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Renegade Rack – 08.20.13

Shawn S. Lealos

Welcome to the Renegade Rack, where clue you in on what is coming out this week on DVD and Blu-ray to help you with your shopping choices. Here is a look at the top choices you can spend your hard earned money on this week.

Epic

The recent animated feature from Blue Sky slipped right under the radar despite a great trailer, coming and going with little fanfare. Now, it hopes to get a second life on DVD. The movie features a girl who is shrunk and ends up in the middle of a war that takes place in the epic forest.

2-Disc Blue-Ray Special Features

The DVD only includes the Mub & Grub Intro, Rot Rocks, Bugs of Camouflage, Epic Coloring & Storybook Builder App, and the Theatrical Trailer.

Charulata (Criterion Collection)

Satyajit Ray’s exquisite story of a woman’s artistic and romantic yearning takes place in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India, in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee). When her husband’s poet cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee) comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both creatively inspired and dangerously drawn to him. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.

The Big City (Criterion Collection)

The Big City, the great Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the modern Indian woman.

Amour

The Academy Award  nominee that no one saw hits DVD and Blu-ray this week, so people outside of esteemed critics can finally see what the fuss was all about. The film tells the story of an elderly couple struggling to keep their love strong as they start to lose their mental facilities.

 

Peter Pan: Diamond Edition

I still  don’t understand why Disney chooses to keep their fans from buying their favorite movies anytime they want to, and insist on returning the DVDs and Blu-rays to their “vault” making sure if you don’t own them, you can’t buy them until your kids are too old to truly fall in love with the magic as youngsters anymore. It is stupid. Anyway, Peter Pan gets its Diamond Edition release this week. Grab it before Disney takes it away again.

No One Lives

I know that a WWE movie is not something I should look forward to, but I will be honest with you – I really wanted to see this one. It isn’t because it is a WWE film (it stars Brodus Clay in a minor role) that had me interested. It is because it was directed by Ryûhei Kitamura, the amazing director behind the under-appreciated Midnight Meat Train. After he was completely screwed over on that previous movie, he dropped out of sight for a long time, a tragedy because he is a very visceral director with a ton of talent. Well, he is back here with the story of a couple terrorized by a violent biker gang – until it turns out the man in the couple is a psychotic serial killer and the tables turn.

The only known special feature is an audio commentary track.

Scary Movie 5

Is anyone really excited about grabbing this movie on DVD or Blu-ray. Well, if you are one of the people who has been looking forward to seeing Scary Movie 5 at home, now is your chance. Remember when the franchise used to parody actual horror movies? Well, other than movies like Paranormal Activity and Mama, this one also spoofs Black Swan, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Help and Madea. Be afraid, be very afraid.

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