11 Questions For You: This Week's DVD/BluRay Releases
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 8:35AM 
Eleven questions about this week's newly released titles.
Q1: Which of these titles are you planning to catch up with or revisit at home?
Aloha (Reviewed) Cameron Crowe directs Bradley Cooper & Emma Stone in Hawaii.
Q2: Are you the type who rubbernecks at car crashes?
Citizen Four (Oscar Discussion / Podcasted) 2014's Oscar winning Documentary on Edward Snowden
Q3: Do you try to see all nominees in the doc category each year and if so do you succeed?
Iris Albert Maysles is no longer with us but before he left us, he made one last documentary about an eccentric old lady (which you might say is a specialty)
Q4: Do you love Grey Gardens (rhetorical question) and if so did you watch "Sandy Passage" on Documentary Now this week?
Lila & Eve Viola Davis & JLo are out to avenge the murder of their sons
Q5: Has Viola moved into her trashy B-phase with this revenge thriller and How to Get Away With Murder and if so are you eager for something classy again?
October Gale Director Ruba Nadda and Goddess Patricia Clarkson reunite post Cairo Time for this drama about a doctor (Patricia Clarkson) and a man who washes up on her shore wounded (Scott Speedman). Is a killer coming to finish the job?
Q6: Do the words "Patricia Clarkson and Scott Speedman" in combination make you suddenly hungry because that sounds delicious to me?
The Runner Nicolas Cage is a politician with a sex scandal problem. With Sarah Paulson and Connie Nielsen and the BP Oil Spill in supporting.
Q7: What did Sarah Paulson ever do to deserve this?
Save him, Patricia!
Action Flickers: Tony Jaa & Dolph Lundgren
Skin Trade Giant powerhouse Dolph Lundgren hunts his family's killer down in Southeast Asia with tiny powerhouse Tony Jaa by his side.
Q8: Dolph or Tony?
Two Days One Night Oscar nominated Marion Cotillard tries to save her job in this wrenching smart drama from Belgium's Dardennes brothers.
Q9: On a scale of 10-10, how utterly amazing do you think Cotillard is in this movie?
Where Hope Grows an athlete befriends a man with Down's Syndrome
Q10: Are you even reading this post?
TV Season Releases
Elementary (3rd), Revenge (4th), The Walking Dead (5th), Good Wife (6th), Criminal Minds (10th)
Q11: Do you still buy TV seasons on DVD or did you give that up with the rise of streaming options?
Reader Comments (19)
My Netflix put TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT under the label "Girls Night."
WHAT.
HAHAHA
I have Iris arriving today and probably will watch it tonight. I love documentaries and am the type of person who tries to see all of the doc nominees every year (I'm seeing potential nominee Best of Enemies in the theater this weekend), but typically there is one that is not available to me anywhere. That said, Netflix has been a real godsend for documentary fans.
I have "Aloha" and "Citizenfour" arriving from Netflix tonight. Big yes to rubbernecking, although I was a defender of "How do You Know" so there's always a chance that I'll find something to admire in "Aloha".
Q1+Q6: October Gale does sound enticing!
Q8: Dolph! I remember having a poster of him as He-Man on my bedroom wall for years *sigh* :D
Q9: All the tens!
Q10: Clearly ;)
Q11: Only if they are immensely rewatchable. I almost never buy a series during its run, only afterwards do I decide which are keepers
I can defend McAdmas but the rest is a bunch of WTF moments.
I am excited to see Citizen Four and Two Days One Night after I get caught up on Smackdown viewing. And in heaven now that Season 3 of Elementary is out!
Yes to Iris, yes to October Gale deliciousness, no to buying TV on DVD anymore unless the show is so special that you want to make sure you have it ready to go at a moment's notice (i.e. Mad Men, Roseanne, etc.).
Also, why such a delayed release for Two Days, One Night?
Did October Gale ever have a US theatrical release? As an English Canadian film, I'd just presumed that it hadn't. Yes, Scott Speedman is deliciously hawt in this one, and Clarkson is always worth watching...but beware the appearance, in the 3rd act, of Tim Roth doing a really bad British accent. You have been warned!
Q1: Citizenfour
Q9: 11. Although that whole movie was amazing.
I don't know I liked Aloha more than most of the big movies of the summer. The whole subplot about the satellite was way too complicated but we got Murray dancing with Stone. They should've just stuck to the love triangle.
I love Emma Stone. Just had to say that. I will watch anything she does. Hey it's not worse than the last Spiderman movie.
T-Bone -- i appreciate that you broke the scale!
Bill the Bear -- i don't know. if it did it was tiny.
DJDeeDay -- yeah, same. I have Mad Men and Buffy but they're my two favorites of all time so i had to.
@Bill_the_Bear: a bad British accent that's different from his actual British accent?
Documentaries are so hard to keep track of that people would be forgiven for getting lost. IRIS is lovely - a very nice rental/VOD title, that.
The first episode of DOCUMENTARY NOW! was fantastic. I haven't watched any more yet, but if it's as good as the "Sandy Passage" then I am all in. Fred Armison's Big Edie was truly uncanny and Bill Hader was so very funny.
Cotillard is a... 8.5? She's pretty darn great although the title still confuses me.
@Glenn: The scale was ten to ten. THERE IS NO 8.5! ;-)
The DVD cover for The Good Wife as I saw from its wikipedia page is disarmingly unique and bold. I mean, Alicia in b&w rogue mode with the season 6 title in samurai bloody font? Hotdamn.
Okay yeah, "Aloha" was indecipherable. Everyone constantly talks about past events and back story and who everyone used to be, while nothing much at all happens in the present. Multiple deus ex machinas as well, the first of which is "secret supervillain"?
ohhh, I never heard of "October Gale", but it sounds indeed delicious. Had immediately checked if it is also released here, but no luck. Boo.
Isn't Tim Roth British already? Is it a Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias thing of "putting on" an accent anyway?
@Charles O: *Hilarious*. I wonder if Rita and the gang are watching Two Days, One Night</I> in this. Sure seems that way.