As usual, the Boxing Day releases show the highest proportion of anime releases for the year.
Acceptable Risk: Series 1 | |||||||||
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Bad Grandmas | |||||||||
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Barefoot Gen Movies 1 and 2 | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Blade Runner 2049 | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media January 16, 2018. | ||||||||
Brawl in Cell Block 99 | |||||||||
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Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I have never seen this, but it is featured in the “editing” chapters of two of my textbooks on film studies. | ||||||||
Disastrous Life Of Saiki K. | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime comedy series about a hich school student with tremendous psychic powers, and who goes to great lengths to try to live as normal a life as possible, only for his actions to point out how extra-ordinary he is. | ||||||||
Flatliners (2017) | |||||||||
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Fletch Lives | |||||||||
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For Richer or Poorer | |||||||||
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Haikyu: Season 1 | |||||||||
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Comments | Rightstuf released this in November. | ||||||||
I Am Sam Kinison | |||||||||
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Jeepers Creepers 3 | |||||||||
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Killing Gunther | |||||||||
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Lupin the 3rd: Series 2 Box 2 | |||||||||
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Manhunt: Unabomber | |||||||||
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Mayhem | |||||||||
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Mountain Between Us | |||||||||
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The Paper | |||||||||
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Photon: The Idiot Adventures | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: 6-episode anime series about a young hero who is trying to help a princess from an evil galactic emperor in spite of being a giant oblivious idiot (which doesn’t exactly distinguish him from most Shonen Battle Anime Protagonists. | ||||||||
The Recall | |||||||||
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Revolt | |||||||||
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Riddle Story of Devil: The Complete Series S.A.V.E. | |||||||||
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Comments | Action-suspense anime, about a high school student, Haru Ichinose, who has been targeted by assassins within her school. One of her classmates, Tokaku Azuma, who has a background as an assassin, has sworn to protect Haru from the other assassins, no matter what. | ||||||||
Squid Girl | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Special edition re-release, featuring a linticular card (with Squid Girl spewing ink on some noodles), a hardcover art booklet, art cards, a keychain of Squid Girl, button pack, certificate of authenticity, another certificate pointing out that 1 dollar of the purchase price has been donated to ocean conservancy causes, all in a chipboard art box. | ||||||||
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |||||||||
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We Are X | |||||||||
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WWE: Survivor Series (2017) | |||||||||
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Comments | Featuring the first Women’s Survivor Series match between Team Raw (featuring Asuka) vs. Team Raw (featuring Becky Lynch). | ||||||||
Yowamushi Pedal The Movie | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime film set after the last season with the original cast, focusing on a one-day race. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “if you have 4K capability, Terminator 2 is worthy of consideration. If you want digital, go with Blade Runner 2049.” Alex says, “This year was the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings. That reason alone certainly makes the Barefoot Gen collection worthy of consideration.”
Look, I think Terminator 2 is an iconic movie and was groundbreaking for it’s time. But if you have it on regular blu-ray, I really don’t think you need a 4K version.
By the way, the CG still looks magnificent in 1080p, but it makes Arnie’s stunt double super obvious.