Oppenheimer, The Nun II, and The Equalizer 3 lead November's best Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases

Available November 7 The black-comedy crime-thriller Fargo, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide. The movie, which also features William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, and Peter Stormare, won two Oscars: Best Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coen brothers. Shout Factory’s debut of Fargo features a 4K restoration supervised by director of photography Roger A. Deakins. Extras include an audio commentary by Deakins, a “Minnesota Nice” featurette, an interview with the Coen brothers and McDormand, an American Cinematography article, and more. There is also a deluxe limited edition available directly from ShoutFactory.com that includes a rolled 18" x 24" poster, a reproduction of the “I Love Golf” notepad, and a glass snow globe of the woodchipper scene.

Available November 14In Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 3, Denzel Washington reprises his role as retired U.S. Marine and DIA officer Robert McCall while Dakota Fanning appears as Emma Collins. In what is billed as the final Equalizer vigilante action film, McCall takes on the mafia in Southern Italy. Available on both and Blu-ray, extras include 15 minutes of deleted scenes, as well as the bonus videos “Blood Brothers: The Collaboration Of Denzel Washington & Antoine Fuqua,” “Call To Action,” “Robert McCall: A Man Of The People,” “Denzel and Dakota: A Reunion,” “Postcards From The Amalfi Coast,” and Jacob Banks’ “Monster” lyric video.

Available November 14Michael Chaves’ The Nun II is the eighth film in the Conjuring universe and a hit sequel to 2018’s The Nun. It features returning actors Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, and Bonnie Aarons. The official description reads, “1956—France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading … Sister Irene once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.” Available on both and Blu-ray, The Nun II extras include the featurettes “Demons In Paradise” and “Handcrafter Nightmares.”

Available November 14The neo-Western crime miniseries Justified: City Primeval is a sequel to the long-running Justified series starring Timothy Olyphant as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. In City Primeval, Raylan winds up in Detroit in pursuit of the so-called Oklahoma Wildman, Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook). Season one of the FX miniseries based on Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire In The Hole” also stars Aunjanue Ellis, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, and Norbert Leo Butz. The two-disc set features all eight episodes but appears to contain no bonus features.

Available November 21Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-ready Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, which created the first atomic bomb. The acclaimed biographical thriller also starring Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., and Florence Pugh arrives on both and Blu-ray a few weeks after Barbie, so now you can complete your home version of “Barbenheimer.” Extras include a comprehensive 70-minute making-of featurette titled “The Story Of Our Time: The Making Of Oppenheimer,” the NBC documentary “To End All War: Oppenheimer And The Atomic Bomb,” and the “Trinity Anniversary Panel Discussion.”

Available November 24The awkwardly titled Expend4bles is the fourth—and likely last, given its lackluster box office performance—movie in The Expendables action series that began in 2010. Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, and Randy Couture reprise their roles from the previous films and are joined by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy García. Available on both and Blu-ray, bonus features include audio commentary by director Scott Waugh, “Bigger, Bolder, Badder: The Expendables In Action,” and “More Than A Team: New Blood Meets Old Blood.” All four Expendables movies will also be available in a SteelB00k collection sold exclusively at Walmart.

Available November 21The Resident Evil: features the six action-horror movies starring Milla Jovovich as Alice, a woman battling the horrors unleashed after the T-virus escapes from an Umbrella Corporation genetic research facility and mutates life-forms across the globe. All six movies—Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Retribution, and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter—are individually packaged in SteelBook cases and enclosed in a premium outer case featuring Umbrella Corporation styling. The films now feature Dolby Vision HDR and include all of the previous bonus features, plus new featurettes added to Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

Available November 28Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad is about a group of kids committed to protecting their suburban neighborhood from the likes of Count Dracula (Duncan Regehr), the Wolfman (Carl Thibault), Gill-Man (Tom Woodruff Jr.), the Mummy (Michael MacKay), and Frankenstein (Tom Noonan). Kino Lorber’s debut of the cult favorite features a new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative. Most of the bonus features, aside from the audio commentaries, are found exclusively on two Blu-rays in the set, including “Monster Squad Forever: Five-Part Documentary,” deleted scenes, an archival interview with Noonan, an animated storyboard sequence, a stills gallery, and the documentary “Wolfman’s Got Nards.”

Available November 28The official description for The Sandman reads, “When the Sandman, aka Dream (Tom Sturridge)—the powerful cosmic being who controls all our dreams—is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for over a century, he must journey across different worlds and timelines to fix the chaos his absence has caused.” If you were curious about the gothic fantasy based on the comic book by Neil Gaiman but didn’t want to sign up for Netflix, now you can check out all 10 episodes plus a special bonus episode of the acclaimed series on and Blu-ray. Extras include a behind-the-scenes sneak-peek featurette and “The World Of The Endless” featurette. The Sandman was renewed for a second season but Netflix has yet to announce a premiere date.

Available November 28Anthology horror movie Tales From The Darkside: The Movie features three tales—“Lot 249,” “Cat From Hell,” and “Lover’s Vow”—tied together by a connecting story. The spin-off movie from the TV series stars Deborah Harry, Julianne Moore, Christian Slater, William Hickey, and James Remar. Although details about bonus features for the Collector’s Edition were unavailable at press time, buyers who purchase the movie directly from ShoutFactory.com will receive an 18×24 rolled theatrical poster while supplies last.