The expansive director’s cut of a 2017 film about DC’s superhero team tops the DVD releases for the week of Sept. 7.
“Zack Snyder’s Justice League”: Fans have been rewarded for their clamoring with director Zack Snyder’s four-hour reworking of “Justice League,” released earlier this year on HBO Max. The film stars Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, among others.
“The earlier, two-hour ‘Justice League’ was rewritten and directed, uncredited, by Joss Whedon, after a sudden death in the family took Snyder and his wife, executive producer Deborah Snyder, out of the project,” writes Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips in his review. “This new version feels like a sincere, half-mad experiment, made by a director processing long-form grief. No longer does it play like a franchise movie made entirely by machine learning.”
Giving the film two stars, Phillips felt “Snyder has managed to will into existence an improvement — and a crushingly solemn, occasionally moving expansion — on the 2017 ‘Justice League,’ which had nowhere to go but up.”
Also new on DVD
“Together Together”: This dramedy stars Ed Helms as a single man in his 40s who selects a fellow loner, played by Patti Harrison, to serve as his surrogate so he can have a child.
“Bull: Season Five”: Dr. Bull is adjusting to fatherhood in the most recent season of the CBS drama, while his entire Trial Analysis Corporation team must adapt to virtual court proceedings brought on by the pandemic.
“Chicago P.D.: Season Eight”: Part of NBC’s One Chicago lineup, Season 8 culminates with Sgt. Voight and co. trying to take down a dangerous crime ring.
“Great White”: A seaplane goes down 100 miles from shore, trapping five passengers on a raft surrounded by hungry, hungry sharks.
“SEAL Team: Season Four”: One of the main characters heroically bids the series adieu in the finale of the most recent season of the CBS drama centered on Navy SEALs.
“Slaxx”: When demonically possessed jeans start killing workers at the flagship store of a trendy clothing company, it’s up to a young salesclerk to save the day.
“The Gateway”: Crime thriller about a social worker who finds himself in over his head when he tries to protect his new client from her recently paroled husband. Stars Shea Whigham and Oliva Munn.
“Young Sheldon: The Fourth Season”: The CBS comedy, a spinoff of “The Big Bang Theory” about Sheldon’s youth, had an emotional finale this season featuring the first allusions to his father’s adultery.
“Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection” (Blu-ray): To mark the 55th anniversary of the first “Star Trek” episode’s airing on Sept. 8, 1966, the original four “Star Trek” films have been remastered on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray: “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (both theatrical and director’s cut), “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” Each of the films is also available for individual purchase.
