My wife has some extended family in the Nashville, TN area. Whenever we visit them, or even just pass through we stop at a store called McKays. McKays is a giant used book/movie/music/collectibles store. I love it. We wander the aisles for an hour or so picking out everything our budget will allow (we never enter until we’ve agreed on a spending limit, otherwise we’d go broke).
They have a very nice classics section in their DVD department and I usually wind up with a handful of films from there. My favorites are the boxed sets. There is always an assortment of old DVDs packaged together in some way or another. Sometimes it’s by genre, or all the films star a certain actor or were directed by the same person. Other times it will be films put out by a particular studio.
They don’t seem to do that type of thing as often with Blu-rays and 4K UHDs, or maybe I’m just not looking hard enough (or quite possibly my bank account can afford it so I ignore them). My pick this week is a nice-looking set of films from Columbia Studios. I can’t figure out if they have any other commonalities, probably not. As per usual with this sort of thing, some films are better than others, but I love me a boxed set and I’m adding this one to my Wish List.
the films included are All the King’s Men 4K / On the Waterfront 4K / A Man for All Seasons 4K / Tootsie 4K / The Age of Innocence 4K / Little Women 4K / The Scarlet Lady 4K / The Desert Bride 4K / Ladies of Leisure 4K / The Belle of Broadway BD.
Also out this week that looks interesting:
Deadpool & Wolverine: The X-Men films have been a very mixed bag, but the best ones are some of the best comic book films ever made and Hugh Jackman has consistently been excellent in his portrayal of Wolverine. I quite liked the first Deadpool as it was a refreshing breath of (vulgar) air from the muck of comic book films we’ve been experiencing for the last decade +. The sequel was just okay. Which is to say I’ll probably watch this at some point, but not anytime soon.
Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment: I’m not a huge fan of the Hellraiser films. They tend to rely too heavily and the icky-freaky factor and not enough on creating a good story. But they have their fans and this set of the first four films from Arrow Video looks great.
Twisters: I’m from Oklahoma. We know a lot about tornados. The original Twister knew very little about them. That ruined the film for me. They made so many stupid mistakes. I’ll probably continue to skip this one.
Cuckoo: I keep hearing good things about this one. I’ve been avoiding information on it so that I can come to it fresh.
Gummo: Harmony Korine’s weird little drama about lonely people living lonely lives in Ohio gets the 4K treatment from Criterion.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Kino Lorber is giving this silent horror classic (that I still haven’t seen) the 4K treatment.
Cheeky!: Tinto Brass is famous for having directed Caligula and refusing to insert hard-core pornography into it and then he spent the rest of his career making medium-core erotic flicks. Cult Epics is giving this one the 4K treatment.
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