2 Movie Collection: Ella Enchanted / Finding Neverland | |||||||||
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2 Movie Collection: Emma / Shakespeare in Love | |||||||||
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2 Movie Collection: Kate and Leopold / Serendipity | |||||||||
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40 Days and 40 Nights | |||||||||
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5 Centimeters Per Second | |||||||||
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Comments | The second film from Makoto Shinkai (director of Your Name.) | ||||||||
Accidental Spy | |||||||||
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Acrobunch | |||||||||
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Comments | Pulpy mecha action anime from the ’80s about a Johnny-Quest esque family of globe-trotting scientist adventurers trying to find a treasure that could save the world before an evil race of subterranian humanoids do – and they’re doing it in their giant robot. | ||||||||
Allnighter | |||||||||
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Attic Expeditions | |||||||||
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Bang | |||||||||
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Beautiful Girls | |||||||||
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Becoming Jane | |||||||||
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Betty White’s Pet Set | |||||||||
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Boys and Girls | |||||||||
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Brave 10 | |||||||||
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Breaking Fast | |||||||||
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Buffalo Soldiers | |||||||||
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Casper: A Spirited Beginning | |||||||||
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Castle of the Creeping Flesh | |||||||||
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Centigrade | |||||||||
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Chasing Amy | |||||||||
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Chop Shop (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Cider House Rules | |||||||||
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Cold Mountain | |||||||||
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Collective | |||||||||
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | |||||||||
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Croods: 2 Movie Collection | |||||||||
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Croods: A New Age | |||||||||
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Doubt | |||||||||
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Duplex | |||||||||
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English Patient | |||||||||
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Comments | Best Picture winner, and subject of a podcast due on August 28, 2025 | ||||||||
Fairy Tail | |||||||||
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Flirting With Disaster | |||||||||
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Food Wars | |||||||||
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Frida | |||||||||
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From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy | |||||||||
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Gone Baby Gone | |||||||||
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Gordy | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I worked in a movie theatre when this came out. It’s terrible, and seemed to have been rushed out to get a “talking pig” movie on the market before the far superior Babe. In fact, a lot of our customers refused to give Babe a shot because of their experience with Gordy. | ||||||||
Grifters | |||||||||
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Hakaider | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: I’ve previously reviewed this for the site. This is a Media Blasters Blu-Ray release, and those have been questionable of late. | ||||||||
Hand That Feeds the Dead | |||||||||
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Hard to Hold | |||||||||
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Highlander IV: Endgame | |||||||||
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Hostage | |||||||||
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I Got the Hook-Up | |||||||||
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Inside Amy Schumer | |||||||||
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Jersey Girl | |||||||||
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John Hughes 5 Movie Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, She’s Having a Baby, Pretty in Pink, and Some Kind of Wonderful | ||||||||
Kate and Leopold | |||||||||
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Konosuba 2 | |||||||||
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Lady Sings the Blues | |||||||||
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Last Vermeer | |||||||||
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Like Water for Chocolate | |||||||||
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Lupin the 3rd: The Columbus Files | |||||||||
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Madonna: Truth or Dare | |||||||||
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Man Push Cart (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Mansfield Park | |||||||||
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Miss Machiko | |||||||||
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Comments | A fanservice heavy (and very stylized) 95-episode long slice of life comedy anime from 1980. | ||||||||
My Boss’s Daughter | |||||||||
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My Dream is Yours | |||||||||
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Naked Girl Murdered in the Park | |||||||||
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On Moonlight Bay | |||||||||
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Pokemon the Series | |||||||||
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Port of Freedom (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
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Pump Up the Volume | |||||||||
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Puppet Princess | |||||||||
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Comments | 45 minute long OVA based on a one-volume manga. | ||||||||
Queen | |||||||||
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Redemption Day | |||||||||
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Reindeer Games | |||||||||
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Rounders | |||||||||
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Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob | |||||||||
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Shakespeare in Love | |||||||||
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Comments | Best Picture winner and the subject of a podcast due October 28, 2025 | ||||||||
Shogun’s Joy of Torture (Arrow) | |||||||||
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Show Boat | |||||||||
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Silk Road | |||||||||
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Sling Blade | |||||||||
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Smooth Talk (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Star Trek: The Next Generation | |||||||||
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Stay Cool | |||||||||
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Trainspotting | |||||||||
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Unleashed | |||||||||
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Venus Wars | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime OVA miniseries from director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (who did mechanical design on Mobile Suit Gundam, and would go on to do the Gundam the Origin manga.) This release also comes with an artbook. | ||||||||
View From the Top | |||||||||
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Wrong Turn: The Foundation | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week.
Alex says, “I watched Venus Wars a while back and remember liking it – and additionally anime of this vintage tends to gain a lot from a Blu-Ray release. If you’re not into anime – that isn’t a bad price for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-Ray.” Blaine says, “while I entirely agree that this is a great price on Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s weakest season, I would put Amelie at the top of my list. It’s one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen, and I think would have been better served with a more accurate translation of the original French title: The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulin.”
Not exactly a week for “genre,” but I see several excellent dramas and things worth watching: Doubt, Lady Sings the Blues (uneven script, but great performances), Trainspotting, and the bizarre but entertaining Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, among others. I don’t know that I would own any of these, however.
I know it’s a translated title, but I think it’s hilarious there’s a film called Naked Girl Murdered in the Park. How many crime dramas and true crime episodes might as well just have that title?
There was a From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy?!