This week's new Blu-ray releases are headlined by the 20th Anniversay Edition of Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from Paramount Home Entertainment, which is also releasing a special 2-Movie Collection on 4K Ultra HD that will include both Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of LIfe.
As for new releases, Benedict Cumberbatch's historical spy drama The Courier and the Katherine Waterston/Vanessa Kirby romantic drama The World to Come are both now available on Blu-ray.
Paramount is also releasing Stepford Wives, Rat Race, and Mommie Dearest on Blu-ray while from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment come the sports drama Boogie and the official debut of the Burt Reynolds classic Smokey and the Bandit on 4K Ultra HD.
For Disney Movie Club subscribers, Disney Home Entertainment has added three new titles to their exclusive collection in Bruce Willis' The Kid, Lindsay Lohan's Herbie: Fully Loaded, and Vin Diesel's The Pacifier - all of which are making their Blu-ray debuts.
On television, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: The Complete First Season and Samurai Jack: The Complete Series on Blu-ray while we also have Bryan Cranston's Your Honor from Paramount and Billions: Season Two from Showitme.
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 20th Anniversary Edition
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider stars Angelina Jolie as the intrepid adventurer, whose exploits send her on a quest for a mysterious and powerful artifact. The newly remastered film will be presented in a 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray with access to a digital copy of the film and nearly 90 minutes of previously released bonus content:
- Commentary with director Simon West
- Digging into Tomb Raider
- Crafting Lara Croft
- The Visual Effects of Tomb Raider
- The Stunts of Tomb Raider
- Are You Game?
- Deleted Scenes
- U2 "Elevation" music video
- Alternate Main Title
- Trailers
In addition, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life will be available together for the first time in a 4K Blu-ray set, which includes access to digital copies of both films.
THE COURIER
The Courier is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK's MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- On the Brink: Making The Courier - Featurette
- Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles for the main feature
THE WORLD TO COME
Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.
BOOGIE
From acclaimed writer, producer and restaurateur Eddie Huang comes his directorial debut, Boogie, the coming-of-age story of Alfred "Boogie" Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals and the burden of expectation.
Special Features:
- The Road to Boogie-town– Taylor Takahashi and Eddie Huang discuss their evolving friendship, as well as the journey to identifying Taylor as the right person to play Boogie.
- Eddie Huang: It's Personal – Writer/director Eddie Huang talks about his personal connection to the cultural complexities at the heart of the story.
- Shout Out to Pop Smoke – A look at Pop Smoke's huge contribution to the film, and how bright his acting future was.
- In-Theater Trailer
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT on 4K Ultra HD
Big Enos (Pat McCormick) wants to drink Coors at a truck show, but in 1977 it was illegal to sell Coors east of the Mississippi River without a permit. Truck driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Burt Reynolds) agrees to pick up the beer in Texas and drive it to Georgia within 28 hours. When Bo picks up hitchhiker Carrie (Sally Field), he attracts the attention of Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason). Angry that Carrie will not marry his son, Justice embarks on a high-speed chase after Bandit. Special Features and Technical Specs:
- HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
- Loaded Up and Truckin': Making Smokey and the Bandit
- Snowman, What's Your 20? The Smokey and the Bandit CB Tutorial
- 100 Years of Universal: The '70s
- 100 Years of Universal: The Lot
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles for the main feature
THE STEPFORD WIVES
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
RAT RACE
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
THE KID
Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be -- until one day, he meets him face-to-face! Thinking this kid is a hallucination, Russ does everything he can to make him go away. But 8-year-old Rusty, who's anything but happy that he grows up to be a loser without real meaning in his life, can't leave -- at least not yet.
This is a Disney Movie Club Exclusive, so will only be available to subscriber's!
HERBIE FULLY LOADED
Herbie (aka #53), the sweet little '63 Volkswagen bug with a mind of his own and a serious love for speed. Maggie Peyton is a third generation member of a Nascar racing family and dreams of winning from behind the wheel.
This is a Disney Movie Exclusive, so will only be available to subscriber's!
THE PACIFIER
After failing to protect an important government scientist, an undercover agent learns the man's family is in danger. Now, in an effort to redeem himself, he agrees to take care of the man's children, only to discover that child care is his toughest mission yet.
This is a Disney Movie Exclusive, so will only be available to subscriber's!
Mommie Dearest 40th Anniversary Edition
Based on Christina Crawford's controversial best-selling tell-all novel, MOMMMIE DEAREST features a powerhouse performance by Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford, struggling for her career while battling the inner demons of her private life. While the public Crawford was a strong-willed, glamorous object of admiration, behind the scenes is a private Crawford—the woman desperate to be a single mother and trying to survive in a devastating industry that swallows careers thoughtlessly.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- NEW Audio Commentary by American drag queen Hedda Lettuce
- NEW Filmmaker Focus: Biographer Justin Bozung on director Frank Perry
- Commentary by filmmaker John Waters
- The Revival of Joan
- Life with Joan
- Joan Lives On
- Photo Gallery
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Collectible packaging featuring a foldout image of the film's theatrical poster and an interior spread with key movie moments
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: The Complete First Season
Coming off an award-winning final season of "Samurai Jack," Adult Swim reunites with creator Genndy Tartakovsky on a new animated series. "Primal" features a caveman at the dawn of evolution. A dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival in a violent, primordial world.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- ALL 10 Episodes of the show
- Behind the Scenes Interviews
- Optional English SDH and Dutch subtitles for the main feature
Samurai Jack: The Complete Series
A samurai sent through time fights to return home and save the world.
Your Honor: The Complete Limited Series
When the teenaged son of a prominent New Orleans judge accidentally kills another teen in a hit-and-run, the judge urges him to turn himself in to the police, but changes his mind when he learns the victim was the son of a local mafia kingpin. The judge's attempts to dispose of the evidence leads to tragic consequences for another teen.
Billions: The Complete Second Season
After being deftly outplayed, brilliant hedge fund king Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod is upping his game and using his considerable resources to exact revenge on ruthless U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades. Axe's aggressive move sends Chuck reeling as he finds himself under investigation, forced to scramble to hang on to his office and his family. But the embattled prosecutor still has some tricks up his sleeve and it's not long before Axe learns that money can't buy everything - or everyone.