‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Swings Onto Home Video This Month; Watch a Clip from the Bonus Features

Because of the well-publicized falling out between Disney and Sony, it appears that Spider-Man: Far From Home might mark the final time Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man makes an appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. An extended cut of the film is back in theaters now, but for those who don’t want to make the trek to a theater to check it out, the Spidey sequel is swinging onto home video later this month with plenty of bonus features in tow. Get the details below.

Spider-Man: Far From Home hits digital HD on September 17, 2019, and arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD on October 1, 2019. The film was almost universally beloved, earning a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and a 95% rating from fans, and it’s easy to see why: Holland and Zendaya are excellent together as Peter Parker and MJ, the film introduces a fun new villain, and it’s full of some game-changing revelations for the MCU – although now fans may never see exactly how those plot points would have played out if Spidey stuck around in the MCU.

Here’s a clip from Peter’s To-Do List, which is being framed as part of an “original short” but seems more like a standard deleted scene from the beginning of the movie:

Whoa, whoa, whoa – I’m sorry, I didn’t realize Peter Parker was such a selfish son of a bitch? I get it, he needs his passport so he can go on vacation with his friends. But what about all those other people who were waiting in line? He’s just going to skip them because he couldn’t manage his time properly? Wait a second, does J. Jonah Jameson have a point? Is Spider-Man a menace? I feel like my world is turned upside down here.

Bonus Materials Include:

• New Original Short, Peter’s To–Do List: Peter has a few errands to run before he can leave on his class trip.
• Teachers’ Travel Tips: Mr. Harrington & Mr. Dell present a few tips on how to traverse the European continent.
• Stepping Up: Explore how Spider-Man was introduced in the MCU, the ways Tom Holland transformed the character of Peter Parker, and what the future holds for Spider-Man.
• Suit Up: The suit doesn’t make the hero – but it does play a big role in who they are and who they can become. This piece examines all of Peter’s different suits in the movie, and with behind the scenes footage, we see why some suits are better than others.
• Far, FAR, Far from Home: The film’s illustrious locations serve story points and establish tone, but they’re also amazing to travel to! Hear from the cast on their experiences filming on-location.
• It Takes Two: A special look at the chemistry between Jon Watts and Tom Holland.
• Fury & Hill: MCU stalwarts Cobie Smulders and Samuel L. Jackson are back as Agent Maria Hill & Nick Fury!
• The Ginter-Riva Effect: A look at the villain sub-plot and how William Ginter-Riva ties Spider-Man: Far From Home all the way back to the beginning of the MCU.
• Thank You, Mrs. Parker: A look at Marisa Tomei’s reimagining of Aunt May, from Homecoming to Far From Home.
• The Brother’s Trust: A quick look into some of the amazing work Tom Holland and his brothers have done through their charity, The Brothers Trust.
• The Jump Off: Interviews with the cast & crew take us through all of the amazing stunts of Far From Home.
• Now You See Me: We examine the evolution of Mysterio and why Jake Gyllenhaal was the perfect fit for the role.
• Stealthy Easter Eggs: Allow E.D.I.T.H. to reveal some of the hidden Easter Eggs you may have missed!
• Select Scene Pre – Vis: A side by side comparison of the Pre-Vis with the film
• Gag Reel & Outakes
• Never-Before-Seen Alternate & Extended Scenes

It’s unclear if these “never-before-seen alternate & extended scenes” are part of the same footage that’s been added to the movie in its current extended theatrical form, or if they truly are brand new edits that fans can’t see until this release drops.

Be sure to check out our spoiler-heavy interview with director Jon Watts if you haven’t already.

Tom Holland returns as everyone’s favorite web-slinger in SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, the next chapter after Spider-Man: Homecoming. Our friendly neighborhood wall-crawler decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter’s plans to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks! Spider-Man and Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) join forces to fight the havoc unleashed across the continent but all is not as it seems.

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You Should Be Buying DVDs Instead Of Relying On Netflix

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When you’re a kid, it’s perfectly fine to partake in an array of bizarre or grotesque behaviors. Whether you’ve decided to chop your own hair off, get married to a stuffed animal, or just to scribble nonsense all over the walls, you are set—this is the only time in your life when adults might even mistake those behaviors for being cute, even if they come at the expense of damaging the home you’ll inhabit for the early part of your life.

