This is a short list, but there are a few good titles in it.
| 2 Weeks in Another Town | |||||||||
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| Africa’s Deadliest | |||||||||
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| Bang Dream | |||||||||
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| Comments | In spite of what the title suggests, this is an anime series about a pop group. | ||||||||
| Batman Beyond | |||||||||
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| Comments | The series only lasted 3 seasons, so this would be all of it. Note that season 2 is twice as long as seasons 1 and 3. | ||||||||
| Best of Agatha Christie | |||||||||
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| Comments | Vol. 3 includes The Secret Adversary, Ordeal by Innocence, and The Hollow. Vol. 4 includes The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Dead Man’s Folly, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, and A Caribbean Mystery. | ||||||||
| Blockers | |||||||||
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| Comments | Available on physical media July 3 | ||||||||
| Bowling for Columbine (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Chaser | |||||||||
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| Chinese Exclusion Act | |||||||||
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| Dark Matter | |||||||||
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| Death of Stalin | |||||||||
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| Comments | Film from the director of In The Loop about the political situation in Russia after Stalin’s death. Banned by the Putin regime. | ||||||||
| Doctor Who | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Robot, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, and Revenge of the Cyberman. | ||||||||
| Dragon Ball Super: Part Four | |||||||||
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| Frat Pack | |||||||||
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| Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn | |||||||||
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| I, Jane Doe | |||||||||
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| Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | |||||||||
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| Jazz Ambassadors | |||||||||
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| Last of the Summer Wine | |||||||||
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| Lionheart | |||||||||
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| Maids | |||||||||
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| Masterpiece: Man in an Orange Shirt | |||||||||
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| Mod Squad | |||||||||
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| Mrs. Hyde | |||||||||
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| My Past (1931) | |||||||||
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| Pacific Rim Uprising | |||||||||
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| Perfect Strangers< /font> | |||||||||
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| Re: Zero – Starting Life in Another World | |||||||||
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| Comments | Kind of a deconstruction of “Reincarnated In Another World” anime – the main character dies on the streets of Tokyo, is reincarnated in another world, when they are killed there they “reset” at the last “checkpoint” they pass. The Limited Edition release comes in a chipboard box with a specialty print, an artbook, and a *regular* pillowcase. | ||||||||
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| Comments | Comedy fantasy anime about the tutor to the four princes of a kingdom. (That’s what I said now). | ||||||||
| Seven Mortal Sins | |||||||||
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| Comments | Fanservice fantasy anime (but not specifically smut). | ||||||||
| Spirit of the Sun | |||||||||
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| Comments | SF anime set in a future where a geological disaster has rendered Japan uninhabitable, and much of the population has relocated to Taiwan. | ||||||||
| Tender Comrade (1943) | |||||||||
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| Under Capricorn | |||||||||
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| Comments | Note that the Blu-Ray comes out this week, but the DVD release of this Hitchcock film came out last week. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “this Doctor Who set has two of my favorite Tom Baker Stories, making this something of a must-buy (though I don’t know how much they’ll gain from Blu-Ray, as the two in question are almost entirely in the studio).” Blaine says, “I’m also going with this Doctor Who set, although I also question if it’s worth upgrading from DVDs if you already have them. They were shot on film in this era, so it could make a difference, but given the budgets involved, that may not be a good thing. Note that I haven’t seen Under Capricorn yet, but like all Hitchcock, it’s on my ‘must see’ list.”
I dunno bout classic Doctor Who on Blu-Ray. I can almost smell the latex…
Some years ago, I introduced my wife, who is a fan of the twenty-first century Doctor Who, to some of the older incarnations she missed. It was my first viewing of them since I was a teen. The better stories hold up fairly well, but, yeah, hi-def they do not need.
That American Experience (a great doc series) ep on the Chinese Exclusion Act makes for excellent viewing, but I don’t know that I’d want to own it.
I would pay good money for a Batman Beyond movie (if handled by Paul Dini and company – but then ALL of DC movies should be handled by that team).
Cautiously optimistic about Pacific Rim: Uprising
Tempter that optimism…