It’s time for another look at highlights of new Blu-ray and DVD releases arriving this week. There is plenty of interesting fare including films from Hollywood and around the world. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

Aniara - This Swedish-Danish science-fiction picture is set on a spaceship headed to Mars. With the Earth dying, the craft carries a massive population planning to colonize the red planet. When the ship is knocked off course, the travelers are forced into contemplating their consumerist habits and whether their species is really worth saving. The production received slightly more...

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Running Time: 90 minutes

Over the past couple of years, there have been plenty of coming-of-age comedies about kids growing up, dealing with conflict and strife in their personal relationships and coming away with strengthened bonds. Good Boys veers in a slightly different direction, taking its tween leads and putting them in increasingly exaggerated, over-the-top and, well, gross situations. Along the way, they find themselves broaching the barrier into, if not adulthood, then adolescence. Thankfully, there are enough big laughs to earn it a recommendation.

Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L. Williams) and Thor (Brady Noon) are 12-years-old...

The summer’s really heating up not just at cinemas, but also with new Blu-ray and DVD releases. There’s plenty to choose from once again (including the highest grossing film of the year) and all the highlights are included below. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

All is True - Shakespeare is the subject of this biographical drama from actor/director Kenneth Branagh. This picture is set in 1613, when the playwright had become incredibly successful. After the Globe Theatre burns down and he is forced to return to Stratford, the writer must deal with past relationships and issues that have...

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Running Time: 109 minutes

It seems like there has become a whole separate genre of tear-jerker melodramas devoted to pooches and their influence in our lives. Marley & Me is an obvious example, and in the years following, we’ve gotten titles like Red Dog (which I admit, actually worked on me), A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey among many, many others. These movies aren’t exactly subtle and almost seem to revel in their emotional manipulations, doing everything they can to try and eke sniffles out of viewers. Based on the novel by Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain follows this trend, abandoning every ounce of subtlety.

Denny Swift (Milo...