New on DVD: Say his name once more in 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'
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A spectral sequel three decades in the making tops the DVD releases for the week of Nov. 19.
"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice": Thirty-six years after the bio-exorcist and the Deetz family charmed audiences, Beetlejuice and Lydia are back to close some doors and settle some scores. Tim Burton returns to direct, as do actors Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara.
"Watching 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' is not an unpleasant experience, as it maintains a familiar irreverent tone, and a gorgeously morbid and imaginative look," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "But there’s something a bit bland and manufactured about this version, which doesn’t have the same hyperreal twisted suburban aesthetic that production designer Bo Welch brought to the original."
ALSO NEW ON DVD NOV. 19
"Godzilla Minus One": The latest Godzilla movie from original producers Toho takes us back to 1945 and the emergence of the iconic kaiju in postwar Japan. Mayhem and destruction ensue.
"Speak No Evil": An expat American family living in London go on a weekend trip to visit some new vacation friends in the English countryside. Things get increasingly uncomfortable and dangerous from there. Starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy.
"Reagan": Dennis Quaid stars in this biopic that explores the 40th president's life from his early years to Hollywood acting and time in the White House.
"The Killer's Game": Action comedy with Dave Bautista as an assassin on the defensive after putting a hit on himself due to a mistaken medical diagnosis.
"Skincare": A sleazy Hollywood thriller about a celebrity aesthetician (Elizabeth Banks) who's being stalked and slandered.
"Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In": Hong Kong crime drama set against the backdrop of Kowloon Walled City in the 1980s.
"Dead Money": A gamblin' man (Emile Hirsch) experiences a wild 24 hours after a private poker game he's involved in gets robbed in this thriller.
"House of the Dragon: The Complete Second Season": Return to Westeros as the warring Targaryen factions unleash fire and blood in Season 2 of HBO's "Game of Thrones" prequel series.
"Masterpiece Mystery!: The Marlow Murder Club": From the creator of “Death in Paradise” comes this adaptation of Robert Thorogood's book series, which follows a retired archaeologist who teams up with a dog walker and a vicar’s wife as amateur sleuths in England.
"Yoshiki: Under the Sky": Music documentary in which the Japanese musician and composer leads a globe-spanning concert.
"CC40": To mark four decades celebrating the movies, the Criterion Collection has assembled this 49-disc box set featuring 40 world cinema classics.
OUT ON DIGITAL HD NOV. 19
"Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead": A group of siblings have to care for themselves while their mother is away at a mental health retreat in this remake of the 1991 comedy.
"Street Trash": Set in the dystopian near future of South Africa, a ragtag group of homeless individuals must fight back before the entire population of homeless people is rounded up and liquefied in this horror flick.
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