This is a huge week for recent big screen releases with Rob Cohen’s pulpy thriller The Boy Next Door, starring Jennifer Lopez, kicking things off. The Gambler, meanwhile, features Mark Wahlberg as an in-debt professional gambler with Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) directing from a screenplay by William Monahan (The Departed). Warner Bros., then, turns back the clock to 1970s Los Angeles with There Will Be Blood and The Master‘s Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, Inherent Vice, adapting Thomas Pynchon’s best selling tale of Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix’s drugged out detective “Doc” Sportello.
On the lighter side of things, Paul King’s delightful Paddington comes home on both Blu-ray and DVD while Josh Gad and Kevin Hart unite for the over-the-top comedy The Wedding Ringer.
If you loved his performance as Stick on “Marvel’s Daredevil,” be sure to check out Scott Glenn in the stylish crime drama The Barber, arriving on Blu-ray and DVD from Arc Entertainment.
Admittedly more than a cinematic curiosity that anything, Accidental Love offers a recut version of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle helmer David O. Russel’s unfinished feature Nailed, which features a cast that includes Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener, James Marsden and more.
The Criterion Collection this week both upgrades Peter Yates’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle to Blu-ray and delivers a brand-new release in Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samourai director Jean Pierre Melville’s first feature, Le Silence de la Mer (bringing us only a couple titles away from having the complete Melville in the Criterion Collection).
Scream Factory, meanwhile, has an exciting treat for Vincent Price fans with a special edition of the 1987 horror anthology From a Whisper to a Scream (also known as The Offspring).
On the television front, we’re getting DVD-only releases for recent seasons of two hit USA Network shows, Suits (its fourth season) and Covert Affairs (its fifth and final season). CBS, finally, has the seventh and final season of The Mentalist hitting today with a seven season complete series also available.
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 Blu-ray and DVD: April 29, 2015
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The Boy Next Door
- Deleted Scenes
- The Making of The Boy Next Door
- Feature Commentary by Director Rob Cohen -
The Gambler
- Mr. Self Destruct: Inside The Gambler
- Dark Before Dawn: The Descent of The Gambler
- Changing The Game: Adaptation
- In The City: Locations
- Dressing The Players: Costume Design
- Deleted/Extended Scenes -
Inherent Vice
- Los Paranoias
- Shasta Fay
- The Golden Fang
- Everything In This Dream -
Paddington
- Meet the Characters
- When a Bear Comes to Stay
- From Page to Screen
- "Shine" Lyric Music Video -
The Wedding Ringer
- Going to the Chapel of Love Featurette
- Select Scenes Commentary with Director Jeremy Garelick and Josh Gad
- 15 Deleted Scenes
- Five Outtake Reels
- Line-o-Rama (short collections of alternate shots of jokes on set)
- Aloe Blaccs Can You Do This Music Video -
The Barber
- Alternate Ending
- Deleted Scenes
- Extended Scenes
- Trailer -
Accidental Love
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From a Whisper to a Scream
- Return to Oldfield: The Making of WHISPER TO A SCREAM - - A comprehensive feature-length documentary about the making of 'From A Whisper To A Scream', featuring director Jeff Burr, producer Darin Scott, co-screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner, star Clu Gulager, and many more!
- A Decade Under the Innocence: Adventures in Super 8 Filmmaking - A feature-length documentary about teenage adventures in 'Super 8' filmmaking during the 1970's in Georgia, featuring director Jeff Burr and more!
- Audio Commentary with writer/director Jeff Burr
- Audio Commentary with writer/producer Darin Scott and writer C. Courtney Joyner
- Still Gallery with commentary by writer/director Jeff Burr
- Theatrical Trailer
- "THE OFFSPRING" TV Spots -
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Peter Yates, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring Yates
- Stills gallery
- An essay by critic Kent Jones and a 1973 on-set profile of actor Robert Mitchum from Rolling Stone -
Le Silence de la Mer
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- The short 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946), director Jean-Pierre Melville’s first film
- New interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
- Code Name Melville (2008), a seventy-six-minute documentary on Melville’s time in the French Resistance and his films about it
- Melville Steps Out of the Shadows (2010), a forty-two-minute documentary about Le silence de la mer
- Interview with Melville from 1959
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a selection from Rui Nogueira’s 1971 book Melville on Melville -
Covert Affairs: Season Five
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel -
The Mentalist: The Seventh and Final Season
- Patrick Jane: An Uncommon Man Featurette
- Unaired Scenes -
Suits: Season Four
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
- Suits Recruits: The Paper Trail
