This is a pretty good week for home video, with even Twilight Time offering some gems (of course, those gems would be better off with someone else, but whaddya gonna do?). They have Jacques Demy’s Model Shop and Paul Schrader’s Auto Focus out this week, in case you’re looking for the least appropriate double-feature imaginable. Not that Criterion’s pairing of Leo McCarey’s Oscar-winning screwball classic The Awful Truth and the poetic Soviet biopic The Color of Pomegranates is a particularly fitting double-feature either. Arrow’s pairing of early Seijun Suzuki crime/action movies and Roger Donaldson’s Aussie thriller Sleeping Dogs, however, works quite well.

Other than arbitrary pairs, this week also has Blu-Rays of the Netflix season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sam Wood’s adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls, the “70th Anniversary Restored Edition” of The Egg and I, and Steven Spielberg’s The Post. I won’t argue for The Post as one of Spielberg’s best (it’s a notch below his previous two austere political commentaries, Lincoln and Bridge of Spies, and his last stab at the 70s political thriller, Munich), but I will say that it’s pretty dang good, with typically excellent Spielberg visuals, a lot of genuine tension for a movie that could just be dull office scenes, and a cast so filled with ringers (highlighted obviously by Streep and Hanks, but with tons of great support, particularly from Tracy Letts, Bruce Greenwood, and Bob Odenkirk) that many shots contain upwards of five great character actors in them. And it goes without saying that it’s much much much better than Ready Player One (that Spielberg made The Post in a few months during RPO‘s post-production says so much good about his ability to think on his feet and not much good about what happens when you give him all the time in the world).

Auto Focus (Twilight Time)
The Awful Truth (Criterion)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Universal)
The Color of Pomegranates (Criterion)
The Commuter (Lionsgate)
The Egg and I (Universal)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Universal)
Model Shop (Twilight Time)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Season 11 (Shout Factory)
The Post (Fox)
Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years, Vol. 2 – Border Crossings: The Crime and Action Movies (Arrow)
Sleeping Dogs (Arrow Academy)