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A glimpse at upcoming UK DVD and Blu-ray release dates well into 2025: here’s what’s coming to disc and when.

Here, then, are a few of the upcoming dates for new movies on DVD and Blu-ray that may not yet have been officially announced. Note that all dates are for the UK.

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Just released

First Time On UK Blu-ray: No Way Out (Film Stories Blu-ray #2)

First Time On UK Blu-ray: Bull Durham (Film Stories Blu-ray #3)

Scroll to the bottom of the this list for more releases over the last few weeks.

Last two weeks

24th March: Single Out season 3

24th March: Tenjo...

Hollywood is full of wild rumors, but this one might just make you rethink your celeb crush. Turns out, one of the industry’s most gorgeous leading ladies allegedly isn’t a big fan of showers. Yep, while most A-listers are out here dropping insane amounts on skincare and spa treatments, Julia Roberts is apparently keeping it natural, like, really natural.

Julia Roberts in Duplicity | Credits: Universal Pictures

Whether it’s an eco-conscious move or just straight-up questionable hygiene, fans aren’t sure what to think.

Julia Roberts skips showers to save water — Hollywood’s sweet scent or a stinky secret? Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland in Flatliners (1990) | Credits: Columbia Pictures

America’s sweetheart, Julia Roberts, might not be as sweet-smelling as we thought. The Pretty Woman star once revealed to Oprah in 2008, she doesn’t use deodorant. Surprising, eh? This from the woman who captivated hearts (and Richard Gere) in the ’90s hit.

In Season 6, Episode 10 of “Welcome to Plathville,” titled “I Love You. I Love You.,” viewers are in for an eventful episode filled with romance and family drama. Airing at 10:00 Pm on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, on TLC, this episode follows Olivia as she meets up with her long-distance boyfriend for a romantic getaway in Arizona. Their reunion is sure to be a highlight, offering tender moments that fans have been waiting for.

Meanwhile, the Plath family is busy helping Moriah with an exciting project—shooting her music video. The episode gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Plaths working together in the world of lights, camera, and action, adding an artistic touch to the usual family dynamics.

As the drama continues, Veronica gets to know Kim on a deeper level and quickly realizes that Kim’s strong personality makes it clear: it’s either her way or the highway. Tensions rise, bringing...

February––particularly its third week––is all about romance. Accordingly the Criterion Channel got creative with their monthly programming and, in a few weeks, will debut Interdimensional Romance, a series of films wherein “passion conquers time and space, age and memory, and even death and the afterlife.” For every title you might’ve guessed there’s a wilder companion: Alan Rudolph’s Made In Heaven, Soderbergh’s remake, and Resnais’ Love Unto Death. Mostly I’m excited to revisit Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth, a likely essential viewing before Megalopolis.

February also marks Black History Month, and Criterion’s series will include work by Shirley Clarke (also subject of a standalone series), Garrett Bradley, Cheryl Dunye, and Julie Dash, while movies by Sirk, Minnelli, King Vidor, and Lang play in “Gothic Noir.” Greta Gerwig gets an “Adventures in Moviegoing” and can be seen in Mary Bronstein’s Yeast,...

Christelle Lheureux's 80,000 Years Old is showing exclusively on Mubi starting November 3, 2021 in the series Brief Encounters.This film arose from a desire to continue experiments with two-screen video installations I carried out a few years ago, when I was more a visual artist than a filmmaker—this time armed with my experience as a screenwriter. I wanted both to juxtapose shots / reverse shots where two characters speak to each other in continuous time, without editing, leaving the viewer to choose the editing by looking at both of them, but also to explore the two screens to accompany Céline's path, which navigates between different times: the present of a weekend in Normandy, her musings, her memories and her mental images. The spectator also finds himself between two realities, two juxtaposed times. This form also worked well with the idea of pentimento in painting and narrative digression: after having thought of running into a childhood friend,...

Opening four years ago in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Metrograph has been a bastion for cinephiles. Since the pandemic hit in mid-March, causing all movie theaters in the city and beyond to shut down and rethink their plans, this specific theater had been relatively quiet in what lies on the road ahead. Well, it turns out they were planning something quite exciting.

Metrograph has now launched Metrograph Digital, premiering this Friday, July 24. Available nationwide, it’s a membership-based program for $5 a month or $50 annually, with previous NYC-based members already included at no cost. The first initiative is Metrograph Live Screenings, “a celebration of communal movie watching” which features a specific time where films will screen digitally, and also include intros, pre-show material, and Q&As. These presentations will be available on a live stream player, watchable on any computer and mobile device, and connectable to TVs. If you miss the initial broadcast,...

Kurt Vonnegut’s quirky sci-fi novels didn’t always adapt well to film, but George Roy Hill’s 1972 effort is a faithful winner. The filmmaking craft used to ‘unstick’ Billy Pilgrim in time is nothing short of brilliant, highlighting the camera talent of Miroslav Ondricek and the editing skill of Dede Allen. The book even has a built-in sex angle that the film doesn’t shy away from — providing our first encounter with Valerie Perrine as a starlet kidnapped by aliens curious about human mating habits. The somber, sometimes spiritually-defeatist tone of the show represents the book well; it ought to be better known.

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Blu-ray

Arrow Video

1972 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 104 min. / Street Date December 3, 2019 / Available from Arrow Academy

Starring: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Holly Near, Perry King, Kevin Conway, Friedrich von Ledebur, Sorrell Booke, Roberts Blossom, John Dehner, Stan Gottlieb, Karl-Otto Alberty, Henry Bumstead,...

Kino Lorber is releasing Alain Resnais's Je t'aime je t'aime (1968) on DVD and Blu-ray today, and Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted the essay he's written for the package. Also in today's roundup: Philippe Garrel remembers Chantal Akerman. Jane Birkin on her work with Agnès Varda, specifically, Jane B. par Agnes V. and Kung-Fu Master! Samuel Beckett's Film starring Buster Keaton. An interview with J.J. Abrams, one month away from the release of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. A sprawling piece on Bob Rafelson's Head starring The Monkees. A Manoel de Oliveira retrospective in Porto. And more. » - David Hudson...

Kino Lorber is releasing Alain Resnais's Je t'aime je t'aime (1968) on DVD and Blu-ray today, and Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted the essay he's written for the package. Also in today's roundup: Philippe Garrel remembers Chantal Akerman. Jane Birkin on her work with Agnès Varda, specifically, Jane B. par Agnes V. and Kung-Fu Master! Samuel Beckett's Film starring Buster Keaton. An interview with J.J. Abrams, one month away from the release of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. A sprawling piece on Bob Rafelson's Head starring The Monkees. A Manoel de Oliveira retrospective in Porto. And more. » - David Hudson...

It is a tragedy of human existence to be helplessly aware of time's passing, and to lose time during the act of longing for it. Something in this is also funny. For over 60 years Alain Resnais has made sharp and sweet tragicomedies about our relationship to time, including his new Life of Riley and 1968's long-unavailable Je t'aime je t'aime, which screens at Film Forum in a new 35mm print.

The older film centers on Claude Ridder (played lithely by Claude Rich), a war veteran and recent near-suicide inducted by scientists to participate in an experiment that will transport him back to relive one minute of his life. What happens instead is that Claude, hooked up inside a large, weirdly shaped bulb, returns to several moments from throughout his previous 17 years, s...