This is a pretty damn good week for home video, highlighted by Criterions of two of the finest films of the 90s; Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man and Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. I’ve actually had access to the release of Virgin Suicides and I can assure you that it’s great, with a fantastic transfer and some fascinating bonus materials, particularly Coppola’s early short Lick the Star (which has also been thoroughly restored) and an interview with writer/editor/actress Tavi Gevinson about the film’s impact on her as a teenager. And the movie itself is still a masterpiece, and if you don’t like it, maybe I don’t like you. I haven’t gotten to the edition of Dead Man yet, but I’m sure it’s great too.

Elsewhere, there’s plenty of good stuff to be had. New releases offer Paddington 2 and other movies that are not Paddington 2 or which seem to be the complete opposite of Paddington 2, namely Scott Cooper’s latest exercise in grim machismo, Hostiles. And catalog titles are even better, with Olive giving us Blu-Rays of John Boorman’s Hope and Glory, Richard Benjamin’s Mermaids, and John G. Avildsen’s Joe, Arrow giving us a newly-restored Killer Klowns from Outer Space, and Shout Factory satisfying the three people who’ve been craving a high-definition release of Doctor Detroit (sure, they’re also putting out Albert Pyun’s Cyborg, but can Cyborg say that it has Dan Aykroyd as a metal-handed pimp?).

Backstabbing for Beginners (Lionsgate)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Zeitgeist)
Cyborg (Shout Factory)
Dead Man (Criterion)
Den of Thieves (Universal)
Doctor Detroit (Shout Factory)
Grease (Paramount)
The Holy Mountain (Kino)
Hope and Glory (Olive)
Hostiles (Lionsgate)
Joe (Olive)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Arrow)
Liquid Sky (Vinegar Syndrome)
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Fox)
Mermaids (Olive)
Paddington 2 (Warner)
The Parent Trap (Disney)
The Virgin Suicides (Criterion)