Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a breakthrough work from both filmmaker Todd Haynes and actress Julianne Moore in Safe coming to the Criterion Collection. In addition to that film, there’s also a notable new release in the video game adaptation Exit 8, as well as an infamous one in the Uwe Boll and Armie Hammer monstrosity Citizen Vigilante. What else is hitting shelves this week, especially in regard to 4K re-releases? Well, read on to find out…
Joey’s Top Pick
Safe (Criterion)
From The Criterion Collection: “Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics.”
Also Available This Week
American Pie 2 (4K)
Citizen Vigilante
Creepshow 2 (4K)
Little Fockers (4K)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Blu-ray)
The People vs Larry Flynt (4K)
Prom Night (4K)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (4K)
*As a reminder, Safe is on Criterion today and is also our Top Pick*
Stay tuned for more next week…
If you have not seen this movie in a while, a rewatch is highly recommended from me. Not only because it is a stone-cold masterpiece from one of our finest working directors, but if you haven’t seen it again post-COVID, I’m not kidding when I say it genuinely feels like watching a completely different movie in the context of that once-in-a-century pandemic.
Oh, without question.