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12 • Terre Haute Tribune-Star • October 23 - 29, 2022 BY JAY BOBBIN Family Viewing Ratings AS Adult situations P Profanity V Violence N Nudity GV Graphic Violence "TOP GUN: MAVERICK" (Nov. 1) "HOLIDAY INN" (4K Ultra HD) (Nov. 1) "CASABLANCA" (4K Ultra HD) (Nov. 8) "FRASIER: THE COMPLETE SERIES" (Blu-ray) (Nov. 8) "GHOSTS: SEASON ONE" (Nov. 29) "PULP FICTION" (4K Ultra HD) (Dec. 6) (UPCOMING RELEASES) Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick" "THE INVITATION" Inspired by the classic horror tale "Dracula," this effectively moody thriller stars Nathalie Emmanuel ("Game of Thrones") as a woman who uses a DNA kit she acquires to research her family's history. Her probe reveals her existence to a relative, who invites her to England to meet other others in their clan – but what she eventually finds is terror, as the vampirish nature of certain individuals reveals itself, showing a definite lineage to the Bram Stoker story that was the creative basis here. Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee and Hugh Skinner also star in the film ... which fared well, relatively speaking, given how the theatrical box office has been lately. ››› (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray, Digital and On Demand) "THE USUAL SUSPECTS" Christopher McQuarrie earned an Oscar for his enormously clever script for this 1995 melodrama, newly available in the 4K Ultra HD format. Kevin Spacey also won an Academy Award as one of several crooks brought together to be questioned as suspects in a crime that none is guilty of. The five men then decide to get even with the police officers who detained them, but their scheme is complicated by a mystery man named Keyser Soze, to whom they supposedly are indebted. Director Bryan Singer's top-notch ensemble cast also includes Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio del Toro and Kevin Pollak as the other members of the central quintet, and Chazz Palminteri as a U.S. Customs agent deeply involved in the interrogating; Pete Postlethwaite, Suzy Amis and Giancarlo Esposito are featured as well. ›››› (R: AS, P, V) "HOGAN'S HEROES: THE COMPLETE SERIES" Even to this day, a comedy series about a World War II POW camp might seem questionable to become a hit, but that's just what happened to this 1965-71 CBS show, produced by Bing Crosby's company and a favorite of nostalgia-driven networks in more recent years. Bob Crane has the title role of a savvy U.S. Army colonel who organizes his fellow prisoners to execute a variety of schemes meant to help other wartime captives. The group takes delight in confounding strict Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer) and his buffoonish aide Sgt. Schultz (John Banner), with actual history getting more-than-occasional revisions as Hogan and his group aim to dismantle Nazi strategies. Richard Dawson, Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon and Larry Hovis play Hogan's chief comrades in the sitcom, which didn't air on German television until many years later ... with much of the dialogue rewritten to make the characters even more comical. ››› (Not rated: AS, V) "RAY DONOVAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES" Title star Liev Schreiber got a solid seven- season run – plus a sequel movie – out of this impressively cast Showtime drama series about a fixer who might be skilled at helping to solve other people's problems, but isn't as well-equipped to handle his own troubles. Many of those are family- related, particularly in the case of Ray's rough-around-the-edges extra-con father Mickey (Jon Voight), in whose activities the FBI is keenly interested ... prompting Ray to move gingerly in accomplishing his missions but not being brought down in the course of that investigation. Paula Malcomson, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Steven Bauer, Katherine Moennig and Kerris Dorsey also are in the regular cast; Susan Sarandon, Elliott Gould, Wendell Pierce, Alan Alda, Stacy Keach and Lisa Bonet are among guest stars. ››› (Not rated: AS, P, V) "THE LAST DETAIL" Jack Nicholson gives an Oscar-nominated performance in director Hal Ashby's 1973 comedy, making its 4K Ultra HD debut, with the star and Otis Young as career Navy men who decide to have a little fun with their assignment to bring a military thief (Randy Quaid) back to face the music for his crime. Nicholson's bawdy character especially is the Henry Higgins of the piece, giving his young charge all sorts of insight on living life to the fullest ... but things turn serious quickly once the travelers reach their destination. The Robert Towne screenplay is based on a novel by Darryl Ponicsan, who also explored Navy life in his story "Cinderella Liberty." Other familiar cast members here include Carol Kane, Clifton James, Michael Moriarty, Nancy Allen and (briefly) Gilda Radner. ››› (R: AS, N, P, V) "NOPE" The latest thriller from Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele reunites him with his "Get Out" star Daniel Kaluuya, who's joined by Keke Palmer in playing siblings who inherit their father's ranch but run into problems maintaining it. A bizarre phenomenon clues them into the presence of a UFO-resembling alien force that ingests anything that looks straight at it, making matters deadly for everyone in the vicinity. Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, Steven Yeun, Keith David, Chris Kattan and television veteran Donna Mills also are featured. Writer-director Peele has said that he devised the film to address his concerns about the future direction of cinema, based on what audiences mostly have gone for in recent years. DVD extras: three "making-of" documentaries; deleted scenes; outtakes. ››› (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, Digital and On Demand) "Nope" "The great thing about 'High Noon' and 'On the Waterfront' is that if you don't get (their echoes of the Hollywood blacklist), and you just want to enjoy them, you can. They hold up without your understanding the political climate of the time." – Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies, which showed the films recently " ' t i e b w c y t o M C s "It has been so important to me, and to us, as we've made this show for it to really be about us ... not about any one of us, that it is really a reflection of the wholeness of what we bring to the world." – Tracee Ellis Ross of "The Hair Tales" on Hulu and OWN " to m r a i w to E T "I get excited when it's a character or type of character that I've not really played before, and I haven't really played somebody like Susan before." – Lesley Manville of "Magpie Murders on Masterpiece" on PBS, about her character in the mystery " a c r a p S M M o c