This week has a lot of releases from the silent ear, and a couple other points of minor interest.
4 Movie Marathon: Ancient Adventure Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Robin Hood, The Quest, The Musketeer, and Dragonheart. | ||||||||
4 Movie Marathon: Comedy Favorites Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Twins, Junior, Pure Luck, and Dragnet | ||||||||
4 Movie Marathon: Conspiracy Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes State of Play, Closed Circuit, Spy Game, and Breach | ||||||||
4 Movie Marathon: Epic Exploits Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Scorpion King, Kull the Conqueror, Conan the Barbarian, and Conan the Destroyer. | ||||||||
4 Movie Marathon: Heartbreak Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Story of Us, What Dreams May Come, and Meet Joe Black | ||||||||
4 Movie Marathon: Post-Apocalyptic Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Waterworld, Skyline, Children of Men, and Doomsday | ||||||||
4 Movie Marathon: Romantic Comedies Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Larry Crowne, Love Happens, Prime, and Because I Said So | ||||||||
4 Movie Marathon: Westerns Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Far Country, Whispering Smith, The Plainsman, and Man in the Shadow. | ||||||||
6 Feature Classic Mystery Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I can’t find a list of which features are included, aside from the “Featuring Mr. Wong and Nancy Drew” on the cover. | ||||||||
7 Feature Classic Mystery Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: Again, I can only find what’s on the front cover, but that’s Bulldog Drummond, British Intelligence, Dick Tracy, Doomed to Die, and Shock! As Bulldog Drummond and Dick Tracy had multiple serials in the day, I suspect that’s where the other two titles are coming from. | ||||||||
Akame Ga Kill Collection 2 | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains episodes 13-24. The limited edition release (in addition to having the show on DVD) comes with a soundtrack CD and an art booklet in a chipboard box. | ||||||||
Angie Tribeca: The Complete First Season | |||||||||
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Barnaby Jones | |||||||||
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The Battling Fool / American Pluck | |||||||||
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Before the White Man Came | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: This was rare in its day: a 1920 film where “minority” characters were played by actual members of that ethnic group. This has a 100% Native American cast. | ||||||||
Black Butler: Book of Murder OVAs | |||||||||
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Candy | |||||||||
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Cop Rock: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Danger in the Streets: Vintage Traffic Safety Films | |||||||||
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Daring Deeds / Won in the Clouds Double Feature | |||||||||
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Dark Passage | |||||||||
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DCU Two Pack | |||||||||
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Dirty Grandpa | |||||||||
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Ernst Lubitsch Silents Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Eyes of the Mummy, Gypsy Blood, and Lady Windermere’s Fan. | ||||||||
The Facts of Life: Final Season | |||||||||
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For Better or For Worse | |||||||||
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Gods of Egypt | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine Available on physical media May 31. | ||||||||
Gunbuster: The Movie | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Compilation film adaptation of the OVA series I reviewed way back in 2007, when I first started writing for the site. | ||||||||
The Hazards of Helen | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I’m sure this was in no way inspired by the massive success of the original Perils of Pauline serial. | ||||||||
Hired to Kill | |||||||||
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Human Desire | |||||||||
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I Saw What You Did | |||||||||
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Ip Man Trilogy | |||||||||
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Kindergarten Cop franchise | |||||||||
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M Butterfly | |||||||||
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Man From Headquarters / Brothers Double Feature | |||||||||
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Mr. Selfridge – Season 4 | |||||||||
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McMillan and Wife: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Mr. and Mrs. North: Volume 12 | |||||||||
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My Boyfriends’ Dogs | |||||||||
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The Naked Island (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Nova: Rise of the Robots | |||||||||
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Oh, God! You Devil | |||||||||
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One Crazy Summer | |||||||||
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Orange is the New Black: Season 3 | |||||||||
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Pinky Tomlin Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Thanks for Listening, Sing While You’re Able, With Love and Kisses, and Swing It Professor. | ||||||||
Playhouse of Stars | |||||||||
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Power Rangers: Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Comments | Footage from this show was featured in season 3 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers | ||||||||
The Program | |||||||||
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Southbound | |||||||||
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Splender in the Grass | |||||||||
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Too Late For Tears | |||||||||
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Turhan Bey Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Amazing Mr. X, Shadow on the Stairs, and Parole Inc. | ||||||||
Universal Hollywood Icons Collection: Carole Lombard | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Hands Across the Table, Love Before Breakfast, My Man Godfrey, and True Confessions. | ||||||||
Universal Hollywood Icons Collection: Gregory Peck | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Arabesque, Mirage, Captain Newman, M.D., and The World in his Arms. | ||||||||
Universal Hollywood Icons Collection: James Stewart | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Harvey, Winchester 73, The Glenn Miller Story, and You Gotta Stay Happy. | ||||||||
Universal Hollywood Icons Collection: Marlene Dietrich | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Angel, Blonde Venus, Seven Sinners, and Desire. | ||||||||
The Witch | |||||||||
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Comments | This was previously reviewed by J.D. DeLuzio | ||||||||
Woman on the Run | |||||||||
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X Marks the Spot | |||||||||
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Xena: Warrior Princess | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “nothing jumps out at me this week. Hang on to a later week.” Alex says, “The only things that catch my attention are the Gunbuster movie. Otherwise hold off until later.”
Not a really great week for SF/Fantasy (by Season Six Xena lost a lot of its appeal), but they tried some crazy ideas that year.
But, One Crazy Summer’s better than you’d expect.
I Saw What You Did is a fun bit of cheeseploitation.
The third season of Orange is the New Black is out.
And there’s a Vintage Traffic Safety anthology! I wonder if they will pair that with a Vintage PSAs eventually.
Has anyone seen Splender in the Grass? Has a good reputation as a drama about young people, but sometimes that sort of thing dates as poorly as, well, most young people.