Weekly New Releases – April 7, 2020

Release lists are back to normal, for now.

3D Rarities
Amazon
After War Gundam X
Amazon
Comments The first half of one of the first Gundam anime made outside of the Universal Century timeline (after G-Gundam and Gundam Wing)
All the Pretty Horses
Amazon
American Pie Naked Mile
Amazon
Angel
Amazon
Anime-Gataris
Amazon
Comments A very fourth-wall breaking anime series about a high school anime club.
Aria the Natural
Amazon
Comments Season 2 of the slice-of-life anime about gondoleers on a terraformed Mars.
Army of Shadows (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Army of Shadows (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Beau Geste
Amazon
Beyond the Door
Amazon
Bravestorm
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Breach
Amazon
Casshern Sins
Amazon
Comments Gritty sequel to the original Casshern released in the mid-2000s.
Cat Planet Cuties
Amazon
Cats
Amazon
Cats
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Chaos; Head
Amazon
Comments Mystery anime series based on a visual novel from the creators of Steins;Gate.
Dolittle
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Dolittle
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Dolittle
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Eddie Macon’s Run
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Empire
Amazon
Escape From Pretoria
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Escape From Pretoria
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Fruits Basket
Amazon
Comments This is earlier anime adaptation of the manga from 2001.
General Died at Dawn
Amazon
Great Leap
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Great Leap
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Helpful Fox Senko-san
Amazon
Comments Anime series about a fox spirit who adopts a harried and depressed salaryman.
Heroes
Amazon
Hinomaru Sumo
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It Started as a Joke
Amazon
It Started as a Joke
Amazon
Comments Eugene Mirman comedy special
Like a Boss
Amazon
Like a Boss
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Little Women (2019)
Amazon
Little Women (2019)
Amazon
Lives of the Bengal Lancer
Amazon
Madam Secretary
Amazon
Madam Secretary
Amazon
Midsomer Murders
Amazon
Midsomer Murders
Amazon
Murder, He Says
Amazon
No Game, No Life
Amazon
Comments Steelbook Edition of the anime.
Revue Starlight
Amazon
Comments Anime series about an high school actress who wants to have a starring role in her high school’s musical production – Starlight. She stumbles across secret underground stage fighting auditions for the starring role (organized by a talking giraffe), and ends up fighting alongside a childhood friend to get the starring role.
Slings and Arrows
Amazon
Supernatural
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Swift
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Swift
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Terror Train
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Thunderbirds
Amazon
Comments The live action film
Trapped
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Unlikely Angel
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VFW
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VFW
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Wimbledon
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Wind Walker
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week.

Alex says, “I really liked Anime-Gataris when it aired – it doesn’t get really weird until late in the series, and some of the jokes will go over the heads of people who are new to anime, but it worked for me.” Blaine says, “Slings and Arrows is not well known but pretty darn great.”

10 replies on “Weekly New Releases – April 7, 2020”

    • I watched part of one of them and then read some reviews. Short version: they put Levy’s character into situations he wouldn’t be in, shove in an act-alike younger brother of Stifler, and they are ignored entirely by American Reunion.

  1. I’m sure I’ll end up watching Little Women, for the umpteenth time. I may watch Dolittle out of morbid curiosity and RDJ withdrawal.

    It’ll be a cold day in Hell when I watch Cats though. It was bad enough on stage, but that…thing…is a sin against Broadway, CGI, and nature.

      • Uff, if you review it for B42, they owe you hazard pay. Overwrought is a good word for the musical (and by Broadway standards, that’s saying something).

        • Brian is only half-right. The original Cat was fine onstage, if you viewed it in the proper context. I saw it in the mid-1980s* with the hot girl from my dormitory floor. That is the proper context. Also, I enjoy the music and lyrics. Very jazzy. Very whimsical. But with some unexpected depth, as one might expect when T.S. Eliot writes children’s poems.

          The movie…. We have not yet seen the movie… We will one day see the movie. If Lex has not reviewed it by then, I will review it. It may well work for next October’s Halloween Reviews.

          Jazzy. Whimsical. The movie adds, from what I can tell, a slight touch of Abominable Eldritch Horror from the Sixth Circle of the Infernal Realm.

          *This is both literal truth and possible coded metaphor. YMMV.

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