Tom Cruise has finally entered The Criterion Collection. While technically, “Cocktail” has been available on the Criterion Channel in the past (no, really), in announcing its July titles today, Criterion made Cruise’s inclusion with a DVD/Blu-Ray title official today with the addition of 1983’s classic comedy, “Risky Business,” the actor’s breakthrough film. Directed by Paul Brickman, the coming-of-age comedy film, sometimes said to be modeled after a more risqué, “The Graduate,” centers on a Chicago teenager (Cruise) and his sexual exploits while his parents are away on vacation, including spending time with prostitutes.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

This week’s new release guide is especially stuffed (even by our normal standards), thanks to a trio of 2021’s best; new titles from Criterion, Arrow, and Vinegar Syndrome, and more; three new essential box sets; one of the best thrillers of the ‘90s in 4K; and an array of Blu-ray debuts for one of the greatest comedians of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Your latest new release round-up includes a big winner at yesterday’s Oscar nominations, a 4K upgrade for a dopey ‘80s favorite [Editor’s note: How dare you, Jason Bailey?

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Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker that is easily on the Mount Rushmore of American directors, including the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and others. But unlike those men, Scorsese hasn’t gone back to his films over the years to release new cuts or reformat them in some way. And as explained in a new interview with EW, the filmmaker has a very good reason for not wanting to release a director’s cut or extended cut of his previous films.

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Just a couple weeks ago, it was announced the Mel Gibson, who has been attempting to resurrect his career in recent years after a rocky early-2000s, is set to co-write and direct a remake of the Sam Peckinpah classic Western “The Wild Bunch.” When the news hit, many people were upset, but mostly, people were confused. Why remake an already-classic film? Well, apparently Gibson thought the same thing.

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“Would you believe that heroism has become old fashioned?” So says a character in Sam Peckinpah‘s underseen 1975 gem “The Killer Elite.” Peckinpah, a man who spent his entire career dealing with the theme of what it means to be a hero, was also known as “Bloody Sam,” which gives you all the details you need to know about this renegade filmmaker. Although his directing career started in the early ‘60s, it wasn’t until the late ‘60s that he made a name for himself with his revisionist western “The Wild Bunch.” Here was a man who shook up Hollywood and who saw things with a different lens.

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Cinema gives filmmakers an opportunity to be a modern-day Chronos: They can manipulate the time in their feature to their liking, whether it be in flashback dreamscape like Bernardo Bertolucci‘s “The Conformist” or tattooed on an amnesiac like in Christopher Nolan‘s “Memento.” Not only can the film be manipulated in execution, but a range of shots can be used to exemplify forward, or backward, timeliness.

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20 Celebrated Filmmakers Who Never Won A Best Directing Oscar

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25 Films About Lovers On The Lam

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Watch: 82-Minute Sam Peckinpah Documentary 'Man Of Iron'

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Check Out The Poster For Forgotten 1979 Sci-Fi 'The Visitor' Starring John Huston, Picked Up By Drafthouse

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The Essentials: 6 Great Warren Oates Films

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Speaking to Collider at the Saturn Awards he reveals that while the blogosphere has been skeptical about how his film will stack up against the original, they will be in for a surprise: “…I keep reading blogs from people saying it’s going to be far less violent than the 1971 film [or that] the rape scene will be watered down.

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Marsden plays the role made famous by Dustin Hoffman in the original — a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife (Susan George in the original) to her hometown, transposed from idyllic British countryside to Mississippi for the remake.

Bosworth will play his wife who postpones her L.A. actress aspirations to return home for her husband while Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory.

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Yes, that vile idea of a “Straw Dogs” remake is actually moving forward and we weep.

In what is yet another sad notch on the remake bedpost, James Marsden will star in a reimagining of the 1971 film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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