| And Just Like That | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Continuing Sex and the City | ||||||||
| Bandit | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Banished from the Hero’s Party I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Isekai (portal fantasy) anime series about a guy who ends up getting transported to another world with his friends… who then kick him out of the party because they weren’t as much his friends as he thought, so (as the title says), he moves to a rural village and becomes an apothicary. | ||||||||
| Belle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The latest film from Academy Award nominated director Mamoru Hosoda, the director of The Girl Who Lept Through Time, Summer Wars, and Mirai. | ||||||||
| Call Jane | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Carrie (1976) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Carrie (2022) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Colley High (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Coraline | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Deep Insanity: The Lost Child | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The anime portion of a mixed media project put on by Square Enix, that also included a manga (Deep Insanity: Nirvana) and a mobile & PC game (Deep Insanity: Asylum – which never received a US release), about a mysterious disease coming from a location in Antartica, and various attempts to find the disease’s source. | ||||||||
| Detective Knight: Redemption | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Bruce Willis | ||||||||
| Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dick Tracy, Detective | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The 13th Doctor’s final adventure, with Tegan and Ace. | ||||||||
| Evil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ghostwatch | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hallelujah Trail | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Highlander (30th Anniversary Edition) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hogan’s Heroes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Just Because! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic dramedy anime series about a group of 4 friends who had been separated partway through middle school, but who reunite partway through high school and the complications in their social dynamics that come with this change. | ||||||||
| Lifemark | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Best Friend’s Wedding | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mystery Road: Origin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| ParaNorman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Reacher | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sci-Fi From the Vault – 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Creature With the Atom Brain, It Came From Beneath the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth, and The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock | ||||||||
| Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Silent Running (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Smile | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Spider | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Three Films by Mai Zetterling (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Including Loving Couples, Night Games, and The Girls | ||||||||
| Thrillers From the Vault – 8 Classic Horror Films | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Black Room, The Man They Could Not Hang, Before I Hang, The Man With Nine Lives, The Devil Commands, The Boogie Man Will Get You, The Return of the Vampire, and Five. | ||||||||
| Ticket to Paradise | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Toka Gettan: The Moonlight Lady Returns | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A supernatural romance anime that is adapted from a visual novel (one which started as an adult visual novel, but later adaptations removed sexually explicit elements). | ||||||||
| Usual Suspects | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Velvet Underground (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Walk to Remember | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Woman King | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “On the 4K front, I’m going with Coraline or ParaNorman (depending on which you prefer) – as much as I like Highlander, I’ve enjoyed Laika’s work more. Otherwise, nothing quite grabs me this week.” Blaine says, “my pick is The Power of the Doctor, the last story for Jodie Whittaker, for now.”
Woman King looks good. Plus, I like supporting female-led action flicks.
My wife was a fan of the original Sex and the City, but we haven’t watched any of the new series. I think after that second movie (what a stinker), she lost any interest in the characters.
Silent Running should be on every Sci-Fi nerd’s watchlist. If you haven’t seen it, go now. Just go.
Reacher was possibly one of the most accurate book-to-film adaptations I’ve ever seen. I just read The Killing Floor last year, so it was fresh in my head when the series came out. It’s not high art, but it nails virtually all the beats of the book. (And seriously, whoever thought Tom Cruise could play Jack Reacher was an idiot. His size is one of the character’s defining features.)