Apple TV Feb. 26 unveiled a first look at the upcoming sci-fi series “Star City,” a spinoff of “For All Mankind” that will launch May 29 with two episodes. Subsequent installments of the eight-episode season will be released Fridays through July 10.
“For All Mankind” depicts a “what if” scenario of a world in which the Soviet Union won the race to land a man on the moon, leading the United States to expand the scope of space exploration in the aftermath.
“Star City” serves as a prequel to those events, a paranoid thriller that explores the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward.
The series stars Rhys Ifans (“House of the Dragon”), Anna Maxwell Martin (“Motherland”), Agnes O’Casey (“Black Doves”), Alice Englert (“Bad Behaviour”), Solly McLeod (“House of the Dragon”), Adam Nagaitis (“Chernobyl”), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (“I, Jack Wright”), Josef Davies (“Andor”) and Priya Kansara (“Bridgerton”).
“Star City” was created by “For All Mankind” creators Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore, who also serve as executive producers alongside Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions, as well as Andrew Chambliss and Steve Oster. Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners. “Star City” is produced for Apple TV by Sony Pictures Television.
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Radial Entertainment will release the animated family adventure The Land of Sometimes through digital platforms April 7, and on DVD June 16.
The sci-fi series depicts a “what if” scenario of a world in which the Soviet Union won the race to land a man on the moon, and the United States expanding the scope of space exploration in the aftermath. Season one, set during the late 1960s and early 1970s, saw the establishment of bases on the moon. Season two, set in the 1980s, followed with lunar colonies, with a race to land on Mars depicted in the third season set in the mid 1990s. Season four, set in 2003, showed tensions escalating on the new Mars colony, where a class system was developing with labor imported from Earth.
Magnolia Home Entertainment will release the found-footage horror film Man Finds Tape on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and video on demand Feb. 24 through its Magnet label. The mockumentary follows two siblings as they spiral into a murder investigation that is uniquely challenged by the modern reality of viral YouTube discoveries. Set in the fictitious rural small town of Larkin, Texas, the film centers on a viral YouTube channel called “Man Finds Tape” run by Lucas Page (William Magnuson), who acquires and posts creepy videos. When he reaches out to his sister, Lynn (Kelsey Pribilski), with surveillance footage of a murder in their hometown, she reluctantly returns to help him investigate the homicide. In doing so, Lynn uncovers a disturbing secret tied to a decades-old supernatural phenomena that casts doubt on whether anyone in town can be trusted. The arrival of a stranger (Brian Villalobos) with destructive intentions forces Lynn to confront her family’s role in a terrifying legend tied to a deadly monster stalking Larkin. Man Finds Tape marks the feature debut of writer-director duo of Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was an official selection at the Sitges International Film Festival and Beyond Fest, and played at numerous film festivals in 2025.
Due Feb. 24 as a 4K Ultra HD combo pack and on regular Blu-ray Disc from the Criterion Collection is 1976’s Network. The media satire, directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky, depicts a struggling television network where ambitious executive Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) finds herself with a hit on her hands when disgruntled newscaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) goes off script, transforming himself into a mad-as-hell prophet railing against the ills of modern society. Both won Oscars for their roles, as did Chayefsky for the screenplay. The film is presented with a new 4K digital restoration with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack. The 4K combo pack includes one 4K disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and a regular Blu-ray Disc with the film and bonus materials. Read a review 
Also arriving Feb. 24 as a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack and on Blu-ray Disc from Criterion is 2001’s The Man Who Wasn’t There. The thriller from Joel and Ethan Coen peers into the existential abyss of the atomic age, with Billy Bob Thornton starring as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. The film is presented with a new 4K digital restoration supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, with a 5.0 surround DTS-HD master audio soundtrack; The 4K combo pack includes one 4K disc of the film presented presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and a regular Blu-ray Disc with the film and bonus materials.
Arrow Video will release the 1981 fantasy Excalibur on 4K Ultra HD disc for the first time Feb. 24. The limited edition featuring a new 4K restoration of the film and newly commissioned extras will also be available on regular Blu-ray Disc. The film from director John Boorman depicts an epic take on the legend of King Arthur, as the wizard Merlin (Nicol Williamson) acquires the powerful sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake for Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne). The magical weapon allows Uther to be recognized as the King of the Britons. During a feast, Uther begs Merlin to cast a spell that will allow him to sleep with a duke’s wife. Merlin agrees, but only after being promised the king’s future child. Months later, Merlin claims the newborn. When Uther attempts to reclaim the baby, he is ambushed, and before dying, he drives Excalibur into a stone. Legend foretells that only the next true king can free the sword. Merlin places the child, Arthur, with Sir Ector to be raised as a squire. During a tournament to determine England’s new ruler, a grown Arthur (Nigel Terry) unknowingly pulls Excalibur from the stone and is crowned king. He gathers extraordinary knights to his legendary Round Table at Camelot, but his reunion with his magical sister Morgana (Helen Mirren) ushers in dark times for his reign. To restore the kingdom, Arthur sends his knights on a perilous quest for the Holy Grail. Among the warriors clad in shining armor are Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson and Ciarán Hinds. The limited-edition release features a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm negative by Arrow Films presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1 for the first time on home video. The presentation includes HDR10-compatible Dolby Vision, restored original lossless mono and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options.
