This Week’s New DVD/Blu-Ray Releases
It has become the highest-grossing Disney animated picture of all time. It’s still sweeping up a storm stateside, with the official soundtrack spending seven consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard charts. And you can’t go on Tumblr these days without seeing ‘Let It Go’ in meme form. If you happened to miss Frozen the first time around, now’s your chance to catch up with one of 2013’s biggest movie events.
Loosely based on the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale The Snow Queen, this CG-musical tells the story of intrepid princess Anna (Kristen Bell), who goes on the search for her older sister Elsa (Idina Menzel) when she flees after entrapping their kingdom in ice. Coming across kindly mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), reindeer Sven and talking snowman Olaf (Josh Gad), Anna braves the elements to reunite with her sister.
Also out this week:
Carrie, Kimberly Peirce‘s remake of Brian De Palma’s 1976 high-school horror. Based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, Chloë Grace Moretz replaces Sissy Spacek as the eponymous troubled teen who unleashes her newfound telekinetic powers on her unsuspecting town. Julianne Moore co-stars as her over-protective mother.
The Family, a mafia-comedy from director Luc Besson and led by one-time Godfather Robert De Niro, about an infamous crime family relocated to Normandy under witness-protection and trying to adjust to a normal life. Michelle Pfeiffer stars as the matriarch, while John D’Leo and Glee‘s Dianna Agron make up their troubled brood.
Homefront, starring Jason Statham doing what he does best; punching (and occasionally shooting) bad guys. Written by Sylvester Stallone, the action thriller casts the Transporter man as a former agent moving to a sleepy town with his young daughter, where he comes into conflict with a local drug dealer (James Franco).
Parkland, based on the real events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, 1963. Following the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the historical drama stars Zac Efron, Billy Bob Thornton and Paul Giamatti as ordinary joes caught up in the ensuing chaos.
And on streaming:
On Netflix, you can now watch season six of the popular AMC television series Mad Men, starring Jon Hamm as the now iconic advertising mogul Don Draper – just in time for the seventh season premiere on April 13.
