We got ourselves an honest to god Pretty Good Week this week. Even new titles aren’t terrible. They’re led by Alien: Covenant, the latest Alien film but much more importantly the second film to involve Amy Seimetz fighting alien parasites and the second film in six months to feature Billy Crudup grappling with the vagina and metaphors for it (it turns out you gotta have sex with the whole facehugger). There’s also Ken Marino’s positively okay directorial debut, How to Be a Latin Lover, the Liev Schreiber-starring film about the inspiration for Rocky Balboa, Chuck, the first season of Hot Archie Who Fucks Riverdale, and best of all, Hirokazu Koreeda’s latest, After the Storm. Catalog titles are solid as well, although there are some Buyer Bewares in order. Namely, Kino seems to have fucked up their releases of Duel in the Sun (the transfer is washed-out and soft) and, even more damningly, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (the colors are all fucked up and too blue-leaning). Aside from those, everything seems to be in order (other than Twilight Time inexplicably deciding the people want to spend $30 on a featureless Blu-Ray of 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag). Criterion upgrades one of its more curious titles, the amiable Ronald Neame/Walter Matthau spy comedy Hopscotch, which also giving us a long-awaited U.S. release of Mike Leigh’s Meantime (with a conversation between Leigh and Jarvis Cocker on the disc), the Warner Archive Collection finally upgrades Arthur Penn’s classic neo-noir Night Moves, and Twilight Time, as penance for, again, releasing a premium-priced edition of motherfucking 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, also gives us The Long, Hot Summer and Suddenly, Last Summer.

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (Twilight Time)
After the Storm (Film Movement)
Alien: Covenant (Fox)
The Case for Christ (Universal)
Chuck (Paramount)
Duel in the Sun (Kino)
Everything, Everything (Warner)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Kino)
Hopscotch (Criterion)
How to Be a Latin Lover (Lionsgate)
Kid Galahad (Twilight Time)
The Long, Hot Summer (Twilight Time)
Meantime (Criterion)
Missing in Action (Shout Factory)
Night Moves (Warner Archive Collection)
Riverdale: The Complete First Season (Warner Archive Collection)
Shakes the Clown (Mill Creek)
Suddenly, Last Summer (Twilight Time)
The Wall (Lionsgate)