New in home entertainment: Extended cut of Paul Feig’s much-debated ‘Ghostbusters’ remake

New on Blu-ray

“Ghostbusters: Answer the Call” (Sony DVD, $30.99; Blu-ray, $34.99; 4K/3D, $45.99; also available on VOD)

Paul Feig’s much-debated “Ghostbusters” remake is now available on home video, in an extended cut with the subtitle “Answer the Call.” So perhaps now people can begin to appreciate what the film is, rather than what it represents. A good-natured, funny reimagining of an ‘80s comedy favorite, the 2016 “Ghostbusters” assembles excellent, eclectic comic actresses: the meek Kristen Wiig, the boisterous Melissa McCarthy, the forceful Leslie Jones, and the weirdo Kate McKinnon. The new movie has some of the same troubles as its predecessor, straining to integrate all the big special effects, mild horror shocks and smart-alecky jokes. But Feig and his co-writer Katie Dippold ultimately succeed by minimizing the “paranormal investigators save New York” plot and maximizing the bonding between four hilarious ladies.

[Special features: Over an hour of additional and alternate scenes, plus featurettes and commentary tracks]

VOD

“Blue Jay” (available 10/11)

Great acting, believable dialogue and tasteful direction enhance even the thinnest story, as evidenced by the indie drama “Blue Jay,” a wisp of a film that’s nevertheless a pleasure to watch for all of its 80 minutes. Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass (the latter of whom also wrote the script) costar as high school sweethearts who run into each other in their old hometown and spend a day talking about what’s happened in their lives since they broke up 20 years ago. There’s barely enough material here for a short story, yet director Alex Lehmann’s elegant compositions — shot in soft black-and-white — make the movie look lovely. And Paulson and Duplass have rarely been better, playing two lost middle-aged souls remembering how alive they used to be.

TV set of the week

“Hannibal: The Complete Series” (Lionsgate DVD, $39.98; Blu-ray, $39.97)

Though it only lasted for three seasons — for a total of 39 episodes — the TV adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter novels will go down as one of the great television achievements of the 2010s, bringing a florid, often gleefully grotesque visual style and genuinely subversive narrative content to the small screen. Producer/writer Bryan Fuller digs into the eerily similar mindsets of a serial killer and the FBI agent on his tail, turning their extended game of cat-and-mouse into a larger commentary on how some privileged people see every human being they encounter as either predator or prey. Add in the brilliant, committed performances of Mads Mikkelsen as Lecter and Hugh Danny as his nemesis, profiler Will Graham — plus A-list supporting players Raúl Esparza, Gillian Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Pitt, Eddie Izzard and more — and “Hannibal” earns its reputation as great theater as well as a one-of-a-kind spectacle.

[Special features: Commentary tracks, deleted scenes and extensive behind-the-scenes featurettes]

From the archives

“McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Criterion, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.95)

After scoring a surprise hit with the 1970 antiwar comedy “MASH,” director Robert Altman spent the next five years helming one good-to-great movie after another, reshaping classic Hollywood genre in his own cynical counterculture image. Altman’s melancholy 1971 western “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” is one of his masterpieces: the story of two unlikely entrepreneurs (Warren Beatty and Julie Christie) building up a Northwestern frontier town through gambling and prostitution, then seeing their dreams co-opted and crushed by the rise of American monopolies. The overlapping dialogue, dreamy Leonard Cohen score and hazy Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography combine to create a movie that comments on our complicated history, within the context of a beautifully tragic romance.

[Special features: Old and new interviews, plus a commentary track that Altman recorded in 2002]

Three more to see

“Blood Father” (Lionsgate DVD, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99; also available on VOD); “The Infiltrator” (Broad Green DVD, $29.99; Blu-ray, $34.99; also available on VOD); “The Legend of Tarzan” (Warner Bros. DVD, $29.98; Blu-ray, $35.99; 4K; $39.99; 3D, $44.95; 4K, $44.95; also available on VOD)