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Film and TV buffs, music lovers, and book worms will be a fan of Target’s latest weekly promotion: a limited-time buy two, get one free offer on select movies, shows, books, and albums. The promotion includes some of this year’s biggest film releases, so now’s a great time to pick up any of these films on Blu-ray for yourself or as an early Christmas gift.

Quite a few Marvel movies are available as part of the offer, including the blockbuster that brought Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to an epic close: Avengers Endgame. If you’re a fan of the John Wick movies, all three films are eligible for the deal, so you could grab all three and get one of them for free. Another great option is Detective Pikachu, the first live-action Pokemon film (and a very good one at that, if you have any kind of nostalgia for the Pokemon series). There’s also Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature of 2018. And while this falls more into the TV show category, Avatar: The Last Airbender The Complete Series is also part of this promotion and you should definitely buy it.

We’ve included more of the best film options from the sale below–check out the full list of entertainment deals, including TV shows, books and music, at Target. Prices will vary based on whether you go for the DVD, Blu-ray, or 4K UHD version; when you click through, you’ll be able to see all the options available.

Buy two, get one free: Best film deals

With September about to end, you might be wondering about October’s biggest releases. Seeing as the fall release season is in full swing, next month is packed with just as many big new games from the industry’s most noteworthy franchises. You can expect games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and Luigi’s Mansion 3.

Amid all these big names are new expansions, indie games, and re-releases. You might want to spend another 100+ hours The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt or Overwatch with their respective Nintendo Switch ports. Of course, the long-awaited Kickstarted indie action-RPG Indivisible might suit your fancy just as well. WWE 2K20 is making the rounds in October with tons of wrestlers to choose. But if you’re big into Destiny 2, then all these other games may mean nothing to you since you’re more keen to play the Shadowkeep expansion for the rest of the year. And since the free-to-play New Light version of the game is coming out on the same day, newcomers can jump in with fewer obstacles than before.

It’s safe to say that there are plenty of games coming in October, and if you’re all about knowing when each one is releasing, then you’re in the right place. We’ve rounded up all the biggest releases of October 2019 below. For a look at all the other big games still to come this year, be sure to check out our complete list of game release dates in 2019.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint (PS4, Xbox One, PC) — October 4

As the sequel to 2017’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, Ghostpoint is taking a different approach to the series’ established formula. Aside from a darker tone, it places a greater emphasis on survival, gathering loot, and class-based tactical shooting. You explore the New Zealand-Inspired fictional island of Aurora as Ghosts operative Lieutenant Colonel “Nomad,” as they take on missions to eliminate a rogue military contractor known as Skell Technology.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (PS4, Xbox One, PC) — October 25

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a soft reboot to the tenured first-person shooter franchise. Across both single-player and multiplayer, the focus this time is on tactical shooting and decision-making. Though, you can still expect the fast-paced competitive thrills the series is known builds its name on. Other notable features in Modern Warfare include cross-platform multiplayer, the return of killstreaks, an 100-player mode called Ground War, and more.

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Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Switch) — October 31

Nintendo fans will be pleased to know that Luigi’s Mansion 3 is releasing this month and on Halloween, no less! It once again stars Mario’s easily-frightened brother who’s on an adventure to rid the ghostly presence of a haunted hotel.

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Takashi Miike is one of the most varied, and certainly the most prolific, filmmakers to emerge from Japan over the past 30 years. In the West he’s best known for his horror movies, violent gangster thrillers, and samurai dramas, with movies such as Audition, Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins, and the Dead of Alive movies showing his ability to deliver wild, gory, and highly inventive cinema. But with a filmography that now includes more than 100 movies, he’s dipped into pretty much every genre imaginable, including kids’ movies, fantasy epics, serious dramas, and video game adaptations.

His ability to effortlessly genre-hop defines his latest movie, First Love. On the face of it this is another gangster drama, with a large cast of yakuza and triad mobsters, and all the shooting, stabbing, and wild bloodshed fans have come to expect from his work. But it’s also a sweet romantic drama and uproarious comedy, with a storyline that manages to balance all its disparate elements and large enable cast into a supremely entertaining whole.

