Weekly New Releases – February 27, 2018

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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Rightstuf
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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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Rightstuf
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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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  • Complete Collection Premium Blu-Ray: US, CAN
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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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Rightstuf
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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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Rightstuf
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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.”

7 replies on “Weekly New Releases – February 27, 2018”

  1. 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.

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