| 4400 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| After the Thin Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Agatha Christie: Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie / Agatha Christie’s England | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ascendance of a Bookworm | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains seasons 1 & 2 of the Isekai anime series about a girl who was learning to become a libraian being reincarnated in a fantasy world, and starting over as a child seeking to pursue the same career. | ||||||||
| Ascent (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Batman: Soul of the Dragon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Born a Champion | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Case File No 221: Kabukicho | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Reimaging of the Sherlock Holmes series set in contemporary Kabukichō (the inspiration for the Yakuza games’ Kamurochō), with some unfortunately uneven writing. | ||||||||
| Charmed | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Come Play | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Court Jester | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Don’t Panic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doom Patrol | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fade to Black | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fatman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: Mel Gibson stars as a famous person who turns out to be less likeable than everybody thought. It must have been a difficult part for him to get into… | ||||||||
| Freaky | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gamera | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Genocyber | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series from the creator of the “AD Police” manga. | ||||||||
| Good News | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hajime no Ippo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The first season of the boxing anime, which was previously released on DVD as “Fighting Spirit”. | ||||||||
| Impetigore | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Killing Bites | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about Animal-people in a sort of fight-club. | ||||||||
| Legend of Black Heaven | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about a guy who was in a rock band in college, and is currently working as a salaryman, getting asked by an alien woman to get the band back together to use their music to save her world. | ||||||||
| Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Magic Max | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: Starring the very likeable Ivan Sergei. | ||||||||
| Nature: Primates | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| No Guns Life | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Cyberpunk anime series (which leans much more into the noir side of things), about a heavily cybernetically augmented veteran (to the point that is head is now a gun), working as private investigator dealing with crimes involving other people with augmentations (known as “Extended”). | ||||||||
| Pajama Game | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Princess and the Pirate | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rawhide | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rebecka Martinsson | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Room for One More | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Silent Madness | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Snowpiercer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sorcerous Stabber Orphen | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the newer anime anime adaptation of a series of Western Fantasy-inspired fantasy novels out of Japan. The second season is currently airing. | ||||||||
| Southland Tales (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Speedway | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Swimmer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Symphogear G | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Synchronic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tales of the Uncanny | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Taxi | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| There Was a Crooked Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trafficked: A Parent’s Worst Nightmare | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| You | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “The 4K anime films we’ve gotten so far have consistantly been the ones which gain the most from a 4K release, and Castle of Cagliostro definitely benefits and merits this new release. If you don’t have a way to play 4K Blu-rays, my anime pick is season 1 of No Guns Life – it’s a really enjoyable cyberpunk anime with good writing. And if Anime is a strict no-go, there’s The Court Jester.” Blaine says, “that’s a great price on Taxi if you’re interested, and if your player can handle MOD titles, After the Thin Man is an enjoyable comedic mystery.”
I always love that Sabrina show. Lots of fun, lots of dad jokes, and it was very popular with my daughters.
If you haven’t seen it and you like child-unfriendly superhero series, watch Doom Patrol.
I remember Taxi from the 80s. I recall liking the early episodes, and then dropping it pretty quickly as it went along. YMMV. It’s also an early example of a series that was cancelled by one network and continued (briefly) on another.