Feb. 25 New Home Entertainment Releases Include ‘Complete Unknown,’ ‘Love Hurts’ Via Premium Digital
A Complete Unknown
February 25, 2025
Among the slate of new home entertainment releases for the week of Feb. 25 are A Complete Unknown and Love Hurts becoming available for premium digital sale and rental.
Searchlight Pictures’ Academy Award-nominated Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown will be released through digital retailers Feb. 25. Directed by Academy Award nominee James Mangold and starring Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown offers an intimate portrayal of Bob Dylan’s transformative years in the early 1960s. Chalamet stars and sings as Dylan, capturing his evolution from a burgeoning folk artist to a cultural icon. The film delves into Dylan’s relationships with contemporaries such as Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), and Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), whose influence shaped his early sound and whose reaction to Dylan’s electric set at Newport became the stuff of legend. The film also stars Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. Set in New York in 1961 against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, the film follows an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota who arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. The film earned $72.4 million at the domestic box office. It arrives on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and 4K Ultra HD disc April 1.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release the action comedy Love Hurts for premium digital sale or rental Feb. 25. From the producers of John Wick, Nobody and Bullet Train comes this story of revenge with visceral action sequences and heart. Ke Huy Quan stars as Marvin, who left behind a violent life to hide in suburban Milwaukee as a mild-mannered realtor. He also left behind Rose (Ariana DeBose), his former partner in crime. Now she’s back and wants Marvin to help take revenge against his crime lord brother, Knuckles (Daniel Wu). Like it or not, Marvin finds himself back in a wild world of wisecracking hitmen with his open houses erupting into war zones. Helmed by award-winning stunt designer Jonathan Eusebio (John Wick, Violent Night), in his directorial debut, Love Hurts also stars former NFL running back and Super Bowl champion Marshawn “Beastmode” Lynch, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Cam Gigandet and Sean Astin. The film earned $14.52 million at the domestic box office. It arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD disc April 1.
BayView Entertainment will release the horror film The Clock on Blu-ray Feb. 25. The thriller tells the tale of a couple who purchases an ancient Grandfather Clock. As strange and frightening things begin to happen and the incidents become more sinister, they learn that their clock may be much more than they bargained for. The release contains a bonus radio program: “Hickory, Dickory, Doom.” The film stars Aimee Rolfson, Shawn Ray and Paul Saulo.
Decal/Bleecker’s drama Hard Truths will be released on Blu-ray Disc Feb. 25 from Distribution Solutions. In the film, director Mike Leigh reteams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) in a fierce, compassionate, and humorous family drama that is an ongoing exploration of the contemporary world and a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses. The film, which has been nominated for two BAFTA awards, also stars Michel Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, Jonathan Livingstone and Samantha Spiro.
The documentary Dinner With Leatherface will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc Feb. 25 from MVD Entertainment Group and Anchor Bay Entertainment. Dinner With Leatherface is a documentary about Gunnar Hansen, the actor who portrayed Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Friends, colleagues, filmmakers and fellow actors share personal stories and discuss the dichotomy between the maniacal chainsaw-wielding character he played onscreen and the intelligent, creative, soft-spoken man he actually was in real life. Special features include audio commentary with writer-director Michael Kallio and editor Josh Wagner; an extended interview with filmmaker and historian Michael Felsher; an extended interview with filmmaker Jeff Burr; a convention chat with actress Danielle Harris; the “Southern Hospitality” trailer; and “Tales of Gunner Hansen.”
