Our write-up of “Green Room’’ (2016) should have been about encouraging fans of splattery throwback chills to check out the DVD for Patrick Stewart’s performance as a lethal white supremacist. Instead, with Anton Yelchin’s untimely death last month, the focus sadly turns to Yelchin’s work as Stewart’s onscreen quarry. We root for the endearing Russian-born, LA-bred actor even when he’s playing punk, as a club rocker whose band runs afoul of Stewart’s sinister crew. But we’re also compelled to look back at some of Yelchin’s more characteristic roles in remembering him. Seek out the high school comedy “Charlie Bartlett’’ (2007) to catch him mashing up Ferris Bueller with Lucy Van Pelt’s junior shrink, to the bemusement of principal Robert Downey Jr. Yelchin romances Felicity Jones long distance in the heavily improvisational “Like Crazy’’ (2011). Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson’s “The Beaver’’ (2011) was a curiosity for its unusual mental illness theme and Gibson’s personal baggage, but Yelchin helps ground the proceedings as the leads’ teenage son. He and Colin Farrell make “Fright Night’’ (2011) a hip, suspenseful update of the ’80s vampire-next-door flick. William H. Macy’s directorial debut, “Rudderless’’ (2015), also casts Yelchin in garage-band mode, this time as a young pup urging older, grieving Billy Crudup to bust out tunes penned by Crudup’s dead son. And while it was interesting seeing Yelchin as a young Kyle Reese in “Terminator Salvation’’ (2009), the role doesn’t compare to his playful turn as Chekov in the rebooted “Star Trek’’ franchise. That’s how we’ll always think of Yelchin, fondly and wistfully. (“Green Room,’’ Lionsgate, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99)
SCIENCE FICTION
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT (2016)
In the third installment adapted from novelist Veronica Roth’s hit young-adult series, conformity-defying Tris (Shailene Woodley) and boyfriend Four (Theo James) discover that dystopian Chicago is harsher than ever and bolt for an outside sanctuary run by a politico scientist (Jeff Daniels). The setup creates real anticipation about where the story might be headed; but, frustratingly, the movie devolves into a derivative muddle by the second act. Let’s hope for better when “Ascendant’’ — a.k.a. “Allegiant Part 2’’ — drops in 2017. Extras: producer commentary; featurettes highlighting the adaptation process, characters, and effects — not necessarily in that order. (Lionsgate, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.99)
COMEDY
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (2016)
It’s certainly apt that the latest low-fi offering from indie Austin auteur Richard Linklater has drawn so many comparisons to his earlier “Dazed and Confused.’’ It’s the same shaggy vibe, only with a crew of Texas collegiate ballplayers (Blake Jenner, Glen Powell, etc.) perpetrating the adolescent mischief. We tend to prefer Linklater’s story-driven efforts — “School of Rock,’’ say, or “Bernie.’’ But we can’t just dismiss this one as meandering self-indulgence, given how much affection clearly goes into evoking good times off campus circa 1980. Extras: a period style featurette, of course, plus deleted scenes. (Paramount, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99)
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