This is a week for library titles.
Adventures in Public School | |||||||||
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All For One | |||||||||
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Black Lightning | |||||||||
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Blade Runner 2049 | |||||||||
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A Breed Apart | |||||||||
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China Syndrome | |||||||||
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Clockwork Planet: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Semi-Steampunk science fiction anime (at least going from the description). | ||||||||
Colossus of Rhodes (1961) | |||||||||
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Complete Hal Roach, Thelma Todd, and Patsy Kelly Comedy Collection | |||||||||
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Curse of the Cat People | |||||||||
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Disney Big Hero 6: The Series | |||||||||
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Disorganized Crime | |||||||||
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Escape Plan 2: Hades | |||||||||
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Female Trouble (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Fiesta | |||||||||
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Frontline: Weinstein | |||||||||
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Garo Special: Beast Of The Demon Night | |||||||||
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Comments | TV Special for the Tokusatsu series “Garo”. | ||||||||
Geostorm | |||||||||
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Girlfriends | |||||||||
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Going to War | |||||||||
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Grimoire of Zero | |||||||||
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Comments | Heroic Fantasy anime series. The Limited Edition comes in a slipcover with a 96 page artbook and 6 art cards. | ||||||||
Groundhog Day | |||||||||
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Hannah | |||||||||
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Harry Potter franchise | |||||||||
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Heart Guy: Series 2 | |||||||||
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Hunter x Hunter Set 4 | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Contains Episode 51-75. Ordering the Blu-Ray through RightStuf (within a limited time) gets you a replica of a Gold Hunter’s License from the show. | ||||||||
In Darkness | |||||||||
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It | |||||||||
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Jack Reacher | |||||||||
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John Wayne 20 Film Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: Which 20 films? No idea, but they’ll be in the public domain with this studio and price point. | ||||||||
Kenka Bancho Otome – Girl Beats Boys | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Anime series about a girl who ends up going to a school where the students are almost entirely juvenile delinquents, and she ends up beating her way to running the school. | ||||||||
Last Man Standing | |||||||||
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Le Comte de Monte Cristo | |||||||||
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Martian Chronicles Complete Miniseries | |||||||||
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Mick | |||||||||
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Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) | |||||||||
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Miracles | |||||||||
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Mission: Impossible franchise | |||||||||
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National Geographic specials | |||||||||
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NOVA: Decoding the Weather Machine | |||||||||
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Pagan Love Song (1950) | |||||||||
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Peyton Place: Part Four | |||||||||
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Pink Panther Cartoon Collection | |||||||||
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Prison School: Live Action | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Live-action adaptation of the pretty risque anime. | ||||||||
Puppet Master Collection | |||||||||
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A Quiet Place | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media July 10 | ||||||||
Sakura Quest: Part One | |||||||||
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Comments | Workplace anime about a group of women who are hired to try and revitalize the economy of a rural Japanese town. | ||||||||
Sam Elliott: I Will Fight No More Forever plus 10 bonus movies | |||||||||
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Sleepless in Seattle | |||||||||
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Strawberry Panic: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Comments | Shojo-ai (Girl’s-love) romance anime. | ||||||||
Superfly | |||||||||
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Comments | Coming out a little after the remake hit theaters a few weeks ago. | ||||||||
Terminal | |||||||||
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Thrill of a Romance (1945) | |||||||||
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Tyler Perry’s Acrimony | |||||||||
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Virgin Spring (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Walt Before Mickey | |||||||||
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WWE Presents Then, Now, Forever: The Evolution of WWE’s Women’s Division | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: While this unfortunately has two matches from The Fabulous Moolah (who reportedly sexually assaulted women she was training to wrestle, and pimped them out to male promoters), the majority of the set covers WWE’s women’s division from the late 90s to the present. | ||||||||
Ziegfeld Follies (1945) | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Sakura Quest has consistently received solid reviews, putting it up there on my to-watch list.” Blaine says, “Virgin Spring is fantastic, along with every other Ingmar Bergman movie I’ve ever seen.”
WB insists on re-releasing the same version of the Harry Potter films, but won’t do any extended cut versions past the first two films. Why do the object to printing money when they know us hardcore fans will gladly shell out for another (longer) version?
Curse of the Cat People is the original 1950s version, not the ’80s remake starring Malcolm McDowell, which teenage me remembers with great fondness, but which adult me will tell you ranges between “cheesy as hell” and just plain horrible.
They made a Martian Chronicles mini-series??? When did that happen? Wait, starring Rock Hudson? Oh, 1980. And yet I’ve never heard of it until now. Also I didn’t like the books…
Oh hey, a movie from the ’50s called Million Dollar Mermaid, I bet that’s some weird B-grade SciFi mo… oh, nevermind, it’s one of those movies you watch just to be horrified at the level of animal cruelty that was common back in the day.
Actually, it was Cat People they remade in the ’80s. Curse of the Cat People is the very odd, loose sequel to Cat People, which is an interesting curiosity, but not so good as the original. Tonally, they are quite different.
I wouldn’t call the remake “horrible,” but I’ll give you “cheesy as hell.”
You know, I missed that Martian Chronicles series in the 80s, though I recall people talking about it, and finding it mediocre. I think the 1980 TV adaptation of Brave New World scared me away from TV adaptations of SF classics, at least at that time in history.
I saw Superfly recently. The soundtrack and central performance still justify the title, but the film itself feels very much of its time. Given the recent remake, however, it is inevitable it would be rereleased.
A Quiet Place will be reviewed as part of our Halloween Countdown.
I really love the trend of Bureaucrats shouting out and offering Tweet length reviews of any of the new releases they’ve happened to see. It’s great to get these extra viewpoints and data. I may never get around to any of the Cat People movies, but I like that I can at least claim that I’ve heard of them.
Oh my goodness. This is the third time I’ve mistaken Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles with Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. The latter is the one I really didn’t like and couldn’t make it through the second book.
I’m not a huge Bradbury fan. Not crazy about his writing style, and his science fiction was outdated enough 30 years ago that it was almost comical. Like the one about people living on Venus where it’s freezing cold except for one day a year.
The Martian Chronicles, though, is an important piece of literature in general, and of our favourite genre specifically.
“Million Dollar Mermaid” is the musical biopic of a famous female swimmer, so I doubt many animals were hurt in its making. Might cause pain in some modern audiences.
Well, it’s about a circus, and Back In The Day when animals were still used in circuses, they were not treated very well. Thank goodness we don’t do that any more!!!