On the Shelf: ‘CODA,’ ‘Hard Boiled,’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’ Highlight the 4K Blu-Ray Releases for the Week of November 3
It is a slow week to start the November 2025 slate of physical media being released but there are three titles that collectors will want to get their hands on this week; a Best Picture winner, one of the greatest action films of all time, and the most essential 1980s film from the most iconic director of the era.
For the first time, Coda, the winner of Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards, is being released on physical media by Universal Home Media. The breakout hit film of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is a coming-of-age drama centering around 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), as she is the only hearing member of her family, as her parents, Frank and Jackie (Troy Kotsur and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin), and older brother, Leo (Daniel Durant), are all deaf. As she assists them in the family fishing business, she falls in love with the idea of becoming a singer at her school. In doing this, she has to keep her secret of singing away from her family as she chases her dreams, with the potential of it leading to something special for her. Beyond winning Best Picture, it also took home Best Supporting Actor for Kotsur and Best Adapted Screenplay for the film’s writer-director Sian Heder, who adapted her film from the French film, La Famille Bélier. While many might not consider it worthy of winning Hollywood’s top prize, if you are an Oscar completist who collects all the films that are nominated and win Academy Awards, then you will want to pick this up and add it to your shelves.
After you collect the Oscar winner above, head over to our friends at Shout Factory who are releasing an action packed classic for the first time on 4K. From acclaimed Hong Kong film director John Woo, Hard Boiled follows a police inspector whose investigation of a brutal Triad leader entangles him in the complex world of undercover policing. Woo, a modern master of the action movie genre, was criticized a lot in his career for glorifying gangsters in his films, and with this title, he flipped the script, glamorizing the police and the dangerous, absurd methods they go to in completing their missions. Known for being his last film in Hong Kong before making the transition to Hollywood, Woo and his frequent collaborator actor Chow Yun-fat, set the world on fire with this one, making one of the most influential action movies of our time, and cementing their legacy in the genre.
Last up this week is the latest 4K upgrade from the Criterion Collection, which sees the John Hughes classic that established him as the bard of the American youth, coming-of-age films in the 1980s, The Breakfast Club. Center on a single Saturday detention session at a small high school, we follow five students (played by Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy), who are complete strangers to one another, who form a united bond after spending the whole day getting to know each other. In the process of discovering who everyone is, we learn that their archetypes that are traditionally associated with their characters are broken down and we find the real emotional core found within these tormented, young souls found within the brilliant screenplay by Hughes. The Breakfast Club picks apart the notion of judging a book by its cover at the time of our lives where we start to judge people the most. With this honest, fresh, bold take on the sub-genre, it was became a film that not only defined the era, turning into a pop culture phenomenon, but still is as influential and relevant now as it’s ever been. It’s another must own if you’ve never seen it or don’t already have it as a part of your collection.
Other Notable Releases for the Week of August 25, 2025 include:
Happy’s Place: Season One (2024-2025, Blu-ray, Universal Studios)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988, 4K Blu-ray, Paramount Pictures)
Outland (1981, 4K Blu-ray, Arrow Video)
Vampires (1998, 4K Blu-ray, Shout Factory)
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