| 3 Godfathers (1948) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Western film which Satoshi Kon loosely based Tokyo Godfathers off of. | ||||||||
| Almost Paradise | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Amelie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ancient Empires | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bat Woman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Berserk | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: I previously reviewed this on Bureau42 , and I was overly harsh on some aspects of it at the time – the use of “Postcard Memories” still-frame images, for example, and I failed to give the series credit for its score by Susumu Hirasawa – something I pay more attention to now. | ||||||||
| Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Picking up the story of the manga where the original anime adaptation left off. | ||||||||
| Blitz | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Book of Clarence | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Boruto: NNG Kawaki Goes Undercover | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bounty Hunter Trilogy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Breaking Ice | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Classic Cars of the 1930s and 1940s | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Crime Is Mine | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Departed | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Best Picture winner, 2006. | ||||||||
| Double Cross | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fangs of Fate | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes City of Shadows, Crashout, and Finger Man. | ||||||||
| Finestkind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Kenshiro | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Prequel anime set prior to the start of the original Fist of the North Star series, but after Kenshiro’s rival, Shin, kidnaps Yuria and gives him his Big Dipper scars. | ||||||||
| Freud’s Last Session | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Futakoi | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic comedy anime where the main character made a promise to a pair of twins when he was child, only to return to his hometown as he enters high school to discover that all the girls in town are twins. | ||||||||
| Ghost Samurai (okamuro-san) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Live-action action-horror film based on a Japanese urban legend. | ||||||||
| Good Burger 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the Toei animated version of “The Little Mermaid” which doesn’t pull any of the punches the Disney version did. | ||||||||
| Imaginary | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little Drummer Girl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lovely Complex | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Live action film based on the romantic comedy anime & manga. | ||||||||
| Mad Props | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Medabots Spirits | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Midsomer Murders | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Migration | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Money Talks | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Monk (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| No Escape | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| North Dallas Forty (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| One Step Beyond – The Lost Episodes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Paint Your Wagon (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Panther Women | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Paper Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Phase IV | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | 4K Release of the only film to be made by Saul Bass, now with his original planned (and shot) ending which had been used for preview screenings, which was cut from the theatrical version, and was thought lost until discovered by Alamo Drafthouse. | ||||||||
| Primal Fear | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Renegade | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Riders of the Pony Express | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Road House | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Royal Hotel | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Saint Omer (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Santa Sangre | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Santo vs. The Riders of Terror | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Silent Slapstick Comedy Parade | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Jazz Band Leader, A Sanitarium Scandal, All is Fair, and Family Life. | ||||||||
| Spanish Blood Bath | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Night of the Skull, Violent Blood Bath, and The Fish with the Eyes of Gold. | ||||||||
| Stand and Deliver | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek: Lower Decks | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| The Boob / Why Be Good? Silent Classics Double Feature | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| They Drive By Night | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| To Die For (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Warriors | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wednesday | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| World War II Documentary Double Feature | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes With the Marines and Tarawa (1944) and Fury in the Pacific (1945) | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My 4K, and general pick of the week (as the disk includes a regular Blu-Ray), without hestitation or question, is Phase IV. I consider the movie an underrated gem, and am overjoyed not only has this received a 4K release, but a release with the original ending. On the anime front, I’m going with the 1997 version of Berserk.” Blaine says, “of those I’ve seen, Star Trek: Lower Decks is my top pick. Stand and Deliver and To Die For have been on my watch list for a while.”