Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of June 15th – Dive Into Some Horror Sequels With ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ and ‘Scream 7’

Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, we have a trio of sequels leading the way, with a pair of horror sequels up front in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, as well as Scream 7. There’s also, for the families, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Today also brings other 4K re-releases, as well as a Criterion Collection debut. What else is hitting shelves? Read on to find out…

Joey’s Top Pick

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

If Ready or Not 2: Here I Come doesn’t have the same unique feel or wow factor as Ready or Not, it still offers a decent amount of fun. It’s a good time for gorehounds and horror fans, even if it falls into some sequel traps. My review here on the site began like so:

Ready or Not was a delightful surprise for me, mixing comedy and horror in a consistently entertaining manner. Nothing about it called for a sequel, but then again, Radio Silence has proven themselves time and time again, even with Scream sequels, so they deserved the benefit of the doubt. While Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is completely unnecessary and nothing about the film breaks any new ground, the pleasures here are quite similar to last time out. While the element of surprise is no longer in their favor, the ability to consistently entertain, as well as play the premise out to its full potential, is once again in evidence. Did I demand a sequel to Ready or Not? No. Did I enjoy the hell out of this, nevertheless? You bet I did.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come doesn’t have the same wow factor as its predecessor, admittedly, but all involved know what works about the property. Raising the stakes and opening up the world can be a mixed bag for a sequel, but this flick manages not to dilute what works. Last time around, I was grinning from ear to ear throughout. Here, my smile wasn’t quite as big, but it sure was there, basically from start to finish.

Also Available This Week

The Arrival (4K)

Audition (4K)

Avatar: Ultimate 3-Movie Collection (4K)

Cloud Atlas (4K)

Dark Winds: Season 4 (TV)

Day of the Dead (4K)

Difficult People: The Complete Series (TV)

Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert

Eraser (4K)

Grand Hotel (Blu-ray)

Hamilton (4K)

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Complete First Season (TV)

Perfect Blue (4K)

Scream 7

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

To Kill a Mockingbird (4K)

Warcraft (4K)

The Wizard of Oz (Blu-ray)

You, Me & Tuscany

Criterion Corner

High Art

From The Criterion Collection: “In a revelatory performance, Ally Sheedy stars in writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s debut feature, a wry and incisive look at the politics of the New York art scene wrapped in the guise of an emotionally spiky queer romance. When Lucy Berliner (Sheedy), a once prominent photographer who has retreated into a life of heroin abuse with her faded-actress lover (Patricia Clarkson), is rediscovered by Syd (Radha Mitchell), an up-and-coming editor at a photography magazine, professional ambition and personal attraction become dangerously entwined. Stripping away art-world glamour to tell a seductive yet troubling story of complicated human connection, High Art stands as an essential work of both queer and 1990s independent cinema.”

Stay tuned for more next week…