New on DVD and Blu-ray
Mud; The Sapphires; Lord of the Flies
Mud
(Lions Gate, $20)
Matthew McConaughey brings “beautifully realized angst” to the title role in this effective drama about an Arkansas drifter who enlists two teenage boys in his bid to win a woman’s heart, said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. An “excellent” Reese Witherspoon co-stars.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
The Sapphires
(Anchor Bay, $27)
This tale about a girl group in 1960s Australia is “nearly impossible to resist,” said USA Today. Bridesmaids’ Chris O’Dowd proves “a charmer” as a talent scout who convinces the young women to sing soul music, and “the transcendent vitality” of the era’s music does the rest.
Lord of the Flies
Sign up for Today's Best Articles in your inbox
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com
(Criterion, $30)
Theater director Peter Brook knew what he was doing when he chose to improvise his way through adapting William Golding’s novel, said the Norfolk, Va., Virginian-Pilot. In Brook’s powerful 1963 drama about schoolboys reverting to savagery on a desert island, “there is no artifice.”
-
Gandhi arrests: Narendra Modi's 'vendetta' against India's opposition
The Explainer Another episode threatens to spark uproar in the Indian PM's long-running battle against the country's first family
By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK
-
How the woke right gained power in the US
Under the radar The term has grown in prominence since Donald Trump returned to the White House
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK
-
Codeword: April 24, 2025
The Week's daily codeword puzzle
By The Week Staff