This week's new DVD & Blu-ray releases

Repo Man Comedy, thriller, satire, science fiction, punk rock movie: Repo Man is all these things. And none of them. Perhaps these hard-to-classify qualities are the reason why it's still watched today while many far more financially successful movies of the time are forgotten. It's like a drive-in movie scripted by Philip K Dick. But not. Both utterly of and completely out of its time, Alex Cox's 1984 feature debut trades in typical US iconography such as cars and guns but in an off-kilter fashion. For Cox the mundane is exotic, the exotic is mundane. He delivers a view of the US that American directors either wouldn't or couldn't – shooting around a landmark-free downtown LA, something the recent Drive was enthusiastically praised for. Emilio Estevez plays disillusioned youth Otto, who falls in with a team of automobile repossessors as they search for a Chevy Malibu with a high bonus and something fatal and mysterious in the boot. The casting is perfect, with Harry Dean Stanton and Tracy Walter given room to shine, the dialogue is eminently quotable and the soundtrack is all killer, no filler (including Iggy Pop, Black Flag and Suicidal Tendencies; more people own the album than the movie). While it mixes and matches disparate elements such as Asimov's laws of robotics and the brutal 1955 detective noir Kiss Me Deadly, Repo Man owes little to any other artform. It's a true original, which is both a rare and wonderful thing. Blu-ray, Eureka Also out Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark Mildly spooky Guillermo del Toro-produced remake of a far creepier 1973 TV movie. DVD & Blu-ray, StudioCanal Real Steel More of a family movie than the misleadingly dark trailers promised. Wholesome fun with excellent scenes of robo-boxing. DVD & Blu-ray, Disney Her Private Hell Britain's first narrative sex film, highly scandalous in 1967, not so much now. DVD & Blu-ray, BFI/Flipside Le Voyage Dans La Lune You get the long-lost hand-tinted print of Georges Méliès's 1902 classic on DVD with Air's excellent new score , extended on CD. Win/win. DVD & CD, EMI