This is how February often ends: with movies that are up for major Oscar wins.
78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene | |||||||||
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Attack on Titan: Season Two | |||||||||
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Basket Case | |||||||||
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Comments | Arrow Films release. | ||||||||
Birdman of Alcatraz | |||||||||
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Call Me By Your Name | |||||||||
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Comments | Best Picture nominee. Available on physical media March 13. | ||||||||
Chastity Belt (1969) | |||||||||
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Cinderella Boy: Complete TV Series | |||||||||
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Comments | 13-episode anime adapting a private detective manga from the creator of Lupin III | ||||||||
Colossus: The Forbin Project | |||||||||
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Crossing the Bridge / Indian Summer Double Feature | |||||||||
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Darkest Hour | |||||||||
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Diff’rent Strokes: Season Seven | |||||||||
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Drowning Pool (1976) | |||||||||
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Ferdinand | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media March 13. | ||||||||
Flip Flappers! | |||||||||
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Comments | Magical girl anime involving paralell universes. The premium edition comes in a glossy chipboard box, a lenticular bookmark, hardcover booklet, and art cards. | ||||||||
Gate II | |||||||||
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Great Balls of Fire | |||||||||
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Green Acres: Season Five | |||||||||
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Hair! | |||||||||
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Hallelujah Trail | |||||||||
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Hangman | |||||||||
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Harper (1966) | |||||||||
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Izetta: The Last Witch: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series about a witch protecting a fictitious European country from Nazis during an alternate World War II. | ||||||||
Jean-Luc Godard + Jean-Pierre Gorin: Five Films, 1968-1971 | |||||||||
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Just Getting Started | |||||||||
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | |||||||||
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Comments | Getting a HDR release in time for the reboot. | ||||||||
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | |||||||||
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Library War: Complete TV Series | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series about a future where libraries have armed guards to stop censors. | ||||||||
Lon Chaney Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Ace of Hearts; Laugh, Clown, Laugh; The Unknown; and London After Midnight. | ||||||||
MacGyver (2016): Season 1 | |||||||||
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Mayberry R.F.D. Season One | |||||||||
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Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | |||||||||
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Niea_7 Complete TV Series | |||||||||
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Outlaw | |||||||||
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Rebecka Martinsson, Series 1 | |||||||||
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Scar-Red Rider XechS: The Complete Series (SUB only) | |||||||||
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Comments | Action Anime that’s trying to do the Henshin Hero thing. | ||||||||
Shape of Water | |||||||||
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Comments | Best Picture nominee. Available on physical media March 13. | ||||||||
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) | |||||||||
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Straight Outta Compton | |||||||||
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |||||||||
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Comments | Best Picture nominee. | ||||||||
Tom Jones (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Comments | From Wikipedia: “At the 36th Academy Awards, It was nominated for ten Oscars, winning four: Best Picture, Best Director for [Tony] Richardson, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.” | ||||||||
Transformers: The Movie (1986) | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I’ve only seen three Transformers movies so far, but this was better than the other two. | ||||||||
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: The first film from Mamoru Oshii, doing the plot of “Groundhog Day” 9 years before “Groundhog Day” came out – and was in the Bureau42 GSFFT Tournament. License rescue by Discotek Media from Central Park Media. | ||||||||
Zero Dark Thirty | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex: I have wanted to see Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer3 for *years*, and I’m glad to see it finally see this back in print on Blu-Ray. Blaine says, “although nothing I’ve seen so far jumps out at me, the new Murder on the Orient Express and some of the Best Picture nominees are definitely on my ‘must see’ list.”
I’ve seen all of the Transformers movies and, yes, the 1986 animated one is still the best of the lot.
Heavily seconded. My five year old daughter also picked out The Transformers: The Movie as the best without any prompting from us.
That would be something if the Lon Chaney collection actually contained London after Midnight, but what you actually get is the photo-reconstruction of the lost film.
Anyone here see Basket Case? I haven’t, but it has a rather interesting rep as a cult film.
I’ve heard good things about Darkest Hour. Anyone here see it?
Somebody Up There Likes Me is pretty good, though I see no reason to just not see it on TCM, which should be rerunning it again any week now.
I’m not particularly a fan of rap, and my wife doesn’t like it at all, so Straight Outta Compton took us by surprise. It’s really very good.
Hair is an interesting take on the material, but it does not equal the live theatre experience, IMO.
Isn’t “Somebody Up There Likes Me” the one about a boxer named Rocky who used to be a criminal, but now has a shot at a major boxing career that would allow him to go straight so he can properly provide for the woman he loves? Somebody should remake that at some point…
That’s the one. It’s the Rocky Graziano story, Hollywood-style, but pretty good. Paul Newman plays the lead, which was supposed to be James Dean’s.
I think there’s a recent film with the same title, but no remake.
No official remake. I haven’t seen Somebody Up There Likes Me, but at the synopsis level, it sounds like Rocky borrows heavily from this story.
Rocky borrows some of the feel of this movie, updated to the 1970s.