Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, the terrifying warning about our future that was Contagion gets a special 4K release. Joining the slate today is also a range of 2023 titles, including Dream Scenario, Next Goal Wins, and Wonka. What else is hitting shelves, besides a new Criterion Collection release? Read on to find out…
Cinematography by Steven Soderbergh
Contagion (4K)
Steven Soderbergh‘s chilling Contagion was utterly terrifying back in 2011. In 2020, it became a prophecy. There’s not a ton new to say about it, but it was a film that was almost unwatchable for a time, just due to how close to home it hit. Now, with a bit more time having passed, you can appreciate its uncompromising view of a pandemic. It remains riveting, just with an added weight. Now in 4K, if you can handle it, it’s definitely worth picking up.
Recommended Movies
Next Goal Wins
Taika Waititi‘s inspirational sports comedy was a punching bag after the Toronto International Film Festival last year. That’s a shame, since this is a fun little flick. It was misrepresented as an awards player, but Next Goal Wins is enjoyable on its own simple merits. Back at TIFF, I had this to say in my review:
Next Goal Wins is a crowdpleaser and deeply amusing. The thing is, it isn’t more than that, which is okay, but potentially not what some will be expecting. There’s heart and humor in abundance, just in service of the sort of story you’ve seen done many times before. Has Waititi ever done it? No, and it shows in his sensibilities coming through. Just don’t go in with notions of something that it’s not.
All Quiet on the Western Front (4K)
Fear the Walking Dead – The Complete Eighth Season (TV)
Migration
Miranda’s Victim
Monk: The Complete Fourth Season (TV)
The Night They Came Home
Orphan Black: The Complete Series (TV)
Smallville: The Complete Series (TV)
The Roaring Twenties
From The Criterion Collection: “Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan’s Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh, and based on a story by prolific journalist turned screenwriter and producer Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties brought to a close the celebrated Warner Bros. gangster cycle of the 1930s, and it remains one of the greatest and most influential crime films of all time.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
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