New on Blu-ray & DVD This Week

Matthew McConaughey & Jared Leto elevate Dallas Buyers Club; Sly & Ah-nuld devise their Escape Plan; the animated comedy Free Birds; Million Dollar Baby celebrates 10 years; Jules & Jim on Criterion and more this week in new releases!

Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto deliver bravura performances in this compelling '80s-era AIDS drama based on a true story. Dallas Buyers Club follows Texas electrician and rodeo rider Ron Woodruff, a hell-raising, womanizing homophobe who finds himself diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and is saddled with a 30-day death sentence. Unwilling to die at the hands of a bureaucratic health system, he embraces experimental treatment on the sly and, after going South of the Border to procure un-approved meds by the FDA, turns his plight into a booming business for those in a similar bind. Jennifer Garner co-stars.

Action icons Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up for this high-tech prison thriller that casts Sly as a structural security expert prisons -- who finds himself faced with escaping from a high-tech, master prison. Arnold is a complex inmate who fights to keep the prisoners from losing their humanity in their darkest hour as they struggle together to stay alive. With Sly double-crossed and a warden (Jim Caviezel) intent on keeping his inmates behind bars at all costs, can the two men work together to find a way out alive? Directed by Mikael Håfström (1408), Escape Plan also stars Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Amy Ryan. Bonus features include audio commentary from the director and writer, three informative featurettes about the film, and deleted scenes.

Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler lend their vocal talents to this animated holiday adventure for the whole family that casts Owen as Reggie the Turkey, a bird living high on the hog after being pardoned by the President of the United States. Living a life of pizza and comfort, he's kidnapped by Jake (Harrelson), the president and the only member of the Turkeys Liberation Front, to travel back in time to the first Thanksgiving to prevent turkeys from becoming the traditional holiday meal. Other stars contributing their voices to the fun include Keith David, George Takei, Colm Meaney and Carlos Ponce.

Director/star Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning drama (Best Picture and Director, Best Actress – Hilary Swank, Best Supporting Actor – Morgan Freeman) celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a brand-new Blu-ray packed with bonus features. The story of a grizzled boxing coach who trains a hungry up-and-comer (Swank) to victory – and then tragedy – the Blu-ray contains the all-new Million Dollar Baby: On the Ropes (Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman discuss how the film overcame incredible odds to make cinema history); commentary by Producer Albert Ruddy; James Lipton Takes On Three (roundtable with Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman and moderator James Lipton); Born to Fight (examines the parallels of the movie to real-life boxer Lucia Rijker); Producers Round 15 and more.

The audacious 1962 François Truffaut love triangle classic comes to Blu-ray & DVD with amazing Criterion bonus features. Following the 25-year relationship of two friends (played by Oskar Werner and Henri Serre) and the object of their mutual obsession (Jeanne Moreau), the newly restored Jules & Jim Blu-ray includes two audio commentaries (one featuring screenwriter Jean Gruault, François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, editor Claudine Bouché, and film scholar Annette Insdorf; the other featuring actor Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana); excerpts from 1985 The Key to Jules and Jim doc about author Henri-Pierre Roché and the real-life relationships that inspired the novel and film; interviews with Truffaut, Gruault, and cinematographer Raoul Coutard; excerpt from a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de Notre Temps dedicated to Truffaut; Truffaut’s first appearance on American television in 1977; an audio interview with Truffaut from 1980, conducted by film scholar Claude-Jean Philippe; a booklet featuring an essay by critic John Powers, a 1981 piece by Truffaut on Roché, script notes by Truffaut and more!

A riveting portrayal of war-torn 1464 -- before the Tudor dynasty, and one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history -- with plenty of love, lust, seduction, deception, betrayal and murder to go around, The White Queen is told through the perspective of three different women: Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville, all vying for the crown.

Everyone's favorite Happy Days spinoff series is on DVD for the first time ever, with all 17 episodes of the sitcom starring Scott Baio and Erin Moran. Follow the comic misadventures of Joanie Cunningham and boyfriend Chachi as they move to Chicago and start a rock band!

Two fun new Scream Factory releases are here to keep you up with Blu-ray bumps in the night! In the '80s cult classic Night of the Demons, it’s Halloween night and Angela is throwing a party at a deserted funeral home, formerly the home of a mass murderer. When the partygoers decide to have a séance, they awaken something evil with a thirst for blood. Good job, partygoers! Features new commentary and interviews with cast and crew including director Kevin Tenney, writer/producer Joe Augustyn and actress Linnea Quigley.

The second '80s gem, Witchboard, stars music video and Bachelor Party queen Tawny Kitaen as a woman whose playful tinkering with a Ouija Board draws the attention of the ghost of a dead ten-year-old boy – a friendly spirit that develops a sudden taste for violent murder and demonic possession. Opps! Features new commentary and new interviews with Kevin Tenney, Tawny Kitaen, J.P. Luebsen, James Quinn, Walter Josten, Todd Allen and more.

Zachary Quinto executive produces this edge-of-your-seat thriller based on real documents about covert programs run by the CIA that follows a young journalist (Katia Winter) on the trail of a missing friend (Michael McMillian) who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs. Aided by a rogue counter-culture writer (Ted Levine), she finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin.

Jennifer Hudson delivers a stunning performance as a mother struggling with addiction in this compelling film that follows a pair of young boys (Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon) in the Brooklyn projects who must use their wits and street smarts to survive after their hard-living mothers are arrested by the police, leaving them to survive alone for weeks after they dodge Child Protective Services. Co-starring Jordin Sparks, Jeffrey Wright, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Anthony Mackie, the film's bonus DVD features include audio commentary, rehearsal footage, skateboard training footage and deleted scenes.