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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of its eight Academy Awards, Amadeus, from director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), will be available for the first time digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on Feb. 25 from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. The theatrical version of Amadeus will be available to purchase on Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc online and in-store at major retailers and will be available digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Fandango at Home and more. The film received 11 Academy Award nominations and won eight Oscars: Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Sound. Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Forman from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Peter Shaffer, the film is based on the play Amadeus by Shaffer and Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin. Amadeus stars Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri, Academy Award nominee Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart, Simon Callow as Emanuel Schikaneder, Roy Dotrice as Leopold Mozart, Christine Ebersole as Katerina Cavalieri, Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph II, and Charles Kay as Count Orsini-Rosenberg. In the film, disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the 1991 coming-of-age comedy-drama My Girl on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Feb. 25. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky, the film is a story of first love and loss. Chlumsky makes her acting debut as Vada Sultenfuss, a precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death. Dan Aykroyd is her widowed father, the town mortician, and Jamie Lee Curtis is the cosmetician he employs. Macaulay Culkin plays Thomas J., the boy next door who idolizes Vada. Their summer adventures — from first kiss to last farewell — introduce Vada to the world of adolescence. Scanned from the original camera negative, the feature is presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision with the HDR grade approved by cinematographer Paul Elliott.
Arriving Feb. 25 on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is 1993’s Cronos. Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious and audacious feature debut with Cronos, a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab, and soon finds himself the possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious American named Angel (a delightfully crude and deranged Ron Perlman). Featuring marvelous makeup effects and the haunting imagery for which del Toro has become world-renowned, Cronos is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally captivating fantasy. The film is presented with a new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Guillermo del Toro, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. The combo pack includes a 4K disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and a regular Blu-ray with the film and bonus materials.
Also due Feb. 25 on Blu-ray and 4K disc from Criterion is 1970’s Performance. The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between enigmatic artist Donald Cammell and first-time director Nicolas Roeg is a transgressive journey to the dark side of bohemia. The film is presented with a new 4K digital restoration, approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with an uncompressed monaural original-U.K.-version soundtrack; the 4K combo pack includes a 4K disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and the regular Blu-ray with the film with bonus materials.
The action adventure Daddy will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Feb. 25 from MVD Entertainment Group and Anchor Bay Entertainment. Daddy takes place in a dystopian society where the state has the power to determine who can and cannot father children. In the film, four men attend a government sanctioned retreat in the remote mountains of California. When they show up at the site, only to find no guide or instructions waiting for them, they are left to their own devices and must prove to themselves — and each other — that they have what it takes to become fathers.
Kino Lorber Feb. 25 releases the 1990 Stephen King horror film Graveyard Shift as a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray combo pack. Set in Gates Falls, Maine, the film explores the mysterious employee deaths that follow the reopening of an abandoned textile mill. The link between the killings: all occurred between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., during the graveyard shift. The sadistic mill foreman has chosen a group to clean up the mill’s rat-infested basement. But what the workers find is a subterranean maze of tunnels leading to the cemetery — and an unimaginable horror that comes alive in the dead of night. Based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King, Graveyard Shift only grossed about $13 million during its theatrical run from Paramount Pictures. The cast includes David Andrews (Cherry 2000), Stephen Macht (The Monster Squad), Kelly Wolf (Triumph of the Spirit), Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster), and Brad Dourif (Death Machine) as The Exterminator. The first disc in the combo pack has the film from a new HDR/Dolby Vision master from a 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative, on a triple-layer UHD100 disc with 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 audio. The second disc, from a new HD master from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, is being issued on a dual-layer BD50 disc, also with 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 audio.
From Hong Kong’s legendary Shaw Brothers studio, The Lady Assassin will be released on Blu-ray Disc Feb. 25 from 88 Films and MVD Entertainment Group. In the blood-drenched story of ninjas, eunuchs and dark palace intrigue, the old emperor is on his last legs, and his most ambitious and amoral son plots to cheat his way to the throne. But taking power is the easy bit. Staying on top proves much more difficult. Based on a particularly infamous chapter of Chinese history, The Lady Assassin mixes pageantry with some of the best sword fights in any Shaw Brothers film.
