Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of October 12th – Revisit ‘Project Hail Mary’ in Advance of Awards Season with a Limited Edition SteelBook

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a number of SteelBook re-releases hitting shelves, led by Project Hail Mary. This week features plenty of other SteelBook options, as well as some other fun 4K release. Additionally, we have a pair of Criterion Collection debuts to consider. What else is coming out? Find out below…

Joey’s Top Pick

Project Hail Mary (4K SteelBook)

As I said when it initially hit shelves earlier in the summer, nothing this year in theaters has brought me more joy than Project Hail Mary. The friendship between Ryan Gosling‘s Ryland Grace and Rocky is among the great modern onscreen bromances. It’s truly the rare type of film to bring happiness to the masses, so that alone makes it a gem. That the movie is so wonderful as well? That’s just a bonus. I’ve gone on and on about this one for months now, and frankly, have no plans on stopping anytime soon. My four star rave review here on the site began like so:

Wow. Truly, it feels apt to begin a review of Project Hail Mary with just that. Wow. There is something about the works of Andy Weir that I’m now convinced make amazing films. The Martian is one of the best adaptations of a science fiction novel in some time, so expectations here were already high. Still, in taking a more ambitious Weir work and making this movie as phenomenal as it is does feel like an achievement. Those calling it E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial meets Interstellar are giving you an idea of what to expect, this has elements of Gravity and The Martian as well. Moreover, this is probably the most purely entertaining of the lot. This flick is incredible, absolutely engrossing, and the best film of the year so far.

Project Hail Mary is the highlight of 2026 cinema to date due to how immediately sucked in by the story you get. The sci-fi elements aren’t necessarily unlike anything you’ve seen before, though how it’s depicted is very unique. This is a stunning achievement, all things considered, with so much heart and imagination. I loved every single moment of this movie, from first frame to last.

Also Available This Week

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (4K)

The Blair Witch Project (Blu-ray)

Evil Dead Burn (4K SteelBook)

Hostel / Hostel: Part II (4K)

The Last Boy Scout (4K)

Maniac (4K)

Maverick: The Complete Series (TV)

The Pope’s Exorcist (4K)

Repo! The Genetic Opera (4K SteelBook)

Rob Zombie’s Firefly Trilogy (4K)

Rollercoaster (4K)

Criterion Corner

Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller

From The Criterion Collection: “His films have been called raw, outrageous, sensational, and daring. In four decades of directing, Samuel Fuller created a legendarily idiosyncratic oeuvre, examining U.S. history and mythmaking in westerns, film noirs, and war epics. And, characteristically, it all began with a bang: after “printing the legend” with the elegant B pictures I Shot Jesse James and The Baron of Arizona, he got himself into hot water with the FBI with The Steel Helmet, the first American movie to portray the Korean War. These three independent films—showing off Fuller’s genre diversity, gutter wit, and subversive force—set the stage for his controversial career in moviemaking.”

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The Shout

From The Criterion Collection: “A tour de force of psychic dread that begins as an ambient murmur and builds to an existential shriek, legendary Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s provocative adaptation of a short story by Robert Graves is a hallucinatory confrontation with the unknown. In a small English village, an experimental composer (John Hurt) and his wife (Susannah York) see their routine existence upended by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger (a seductively sinister Alan Bates), who claims to possess knowledge of Aboriginal magic and the ability to kill using a deadly scream—a power that makes him an object of both terror and desire. With its puzzle-box structure, unnerving ambiguity, and otherworldly electronic sound design, this Cannes Film Festival award winner quivers with the primal fear of mysterious and uncontrollable forces.”

Stay tuned for more next week…