“Reacher”
September 17, 2024
Among the new home entertainment releases the week of Sept. 17 are Blu-rays of Reacher: Season Two, The Crown: The Complete Final Season and Mothers’ Instinct, while Warchief arrives digitally.
Paramount Home Entertainment releases the second season of “Reacher” on DVD and Blu-ray Sept. 17. It will also be available via manufacture-on-demand on 4K Ultra HD disc. In the second season of the series, which debuted on the streaming service Prime Video, when members of Reacher’s (Alan Ritchson) old military unit start turning up dead, he risks everything to get revenge. Pulled from his drifter lifestyle, Reacher reunites with three of his former teammates turned chosen family to investigate, including Frances Neagley (Maria Sten); Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan), a forensic accountant for whom Reacher has long had a soft spot; and fast-talking, switchblade-wielding family man David O’Donnell (Shaun Sipos). Together, they begin to connect the dots in a mystery where the stakes get higher at every turn and discoveries bring up questions of who has betrayed them — and who will die next. Using his inimitable blend of smarts and size, Reacher will stop at nothing to uncover the truth and protect the members of his unit. The season also stars Ferdinand Kingsley, Domenick Lombardozzi and Robert Patrick.
Season six of “The Crown” will be released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD Sept. 17 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In the final season of the groundbreaking series, a relationship blossoms between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences. Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother’s death as the monarchy must ride the wave of public opinion. As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II reflects on the future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a new royal fairy tale in William and Kate. A complete-series Blu-ray boxed set arrives Oct. 15.
Decal Releasing/Neon’s thriller Mothers’ Instinct will be released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD Sept. 17 from Distribution Solutions. In the film, best friends Alice and Celine live an idyllic traditional lifestyle, with successful husbands and sons of the same age, but life’s perfect harmony is shattered after a tragic accident. Mothers’ Instinct stars Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Josh Charles, Anders Danielsen, Simon Baylen and Patrick O’Connell.
Season two of the wrestling drama “Heels” becomes available for digital purchase Sept. 16 from Lionsgate. In the new season, Crystal (Kelli Berglund) defends her championship title in front of the entire small town of Duffy. The Spade brothers must overcome their sibling rivalry while the rest of their small-town wrestling family navigate the effects of their relationship, as well as the negative, toxic impact left behind from Tom Spade. Crystal has the belt and Willie steps in as her new mentor. The DWL has never had a female champion before; how will the rest of the league act, the town of Duffy, but more importantly — the Spade brothers? Executive produced by Primetime Emmy Award winner Michael Waldron (2020, Outstanding Animated Program, “Rick and Morty: The Vat of Acid Episode”; also known for “Loki”), “Heels” season two stars Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig, Mary McCormack and Allen Maldonado.
The fantasy thriller Warchief will be released through digital retailers on Sept. 17 by Lionsgate. The film, written and directed by BAFTA-winning Stuart Brennan, follows the honorable Captain Orion and his band of guardians as they lead a mysterious messenger to their king, only to come under attack from a brutal legion of ravenous braindead creatures. After another fierce and costly battle with savage Orcs, the messenger reveals her identity as a master of the dark arts and that a war is on the horizon. As their once-peaceful world comes under siege and a future kingdom ruled by the undead is foretold, Orion and his forces make one final stand for the soul of all mankind. Warchief, from Golden Globe-winning producer Gareth Wiley, stars Rosanna Miles, Brennan, Suzanne Packer, Mark Paul Wake, and Michael Lambourne.
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For its 25th anniversary, Paramount Home Entertainment will release director Martin Scorsese’s 1999 dramatic thriller Bringing Out the Dead for the first time ever on both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on Sept. 17. The film debuted on Oct. 22, 1999, and marked the fourth collaboration between Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull). In Bringing Out the Dead, Nicolas Cage plays Frank Pierce, a Manhattan paramedic barely clinging to sanity over the course of three chaotic nights. Patricia Arquette plays the daughter of a man Frank tried to save. Together, they’ll need to confront the ghosts of the past to discover redemption among the living. The supporting cast includes John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore. Newly remastered from the original camera negative, the release was reviewed by Scorsese, cinematographer Robert Richardson, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker. Arriving as part of the “Paramount Presents” line, Bringing Out the Dead is presented in a two-disc set that includes the film on 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Atmos and on Blu-ray, along with new bonus content.
Arriving Sept. 17 on 4K and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is 1980’s The Long Good Friday. A landmark of British crime cinema, the film stars Bob Hoskins Harold Shand, an ambitious London mobster who, just as he attempts to close a major real-estate deal with the American Mafia, finds his crime empire rocked by a string of attacks, sending him on a ruthless quest to find out who’s responsible. Co-starring Helen Mirren, the film is not only a gripping gangster thriller but also a vivid portrait of late-1970s Britain — a powder keg of cultural and political tensions on the verge of explosion. The film is presented with a new 4K digital restoration, approved by director of photography Phil Méheux, with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack. The 4K Ultra HD combo pack includes one 4K disc with the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and two regular Blu-ray discs with the film and bonus materials.
Kino Lorber Sept. 17 will release its 21st collection of vintage black-and-white film noir movies as Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXI. The collection includes:
Cloak and Dagger (1946) — From legendary director Fritz Lang, one of the grand architects of film noir, comes this WWII spy thriller. Gary Cooper portrays an American nuclear physicist, recruited by the Office of Strategic Services and parachuted into war-torn Europe to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes — especially when his involvement with a mysterious resistance fighter (Lilli Palmer) catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal, romance and murder. The fourth and final of Lang’s classic anti-Nazi films features Sol Polito’s black-and-white cinematography and Max Steiner’s score.
Shack Out on 101 (1955) — An attractive waitress (Terry Moore) at a seaside café gets caught in a web of treacherous intrigue when she discovers that her workplace is a secret station for spies. It seems that the café is close to an experimental lab that harbors national defense secrets, and a ring of sinister spies has come to steal them. Now it’s up to the desperate waitress and a network of undercover FBI men to stop the diabolical scheme. But not before they all stop along the way for a sizzling round of passion and romance! The cast includes Lee Marvin and Frank Lovejoy.
Short Cut to Hell (1957) — The first and only directorial effort by legendary actor James Cagney is a remake of the Alan Ladd starrer This Gun for Hire, based on a novel by Graham Greene. Hardboiled hitman Kyle Niles (Robert Ivers) is hired to commit two murders, only to be double-crossed by his employer Bahrwell (Jacques Aubuchon). On the lam and seeking revenge, Kyle kidnaps singer Glory Hamilton (Georgann Johnson), the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit (William Bishop). Glory tries to convince him to surrender before it’s too late, but Kyle’s humanity is buried deep, and his thirst for vengeance is unquenchable.
All three films are coming to discs from recent HD masters from 4K scans of the original camera negatives.
A comprehensive list of new disc and digital releases, compiled each week by the Media Play News market research team, can be found here.