Pretty good week, I guess. Nothing really comes close to Criterion finally giving Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker a decent (if features-light) U.S. release, but god bless the other labels for trying nonetheless. Arrow has out another mammoth Battles Without Honor and Humanity set, as well as Mike Figgis’s Stormy Monday, which boasts some terrific Roger Deakins cinematography that should be well-served by the jump to HD. Elsewhere, Kino releases a few 80s action programmers, while Twilight Time honest-to-god puts in some effort this week, with releases of Sam Fuller’s The Crimson Kimono and Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (and, alas, also the Pat Boone-starring, Jose Ferrer-directed remake of State Fair). New titles are admittedly not overwhelming this week, with the big one being Kong: Skull Island, which ditches the supposed pretensions of Godzilla ’14 and is either better or a complete piece of shit for it. More promising is Ben Wheatley’s profane, violent, star-studded action-comedy Free Fire, which actually shares Brie Larson with Kong. It’s up to you to decide whether or not the addition of Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, and Michael Smiley is worth the subtraction of a giant ape.

The 100: The Complete Fourth Season (Warner Archive Collection)
The Bat People (Shout Factory)
Blood Alley (Warner Archive Collection)
Buster’s Mal Heart (Well Go)
The Crimson Kimono (Twilight Time)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (Twilight Time)
Free Fire (Lionsgate)
Kong: Skull Island (Warner)
The Last of the Finest (Kino)
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Trilogy (Arrow)
No Man’s Land (Kino)
The Promise (Universal)
Stalker (Criterion)
State Fair (Twilight Time)
Stormy Monday (Arrow)