Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | |||||||||
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Broker | |||||||||
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Calendar Girls | |||||||||
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Clannad | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains both Clannad & Clannad: After Story | ||||||||
Dazed and Confused (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Empire of Light | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Epic Showdowns – 4 Action Movies | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Kull the Conqueror, The Cowboy Way, The Jackal, and End of Days. | ||||||||
Giovanni’s Island | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime film about people living on the island of Shikotan/Spanberg, which is disputed by Japan & Russia (previously the USSR), as technically the USSR & Russia never signed a peace treaty with Japan following the Second World War. | ||||||||
Goldorak L’integrale | |||||||||
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Comments | The Quebec version of the Super Robot anime UFO Robot Grendizer, which is part of the Mazinger franchise. | ||||||||
Hunter (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
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Indochine | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Inspection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | |||||||||
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Jackie Chan 5 Movie Action Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes 1911, Police Story: Lockdown, Railroad Tigers, Little Big Soldier, and Shaolin. | ||||||||
Legion of Super-Heroes | |||||||||
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Love After World Domination | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Romantic comedy anime series about a guy who is in a Super Sentai-esque superhero team and a woman from the villain organization who opposes them who fall in love. | ||||||||
Magnificent Seven (1960) | |||||||||
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Magnificent Warriors | |||||||||
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Comments | Action film made in Hong Kong starring Michelle Yeoh, where she’s sent to meet up with a spy to stop the Japanese from building a chemical weapons depot in Eastern China during World War II. | ||||||||
Nocebo | |||||||||
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O. Henry Playhouse | |||||||||
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Old Way | |||||||||
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Pokemon the Series: Black and White Adventures in Unova and Beyond | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | This is the 2013 Pokemon series. Going from the Amazon listing, this may have the Japanese dub. | ||||||||
Remains of the Day | |||||||||
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Requiem for a Heavyweight | |||||||||
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Retaliators | |||||||||
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Ring-a-ding Rhythm | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Running the Bases | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Silent Avant-Garde (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Slumber Party Massacre / Slumber Party Massacre II Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Smurfs: The Springtime Specials | |||||||||
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Station Eleven | |||||||||
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Violent Night | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I haven’t seen it, but I confess a morbid interest in what sounds like a crossover between Die Hard and Santa’s Slay. | ||||||||
Werewolf of Washington (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Whale | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “For people with 4K Blu-Ray capabilities, I’m going with The Magnificent Seven. Otherwise, I’m going with Magnificent Warriors, as a frequently overlooked gem in Michelle Yeoh’s filmography.” Blaine says, “none of the titles I’ve already seen jump out at me.”
Station Eleven does an excellent job of the novel. Some of the changes arguably improve the plot. Otherwise, the picks are not SF/Fantasy/Horror. Requiem for a Heavyweight holds up, one of Rod Serling’s finest scripts, supported by great actors. Even his original Playhouse 90 episode on which the film is based still packs a punch. Dazed and Confused is problematic, but worth seeing more than once. It captures the late 70s, though it’s the Texas late 70s, and some of those cultural elements were happily unfamiliar to me.
I haven’t seen the Slumber Party Massacre series, but I recall the female directors in a documentary years ago (The Dark Side of Hollywood, I think) talking about accepting the job because they were young and trying to make it, and their conflicting feelings about trying to make the best exploitation films they could.
Remains of the Day is very good, if you like that kind of film.
I will have to track down Silent Avant Garde.