Headsup: Secrets
Disclaimer: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment requests we note that it provided a free copy of the titles featured below. The opinions I share are my own.
Out now are two titles where not everything is as it seems:
First we have Riverdale, the alternative take on small-town life based on characters from Archie Comics. The series stars KJ Apa (Archie Andrews), Lili Reinhart (Betty Cooper), Camila Mendes (Veronica Lodge), and Cole Sprouse (Jughead Jones). As a new school year is under way, the characters are dealing with issues of love and loss: Betty Cooper has yet to disclose her romantic feelings for Archie, Archie has just finished a clandestine relationship with his once-mentor music teacher, queen bee Cheryl Blossom may be hiding something about her brother Jason's death, and Archie must decide whether or not to come forward with damaging information about the day Jason went missing. The town's idyllic facade begins to crack as more secrets begin to come to light, and the characters begin to realize that Riverdale will never be the same.
Out now is Riverdale: The Complete First Season, which includes all thirteen episodes of the first season on DVD and Blu-ray. Bonus features include five featurettes ("The New Normal", "I Got You", "Riverdale: 2016 Comic-Con Panel", "Riverdale: The Ultimate Sin", and "These are the Moments I Remember") along with some unaired scenes and a gag reel. A streaming option is available on both Amazon and iTunes for $29.99 (Amazon's offers the Comic-Con panel and a one-minute behind-the-scenes special as bonus features and iTunes offers all five featurettes). If you want it in disc format, you can grab it on Amazon: the DVD currently goes for $24.57 and the Blu-ray for $31.50. Since you save $4+ by doing the DVD versus streaming and you get all the bonus features to boot, I'd say the DVD is the better move here, but weigh the factors (including how crowded your shelf is at home) and decide what's best for you.
First we have Sesame Street: Elmo's Wonderful World, where the beloved muppet takes his preschool audience on an exploration of sharing, counting, kindness, playing dress up, meeting bees, and more. Along for the ride are Elmo's friends Smartie, Mr. Noodle, and Mr. Noodle's dog Schmoodle. In addition to the thirteen new Elmo's World episodes, bonus features on this one include two episodes of Sesame Street's new spin-off Furchester Hotel (a fun new show featuring Elmo and Cookie Monster as they try to help the well-meaning but less-than-competent Furchester-Fuzz family run an upscale hotel), along with three classic Elmo's World Episodes ("Frogs," "Violins," and "Helping").
First we have Ghost in the Shell, the American action/sci-fi film directed by Rupert Sanders based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow (for our recent feature on the animated Ghost in the Shell steelbook release, 
First we have Season Four of The 100, the post-apocalyptic drama that tells the story of inhabitants of a space habitat ("The Ark") who return to Earth after a massive nuclear event (which caused an almost total extinction of the human population) and their interactions with those on Earth who survived. In this season, the characters are reeling from the all-out war in Season Three while at the same time are faced with the discovery that Earth's atmosphere will soon be set on fire due to the meltdown of the existing nuclear reactors from lack of maintenance. Clarke and others try to find a solution using the Nightbloods' natural immunity to radiation while the twelve clans are faced with the decision of selecting those among them who will be afforded protection for five years in a newly-discovered bunker. Alliances are tested, relationships strained, and everyone must again fight for their own rights of survival.
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