Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of July 1st – ‘Forrest Gump’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ Get 4K Steelbooks

Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, we don’t really have any new releases of note, but we do have some 4K Steelbooks hitting shelves. They include the likes of Forrest Gump, Saw X, and Taxi Driver, among others. What did I choose as my top pick today? Find out below, as well as what the new Criterion Collection release is…

Joey’s Top Pick

Taxi Driver (4K Steelbook)

Arguably Martin Scorsese‘s best film, this is also one of the finest hours for both Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster (not to mention Harvey Keitel and Peter Boyle, or writer Paul Schrader for that matter). It’s almost an embarrassment of riches for this absolute stone cold classic. The movie speaks for itself, to be sure. Taxi Driver is a must own for your collection, so the fact that a cool Steelbook edition of the 4K is out just makes it an even more obvious choice.

Also Available This Week

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (4K)

Escape Plan Triple Feature

Forrest Gump (4K Steelbook)

Housekeeping for Beginners

Icons Unearthed: The Simpsons (TV)

Natural Born Killers (4K Director’s Cut)

Point Break (4K)

Saw X (4K Steelbook)

UHF (4K)

Criterion Corner

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

From The Criterion Collection: “Sam Peckinpah’s cycle of genre-redefining westerns came to a close with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling-class order—all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan (who also appears as the mercurial Alias). Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid—presented here for the first time in three separate versions—stands as perhaps the maverick auteur’s richest, most mature work, a world-weary ballad that bears the solemn weight of history passing into legend.”

Stay tuned for more next week…