews, Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Townsend in Conversation, a recreation set timelapse, the featurette Michael Townsend Tape Art, a trailer and promos.
Turning to catalog titles, Milestone Film's has a Blu-ray for Grass and Chang (1925-1927), a double-feature with Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) and Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927). Sourced from new 4K (Grass) and 2K (Chang) masters by Milestone Films, they present Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life with "original music composed by Patrick Holcomb and performed by Malcolm Dalglish and students of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music", in addition to an "alternate score composed and performed by Gholam Hossain Janati-Ataie, Kavous Shirzadian and Amir Ali Vahabzadegan", while Chang comes "with a traditional Thai score composed and conducted by Bruce Gaston and performed by Fong Naam". Extras include audio commentary on Chang by film historian Rudy Behlmer, a Chang color test and an audio interview on Grass with Behlmer and Merian C. Cooper.
Coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD from the Criterion Collection is Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930), starring Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke and Roy Wilson. Sourced from a new 4K master of the "Magnascope road-show" version of the film, Criterion presents Hell's Angels with LPCM Mono audio and in SDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new interview with Robert Legato, the visual-effects supervisor for The Aviator (2004), a new interview with critic Farran Smith Nehme about Jean Harlow and outtakes from the film (with commentary by Harlow biographer David Stenn). Also included is an essay by author and journalist Fred Kaplan.
Also coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Criterion is Luis Buñuel's Él (1953), starring Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena, Rafael Banquells, Fernando Casanova and Manuel Dondé. Sourced from a new 4K master (supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, son of director of photography Gabriel Figueroa), Criterion presents with Él LPCM Mono audio, optional, newly-translated English subtitles and in SDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new video essay on Buñuel by scholar Jordi Xifra, an appreciation by Guillermo del Toro, a 1981 interview with Buñuel by Jean-Claude Carrière, a panel discussion from 2009 and a trailer. Also included is "an essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano and an interview with Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent".
Description: Long before he became one of the most renowned artists in world cinema, the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his cinematic career at Tehran's Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (a.k.a. Kanoon), where he honed his distinctive style and themes. During his first decades as a filmmaker, Kiarostami moved freely among documentary, narrative, and even animation, and between joyous short films made for children and subtle works exploring the struggles of adolescents. Often using the classroom as a laboratory, he probed social and political tensions in Iranian society during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 revolution. Spanning his very first short, Bread and Alley (which the director called the "mother of all my films"); other underseen early revelations, like Experience and The Traveler; and nonfiction masterpieces such as Homework, the graceful, warm, and playful works collected here find moments of transcendent poetry within everyday life, and use deceptively simple premises to express universal truths about the human condition.
This release features 2K restorations undertaken by MK2 in collaboration with L'Immagine Ritrovata.
Coming to Blu-ray from Radiance Films is the Blu-ray box set Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein (1955-1961), a three-disc set with the films The Wicked Go to Hell (Les salauds vont en enfer) (1955), Nude in a White Car (Toi, le venin) (1958) and The Taste of Violence (Le Goût de la violence) (1961). Sourced from 2K masters by Gaumont, Radiance presents all three films with LPCM Mono audio. Extras include audio commentary on all three films with critic and author Tim Lucas, a 2014 interview with Marina Vlady on Nude in a White Car, new featurettes / visual essays by both historian Lucas Balbo and Howard S. Berger (on The Wicked Go to Hell), Samm Deighan (on Nude in a White Car), and both Alex Cox and C. Courtney Joyner (on The Taste of Violence), as well as trailers for all three films. Limited edition content includes a "booklet featuring new writing by Walter Chaw and newly translated archival writing by Lucas Balbo". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Also coming to Blu-ray from Radiance is Nikos Koundouros' The Ogre of Athens (Ο Δράκος) (1956), starring Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris, Thanasis Vengos, Theodoros Andriakopoulos and Marika Lekaki. Sourced from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, Radiance presents The Ogre of Athens with uncompressed mono audio and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen and new interviews with critic Christina Newland and Greek film expert Dimitris Papanikolaou. Limited edition content includes a "booklet featuring new writing by Andréas Giannopoulos and extract from Jonathan Franzen's Freedom". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Coming to 4K UHD from Shout Factory is the box set A Better Tomorrow Trilogy (1986-1989), a seven-disc set which contains the Blu-ray and 4K UHD premieres of A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色) (1986), A Better Tomorrow II (英雄本色II) (1986) and A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (英雄本色III夕陽之歌) (1989). All three films are sourced from new 4K scans of their original camera negatives, with original Cantonese or dubbed English: DTS-HD MA Mono audio, optional, newly-translated English subtitles and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD discs. A bonus seventh disc is a Blu-ray with a workprint of A Better Tomorrow II in Cantonese with over 30 minutes of never-before-seen footage and the Taiwanese cut of A Better Tomorrow III in Mandarin. Extras include new audio commentary with James Mudge (Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks) on the first two films and with critic and author David West on the third film, new interviews with director John Woo (on the first two films), producer Terence Chang, screenwriter Chan Hing-ka, filmmaker Gordon Chan and filmmaker Gareth Evans (on A Better Tomorrow), film historian Frank Djeng (on A Better Tomorrow II) and screenwriters Yiu-Ming Leung and Foo Ho Tai, Hong Kong filmmaker and academic Gilbert Po and Vietnam War researcher Dr. Aurélie Basha i Novosejt (on A Better Tomorrow III), also included are image galleries and trailers for all three films.
Coming to 4K UHD from the Cohen Media Group is James Ivory's Howards End (1992), starring Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby and Samuel West. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (overseen and approved by director James Ivory and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts), Cohen presents Howards End with audio commentary by film critics Wade Major and Lael Lowenstein. A second disc is a Blu-ray of extras and includes Returning to Howards End: James Ivory in Conversation with Laurence Kardish, an interview with James Ivory and Vanessa Redgrave, a Q&A with James Ivory, a behind-the-scenes featurette from 1992, Building Howards End, The Design of Howards End, James Ivory Remembers Ismail Merchant and both the film's original theatrical trailer and a 2016 re-release trailer.
Coming to 4K UHD from Arrow Video is Anthony Hoffman's Red Planet (2000), starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Baker and Terence Stamp. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the film's original camera negative by Warner Bros.' MPI, Arrow presents Red Planet with Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include new interviews with visual effects supervisor Jeffrey A. Okun and helmet and suits designer Steve Johnson, a new video essay by film critic Heath Holland, deleted scenes and a theatrical trailer, Limited edition content includes an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Mark A. Altman". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Finally this week, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has a 4K UHD upgrade for Chris Columbus' Rent (2005), starring Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal. Sourced from a 4K master, Sony presents Rent with Dolby Vision HDR and the choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix or original 5.1 audio tracks. Extras include audio commentary with Chris Columbus and actors Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal, the feature-length documentary No Day But Today, deleted scenes and musical performances, two public service announcements and a trailer.