For the week of June 1st, Walt Disney Home Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios have a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Daniel Chong's Hoppers, featuring the voices of Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco and Eduardo Franco.
Description: In this animated comedy adventure, animal lover Mabel uses new technology to hop her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver and communicate directly with animals. As she makes amazing discoveries, she befriends a charismatic beaver and must rally the entire animal kingdom to face a major human threat.
Disney and Pixar's 4K UHD release of Hoppers contains Dolby Vision HDR and the film's Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include deleted scenes, bloopers and four featurettes. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Note: Disney's 4K UHD release of Hoppers is currently available only in Limited Edition SteelBook packaging.
New on Blu-ray from BBC Studios is Doctor Who: Season Two (2025), starring Ncuti Gatwa. The seven-disc set contains all eight episodes of season two, alongside the 2024 Christmas Special Joy to the World, episodes of Doctor Who Unleashed and other extras.
New on Blu-ray from Shudder is The Creep Tapes: Season Two (2025), starring Mark Duplass. The release includes all six episodes. Extras include audio commentary with Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice and Chris Donlon.
New on Blu-ray from Magenta Light Studios is Adrian Grunberg's Protector (2026), starring Milla Jovovich, Isabel Myers, Manny Montana, Michael Stahl-David, Lydia Hull and D.B. Sweeney.
Description: Nikki (Milla Jovovich), a veteran war hero, thought she'd left her violent past behind for a peaceful life with her daughter, Chloe – until Chloe is kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that forces Nikki into the city's criminal underworld on a relentless pursuit. As she tears through a ruthless crime syndicate using her military training, Nikki draws the attention of both the police and the military, shooting her to the top of the most wanted list. In this high-stakes race against time, Nikki must use the violent skills she thought she left behind to save her daughter.
New on Blu-ray from Angel Studios is Homestead: The Series: Season 1 (2024-2025), starring Bailey Chase, Jesse Hutch, Olivia Sanabia, Tyler Lofton, Emmanuel McCord and Dawn Olivieri.
Description: A continuation of the movie Homestead... After a nuclear bomb devastates Los Angeles, a once-pampered nation devolves into brutal chaos. Picking up where the Homestead movie ends, the Homestead series follows the survivors within the Homestead as they clash against one another and the violent world outside. Ark they an ark or a fortress? Is it kill-or-be-killed, or is God doing something greater?
Angel Studios' Blu-ray of Homestead: The Series: Season 1 contains all eight episodes. Extras include episodes 1-2 of Homestead: Family Survival.
Turning to catalog titles, the Criterion Collection has a 4K UHD upgrade for Stanley Donen's Charade (1963), starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy and Ned Glass. Sourced from a new 4K master, Criterion presents Charade in 4K SDR with LPCM Mono audio. Extras include audio commentary with Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone from 1999 and a trailer. Also included is an essay by film historian Bruce Eder.
Also coming from Criterion is a 4K UHD upgrade for Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces (1970), starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers and Marlena MacGuire. Sourced from a new 4K master, Criterion presents Charade with LPCM Mono audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary with Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson, the featurette Soul Searching in "Five Easy Pieces,", the documentary BBStory (both 2009), the featurette BBS: A Time For Change (2010), excerpts from a 1976 American Film Institute interview with Bob Rafelson, two teasers and a trailer. Also included is an essay by film critic Kent Jones.
Coming to 4K UHD from Cinématographe is William Friedkin's The Boys in the Band (1970), starring Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill, Keith Prentice and Peter White. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Cinématographe presents The Boys in the Band with DTS-HD MA Mono audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include new audio commentary with writer and professor Farrah Freibert, archival audio commentary with William Friedkin, new interviews with Laurence Luckinbill, film historian Mark Harris and entertainment journalist Michael Musto, a new video essay by film historian Daniel Kremer, the documentary Friedkin Uncut (2018), a Turner Classic Movies (TCM) introduction to the film by Ben Mankiewicz and Mario Cantone, Limited edition Mediabook packaging includes "new text essays by film critic Alonso Duralde, author of Hollywood Pride; film critic Caden Mark Gardner, co-author of Corpses, Fools, Monsters; film journalist Nat Segaloff, author of Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin; and writer Kyle Turner, author of The Queer Film Guide".
Coming to Blu-ray from Radiance Films is Sadao Nakajima's Aesthetics of a Bullet (鉄砲玉の美学) (1973), starring Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Mitsuru Mori, Asao Koike, Ichirô Araki and Toshio Chiba. Sourced from an HD master, Radiance presents Aesthetics of a Bullet with LPCM Mono audio and optional,newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include a new appreciation by filmmaker Robert Schwentke, a new interview with filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, an archival interview with Sadao Nakajima and a trailer. Limited edition content includes a "booklet featuring new writing by Olaf Möller and an archival essay on the film".
Coming to 4K UHD from Shout Factory is Brian Levant's The Flintstones (1994), starring John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan and Halle Berry. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (approved by Brian Levant and director of photography Dean Cundey), Shout presents The Flintstones with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras on the 4K UHD disc include a new introduction by Brian Levant and Dean Cundey, a new audio commentary with pop culture historian Russell Dyball and a legacy audio commentary with Brian Levant. An included remastered Blu-ray additionally features the documentary Discovering Bedrock, an opening sequence comparison, an MCA soundtrack presentation, image galleries and both a theatrical teaser and trailer.
Note: Shout's 4K UHD release of The Flintstones is currently available only in "StoneBook" packaging.
Finally this week,Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray box set for Covert Affairs: The Complete Series (2010-2014), starring Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Peter Gallagher, Anne Dudek and Hill Harper.
Description: Annie Walker, a brilliant CIA operative and linguist with girl-next-door charm, the instincts of a born spy, and a hunger for adventure, is plucked straight from training at the Farm and assigned to the Agency's Domestic Protection Division, tackling high-stakes cases at home and around the globe. Guided by Auggie Anderson, a skilled, blind operative who becomes her mentor and closest ally, Annie navigates dangerous missions while keeping her covert life hidden from family and friends.
Universal's Blu-ray release of Covert Affairs: The Complete Series is a 19-disc set with all five seasons and 75 episodes. Extras include commentaries, deleted scenes, gag reels a set tour and more.