The Heroic Mrs. Miller

It's another month where this time of the month totally snuck up on me -- it's Criterion Announcement Day! And here I didn't even realize until the news popped up in my inbox again, for shame. I'm always angry at myself when I'm too busy and distracted to keep my eyes on this one because I am actively disallowing myself that Christmas Eve feeling the night before, where I can get all excited thinking about what movies might be announced. But a surprise kiss can be good sometimes too and that's what this feels like -- a surprise kiss from McCabe and Mrs. Miller era Warren Beatty no less. Yes please. That 1971 classic neo-western is getting the 4K upgrade from our Criterion friends and tops the list of today's February 2024 releases. Per usual it's loaded with extras, check 'em out at the link. Next up...

... we have a double-feature of the Heroic Trio movies! From Johnnie To in 1993 we're getting a double-feature of The Heroic Trio and its sequel Executioners, which star Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, and Michelle friggin' Yeoh as "kung-fu heroines" fighting baddies -- I've only seen the first one but it's an absolute blast, and not just because you get to watch Maggie Cheung act like a total bad-ass as seen in the gif above. (But that sure doesn't hurt.) 

After that there's another box-set of Eric Rohmer movies -- his romantic "Tales of the Four Seasons" films, which were made across the 1990s. I have never seen any of them, can you believe it? Shame on me but Criterion once again comes to my rescue. And speaking of movies I shamefully haven't seen the other two titles on their February docket are, 1) Raoul Walsh's 1939 gangster flick The Roaring Twenties with Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart playing former Army buddies who become enemies in Prohibition-era New York, and 2) the 1964 Civil Rights drama Nothing But a Man which starred Ivan Dixon and was apparently a fave of Malcom X himself.  Lots to get on come February, it seems!