Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of June 16th – Bring Home all of the ‘Jurassic Park’ / ‘Jurassic World’ Films!

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, dinosaurs rule the column, as 4K editions of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World trilogies lead the charge. This week also features a pair of Criterion Collection debuts, as well as several 4K/Blu-ray re-releases. So, there’s options. What are they, you ask? Well, read on to find out…

Joey’s Top Pick

Jurassic Park Trilogy / Jurassic World Trilogy (4K)

These are two separate trilogy packs, so go with which one speaks to you most. Regardless, with Jurassic World Rebirth only a few weeks away, revisiting the prior six films in the franchise, on glorious 4K, feels like a lot of fun. One pack has Jurassic Park (a stone cold classic), The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Jurassic Park III. The other has Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Jurassic World: Dominion (reviewed here). However you slice it, there’s a half dozen movies available with dinosaurs running amok, and that’s a good time, cinematically speaking.

Also Available This Week

All of Me (Blu-ray)

The Assessment

A Different Man

Gary Cooper 4-Film Collection (Blu-ray)

Jaws (4K)

Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault: Volume 1 (Blu-ray)

Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Series + 4 TV Movies (TV)

My Hero Academia: Season Seven, Part One (Blu-ray)

Sabrina (4K)

The Way of the Gun (4K)

Criterion Corner

Midnight

From The Criterion Collection: “Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American chorus girl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness—but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s sophisticated script—a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation—and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite.”

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Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser

From The Criterion Collection: “The closest a film camera ever got to enigmatic jazz visionary Thelonious Monk, this intimate portrait sheds light on the corners of a brilliant and complex life. Superbly crafted by Direct Cinema pioneer Charlotte Zwerin from a trove of precious 1960s archival footage, Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser captures the pianist, composer, and bebop innovator in rare, unguarded moments on- and offstage, revealing an eccentric and complicated personality. Made with the same freedom of spirit that defines Monk’s artistry, this essential slice of jazz history is a unique glimpse into the quixotic world of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists.”

Stay tuned for more next week…