This week’s home entertainment slate is a pop-culture delight: A modern pop princess comes at you in 3D with Katy Perry The Movie: Part of Me, while vintage icon Indiana Jones sees his his full franchise get an eagerly awaited Blu-ray treatment. The birth of the vibrator is brought to life in lesbian director Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria, while a lesbian romance is at the heart of Sweden’s Kiss Me. And, adding a little sass to the mix, Entourage’s out agent Rex Lee co-stars in the first season of Suburgatory, now on DVD.
Katy Perry The Movie: Part of Me 3D
($54.99 3D Blu-ray, $39.99 Blu-ray, $29.98 DVD; Paramount)
The candy coated pop-tart invites you into her world with this music-filled documentary. Borrowing more than a little from Madonna‘s superior Truth or Dare, Part of Me joins Perry on her world tour, as she hangs with friends, falls out with then-husband Russell Brand and revisits her evolution from Christian child singer to Top 40 sensation. Is it really “real”? Who knows—but does it matter so long as it’s entertaining? (No one expects Shoah or The Thin Blue Line here) if you’ve got a 3D TV you’ll be able to enjoy the sugar-sweet concert scenes as they were intended. Extras include a behind-the-scenes look at the California Dreams Tour and a pink lottery ticket offering the chance to meet Katy herself.
Modern Family: The Complete Third Season
($49.98 DVD, 20th Century Fox)
Garnering more than a dozen Emmy nominations, the third season of this hit sitcom included such Cam and Mitch highlights as the couple attempting to adopt another child, getting into a hit-and-run, and hunting for a lost plush rabbit. A heap of extras includes deleted and extended scenes, interviews with cast members, and featurettes like “Modern Family Goes to Disneyland” and “Destination: Wyoming.”
Suburgatory: The Complete First Season
($44.99 DVD, Warner)
A sleeper hit on ABC, this satirical comedy follows a single dad (Jeremy Sisto) who moves his 16-year-old daughter out to the ‘burbs. Sure, it whiffs of Modern Family and Desperate Housewives (both with full seasons released on DVD this week, too), but Suburgatory also co-stars Rex Lee as gay school guidance counselor. Extras include a gag reel, featurettes and deleted scenes.
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Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures
($99.98 Blu-ray, Paramount)
All four of the Indiana Jones films have received a detail-rich upgrade to Blu-ray with stunning, fully-restored image and sound that will blow away those with home theater set-ups. Nazis getting their comeuppance and derring-do never looked so good! The set includes an entire disc’s worth of extras, including documentaries on each film plus featurettes devoted to special effects, props, and more.
Hysteria
($45.99 Blu-ray, $30.99 DVD; Sony Pictures Classics)
Out director Tanya Wexler mines some interesting social history—specifically the birth of the vibrator—in this delightful 19th-century period piece. A charming Hugh Dancy plays a young doctor hired by a physician (Jonathan Pryce) to treat mysterious tension in his female clients. (In clinical terms, they weren’t getting off.) Maggie Gyllenhaal does a solid job as a liberated love interest and Rupert Everett proves he’s best when others write his lines for him as Dancy’s well-to-do (and probably gay) inventor friend. Extras include a commentary, Q&A with the director and stars, deleted scenes and a documentary about the sexual aid that started it all.
Kiss Me
(VOD, Wolfe)
This Swedish import revolves around thirtysomething Mia, a presumably straight woman who falls for a free-spirited lesbian. That spells trouble for Mia’s fiancée, Tim. Darn those late-coming , home-wrecking lesbian impulses! This digital VOD release precedes a DVD release on November 6.
The Cabin in the Woods
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Desperate Housewives: The Complete Eighth and Final Season
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How did everyone feel about Modern Family season 3? It seemed a little blah to me…
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Indiana Jones? How gay is that?