This Week’s DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Releases: June 24-June 30
Tuesday, June 24 — Monday, June 30
*OnVideo’s week begins with “New Release” Tuesdays
A Minecraft Movie
(2025) Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival. Four misfits — Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Eugene Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) — find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Jack Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative … the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world. Vitals: Director: Jared Hess. Stars: Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge. CC, MPAA rating: PG, 101 min., Action Fantasy, Theatrical release date: April 4, 2025, North American box office gross: $408.9 million, worldwide $909.5 million, Streaming date: May 13, Warner. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code Steelbook, VOD, Digital. Extras: Building the World of Minecraft: Block Party”; “Block Beats” film’s soundtrack feateuette; “Pixel Pals”; “Creepers, Zombies and Endermen Oh My!” 
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Snow White
(2025) A live-action musical reimagining of Walt Disney’s groundbreaking full-length animated classic. Snow White (Rachel Zegler) journeys into the magical woods to escape her stepmother, the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot), and meets the beloved Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Dopey, Grumpy and Doc who join her quest to restore the kingdom and bring kindness to the land. Vitals: Director: Marc Webb. Stars: Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Andrew Burnap, Ansu Kabia, Andrew Barth Feldman, Tituss Burgess. CC, MPAA rating: PG, 109 min., Fairy Tale, Theatrical release date: March 21, 2025, North American box office gross: $86.1 million, worldwide $202.5 million, Streaming date: May 13, Disney. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code Steelbook, VOD, Digital. Extras: “Sing Along With the Movie”; “Fearless, Fair, Brave, and True: Making Snow White”; “Merry Tunes”; “Fairy Tale Fashion”; deleted scenes; bloopers. 
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The Monkey
(2025) When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy. Based on the Stephen King short story. Vitals: Director: Osgood Perkins. Stars: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Adam Scott. CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Horror, Theatrical release date: February 21, 2025, North American box office gross: $37.9 million, worldwide $61.9 million, Streaming date: April 4, Decal-Neon. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Read more here.
Novocaine
(2025) Nathan Caine was born with the rare disorder CIPA (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain), which means he does not feel physical pain. He grew up a sheltered child, learning to blend his food so he would not unwittingly chew off his own tongue, and he learned to wear a timer to remind himself when to go to the bathroom. But when his bank is robbed and his new love taken hostage, his affliction becomes his greatest strength as he sets out to rescue her. Vitals: Director: Dan Berk and Robert Olsen. Stars: Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Betty Gabriel, Jacob Batalon. CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Action Comedy, Theatrical release date: March 14, 2025, North American box office gross: $15.7 million, worldwide $21.0 million, Streaming date: April 8, Paramount. Formats: DVD, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code Steelbook (Amazon Exclusive), VOD, Digital. Extras: “Prepare For Pain: Pre-Production” featurette; “A World of Hurt: Production” featurette; “Maximum Physical Damage: Makeup Effects.” Read more here.
• The Big Heat (1953) (Criterion)
• Death of a Unicorn
• Nine-Ring Golden Dagger (2024 — China)
• Warfare
June 24
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City on Fire: Ringo Lam’s action thriller about an undercover cop torn between his duty as a police officer and his loyalty to his friends on the wrong side of the law. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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Hard Boiled: John Woo’ classic: Chow Yun-Fat stars as a cop hell-bent on bringing down the gun smugglers responsible for his partner’s death. Along with an undercover cop whose secret identity as a hitman hangs by a thread. The film raises gunfights to an art form, with some of the most celebrated action sequences ever. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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I Don’t Understand You: Stranded in rural Italy without transportation or language skills, an American couple on the verge of adopting tries to reconnect during a disastrous vacation, as their fears and relationship problems threaten to boil over and the body count mounts in tis horror comedy. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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Into the Wonderwoods: French animated adventure about a 10-year-old who dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he goes to visit his granny, his parents leave him behind at a rest stop, and he decides to cut through a magical forest in search of them. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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The President’s Wife: When she arrives at the Elysée Palace in 1995, Bernadette Chirac expects to finally get the respect she deserves — as the woman behind the newly elected president. Set aside and judged for being too old-fashioned, she decides to make her mark by becoming an essential media figure. (Digital sales, VOD; DVD, Blu-ray release: Day & date) |
June 26
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A Working Man: Construction worker Levon Cade (Jason Statham) must use the black ops training he’s left behind to rescue his boss’s daughter from human traffickers. (MGM+) |
June 27
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie: Porky and Daffy, the classic animated odd couple, turn into unlikely heroes when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. (HBO Max) |
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My Mom Jayne: Explores the life and legacy of Mariska Hargitay’s mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, who died tragically in a car accident at age 34 when Mariska was only three years old. (HBO Max) |
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The Ritual: Two priests, one questioning his faith and one reckoning with a troubled past, must put aside their differences to perform a difficult and dangerous exorcism. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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The Woman in the Yard: A mysterious woman repeatedly appears in a family’s front yard, often delivering chilling warnings and unsettling messages, leaving them to question her identity, motives and the potential danger she might pose. (Peacock) |
June 30
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Dark City
(1998) From Alex Proyas, visionary director of “The Crow,” comes this mind-bending science fiction thriller set in a shadowy world where the sun never rises and nothing is quite what it seems. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there’s a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city… except him. With a cast that includes Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly and Richard O’Brien, and a script by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (“Kafka”) and David S. Goyer (“Batman Begins”), “Dark City” is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, filmed through a lens of film noir and German expressionism… an extraordinary feast for the cinematic senses. Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negatives approved by director of photography Dariusz Wolski. Two-disc set with director’s cut and theatrical cut.Formats: 4K UHD, Blu-ray. Extras: (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.
