Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s weekly sneak peek at the major DVD and Blu-ray releases! Using the gallery below, you’ll be able to navigate through some of the key titles that are set to hit stores on May 20. For the complete list of May DVD releases, click here, and the complete list of Blu-ray releases can be found here.
May 20, 2014 Releases
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Warehouse 13: The Complete Series
All 62 episodes of the hit Syfy series are collected in a massive 16-disc set that includes all five season sets along with their original special features.
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Vampire Academy
Based on the hit series of novels by Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy blends supernatural melodrama with the slick wit of scribe Daniel Waters (Heathers), working alongside his brother, Mean Girls director Mark Waters. You can check out our interview with the film's cast by clicking here.
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Pompeii
Paul W.S. Anderson heads back to Ancient Rome for this recent disaster epic, set during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the first century AD. The film arrives on Blu-ray with a number of special features both about the film's production and the actual historical event. You can also check out our interviews with Anderson and his cast by by clicking here.
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Nosferatu
Werner Herzog remakes F.W. Murnau's silent cinema classic with his "best fiend" Klaus Kinski starring as Count Dracula. The first Herzog title to get the Blu-ray treatment from Shout! Factory, Nosferatu includes both the German and English cuts of the film with audio commentaries on both.
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McLintock!
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara star in this 1963 United Artists western comedy, loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew."
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The Monuments Men
George Clooney directs and stars (alongside a cast of all-stars) in the true story of men who risked their lives to protect works of art stolen by the Axis powers during World War II. Among the Blu-ray's special features is a segment titled "In Their Own Words," which features conversations with real life "Monuments Men." You can also check out our own recent interviews with the cast by clicking here.
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Like Someone in Love
There are so many layers to Abbas Kiarostami's latest that the Criterion Collection does film fans everywhere a service this week, delivering for in-depth analysis on Blu-ray the story of a young Japanese prostitute and her elderly client. From this simple -- and surprisingly sweet -- bond, Kiarostami opens outwards, examining the parallel lives and relationships that make us who we are. If you've never seen a Kiarostami film before, Like Someone in Love is a wonderful introduction to the illusory majesty of one of the best directors working today.
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Grand Piano
Elijah Wood is a concert pianist forced at gunpoint to play to perfection in a packed concert hall in this stylish, high-concept thriller from director Eugenio Mira.
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Doctor Who: The Enemy of The World
Thought lost to time, this adventure of the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) was announced as having been recovered late last year. Its release this week means that fans can finally complete their "Doctor Who" DVD collections - until more episodes turn up, that is!
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About Last Night
Both cleverly dramatic and laugh out loud funny, director Steve Pink adapts David Mamet's 1974 stage play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" into one of the best romantic comedies in recent memory. Check out our interviews with the cast by clicking here.
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3 Days to Kill
Kevin Costner stars as an international hitman who has a much easier time offing bad guys than raising his teenage daughter (Hailee Steinfeld). Hitting Blu-ray with an optional extended edition of the film, 3 Days to Kill also offers a number of behind-the-scenes featurettes. You can also check out our interviews with the cast and director McG by clicking here.
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