We have a bigger than normal slate for an end-of-the-month week, and a surprising amount of it is even good! Not that you’ll find much in the way of new titles, where the best option is the Rachel Weisz-starring Daphne du Maurier adaptation My Cousin Rachel, followed distantly by the latest Disney nature documentary Born in China, which in turn is fifty feet ahead of the Baywatch reboot, which somehow is still leading on Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (murder me, please). But catalog titles are okay! Arrow leads the pack by far, with its 4K polish and extras-packed special edition of John Frankenheimer’s Ronin, the New Battles Without Honor and Humanity box set, and Blu-Ray of the Robert Aldrich noir The Big Knife and the early Mario Bava epic Erik the Conqueror. Olive also does some fine work, giving us yet another release of Orson Welles’ The Stranger and a much-deserved Blu-Ray upgrade for Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet, and the Warner Archive Collection finally gives us an HD release of The Man with Two Brains. And then there’s Kino. They were doing so well for a while, but they’ve been falling hard in these last weeks, and they’ve done it again with their release of John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor, the transfer of which (based on screenshots from several different sites) looks ghastly in a way that would barely be acceptable on a DVD.

Baywatch (Paramount)
The Big Knife (Arrow Academy)
Born in China (Disney)
Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (Universal)
Erik the Conqueror (Arrow)
Hell Up in Harlem (Olive)
The Man with Two Brains (Warner Archive Collection)
My Cousin Rachel (Fox)
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Trilogy (Arrow)
Prizzi’s Honor (Kino)
Ronin (Arrow)
Snapshot (Vinegar Syndrome)
Son of Paleface (Kino)
The Stranger (Olive)
Timebomb (Shout Factory)
The Wedding Banquet (Olive)