Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of January 8th – ‘Oldboy’ Comes to 4K

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a light slate in terms of new releases from last year, but a classic in Oldboy comes to 4K. Joining that this week we also have a top tier Criterion Collection release in Blood Simple. Read on for more…

Joey’s Top Pick

Oldboy

Oldboy is a classic at this point, that goes without saying. NEON put it back into theaters recently and blew a whole new set of minds. Now, they’re putting out a 4K, which is a must own, if you love the flick. Obviously ignore the poor remake, but in terms of original genre fare, few things beat the madness that Park Chan-wook came up with here.

Also Available This Week

Eddie Murphy: Raw (Blu-ray)

Suitable Flesh

Varsity Blues (4K)

Criterion Corner

Blood Simple

From The Criterion Collection: “Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh looms over the proceedings as a slippery private eye with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat, and no moral compass, and Frances McDormand’s cunning debut performance set her on the road to stardom. The tight scripting and inventive style that have marked the Coens’ work for decades are all here in their first film, in which cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld abandons black-and-white chiaroscuro for neon signs and jukebox colors that combine with Carter Burwell’s haunting score to lurid and thrilling effect. Blending elements from pulp fiction and low-budget horror flicks, Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene.”

Stay tuned for more next week…