This week’s video releases, on DVD and Blu-ray, including special features:
• “Sex Tape” (R, 90 minutes, Sony): Gifted and game comedians Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz play Jay and Annie, whose boudoir routine has become, well, routine, after having two kids. To spice up their love life, they make an intimate home movie. But it is accidentally shared with the world, albeit in a way that’s less than earth-moving. There are recurring gags and one very nice surprise. Rob Lowe steals the movie as Hank Rosenbaum, the chief executive of a family-oriented toy company that’s considering hiring Annie as a blogger and social-media marketer. Contains sex, nudity, vulgarity and drug use. Extras include “Capturing the Moment” dialogue between Diaz and Segel on filming the infamous sex tape created by their characters and “Meet Hank Rosenbaum” featurette narrated by Lowe. Also, on Blu-ray: bloopers, deleted and extended scenes, Line-O-Rama alternate takes on the jokes and “Romance Reboot With Dr. Jenn Berman” featurette, with advice from the relationship expert.
Also on DVD
“Snowpiercer,” “The Purge: Anarchy,” “Life After Beth,” “A Letter to Momo” (2011, anime adventure by Hiroyuki Okiura, Japan), “Le Chef” (with Jean Reno, France), “The Last Sentence” (based on the life of journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who alerted the Swedish public to the threat of fascism in the 1930s, Sweden), “For a Woman” (by Oscar-nominated director Diane Kurys, France), “A Coffee in Berlin” (originally called “Oh Boy,” this 2012 won six German Film Awards including best feature film, best director and best actor, Tom Schilling, Music Box Films), “Mobilize” (documentary on health risks of cellphone radiation), “Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning” (PBS documentary), “La Dolce Vita” (1960, director Federico Fellini classic, The Criterion Collection), “The Fluffy Movie” (comedy concert), “Crazysexycool: The TLC Story” (a VH1 biopic of the influential all-girl hip-hop trio), “Misfire,” “Hugh Hefner” (1973, documentary), “Kundo: Age of the Rampant” (South Korea), “Cannibal” (Spain), “NOVA: Rise of the Hackers” (PBS), “Nuclear Nation” (documentary on the Japanese refugees displaced by the 2011 earthquake and reactor disaster, Japan).
TV on DVD
“Downton Abbey Seasons 1, 2, 3 & 4” (PBS), “Mad Men: The Final Season, Part 1” (AMC), “The Soul Man: Second Season (TV Land), “Silent Witness: Season One”‘ and “Season 17″ (U.S. debuts of BBC series),” “Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series,” “Duck Dynasty: Seasons 4-6 Gift Set ” and “Annie Oakley Complete TV Collection.”
