Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the major releases hitting this week on Blu-ray and DVD! After a slow two weeks for the holiday season, 2015 starts with a bang, delivering all sorts of great new releases, TV season sets and catalogue titles.
Already receiving a copious amount of Oscar buzz, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, shot over the course of 12 years, is the first of several recent big screen hits. Also in that category is Get on Up, the Tate Taylor (The Help)-helmed biopic of “Godfather of Soul” James Brown, starring Chadwick Boseman (who is already set to take the title role in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Black Panther).
Four recent theatrical thrillers also hit today, including the home invasion tale No Good Deed, starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, Alexandre Aja’s Horns, starring Harry Potter‘s Daniel Radcliffe, the religiously-tinged end-of-the-world thriller Left Behind, headlined by Nicolas Cage, and, finally, The Guest, a lightly tongue-in-cheek John Carpenter-esque film starring Dan Stevens and hailing from the You’re Next team of director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett.
As for older genre fare, Scream Factory today delivers a special edition of 1995’s horror sequel Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, an early work from Academy Award winning director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls).
The Criterion Collection, meanwhile, updates Kihachi Okamoto’s 1966 Samurai tale Sword of Doom with a brand new high-definition digital restoration.
On the television front, HBO is delivering both the third season of Lena Dunham’s hit series Girls (which just got renewed for a fifth season) and the first season of the recently-debuted Looking. Another recent debut, the Michael Bay-produced pirate series Black Sails, also arrives on Blu-ray and DVD, as does the fifth season of FX’s hilarious animated spy series Archer (retitled, for this season only, “Archer: Vice”).
You can check out all the cover art in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable):
This Week on DVD and Blu-ray - January 6, 2015
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Archer: Vice
Special Features:
- "Midnight Blues" Music Video by Cherlene Tunt
- Cherlene Tunt Interview on "Wake Up Country"
-"Old MacDonald Pam Poovey Had a Farm, The Musical" -
Black Sails: The Complete First Season
Special Features:
- Black Sails: A Look Inside
- Dress To Kill
- Pirate Camp
- Folklore Is Finished: Pirate Politics
- A Place In History
- Building The Behemoth -
Boyhood
Special Features:
- Feature film in high definition
- The 12 Year Project
- Q&A with Richard Linklater and the Cast -
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with director Bill Condon
- "The Candyman Legacy" – a new interview with Tony Tood
- "Down Memory Lane" – a new interview with Veronica Cartwright
- Theatrical Trailer -
Get on Up
Special Features:
- Feature Commentary with Director/Producer Tate Taylor
- Deleted/Extended/Alternate Scenes
- Full Song Performances
- Extended Song Performances
- "Long Journey to the Screen"
- "Chadwick Boseman: Meet Mr. James Brown"
- The "Get On Up" Family
- "On Stage with the Hardest Working Man"
- "The Founding Father of Funk - Tate Taylor's Master Class" -
Girls: The Complete Third Season
- 6 Audio Commentaries with Dunham, Mamet, Kirke, Judd Apatow, and others
Inside the Episodes
- Deleted & Extended Scenes
- Lutheran Healthcare Honors Lena
- The Making of Girls
- Gag Reel
- Season 2 Recap
- Episodic Recaps
- Marnie Michaels "What I Am"
- Marnie & Desi "Bet on Me"
- Lil Frexxx "Dancin' on his D" -
The Guest
Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director Adam Wingard and Writer Simon Barrett
- Q&A with Dan Stevens
- Feature Commentary with Director Adam Wingard and Writer Simon Barrett -
Horns
Special Features:
- "The Making of Horns" -
Left Behind
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Looking: The Complete First Season
Special Features:
- Six Audio Commentaries with Groff, Alvarez, creator/executive producer Michael Lannan and executive producer Andrew Haigh -
No Good Deed
Special Features:
- "Making a Thriller" Featurette - Producers Glenn S. Gainor and Will Packer, as well as Director Sam Miller, Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson discuss the process of making a thriller, developing relatable characters, and incorporating exciting action while telling a real and raw story.
- "The Thrill of a Good Fight" - Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba discuss the intense physicality of the fight sequences and what goes into creating a thrilling fight.
- "Good Samaritan" - Taraji P. Henson and filmmakers discuss Terri's decision to help a stranger during the night. -
The Sword of Doom
Special Features:
- Audio commentary featuring film historian Stephen Prince
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