My toddler quirks didn’t tend towards property damage, but there was a time when I slept with VHS tapes. Not like in my bed, but in the years before I knew how to spell my own name I’d set my precious videos where books are supposed to go on the bedside table. There’s a story about my parents swiping the Toy Story tape out of its box while I was asleep, and me waking up late by toddler standards to discover it missing, then walking downstairs and finding them watching the movie. Physical media is important to me, and I believe it should never die.

I don’t have most of those VHS tapes anymore because they gave way to DVDs and Blu-rays, which may in turn give way to 4K technology. But for the moment, it’s hard to imagine a scenario in which I get rid of any of my discs or stop expanding my collection, even as physical media’s death rattle echoes louder. This is both because streaming culture sucks far worse than most of us would like to admit, and because DVDs are cooler than anyone remembers.

We’ve all found ourselves on either side of this sort of bleak interaction: “Have you seen Paddington 2?” “No, I’m waiting until it comes to Netflix.” “Sick.” (The first Paddington is currently streaming on Netflix, so get to it, you psycho.) Given that everything seems free or close to free, I can’t blame the impulse to wait everything out. With movies and TV shows coming and going from streaming services so often that there’s a cottage industry for “what’s new to/leaving Netflix” posts in the online content biz, your favorites are almost guaranteed to disappear at some point. And that’s not to mention Netflix’s piss-poor selection of films made before 1970—someday we’ll be as far removed from 1997 as we are from 1967, and Face/Off won’t be streaming.

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My advice to you is this: just buy the movies you want to watch.

There’s really no good reason why DVD ownership isn’t in vogue in the same way that owning records is. (Maybe your dipshit college freshman roommate who insisted on calling them “films” and chronologically shelved his Criterion Collection ruined it for the rest of us?) On a practical level, DVDs are much easier to box up and move than vinyl, and you can even get one of those big leather-bound CD cases if the boxes are too much.

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Streaming may seem more convenient, but that perspective vastly overlooks the benefits of DVDs: the boxes are fun as hell to open, and the gaudy menu screens can serve as a backdrop to some nervous, third-date post-movie makeout sessions. And there are bonus features! Commentary! I’m not saying anyone has time to explore every making-of featurette, but yes, I would like to hear a maybe-hammered Ben Affleck mercilessly roast his own movie, while watching said movie.

The best part might be that you don’t have to scroll through endless screens of middling content for something to watch if you already own, say, 50 of your favorites. You just walk over and put your selection into your DVD or Blu-ray player. (If you don’t have one of those, they now cost like $40.)

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Streaming’s main appeal is convenience, but there’s nothing great about relying on Netflix to determine what movies you could and should watch on a given night. As streaming services shift further and further toward original content—Netflix intends to release somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 original creations this year—it’s a safe bet that they’ll feel less invested in the 30 Rocks and Godfathers of their catalogue.

There is something stable about physical media—not just because it can be held in your hands, but because your copy belongs to you. A streaming platform needs to churn and grow and add and add again, sometimes you just need to watch a movie that you like, and that’s much easier to do when it’s right there in your home. Just don’t let your rowdy kid smear peanut butter on the disc tray.

Make It Harder to Fall Down a YouTube 'Rabbit Hole' With This Extension

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Watching videos on YouTube can be entertaining, but watching one video can quickly turn into watch fifty if you’re not careful. YouTube Rabbit Hole is an extension that can help.

As the name suggests, the extension reduces the ability for you to fall down the YouTube rabbit hole. How it does that is through hiding things like recommendations and comments.

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What gets hidden is entirely up to you. The extension offers the ability to hide the homepage, sidebar, comments, and the trending/subscription pages. You can toggle each option on and off at will, so if you really want to read the comments on a particular video you can, you’ll just have to reload the page if you started watching with things blocked.

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Obviously, extensions like this are only useful if you use them. Since you can unblock whatever you want it’s just as easy to fall down that hole if you want to. That said, if you tend to easily get distracted, it might be just the ticket for allowing you to watch what you want on YouTube without getting distracting by everything else in the process.

Video: Main Street Electrical Parade 2019: the BEST Disneyland Parade is BACK! –

Disneyland opened the vault and unleashed the Main Street Electrical Parade. Watch as Kitra and Peter watch one of Disneyland’s most iconic parades return to Walt’s original magic kingdom! We are there for the opening day — August 2, 2019, so we also check out all of the limited time Main Street Electrical Parade 2019 merchandise and food options and pop into Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge (because, why not?). Hit the jump to watch the video!

The limited-time return of Main Street Electrical Parade runs August 2 to September 30, 2019. Header image via Disney Parks.

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