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Comments | Anime series based on a mobile game where you have to dive in to the psyche of comatose people (the work uses “KLS/Sleeping Beauty Syndrome” but the symptoms don’t match), to break them out of their state. | ||||||||
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | |||||||||
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Akio Jissoji: The Buddhist Trilogy | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes This Transient Life, Mandala, and Poem | ||||||||
Alex and Emma | |||||||||
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All Purpose Cat Girl Nuku Nuku | |||||||||
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Comments | SDBD titles are on Blu-Ray disks with DVD quality encoding to reduce the disk count and packaging costs. Do not expect Blu-Ray quality. Alex: I’ve noticed a few reports that there is sometimes a video quality improvement based on earlier DVD releases, but that’s probably more related to Discotek media’s authoring process. Contains all 12 episodes of the TV series, and both OVAs (Nuku-Nuku and Nuku-Nuku DASH!). The whole franchise is based around the concept of a mad scientist putting the brain of his son’s mortally injured pet cat into the body of a combat cyborg modeled after a teenage girl. | ||||||||
American Animals | |||||||||
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American Circumcision | |||||||||
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Ancient Aliens | |||||||||
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Angel Cop | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on DVD September 25, available on Blu-Ray August 28. Alex: Part of Daryl Surat’s “Manga Video Holy Trinity of Suck” – an attempt to cash in on the success of Ghost in the Shell which goes weirdly anti-semetic in the last couple minutes of the second-to-last episode, and where the last episode never received a US release until this release from Discotek media. | ||||||||
Aura Battler Dunbine | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Fantasy mecha anime series from Yoshiyuki Tomino – part of his “Byston Well” universe, and universally considered to be the only work set in the universe worth watching. | ||||||||
Autumn in New York | |||||||||
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Beast Fighter: The Apocalypse | |||||||||
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Comments | From the director of the absolutly bonkers Demon Lord Dante. | ||||||||
Blast | |||||||||
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Comments | Starring Linden Ashby, shortly after Mortal Kombat | ||||||||
Book Club | |||||||||
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Bound (Olive Signature Collection) | |||||||||
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Brainscan | |||||||||
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Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder | |||||||||
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine | |||||||||
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Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card | |||||||||
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Chicago Fire | |||||||||
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Child’s Play franchise | |||||||||
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Code Geass | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains seasons 1 & 2. | ||||||||
Convenience Store Boy Friends | |||||||||
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Comments | Romance anime co-produced by Japanese convience-store chain Lawson’s. | ||||||||
Country | |||||||||
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Creature From the Black Lagoon | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Creature From the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, and The Creature Walks Among Us. | ||||||||
Criminal Minds | |||||||||
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders | |||||||||
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Comments | Starring Jane Seymour | ||||||||
DC Animated Movies: Freedom Fighters: The Ray | |||||||||
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Devilman | |||||||||
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Comments | This is the OVA from the late ’80s-early ’90s, not last year’s Devilman: Crybaby, as produced by Netflix. Available on DVD September 25, available on Blu-Ray August 28. | ||||||||
Eternal Alice | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Magical Girl anime I’m not completely sure on the premise of. | ||||||||
The Flash | |||||||||
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GameChangers: Dreams of BlizzCon | |||||||||
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Comments | Documentary about the comeptitive Starcraft II scene. | ||||||||
Garfield’s Halloween Adventure | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: This was a staple of my childhood, and one of the rare holiday specials that I would watch at any time of year, whether it was a holiday or not. | ||||||||
Helter Skelter | |||||||||
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Comments | About the Manson Family murders | ||||||||
High Chaparral | |||||||||
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Hoops Africa: Ubuntu Matters | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: This caught my eye because of the Linux connection. I know nothing about this film. | ||||||||
Howie Mandel’s Animals Doing Amazing Things | |||||||||
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The Invisible Man | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns, The Invisible Woman, Invisible Agent, The Invisible Man’s Revenge, and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man. | ||||||||
