It’s a small week, but some of these are genuinely pretty great.
Assassin’s Creed | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Attack on Titan: Junior High – The Complete Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Anime series that re-imagines Attack on Titan with the main characters being Junior High students fending off Titans as delinquents. | ||||||||
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The Complete Third Season | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Being There | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Ben Affleck 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes The Town, Argo, The Accountant, and Live By NIght. | ||||||||
BlazBlue: Alter Memory – SAVE Edition | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Anime series based on the BlazBlue fighting game franchise. | ||||||||
Brokenwood Mysteries, Series 3 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Chamber of Horrors | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Cinema Paradiso (Special Edition) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Death Valley Days: The Complete Third Season | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Delinquents | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Directed by Robert Altman | ||||||||
Game of Death | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Directed by Robert Wise, who also directed The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. | ||||||||
The Girl and the General | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Girls Und Panzer: This Is The Real Anzio Battle! | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: In the Girls Und Panzer TV series, the show skipped over Oorai High’s Tankery battle with Anzio High (the team which specialized in World War II-era Italian Tanks). This OVA (Original Video Animation) adapts this story in full. | ||||||||
Invisible Ghost | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
A Kind of Murder | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lifeboat | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: Kino will make the best possible transfer for this one. Be aware that some of the original negatives were water damaged in this early Hitchcock film, so don’t expect an unblemished print. To the best of my knowledge, such a print never has and never will exist. | ||||||||
Live By Night | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Master of None: Season One | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Mezzo DSA | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Action series based on the anime Mezzo Forte, but with all the *ahem* adult elements removed, meaning it focues more on a group of private investigators and troubleshooters dealing with the mob. | ||||||||
Multiple Maniacs (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Office Christmas Party | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Available on physical media April 4. | ||||||||
Pokemon the Movie 19: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
RoboCop 2 (Collector’s Edition) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
RoboCop 3 (Collector’s Edition) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Available on physical media April 4, 2017 | ||||||||
Sing | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Super Shredder | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Untouchables: The Complete Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
When Calls the Heart: The Heart of Faith | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Wolf Creek: Season 1 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Won Ton Ton: Dog Who Saved Hollywood | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: I wasn’t going to mention this, but then I noticed it stars Art Carney and Phil Silvers. | ||||||||
WWE Presents: Wrestlemania Monday | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Documentary on the post-Wrestlemania Raw. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Having seen Girls Und Panzer and having enjoyed it, I’m interested in seeing the new OVA.” Blaine says, “if you buy digital, Rogue One is the indisputable choice. If not, check out Lifeboat.”
Assassin’s Creed is my choice of the week for movie I’d like to go back in time and prevent the making of.
If you’ve not seen Being There, you should.
Especially now.
Cinema Paradiso is also worth seeing.
I’ve never seen Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood but it has an all-star-ish cast and, clearly, one of the great titles in film history.