| 4400 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Back Arrow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series set in a mysterious walled world, where various factions fight over mysterious drops of supplies that come from the sky – with one of them being containing a person who seeks to return where he came from – beyond the wall. The person takes the name “Back Arrow” after he hears someone call him a dumbass (Bakayarou in Japanese) and he mis-hears them. | ||||||||
| Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beginners | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese splatter horror film from 2012 that takes some heavy inspiration from Evil Dead 2. | ||||||||
| Captain Fantastic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The 2019 Case Closed/Detective Conan theatrical film, which has Conan Edogawa and company travelling to Singapore, where Conan and company have to investigate the murder of a martial arts tournament organizer, while also contending with the phantom thief Kaito Kid, who seeks to steal the fist-sized Sapphire which was meant to be the prize for the tournament. | ||||||||
| Changeling | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| COBRA | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cyber City Oedo 808 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Re-release of the series in a steelbook case, with an additional remaster from the previous release. | ||||||||
| Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Duke | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Uncle Was a Vampire, The Secret of the Red Orchid, Dark Places, Dracula and Son, and Murder Story. | ||||||||
| Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Forbidden Love: The Unshamed Stories of Lesbian Lives | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Canadian documentary from 1992 | ||||||||
| Gilded Age | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Good Karma Hospital | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Grantchester | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Green Lantern: Beware My Power | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Guest | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hail, Caesar! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Heart and Yummie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on a series of children’s books. Discotek is only releasing 2,000 copies of the release. | ||||||||
| Hellbender | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Holmes of Kyoto | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about an antique appraiser investigating forgeries in Kyoto. Discotek is only releasing 1,500 copies of the release. | ||||||||
| I’m Dangerous Tonight | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jack and the Beanstalk | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Killing | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: One of my favourite Stanley Kubrick films. It’s one of his most mainstream, too. It’s a nonlinear heist film, starring Sterling Hayden, Elisha Cook Jr. and more. | ||||||||
| Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lost City | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lupin the 3rd: Prison of the Past | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime film where Lupin the Third has to perform a jailbreak to save another thief from execution. | ||||||||
| Mid-Century | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Rosalind Chao. DVD release date is July 26, but the Blu-Ray release date is August 30. | ||||||||
| Nan Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Night Gallery | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Out of the Blue | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pennywise: The Story of IT | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Place Beyond the Pines | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Planet of the Vampires (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Science fiction horror film from Mario Bava. | ||||||||
| Pleasure | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Powered Armor Dorvack | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Mecha anime series based around Earth fending off an alien invasion. | ||||||||
| Primal | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Return of Captain Invincible | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A musical film about an alcoholic superhero (Alan Arkin) trying to come out of retirement to confront his archnemesis (played by Christopher Lee), featuring a musical number where Christopher Lee sings to Arkin about the various varieties of alcohol in order to try to get him to go on a binge. Includes the soundtrack on CD. | ||||||||
| Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scar on the Praeter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series from studio GoHands (K: Missing Kings and Hand Shakers), about people with superpowers trying to be guardians of a ward of Tokyo, and coming to conflict over their particular views on justice. | ||||||||
| Species | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Thriller – A Cruel Picture | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Uncle Buck | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Unpregnant | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vinland Saga | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on a manga from the creator of Planetes (the manga about astronauts catching space junk), about the Viking invasion of England by King Sweyn Forkbeard. Was previously available for streaming on Amazon Prime, and is currently available on HiDive with a Dub. Comes with a fabric poster, a 178 page artbook, and art cards in a chipboard box. This would be with the Sentai Filmworks dub, not the Netflix dub. | ||||||||
| Violence Jack | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Incredibly violent anime film meant as something of a semi-sequel/tie-in to Go Nagai’s Devilman, based around the title character travelling across a post-apocalyptic wasteland, contending with various absolutely horrible people (with said title character strongly implied to be Devilman – prior to that series ultimate conclusion). | ||||||||
| Voyage of the Rock Aliens | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| WWE: Hell in a Cell (2022) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Featuring Cody Rhodes wrestling in the main event with a completely torn pectoral muscle, where he was cleared to wrestle because it was literally impossible for him to injure it further. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “The Vinland Saga limited edition set, while steep, is tempting, as the show is very good and I’m interested in what’s in the artbook. Failing that, on the anime side I really enjoyed Back Arrow. Otherwise, I’m going with Doctor Strange.” Blaine says, “I also pick Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as the top pick because this is its first release. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is also a must-have.”