Movie Madness Erik Childress

A pretty solid week for new Blu-ray and 4K arrivals that Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski talk you through. They include, arguably, David Lynch’s best film and the consequences if you choose an ice dancing show over it. Orson Welles’ first foray into cinematic Shakespeare as well as a special collection of the cavalcade of films released in the wake of Bruce Lee’s untimely passing. Joe Dante’s loving tribute to the movies of our youth gets the 4K upgrade as do the works of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Finally, is the film that truly launched Prince one of the best bad movies ever made or one of the worst great movies? You make the call, now in 4K!
0:00 - Intro
1:59 – Criterion (Blue Velvet 4K)
20:02 – Kino (MacBeth)
26:10 – Severin (The Game of Clones Bruceploitation Collection)
35:43 - Fun City (Strangers Kiss)
39:27 – Shout Factory (Matinee 4K)
48:26 – Paramount (When Worlds Collide, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 4K, Team America: World Police 4K)
1:10:10 – Warner Bros. (Purple Rain 4K)
1:29:55 – New Theatrical & TV Blu-ray Releases
1:35:24 – New Blu-ray Announcements

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have seven films for you to hear about this week. Two you heard about before when June Squibb went into action mode on a phishing scam at Sundance (Thelma) and Rachel Sennott nannies a teenage girl (I Used To Be Funny). Still funny are the queer comedians featured in a new Netflix doc (Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution). Less funny is seeing Abbie Cornish in a twisty con game (Detained). Maybe a but funnier is Jessica Alba as a ”skilled special forces commando” (Trigger Warning) and certainly less funny is watching Russell Crowe in a second possession film in two years from the son of the star Jason Miller (The Exorcism). Finally Jeff Nichols puts Tom Hardy and Austin Butler on motorcycles and Jodie Comer tells us all about it. (The Bikeriders).
 
0:00 - Intro
1:47 - Thelma
12:37 - I Used To Be Funny
17:31 - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
25:46 - Detained
31:11 - Trigger Warning
43:11 – The Exorcism
57:30 – The Bikeriders
1:09:58 - Outro

A lot of great titles for your physical media library and Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski are here to guide you through it. They include the debut films from the Wachowskis and Jeff Nichols. Plenty of noir to go around this week courtesy of Kino, Paul Schrader and a look at the new 4K Chinatown package. They discuss some of the Robocop follow-ups, some early Hitchcock, disagree on The Karate Kid, talk James Woods and cocaine. And speaking of controversy and weirdness, Peter tells you all about the big Bo Derek debacle of the 1980s.
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Criterion (Bound)
11:08 - Arrow (American Gigolo)
22:11 - MGM (Bolero, The Boost)
43:41 - Warner Archive (Mr and Mrs Smith)
48:47 - Shout (Robocop 2, Robocop (2014))
57:30 - Sony: (Cat Ballou, The Karate Kid, Beverly Hills Ninja, Shotgun Stories)
1:17:07 - Kino (Film Noir XIX)
1:26:49 - Paramount: (Chinatown 4K, The Two Jakes 4K)
1:45:19 – New Theatrical & TV Titles
1:50:34 – New Blu-ray Announcements

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have no anxiety reviewing eight movies this week. Especially when one is a replay of a movie they raved about at Sundance and won the Audience Award at their Chicago Critics Film Festival this year (Ghostlight). But Steve also talks about Jude Law and Alicia Vikander in a story about Henry VIII (Firebrand) as well as Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham as a father and daughter revisiting Poland (Treasure). Erik checks out David Duchovny adapting his own novel (Reverse the Curse) and an animated version of a decades-old Japanese superhero (Ultraman Rising). They look at Julia Louis-Dreyfus in a fantastical story about confronting death (Tuesday) while Andrew McCarthy confronts the reality of the group labeled the “Brat Pack” (Brats). Finally the old emotions meet some new ones in Disney-Pixar’s sequel to one of their very best (Inside Out 2).
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Firebrand
8:49 - Reverse the Curse
15:27 - Treasure
23:20 - Ultraman Rising
30:10 - Tuesday
44:17 - Brats
1:00:23 - Ghostlight
1:09:50 - Inside Out 2
1:25:02 - Outro

It is a bit on the lackluster side of physical media releases this week but there are a few gems to get your wallets involved. Peter Sobczynski and Erik Childress talk about the final film from Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the final appearance of Alec Guinness. As series with four entries goes there is more love for Shrek than Species. The T&A teen comedy of the ‘80s gets a double feature and there are also stellar early efforts from Luc Besson and Denzel Washington.
0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Criterion (Querelle)
9:26 - Arrow (Mute Witness 4K)
15:17 – Shout Factory (Species II 4K)
22:30 - Universal (Shrek 4K collection)
25:34 - Unearthed (Homework)
32:15 - MGM (Class, Betrayed, The Mighty Quinn)
56:04 - Sony (La Femme Nikita 4K)
1:05:18 – New Theatrical Titles on Blu-ray
1:09:21 -  New Blu-ray Announcements

On this six-movie week, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy go back two years to revisit a Dakota Johnson comedy that debuted at Sundance in 2022 (Am I OK?). Erik goes back a couple of weeks to look at the true story of a Chinese immigrant turned eye surgeon (Sight). There are sharks in the Siene (Under Paris) and young women are getting whacked around a weed farm (Trim Season). The daughter of M. Night Shayamalan makes her feature directorial debut (The Watchers) and Martin Lawrence reteams with Will Smith for a fourth time (Bad Boys: Ride or Die).
 
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Am I OK?
13:04 - Sight
22:47 - Under Paris
35:21 - Trim Season
42:33 – The Watchers
54:28 - Bad Boys: Ride or Die
1:08:53 - Outro