It’s a short list of releases this week. Nobody wants to compete with Rogue One, I guess.
3 Movie Triple Feature | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Wind Chill, Closure, and Perfect Stranger | ||||||||
10 Action Movies Starring Steven Seagal | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: The product description doesn’t name the movies, but given the other names in the listed cast, I’m not convinced Seagal is in every one of these movies. Alex: Considering the number of direct-to-video films Segal has been churning out, he’s probably in all of these movies. He’s probably not doing all his stunts (he’s been using stunt doubles for all his fight scenes in the past few years), and the films are likely all universally terrible, but he’s at least in all of these movies. | ||||||||
10 Movie Western Collection | |||||||||
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Best of Tim Conway | |||||||||
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Book of Love | |||||||||
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Bounce Back | |||||||||
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Chungking Express | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: People still argue to this day that Forrest Gump should not have won the Best Picture Oscar, quoting Pulp Fiction or The Shawshank Redemption as their preferred choices. The other two nominees were Quiz Show and Four Weddings and a Funeral.My pick for that year’s Best Picture is Chungking Express, directed by Wong Kar-wai. And now I want to eat pineapple. | ||||||||
DCI Banks: Season 5 | |||||||||
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Desperate Housewives: The Complete Fifth Season | |||||||||
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Diagnosis Murder: Complete Collection | |||||||||
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Diff’rent Strokes: Season Five | |||||||||
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Don’t Kill It | |||||||||
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Girls Beyond the Wasteland | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Good Wife: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Complete Series S.A.V.E. | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Invasion of the Bee Girls | |||||||||
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Legend of Bruce Lee: Volume 2 | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: This is a biopic about Lee, not a collection of his films. | ||||||||
Little Nikita | |||||||||
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Lonely Hearts | |||||||||
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Lost: The Complete Fifth Season | |||||||||
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Martian Successor Nadesico Complete Collection | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Mary Higgins Clark – Best Selling Mysteries Volume 2 | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes I’ll Be Seeing You, Pretend You Don’t See Her, You Belong to Me, We’ll Meet Again, and Before I Say Goodbye. | ||||||||
Medium: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Miss Annie Rooney | |||||||||
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Comments | Starring Shirley Temple | ||||||||
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Collection | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Originally released with the subtitle “Stardust Memory” | ||||||||
Amazon | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | ||||||||
Paterson | |||||||||
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Psycho Circus – 3 Rings of Terror Triple Feature | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Brotherhood of Satan, Torture Garden, and Creeping Flesh | ||||||||
Punchline | |||||||||
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Ride the High Country | |||||||||
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Rifleman: The Faith Episodes – Volume 1 | |||||||||
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | |||||||||
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Shadows Collection – 8 Movies | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: There is no title list at the time of this writing. | ||||||||
Silent Witness: Season 18 | |||||||||
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Silver Skies | |||||||||
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Teen Titans: Judas Contract | |||||||||
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Three | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Being that Rogue One doesn’t appear to be available for ordering yet, I’m going to go with Nadesico.” Blaine says, “Amazon seems to have stopped the Rogue One preorders, but other retailers confirm that this is, indeed, the release date. That’s my pick, unless you plan to wait for the 3D version, in which case grab Chungking Express. If the budget allows, get both.”
Rogue One is not Pick of the Anything worthy, in my opinion. It’s where I drew the line; Disney is going to bleed this franchise dry, and crap low-effort fan-service movies is where they stop getting my money.
I also think those “X Movie Collections” are barely worth mentioning.
I have seen Invasion of the Bee Girls, which up until now you had to get a poor VHS rip of with terrible quality. Though that might just be the actual movie. I watched it because Anita Ford is in it, and she played the villain in the original Wonder Woman movie from 1974 (the Cathy Lee Crosby one), and frankly she had more screen presence than Crosby!
That said, do not watch that movie unless you want bad camp.