New DVD and Blu-ray Releases for the Week of May 30

From the Big Screen:

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

photo for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Vitals: Director: Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley. Stars: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant. CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 134 min., Action, North American box office gross: $88.231 million, worldwide $194.231 million, Paramount. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: “From Dice to Dragons: Honoring the Lore” behind-the-scenes with Chris Pine, Michelle”; “The Bestiary”; “Forging the Forgotten Realms”; “Broadswords, Battle-axes & Badass Brawls”; gag reel; deleted and extended scenes. Read more here 2 stars

65

photo for 65 (2023) After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth … 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive. Vitals: Director: Scott Beck & Bryan Woods. Stars: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt. CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 93 min., Sci-Fi, North American box office gross: $31.982 million, worldwide $56.182 million, Sony. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Deleted and extended scenes; “Creating the World of 65”; “Primordial Planet”; “Final Showdown: Concepts to Screen”; more. Read more here
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The Farrows Of Hollywood: Their Dark Side Of Paradise

This Week’s Highlights:

“The Last Starfighter 4K UHD” (1984) is newly restored from a 4K scan of the original negative and featuring a 4.1 mix originally created for the film’s 70mm release — never photo for The Last Starfighter included on previous home video formats. Alex Rogan (Lance Guess) dreams of something bigger than his current existence. He gets more than he bargained for when he breaks the record on “The Last Starfighter” video game and is recruited by the Star League to defend the universe against Xur and the Kordan Armada. Alex and pilot Grig (Dan O’Herlihy), armed with the “last” Starfighter, are all that stand between the villainous Xur and domination. Also stars Robert Preston and Catherine Mary Stewart. On Blu-ray Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment. Read more here … Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With the pop-culture landmark “Thelma & Louise” (1991), screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur photo for Thelma & Louise Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong — leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their own terms. Propelled by irresistible performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis (plus Brad Pitt in a sexy, star-making turn) — and nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one for Khouri — the exhilaratingly cathartic “Thelma & Louise” stands as cinema’s ultimate ode to ride-or-die female friendship. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Ridley Scott, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features. From The Criterion Collection. Read more here … Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay (Ronald Bass photo for Rain Manand Barry Morrow), Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman) and Best Director (Barry Levinson), “Rain Man” (1988) makes its 4K Ultra HD format debut (for its 35th Anniversary) with a new restoration (a just completed 4K high definition 16-Bit Scan of the original camera negative) approved by Levinson and presented in its original 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio in Dolby Vision / HDR. “Rain Man” stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise as estranged brothers on a road trip unlike any other across America. Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has been given the news that his recently deceased father has left his entire fortune to his autistic brother Raymond (Hoffman), who he did not know existed. In a crass bid to grab some, if not all of the inheritance, Charlie abducts Raymond and what begins as a money-making scheme for Charlie turns into a journey of discovery between brothers who are worlds apart. On Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo from the MVD Marquee Collection.

Buzzin’ the ‘B’s:

Kicked out of a small Western town for sinful behavior, free-spirited Alice and Nora set out for Virginia City to pursue their dream of opening a restaurant in “Two Sinners and a Mule” (2023), starring Chantelle Albers, Hannah James, Cam Gigandet, Cord Newman and David Midthunder. Out on the prairie, they come across an injured bounty hunter named Elden. Hoping to share in the reward, they nurse Elden back to health and help him stalk his prey, Grimes. But as Nora and Alice both develop feelings for Elden, no one notices that Grimes is now on their tail, and the hunters become the hunted. From Lionsgate. Read more herephoto for Redline (Special Edition) On the streets of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, daredevil drivers race the world’s most exotic cars for million dollar bets in “Redline (Special Edition)” (2007). But as the stakes rise, so does the danger — from deadly crashes to kidnapping and murder — and only the fast and furious survive. With adrenaline-pumping action and some of the rarest, most expensive high performance vehicles ever raced and obliterated on film, “Redline” roars into high gear and doesn’t let off the gas until the final explosive rush. Directed by legendary stuntman and fight choreographer Andy Cheng (“End Game”) and featuring Nadia Bjorlin, Nathan Phillips, Angus Macfadyen, Tim Matheson, Jesse Johnson, Eddie Griffin and Ernie Reyes Jr., with enough gorgeous cinematography from Academy Award nominee Bill Butler (“Jaws,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”), whose “camera’s intimacy with vehicles at rocket velocity is striking,” and “breathless” editing to keep you on the edge of your seat from the start to the finish line. On Blu-ray from the MVD Marquee Collection … In “Mojave Diamonds” (2023), UFC superstar Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone plays Roy, a fighter who runs afoul of the Vegas mob and must run a $50 million shipment of diamonds to Mexico. He brings his G.l. brother Danny, but the shipment is stolen by a rival gang, and brother Joe’s family is abducted as punishment. Now the three siblings must join forces to penetrate the mob compound and rescue their loved ones — no matter how many lives it costs. From Lionsgate. Read more herephoto for The Siege After being compromised during a mission gone wrong, an international assassin is sent to a reassignment center to receive a new identity and erase any trace of his past handiwork in “The Siege” (2023 — UK), starring Daniel Stisen, Lauren Okadigbo, Yennis Cheung, Byron Gibson, Steven Blades. However, when a ruthless team of operatives storms the secure compound, he reluctantly teams up with an elite hitwoman and her mysterious charge in order to make it out alive. On DVD, Blu-ray, from Well Go USA … “Spinning Gold” (2023), starring Jeremy Jordan, Michelle Monaghan, Jay Pharoah, Sebastian Maniscalco and Jason Isaacs, is a biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records. The musical journey of Neil Bogart and how his Casablanca Records created one of the greatest soundtrack of the late 20th century. On DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, from Universal.

All DVDs and Blu-rays are screened on a reference system consisting of an Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray Disc Player w/SACD & DVD-Audio, a Rotel RSX-972 Surround Sound Receiver, and Phase Technology 1.1 (front), 33.1 (center), and 50 (rear) speakers, and Power 10 subwoofer.

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