Eephus
(2025) Keith William Richards, Bill “Spaceman” Lee, Wayne Diamond, Cliff Blake, Joe Castiglione, Theodore Bouloukos, Keith Poulson. Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America’s eternal pastime. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Music Box Films). Read more here
The Invisible Swordsman
(1970 — Japan) Mysterious sprites, eerie supernatural goings on and heroic sword-fighting action abound in this mystical tale of vengeance and adventure from the makers of the “Zatoichi”, “Daimajin” and “Yokai Monsters” films. In Edo-era Japan, Sanshiro diligently hones his sword-fighting technique at the kendo dojo, but no amount of practice can hide the fact that he is both clumsy and cowardly. When his samurai father falls prey to a gang of murderous phantom thieves while on night watch duties, Sanshiro is drawn to the banks of the Sanzu River that separates the worlds of the living and the dead. Here he encounters a strange being that introduces itself as a Shokera. The otherworldly apparition offers advice on how Sanshiro can avenge his father with the aid of a mysterious potion with the power to turn him invisible. But first Sanshiro must gather the ingredients, and his father’s killers might be closer to home than he thinks. Directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda and beautifully shot by Hiroshi Imai , “The Invisible Swordsman” boasts the sumptuous attention to its historical setting, costume design, fight choreography and period details that Daiei Kyoto were renowned for, all with an added dose of rip-roaring fantasy and adventure. Arrow Films is proud to release this unseen gem in a brand new high-definition transfer for the very first time for the home video market outside of Japan. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Brand new audio commentary from author and Asian culture expert Jonathan Clements; “The Invisible People,” a brand new interview with film critic Kim Newman on the history of invisibility in cinema; “Phantom Fighter,” a brand new interview with film critic and Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp; image gallery; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jolyon Yates; illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Zack Davisson. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.
A Minecraft Movie
(2025) Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge. Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home they’ll have to master this world while embarking on a quest with an unexpected expert crafter. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code Steelbook, VOD, Digital. Extras: Building the World of Minecraft: Block Party”; “Block Beats” film’s soundtrack feateuette; “Pixel Pals”; “Creepers, Zombies and Endermen Oh My!” (Warner). Read more here.
The Monkey
(2025) Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Adam Scott. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. (Decal-Neon). Read more here.
Novocaine
(2025) Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Betty Gabriel, Jacob Batalon. When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, a man incapable of feeling physical pain turns his rare condition into an unexpected advantage in the fight to rescue her. Formats: DVD, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code Steelbook (Amazon Exclusive), VOD, Digital. Extras: “Prepare For Pain: Pre-Production” featurette; “A World of Hurt: Production” featurette; “Maximum Physical Damage: Makeup Effects.” (Paramount). Read more here.
