A big week for catalog titles, the biggest of the bunch being Kino’s organizing of four of Ida Lupino’s directorial efforts in one box set. There’s also the Warner Archive Blu-Ray of the seminal noir The Set Up, Criterion going all in on sweet comedies with releases of Local Hero and Chaplin’s The Circus, Olive Films finally giving Roger Corman’s A Bucket of Blood a Blu-Ray worth a damn, and Arrow Academy releasing Billy Wilder’s first American film, The Major and the Minor. But of course, all that pales in the face of #shaftson, #somebodyson, and the combination thereof. I will never see this newest iteration of Shaft, but the amusement I get from its advertising campaign will last me far longer than the details of much better films.

Action Jackson (Warner)
Anna (Lionsgate)
A Bucket of Blood (Olive Signature)
Child’s Play (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
The Circus (Criterion)
Diamantino (Kino)
Going My Way (Shout Factory)
Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection (Not Wanted / Never Fear / The Hitch-Hiker / The Bigamist) (Kino)
In the Aftermath (Arrow)
The Letter (Warner Archive Collection)
Local Hero (Criterion)
The Major and the Minor (Arrow Academy)
Major League: Back to the Minors (Sony)
Major League II (Sony)
Pavarotti (Lionsgate)
The Set-Up (Warner Archive Collection)
Shaft (Warner)
Skin (Lionsgate)
Stephen King’s The Stand (Paramount)
Vampires (Shout Factory)
Yesterday (Universal)