We’re all living in oblivion this week in home entertainment.
Tom Cruise stars in the big-budget sci-fi flick Oblivion, while Matthew McConaughey plays a mysterious drifter in the American South-set Mud. Jack Keroauc’s quintessential “beat” tome On The Road comes to cinematic life, while the comparatively obscure culture of “Sugar Mamas” is spotlighted in Paradise: Love.
($34.98 Blu-ray, $29.98 DVD; Universal)
One of the last survivors of a future earth, Tom Cruise spends days patrolling in a sperm-like spaceship. But what mind-bending turn lies in store when he discovers a woman he’s seen in his dreams? Oblivion‘s been compared to Moon, Wall-E, The Island, and a handful of others. Extras include a commentary track with the director and Cruise, making-of documentary, and deleted scenes.
($29.99 Blu-ray, $24.99 DVD; IFC Films)
Jack Kerouac’s legendary, semi-autobiographical 1957 novel about a New York writer, a bisexual ex-con and his teenage wife comes to life thanks to director Walter Salles. Viggo Mortensen cameos as a William Burroughs alter-ego and Steve Buscemi as a gay salesman. Extras include deleted scenes.
($27.99 DVD; Strand Releasing)
In the first entry of director Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise” trilogy — each film involving a female member of an Austrian family — frumpy 50-year-old divorcee Teresa visits Kenya’s beaches. She soon becomes a “Sugar Mama,” meeting a succession of frisky, young, local “Beach Boys” eager to sleep with her… oftentimes for cash. Who’s exploiting whom becomes the question in this fascinating, explicit art film. The second entry, Paradise: Hope, opens theatrically in Los Angeles on August 23rd.
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($24.99 Blu-ray, $19.98 DVD; Lionsgate)
In the latest from Take Shelter director Jeff Nicols, a pair of Arkansas adolescents, Ellis and Neckbone, discover a mysterious drifter named Mud (Matthew McConaughey). Once they learn of his intentions, which involve a woman, they decide to help him out, and so begins their adventure. McConaughey shines yet again, while supporting turns by Michael Shannon and Reese Witherspoon add to the makings of a modern, Southern gothic classic. Extras include a commentary track and a quartet of featurettes.
ALSO OUT:
Aftershock
To The Wonder
Not Today
The Place Beyond the Pines
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Now, SUE ME FOR a HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.
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Came to see if you guys were going to post about the Blu-Ray re-release of the greatest movie of our generation, FREAKED, and, unsurprisingly, nothing.
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