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WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN NOVEMBER

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THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN NOVEMBER: SPLITSVILLE, HARD BOILED, EYES WIDE SHUT, AND MORE! PLUS: CHRISTMAS! NEW RELEASE WALL Splitsville (Decal Neon): For my money, the funniest movie of 2025. Co-writers Michael Angelo Covino (who also directed) and Kyle Marvin star as two husbands whose marriages (to characters played by Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, respectively) fall apart over miscommunications and misunderstandings about fidelity and monogamy. It’s a character piece, a banter-filled screwball comedy, and a broadly physical farce, yet each component underscores rather than contradicts the other, and the four hilarious leads are bolstered by a brilliant ensemble that includes Nicholas Braun, O-T Fagbenle, and comedically…

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A BIT OF CRUMPET PT. 2

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Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Taxi Driver. Death Wish. The Warriors. These, and more, New York set films really captured the grime-y look of the city in the 1970s. That sort of look where all colours are washed out. Grey is the brightest colour on the spectrum, and even then, it’s a dull grey. There’s a sea of brown too. That unpleasant look of 70s New York was captured many times in the cinematography of some of the grittier films of that decade. Night of the Juggler, which came right at the start of the next decade, still has that look to it. A sleaze-y look…

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A BIT OF CRUMPET PT. 1

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Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. I’ve always been a sucker for films about Robin Hood. Maybe it’s because I was born & bred in Nottinghamshire, so the legend of Robin looms large in every corner of the county. Over the decades many Robin Hood films have tried, and most have failed, to capture the true spirit of the outlaw. The high watermark of Robin Hood films is still Disney’s animated adventure from 1973. Almost two decades prior to Disney’s sing-a-long Robin Hood, Hammer Films released their own Robin Hood film. Men of Sherwood Forest came four years before the studio would cement itself as one of the…

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TRAIN DREAMS

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If there is a lovelier, more heartfelt film than Train Dreams now playing in theaters I have yet to see it.   The protagonist is a wide-eyed innocent, an unworldly loner who venerates the gifts of Mother Nature, as well as her wrathful outbursts, searching for the meaning of it all. On a rare visit to church he meets a young woman (Felicity Jones) who characteristically has to hail him down in order to introduce herself. They fall in love and he builds them a house some distance from the nearest town, so that noise and “progress” are held at bay. When he’s broke he signs onto a logging crew and makes his living as a sawyer. They have a baby and he dotes on her,…

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NUREMBERG

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Nuremberg is not a documentary, nor is it a remake of Stanley Kramer’s 1961 Oscar winner Judgment at Nuremberg. It is contemporary in its dialogue and editing style, as if to proclaim right up front that this is not some stodgy old-fashioned Hollywood slice of history. Writer-director James Vanderbilt has crafted a slick but solid film from Jack El-Hai’s book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. Rami Malek is well cast as a shrink whose job it is to examine the 22 Nazi leaders being held in prison cells and provide insights into their way of thinking. The goal is to feed head prosecutor Michael Shannon enough ammunition to secure a “guilty” verdict from the world court that has assembled at Nuremberg. His biggest fish—the second…

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GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S FRANKENSTEIN

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This is the movie Guillermo del Toro was born to make. He first read Mary Shelley’s novel as a boy and it has informed everything he has done since then. Del Toro admits that he only started working on a finished screenplay several years ago, but he has thought about the whys and wherefores of this enduring saga for most of his life. The end result is a film made by a master of cinematic storytelling. When I first saw it at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day Weekend I thought it was great but too long. Watching it again with my students at USC last week I appreciated it even more, and the extreme length didn’t bother me so much. (A little trimming…

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WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN OCTOBER

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The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE.   WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN OCTOBER: WEAPONS, PEANUTS, SHIN GODZILLA, SOULEYMANE’S STORY AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Weapons (WBD): Just in time for you to perfect your Aunt Gladys costume for Halloween comes this physical-media debut of one of the year’s most provocative and talked-about horror films. When a classroom of children (minus one) all goes randomly missing in the middle of the night, it kicks off an investigation that reveals a small town’s hidden trauma and prejudices, not to mention the horrifying secrets going on behind the taped-up windows of one normal-seeming house. Whether viewed as an unpredictable jolter or a metaphorical take on growing up…

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