A very fun week, Kino alone giving us five different “evil animals/insects/amphibian” movies on Blu-Ray plus 4Ks for Last Year at Marienbad and Jeans -Claude Van Damme and -Luc Godard. There’s also what have to be the very bleakest Claire Denis movie, the worst Garfield movie in a crowded field, and the second-best use of M. Night Shyamalan nepotism this year. Best of all, there’s the long-awaited (if pretty bare-bones) Criterion reissue of Albert Brooks’ Real Life, his scathing comedy about the perils of documenting reality that’s certainly not getting less relevant as the years go on. I don’t know that there’s similar excitement for Criterion’s 4K of Brooks’ Mother, his genial comedy with Debbie Reynolds that wouldn’t place better than fifth in almost anyone’s Brooks ranking, but at least it’s not Tiny Furniture The Shape of Water!

Aces High (Kino)
The Alaskans: The Complete Series (Warner Archive Collection)
Alphaville 4K (Kino)
Bastards (IFC)
Desperado 4K (Arrow)
Drive 4K (Sony)
Empire of the Ants (Kino)
Femme (Utopia)
Focus 4K (Warner)
The Food of the Gods (Kino)
Frogs (Kino)
The Garfield Movie (Sony)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 4K (Disney)
Kingdom of the Spiders (Kino)
Last Year at Marienbad 4K (Kino)
A Man Called Tiger (Eureka)
The Mexico Trilogy (El Mariachi / Desperado 4K / Once Upon a Time in Mexico) (Arrow)
Mother 4K (Criterion)
Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series (Shout Factory)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side 4K (Shout Factory)
Real Life 4K (Criterion)
Squirm (Kino)
Sudden Death 4K (Kino)
Thieves Like Us 4K (Cinématographe)
The Watchers 4K (Warner)
Watchmen: Chapter 1 4K (Warner)
The Woman 4K / Offspring 4K (Arrow)
Words and Music (Warner Archive Collection)