Julius Caesar | |||||||||
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Comments | Charlton Heston does Shakespeare | ||||||||
Keepin’ It Nick | |||||||||
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Comments | Assorted episode of Nickelodeon shows. | ||||||||
Knights and Magic | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Another fantasy mecha anime – this one more recent, and also in the “Isekei” genre – with the protagonist being transported to another world where people engage in magical mecha fights, and he uses his skill in engineering and programming to become a mecha designer and pilot. | ||||||||
Last Laugh | |||||||||
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LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis | |||||||||
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Lucifer | |||||||||
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Memories of Underdevelopment (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Merrily We Live | |||||||||
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Mind Game | |||||||||
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Comments | From director Masami Uwasa – who also directed The Tatami Galaxy, The Night is Short, Walk On Girl (which is still in theaters), and Devilman Crybaby. | ||||||||
My First Girlfriend is a Gal | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series about a nerdy gay dating a kogal (basically a fashionable girl). Very fanservice heavy. The Limited Edition comes in a chipboard box with 4 risque lenticular art-cards, and an artbook. | ||||||||
The Naked and the Dead (1958) | |||||||||
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Naruto Shippuden | |||||||||
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NCIS: Los Angeles | |||||||||
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No Game No Life Zero | |||||||||
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Comments | Film prequel to the anime No Game No Life, set 6000 years in the past of the anime’s setting. | ||||||||
Once Upon a Time | |||||||||
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Paterno | |||||||||
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Psycho franchise | |||||||||
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Rich and Famous | |||||||||
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Rise of the Superheroes | |||||||||
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S.M.A.R.T. Chase | |||||||||
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Comments | Starring Orlando Bloom | ||||||||
S.W.A.T. (2017) | |||||||||
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Scandal | |||||||||
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Tag | |||||||||
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Thousand Acres | |||||||||
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Tom and Jerry Double Feature | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse and Meet Sherlock Holmes | ||||||||
Tucker: The Man and His Dream | |||||||||
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Universal Classic Monsters | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes all of the Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Mummy, Invisible Man, and Gillman/Creature from the Black Lagoon movies from the 1930s to the 1950s. | ||||||||
Upgrade | |||||||||
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Visions of Escaflowne | |||||||||
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Comments | This is just the TV series, re-mastered with the new dub, as opposed to the earlier boxed set release which also includes the film. | ||||||||
With a Kiss When I Die | |||||||||
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WWE: 30 Years of SummerSlam | |||||||||
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “If you have the cash for the set (which is not overpriced; it’s $5/movie on Blu-Ray), then I’d definitely go with the Universal Classic Monsters Blu-Ray collection.” Alex says, “Finances permitting, I would absolutely pick up the Universal Classic Monsters collection.”
Tag looks like fun so I’ll probably watch it.
Heston’s Julius Caesar saved Shakespeare for me. Up to that point, my only experience was Romeo & Juliet (like most American Freshmen). That was awful. Julius Caesar was much more interesting. I think we do a disservice to our youth by forcing bad “classics” on them instead of the good stuff. Hell, to introduce kids to Shakespeare, I usually roll out Kenneth Brannagh’s Much Ado About Nothing (or the equally good Joss Whedon version).
And lastly, there are thirteen seasons of Ancient Aliens? Suddenly our current political predicament and American’s complete lack of knowledge about history makes sense. It’s frightening, but it makes sense.
I prefer the version of Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando as Marc Antony myself.
That’s just what the aliens want you to think.
Tag was amusing enough, but I was more in it for Jeremy Renner’s characters break down of each scene. Otherwise, you’re getting pretty much what you expect to get. It was a great thing to put on in the background while I played video games.
Anyone else see Upgrade? It wasn’t bad, and the ending was just unique enough to make it worth the watch. I was also playing video games while I watched it, so I want to rewatch it to pay a bit better attention, but I doubt it would be worth a second watch otherwise.
Not yet, but you’re not the first person I’ve heard mentioning Upgrade in a (semi) positive light. I’ll put it on the to-watch pile.