Time once again for our writers to look to their latest Blu-Ray, DVD, and VOD purchases with looks at new releases The Lego Movie , The Grand Budapest Hotel , Alan Partridge , Small Time , The Cold Lands , Tapped Out , and A Wife Alone , and re-releases for The Life Aquatic , Judex , Hearts and Minds , The Revengers , and Countess Dracula .
We play catch up with the DVDs we've accumulated over the past month with Phil looking at Criterion releases for Riot in Cell Block 11 and Breaking the Waves , the recently remastered Sorcerer , a re-cut version of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys , the fourth and final season of Eastbound and Down , and the latest Paranormal Activity film. Dave looks at straight-to-video efforts Mr. Jones and Bad Country , along with new discs for Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and Seven Warriors . And Andrew looks back on A Birder's Guide to Everything and Big Bad Wolves .
We kick off this Home Entertainment round-up with two Martin Scorsese comedies - The King of Comedy and The Wolf of Wall Street - before looking at new releases for Sam Raimi's Darkman , Howard Hawks' El Dorado , Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , and Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People . There's also some B-movie goodness with looks at Alec Baldwin in The Shadow , the 1980s horror flick Night of the Demons , and the made for TV 1973 thriller The Horror at 37,000 Feet
This week on video store shelves we look at new releases Fast and Furious 6 , Man of Steel , We're the Millers , Touchy Feely Frances Ha , Force of Execution , Jayne Mansfield's Car , Clear History , and Despicable Me 2 , as well as classics Nashville , City Lights , and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion .
This week in home entertainment, we look back on the new Blu-Ray for The Little Mermaid and how the film pretty much saved Walt Disney Animation, as well as the Blu-Ray release of The Heat , and DVDs for Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love , Alex Gibney's documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks , and something called Detention of the Dead , which is exactly what it sounds like.
Our latest round-up of home video offerings takes a look at the new release of Disney's Oz: The Great and Powerful , and new Blu-Rays for classics Medium Cool , National Lampoon's Vacation , Safety Last! , The Town That Dreaded Sundown , and... Airheads .
In this month's round-up of the best in home entertainment we look at wartime classic The Great Escape , the little known Sam Raimi/Coen Brothers team-up Crimewave , the criminally underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last Stand , Jackie Chan's Police Story films, the cult favourite Repo Man , Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia , and Godard's Band of Outsiders .
With about roughly one billion film festivals this past month, our film writers haven't been able to keep up with the DVD column. So here now is a mix of everything leading up to this current week with looks at Django Unchained , Silver Linings Playbook , John Dies at the End , Gangster Squad , Jack Reacher , Broken City , Mama , The Details , Promised Land , Revenge for Jolly! , The Oranges , and links back to a ton of other stuff we just didn't have room for.
This week at the video store marks the arrival of three European imports - the Swedish gangster saga Easy Money , British cop thriller The Sweeney , and the comedic Irish slasher Stitches - as well as the home video debut of the HBO original movie Hemingway & Gelhorn .
We take a trip in the way, wayback machine for a trio of old school classics, including Elia Kazan's noirish viral thriller Panic in the Streets , Cecil B. DeMille's biblical epic Samson and Delilah , and the king of all early talkies, The Jazz Singer .
Did you miss almost all of our theatrical coverage around the holidays? Well this week we look at some of the biggest late 2012 releases including The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , Lincoln , Les Miserables , This is 40 , and Zero Dark Thirty . Also, looks at Killing Them Softly and the Canadian made sci-fi romance Mars et Avril .
This week in archival DVD land, we take a look at new Blu-Rays for the Canadian classic sex comedy Porky's , Criterion treatments for Terrence Malick's Badlands and Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear , and a Steven Seagal TV show that was re-edited into a movie with the hopes no one would notice.
This week brings out some heavy hitters at the video store including Life of Pi , The Master , Hitchcock , Smashed , Playing for Keeps , This Must be the Place , and A Late Quartet .
This week on home video we check out The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 , Wreck-It Ralph , The Intouchables , Red Dawn , The Marine 3: Homefront , The Bay , and Girls Against Boys .
This week on DVD and Blu-Ray we take a look at current Best Picture front runner Argo , Leos Carax's Holy Motors , the meta-comedy Seven Psychopaths , the meta-horror films Sinister and Mimesis , RZA's kung-fu epic The Man with the Iron Fists , Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren in The Package , and the high rise Irish horror of Citadel .
