New on Home Video: “Hobo With a Shotgun,” “13 Assassins” & “Of Gods and Men”

If you're looking for a recent film to watch with the family, this is not your week--unless your kids are into meditative art-house fare or gratuitous violence.

13 Assassins
A band of unemployed samurai come together at the end of Japan's feudal era to bring down a war-crazed lord who hopes to take the throne and plunge the nation into chaos. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD, read our review and watch the trailer

Hobo With a Shotgun
Rutger Hauer stars, per the title, as a hobo with a shotgun who meets out a double-barrel dose vigilante justice and crooked cops and bad guys in the grindhouse homage. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer

Tsotsi
The 2005 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, tells the story of a Johannesburg street gang leader who winds up caring for a baby accidentally kidnapped during a carjacking. Now available on Blu-ray, watch the trailer

Das Boot
Wolfgang Peterson's classic 1981 film about a young crew on a German submarine comes to Blu-ray in a new 2009-minute director's cut. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer

Of Gods and Men
A film based on the true story of a group of monks living in the hills of Algeria in the '90s who finds themselves forced to choose between leaving the community they have cared for or facing Islamic extremists intent on getting rid of them one way or another. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer

Ratatouille, Wall-E & Up
Three classic Pixar films are each now available in Blu-ray, DVD combo packs.

The Sacrifice
The final film from Andrei Tarkovsky, released in 1986, tells the story of a man struggling with e lack of spirituality in the world upon the start of WW III. Now available on Blu-ray, watch the trailer

Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!: Seasons 1 - 5
The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim classic presents a "the nightmare version of television," according to creators  Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Now available on DVD
 

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