You can get a jump on the remaining episodes of the PBS broadcast of the final season of Downton Abbey with the newly released Downton Abbey Season 6 now available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

For the last six years the show has been seen in the U.K. in the autumn of each year with the final episode shown on Christmas Day after a brief interlude. In the U.S., the show has then been seen in back-to-back episodes beginning the following January. Don’t be alarmed, I won’t reveal any of the last season’s surprises. Suffice it to say that there is a happy ending for all the current characters. There are two deaths, but neither is of a major character. Both deaths serve to move the narrative in different directions. The most delightful surprise is the revelation of the identity of the gossipy advice writer on Lady Edith’s magazine. It all ends with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” and a final bon mot by the resident dowager, the sublime Maggie Smith.

Smith isn’t the only one who shines in the final season. Hugh Bonneville as the Earl of Grantham; Elizabeth McGovern as the Countess of Grantham; Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary; Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith; Allen Leech as Tom Branson; Penelope Wilton as Isobel Crawley; Jim Carter as butler Mr. Carson; Phyllis Logan as housekeeper Mrs. Hughes; Rob James-Collier as under-butler Thomas Barrow; Joanne Froggatt as lady’s maid Anna; Brendan Coyle as valet Bates; Kevin Doyle as footman Molesley; Raquel Cassidy as lady’s maid Baxter; Sophie McShera as kitchen maid Daisy; Lesley Nicol as cook Mrs. Patmore; and more are given their due. After two so-so seasons, the show harkens back to the brilliance of the first three and goes out a total triumph with the current one.

It cries out for a “what happened to…” special or sequel. Someone get the petition started!

Meryl Streep has been Oscar-nominated 19 times and not always for worthy roles. This year she missed out on a nod for the Diablo Cody-scripted Jonathan Demme comedy Ricki and the Flash despite the fact that it’s one of her better performances of recent years.

Streep plays a woman who abandoned her husband and three children to make it as a rock star in 1988. While she never became a star, she has kept up her act, performing in a local club in Tarzana, Calif. while working days at a local supermarket. She is summoned back to Indianapolis by her former husband (Kevin Kline) when her suicidal daughter (Mamie Gummer) has a crisis after her husband leaves her for another woman. One son (Ben Westrate) is gay and the other (Sebastian Stan) is about to be married. After a confrontation with Kline’s second wife (Audra McDonald), Streep returns to Tarzana, her band, and boyfriend Rick Springfield, who is supposed to be a younger man. The funny thing is that both Streep and Springfield were born in 1949, making them both 66 at the time of filming. Kline was 68, McDonald was 45. Gummer, Stan and Westrate are all past 30. They are not exactly kids who need their Mommy, yet that is the thin thread on which the film is held together. Somehow or other it works with Streep and Springfield performing nine songs in the bargain. Charlotte Ray, 89, briefly appears as Kline’s mother.

Ricki and the Flash is available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Prolific TV writer-producer-director John Wells has directed few big screen films. His last was the generally dismissed August: Osage County, one of those recent unworthy films for which Streep was nominated for an Oscar. This time around he directs three-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper as a diva chef trying to regain his reputation in London in Burnt. It’s a showcase for the actor, but unfortunately it isn’t much else, although a long list of actors with sturdy reputations give it their all.

Sienna Miller, Cooper’s wife in American Sniper plays a chef with emotional problems; Daniel Bruhl (Rush) plays the hotel manager who hires him for his restaurant; Omar Sy (The Intouchables plays a chef Cooper wronged in Paris; Uma Thurman plays a food critic; Emma Thompson plays his shrink; and new star of the year Alicia Vikander has a bit part. The food, though, looks scrumptious.

Burnt is available on Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Shockingly short-changed at the 2013 Academy Awards, the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, about the early 1960s New York City folk scene, received only two Oscar nominations, one for its striking cinematography, the other for its excellent sound mixing. There were no nominations for the Coen Brothers for writing, direction or the film itself. Nor was there one for Oscar Isaacs for his superb lead performance. Sony released it on Blu-ray and DVD in 2014 with an accompanying making-of featurette. Criterion has now given it a state-of-the-art 4K digital transfer with new commentary; a new interview with the Coen Brothers conducted by Guillermo del Toro; a 101-minute musical tribute film with Isaacs, Joan Baez, Jack White, and others performing music from the film and other songs of the era; a folk music discussion with the Coen Brothers and T-Bone Burnett; a new documentary on the sixties Greenwich Village folk scene; and a short film documenting a 1961 clash between musicians and police in Washington Square Park. It’s quite the upgrade!

Criterion has also released a new digital restoration of the 1946 film noir classic Gilda directed Charles Vidor with Rita Hayworth in her most iconic role as a sultry cabaret star, superbly supported by Glenn Ford and George Macready. Extras include a 2010 audio commentary by Richard Schickel; a 2010 discussion by Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann about their appreciation of the film; a new interview with film historian Eddie Muller; and “The Odyssey of Rita Hayworth,” a 1964 episode of the TV show Hollywood and the Star.

The Criterion editions of Inside Llewyn Davis and Gilda are available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Warner Archive has released a Blu-ray upgrade of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 film The Wrong Man based on the true story of Manny Balestrero, the Stork Club musician falsely identified as an armed robber and the burdens that placed on the lives of Manny and his wife, superbly played by Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. Filmed on location in the New York City of the mid-1950s, the film is one of Hitchcock’s best, if least known, films. The extras, including a making-of documentary, are transfers from the previous DVD.

Warner Archive will also be releasing Hitchcock’s underrated 1953 film I Confess on Blu-ray in two weeks on February 16th.

This week’s new releases include Bridge of Spies and Truth.