Just a few weeks until Christmas and there is plenty of physical media to fit under the tree as Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski’s roundup this week’s selections. They include a little Powell and Pressburger and some Oscar nominees from Penny Marshall and Mira Nair. There is some more from Dan Curtis, a giant snake and one of Robert Altman’s more obscure oddities. Lionsgate alone has one of the great making of documentaries of all time, Kevin Smith’s hilarious riff on religion and faith plus the film that makes Tarantino lash out on The Hunger Games. There are grandiose collections from the Shaw Brothers and the first name of mainstreamed erotica. Plus of pair of upgrade for Steven Spielberg from one of his glorious double-film years.

1:45 - Criterion (I Know Where I’m Going! (4K), Salaam Bombay! (4K))

9:34 - Film Masters (Lady of Burlesque)

12:24 - Kino (Dead of Night (4K), Dan Curtis’ Gothic Tales)

18:33 - Arrow (Shawscope (Volume Four))

26:47 - Radiance (O.C. and Stiggs)

39:41 - Sony (Awakenings (4K), Anaconda (4K Steelbook))

56:07 - Lionsgate (Hearts of Darkness (4K), Dogma (25th Anniversary) (4K), Battle Royale 4K)

1:25:17 - Paramount (Minority Report (4K), Catch Me If You Can (4K))

1:45:06 - Severin (Saga Erotica: The Emmanuelle Collection 4K)

2:06:52 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Good Fortune (4K), I’m Still Here, The Strangers: Chapter 2, Beast of War, Dead of Winter (2025), Rabbit Trap, A Savage Art, London Calling)

2:09:33 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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