Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of August 19th – A Host of 4K and SteelBook Re-Releases

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we don’t have any new releases of note to discuss. We do, however, have a ton of 4K and SteelBook re-releases hitting shelves. Largely, they’re of the horror variety, which is interesting to take note of. They obviously are more for collectors, but some of you out there still value physical media, I’m sure. Throw in a new Criterion Collection release this week and there’s options for those going shopping, without question. Read on for more…

Joey’s Top Pick

Again, there’s not necessarily one pick this week here, as there’s all sorts of re-releases. So, I’ll give you two very different options. There’s the original Dracula in a 4K SteelBook for fans of a classic, while Red Eye gets a 4K edition. It’s a lot of horror, admittedly, as I mentioned above, so anyone looking to get a jumpstart on Halloween viewing could do very well here. Whatever your brand of fright flick, as you’ll see below, there’s something for you!

Also Available This Week

Beetlejuice (4K)

Can’t Hardly Wait (4K)

The China Syndrome (Blu-ray)

Evil Dead (4K)

Frankenstein (4K SteelBook)

Green Border

Halo: Season Two (TV)

Hannibal Rising (SteelBook)

I Spit on Your Grave (SteelBook)

Joker (4K)

La Brea: The Complete Series (TV)

The Last Unicorn (4K)

Leatherface (SteelBook)

Let Him Go (4K)

Sinister (SteelBook)

Tremors: 7-Movie Collection

Wolf Creek (SteelBook)

You’ll Never Find Me

You’re Next (SteelBook)

Criterion Corner

Not a Pretty Picture

From The Criterion Collection: “Trailblazing filmmaker Martha Coolidge made her feature debut with this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction. Centered on an intense reenactment of Coolidge’s experience of rape in her adolescence, the film casts Michele Manenti (also a survivor) as the director’s younger self, and observes the actor and her castmates as they engage in a profound dialogue about what it means to recreate these traumatic memories, and about their attitudes concerning consent and self-blame. A high-stakes experiment in metacinema that broke new ground with its uncompromising examination of date rape, Not a Pretty Picture brings a stunning immediacy to questions about the on-screen representation of sexual violence and the limits of artistic catharsis.”

Stay tuned for more next week…