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Joey Magidson Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a new Ghostbusters hitting shelves in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Joining it this week, among other things, are a trio of Criterion Collection releases. What else? Well, read on to find out…
Joey’s Top Pick
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The latest Ghostbusters sequel is more flawed than I would have liked, but it still managed to more than satisfy me. As a silly summer movie, coming out in the almost spring, it certainly did the trick, if not with the style points the franchise was previously capable of. My review here on the site includes the following bit:
I’m an easy mark for a Ghostbusters movie. The first film is damn near perfect, the sequel is definitely fun, and I was a big fan of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (as you can see here). So, my anticipation was pretty high for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, give or take the iffy title. Here, we don’t have the the same level of nostalgia fueling things this time around, but it’s very funny, and actually fairly action-packed. What the late Ivan Reitman (the film is dedicated to him) crafted 40 years ago has definitely changed, though the core of crowd-pleasing entertainment is largely the same.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has an unevenness and messiness that the prior installments never had. At the same time, it’s arguably the funniest installment since the original. So, there’s a sense of this being successful in fits and starts. Does the good outweigh the bad? Yes. Is it also the first sequel to really have warts to deal with? Also yes. So, I’m still recommending the movie, but there are some reservations here, unfortunately.
Also Available This Week
Brooklyn 45
The Boys in the Boat
The Flash: The Original Series (TV)
Godzilla/Kong Monsterverse: 5-Film Collector’s Edition
The Hunger Games: 5-Movie Collection
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Monkey Man
Purple Rain (4K)
Criterion Corner
Blue Velvet
From The Criterion Collection: “Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)—and facing the fury of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to keep Dorothy in his grasp. With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the most influential American films of the late twentieth century.”
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Orlando, My Political Biography
From The Criterion Collection: ““Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary Orlando, My Political Biography—a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical and spiritual metamorphoses across a three-hundred-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together, they perform interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Not content to simply update a groundbreaking work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.”
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The Underground Railroad
From The Criterion Collection: “A monumental reimagining of American history, Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2016 novel is a harrowing and rhapsodic journey through a still-echoing past. Weaving together historical fiction with moments of magical realism, The Underground Railroad is a full sensory immersion into the world of Cora (Thuso Mbedu), who, fleeing slavery, embarks on a treacherous quest for freedom—and is menaced by violence, supported by a clandestine community fighting for liberation, and haunted by the people she loses along the way. With images of searing power and stirring poetry, Jenkins delivers an epic saga of survival and resilience that pushes the limited-series format to new heights of cinematic transcendence.”
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