Arrow Video will release the 1973 sci-fi Western Westworld on 4K Ultra HD disc for the first time Feb. 24. The limited edition featuring a new 4K restoration of the film and newly commissioned extras will also be available on regular Blu-ray Disc. The film from writer-director Michael Crichton takes place at the futuristic Delos resort, which allows guests to fully experience life in medieval times, the Roman era, and the American West. The employees in the park are androids, designed to be fully indulged by the guests. The android locals won’t shoot back in a duel or resist being taken to bed. This proves useful as Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) repeatedly fire their six-shooters at The Gunslinger (Yul Brynner) to sharpen their showdown skills. It’s the holiday of a lifetime until something goes wrong with the park’s computer programming and the androids begin attacking the guests. The limited-edition 4K edition presents the film with HDR-compatible Dolby Vision, the original restored lossless four-channel stereo, 2.0 stereo, and 1.0 mono audio options, and an optional remixed 5.1 DTS-HD master surround audio.
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3 is a seven-disc collection with six films in both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray. The collection includes 16 hours of special features and a new 142-page book. The teensploitation classic Beat Girl, available in the original theatrical and extended U.K. cuts, stars Lee as the wolfish operator of a Soho strip club. He portrays a sleazy blackmailer in The Hands of Orlac, presented in separate French and U.K. versions. Directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lee as a disfigured madman, the worldwide UHD/Blu-ray premiere of The Virgin of Nuremberg is a two-disc collection that sets new standards in Italian Gothic cruelty. Arabian Adventure is director Kevin Connor’s all-star family adventure showcasing Lee as a dastardly Caliph. Lee is a menacing teacher at an exclusive boys boarding school in A Feast at Midnight, directed by Justin Hardy. With recollections by family, friends and Lee himself, the documentary The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee reveals the screen legend like never before.
Retribution (1987) is making its worldwide 4K UHD premiere. The two-disc collection includes the theatrical and unrated versions scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with more than three hours of special features. In 2021, Severin Films resurrected the forgotten classic from co-writer/director Guy Magar on Blu-ray. But in 2025, the search of a Los Angeles lab vault led to the discovery of the unclaimed negative for the thought-lost unrated version just days prior to its destruction. Magar’s neon and viscera-soaked saga of possession, vengeance and carnage stars Dennis Lipscomb (Eyes of Fire), Leslie Wing (The Frighteners), Suzanne Snyder (Weird Science) and Hoyt Axton (Gremlins).
Seven years after unleashing Retribution, filmmaker Guy Magar rolled the dice to write, produce and direct the low-budget mob drama Lookin’ Italian, which introduced an unknown Matt LeBlanc only months before landing his breakout role in “Friends.” In the film, having survived a New York City shootout gone horrifically wrong, a former mafioso (Jay Acovone of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Stargate SG-1”) is now living a quiet life working in a Los Angeles used bookstore. But when his reckless nephew (LeBlanc) gets involved with local gang culture, they’re both dragged into an unforgiving urban jungle where fear is weakness, vengeance is destiny and family bonds can never be broken. Three-time Grammy-winning soul legend Lou Rawls co-stars — with Denise Richards in one of her earliest film roles — in the film now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with two hours of special features that include a long-unseen 1993 on-set interview with LeBlanc.
The Ghost is available on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Disc, including four hours of special features. Direct from its 2025 premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, the 1963 film, set in turn-of-the-century Scotland, follows a young wife (Barbara Steele) who conspires with her lover to murder her wealthy paralyzed husband. But when the dead spouse’s spirit returns, it unlocks a nightmare of spectral terror, sudden violence and depraved vengeance. Peter Baldwin (The Weekend Murders) and Harriet Medin (The Whip and the Body) co-star in the Italian horror classic co-written by Freda and Oreste Biancoli (Bicycle Thieves), newly scanned in 4K from the thought-lost original camera negative and restored by Severin Films with four hours of bonus materials.
The 1996 crime drama The Substitute will be available as a limited-edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Disc combo pack with digital copy March 17 through 