Capsule reviews of the next week’s video releases, on DVD and Blu-ray

Oct. 2

“Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron”

PG-13, 141 minutes, Disney

The Avengers reunite to fight Ultron (James Spader), an A.I. monster unwittingly created by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), aka Iron Man. Contains intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction, and some suggestive comments. Extras include making-of featurette; Blu-ray adds deleted scenes, more making-of Featurettes, gag reel, commentary.

Oct. 6

“Magic Mike XXL”

R, 115 minutes, Warner

Sequel to the 2012 hit comedy about male strippers starring Channing Tatum. Contains strong sexual content, pervasive profanity, some nudity and drug use. Extras include “The Moves of Magic Mike XXL,” “Georgia”; Blu-ray adds extended Malik dance scene.

Also: “Air” (“The Walking Dead’s” Norman Reedus in a story set in a future without breathable air), “Alleluia” (award-winning Belgian horror film), “American Bear: An Adventure in the Kindness of Strangers” (documentary of a couple traveling through America), “Amnesiac” (psychological thriller about a man suffering from memory loss), “The Anomaly” (ex-soldier is kidnapped by a futuristic group), “Ardor” (Gael García Bernal in Argentinian action drama), “Batkid Begins” (documentary about 5-year-old leukemia patient getting his wish to be Batman for a day), “Curve” (young woman fights to escape from a predatory hitchhiker), “Dark Places” (Charlize Theron in Gillian Flynn best-seller), “ Dead Rising: Watchtower” (zombie adventure based on Dead Rising video game), “Earthfall” (sci-fi action story), “Escobar: Paradise Lost” (dramatization with Benicio Del Toro as drug kingpin Pablo Escobar), “The Falling” (trouble finds students at a 1969 English girls’ school), “Final Girl” (would-be victim turns the tables on four boys trying to kill her), “4GOT10” (man with amnesia and a van full of cocaine goes on the run), “Going Clear” (Alex Gibney documentary about Scientology), “Golen Shoes” (boy dreams of being a great soccer player), “Gravy” (horror movie set on Halloween night), “Hidden” (family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak), “Insidious: Chapter 3” (paranormal prequel to the original “Insidious”), “June” (9-year-old girl is possessed by an ancient, malevolent entity), “Last Shift” (rookie cop is trapped in a haunted police station), “Manglehorn” (Al Pacino as an eccentric small-town locksmith), “Mateo” (documentary about America’s first white mariachi singer), “Old 37” (two brothers torture and kill careless teen drivers), “People, Places, Things” (romance with Jemine Clement and Regina Hall), “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” (more flying sharks, this time on the East Coast), “The Target” (South Korean thriller), “The Timber” (two brothers face adversity in the 1898 Alaskan frontier), “Tremors 5: Bloodlines” (fourth sequel to the 1990 horror film about giant man-eating worms), “We Are Still Here” (couple moves into a haunted house in New England), “What We Did on Our Holiday” (comedy about a family on vacation), “When Marnie Was Here” (Japanese animation from the acclaimed Studio Ghibli), “Will to Love” (urban romantic comedy).

Television series: “American Horror Story: The Complete Fourth Season” (four-disc DVD, three-disc Blu-ray with 13 episodes), “Best Christmas Party Ever “(part of Hallmark’s “12Original Movies of Christmas” series), “Blood &Glory: The Civil War in Color” (four-episode History miniseries), “Christmas at Cartwright’s” (part of Hallmark’s “12 Original Movies of Christmas”), “Duck Dynasty: Season 8” (two-disc set with eight episodes), “The Leftovers: The Complete First Season” (three-disc DVD and two-disc Blu-ray sets with all 10 episodes), “Little House on the Prairie: The Complete Series Deluxe Remastered Edition,” “Little House on the Prairie: Season Seven Deluxe Remastered Edition” (five-disc set with all 22 uncut, remastered episodes), “Pee-wee’s Playhouse: Christmas Special,” “Reign: The Complete Second Season” (five-disc set with all 22 episodes), “South Park: The Complete 18th Season” (two-disc set with all 10 episodes), “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete First And Second Seasons” (eight-disc set with all 52 episodes), “Tut” (three-part Spike TV miniseries concentrating on the youngest Pharaoh to rule Ancient Egypt), “Vikings: The Complete Third Season” (three-disc set with 10 episodes).

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