Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a ton of high profile new releases hitting shelves. Leading the way is Weapons, one of the best horror films of the year, though we also have two massive blockbusters in The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. This week also features a new Criterion Collection release, as well as several 4K and Blu-ray re-releases, so the slate is pretty stacked. Read on for more…
Joey’s Top Pick
Weapons
Zach Cregger absolutely knocked his follow up to Barbarian out of the park. Weapons is bigger and even more ambitious, with an ability to control the audience that veteran filmmakers would be jealous of. At this point, I will follow Cregger anywhere, genre be damned. He’s just that good. In my rave review (here), I had the following to say:
Only two films in, it’s time to proclaim Zach Cregger as a master of horror. Not only does the filmmaker have a very unique sensibility that he deploys in his movies, he’s able to mix comedy, horror, and genuine surprises with deft social commentary. Weapons is a far bigger scope than Barbarian, operating on a comparatively epic canvas to tell a much larger story. Barbarian may have been a bit more fun, all things considered, but Weapons a better movie overall. In fact, it’s another highlight of 2025 so far, further establishing this year as one that will go down in the record books for horror.
Weapons is a slow burn that builds to an absolutely insane and deeply satisfying climax. The juice is definitely worth the squeeze here, as Cregger masterfully plays with your emotions and expectations. The mystery is handled in such a way that regardless of what you think is happening, you’re drawn further and further in. Each new character is compelling, each WTF revelation is engaging, and by the end, you feel like you’ve seen something not just big, but original as well. Bravo to Cregger and company.
Also Available This Week
7 Days in Entebbe (Blu-ray)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection (4K)
Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy (4K)
The Bone Collector (4K)
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series (TV)
The Devil’s Rejects (4K)
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Hot Tub Time Machine (Blu-ray)
Jacob’s Ladder (4K)
Kill the Messenger (Blu-ray)
Knock Knock (4K)
The Last of Robin Hood (Blu-ray)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
The Mustang (Blu-ray)
The Return of the Living Dead (4K)
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Criterion Corner
Eyes Without a Face
From The Criterion Collection: “At his secluded château in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty—that once seen are never forgotten.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
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