This is a big week for action films from east Asia.
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| Batman vs. Robin | |||||||||
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| Big Eyes | |||||||||
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| Carrie / The Rage: Carrie 2 | |||||||||
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| Eddie and the Cruisers / Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! | |||||||||
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| Foyle’s War, Set 8 | |||||||||
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| Growing Pains: The Complete Fourth Season | |||||||||
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| He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not | |||||||||
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| I Am Steve McQueen | |||||||||
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| Jag: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Little House on the Prairie: Season Five | |||||||||
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| M (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: Possibly my all time favorite movie. The first film noir, the first German talkie, the first starring role for Peter Lorre, the first to use camera techniques commonly credited to Citizen Kane, and more. This is the only movie I’ve ever seen where I find myself wondering not just if the police will arrive in time, but if I want the police to arrive in time. | ||||||||
| Man With The Iron Fists 2 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: So, there’s a sequel to The Man With The Iron Fists – still starring The RZA, but with a different director, so the problems with shakey-cam with the original film’s fight scenes should be less of an issue here. | ||||||||
| Maps to the Stars | |||||||||
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| Metal Hurlant Chronicles: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: SF Anthology Series based on the French SF/Fantasy anthology comic series. I’ve read some issues of Heavy Metal that featured stories from Hurlant, and when some of the stories in the magazine were good, they were fantastic. However, when they were bad, they were abysmal. | ||||||||
| Noir: Anime Classics Edition | |||||||||
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| Comments | This Blu-Ray release seems to be missing a few features from the earlier DVD release. | ||||||||
| Odd Man Out (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Pet Girl of Sakurasou – Complete Collection | |||||||||
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| Comments | Anime series about a high school student who likes to adopt and take care of stray animals, who ends up in a dorm full of misfits. | ||||||||
| Sullivan’s Travels (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Tales of Terror | |||||||||
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| The Toxic Avenger Part II | |||||||||
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| Ultimate Avengers 3 Movie Collection | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Ultimate Avengers, Ultimate Avengers 2, and Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow. | ||||||||
| WWE Presents: The Ultimate Warrior – Always Believe | |||||||||
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| Comments | A Career retrospective on the Ultimate Warrior that is less of a hatchet-job than “The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior”. | ||||||||
| Woman of Straw | |||||||||
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| You’re Not You | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “I’m definitely going with M.” Alex says, “I’m also going with M.”
I’ve heard a lot of good things about The Babadook. Like it was one of the first truly frightening movies to come out in a long time that didn’t rely on the overused cliche of jump scares.
Anyone catch it and want to weigh in?
I tried to catch it– its fleeting appearances in Canada were at film festivals and limited engagements somewhere else. Now that it can be had at home, I imagine I’ll see it– though perhaps a review would be more appropriate for next October.
Anyone else out there?