| Big Time Gambling Boss | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Yakuza film set in 1930s Japan, following a conflict in a Yakuza gang over who will succeed the gang after the terminally ill leader retires. On the one hand, it’s praised by Paul Schrader. On the other hand, it was praised by fascist and ultimately failed insurrectionist, Yukio Mishima. | ||||||||
| Black Adam | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Black Clover | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cloverfield | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Detective Knight: Redemption | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Double Jeopardy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation out of Debt | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about a prince who is heir to the throne of a kingdom saddled with crippling debt – and all his efforts to dump the debt and get himself a cushy retirement end up fixing the kingdom’s problems and giving him more work. | ||||||||
| Ghost Warrior | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Action film about a time-displaced samurai stuck on the streets of then-contemporary (1980s) Los Angeles. | ||||||||
| His Dark Materials | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lady Whirlwind and Hapkido (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A pair of martial arts films from Golden Harvest in the 70s starring Angela Mao | ||||||||
| Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa | ||||||||
| Loudmouth | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | About Reverend Al Sharpton | ||||||||
| Mayberry Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Menu | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Miss Scarlet and the Duke | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Missing in Action | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Missing in Action 3: Braddock (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Missing in Action Trilogy (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Spinoff miniseries from Gundam SEED. | ||||||||
| My Life is Murder | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nature: American Ocelot | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| No Game No Life | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | An isekai (another world portal fantasy) anime series about a brother and sister with social anxiety who are exceptionally good at games, who are whisked to another world to play games to keep humanity from being enslaved. | ||||||||
| No Mercy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| One Piece | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Programmed to Kill aka Retaliator | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Running with Speed | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | About video game speed runners | ||||||||
| Seven Faces of Jane | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Speak No Evil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Spin Me Round | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| They Live | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Till | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wrath of Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Young Guns / Young Guns II | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My 4K pick for this week is They Live. Not much else this week grabbed me.” Blaine says, “nothing I’ve seen grabs me, though I’ve heard wonderful things about The Menu and mixed reviews of Black Adam.”
A mixed review of Black Adam.