There are definitely some worthwhile titles this week.
Acquitted | |||||||||
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All the Colors of Giallo | |||||||||
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All That Jazz (1979, Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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All the Colors of the Dark | |||||||||
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Ancient Magus Bride | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Fantasy anime series, with a girl from the human world who is, well, taken as an apprentice and spouse by an ancient magus of the fae folk. The limited edition release comes with an artbook, art cards, and a fabric poster in an box with space for part 2. | ||||||||
Beyblade | |||||||||
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Boy Erased | |||||||||
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Crashing | |||||||||
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Cutting Class | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: Costarring a very young Brad Pitt. How young? He’s so early in his career, he gets third billing behind two people I’ve never heard of. | ||||||||
Divine Gate | |||||||||
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Comments | Fantasy action anime (the premise looks fairly generic). | ||||||||
Doctor Who | |||||||||
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Downton Abbey: Jameston | |||||||||
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Ecco and The Forbidden | |||||||||
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Game | |||||||||
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GANGSTA | |||||||||
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Girls’ Last Tour | |||||||||
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Comments | Post-apocalyptic travellogue anime, following two teenage girls as they travel through the bombed out ruins of a world destroyed in a war that was long before their time. The Premium box set comes with an art booklet, sticker sheets, a book with storyboards for episode one, and a dog tag with the girls on their on their armored motorcycle. | ||||||||
Humans 3.0 | |||||||||
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Hunter Killer | |||||||||
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In the Heat of the Night (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Comments | Best Picture Oscar winner of 1967, so the podcast is due on March 28, 2023. | ||||||||
Kidding | |||||||||
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Lupin the 3rd | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains episodes 80-117. | ||||||||
Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro | |||||||||
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Nature: Dogs in the Land of Lions | |||||||||
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Night is Short, Walk on Girl | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime film from Masami Yuasa (Devilman: Crybaby), adapting one of the novels from the same universe as one of his earlier series – The Tatami Galaxy. | ||||||||
Nova: World’s Fastest Animal | |||||||||
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Nutcracker and the Four Realms | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media January 29, but apparantly, not from Amazon. | ||||||||
Pets | |||||||||
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Reign of the Supermen | |||||||||
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Screamers | |||||||||
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Shin Tetsujin 28 | |||||||||
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Comments | This is basically a remake of the original Tetusjin-28 (aka Gigantor) from 1980. | ||||||||
Splatter University | |||||||||
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Studio 54 | |||||||||
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Suburbia | |||||||||
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Suspiria (2018) | |||||||||
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Tarzan Goes to India (1962) | |||||||||
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Tarzan’s Three Challenges (1963) | |||||||||
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Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon of Midday | |||||||||
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Comments | Movie sequel to the story of Tetusjin-28, with Shotaro Kaneda discovering that his father had apparently raised another, older child of the same name – and had apparently secretly hidden bombs throughout Tokyo before his death. Oh, and there’s an assassin coming after the younger Kaneda, just to complicate things further. | ||||||||
There’s Nothing Out There | |||||||||
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Uninvited | |||||||||
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Wife | |||||||||
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Willow | |||||||||
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Yeti Adventures | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I missed the theatrical release of Suspiria because the it wasn’t in theaters for very long in my area, so now that it’s on Blu-Ray, I’m definitely going to be picking it up. Otherwise, of the films I’ve seen, I definitely would recommend picking up All That Jazz. On the anime front, I’d recommend picking up Night is Short, Walk on Girl if you want a shorter movie, or Girl’s Last Tour if you’re looking for a series.” Blaine says, “of the titles I’ve seen, Jodie Whittaker’s first few episodes of Doctor Who win hands down. Of those I haven’t seen, I’ve heard wonderful things about In the Heat of the Night, and you can’t go wrong with Criterion Collection releases.”
Boy Erased is apparently the male and harder-edged version of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (both YAesque novel and movie are excellent).
Ecco and The Forbidden (and, of course, the notorious Mondo films, two of which appear in this week’s list): brings to mind another life when you could head down to Suspect Culture in Toronto and rent the most bizarre films in existence. That somehow felt different than searching them out with a keyboard.
Of course, the film that started it all, Mondo Cane (1962), seems remarkably tame now. The more shocking scenes now are the brief shots of animal cruelty, and the dubious (and often racist) contextualizing of some of the footage.
Humans is (was?) a really good TV show. If you’ve not watched it, I highly recommend it.
I bet Tarzan Goes To India is a lovely, racially-sensitive movie…