Fox is releasing a lot of their “Fox Film Noir” DVD series on Blu-Ray this week.
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Comments | Alex: Anime series about a girl (who is passing as a guy) ending up getting roped into a Survival Games (Airsoft) club run by a bunch of pretty guys. Basically it’s like Ouran High School Host Club but with airsoft guns. | ||||||||
Army of One | |||||||||
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years | |||||||||
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Better Call Saul: Season Two | |||||||||
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Boomerang | |||||||||
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Breathless (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Buster Keaton Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I love my DVD edition of this box, and wish I had room for the Blu-Ray set in the budget. At the time of this writing, used DVD sets are available for $39.92, compared to the $299.95 for the Blu-Ray. | ||||||||
Cardboard Boxer | |||||||||
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Castle Town Dandelion: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Comments | Weird fanservice anime series about a royal fantasy in a modern fantasy world who are also in a reality TV show. | ||||||||
Chaos Dragon | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Fantasy anime series based off a tabletop RPG campaign run by Gen “The Urobutcher” Urobuchi. | ||||||||
C.H.U.D. (Special Edition) | |||||||||
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Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary Edition | |||||||||
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Coffee and Cigarettes | |||||||||
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Community: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Cry of the City | |||||||||
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Daisy Kenyon | |||||||||
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Dead Ringers | |||||||||
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Death of a Salesman | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: Starring Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. | ||||||||
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Comments | Anthology film adapting various dreams of Akira Kurosawa, directed by a variety of directors including Kurosawa. | ||||||||
Finding Dory | |||||||||
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Game of Thrones: Season 6 | |||||||||
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Game of Thrones: Complete Seasons 1-6 | |||||||||
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Houdini | |||||||||
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The House on 92nd Street | |||||||||
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Comments | Fox Film Noir | ||||||||
J’Accuse (1938) | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: This is the remake of the 1919 film (so, remade after 19 years) of the post-WWI anti-war silent film, made in the midst of the rise of Hitler, and on the eve of the German invasion of Poland. | ||||||||
Jason Bourne | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media December 6, 2016. | ||||||||
The Jungle Book (2016) | |||||||||
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The Living and the Dead | |||||||||
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Looking: The Complete Series and the Movie | |||||||||
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The Lucy Show: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Orson Welles’ Macbeth (Olive Signature) | |||||||||
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Man on Fire | |||||||||
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McMillan and Wife: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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The Middle: Season 7 | |||||||||
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The Mindy Project: Season Four | |||||||||
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Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | |||||||||
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Nash Bridges: The Complete Collection | |||||||||
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NYPD Blue: Season 11 | |||||||||
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One of Our Aircraft is Missing | |||||||||
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Peanuts Holiday Anniversary Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and A Charlie Brown Christmas: Christmastime is Here. | ||||||||
Pimpernel Smith | |||||||||
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The Polar Express / How the Grinch Stole Christmas Animated Double Feature | |||||||||
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Punch-Drunk Love (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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The Rifleman: The Original Series: Season 3 Volume 2 | |||||||||
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Sailor Moon S: Part 1 | |||||||||
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Comments | Season 3 of Sailor Moon. The limited edition comes with a chipboard art box that will hold parts 1 & 2, along with an art booklet. | ||||||||
Sony Pictures Animation Collection Lunchbox Gift Set | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Surf’s Up, The Smurfs, The Smurfs 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Open Season, Hotel Transylvania, Hotel Transylvania 2, Arthur Christmas, and The Pirates. | ||||||||
Star Trek: The Animated Series | |||||||||
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Collector’s Edition | |||||||||
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Time After Time | |||||||||
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Ultimate Otaku Teacher: Season 1, Part 1 | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series about a teacher who is a big otaku getting a job as a high school teacher. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going with the Special Edition of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, if only for the presense of J.J. Abrams Director’s Commentary.” Blaine says, “the Buster Keaton set is great if you can afford it. If not, you can upgrade your copy of The Force Awakens.”
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams is magnificent.
See also Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (remade as The Magnificent Seven), Yojimbo (remade as For a Fistful of Dollars), The Hidden Fortress (a huge influence on Star Wars), Red Beard and Throne of Blood (his remakes of Shakespeare), Ran, and virtually anything else that had his name on it. Kurosawa was one of the greatest directors in the history of the medium.
Absolutely. But Dreams is something he made in the ’90s, and I think his last movie. It’s more an anthology of short stories.