Pick of the Week
Spring Breakers (Lionsgate) — Harmony Korine’s first multiplex mini-breakout is a pop-cultural fire-starter that will hopefully enable him to keep working on a larger-than-smaller scale in the future. As for Spring Breakers, it makes for an at-times thrilling and all-times complicated viewing experience, which you must see for yourself if you haven’t already. Read my own complicated HTN review. Available on DVD + Digital UltraViolet, Blu-ray + Digital UltraViolet, and at Amazon Instant.
Recommended
Boy (Kino Lorber) — Set in New Zealand in 1984, Taika Waititi’s coming-of-age comic drama has a lot going for it. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
New/Old to DVD/Blu-ray
The Life of Oharu (Criterion) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
The Jerk (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.
Sixteen Candles (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.
The Breakfast Club (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.
Smokey and The Bandit (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.
The Sting (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Universal) — Available on DVD.
Have Not Seen Yet But Really/Kinda/Sorta/Maybe Wanna
The Gatekeepers (Sony) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Portlandia: Season 3 (Video Services Corp.) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Shun Li and the Poet (Film Movement) — Available on DVD.
The Host (Universal) — Available on DVD, Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet, and at Amazon Instant.
Admission (Universal) — Available on DVD, Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet, and at Amazon Instant.
Dead Man Down (Sony) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray/DVD + UltraViolet.
Wild Card of the Week
Tyler Perry’s Temptation (Lionsgate) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.