Weekly New Releases – August 11, 2020

American Experience: The Vote
Amazon
American Masters: Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Amazon
Archive
Amazon
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019)
Amazon
Armored Trooper VOTOMS
Amazon
Comments Contains the complete TV series, along with most of the spinoff movies and OVAs (minus Armor Hunter Mellowlink)
Asian Americans
Amazon
Becoming Evil: The Mafia
Amazon
Belgravia
Amazon
Bloodfight + Ironheart (Bolo Yeung Double Feature)
Amazon
Brutal Massacre: A Comedy
Amazon
Captains
Amazon
Comments Blaine: An excellent documentary directed by William Shatner, as he interviews all of the Star Trek captains at the time. (It’s older than any of the CBS All-Access series.)
Cardcoptor Sakura: Clear Card
Amazon
Comments The sequel to the original Cardcaptor Sakura anime series.
Casper
Amazon
Complete Films of Agnes Varda (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Amazon
Date with an Angel
Amazon
Diva
Amazon
Dynasty (1981)
Amazon
Eureka
Amazon
Final Space
Amazon
Five Corners
Amazon
Gemini
Amazon
Gold Digger
Amazon
Good Wife
Amazon
High Note
Amazon
How to Build a Girl
Amazon
Inuyasha
Amazon
Comments Contains episodes 28-55
JAG
Amazon
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
Amazon
Comments The second season of the remake of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
Love Boat
Amazon
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
Amazon
Michael
Amazon
Mikey
Amazon
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Amazon
Comments Re-release.
Mork and Mindy
Amazon
NCIS: New Orleans
Amazon
Neo Ultra Q
Amazon
Comments This is a spiritual sequel to the original Ultra Q series, which Ultraman came out of. It looks like the new series stylistically takes a few more cues from The X-Files, while the original series was more inspired by American horror anthology series like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
Nova: Eagle Power
Amazon
Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Amazon
Quest
Amazon
Rawhide
Amazon
Revenge of the Living Dead Girls
Amazon
Rook
Amazon
Secret of Kells
Amazon
Split Second
Amazon
Tales from the Darkside
Amazon
Tax Collector
Amazon
Tender Mercies
Amazon
Thor: End of Days
Amazon
Comments Blaine: This claims to be based on the mythology, and not the Marvel property, but the costumes, blond and beardless lead, and text format of the logo make that hard to believe.
Try Knights
Amazon
Comments Rugby anime
Valley of the Gods
Amazon
Waiting for the Barbarians
Amazon
Wretched
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going with the Armored Trooper VOTOMS collection this time – it’s got all of the franchise (except for Mellowlink) to date, and frankly I really enjoyed the original series.” Blaine says, “I would say the best product on this list is the complete CSI: Crime Scene Investigations“.

2 replies on “Weekly New Releases – August 11, 2020”

  1. American Experience seems to do best when they’re profiling events, rather than individuals. Those docs are good, but tend to gloss over the subject a bit.

    The ’62 Hammer Phantom of the Opera isn’t the best, but it does feature Herbert Lom and a future Doctor Who.

    I only saw maybe one ep of Tales from the Darkside back in the day. Is it worth seeing?

    And yeah– that Thor cover is trying very hard to be mistaken for a Marvel product while keeping just to the legal side of copyright infringement.

  2. I was surprised to see that CSI finished, I thought that was going to be one of those series that was just always on TV, like NCIS pr 60 minutes.

    Also, the Thor: End of Days looks like the sort of thing that a legal department shows to executive to convince them not to base intellectual properties on public domain concepts.

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