WB/MGM library titles make up the bulk of the interesting releases this week.
| Akeelah and the Bee | |||||||||
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| Beauty and the Beast (2012): The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Before I Fall | |||||||||
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| Big Kahuna | |||||||||
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| Blackcoat’s Daughter | |||||||||
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| Blackenstein | |||||||||
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| Blood of Fu Manchu / Castle of Fu Manchu | |||||||||
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| Boruto: Naruto the Movie | |||||||||
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| Captain Harlock Arcadia of My Youth | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Film telling the origin of Harlock and Tochiro Oyama, in turn setting up the plot of the Arcadia SSX anime (which has yet to receive a US release) | ||||||||
| Collide | |||||||||
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| Cure for Wellness | |||||||||
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| Comments | Available on physical media June 6 | ||||||||
| Decoy: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| DePatie/Freleng Collection: Sheriff Hoot Kloot | |||||||||
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| DePatie/Freleng Collection: The Blue Racer | |||||||||
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| Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya: The Movie | |||||||||
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| Endride: Part One | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Fantasy anime set in an hollow earth. | ||||||||
| Fist Fight | |||||||||
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| Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
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| Ghost World (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Gosick: The Complete Series Part One | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Mystery anime series. | ||||||||
| Hart to Hart: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Hell on Wheels: The Complete Limited Edition Collector’s Set with Soundtrack | |||||||||
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| Hi-sCool! Seha Girls | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Series of short form anime featuring anthropomorphic versions of Sega consoles | ||||||||
| Himouto Umaru-Chan | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Anime series based around a high school student whose sister is a model student at school, and a soda guzzling otaku slacker when she gets home. | ||||||||
| Kiss Me, Kate | |||||||||
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| Comments | 1999 stage revival of the Cole Porter musical | ||||||||
| Last Kingdom: Season Two | |||||||||
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| Life | |||||||||
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| Comments | Available on physical media on June 20 | ||||||||
| Lupin the 3rd: Island of Assassins | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Lupin III is framed for the murder of Inspector Zenigata. In order to find the real killer, the Lupin crew will have to travel to the Devil’s Triangle in order to track down the culprit. | ||||||||
| Major Crimes: The Complete Fifth Season | |||||||||
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| Malibu High | |||||||||
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| Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Insiang, Mysterious Object at Noon, Revenge, Limite, Law of the Border, and Taipei Story. | ||||||||
| One Two Three | |||||||||
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| The Paradine Case | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alfred Hitchcock directs Ethel Barrymore, Gregory Peck, and Charles Laughton | ||||||||
| Parenthood | |||||||||
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| Queen Sugar: The Complete First Season | |||||||||
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| Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! | |||||||||
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| Comments | Stage production starring Hugh Jackman | ||||||||
| Shack | |||||||||
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| Sheik | |||||||||
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| Comments | 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino | ||||||||
| Shonen Maid: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Silver Screen Icons: Astaire and Rogers | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Shall We Dance, and Carefree. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Astaire and Rogers, Vol. 2 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Flying Down to Rio, Roberta, Follow the Fleet, and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Broadway Musicals | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Annie Get Your Gun, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Cary Grant | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes My Favorite Wife, Night and Day, The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Doris Day | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Romance on the High Seas, Calamity Jane, Love Me or Leave Me, and Please Don’t Eat the Daisies | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Holiday | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes A Christmas Carol, The Shop Around the Corner, Christmas in Connecticut, It Happened on 5th Avenue. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Humphrey Bogart | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes They Drive By Night, Across the Pacific, Action in the North Atlantic, and Passage to Marseille | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: James Stewart | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The Shop Around the Corner, The Stratton Story, The Spirit of St. Louis, and The FBI Story. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: John Ford Westerns | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes 3 Godfathers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, and Cheyenne Autumn | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: John Wayne Action | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Chisum, The Train Robbers, Cahill: United States Marshal, and McQ. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, Vol. 1 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan and his Mate, Tarzan Escapes, and Tarzan Finds a Son, all of which are eligible for the Make Me Watch It podcast series. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Judy Garland | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes For Me and My Gal, The Harvey Girls, In the Good Old Summertime, and Summer Stock. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Legends – Bogie and Bacall | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Murder Mysteries | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Dial M For Murder. | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Romantic Drama | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: Thin Man, Vol. 1 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The Thin Man, After the Thin Man, Another Thin Man, and Shadow of the Thin Man | ||||||||
| Silver Screen Icons: World War II | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Battle Cry and Batle of the Bulge | ||||||||
| Speed Racer: Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Suits: Season Six | |||||||||
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| Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Overloaded and Decepticon Island | |||||||||
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| Victorian Slum House | |||||||||
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| WWE Presents: Seth Rollins – Building the Architect | |||||||||
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| Comments | Documentary on Seth Rollins career, containing several of his matches. Probably won’t contain any of the matches from his Ring of Honor career. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m a fan of Arcadia of my Youth/em>, and the previous release was lacking in video quality – I’m looking forward to seeing this film remastered.” Blaine says, “the Silver Screen Icons: Murder Mysteries collection is my choice. It’s cost effective, and I’ve seen The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Dial M For Murder, all of which are great. I have yet to see The Postman Always Rings Twice, but it’s been on my ‘must watch’ list for a while.”
The 1999 Kiss Me, Kate is wonderful. I highly recommend it. Do not, under any circumstances, watch the 1953 version. It’s horrible. Of course, musicals are meant to be seen on stage, so get yourself to a theatre once in a while.
Parenthood was a great series. At times, it felt like it was narrating my own family’s lives. A little creepy but often therapeutic.
I watched the first few episodes of Hell On Wheels and liked it. I need to get back in and watch it in its entirety.