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One of the hallmarks of The Criterion Channel is their curated monthly themed series, which focuses on specific directors, genres, or themes. This Halloween season, it’s ’80s horror that gets the spotlight, with the streamer adding 30 cult classics from the decade to their catalog.   And this collection boasts quite the motherlode, with horror auteurs like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, and John Carpenter dotting the list.

While you’re still trying to figure out exactly what your Thanksgiving and Christmas plans are, the Criterion Collection is already looking at 2023. Yes, with their 2022 schedule already locked, the boutique DVD/Blu-Ray label has finalized its January 2023 release, and as usual, it’s a terrific crop of films.

Here’s the thing about movie geeks: we are hard to shop for. We’re hoarders by nature, opinionated as hell, and our tastes can be wildly unpredictable – you never know what prestige we’ve deemed trash, and what trash we’ve deemed essential.

If you’re a reader of our website, you are likely familiar with The Criterion Collection. Every month, like clockwork, we tend to highlight the additions to the coveted library of cinema titles that many film fans deem is the one-stop-shop for a true film education.

Ever have a dream so vivid that you’d swear it was real? Ever seen your dream spring to life from your frontal lobe and collide with another person’s dream? Most folks wistfully sigh about following their dreams with an inert yearning, as if they’re hoping somebody else will do it on their behalf; the characters in Emir Kusturica’s “Arizona Dream” literalize the search, chasing after their dreams starting in their sleep and continuing on to their waking hours.

Over the past several days, we’ve seen a number of big companies respond to the death of George Floyd and the continued protests that have occurred all over the country in response to yet another unarmed Black person being killed by a police officer. And now, Criterion has joined the discussion.