It’s a rather long list this week, mostly due to library titles.
4 Kid Favourites: CN Hall of Fame | |||||||||
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The A-Team | |||||||||
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American Masters: Decoding Watson | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Americans | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Anthem of a Teenage Prophet | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Arrested Development | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Arthur 2: On the Rocks | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Astro Boy (2003) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Audrey Hepburn 7 Film Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Funny Face, My Fair Lady, Paris When It Sizzles, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, and War and Peace | ||||||||
Batman Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, and Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman | ||||||||
Batman: The Animated Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Benji Movie Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Benji, For the Love of Benji, and Benji: Off the Leash | ||||||||
Bernie the Dolphin | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: Kevin Sorbo stars in this 2018 movie, which is in no way related to Flipper, but is undoubtedly related to Bernie the Dolphin 2 due out in 2019. | ||||||||
A Boy Called Sailboat | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Starring Jake Busey and J.K. Simmons, so you know the acting is good, if nothing else. | ||||||||
Cardcoptor Sakura: Clear Card | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Charly | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | What’s wrong with Uncle Ben? | ||||||||
Classic Western Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes True Grit, The Shootist, Shane, Hud, Chuka, Posse, Will Penny, Johnny Reno, and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | ||||||||
Cloverfield 3 Movie Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and The Cloverfield Paradox | ||||||||
Cloverfield Paradox | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Cry in the Dark | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Deadman Wonderland | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Deadwood | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Deuce | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Donnie Brasco | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Double Dragon | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Dr. Suess’ The Grinch | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Dukes of Hazzard | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Everybody Loves Raymond | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Family Guy | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Father’s Kingdom | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Fifth Cord (Arrow) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Finding Josephine | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
First Lady of Television: The Betty White Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes 40 episodes of various TV shows in the public domain starring Betty White | ||||||||
FLCL | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | This is the original FLCL anime. Note that the Blu-Ray is new. The DVD has a new release date at Amazon, but RightStuf lists it as a 2011 release. | ||||||||
Free! Eternal Summer | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Free! Iwotabi Swim Club | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Get Smart | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Girl in the Spider’s Web | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Based on the fifth Lizbeth Salander novel. | ||||||||
Gods of Egypt | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Grand-Daddy Day Care | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Greedy | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Compilation film adaptation of season 2 of Gundam Thunderbolt. | ||||||||
Gunsmoke | |||||||||
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Heart and Souls | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Hellboy Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron, both of which were animated direct to video releases. | ||||||||
John Wick 2 Film Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Kim Possible 4 Movie Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Knots Landing | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Kotch | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Jack Lemmon directs Walter Matthau | ||||||||
League | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lego 3 Movie Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie | ||||||||
Letters from Baghdad | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lost in Space | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lu Over the Wall | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | A children’s anime film from director Masaaki Yuasa (The Tatami Galaxi, Night is Short, Walk On Girl, Devilman Crybaby) | ||||||||
Man WIthout a Face | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | The first anime film directed by writer Mari Okada, about an immortal woman who adopts a mortal child as her son. A limited edition Blu-Ray is due on May 28 | ||||||||
Mark Wahlberg 5 Film Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Pain and Gain, The Gambler, Shooter, The Fighter, and The Italian Job. | ||||||||
Marley’s Ghosts | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Martin | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Metropolis & Memories – Anime Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Contains Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis – Tezuka’s reinterpretation of the Fritz Lang film (written by Katsuhiro Otomo and directed by Rintaro), and Memories – an anthology film adapting several of Otomo’s short manga. | ||||||||
Minnie: Bow Be Mine | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: I almost left this out, but then I realized this is the only title I can think of where Minnie is the star and not there purely to support Mickey. | ||||||||
No Tell Motel | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | 8 film collection | ||||||||
Nova: Last B-24 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Nova: Thai Cave Rescue | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
P Rangers: Super Ninja Steel | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Paul Newman 6 Movie Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes A New Kind of Love, Fat Man and Little Boy, Hud, Nobody’s Fool, Road to Perdition, and Twilight (not that one). | ||||||||
PBS Kids: 20 Incredible Tales | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Poetic Justice | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Possessed | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Queens of Scream Triple Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes I Know What You Did Last Summer, Vacancy, and When a Stranger Calls | ||||||||
Re:ZERO: Starting Life in Another World | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Rugrats | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Samurai 7 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: Inspired by Akira Kurosawa, one of the greatest director’s in history. As far as I can tell, this is a TV adaptation of Seven Samurai, which was also remade as The Magnificent Seven. | ||||||||
Samurai Champloo | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Scooby-Doo Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Scooby-Doo Monster Mexico/Space Ape | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Scooby-Doo! and Curse of the 13th Ghost | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Scooby-Doo/Batman Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Scooby-Doo! and Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Scooby-Doo Meets Batman | ||||||||
Shame (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Directed by Ingmar Bergman | ||||||||
Silent Witness | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Sisters Brothers | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Sopranos | |||||||||
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Space Runaway Ideon | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: This is the anime that got Yoshiyuki Tomino his reputation as “Kill ’em All Tomino”. Contains the series, the compilation film A Contact and the ending film Be Invoked. | ||||||||
Spitfire: The Plane that Saved the World | |||||||||
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Spongebob Squarepants | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Steins;Gate | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Anime series about a scientist who can send limited messages back through time, and who tries to use that to prevent a tragedy. Based on a visual novel which has since gotten an official English release. | ||||||||
Survival | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Teen Titans Go! and Friends Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Tom and Jerry Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Giant Adventure and The Last Dragon | ||||||||
Tom and Jerry: Tough and Tumble | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Waltons, The | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
We’ll Meet Again | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Widows | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
World of Miss World | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
You Got Served/Stomp the Yard Combo | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Zachariah | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | A very loose adaptation of the novel “Siddhartha” into a surreal, psychadelic western. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’ve been waiting for a legal US release of Ideon since I originally heard about the show in the ’90s, and I’m glad it’s not only out in the US, but also available in its entirety on Blu-Ray.” Blaine says, “I’m going with the new packaging of Batman: The Animated Series.”
Lots of releases, but nothing interesting.
This week brings a few genre offerings.
Outside of genre, if you haven’t seen The Sopranos, it’s a landmark series. On the other extreme of TV, the first couple seasons of The Waltons make good, old-school family viewing. The later seasons are barely watchable, IMO, but Jonathan Frakes does make a few pre-ST:TNG appearances in them