I apologize for the lateness of this column. Some delays were technical, others were not.
| The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother | |||||||||
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| American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson | |||||||||
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| The Bodyguard | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Martial arts film starring Sammo Hung as a former soldier living on the Russian/Chinese border, who gets caught up in events when some members of the Russian mob kidnap a young girl he’s befrended. | ||||||||
| Buddymoon | |||||||||
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| CSI: Cyber: Season 2 | |||||||||
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| Dangerous Attractions – 10 Killer Thrillers | |||||||||
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| Equals | |||||||||
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| The Flash: Season 2 | |||||||||
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| Friday Night Lights | |||||||||
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| Gundam Build Fighters Try | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Anime sequel to Gundam Build Fighters – a sports anime about battling with GunPla. | ||||||||
| Hard Target 2 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: So, Hard Target was a crappy action film whose primary strengths were the presence of Jean-Claude Van Damme in front of the camera and John Woo behind it. We have here a sequel with neither John Woo’s directorial stylings nor Jean-Claude Claude Van Damme’s screen presence, made decades after the original film came out. | ||||||||
| Haunted Honymoon | |||||||||
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| The Karate Kid: Part III | |||||||||
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| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counter-Attack | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: The conclusion of the Char/Amuro rivalry in Gundam’s Universal Century timeline. | ||||||||
| My Bodyguard (1980) | |||||||||
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| Now You See Me 2 | |||||||||
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| Pretty Dead – 10 Horror Films | |||||||||
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| Project Itoh: Harmony | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Anime film based on a novel by Japanese science fiction author Project Itoh. | ||||||||
| Psycho-Pass: Season 1 | |||||||||
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| The Real Ghostbusters | |||||||||
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| Rin-Ne Collection 2 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Continuation of the anime series from the creator of Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura. | ||||||||
| Road House | |||||||||
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| Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes the original cast appearances: the original series, the animated series, and the first six films. | ||||||||
| Supernatural: Season 11 | |||||||||
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| The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today | |||||||||
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| Tales From the Darkside: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| WWE Presents: The History of the Hardcore Championship | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: This is a title I thought the WWE wanted to forget. Also, there are a slew of other titles that the WWE has rights to that you’d think there’d be more of a market in covering (including the AWA title, and the ECW World and Television titles) | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going with Char’s Counterattack. It’s gorgeously animated, though it does have some problems with Char’s characterization compared to his character in earlier series.” Blaine says, “I would go with the Star Trek collection if you don’t already own it. Although I’ve only seen the first season, I also expect this to be a great season of The Flash.”
I never saw Tales from the Darkside, though I remember the (possibly local) commercial that used the Eddie and the Cruisers song. Is the series worth watching? Likewise, I really liked the book Friday Night Lights and liked the movie, but I’ve never seen the show? Should it go on the “eventually watch” list?
Anyone?