| Acting: The First Six Lessons | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Art of Crime | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about a socially awkward high school student getting help in learning social niceties. | ||||||||
| Cyrano | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dances with the Dragons | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fantasy anime about a team of bounty hunters. | ||||||||
| Desperate Hour | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Elvis 7-Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Jailhouse Rock, Viva Las Vegas, Girl Happy, Spinout, Elvis: That’s the Way It Is, Elvis on Tour, and This Is Elvis | ||||||||
| Food Wars | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The final season of the fanservice-heavy cooking anime based on a Shonen Jump manga. | ||||||||
| Gekidol | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about a group of idols doing remote performances using 3D hologram technology after a catastrophe caused several major cities across the world to disappear. | ||||||||
| Girl Can’t Help It (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| God of High School | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Battle anime based on a comic from the WebToon online platform. | ||||||||
| Heavy Metal / Heavy Metal 2000 2 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains Heavy Metal in 4K, and Heavy Metal 2000 on Blu-Ray. | ||||||||
| Horror at 37000 Feet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Humans | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| In the Heat of the Night | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Best Picture 1967. The podcast about it is due on March 28, 2023. This release also includes They Call Me Mr. Tibbs! and The Organization on Blu-Ray | ||||||||
| Jackass Forever | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: Professional film critic and future 99 Years, 100 Films guest Will Pfeifer named this as one of the five best films he saw in March, to everyone’s surprise. | ||||||||
| King’s Daughter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kunoichi Lady Ninja | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| LBX Girls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Spinoff anime from the LBX (or Little Battlers Experience) series of video games. | ||||||||
| Man on the Flying Trapeze | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mesmerized | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Miracle in Milan (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Needless | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on a seinen battle manga that takes some very loose inspiration from the X-Men comics. | ||||||||
| Night Creatures | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| NOVA: Ancient Maya Metropolis | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Only Yesterday | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime film from Isao Takahata about a young woman travelling to the countryside and reminicing about her childhood. | ||||||||
| Rogue Cops and Racketeers: Two Crime Thrillers (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Big Racket and The Heroin Busters. | ||||||||
| Stella Women’s Academy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | One of the last anime from Gainax – this is an anime about a high school’s airsoft club. | ||||||||
| Tale of the Princess Kaguya | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The final film from director Isao Takahata, which was nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Animated Feature” – and which stirred up controversy when a member of the Academy condemned the nomination of the film, describing it and Song of the Sea (nominated the same year) as “Chinese f***ing things” (source – https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-no-773905/) (Note: Isao Takahata is Japanese, and Tale of Princess Kaguya adapts a piece of Japanese folklore. Song of the Sea is an Irish film directed by Tomm Morore, and is also in turn inspired by Irish folklore.). | ||||||||
| That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| VHS/94 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Whistle at Eaton Falls (Flicker Alley) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| You’re Telling Me | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Tale of Princess Kaguya is probably one of the best films to come out of Studio Ghibli, and I’d argue is Takahata’s best film. If you love animation, you absolutely need to see this film. On the 4K front – I’m going with In The Heat of the Night.” Blaine says, “having recently watched In the Heat of the Night for the podcast, I absolutely agree that that’s the pick for anyone with 4K support. Without 4K support, nothing jumps out at me.”