This Week’s DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Releases: September 30-October 6
Tuesday, September 30 — Monday, October 6
*OnVideo’s week begins with “New Release” Tuesdays
The Life of Chuck
(2025) This powerful tale celebrates the life of Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us. The film follows the formative moments in the life of Chuck, chronicled in reverse chronological order, from his death coinciding with the end of the universe to his childhood. Based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King, Vitals: Director: Mike Flanagan. Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mark Hamill, Jacob Tremblay, Nick Offerman. CC, MPAA rating: R, 111 min., Fantasy Drama, Theatrical release date: June 13, 2025, North American box office gross: $6.4 million, worldwide $9.8 million, Streaming date: July 29, 2025, Neon. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. 
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• Affinity
• The Life of Chuck
• Misericordia (2024 — France)
• The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years
September 30
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Affinity: A former SEAL suffering from PTSD finds a new lease on life when he rescues a beautiful woman. When she disappears, he’ll go to any lengths to get her back. (Digital sales, VOD; DVD, Blu-ray release: Day & date) |
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Caught Stealing: When his punk-rock neighbor asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, New York City bartender Hank Thompson suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters who all want a piece of him. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale: The last chapter in the “Downton Abbey” TV and film franchise. (Digital sales, VOD; DVD, Blu-ray release: November 11) |
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Foe: During a research tour in Barcelona, world-class master of Babylonian Archeology Johan Meyer is approached to decipher an ancient text. With an impending sense of dread, he translates the archaic parchment and opens a gate to another world. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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The Naked Gun: Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr becomes a police officer like his legendary father and must save the police department from shutting down by solving a case. (Now on Paramount+ & MGM+; DVD, Blu-ray release: November 11) |
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Rabbit Trap: Married couple Daphne and Darcy Davenport are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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Suspended Time: During COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, two married couples quarantine together in a country house, leading to rising tensions and revelations about their relationships. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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Tin Soldier: An ex-special forces operative seeks revenge against a cult leader who has corrupted his former comrades (Digital sales, VOD only) |
October 1
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Fight or Flight: A mercenary takes on the job of tracking down a target on a plane but must protect her when they’re surrounded by people trying to kill both of them. (Now on Paramount+) |
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Play Dirty: A thief gets a shot at a major heist where he must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world’s richest man. (Prime Video original) |
October 3
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Bring Her Back: A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. (Now on HBO Max) |
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Honey Don’t: A dark comedy about Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church. (Now on Peacock) |
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The Lost Bus: A white-knuckle ride through one of America’s wildfires as a wayward school bus driver and a dedicated school teacher battle to save 22 children from the inferno. (Apple TV+) |
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Scurry: Two strangers find themselves trapped underground when their city is attacked by a monstrous threat. Badly injured, they must navigate a treacherous, narrowing tunnel in hopes of finding an exit. But something else is lurking in the darkness, something relentless and hungry. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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She Loved Blossoms More: Three brothers build an unusual time machine in order to bring their long-dead mother back to life. When their delusional father comes into the picture, the experiments go awry, and they descend into a psychedelic hellscape where the past and present fuse in a comedic yet disturbing exploration of grief. (Digital sales, VOD only) |
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Steve: Follows headteacher Steve battling for his reform college’s survival while managing his mental health. Concurrently, troubled student Shy navigates his violent tendencies and fragility, torn between his past and future prospects. (Netflix) |
Affinity
(2024) Marko Zaror, Brooke Enge, Jane Mirro, Louis Mandylor. Chilean martial-arts star Marko Zaror is Bruno, an ex-SEAL struggling with PTSD. He lives a life in fear of his demons until one day when he discovers a beautiful woman with no past of her own. Together they begin to build a life, but when she disappears, Bruno must return to his violent past if he’s going to save her from a shocking conspiracy in this riveting, fast-paced sci-fi action film from director Brandon Slagle. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA). Read more here
Creepshow 2
(1987) Titans of terror George A. Romero and Stephen King deliver yet another selection of blood-curdling tales in “Creepshow 2,” the follow-up to the 1982 horror classic. In “Old Chief Wood’nhead”, a group of young hoodlums face retribution from an unlikely source after looting a local hardware store. Meanwhile, “The Raft” sees a group of horny teens wishing they’d read the warning signs first before taking a dip in a remote lake. Finally, an uptight businesswoman finds herself with some unwanted company following a hit-and-run incident in “The Hitch-hiker”. Retaining the same EC Comics flavor that made the original such a hit, “Creepshow 2” – this time directed by long-time Romero collaborator Michael Gornick – is a standout horror anthology from the minds of two of the genre’s master craftsmen. Formats: K Ultra HD. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Extras: Read more here.
