| 5 Years Apart | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Adaptation | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Adventures of Don Juan (1948) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Alone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Amityville Harvest | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ape | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Back to the Future | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blue Ridge | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Captains Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Catlow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| COBRA | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Confessional | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Animated restoration of a Patrick Troughton story. | ||||||||
| Drifting / White Tiger (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Drowning | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fear No Evil / Ritual of Evil (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Great | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gunfighter (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Haunting | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hit (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lord of Vermilion | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on an arcade card game by Square-Enix. | ||||||||
| Love and Monsters | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece: Flesh and Blood | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Neighbour Totoro | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Negima + Negima!? | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Seasons 1 and 2 of the anime series adapting part of the manga from Ken Akamatsu (Love Hina) | ||||||||
| NOS4A2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Outside the Law (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Picture Mommy Dead (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Plot Against America: An HBO Limited Series | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Princess Mononoke | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pumpkinhead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Quiz | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The scandal about the UK Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | ||||||||
| Re-Animator / Bride of Re-Animator | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scarecrow and Mrs. King | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: All four seasons are available, and it’s still enjoyable. | ||||||||
| Secrets We Keep | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sinrise as Campobello | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tremors | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, Tremors 5: Bloodlines, Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell, and Tremors: Shrieker Island. | ||||||||
| Tremors: Shrieker Island | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Uncle Tom | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vanished | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Your Name | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you have a way to play 4K disks, the Back to the Future Trilogy collection feels like a good addition to your collection (unless there’s something particularly untoward with the transfer). The BBC’s animated reconstructions of Patrick Troughton stories have, thus far, been fantastic. If you don’t have a way to watch 4K disks, I’d recommend getting The Faceless Ones instead.” Blaine says, “I completely agree with everything that Alex just said.”
I am not sure if my lack of interest in these releases is due to the lack of interesting releases because the pandemic has pushed interesting things back, or because “digital discs are dead.” I am inclined to blame the pandemic because it’s not like there were a lot of non-disc releases that I was interested in lately.
…Or I am just an old curmudgeon who isn’t into any of these young whippersnapper’s releases.
The pandemic is a part of it. We’re down to a lot of library releases, and since 4K hasn’t taken the world by storm and we’re still using a video format that hit the market 25 years ago, there aren’t a whole lot of library titles that haven’t come out yet worth talking about.
When I started this column, the October release list would have over 2000 titles to sift through. Now we rarely break 150.
I’m pretty sure that Scarecrow and Mrs. King and The Gunslinger don’t quite qualify as “whippersnapper” fare. :)
However, My Neighbour Totoro is an anime I’ve actually seen, and that’s saying quite a bit, and The Plot Against America is worth seeing, though, personally, I wouldn’t buy it.