Initially, there’s a lot of story and characters to set up. There’s Leo, an aspiring boxer who is given a terminal brain tumor diagnosis after a knock down in the ring. Monica is a drug-addicted woman who is made to work as a prostitute for gangsters and is haunted by hallucinations of her dead father. There’s corrupt cop Otomo and a young yakuza named Kase, who are planning to steal a shipment of drugs from the gang and blame it on their Chinese rivals, plus a wide assortment of gang bosses, cops, hitmen, and underworld heavies.

But it doesn’t take long for the various plot strands to come together. When the plan to rip off the gang goes wrong, Leo and Monica find themselves inadvertently thrown together, trying to outrun various parties, while the bungling Otomo and Kase find themselves getting deeper and deeper into trouble. It all takes place over the course of one night in neon-drenched Tokyo, and once the movie takes flight it never stops moving.

In less experienced hands, the relentless pace, mix of genres, and high number of characters might have been confusing and grating. But Miike is a veteran of this sort of thing, and compared to the likes of the Dead or Alive movies, First Love is actually very controlled. While some of those earlier movies were primarily concerned with visceral thrills and outlandish shocks, First Love keeps its two young damaged heroes at the centre. Leo’s terminal condition and Monica’s addictions draw them together, as they find support for each other and, as a result, feel a determination to stay alive for at least one more night. Masataka Kubota and Sakurako Konishi’s heartfelt performances anchor the movie and ensure that the mayhem is balanced by tender emotion.

Nevertheless, let’s not forget this is still a Takashi Miike film. Within the first minutes a severed head rolls into view, and from that point all bets are off, as he bombards us with thrilling car chases, frenetic shoot-outs and gore-soaked sword fights. None of it is played remotely seriously, but it’s consistently funny, inventive, and exciting. The action is matched by some wonderfully funny supporting performances–in particular Shōta Sometani as the young, idiotic gangster Kase and singer Becky’s vengeful, blade wielding Juri, who will stop at nothing to avenge her yakuza lover’s murder. It’s also worth highlighting Koji Endo’s wild score, a bombastic blend of squealing sax, didgeridoo, and pounding drums.


There’s little denying that First Love might be too eccentric for some audiences. The blend of genres, the relentless pace, and gory violence is far removed from what we expect from Hollywood films, not to mention the jaw-dropping moment where Miike brazenly swaps what would have been the movie’s biggest stunt for an animated version, presumably because the budget wouldn’t allow him to do it for real. But for fans of Miike’s particular brand of cinematic madness, First Love is a blast of pure kinetic pleasure.

Microsoft has announced its next Inside Xbox presentation, and it sounds like a big one. The company has already previewed what we can expect from this stream, and it includes more details on tech initiatives, the upcoming X019 event, another round of Xbox Game Pass games for subscribers, and a lot more on other upcoming releases.

Inside Xbox (September 24) Start Times

• 3 PM PT
• 6 PM ET
• 11 PM BST
• 8 AM AEST (September 25)

According to Microsoft’s announcement, the event will have the latest details on Project xCloud and roll out ticketing information for X019. It will share the next round of Game Pass titles that subscribers can expect, to join the ones announced through September 26. It will also feature an interview with Jon Bernthal, star of Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

The company also name-dropped several games we can expect to make an appearance in one way or another. Those include The Outer Worlds, the game being put out by the newly-acquired Obsidian Entertainment. It’s being published by Private Division even though Microsoft has acquired the developer, but Microsoft is still giving it headliner treatment on its stream and offering it through Game Pass. Other games slated for an appearance include Atlas, DayZ, Hitman 2, Afterparty, Code Vein, Felix the Reaper, and Children of Morta.

To watch it all go down live, bookmark this page and check the schedule above to plan your watching accordingly. Microsoft’s stream will take place just a couple of hours after Sony’s State of Play, giving this particular day something of a miniature E3 feel with dueling platform holders holding back-to-back showcases.