The complete comedy series “Documentary Now!” will be released on Blu-ray Disc Feb. 25 from Mill Creek Entertainment and Distribution Solutions. “Documentary Now!” is a satirical mockumentary series, parodying iconic documentaries with each episode. The series features Helen Mirren, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Alexander Skarsgård, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Nicholas Braun, Cameron Crowe, Tim Robinson, Daryl Hall, Kenny Loggins, Alana Haim, John Mulaney, Danielle Haim, Jonathan Pryce, John Rhys-Davies, Aidy Bryant, Kevin Dunn, Michael C. Hall, Tom Jones, Jack Black, Maya Rudolph, Peter Fonda, Peter Bogdanovich, Natasha Lyonne, Michael Keaton, Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan, Anne Hathaway, Faye Dunaway, Richard Kind, John Slattery, Mia Farrow, Cedric Yarbrough, Tawny Newsome, Paul Thomas Anderson and Este Haim.
Truth Be Told: The Complete Series will be released on Blu-ray Disc Feb. 25 from Distribution Solutions. In season one, podcaster Poppy Parnell (Octavia Spencer) reopens a famous murder case with new evidence, facing Warren Cave, the man she might have wrongfully imprisoned. Her probe tackles privacy, media, and race. In season two, Kate Hudson joins this mystery series. Season three sees Poppy join forces with an unconventional principal (Gabrielle Union) to draw attention to missing Black girls and probe a trafficking ring. The series also stars Ron Cephas Jones, Micael Beach, Mekhi Phifer and Aaron Paul.
The thriller Evilenko will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Feb. 25 from MVD Entertainment Group and Unearthed. Based on the true story of the former Soviet Union’s most notorious serial killer, the film explores the mind of a true monster, a man who mutilated and devoured more than 50 children. For years, Andrei Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, TV’s “Entourage”) eludes the obsessive Detective Lesiev (Marton Csokas, “The Lord of the Rings Trilogy,” xXx, Aeon Flux) and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter (Ronald Pickup, The Chronicles of Narnia). Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist. From writer-director David Grieco, the film features the haunting melodies of composer Angelo Badalamenti (“Twin Peaks,” Mulholland Drive).
The horror film The Mask of Satan (1989) and the comedy Thong Girls (1987) will be released on Blu-ray Disc Feb. 25 from MVD Entertainment Group and Severin Films.
From writer/director Lamberto Bava (Demons) comes the Italian horror flick The Mask of Satan, a modern-day reimagining of his father’s classic Black Sunday, featuring effects by Sergio Stivaletti (Cemetery Man) and music by Simon Boswell (Santa Sangre). In the film, when a group of skiers becomes trapped in a crevasse, their discovery of a long-frozen female corpse unmasks an ancient evil, unlocks a portal of the damned and unleashes a nightmare of Satanic vengeance. Mary Sellers (Stagefright), Debora Caprioglio (Klaus Kinski’s Paganini) and Michele Soavi (director of The Church and The Sect) star in the film — also known as Demons 5: The Devil’s Veil — now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative for the first time ever in North America. Special features include “The Curse of the Mask,” an interview with director Lamberto Bava; “Una Americana a Roma,” an interview with actress Mary Sellers; and “Sabina the Teenage Witch,” an interview with actress Debora Caprioglio.
In the Spanish film Thong Girls from writer-director Jess Franco, it’s summer’s end in the resort city of Benidorm, where seductive foreigners, conniving hustlers, gullible tourists and insatiable celebrities all come together in a barbed confection that’s part sunny comedy, part Nashville-style satire. Franco’s partner/muse Lina Romay and production manager/star Antonio Mayans (Night of Open Sex) are joined by a cast of familiar faces from their ’80s stock company, including Eva León (Mansion of the Living Dead), Muriel Montossé (The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle), Juan Soler (Cries of Pleasure) and Analía Ivars (Bahia Blanca). The film, now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative, includes more than two hours of new special features. Special features includes audio commentary with Francomania’s John Dixon and William Morris; “Jess Franco’s Naked City,” an interview with Stephen Thrower, author of Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco; and “In The Land of Franco Part 11.”
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