Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of February 10th – ‘The Nice Guys’ Comes to 4K

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we don’t really have anything in the way of new releases, though we have a very fun re-release hitting shelves. Yes, this week brings The Nice Guys to 4K. Throw in a Criterion Collection release and we still have multiple things on the slate that should intrigue you. Read on for more…

Joey’s Top Pick

The Nice Guys (4K)

I really love The Nice Guys. Not only is it Shane Black nearly matching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, it contained, up until Barbie, Ryan Gosling‘s best comedic performance. The film is a hoot and a half, really having deserved a better theatrical fate than it received. Now, at least with it being re-issued in 4K, you can appreciate it at home as befitting a movie as terrific as this one!

Also Available This Week

In the Summers

Lifeguard (Blu-ray)

Play It Again, Sam (Blu-ray)

Pretty in Pink (4K)

Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection (Blu-ray)

Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (TV)

Criterion Corner

King Lear

From The Criterion Collection: “Jean-Luc Godard’s first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V (played by theater director Peter Sellars) attempts to reconstruct his ancestor’s play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed avant savant. Through a dense layering of sounds, images, and ideas about everything from language to the economics of filmmaking to the very meaning of art in a ruined world, Godard fashions a puckish and profound metacinematic riddle to be endlessly analyzed, argued over, and savored.”

Stay tuned for more next week…