Bennett Miller takes his time making feature films. His made his first, Capote, when he was 38; his second, Moneyball, when he was 44; and his third, Foxcatcher, when he was 47.

I thought Capote, which received five Oscar nominations including one for Miller, to be one of 2005’s best films. I was disappointed in Moneyball despite its six 2011 Oscar nominations, but I was impressed all over again with Foxcatcher, one of the more interesting films of 2014.

Like Capote, Foxcatcher is about a senseless murder, albeit told from a different perspective. Capote followed the author of In Cold Blood as he researches his book and the relationship he forms with convicted killer Perry Smith. Foxcatcher shows the relationship between Olympic wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz and Dave’s eventual killer, millionaire John DuPont. Both screenplays were written by Miller’s high school friend Dan Futterman who, like Miller, received Oscar nominations for both.

Channing Tatum as 1984 Gold Medal Olympian wresting champion Mark Schultz gives a performance of depth we’ve not seen from him before. Oscar-nominated Mark Ruffalo is equally effective as his older, wiser brother Dave. Oscar nominated Steve Carell looks and acts completely different than you’ve ever seen him. The performance, though, left me expecting more. Although he conveys DuPont’s melancholia and paranoia effectively, I didn’t feel he projected the charisma that made the chemical company heir such a commanding figure in real life. It’s not enough to harm the film, just enough to make me wonder why awards granters were more impressed with him and his false nose than they were with Tatum’s gut-wrenching performance.

Foxcatcher is available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Mark Ruffalo is also at his best in Begin Again opposite fellow 2014 Oscar nominee Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game). The film was written and directed by John Carney whose breakout 2007 film Once won an Oscar for Best Original Song (“Falling Slowly”) and went on to become a Broadway phenomenon when adapted for the stage, winning seven Tonys out of ten nominations including Best Musical of 2012.

Set in the Manhattan music world, Carney’s new film features Knightley as a young songwriter who leaves London for her rising music star boyfriend (Adam Levine) only to leave him for friend James Corden’s couch when she catches him cheating on her. Ruffalo is the seemingly washed up record publisher who discovers her and encourages her to record an album of her own with street musicians. It all ends sweetly for all concerned.

Begin Again is available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Before Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland wrote and directed Still Alice for which Julianne Moore finally won her Oscar, they performed the same duties on The Last of Robin Hood. Dedicated to Beverly Aadland, Errol Flynn’s fifteen to seventeen-year-old mistress in the two years before his death, the film is about their romance, Flynn’s death and Aadland’s mother’s exploitation of both.

Kevin Kline, 65 at the time of filming, makes a dashing Flynn even if he was fifteen years older than Flynn was when he died. The dissipated actor was said to have the body of an 80-year-old at the time of his death. Dakota Fanning, nineteen at the time of filming, could still pass for a younger girl pretending to be an older one. Susan Sarandon, 66 at the time of filming, is also impressive playing Aadland’s mother, a woman in her mid-forties.

While the film is no great work of art, it is an interesting non-judgmental look at a highly scandalous affair of its time.

The Last of Robin Hood is available on Blu-ray and standard DVD.

As bizarre a murder mystery as you’re likely to find for some time, Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard provides Shailene Woodley with her first really mature role as a teenage girl who discovers her sexuality the same summer her mother (Eva Green) goes missing. Christopher Meloni is her milquetoast father and Shiloh Fernandez the boy next door. The supporting cast includes Thomas Jane, Gabourey Sidibe, Dale Dickey and Angela Bassett as Woodley’s shrink. The ending, though it makes sense in retrospect, really comes out of nowhere. Twin Peaks fans should love it.

White Bird in a Blizzard is available on Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Criterion has released Fellini Satyricon in a stunning 4K Blu-ray restoration with numerous extras, some brand new, others imported from the previous DVD release.

Fellini’s loose adaptation of Petronius’ masterwork was an oddity in Fellini’s canon. While most of his films were biographical, he conceived this one as a science fiction of the past, a look at Pagan life as it was coming to end. Don’t try to make sense of it, just watch it for the sensory pleasure of it. The moral of the “story” such as it is, is that the old must die for the new to begin.

My one quibble is that Criterion continues to use the Italian dub mix with English subtitles when the English dub is actually more authentic. Leads Martin Potter and Hiram Keller spoke English. The other actors spoke mostly gibberish which was dubbed in Italian for the Italian release and English for the British and U.S. releases. Listen instead to the adaptation of the late Eileen Lanouette Hughes’ book on the filming which serves as the film’s commentary. It’s quite an eye-opener.

Warner Brothers’ new Musicals Collection is a Blu-ray compilation of the previously released 1952 classic Singin’ in the Rain and three new-to-Blu-ray classics from the following year, The Band Wagon, Calamity Jane and Kiss Me Kate.

None of the new releases contain any new extras but there’s a treasure trove of material carried over from the two-set DVD on The Band Wagon and some choice stuff carried over from the DVD on Kiss Me Kate which also includes the latter’s rather simplistic 3D version. All three look and sound better than ever in the higher definition picture and sound of Blu-ray. All four films are also available separately.

This week’s new releases include The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Ride the Pink Horse .