| 80s Horror 5-Film Set | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, Lost Boys, The Shining, and Little Shop of Horrors. | ||||||||
| Aces Go Places Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes the five Aces Go Places films (all numbered accordingly) | ||||||||
| Addiction (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Vampire film from Abel Ferrara. | ||||||||
| Alien 7 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Prometheus, Alien Covenant, and Alien: Romulus | ||||||||
| American Werewolf in London | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bunnylovr | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Clash of the Thundermans | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Convoy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Death Among the Pines | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Devil Survivor 2: The Animation | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime adaptation of the second of the Devil Survivor tactical RPGs. | ||||||||
| Disclosure Day | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fall 2: Deadpoint | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Godzilla 3D | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Godzilla Minus One | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: As far as Letterboxd users are concerned, this is the best Godzilla movie made so far. | ||||||||
| Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Harry Potter 8 Film Set | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Insidious: Out of the Further | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jackass: Best and Last | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Late Fame | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little Shop of Horrors | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: The director’s cut has a far more depressing ending. | ||||||||
| Madison | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Magic (1978) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece Mystery!: Marble Hall Murders | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece Mystery!: The Marlow Murder Club | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Moana (2026) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Moana 3 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes both animated films and the live action film | ||||||||
| Narnia 3-Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: Includes The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | ||||||||
| Onslaught | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Operation Mekong | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Chinese action movie about police tracking down narcotraffickers working on the Mekong River. | ||||||||
| Pet Sematary (1989) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Peter Asher: Everywhere Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Spider-Man: Brand New Day | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Toy Story 5 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Added to Disney+ in late September. | ||||||||
| Van Helsing | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Welcome II The Terrordrome (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | No relation to the podcast about the history of Hollywood. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My pick of the week this week is the Aces Go Places collection – it’s a group of martial arts comedy films featuring the various members of the Little Fortunes beyond Jackie Chan (particularly Sammo Hung), so if you’d like to see how the rest of Jackie Chan’s colleagues fare, this is what you’re looking for. Godzilla Minus One is a very close second.” Blaine says, “I would go with the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors, either with the director’s cut or in the horror box set.”
I watched Convoy when I was like 10. And boy did I not get it.
I didn’t catch Spider-Man in the theater. Probably need to before Doomsday (not 100% sure, but why not).
I was watching the live action remakes of Disney films (on Disney+ where it costs nothing but time). I stopped after Little Mermaid. They’re just so utterly pointless. Nothing is added. Nothing is interesting. These are classics for a reason. Remaking them to just reset the copyright is dumb and just cheapens the IP.
Heck, the last few Disney originals have been meh (Moana 2, Wish). Pixar’s Hoppers was fun and I haven’t seen Toy Story 5, yet. I wonder how much of this is from Chapek’s tenure or Iger’s return. I’m curious to see what D’Amaro’s stamp will look like.
Little Shop is a classic. Either ending works (the dark ending is the original ending from the first movie and stage play). I think this, Clue, and Get Out are the only movies with multiple endings on equal footing.
Some live action remakes do add things, but they generally add deleted scenes that were rightfully deleted in the first place. They are new songs often enough that I wonder if they were produced primarily to quality for the “Best Original Song” Oscar, which they couldn’t do using only songs written for the original.
Also, referring to the “Lion King” remake is “live action” is laughable, yet Disney consistently does it.
Yeah, The Lion King being “live action” was pushing the limits of language. I will never forgive the butchery that was “Be Prepared” one the best villain songs in Disney history.
Now, the prequel Mufasa was different. At least it’s a story we hadn’t heard yet. The only downside was it wasn’t all that strong a story.