Release lists are back to normal, for now.
3D Rarities | |||||||||
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After War Gundam X | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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American Pie Naked Mile | |||||||||
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Angel | |||||||||
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Anime-Gataris | |||||||||
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Comments | A very fourth-wall breaking anime series about a high school anime club. | ||||||||
Aria the Natural | |||||||||
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Comments | Season 2 of the slice-of-life anime about gondoleers on a terraformed Mars. | ||||||||
Army of Shadows (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Army of Shadows (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Beau Geste | |||||||||
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Beyond the Door | |||||||||
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Bravestorm | |||||||||
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Breach | |||||||||
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Casshern Sins | |||||||||
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Comments | Gritty sequel to the original Casshern released in the mid-2000s. | ||||||||
Cat Planet Cuties | |||||||||
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Cats | |||||||||
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Cats | |||||||||
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Chaos; Head | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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Escape From Pretoria | |||||||||
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Escape From Pretoria | |||||||||
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Fruits Basket | |||||||||
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Comments | This is earlier anime adaptation of the manga from 2001. | ||||||||
General Died at Dawn | |||||||||
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Great Leap | |||||||||
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Great Leap | |||||||||
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Helpful Fox Senko-san | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series about a fox spirit who adopts a harried and depressed salaryman. | ||||||||
Heroes | |||||||||
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Hinomaru Sumo | |||||||||
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It Started as a Joke | |||||||||
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It Started as a Joke | |||||||||
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Comments | Eugene Mirman comedy special | ||||||||
Like a Boss | |||||||||
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Like a Boss | |||||||||
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Little Women (2019) | |||||||||
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Little Women (2019) | |||||||||
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Lives of the Bengal Lancer | |||||||||
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Madam Secretary | |||||||||
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Madam Secretary | |||||||||
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Midsomer Murders | |||||||||
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Midsomer Murders | |||||||||
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Murder, He Says | |||||||||
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No Game, No Life | |||||||||
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Comments | Steelbook Edition of the anime. | ||||||||
Revue Starlight | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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Supernatural | |||||||||
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Swift | |||||||||
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Swift | |||||||||
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Terror Train | |||||||||
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Thunderbirds | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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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.”
There’s more American Pie movies? And they dragged Eugene Levy into it!? No, Gene… no. You’re better than that!
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.
Hey man, don’t judge. Those eyebrows don’t groom themselves.
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.
I’ve never seen any version of Cats. I am going to watch it.
…cover me.
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.
I love the idea of sliding it in with the Halloween reviews. I will review it once I get my hands on it.
(I expect triple my regular per-word rate from the Bureau for it.)
Triple your word rate? Let me do the math here… Nothing into nothing, carry the nothing…
I was waiting for this response. I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed.