For the week of January 5th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Joachim Rønning's TRON: Ares, starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj and Arturo Castro.
Description: Get ready for the electrifying action and adventure of TRON: Ares. When a highly sophisticated Program named Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, it marks humankind's first encounter with AI beings.
Disney's 4K UHD release of TRON: Ares contains Dolby Vision HDR and the film's Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include deleted scenes and the featurettes The Journey to TRON: Ares, Lightcycles on the Loose, The Artistry of TRON: Ares, Cast Conversations and The Legacy of TRON. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
New on Blu-ray from Decal Releasing, in association with Neon, is a Blu-ray for Chris Stuckmann's Shelby Oaks, starring Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Keith David, Robin Bartlett and Michael Beach.
Description: A film crew uncover a disturbing new lead in a woman's obsessive search for her missing sister, which steers her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil. From EP Mike Flanagan and Director Chris Stuckmann.
Decal Releasing's Blu-ray of Shelby Oaks contains audio commentary with Chris Stuckmann, six episodes of The Making of Shelby Oaks, four episodes of Paranormal Paranoids the featurette The Final Tape, a crime scene gallery, a special hidden feature, a trailer, TV spots and more.
New on Blu-ray from Magnolia Home Entertainment is Carmen Emmi's Plainclothes, starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Amy Forsyth and John Bedford Lloyd.
Description: Syracuse, 1997. Promising undercover police officer Lucas (Tom Blyth) is dealing with a breakup and the recent loss of his father. When he receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men in a mall bathroom, he is surprised to discover a scintillating connection with Andrew (Russell Tovey), one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire. At his mother's New Year's Eve party, Lucas loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. With time running out and his secret life closing in around him, the evening builds towards an explosive reckoning where everything he's buried threatens to erupt.
Description: It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil, West of Memphis), covers the life of the rising young star with an otherworldly voice and boundary-pushing artistry, who left the '90s music world reeling when he died suddenly, at age 30, after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Grace." Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley's archives and intimate accounts from his mother Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, Jeff's former bandmates, including Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, and luminaries like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann, It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley illuminates one of modern music's most influential and enigmatic figures.
Magnolia's Blu-ray of It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley contains deleted scenes, Jeff's childhood pictures and the mini-documentary Road Recovery.
New on Blu-ray from Ketchup Entertainment is J.J. Perry's Afterburn, starring Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Samuel L. Jackson, Kristofer Hivju, Daniel Bernhardt and Kevin Eldon.
Description: After a massive solar flare destroys the Earth's eastern hemisphere, an emboldened treasure hunter for hire adventures to Europe to uncover the coveted Mona Lisa, only to learn the world needs a hero more than it needs a painting.
New on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films is Ido Fluk's Köln 75, starring Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Shirin Eissa, Enno Trebs and Jördis Triebel.
Description: Keith Jarrett's legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn't happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 shows how the concert was conceived and orchestrated through the efforts of a teenage concert promoter, Vera Brandes (Mala Emde, Skin Deep). She enthusiastically organized the concert venue (the Cologne Opera House), promoted the event, and even sold the tickets. And after Jarrett threatened to drop out because his Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano was nowhere to be found – she convinced him to go on with the show. John Magaro (Past Lives) plays Jarrett with brilliant intensity, a counterpoint to Mala Emde's joyful portrayal of the unstoppable Vera. Köln 75 captures the compelling, entertaining and previously unknown backstory of Jarrett's one-hour, entirely improvised masterpiece The Köln Concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history.
Kino and Zeitgeist's Blu-ray of Köln 75 contains interviews with Ido Fluk, Mala Emde and John Magaro and Emde and Vera Brandes. Also included is a Köln 75 wrap video and a theatrical trailer.
Also coming from Kino is a Blu-ray for Iain Softley's K-Pax (2001), starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly and Saul Williams. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino Blu-ray of K-Pax features a new audio commentary with film historians Steve Mitchell and Troy Howarth, as well as two legacy audio commentary tracks: one with film historian Paul Talbot (author of the Bronson's Loose! books) and another with cinematographer Richard H. Kline (moderated by film historian Nick Redman). Also included is an interview with screenwriter Lewis John Carlino and a theatrical trailer.
Then from Kino is a Blu-ray for Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor (2004), starring Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Mimi Rogers, Elle Fanning and Bijou Phillips. Kino's Blu-ray includes audio commentary with Tod Williams, the featurettes Frame on the Wall - The Making of The Door in the Floor, Novel to Screen - John Irving and Anatomy of a Scene, as well as a theatrical trailer.
Coming to 4K UHD from Shout Factory is John Woo's Bullet in the Head (喋血街頭) (1990), starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung, Simon Yam, Waise Lee, Yolinda Yam and Chung Lam. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents Bullet in the Head with original Cantonese: DTS-HD MA Mono audio, optional, newly-translated English subtitles, an English dub option and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary with film critic Frank Djeng, the "Festival Cut" of the film, an alternate boardroom ending, new interviews with John Woo, Waise Lee, producer Terence Cheng, editor David Wu, production planner Catherine Lau, author Grady Hendrix and professor Lars Laamann, as well as trailers and an image gallery.
Coming to remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Arrow Video is Andrew Davis' Under Siege (1992), starring Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Colm Meaney and Damian Chapa. Sourced from a new 4K master by Warner Bros.' MPI (approved by Andrew Davis), Arrow presents Under Siege with original LPCM 2.0 audio and a new Dolby Atmos remix, as well as Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary with Andrew Davis and writer J.F. Lawton, new interviews with Davis, Erika Eleniak, Damian Chapa and visual effects supervisor William Mesa and a trailer. Limited edition content includes reversible cover, a slipcover and a "collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the film by Vern and a serial fiction by Martyn Pedler". For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Coming to 4K UHD from the Criterion Collection is Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995), starring Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Mili Avital and Iggy Pop. Sourced from a 4K master (supervised and approved by Jim Jarmusch), Criterion presents Dead Man with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Surround audio and in SDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras replicate Criterion's 2018 Blu-ray and include selected-scene audio commentary with production designer Bob Ziembicki and sound mixer Drew Kunin, a Q&A where Jarmusch responds to fan questions, an interview with Gary Farmer readings of William Blake poems by actors Mili Avital, Alfred Molina and Iggy Pop, deleted scenes, footage of Neil Young composing and performing the film's score, a music video, color photos from the film's production and a trailer. Also included are "essays by film critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff".
Finally this week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season (2019-2020) and Shameless: The Eleventh and Final Season (2020-2021) on Blu-ray for the first time, completing the series on Blu-ray. On the same day, Warner will also release Shameless: The Complete Series (2011-2021), a twenty-seven-disc box set with all eleven seasons. Extras include featurettes, commentaries, unaired scenes a music video and more.