Weekly New Releases – June 8, 2021

Adjustment Bureau and The Good Shepherd
Amazon
Ali and Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Amazon
Alpha Dog
Amazon
American Experience: American Oz
Amazon
Assault on VA-33
Amazon
Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Amazon
Bruce Willis 8 Film Collection
Amazon
Comments Includes Hudson Hawk, The Whole Nine Yards, Sunset, Mortal Thoughts, Perfect Stranger, The Jackal, Mercury Rising, and Alpha Dog.
Center Stage
Amazon
City of Lies
Amazon
Complete Hal Roach Streamliners Collection
Amazon
Contraband and Fear
Amazon
Critic
Amazon
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Amazon
Doctor Who: The King’s Demons
Amazon
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Amazon
Ebola Rex
Amazon
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Amazon
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Amazon
Finding Forrester
Amazon
Flashback
Amazon
Fool for Love
Amazon
Fruits Basket
Amazon
Comments Getting a re-release just in time for the final season of the series to wrap.
Fuller House
Amazon
Human Condition (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Hunting Ground
Amazon
Indiana Jones 4 Movie Collection
Amazon
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skill
Amazon
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Amazon
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Amazon
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Amazon
Jean-Claude Van Damme 8 Movie Collection
Amazon
Comments Includes Universal Soldier: The Return, The Hard Corps, Second in Command, Maximum Risk, Knock Off, Double Team, Street Fighter, and The Quest.
Jurassic World
Amazon
Killer Elite
Amazon
Life at the Waterhole
Amazon
Like Father, Like Son
Amazon
Lovebirds (Unrated)
Amazon
MacGyver (2017)
Amazon
Miami Vice & The Kingdom
Amazon
Number24
Amazon
Comments A BL (same-sex male) themed sports anime about a rugby team.
Power Book II: Ghost
Amazon
Pretty in Pink
Amazon
Problem Child (Double Feature)
Amazon
Comments Includes Problem Child and Problem Child 2
Puzzle (L’uomo Senza Memoria)
Amazon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Amazon
Reptilicus
Amazon
Safe House
Amazon
Scream (1981)
Amazon
Comments Despite some of the linked reviews, this is NOT the Courtney Cox/Neve Campbell film.
Some Kind of Wonderful
Amazon
Stylist (Arrow)
Amazon
The Woman One Longs For (aka Three Loves) (Kino Lorber)
Amazon
There Was a Crooked Man
Amazon
True Mothers
Amazon
Unhealer
Amazon
Comments Blaine: Stars Natasha Henstridge and Lance Henriksen. The cover art has elements that seem like they are designed to intentionally remind us of Stranger Things and Star Wars in the art, and Spider-Man in the tagline.
Wave, Listen to Me!
Amazon
Comments Anime series about a waitress who ends up becoming a radio show host.
World Trigger
Amazon
Comments Anime series based on the Shonen Jump manga. The series has the English dubbed episodes and the Japanese language subtitled episodes on different banks of disks (likely at the insistance of the Japanese production committee).
Zeroville
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “While I’m not in any way remotely fond of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I don’t hate it enough that I’d refuse to buy the Indiana Jones collection because of its presence (I hate Fist of Fear, Touch of Death far more than that). Consequently, if you’ve got a 4K player, I’d recommend picking up either the Indiana Jones 4-movie collection or Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Otherwise, I very much like Fruits Basket – so if you haven’t picked that season up already, this is a decent release to get.” Blaine says, “I think that Indiana Jones is the best bet if you have 4K technology. If not, Doctor Who: Logopolis was a good story.”

4 replies on “Weekly New Releases – June 8, 2021”

  1. Logopolis definitely ranks among the Doctor’s more interesting adventures, and the American Experience doc about Baum and Oz is worth viewing, at least.

    Reptilicus may work best on MST3K, but it’s good to be reminded that even Denmark had its own daikaiju. (Stort mærkeligt væsen?)

  2. I do agree that Logopolis is good – I have the 4th Doctor Regeneration set, and think I like it a little better in context with that, instead of in isolation.

  3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a defining movie from my childhood. I went to see it because another kid in the neighbourhood told me and a friend that not only does the protagonist use a computer, but he has the same mouse as my he had, and we were like, “wow, a computer in a movie!”

    And that movie still pretty much holds up.

    And yes I logged in from a private session to post this.

    • Ferris Bueller not only holds up, I referenced it in my homework for grad school on Saturday. (I’m getting another education certification, and the selection we had to read by John Dewey had an entire paragraph about why we shouldn’t base our education philosophy on ‘isms.)

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