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
(2021) A salute to writers and expatriates, Wes Anderson’s 10th feature takes the form of the final edition of The French Dispatch, a weekly magazine chronicling life in the city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France (for American readers). Made up of three featured stories—a profile of a tortured artist, a report on student revolutionaries, and a recounting of a tabloid kidnapping with a gourmet twist—plus an obituary and a travelogue, this dazzlingly constructed anthology mixes everything from theatrical interludes to tableaux vivants to comic-book animation. The superb ensemble cast includes Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Léa Seydoux, Owen Wilson, and Jeffrey Wright. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital master supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, 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 one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
(2008 — Korea) Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (“A Tale of Two Sisters”) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western. Wrangling three of Korea’s biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains. In the 1930s, three gun-toting Koreans converge on a train with different objectives but after an explosive altercation they leave it with the same goal: track down a map leading to an unfathomable treasure. The ‘Good’ is bounty hunter Park Dowon (Jung Woo-sung), who is chasing down the ‘Bad’, the ruthless bandit Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun), rumored to be the notorious ‘Finger Cutter’. Meanwhile, wily thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho), the ‘Weird’, is on the hunt for anything he can get his hands on. Backs are stabbed, fingers are cut, and many bullets fly as this dangerous trio blast their way through the desert in search of untold riches. This glorious resurrection of the Manchurian Western was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea. Presented here in stunning 4K, experience this spicy slice of wild west mayhem as you’ve never seen it before. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Extras: Read more here.
Isle of Dogs
(2018) Wes Anderson conjures a dystopian future Japan in magical stop-motion. After a canine virus outbreak, the dogs of Megasaki are exiled to a vast island garbage dump. When Atari (the daring 12-year-old ward of the city’s mayor) sets out to rescue his beloved Spots, he meets a pack of mongrel friends and is launched on an epic quest. Innovatively blending English and Japanese dialogue through a cross-cultural voice cast that includes Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko Ono, and Koyu Rankin, this fable of loyalty and disobedience combines Anderson’s signature themes—friendship among outsiders, the adventure of rebellion—with a delight in the boundless possibilities of animated storytelling. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital master, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, 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 one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
Misericordia
(2024 — France) A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Returning to his rural hometown to attend the funeral of the mentor he loved, enigmatic, sexually fluid drifter Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) stirs up long-simmering feelings of lust, jealousy, and rage among those he left behind — including the dead man’s widow (Catherine Frot), her hot-tempered son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), and a curiously protective local priest (Jacques Develay) with whom Jérémie forges a twisted bond. Amid the evocatively earthy milieu, Guiraudie constructs a slippery, continuously surprising moral universe where love and hatred, eroticism and violence, spiritual grace and mortal sin, are intimately entwined. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: “Meet the Filmmakers: Alain Guiraudie,” a Criterion Channel original interview; trailer; “Notes on Misericordia” by critic Imogen Sara Smith. (Janus Contemporaries, Criterion Premieres).
Raw Meat (AKA Death Line)
(1972) Sharon Gurney, David Ladd, James Cossins, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Hugh Armstrong, Christopher Lee. During a late-night ride on the London Underground, Patricia Wilson (Gurney) and her boyfriend Alex Campbell (Ladd) find James Manfred, OBE (Cossins) passed out on the steps to the Russell Square Station. When they fetch a police officer to help, the body disappears. Inspector Calhoun (Pleasence) and Detective Sergeant Rogers (Rossington) investigate, and it appears the disappearance is tied to the urban legend of workers trapped in a tunnel collapse when the Underground was being built. To survive deep under the streets, the workers reportedly resorted to cannibalism. Are their descendants roaming the Tube still looking for victims? New 4K restoration from the original uncensored camera negative, with Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos audio mix. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Audio commentary with co-writer/director Gary Sherman, producer Paul Maslansky, and assistant director Lewis More O’Ferrall; new audio commentary with film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth; “Tales From The Tube” interview with co-writer/director Gary Sherman and executive producers Jay Kanter & Alan Ladd Jr.; “From the Depths” interview with star David Ladd and producer Paul Maslansky; “Mind the Doors” interview with star Hugh Armstrong; trailers; TV spots; radio spots; poster & still gallery. (Blue Underground/MVD Entertainment).
The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years
Wes Anderson’s first 10 features represent 25 years of irrepressible creativity, an ongoing ode to outsiders and quixotic dreamers, and a world unto themselves, graced with a mischievous wit and a current of existential melancholy that flows through every captivating frame. This momentous 20-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the films, over 25 hours of special features, and 10 illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition. $499.00. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital masters of “Bottle Rocket,” “Rushmore,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” “The Darjeeling Limited,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Isle of Dogs,” and “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun,” supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks. Ten 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and ten Blu-rays with the films and special features. Over 25 hours of special features, including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photographs, discussions/analyses, and visual essays. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
