| Aenigma | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| All I Desire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Balcony | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beast Must Die | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Benjamin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Big Parade | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Caligula | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: This is not an Anime TV series based on the Roman emperor. This is an adaptation of a video game, “The Caligula Effect” which was written by the creator of the first three Persona Games (Persona, Persona 2 Innocent Sin, and Persona 2 Eternal Punishment), and involves the protagonist and their allies attempting to escape from a virtual reality world they are trapped in, that puts them through an endless recreation of high school. | ||||||||
| Chicago Fire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chicago MED | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Combattler V | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Super Robot anime from Toei – readers from the Phillipines might be familiar with this show, as it got a translated release there back in the day. | ||||||||
| Crusher Joe | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: I’ve previously reviewed this on the site. (https://bureau42.com/view/16821/weekend-review-crusher-joe-the-ovas) | ||||||||
| CSI: NY | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dead Pit | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dead Still | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Deep Blue Sea 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Demonia | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Domestic Girlfriend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: This is an anime series that is packaged incredibly poorly. It’s packaged like porn (with a risque slipcover and a slew of even more outright lewd art cards), when the actual series is more of a relationship drama. I know why they’re selling the show this way, but I think it’s a bad choice. | ||||||||
| Endeavour | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Five Corners | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Flash | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fulci For Fake | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fuuka | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic drama anime series about a music group. | ||||||||
| Gemini | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gunsmoke | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hal Roach Streamliners | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes All American Co-Ed, Fiesta, and Flying with Music | ||||||||
| Hollywoodland | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Infamous | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kiki’s Delivery Service | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A more conventional relase of this without the added soundtrack or artbook. | ||||||||
| King of Staten Island | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Victim / Forced Entry | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Laverne and Shirley | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lupin the 3rd: Dragon of Doom | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The 6th Lupin the Third TV Special, from 1994. | ||||||||
| Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| New York Ripper | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pat and Mike | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Reginald Denny Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| SEAL Team | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Season With … | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sign of the Cross | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek: Voyager | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Strike Back | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Suckers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Superman: Man of Tomorrow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tattoo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Taz-Mania | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| The Pet Girl of Sakurasou | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fanservice anime getting re-released with an English dub. | ||||||||
| There’s Always Tomorrow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Toni (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Touched by an Angel | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Twilight Zone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Univeral Horror Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Black Castle, Cult of the Cobra, The Thing That Couldn’t Die, and Shadow of the Cat. | ||||||||
| VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Without Love | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Yes, God, Yes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’d prefer to get The Twilight Zone on Blu-Ray, even if it was SD-BD, but at that price, unless you already own the complete series, this is really hard to beat.” Blaine says, “I agree that the complete collection of the original The Twilight Zone is the best option this week. It wasn’t available in reruns when I grew up, at least not in this market, so I recently finished watching it all on Blu-Ray, and it holds up well. (Now I’m on to The Outer Limits.)”
Definitely The Twilight Zone. In a related note, we’ll be getting a review of, I would argue, the best successor to the T-Zone and Outer Limits next weekend, 2020’s Tales from the Loop.
Other choices… It’s slim pickings, but I have some interest in two I don’t know much about, Beast Must Die, because I’m reviewing a couple of “off the beaten track” werewolf films as part of our October Countdown this year, and this looks like another one, and King of Staten Island, only because the director has done some impressive things in the past.
Hollywoodland is a passable, low-key crime drama with some big names, but it has a genre connection in that it is a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the death of George Reeves, the first TV Superman.
Apropos of nothing, Bureau42 receives the most breeze-by mention possible in this PhD thesis.
I went and skipped to the reference, and it was a footnote on page 175. In other news, Pitt (where that thesis was posted) is my backyard. I wonder if I know Jessica Lynn FitzPatrick.