Pay attention, folks, this is the week the greatest box set ever (in terms of quality of films) is released. I am, of course(?), talking about Arrow Academy’s second in a string of three UK-only Woody Allen box sets. Their first one covered his early, funnier movies into more serious territory with Annie Hall and Interiors, and this second set collects his string of extremely well-crafted, poignant comedy-dramas with Gordon Willis behind the lens and Susan E. Morse at the editing table. This set includes Manhattan (exclusive to the set, although you wouldn’t want to buy it separately anyway, considering a new 4K restoration of it has been making the rounds, ready to be released on home video), Stardust Memories, Zelig (these two available separately this week), Broadway Danny Rose, and Allen’s best film (and maybe my favorite film of all time), The Purple Rose of Cairo (there’s also A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, which is pretty good but pretty much a footnote compared to everything else here). Plus, we get another of Arrow’s dependably thick books, which is probably the most extensive supplemental material you’ll ever find on an Allen release. And as if that wasn’t enough, Arrow UK is also releasing a mammoth special edition of Donnie Darko, with a new 4K restoration of the film at the center, plus all the existing special features, new interviews with Richard Kelly and others, an early Kelly short film, and a collector’s book featuring writing on the film many, including none other than Nathan Rabin. Again, if you’re not region-free, you’re out of luck when it comes to all this, but that just means more for the rest of us.

Okay, now onto the stuff everybody can buy. We have some pretty bad new titles out this week, including Suicide Squad (whose much-ballyhooed “extended cut” here amounts to 10 more minutes of nonsense and nothing more), Bridget Jones’s Baby, Ben-Hur, Morgan, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Thankfully, catalog titles are here to pick up the slack. There’s Criterion’s releases of John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle and Federico Fellini’s Roma, new restorations of Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer, Jesus Franco’s 99 Women, Creepshow II, and Jack Frost (the one about the homicidal snowman that’s still less terrifying than the Michael Keaton one of the same name), Paramount’s release of never-before-seen materials and deleted scenes from Star Trek: The Original Series, and a release of Forgotbuster The Stewardesses. And also Twilight Time releasing Stardust Memories, but Arrow has thankfully doing business with those bozos redundant this week.

2016 World Series Collector’s Edition: Chicago Cubs (Shout Factory)
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (Twilight Time)
99 Women (Blue Underground)
The Asphalt Jungle (Criterion)
Bad Girl (Kino)
The Barefoot Contessa (Twilight Time)
Ben-Hur (Paramount)
Black Christmas (Shout Factory)
Bridget Jones’s Baby (Universal)
The Bullet Train (Twilight Time)
Creepshow 2 (Arrow)
Donnie Darko (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)
Dreamscape (Shout Factory)
The Driller Killer (Arrow)
Eight Crazy Nights (Sony Choice Collection)
Equity (Sony)
Florence Foster Jenkins (Paramount)
Harley and the Davidsons (Lionsgate)
I Am Not a Serial Killer (Shout Factory)
Jack Frost (Vinegar Syndrome)
Klown Forever (Drafthouse)
The Legend of Korra: The Complete Series (Paramount)
The Lodger (Kino)
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Fox)
Morgan (Fox)
Nicholas Nickleby (Twilight Time)
Roma (Criterion)
Southside with You (Lionsgate)
Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault (Paramount)
Stardust Memories (Twilight Time, also available in the UK from Arrow)
The Stewardesses 3D (Redemption)
Sudden Fear (Cohen)
Suicide Squad (Warner)
The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series (Paramount)
Woody Allen: Six Films – 1979-1985 (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)
Zelig (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)