Weekly New Releases – August 10, 2021

200 Cigarettes
Amazon
After Life (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
Amazon
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Amazon
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Curse of the Shadows
Amazon
Back Street
Amazon
Batman: Long Halloween Part Two
Amazon
Bergman – A Year in a Life
Amazon
Black Rat
Amazon
Comments Japanese slasher film.
Dark Stories
Amazon
Desire
Amazon
F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Friday the 13th (1980)
Amazon
Friday the 13th 8 Movie Collection
Amazon
Haunting
Amazon
Havoc
Amazon
Holy Knight
Amazon
Comments 2-episode OVA based on a light novel about vampire hunters. This is a release from Media Blasters, whose Blu-Ray releases have been spotty in quality.
Hulk Ultimate Movie & TV Collection
Amazon
Comments Blaine: This includes the Ang Lee film starring Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly, the Louis Leterrior film starring Edward Norton and Liv Tyler, and the complete TV series starring Bill Bixby.
Inuyasha
Amazon
Lapis Re:LiGHTS
Amazon
Comments Urban Fantasy Idol Anime series.
Lilies of the Field
Amazon
Magnificent Kotobuki: The Movie
Amazon
Comments This apepars to be a compilation film based on the television series.
Mazinkaiser SKL
Amazon
Comments Spinoff of the Mazinkaiser tie-ins to the Mazinger Z series – as with Holy Knight, this is a Media Blasters Blu-Ray release, and they’ve had issues with their authoring in the past.
Misfits
Amazon
Nashville
Amazon
O.S.S.
Amazon
One Crazy Summer
Amazon
One Life at a Time
Amazon
One Piece
Amazon
Peter Ibbetson
Amazon
Place in the Sun
Amazon
Profile
Amazon
Queen Bees
Amazon
School-live! Another Story
Amazon
Comments Live action film based on the survival horror anime and manga series “School-Live!”
Tatami Galaxy
Amazon
Comments Anime series from director Masami Yuasa (Devilman Crybaby, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken) and adapting a novel in the same series of books as the novel that was adapted into “The Night is Short, Walk On Girl” (which was also directed by Yuasa)
Third Wheel
Amazon
Total Recall 2070
Amazon
Ultimate Otaku Teacher
Amazon
Comments Anime series about a genius progidy otaku who decides to become a high school teacher before he gets into his 30s.
Undertaking Betty
Amazon
Wide Awake
Amazon
Wishful Thinking
Amazon
Young Guns / Young Guns II
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Alex says, “The Tatami Galaxy is certainly worth picking up – as is most of Yuasa’s other works, to be honest.” Blaine says, “of the titles I’ve seen, the Incredible Hulk set is the most interesting. That said, A Place in the Sun has been on my ‘must watch’ list for quite a while.”