Physical media may be devalued by some in our streaming-dominated world, but you’d be surprised how many on disc. Also, some titles can be so much more rewarding on DVD, Blu-ray, or 4K UHD, especially when they’re loaded with special packaging and bonus features. With that in mind, here’s a look at all the best films that you can spin starting in November 2023, including the physical debuts of recent theatrical movies such as , and . Also coming to disc just in time for holiday shopping are the 4K UHD debuts of , and : The Complete Collection SteelBook. In addition, two TV series— and : The Complete First Season—arrive on disc, the latter of which is welcome news for Neil Gaiman fans who do not subscribe to Netflix. (1996) (1996) The black-comedy crime-thriller directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant Minnesota
police chief investigating a triple homicide. The movie, which also features William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, and Peter Stormare, won two Oscars: Best
Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coen brothers. Shout Factory’s debut of features a 4K restoration supervised by director of photography Roger A. Deakins. Extras include an audio commentary by Deakins, a “Minnesota Nice” featurette, an interview with the Coen brothers and McDormand, an article, and more. There is also a deluxe limited edition available directly from ShoutFactory.com that includes a rolled 18" x 24" poster, a reproduction of the “I Love Golf” notepad, and a glass
SNOW globe of the woodchipper scene. (2023) (2023) In Antoine Fuqua’s , Denzel
Washington reprises his role as retired U.S. Marine and DIA officer Robert McCall while Dakota Fanning appears as Emma Collins. In what is billed as the final vigilante action film, McCall takes on the mafia in Southern
Italy. Available on both and Blu-ray, extras include 15 minutes of deleted scenes, as well as the bonus videos “Blood Brothers: The Collaboration Of Denzel Washington & Antoine Fuqua,” “Call To Action,” “Robert McCall: A Man Of The People,” “Denzel and Dakota: A Reunion,” “Postcards From The Amalfi Coast,” and Jacob Banks’ “Monster” lyric video. (2023) (2023) Michael Chaves’ is the eighth film in the universe and a hit sequel to 2018’s . It features returning actors Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, and Bonnie Aarons. The official description reads, “1956—France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading ... Sister Irene once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.” Available on both and Blu-ray, extras include the featurettes “Demons In Paradise” and “Handcrafter Nightmares.” (2023) (2023) The neo-Western crime miniseries is a sequel to the long-running series starring Timothy Olyphant as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. In , Raylan winds up in Detroit in pursuit of the so-called Oklahoma Wildman, Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook). Season one of the FX miniseries based on Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire In The Hole” also stars Aunjanue Ellis, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin
Ireland, Victor Williams, and Norbert Leo Butz. The two-disc set features all eight episodes but appears to contain no bonus features. (2023) (2023) Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-ready stars Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, which created the first atomic bomb. The acclaimed biographical thriller also starring Emily Blunt,
Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., and Florence Pugh arrives on both and Blu-ray a few weeks after , so now you can complete your home version of “Barbenheimer.” Extras include a comprehensive 70-minute making-of featurette titled “The Story Of Our Time: The Making Of ,” the
NBC documentary “To End All War: Oppenheimer And The Atomic
bomb,” and the “Trinity Anniversary Panel Discussion.” (2023) (2023) The awkwardly titled is the fourth—and likely last, given its lackluster
box office performance—movie in action series that began in 2010. Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, and Randy Couture reprise their roles from the previous films and are joined by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy García. Available on both and Blu-ray, bonus features include audio commentary by director Scott Waugh, “Bigger, Bolder, Badder: The Expendables In Action,” and “More Than A Team: New Blood Meets Old Blood.” All four movies will also be available in a SteelB00k collection sold exclusively at Walmart. : 4K Ultra HD SteelBook Collection (2002-2017) : 4K Ultra HD SteelBook Collection (2002-2017) The : features the six action-horror movies starring Milla Jovovich as Alice, a woman battling the horrors unleashed after the T-virus escapes from an Umbrella Corporation genetic research facility and mutates life-forms across the globe. All six movies— , and —are individually packaged in SteelBook cases and enclosed in a premium outer case featuring Umbrella Corporation styling. The films now feature Dolby Vision HDR and include all of the previous bonus features, plus new featurettes added to (1987) (1987) Fred Dekker’s is about a group of kids committed to protecting their suburban neighborhood from the likes of Count Dracula (Duncan Regehr), the Wolfman (Carl Thibault), Gill-Man (Tom Woodruff Jr.), the Mummy (Michael MacKay), and Frankenstein (Tom Noonan). Kino Lorber’s debut of the cult favorite features a new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative. Most of the bonus features, aside from the audio commentaries, are found exclusively on two Blu-rays in the set, including “ Forever: Five-Part Documentary,” deleted scenes, an archival interview with Noonan, an animated storyboard sequence, a stills gallery, and the documentary “Wolfman’s Got Nards.” : The Complete First Season (2022) : The Complete First Season (2022) The official description for reads, “When the Sandman, aka Dream (Tom Sturridge)—the powerful cosmic being who controls all our dreams—is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for over a century, he must journey across different worlds and timelines to fix the chaos his absence has caused.” If you were curious about the gothic fantasy based on the comic book by Neil Gaiman but didn’t want to sign up for Netflix, now you can check out all 10 episodes plus a special bonus episode of the acclaimed series on and Blu-ray. Extras include a behind-the-scenes sneak-peek featurette and “The World Of The Endless” featurette. was renewed for a second season but
Netflix has yet to announce a premiere date. (1990) (1990) Anthology horror movie features three tales—“Lot 249,” “Cat From Hell,” and “Lover’s Vow”—tied together by a connecting story. The spin-off movie from the TV series stars Deborah Harry, Julianne Moore, Christian Slater, William Hickey, and James Remar. Although details about bonus features for the Collector’s Edition were unavailable at press time, buyers who purchase the movie directly from ShoutFactory.com will receive an 18x24 rolled theatrical poster while supplies last. (1968) (1968) The official description of Arrow Video’s debut reads, “Slip out of your spacesuit and into something more comfortable! It’s time to join Barbarella on a series of cosmic adventures in this Dino De Laurentiis production directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda as the intergalactic glamour puss created by comic book artist Jean-Claude Forest.” Arrow Films did a 4K restoration and a Dolby Vision HDR presentation of the cult classic. Extras on the 4K UHD include an audio commentary, alternate opening and closing credits, and an isolated score. An included Blu-ray contains most of the bonus features, such as an appreciation of by film critic Glenn Kenny, a behind-the-scenes featurette, several interviews with the cast and camera operator, a video essay by Eugenio Ercolani about producer Dino De Laurentiis, and a tw0-hour discussion between film and cultural historians Tim Lucas and Steve Bissette on the impact and legacy of