Abominable | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media December 17. Banned in Vietnam due to a particular map inserted by the Chinese animation studio, which identifies a certain portion of the ocean as belonging to China while International Courts have declared they rightfully belong to Vietnam. That hasn’t stopped China from not only fishing those waters anyway, but apparently attacking and killing Vietnamese people who are fishing in those waters, as well. | ||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media December 17 | ||||||||
Bahambug | |||||||||
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Big Trouble in Little China | |||||||||
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Comments | The bonus featuers on this release include expanded versions of the existing interviews, along with additional interviews with all the members of the cast, including Dennis Dun, Victor Wong, Al Leong, and the rest of the cast. | ||||||||
Bleach | |||||||||
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Boar | |||||||||
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Bread Factory | |||||||||
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Buttons: A Christmas Tale | |||||||||
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Candy | |||||||||
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Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series based on a tower-defense game, | ||||||||
Christmas on Holly Lane | |||||||||
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City on a Hill | |||||||||
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Doctor Who | |||||||||
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Funan | |||||||||
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Game of Thrones | |||||||||
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Glorifying the American Girl | |||||||||
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Goldfinch | |||||||||
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Great Performances: Now Hear This | |||||||||
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How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming | |||||||||
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Is This a Zombie? + Is This a Zombie? Of the Dead | |||||||||
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Comments | A dark comedy anime series about a young man who gets murdered by a serial killer, resurrected by a necromancer, and then turned into a magical girl. | ||||||||
Jake Speed | |||||||||
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Joan the Maid | |||||||||
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K-On! | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains Season 1 & 2, plus the movie. | ||||||||
Killerman | |||||||||
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Kiss Him, Not Me! | |||||||||
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Comments | Romantic comedy anime series about a girl who has two guys interested in her, except she’s also a fujoshi who ships the both of them. | ||||||||
Konga | |||||||||
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Koro Sensei Quest: Shorts | |||||||||
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Comments | Gag anime spinoff of Assassination Classroom. | ||||||||
Magic Sword | |||||||||
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Mai Mai Miracle | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Film from the director of In This Corner of the World, and based on a novel by the well regarded Japanese novelist Nobuko Takagi. | ||||||||
Masterpiece: The Durrells in Corfu | |||||||||
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Meiji Tokyo Renka | |||||||||
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Comments | Reverse harem anime series about a girl who is swept back in time to Meiji-era Japan. | ||||||||
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Mister Rogers and Making Mistakes | |||||||||
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Molang | |||||||||
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Parts You Lose | |||||||||
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Rambo: Last Blood | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media December 17, 2019 | ||||||||
Ready or Not | |||||||||
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Reliant | |||||||||
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Running Delilah | |||||||||
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Savage | |||||||||
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Semper Fi | |||||||||
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Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Celebration! | |||||||||
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Seven Senses of the Reunion | |||||||||
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Comments | “A bit of a spin of an Isekai anime series, with the premise that after a player of a VRMMORPG was killed playing the game, the game was recalled – but several years later after a fixed version of the game is released, a friend of that dead player finds the character of the dead player in the game world, with their personality and memories intact. ” |
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She | |||||||||
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She-Ra: Princess of Power | |||||||||
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Comments | The first 26 episodes of the new Dreamworks series, not the Filmation original. Blaine: I’ve never watched the new one. Should I? | ||||||||
The Simpsons | |||||||||
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Arrow) | |||||||||
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Sony Spider-Man Set | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Venom | ||||||||
Space Princess | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: Frankly, this looks terrible, but I’m pointing it out because I find the only two reviews (both 5* reviews, by Jeff Lacey and John P. Lasher) to be amusing. | ||||||||
Story of Temple Drake (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Teen Titans | |||||||||
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Tsukigakirei | |||||||||
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Tunes of Glory (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Turtle Odyssey | |||||||||
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Valiant | |||||||||
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Waterworld (Arrow) | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I whole-heartedly recommend this new release of Big Trouble in Little China in whatever your preferred version is – especially considering the additional interviews on this release.” Blaine says, “it’s the Spider-Man collection that catches my eye.”
She-Ra, this new series, is actually titled “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.” Subtle distinction, but does change the meaning.
As for is it worth watching it: I am an adult male (like you, Blaine.) I was a big fan of He-Man, and thus She-Ra, when I was younger. This is not that, at all. This is much more like your action show aimed at girls, and probably has more in common with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic than it does the original She-Ra.
I have two younger daughters (11 and 7), and after the first episode it was clear this was not made for me, but my girls loved it, and I enjoyed it enough to watch it all with them.
> I am an adult male (like you, Blaine.)
> This […] probably has more in common with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Yeah, no adult males watch that.
And now I pray to the formatting gods before hitting “post”. Praise be to Formatucolis, the ancient Roman god of markup!
I’ve read over 75 of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comics, too.
They… they made another Rambo movie?… and for some reason I’m still surprised by crap like this?…
I’m going to wait for Space Princess to show up on Best of the Worst.
I’m all in for Sesame Street as it defined my TV watching at young age. The wife and I will be watching that. I’m also a sucker for horror-comedy, so Ready or Not is on the to-watch list as well.
I wonder if that gets any accidental audience from the now-grown fans of the 1990s tween/teen series of the same name?
(If you don’t know it, it was a well-made, low-budget Canadian series that was picked up in the U.S. and Britain. One of its stars went on to play “Trance Gemini.” in Andromeda).