Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino’s most accessible film ever.

In an era in which there are supposedly no real movie stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are real movie stars. What’s more, DiCaprio plays one, albeit one of fifty years ago, with Pitt as his friend and stunt double as well as his chauffer in this nostalgic look at a Hollywood that is no more.

DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton was the star of a hit western TV series in the 1950s but has drifted into bad guy roles on other people’s shows in the late 60s as he struggles to make a bigger splash in feature films. He lives in a gated community in which his new next-door neighbors are Roman Polanski, fresh from the success of Rosemary’s Baby, and his wife Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie), who at the time was best known for Valley of the Dolls. Pitt’s Cliff Booth lives in a trailer, drives his dilapidated old car to DiCaprio’s house where he leaves the car, and picks up DiCaprio who he drives around in his Cadillac, Pitt having lost his driver’s license due to one too many drunken driving arrests. That’s the set-up. As with all Tarantino’s films, the plot veers from reality into a fantasy world in which historic events are skewered. To say more would spoil the fun.

Robbie as Tate has the most substantial supporting role while other actors such as Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, Timothy Olyphant, Nicholas Hammond, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Damian Lewis, and the late Luke Perry pop in and out.

If you enjoyed Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, and The Hateful Eight, you’ll most definitely enjoy this one.

Blu-ray extras include five features on the making of the film and twenty minutes of deleted scenes.

Hustlers is a film about shallow, unlikeable characters. To be precise, a group of strippers who get rich drugging and robbing their clients. Marketed as a film about female empowerment, it is not that despite having been directed by a woman (Lorene Scafaria). All the women are portrayed as losers with only top-cast Constance Wu seen as having any qualms at all about what she is doing. Jennifer Lopez has a much-heralded supporting role as the ice-cold ringleader of the group, but much of the praise seems to be garnered toward her ability to pole dance at 50, rather than for any previously hidden great acting talent.

Hustlers is available on Blu-ray and standard DVD.

2019’s It: Chapter Two takes place twenty-seven years after 2017’s It, with Bill Skarsgard reprising his role as Pennywise, the killer clown. Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransome, and Andy Bean are the adult members of the losers’ club in this overlong but never boring conclusion of the remake of the classic 1990 miniseries that told the same story more compactly over two nights instead of three years.

The opening scenes of the new film are quite compelling, but once the characters are re-established in their new personas, it becomes a bit tedious with at least one scene a dead ringer from the original. There are, however, a few nice scenes in which the kids from the first film get to interact with their grownup versions.

It (1990), It (2017), and It: Chapter Two are all available on Blu-ray and standard DVD.

The Scorpion division of Shout! Has released a Special Edition Blu-ray of Richard Donner’s Inside Moves, the director’s personal favorite of all his films.

Having hit the big time with 1976’s The Omen and 1978’s Superman, Donner was finally given the green light to direct his 1980 passion project about a group of life-affirming handicapped men who meet in a bar where they provide support for a basketball player (David Morse) with one leg longer than the other. John Savage (The Deer Hunter, Hair) stars as the survivor of a suicide attempt in which his fall from a rooftop is saved by his landing on a car. Diana Scarwid, in an Oscar-nominated performance, is the bartender. Amy Wright, Bert Remsen, and Harold Russell co-star in this one-of-a-kind gem.

Extras include on-camera interviews with Donner and Savage.

Shout Select has released The Anne Bancroft Collection on Blu-ray. The collection includes eight films from the star’s legendary career beginning with 1952’s Don’t Bother to Knock, previously a Twilight Time exclusive, in which she has a featured role in support of Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe.

Also included in the collection are re-issues of 1962’s The Miracle Worker for which Bancroft won an Oscar playing Anne Sullivan to Patty Duke’s Helen Keller; 1967’s The Graduate, featuring all the extras from the Criterion Collection release for which she received an Oscar nomination playing the iconic Mrs. Robinson opposite Dustin Hoffman; 1980’s Fatso in which she supported Dom DeLuise in the only film she also directed; and 1983’s To Be or Not to Be, which was her only film opposite husband Mel Brooks.

New to Blu-ray in the U.S. are 1964’s The Pumpkin Eater in which Bancroft played a mother of nine having a nervous breakdown; 1985’s Agnes of God in which she played a feisty mother superior opposite Jane Fonda as a chain-smoking psychiatrist, both of which earned Bancroft Oscar nominations; and 1987’s 84 Charing Cross Road in which she and co-star Anthony Hopkins correspond but never meet, for which she won a BAFTA, a film that has previously been unavailable on Blu-ray anywhere in the world.

Most conspicuous by its absence is 1977’s The Turning Point featuring the only one of Bancroft’s five Oscar-nominated performances not included in the collection. The classic film which earned a total of 11 Oscar nominations including one for co-star Shirley MacLaine, but no wins, has never been available on Blu-ray in the U.S.

For those who already own all of Bancroft’s films previously released on Blu-ray, the moderately priced collection may still be of value both for its space-saving benefits on your shelves, and for the three films not previously available in the format.

This week’s new releases include Ad Astra and Downton Abbey.