Sorry this is late: Alex and I were both swamped last weekend. The major doorcrasher, Avengers: Infinity War, wasn’t available for preorder anyway.
10 That Changed America | |||||||||
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2 Stupid Dogs / Secret Squirrel Show | |||||||||
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200 Motels | |||||||||
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40 Stories for Back to School | |||||||||
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Adventures of Pluto Nash | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: Arguably Eddie Murphy’s worst movie. It was completed and shelved for 14 months before they found a month with so little competition that they thought they had a shot of making back the budget. Spoiler: they didn’t. The estimated budget is $100 million, and the worldwide gross was just barely over $7 million. Currently #81 in the IMDB bottom 100 list, it took home the Razzie award for “worst comedy of our first 25 years.” I have to be honest, I kind of want to see it after all of that. | ||||||||
Army of Darkness | |||||||||
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Arrow | |||||||||
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Assassination Classroom | |||||||||
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Avengers: Age of Ultron | |||||||||
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Bad Samaritan | |||||||||
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Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Beyond the Time Barrier | |||||||||
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Bigfoot | |||||||||
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Blacklist | |||||||||
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Book Club | |||||||||
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Born Yesterday | |||||||||
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Cat O’ Nine Tails | |||||||||
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Classroom of the Elite | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Anime series about a mysterious private high school that aims to create people with superior abilities, but with a dark secret behind the scenes. | ||||||||
Documentary Now! | |||||||||
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Ergo Proxy | |||||||||
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Comments | Very atmospheric cyberpunk anime. To give an idea of the tone, the production comittee licensed “Paranoid Android” by Radiohead to use as the theme song, and insisted that the US licensors get the rights to that song as well. | ||||||||
Escape | |||||||||
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Eureka Seven Hi Evolution | |||||||||
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Furlough | |||||||||
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Here and Now | |||||||||
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Higher Power | |||||||||
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Home From the Hill (1960) | |||||||||
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Hope Springs | |||||||||
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House of Tomorrow | |||||||||
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties | |||||||||
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Howling | |||||||||
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Ill Behaviour | |||||||||
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Kaiju Mono | |||||||||
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Comments | Live-action film about the lab assistant of a mad scientist (played by actual Japanese Kota Ibushi) being made huge to fight a Kaiju. | ||||||||
Lifeforce | |||||||||
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Comments | We have previously covered this in both podcast and text review formats. | ||||||||
Lonely Guy | |||||||||
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Mr. Mercedes | |||||||||
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My Generation | |||||||||
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NCIS: New Orleans | |||||||||
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Outlaw Star | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Passfire: The Series | |||||||||
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Peter Gunn | |||||||||
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Pirates of Penzance | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: This is a stage remake on film starring Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury, not the first film based on the play. | ||||||||
Planetarian | |||||||||
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Power Rangers Ninja Steel | |||||||||
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Return of the Living Dead: Part II | |||||||||
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Sci-Fi Godfather: Jules Verne | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: Part of me has long been irked by the claim that Jules Verne created science fiction, for two reasons. One, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein predates his work by a LOT. Two, he doesn’t extrapolate science, he applies existing and verified technology in new ways. I maintain that he created a genre better titled “engineering fiction” than “science fiction”. | ||||||||
SEAL Team | |||||||||
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Seven Deadly Sins | |||||||||
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Comments | Shonen action anime series, initially licensed for streaming by Netflix. | ||||||||
Shock and Awe | |||||||||
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Steven Universe: Heart of the Crystal Gems | |||||||||
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Tag | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media August 28 | ||||||||
Tideland | |||||||||
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Comments | Terry Gilliam directs Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Tilly | ||||||||
Van Wilder | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: If Ryan Reynolds’ career hadn’t become what it has, this never would have had a 4K release. | ||||||||
Walking Tall | |||||||||
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Waterland | |||||||||
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters? | |||||||||
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Without a Trace | |||||||||
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WWE: Extreme Rules 2018 | |||||||||
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Comments | Featuring the final match of Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) before Glenn “Kane” Jacobs was elected mayor of Knox County. | ||||||||
Zoot Suit | |||||||||
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Comments | Starring Edward James Olmos and Tyne Daly. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Ergo Proxy has been on my to-watch list for a while, and since Amazon and Disney are having a snit, I’d recommend checking this out in the mean time.” Blaine says, “pick up Avengers: Infinity War from the alternative retailer of your choice.”
Sure, Infinity War wasn’t available for pre-order, but what about those who missed on first grab at The Adventures of Pluto Nash? What about those poor sods?!??!?
They’re welcome?
I have to say watching Infinity War again did not make the ending any easier.
I’m still impressed they were able to pull that movie off at all.
Yeah. And now that I know what Groot is saying…ouch.