A bunch of compilation packs this week, along with a few back-catalog releases.
10 Movie Dynamic Dance Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Save the Last Dance, Save the Last Dance 2, Mad Hot Ballroom, Staying Alive, Footloose (1984), Saturday Night Fever, Dance Flick, Flashdance, Footloose (2011), and Urban Cowboy. | ||||||||
10 Movie Family Fun Adventures Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Sherlock Gnomes, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Hey Arnold! The Movie, The Rugrats Movie, Charlotte’s Web (2006), The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Hotel for Dogs, Tad: the Lost Explorer, and The Secret of King Midas. | ||||||||
10 Movie Horror Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Friday the 13th, The Ring, The Haunting, Paranormal Activity, What Lies Beneath, The Uninvited, Graveyard Shift, The Devil Inside, The Ruins, and Case 39. | ||||||||
10 Movie Science Fiction Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Terminator: Genisys, Aeon Flux, Ghost in the Shell, Arrival, Project Almanac, Echelon, Conspiracy, Event Horizon, The Island, The Relic, and The Time Machine. | ||||||||
4 Movie Holiday Laughs Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Daddy’s Home 2, Office Christmas Party, Trading Places, and Surviving Christmas | ||||||||
American Gangster | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
American Made | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
And Soon the Darkness | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Best of Continental Wrestling Vol. 5 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Bloody Brood | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Chaos;Child | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Mystery anime series following a high school newspaper club as they investage a serial killer. Based on a visual novel from the creators of Steins;Gate. | ||||||||
Christmas Carol (1951) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Starring Alastair Sim as Scrooge | ||||||||
Devil’s Revenge | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Doctor Who | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, and The Green Death. | ||||||||
DreamWorks Ultimate Holiday Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Inlcudes Trolls Holiday, Madagascar Penguins: A Christmas Caper, Home for the Holidays, Shrek the Halls, Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury, Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular, Merry Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda Holiday, and Rise of the Guardians. | ||||||||
Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs and Shaw | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Available on physical media November 5 | ||||||||
Fearless Vampire Killers | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Directed by Roman Polanski | ||||||||
Genius Party & Genius Party Beyond | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Two massive anime short film anthologies. These had previously been available for streaming on Netflix, and have now finally recieved a physical release. Animation is by Studio 4*C and includes shorts directed by Masami Yuasa (Devilman Crybaby, The Night is Short, Walk On Girl) | ||||||||
Golden Kamuy | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Häxan (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Hellboy (2004) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Killer Nun | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Leg Fighters | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Librarians | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lion King (2019) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Available on physical media October 22, 2019 | ||||||||
Lone Ranger | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lone Survivor | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Anime spinoff of the gambling series “Kaji”, following the antagonist of the first arc, a middle manager for a evil corporation who runs sadistic illegal gambling games – as the character contends with challenges like trying to tell apart his identically dressed generic looking minions and staying awake during Powerpoint presentations. | ||||||||
Nekromantik 1 and 2 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Night Hunter | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Nocturnal Animals | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Omen Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes the original four films and the 2006 version. | ||||||||
Our Hospitality | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Peanuts Remastered Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Be My Valentine, It’s the Easter Beagle, It’s the Great Pumpkin, <em.You’re Not Elected, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas. | ||||||||
Queen of Spades | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Return of the Street Fighter | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Starring Sonny Chiba | ||||||||
Rustlers of Red Dog | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
S.O.S. Coastguard | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Saint Nicholas: The Real Story | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Scarface (1983) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | The version with the collectable “The World Is Yours” statue is also the version that comes with a copy of the 1932 Scarface on Blu-Ray (which appears to only be available on Blu-Ray with this release). | ||||||||
Scary Movie | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Secrets of the Zoo | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Shrek: The Ultimate Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes 6 movies, 10 shorts, and 5 TV episodes | ||||||||
Simple Twist of Fate | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Sisters | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Spartacus (1960) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Directed by Stanley Kubrick, though he tried to disown it due to lack of creative control. | ||||||||
SpongeBob SquarePants | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Star Trek Picard TV and Movie Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes all four Next Generation films, as well as movie edits of The Best of Both Worlds and Chain of Command. | ||||||||
Street Fighter | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Starring Sonny Chiba | ||||||||
Street Fighter’s Last Revenge | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Starring Sonny Chiba | ||||||||
Stuber | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Sword and Sandal Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Giants of Thessaly and Sins of Rome | ||||||||
Teen Titans Go! 2 Film Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! To The Movies | ||||||||
Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Testament of Sister New Devil + Testament of Sister New Devil Burst | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Fanservice anime series about a succubus and a future Demon Lord (who is also a woman), who move in with a high school student who is the decendant of a line of demon fighting heroes. Hilarity in a risque form ensues. | ||||||||
Tex Ritter Classic Westerns | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes Marshal of Gunsmoke, Oklahoma Raiders, Arizona Days, and Trouble in Texas. | ||||||||
Three From Hell | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Twin Peaks | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Ultra Franchise | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Ultra Q is the less-known in the West predecessor to Ultraman, following the Science Patrol as they take on various mad scientists and alien invaders, before the second series, Ultraman, introduced the title character, and set up the Kaiju action formula that would be used by subsequent series. | ||||||||
Ulysses: Jeanne d’Arc and the Alchemist Knight | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Fantasy action anime series set during the Hundred Years War, with (going from the two art cards you get if you order this from Rightstuf), a fair amount of Fanservice. | ||||||||
Urban Wrestling Federation | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: This appears to be a pro wrestling promotion with the gimmick being that the various stables are based around rappers – actual rappers (though lesser known ones like Uncle Murda, as opposed to anyone *really* big named) – with each rapper managing a stable of wrestlers. I don’t know how this plays out in practice, but it’s definitely a very interesting concept. |
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Who Killed Cock Robin | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “Of the titles I’ve seen, I’d go with Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality, the Doctor Who set, or the Star Trek: Picard set, depending on which of those titles (if any) is a significant upgrade over your existing collection.” Alex says, “I’m really interested in the two Ultra-Franchise collections, Ultra Q and Ultraman.”
It’s good to see the old Peanuts cartoons remastered.
That 10 Movie Horror collection is, predictably, a mixed bag, but it includes a few worth watching. I can think of worse horror collections, even if it includes the rather disappointing adaptation of stories from Graveyard Shift.
And I’m told Killer Nun ranks among the best of the Nunsploitation genre, but I’m uncertain how much of a recommendation that might be.
Shrek had TV episodes?