| 3D Sun | |||||||||
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| American West | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Attack of the Giant Teacher | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bad Mothers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Batman: Death in the Family | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beauty and the Beast (2012) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ben 10 vs. The Universe: The Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Boruto: Naruto Next Generations – Ohnoki’s Will | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder | |||||||||
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| Broil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chalk Garden | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Claudine (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Complete Hal Roach Streamliners Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Creature From Cannibal Creek | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Critical Thinking | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Crooners Classic 4 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Who Was That Lady?, How to Save a Marriage (And Ruin Your Life), Contract on Cherry Street, and Pal Joey | ||||||||
| Dave of the Dead | |||||||||
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| Death Laid an Egg | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Gina Lollobrigida | ||||||||
| DeepStar Six | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Delirious | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| District 9 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dog Doc | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doorman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Double Dragon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Edgar Allan Poe: Heart-quaking Double Feature | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Legend of Horror and The Tell-Tale Heart | ||||||||
| El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Exorcist: The Beginning | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fahrenheit 9/11 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fly Like a Girl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Friday the 13th Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Grant | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Halloween Dragon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This production company isn’t known for investing a lot of money or time into their productions, so I usually ignore them, but there’s a shortage of children’s entertainment in the English language about holidays that aren’t a part of Christian celebrations, so I thought it was worth pointing out. | ||||||||
| Happy Days | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Happy Happy Joy Joy – The Ren and Stimpy Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Haunted Transylvania: Mighty Mummy Madness | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hollywood Vice Squad | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| House M.D. | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| House of Cardin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| ID: Invaded | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Imaginary Crimes / Silent Fall | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Incognito / Diabolique / The In Crowd | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| It’s Just a Game | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jack and the Beanstalk | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jack Hunter’s Paranoia Tapes 5: Rewind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jack Hunter’s Paranoia Tapes 7: Felts Field | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jack Hunter’s Paranoia Tapes 8: DVD+ | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jack Hunter’s Paranoia Tapes: 06:06:06 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jetsons | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic dramdy series about a girl who ends up working at a hot spring run by an oni. | ||||||||
| Killer Weekend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Second season of the anime series about a high-school Koto club. | ||||||||
| Kraftwerk – Ready Player Two | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Exorcist | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Life’s a Bitch Then You Die | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lil’ Monsters 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mallrats | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Motel Hell | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mr. Topaze (aka I Like Money) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| NCIS: Los Angeles | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Necropolis: Legion | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| New Blood | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Night Terror | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nightmare Vacation | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Our Cartoon President | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Panther Squad | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Parks and Recreation | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Penny Slingers: Out of the Shadows | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Perry Mason | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Picnic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pledge | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Punch Line | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Requiem For a Dream | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: One of the most hauntingly powerful movies I’ve ever seen. | ||||||||
| Reversal of Fortune | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| RWBY | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| S.O.S. Titanic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scary Bride | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sci-Fi 4-Pack: The Galaxy One Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Timewarp, Life Pod, Star Odyssey, and The Killing at Outpost Zeta. | ||||||||
| Seized | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sergeant York | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shirobako | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Short History of the Long Road | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Silicone Soul | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Space Ghost and Dino Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Submerged | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Terror in the Aisles | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Test Tube Babies / Guilty Pleasures | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Thanksgiving Dance 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ultraman R/B | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Unfamiliar | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Untold Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vampires in Australia | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vikings | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Warning From Space (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The first Japanese color science fiction film. | ||||||||
| Weedjies: Halloweed Night | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Welcome to the Day of the Dead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you don’t already own the Friday the Thirteenth movies, the boxed set from this week looks really good. Otherwise, on the anime front, I’m interested in checking out Kakuriyo.” Blaine says, “nothing in particular jumps out at me this week.”
Requiem for a Dream would also be my top pick for this week, but Picnic is a fair second.Picnic is a pretty good adaptation of William Inge’s Pulitzer/Tony/Critic’s Circle-winning play, though that poster/Blu-Ray cover is not doing it any favours.
Happy Days wisely released a collection of only the first six seasons– you get the infamous shark-jump and the season after, too, which weren’t so bad– but there’s no question that by six, it was already well into a downward spiral. Personally, I prefer the first two seasons, when it was a little weightier show, mostly eschewed the studio audience, Richie had a brother named Chuck, and it actually took place in some semblance of the 1950s. However, season 3-6 are the incarnation most people recall, when the show grew goofier, the Fonz became a fad, the studio audience became standard, and they played fast and lose with the era. And Chuck who?
The Kraftwerk doc might be interesting.
Predictably, October brings forth a lot of low-budget horrors– take it in what sense you will.
Stopping Happy Days at season six isn’t just wise, it’s based on sales. The DVD releases of season six were so terrible that they didn’t think it was worth investing in the later seasons. Who knows? With the lack of new media as production stops during COVID, some of these stalled releases may actually happen.
I’m still waiting for the rest of the animated “The Tick”, for example. It was a 36 episode series, and the first two volumes had 12 episodes each. Ditto the last season of “Gargoyles,” but at least that’s on Disney+. We finally got that last season of “Sliders”, too.
I like Mallrats, but admittedly, it’s been a decade since I watched it. It’s worth it for beardy Stan Lee if nothing else.
Hey that looks a lot better.
I wonder if there’s a market for the best Halloween eps of various shows? Probably, but the rights-wrangling would prohibit it.
Still, good question. Maybe we could do a feature on that some October. Town and Country proffers this list (though they cheat a little by including one Halloween special, and, even though I only ever caught a few episodes of Eight is Enough, I still recall their Halloween episode, which referenced a number of horror movies.
Watched about half of it recently online. Like a lot of such shows, it doesn’t particularly hold up.
You can also check this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Halloween_television_specials