| 1883: A Yellowstone Origin Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| 61st Street | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Aho Girl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Slapstick heavy gag-anime. | ||||||||
| All About Evil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Belle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime film from director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Girl Who Lept Through Time) inspired by Beauty & The Beast | ||||||||
| Bionic Woman (1976) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blue Bloods | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cat People (1982) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Faceless | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Facing Nolan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Faya Dayi (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fuse: Memoirs of the Hunter Girl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fantasy anime set during the shogunate, involving a hunter who befriends a member of a group of human-dog spirit hybrids and finds herself having to decide to help the hybrids, or to turn on the Shogunate officials hunting them. | ||||||||
| Ghosts | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Giallo Essentials (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Smile Before Death, The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, and The Killer Reserved Nine Seats. | ||||||||
| In Vino | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kaiba | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Short anime series from Director Masami Yuasa (Devilman Crybaby, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken) | ||||||||
| Lost Inside | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan TV Special | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The first of two crossover films, one made-for-TV, and one theatrical, featuring Lupin the Third and Detective Conan squaring off. | ||||||||
| Mata Hari (1985) (Kino-Lorber Classics) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Miami Connection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The cult-classic martial arts film made by the students of a Taekwondo school in Miami. | ||||||||
| Mysterious Island of Beautiful Woman (aka Island of Sister Theresa) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Phantom of the Open | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Planet With | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Adaptation of a manga from the creator of the action series “Lucifer & The Biscuit Hammer”, focusing on a young man caught up in an alien invasion of earth – not in the sense of helping fight the aliens, but getting roped into fighting alongside the aliens. | ||||||||
| Project A-ko 2: The Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: I reviewed this as part of the Project A-Ko Love & Robots collection. | ||||||||
| Raw Nerve | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rent a Girlfriend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The first season of a romantic-cringe-comedy anime, based on a manga that kinda… is going nowhere. | ||||||||
| Righting Wrongs aka Above the Law Set | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes both cuts of the martial arts film starring Yuen Biao and Cynthia Rothrock. | ||||||||
| Running Out of Time Collection (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A pair of cat & mouse crime thrillers from director Johnny To (Election, Exiled, The Mission). | ||||||||
| Sampo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sonny Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about a high school class that shifts into another dimension, with each member of the class developing special powers. | ||||||||
| Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town? | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on the premise where what if a kid in a Dragon Quest style JRPG inspired setting moved from his town in the boonies, in the late-game area of the world where all the monsters are really strong, moved to the big city, and consequently was insanely strong compared to everyone around him. | ||||||||
| Technotise: Edit and I | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Serbian animated film, set in 2074 Belgrade. | ||||||||
| Tenth Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Walk in the Woods | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Where the Crawdads Sing | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| WWE: SummerSlam 2022 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The first WWE Pay Per View following Vince McMahon’s enforced retirement for use of company funds for hush-money payments to victims of sexual harassement at the company. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Mamoru Hosoda’s work is gorgeous across the board, so Belle is definitely worth picking up if you’re an anime or animation fan with a way to play 4K disks. Otherwise, my 4K pick for the week is Miami Connection, a film that is dangerously cheesy, but made with a tremendous amount of heart. Outside of the 4K picks, I’m going with the Detective Conan & Lupin the Third movie on the anime side, and the Running Out of Time collection on the live-action side.” Blaine says, “I think the only releases from this week that I’ve even seen are Cat People (1982) and Bionic Woman (1976), and neither is a particularly strong recommendation (although neither are terrible, either).”
Ghosts has been on our to-watch list for a bit. Looks kooky and funny. We might dive into that this Autumn.
We’re also historical fiction fiends, so 1883 will probably get a watch at some point.