Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of April 14th – You Can’t Escape From ‘Heart Eyes’ (Nor Should You Want To)

Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, the incredibly fun horror/romantic comedy hybrid Heart Eyes hits shelves. Today also brings a classic coming to the Criterion Collection in Chungking Express. What else is available? Read on to find out…

Joey’s Top Pick

Heart Eyes

I got such a kick out of Heart Eyes. What makes the film so good? Well, it’s the fact that it’s as strong a romantic comedy as it is a slasher flick. That’s very rare for these genres, so being both horror and rom com easily elevates the movie. My rave review here from earlier in the year began like so:

I love a good romantic comedy. This is not news to any of you who read my stuff. It’s also no secret that I’m fond of quality horror. So, the concept of combining the two in a novel way really piqued my interest. At the same time, it goes without saying that a romantic comedy slasher film is not easy to pull off. As such, it’s a really high compliment on my part to say that Heart Eyes is just as good a rom-com as it is a slasher. The movie is a genre fan’s dream, full stop.

Heart Eyes knows that both genres need to be honored, or else neither will work in the flick. Watching it consistently play into the emotion, horror, and laughs with equal respect is a sight to behold. Getting half of it right would have led to a quality film. Instead, by going above and beyond, we have one of the best works of 2025 so far.

Also Available This Week

Basic Instinct (4K)

The Good German (4K)

The Informant! (4K)

King of New York (4K)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Star Trek: Lower Decks – The Complete Series (TV)

Criterion Corner

Chungking Express

From The Criterion Collection: “The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’ ” into tokens of romantic longing.”

Stay tuned for more next week…