Palindromes
(2004) Ever since she was small, Aviva has desperately wanted a baby. Now a teenager – with thoughts and feelings her well-meaning parents Joyce (Ellen Barkin) and Steve (Richard Masur) don’t quite know how to handle – she’ll stop at nothing to make that dream a reality. Played by a cast of rotating actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sharon Wilkins, Aviva’s journey towards motherhood never would run smooth. Bringing his trademark dry wit to another series of taboos, Todd Solondz’s portrait of middle-American girlhood interrogates the naivety and hypocrisy of the post-9/11 psyche that continues to shape US public life and policy. 4K restoration from the original negative by the Museum of Modern Art approved by writer-director Todd Solondz. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K UHD. Extras: New interview with Todd Solondz by critic Hannah Strong; “Todd Solondz and His Cinema of Cruelty,” a new video essay by critic Lillian Crawford; trailer; reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters; limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Bence Bardos, extracts from the original press book, plus archival interviews with Solondz and composer Nathan Larson. (Radiance/MVD Entertainment).
The President’s Wife
(2023 — France) Catherine Deneuve, Michel Vuillermoz, Long the woman-behind-the-man, Bernadette Chirac (Deneuve) arrives at France’s presidential Elysée Palace in 1995 frustrated, and all but cast off by her newly elected husband, Jacques (Vuillermoz). Having worked in his shadow during his ascent to the presidency, Madame Chirac now expects to finally get the place in the political elite she believes she deserves. In Léa Domenach’s whip-smart feature film debut based on true events, Madame Chirac’s rise from invisible political spouse to major media figure — as calculated as it was inevitable — is chronicled with equal parts reverence and wit, driven by Deneuve’s wryly memorable central performance. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Cohen Media Group). Read more here.
Snow White
(2025) Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Andrew Burnap, Ansu Kabia, Andrew Barth Feldman, Tituss Burgess. A princess joins forces with seven dwarfs and a group of rebels to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Queen. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code Steelbook, VOD, Digital. Extras: “Sing Along With the Movie”; “Fearless, Fair, Brave, and True: Making Snow White”; “Merry Tunes”; “Fairy Tale Fashion”; deleted scenes; bloopers. (Disney). Read more here.
Sorcerer
(1977) A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic “The Wages of Fear” was dismissed upon its release, only to be recognized decades later as one of the boldest auteur statements of the New Hollywood. In a remote Latin American village, four desperate fugitives—a New Jersey gangster (Roy Scheider), a Mexican assassin (Francisco Rabal), an unscrupulous Parisian businessman (Bruno Cremer), and an Arab terrorist (Amidou)—take on a seemingly doomed mission: transporting two trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through the treacherous jungle. Aided by Tangerine Dream’s otherworldly synth score, Friedkin turns each bump in the road into a tour de force of cold-sweat tension—conjuring a hauntingly nihilistic vision of a world ruled by chance and fate. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack approved by director William Friedkin. Alternate 2.0 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. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
The Tale Of Oiwa’s Ghost
(1961 — Japan) When the daughter of an elite family takes a shine to poor samurai Iemon (Tomisaburo Wakayama), he sees an opportunity to climb the social ladder. He just needs to rid himself of his only obstacle: his loving wife Oiwa. He poisons her and dumps her corpse in a nearby swamp, but she returns as a horribly disfigured ghost to haunt Iemon on his wedding night. Crime film specialist Tai Kato (“I, the Executione”r) brings the famous “Ghost Story of Yotsuya” to the screen as a gritty tale of murder and greed, with an intense lead performance by Wakayama. Formats: Blu-ray; visual essay on tormented female ghosts by Lindsay Nelson; trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow; limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tom Mes and an archival review of the film .(Radiance/MVD Entertainment).
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
(1993) A rare film biography as boldly unconventional as its subject, writer-director François Girard’s visionary portrait of iconoclastic, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould explodes the conventions of the form to illuminate the brilliant mind and innermost obsessions of a singular artist. Across thirty-two vignettes encompassing everything from dramatic sketches to documentary interviews to avant-garde animation, “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould” pieces together the story of Gould’s trajectory from child prodigy to celebrated concert pianist who turned his back on public performance to pursue his all-consuming fascination with recording technology. Led by a tour-de-force performance by Colm Feore and underscored by Gould’s landmark recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Girard’s film daringly deconstructs the enigma of genius. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director François Girard, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
Vainella
(2025 — Argentina) Adrian Cabral, Daniel Oscar Casas, Lucas D’Amario. Alma is in her thirties and still not sure if she’s ever really had an orgasm. After a series of unhealthy relationships and disappointing hookups, she decides to ignore family pressures and societal expectations in order to more fully explore her sexuality. Letting go of her inhibitions at a “play party” with mutual friends, she experiments with BDSM and discovers a new world of eroticism. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (IndiePix).
