Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of October 6th – ‘F1: The Movie’ Zooms to Your Screens

Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, we have an old-fashioned blockbuster coming home in F1: The Movie, alongside a cute lark like Honey Don’t. Today also features some fun re-releases, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 4K, as well as a very interesting Criterion Collection release. What else is hitting shelves? Read on to find out…

Joey’s Top Pick

F1: The Movie

They don’t make em like this one anymore. F1: The Movie isn’t quite on the level of something like Top Gun: Maverick, but you can see director Joseph Kosinski once again utilizing the formula to great effect. This time, his movie star is Brad Pitt, giving a hell of a movie star performance. My highly positive review of the film here on the site began like so:

A summer blockbuster like F1: The Movie shouldn’t feel as novel as it does. Hollywood used to put out big sports films all the time. Summer used to always be home to epic star vehicles and crowdpleasers like this one. However, that’s not what we get anymore, so the movie enters into a marketplace hungering for exactly what it offers. As an added bonus? The flick is one of the best of the year so far, so it’s supreme entertainment, to boot.

F1: The Movie has a very Top Gun: Maverick vibe, which is not accidental, considering the crew below the line is largely similar. Now, that’s a compliment, since that film is among the most successful in recent memory, both in terms of the craftsmanship and execution on display, as well as its overall embrace by the cinematic community. If this flick does half as well, all involved will be pleased. Now, substituting Formula One cars for fighter jets isn’t exactly the same thing, but when the racing starts, you’ll be just as swept away.

Also Available This Week

The Bad Guys 2

Dangerous Animals

Guns Up

Honey Don’t

I Know What You Did Last Summer

The Last Rodeo

The Newsroom: The Complete Series (TV)

Nobody 2

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (4K)

The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 2 (TV)

Criterion Corner

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

From The Criterion Collection: “In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.”

Stay tuned for more next week…