Welcome to Mandatory and ComingSoon’s weekly Binge & Buy, a digital HD, Blu-ray, and DVD column for the week of March 19! Here, you’ll find detailed write-ups of different titles released this week, including a number of new movies like Spider-Man, reissues, combo packs, and TV seasons, none of which you can live without in 2019. Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!
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Photo: Sony Pictures
New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
This Oscar-winner for Best Animated Film focuses on Brooklyn teen Miles Morales and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.
Mary Poppins Returns
The magic returns in Disney’s reimagined classic as Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) helps the Banks family remember the joy of what it’s like to be a child. Together with her friend Jack the lamplighter (Lin-Manuel Miranda), fun is brought back to the streets of London in celebration that everything is possible…even the impossible!
Big Kill
After the death of his wife, Jim, the accountant, has come from the East to join his brother in business. Jake and Travis, two misfit rogues with one foot on each side of the law, have come from the South after being run out of Mexico under a hail of gunfire. What they find in the West is a wild ride, a fight for survival, and a moment of decision that will change them all forever.
Accident
When a foursome borrows a car for one night of fun, what starts as a wild joy ride turns into a nightmare. After a violent crash, they discover that being stuck at the bottom of a ravine in an overturned car is the least of their problems.
The Quake
After surviving The Wave, Kristian Eikjord and his family find themselves at the center of an earthquake. Kristian makes a perilous attempt to help his family and others escape a crumbling skyscraper.
Photo: The Criterion Collection
Criterion Corner
Detour
Edgar G. Ulmer directed this B-movie film noir masterpiece about a New York pianist who hitchhikes west to join his aspiring actress girlfriend. He gets a ride with a gambler who dies naturally en route.
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Photo: Warner Archive
Reissues
Man From Atlantis
Atlantis survivor Mark Harris breathes underwater, withstands extreme depth pressures, and wields superhuman strength.
Strip Nude For Your Killer
A spate of highly sexualized murders is rocking a prestigious Milanese fashion house. Ambitious photographer Magda and her on-off boyfriend, love rat Carlo, team up to crack the case. But, with the motorcycle helmet-wearing killer clearing bearing a grudge against the agency s employees, it’s surely only a matter of time before they, too, end up feeling the force of his wrath.
The Deadly Mantis
What’s worse than a horde of locusts? A gigantic man-eating praying mantis, released from a million years of deep, frozen sleep and ready to claw its way to world domination!
Photo: Paramount Pictures
New on Digital HD
Bumblebee
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
Photo: Cartoon Network
TV on Blu-ray and DVD
Craig of the Creek: Itch to Explore
The creek may look peaceful, but Craig and his friends know this is where all the fun happens! In this collection of awesome episodes, Craig, Kelsey and JP hunt the biggest crayfish in the creek, compete in a high-stakes go-kart race, and attempt to climb the tallest tree in all the woods!
