A slightly slower week than last week, but things are still building to the fall rush.
2 Broke Girls: Complete Third Season | |||||||||
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: One of the greatest comedies in film history. | ||||||||
The Best of Rocky and Bullwinkle: Volume 3 | |||||||||
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Black Butler Season 2 (Anime Classics) | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Caillou’s Family Favorites | |||||||||
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Comments | Quick, someone tell John Oliver this will be available! | ||||||||
A Certain Magical Index Season 2, Part 1 | |||||||||
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A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim) | |||||||||
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Death Kiss | |||||||||
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Desperately Seeking Susan | |||||||||
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Don’t Blink | |||||||||
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Dracula: Season One | |||||||||
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Fargo: Season One | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I haven’t seen this yet, but one of my classmates from grade 6 was a cameraman on the set, and he says making this was the most fun he’s ever had on a shoot. | ||||||||
Fate/Stay Night TV Complete Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Anime series about a boy hurled into a battle of wizards over the Holy Grail. | ||||||||
The Hangover: Part III | |||||||||
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The Hercules Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Loves of Hercules, The Trojan Horse, Medusa Against the Son of Hercules, The Conquest of Mycenae, The Triumph of Hercules and Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun. | ||||||||
Jackass: The Classic TV Collection | |||||||||
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Juan of the Dead | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Blu-Ray release of the first Cuban zombie film. | ||||||||
Kill Me Baby Complete Collection | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Slice of life absurdist comedy anime about a high school girl who is best friends with a teenage assassin. | ||||||||
Married to the Mob | |||||||||
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Marvel Knights: The Wolverine Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: A collection of motion comics based on major Wolverine storylines, but I don’t know how many would be classified as his greatest stories. | ||||||||
Meganebu! Complete Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Slice of life anime about a high school club for guys who wear glasses. | ||||||||
Mercinaries | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Stallone has said he’d like to do an “Expendi-belles” movie, but I think the Asylum has gotten them beat here, having put together an action film with several of the female big-name action stars of the ’80s and ’90s in the cast (especially Cynthia Rothrock and Brigitte Nielsen). Seriously, the big thing keeping this from being fully equivalent to The Expendibles is the lack of any action stars from Hong Kong, such as Michelle Yeoh. | ||||||||
Mortal Kombat: Legacy | |||||||||
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Mortal Kombat: Legacy II | |||||||||
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman | |||||||||
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Comments | The recent feature film. | ||||||||
Mr. Peabody and Sherman: The Complete Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | The 91 episode TV series. | ||||||||
Murdoch Mysteries: Season 7 | |||||||||
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My Darling Clementine (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Mystery Road | |||||||||
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Naruto Film Triple Feature | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Contains the films “Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow”, “Legend of the Stone of Gelel”, “Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom” | ||||||||
Naruto Shippuden – Set 20 | |||||||||
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Penny Dreadful: The Complete First Season | |||||||||
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Princess Jellyfish (SAVE Edition) | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Anime series about an apartment building with several geeky girls who live there, and who must band together to prevent the owner from turning the building into condos. | ||||||||
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise | |||||||||
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Sherlock Holmes Classic Film, TV and Radio Collection | |||||||||
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Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion | |||||||||
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Steven Spielberg Director’s Colleciton | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, 1941, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Always, Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. | ||||||||
Super Why!: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and other fairytale adventures | |||||||||
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Two and a Half Men: The Complete Eleventh Season | |||||||||
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Venus in Fur | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: If you are like me, and you find it difficult to support certain artists based on their personal conduct, then you should know that this was directed by Roman Polanski. | ||||||||
The Westerner | |||||||||
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White Christmas: Diamond Anniversary Edition | |||||||||
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WWE Presents John Cena’s Greatest Rivalries | |||||||||
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X-Men: Days of Future Past | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstin is the hands-down winner. If you already own a copy, go with X-Men: Days of Future Past.” Alex says, “Abbot and Costello Meets Frankenstein is worth picking up, but other then that, this week is skippable.”
Fargo is definitely good, Martin Freeman and Allison Tolman especially did great jobs, but really everyone involved did.
I haven’t seen Polanski’s take on Venus in Fur but the play upon which it is based is great. It even sorta kinda counts as our “genre,” due to one reading of a twist in the plot.
(it’s also an odd choice, given its themes and Polanski’s personal history).
On a very different note, everyone should see Bud and Lou meet Frankenstein, at least once.