It’s another light week during the season of theatrical blockbusters.
About Face | |||||||||
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The Angry Birds Movie | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media August 16. | ||||||||
Barbership: The Next Cut | |||||||||
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Batman: The Killing Joke | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media August 2. Also coming to select theatres. | ||||||||
Born to be Blue | |||||||||
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The Boss | |||||||||
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The Candy Tangerine Man / Lady Cocoa | |||||||||
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Code: Breaker – The Complete Series (SAVE Edition) | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Shonen action drama series, based on a manga which is complete (but hadn’t finished in Japan as of the airing of the series), but which we didn’t get all of here in the US. | ||||||||
Criminal | |||||||||
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Darkstalkers: The Complete OVA Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Based on the Capcom fighting game. | ||||||||
Date A Live – Season 1 (SAVE Edition) | |||||||||
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Comments | Romantic comedy anime based on a series of young adult novels. | ||||||||
Deadline – U.S.A. | |||||||||
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Death Wish II | |||||||||
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Dementia 13 | |||||||||
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Doctor Butcher M.D. / Zombie Holocaust | |||||||||
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Doctor Who: Series Five, Part Two | |||||||||
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Family Matters, Season Seven | |||||||||
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Hardcore Henry | |||||||||
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I Am Wrath | |||||||||
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Log Horizon: Season 2 – Collection 2 | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: The conclusion of season 2 of the show – which I have reviewed here. | ||||||||
Lupin III In Voyage To Danger | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: After Inspector Zenigata is re-assigned with the task of taking down a group of international arms smugglers who are planning to sell nuclear weapons, Lupin III decides that life is simply too boring without Zenigata, and has thus decided to bring down the arms smugglers so Zenigata gets re-assigned. Meanwhile, Zenigata’s replacement on the Lupin case is secretly an assassin out to kill Lupin! | ||||||||
Mystery Science Theater XXXVI | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Stranded in Space, City Limits, The Incredible Melting Man, and Riding With Death. | ||||||||
The New World (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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One Piece: Season 8 – Voyage 2 | |||||||||
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Pioneers of African-American Cinema | |||||||||
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Sing Street | |||||||||
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Stop, You’re Killing Me | |||||||||
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When They Cry (Higurashi No Koro Ni) Rei | |||||||||
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Comments | Season 3 of the Higurashi No Koro Ni mystery-horror anime series. | ||||||||
Where’s Huddles?: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you’ve been getting Log Horizon, I recommend getting Season 2, Collection 2. Otherwise, Lupin III in Voyage to Danger has caught my interest.” Blaine says, “I see nothing particularly noteable (trusting that everyone already has the Doctor Who episodes in one form or another.)”
I’m curious to see Hardcore Henry. I’m not sure if my stomach will be as interested. And, of course, I’m psyched to see The Killing Joke.
Remarkable though the Killing Joke comic is, I’m a tad concerned about the alleged expansion of the Babs Gordon plot in the adaptation to include a past sexual relationship with Batman. If true, that feels really off.