By David Weiner
11:10 AM PDT, May 28, 2013
Keri Russell takes on a supernatural invasion in Dark Skies, Elizabeth Taylor is Cleopatra; Red Widow season one; the Saturday morning animated favorite Beetlejuice and more in this week's new releases.
1 / 8
New on Blu-ray & DVD: May 28
Starz
Keri Russell takes on a supernatural invasion in Dark Skies, Elizabeth Taylor is Cleopatra; Red Widow season one; the Saturday morning animated favorite Beetlejuice and more in this week's new releases.
Dark Skies
Starz
In this spooky and terrifying thriller, Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton play suburban parents whose safe, secure existence is shattered by a supernatural force. As they witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, skepticism of an abusive household grows around them, and soon they must take matters in their own hands to protect their family and solve the mystery of what is after them.
Cleopatra 50th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray
FOX
The classic, almost mythical production starring the mesmerizing Elizabeth Taylor as the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt and Richard Burton as Roman leader Mark Antony – a mega-budgeted film featuring elaborate sets and costumes that nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox -- is now on Blu-ray in celebration of its 50th anniversary! The 243-minute premiere version of the film has been meticulously restored and artfully packaged with a full-color book featuring rare images from the making of the film, plus bonus materials including Cleopatra's lost footage, the film's original theatrical premieres in both New York and Los Angeles, commentary from Chris Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz, Martin Landau and Jack Brodsky, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more.
Beetlejuice: The Complete Series
Shout Factory
The late '80s/early '90s Saturday morning cult favorite based on the 1988 Tim Burton classic supernatural comedy makes its long-awaited debut on DVD! Featuring all 94 episodes in a 12 DVD box set, the collection is available only from Amazon.com and features the escapades of Lydia Deetz, a teenage goth girl with a love of all things macabre, and her best friend Beetlejuice, an undead, bug-eating prankster from the Netherworld. The only way Beetlejuice can visit the Outerworld (also know as the town of Peaceful Pines) is when his name is repeated three times, but unfortunately for him that is the same way to send him back!
Red Widow: The Complete First Season
ABC Studios
One woman's journey into the world of organized crime becomes an edge-of-your-seat thriller as the search continues to uncover the truth about an explosive murder. Starring Radha Mitchell, Sterling Beaumon, Clifton Collins Jr. Luke Goss, Erin Moriarty and Goran Visnjic.
Rolling Thunder on Blu-ray
Shout Factory
The 1977 revenge saga rolls onto Blu-ray for the first time in a special Shout! Factory release featuring an interview with William Devane. Devane stars as Major Charles Rane, a war vet who finds a whole new battle on his home turf when a group of hoodlums kills his family and leaves him for dead. With a hook for a hand and steely glare, Rane teams up with his former POW friend John Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones) to deliver their own brand of vigilante justice. "Let's go clean 'em up…"
The Numbers Station
Image Entertainment
John Cusack springs into action as veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent. After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, he's given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes: to guard a code operator (Malin Akerman) at a remote, top-secret CIA "Numbers Station" where encrypted messages are sent and received. But when an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, the pair find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to stop a deadly plot before it's too late.
Suits: Season Two
Universal Studios
Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams return for a second season as dynamic legal duo Harvey Specter and Mike Ross in the highly entertaining series about a hotshot attorney and legal prodigy who doesn't actually have a law degree.