May 19 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s May 19 Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!
New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD
Sonic the Hedgehog
The world needed a hero, we got a hedgehog. Superpowered with speed, Sonic races to save the world and stop evil genius Dr. Robotnik from world domination. Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz and James Marsden star in the adventure the whole family will enjoy.
Brahms: The Boy II (exclusive clip)
This sequel to the 2016 thriller follows Jude as he discovers a life-like porcelain doll named Brahms in the backyard of the mansion. Jude quickly finds comfort in Brahms, but the evil history behind this sinister doll slowly unravels, causing terror to strike, again.
Emma.
Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending is reimagined in this delicious new film adaptation of Emma.
Onward
Elf brothers Ian (voice of Tom Holland) and Barley (voice of Chris Pratt) get to spend a day with their late dad and go on a quest aboard Barley’s epic van Guinevere. When their mom Laurel (voice of Julia Louis-Dreyfus) realizes her sons are gone, she teams up with The Manticore (voice of Octavia Spencer) to find them.
The Way Back
Former high school basketball phenom, now struggling from a loss, is asked to coach today’s mediocre team and sparks them on a winning streak. But is it enough for redemption?
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Witness the most shocking battle in the DC Universe, where survival itself is a victory.
The Postcard Killings
When Detective Kanon’s daughter is murdered as part of a series of heinous murders across Europe, he races against time to stop the killings.
Buffaloed
Peg Dahl (Zoey Deutch) is trying to get out of Buffalo and attend her dream school but can’t afford it. She gets scammed and decides to flip the script and cheat the system like it did to her. Co-starring Judy Greer, Jai Courtney and Jermaine Fowler.
The Raft (DVD)
In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on a most unusual sea voyage—a close-quarters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raft christened the Acali, initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés, who proposed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflict and dynamics of sexual attraction.
Book Club
Ghostbusters: Artbook
Celebrating the legacy of the pop culture classic, this deluxe, hardcover art book features an ectoplasmic jackpot of brand-new, exclusive artwork inspired by the most iconic paranormal investigators in cinematic history. Bringing together brilliant artists from animation, comics, fine art, and beyond, Ghostbusters: Artbook showcases incredible artwork inspired by the iconic 1984 film.
Reissues
The Evil of Frankenstein
When Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) recovers his monster from ice, a demented hypnotist (Peter Woodthorpe) arrives with plans to use the creature as a tool for terror.
Top Gun (4K)
Tom Cruise is superb as Maverick Mitchell, a young flyer who’s out to become the best. And Kelly McGillis plays the instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can’t learn in a classroom.
Days of Thunder (4K)
Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award. winner Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole’s career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.
War of the Worlds (4K)
A contemporary retelling of H.G.Wells‘ classic, the sci-fi thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family.
Flashdance
The visual and musical box-office smash Flashdance is the exhilarating story of Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals), a fiercely determined and beautiful 18-year-old woman, who works as a welder by day and a dancer at a local bar at night.
Lonely Are the Brave
Oscar winner Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands and Carol O’Connor star in this unforgettable, dramatic portrait of a lawless cowboy on a collision course with the modern world.
Selena
Jennifer Lopez stars in this tragic but uplifting true story of slain Tejano music superstar Selena.
Sunday in New York
Fonda portrays a virginal miss who runs off from her fiancé to the swingin’ pad of her brother and then into the arms of a guy she meets on the 5th Avenue bus.
New On Digital HD
Cosmic Secret (exclusive clip)
This sci-fi/paranormal doc featuring noted paranormal expert David Wilcock premiered on the ‘Unidentified’ channel recently launched by 1091 on Samsung TV Plus and all XUMO platforms. It will run on the channel every Friday and Saturday in the month of May at 11pm EST.
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time Volume 2 Horror and SciFi
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” and sci-fi gems such as “Blade Runner,” and “A Clockwork Orange.”
TV on Blu-ray and DVD
The Good Place: The Complete Series
The Good Place has reached the end of the forking road – and you won’t want to miss the final twists and turns in store for the fan-favorite and Emmy-nominated series as it approaches its finale.
The Brokenwood Mysteries Series 6
In the sleepy town of Brokenwood, New Zealand, the affable residents may seem harmless, but killers, blackmailers, and thieves lurk in every picturesque corner.
Written by: CS