I guess I gotta lead with Spider-Man, but I don’t want to. It’s the latest Marvel movie to be very well-received upon release and proceed to dissipate from public memory in the months since (at least the consensus hasn’t shifted negative like I feel it has for Civil War), and that’s fine, I guess. Hannibal Buress is apparently funny in it, and that’s all we can really ask for these days. But it’s barely a drop in the bucket compared to this week’s big release, which is Criterion finally giving Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon the red-carpet treatment it deserves. It’s finally presented in its correct aspect ratio of 1.66:1 (screw you, Vitali) and beautifully restored in 4K, with a bonus disc loaded with entirely new supplements. They’re also releasing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me this week, which is admittedly a far less necessary release, on account of most of it, including the fabled Missing Pieces, simply being duplicated from the already-existing Twin Peaks Blu-Ray box set (the sole new additions are interviews with Sheryl Lee and Angelo Badalamenti and a reprinted interview with David Lynch, plus slightly-improved compression and spiffy Digipak packaging). Still, any chance to bang the drum for as haunting and great a movie as FWWM is a good one, and maybe the last holdouts on it being incredible will finally come around as a result.

Elsewhere, this week is dominated by GKids’ reissues of the previously Disney-owned Hayao Miyazaki films, fixing the problems of several of them (for one, we finally get a direct translation of the Japanese track for Princess Mononoke, not just a transcript of the English dub). There’s some good TV stuff too, with Warner giving us the complete run of Samurai Jack on Blu-Ray, Lionsgate releasing the first season of American Gods, and Netflix actually putting Stranger Things out on Blu-Ray, albeit exclusively at Target for the time being. And there’s more stuff too. Kino is releasing Jean-Luc Godard’s fiercely political La Chinoise, Shout! Factory gives us a special edition of Phil Joanou’s cult high school comedy Three O’Clock High, and Twilight Time is unfortunately the one to give us the Blu-Ray of Walter Hill’s Wild Bill. And if you’re not intrigued by any of that, there’s Mill Creek’s dirt-cheap Blu-Ray of Vice Versa, universally regarded as not the worst body-swap movie of 1987/1988, on the basis of Like Father, Like Son existing.

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection (Universal)
American Gods: Season 1 (Lionsgate)
Barry Lyndon (Criterion)
La Chinoise (Kino)
Girls Trip (Universal)
Howl’s Moving Castle (GKids)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (GKids)
My Neighbor Totoro (GKids)
Ponyo (GKids)
Princess Mononoke (GKids)
Samurai Jack: The Complete Series (Warner)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony)
Spirited Away (GKids)
Stranger Things: Season 1 (Netflix)
Three O’Clock High (Shout Factory)
Titanic (Kino)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Criterion)
Vice Versa (Mill Creek)
The Voice of the Moon (Arrow Academy)
Wild Bill (Twilight Time)