This is a good week for fans of John Carpenter, Agatha Christie, and Star Wars on digital.
| Acts of Violence | |||||||||
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| All the Money in the World | |||||||||
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| Comments | Available on physical media April 10 | ||||||||
| Americans | |||||||||
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| Assault on Precinct 13 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Scream Factory release of the John Carpenter movie. | ||||||||
| Batman and Mr. Freeze: SubZero | |||||||||
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| Batman: The Complete Television Series | |||||||||
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| Comments | The 1966 Adam West/Burt Ward series. | ||||||||
| Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: I’m only aware of this movie because it was the subject of episode 16 of the Is It Jaws? podcast over at the Two True Freaks podcast network. (I was a guest on episode 14.) | ||||||||
| Blame! The Movie | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Film adaptation of the manga by Tsutomu Nihei (Knights of Sidonia, Biomega), animated by Polygon Pictures (Knights of Sidonia), and distributed through Netflix. | ||||||||
| Brokenwood Mysteries | |||||||||
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| The Competition | |||||||||
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| Dallas (1978) | |||||||||
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| Days of Future Passed Live | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: PBS Special of the Moody Blues playing the entirety of their album “Days of Future Passed” (along with a few other songs in the encore) live. Technically this is already out, as for some one reason this got released in the NA region on Friday the 23rd. | ||||||||
| Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore | |||||||||
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| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: I just watched this to prepare for a podcast that will be released in the first half of 2020, and was very impressed. Fredric March earned his Oscar win for the roles, I still don’t know how they did some of the makeup effects, and it’s definitely a pre-code film. | ||||||||
| Emergency! | |||||||||
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| ESPN: 30-for-30: Nature Boy | |||||||||
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| Comments | ESPN Documentary on the rather crazy life of Richard Fleihr (aka “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair). | ||||||||
| Gintama: Series Three, Part One | |||||||||
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| Great Mazinger | |||||||||
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| Comments | The sequel series to Mazinger Z. | ||||||||
| Joan of Arc | |||||||||
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| Comments | Directed by Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman | ||||||||
| King of Jazz (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Last Movie Star | |||||||||
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| Legion | |||||||||
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| Life of Budori Gusuko | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Adaptation of a novel by author Kenji Miyazawa (Night on the Galactic Railroad). | ||||||||
| Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: It’s a Beautiful Day | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Fred Rogers would have been 90 years old this year. Sadly, the description doesn’t say which episodes are in this collection. I’d hope they have the appearances by Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby (both in the sense of seeing behind the scenes of the Incredible Hulk, but also for the conversation about getting angry), or Yo Yo Ma’s appearance on the show. (I think Itzhak Perlman was on the show as well, but I can’t remember when.) | ||||||||
| Mr. Robot | |||||||||
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| Murder Ahoy (1964) | |||||||||
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| Murder at the Gallop (1963) | |||||||||
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| Murder Most Foul (1964) | |||||||||
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| Murder, She Said (1961) | |||||||||
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| One Day at a Time | |||||||||
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| Outer Limits (1963) | |||||||||
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| Paddington 2 | |||||||||
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| Comments | Available on physical media April 24 | ||||||||
| Peyton Place: Part Three | |||||||||
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| Power Rangers: RPM | |||||||||
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| Prince of Darkness | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Another steelbook release from Scream Factory, of one of Carpenter’s more underrated films. | ||||||||
| Robot Carnival | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: This received a DVD release earlier. I’m definitely planning to upgrade to the Blu-Ray version. | ||||||||
| Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who’s Walking | |||||||||
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| Sandlot | |||||||||
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| Smithsonian: First Ladies Revealed | |||||||||
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| Star Wars: The Last Jedi | |||||||||
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| Tenjho Tenge | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Fanservicey anime series. The manga was released by DC’s short-lived Marvel brand, but it didn’t sell well due to some backlash over some censorship of the more risque elements that came across as a little excessive (especially considering the show kinda wears its fanservice on its sleeve). | ||||||||
| Thousand Faces of Dunjia | |||||||||
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| Tomorrow’s Joe: The Movie | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: A re-release of the film version of particularly famous boxing anime & manga, directed by Osamu Dezaki. | ||||||||
| Toriko: Secret Recipe of Gourmet God | |||||||||
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| Comments | The Blu-Ray is due March 27, but the DVD is due on May 1. | ||||||||
| Women in Love (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Yu-Gi-Oh: Bonds Beyond Time | |||||||||
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| Zatch Bell Movies | |||||||||
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| Comments | Alex: Contains the films 101st Devil and Attack of Mechavulcan. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, ” I’m having trouble narrowing down my picks – Wrestling fans will like the Nature Boy documentary, Parents should absolutely have the Mister Rogers Neighborhood collection, and fans of anime and animation in general should get Robot Carnival on Blu-Ray.” Blaine says, “none of the first time releases catch my eye, but the rereleases of Outer Limits, Batman (1966), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are all worth checking out.”
Legion was phenomenal. That show took a crazy amount of risks and they pretty much all paid off. If you haven’t watched it, it is well worth it.
And yes, I will be picking up a 4K copy of The Last Jedi… and then having all my friends who haven’t seen it yet over. By the way, this will be the first Star Wars movie released in 4K.
Anyone know why Amazon still doesn’t have The Last Jedi available for pre-order? Are they just trying to push their digital version that hard?
I’ve been seeing that more and more with physical releases lately – it’s not a super new thing. I don’t know if it’s Amazon or Disney, though.
I think it’s Amazon. I could pre-order the Blu-Ray on Target.com (and the Blu-Ray is available now on Amazon).
With Disney movies, I prefer to get the physical medium since it includes a free digital copy as well.
I prefer to get physical mediums of everything and then rip them to my media server myself. Plus 4K isn’t super rippable yet.
I’ve seen this consistently with Disney product on Amazon. I can’t imagine why.
Plot twist: the 4K was out of stock on Amazon almost instantly, and Target told me they only had one (!!) in the store.
This is the first Star Wars movie released in 4K; I don’t think they did a very good job rolling that out!