Capsule reviews of the next week’s video releases, on DVD and Blu-ray, including special features:
• “Pitch Perfect 2” (PG-13, 115 minutes, Universal): It’s been three years since the Barden Bellas became the first all-female group to win a national title. All seems well until a botched Lincoln Center performance for the president leads to a scandal that strips them of their performing duties. With the world championships on the horizon in Copenhagen, Denmark, the women must get their act together for their only shot at redemption. Contains innuendo and strong language. Extras include extended musical performances, deleted/extended/alternate scenes, “The Bellas Are Back,” gag reel, commentary with director-producer Elizabeth Banks and producers Paul Brooks and Max Handelman. Blu-ray adds bonus song performed by the Treblemakers, Das Sound Machine finale breakdown, line-aca-rama, Green Bay rap, “Elizabeth Banks’ Directorial Debut” featurette, “Aca-Camp,” “The Making of the Riff-Off,” “The World Championships of A Cappella,” “Snoop is in the House,” “Residual Heat Internship,” “An Aca-Love Story: Bumper and Fat Amy,” “Legacy: Hailee Steinfeld.”
Also:
“Chain of Command” (special operative fights a deadly government conspiracy), “The Farewell Party” (Israeli film about friends at a Jerusalem retirement home), “Finding Neighbors” (stay-at-home graphic novelist gets involved with his next-door neighbor), “Growing Up Trans” (“Frontline” look at transgender children), “Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman” (update of 2011 documentary about the acclaimed novelist), “In the Name of My Daughter” (French thriller), “The Journey Home (aka Midnight Sun)” (young boy and bear cub on a wilderness journey), “Kindness Is Contagious” (real-life stories of kindness and generosity), “Moonrise Kingdom” (two 12-year-olds fall in love and run away in the summer of 1965), “The Other Man: F.W. De Klerk and the End Of Apartheid” (chronicles the South African president who freed Nelson Mandela), “Pop Life” (documentary about party drugs and the EDM culture), “Saint Laurent ” (dramatization of French fashion designer’s life from 1967 to 1976).
Television series:
“Arrow: The Complete Third Season” (five-disc DVD and four-disc Blu-ray with all 23 episodes), “The Flash: The Complete First Season” (five-disc DVD and four-disc Blu-ray with all 23 episodes, “Modern Family: The Complete Sixth Season” (three-disc set with 24 episodes), “The Nanny: Season Four” (three-disc set with all 26 episodes), “The Red Road: The Complete Second Season” (two-disc set with all six episodes of the Sundance TV series).
