Weekly New Releases – May 16, 2023

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Aharen-san wa Hakarenai
Amazon
Comments Anime series about a girl with a really soft voice and no concept of personal space.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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Cocaine Bear
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Conquest of Space / I Married a Monster from Outer Space
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Dawn of the Witch
Amazon
Comments Anime series based on some spinoff novels from the “Grimoire of Zero” series of fantasy novels – in this case focusing on an amnesiac young man with magical powers with some connection to the antagonist of Grimoire of Zero.
Deal
Amazon
Comments Starring Burt Reynolds
Dreamland
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Endangered Species
Amazon
Comments Starring Robert Urich and JoBeth Williams
Exceptional Beings
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Friday the 13th: The Series
Amazon
Comments This is the “cursed artifact of the week” horror series with only a limited connection to the film series..
Good Person
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Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn as a Typical Nobody
Amazon
Comments Isekai anime series – the premise is pretty much explained in the title.
Hustle
Amazon
Comments Starring Burt Reynolds
In the Cut
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In the Line of Duty: I-IV
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Italian Job (2003)
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Litvinenko
Amazon
Comments Starring David Tennant
Longest Yard
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Comments Starring Burt Reynolds
Magic Flute
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Max Fleischer’s Superman
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Comments Blaine: This contains 17 shorts, so that means it includes all of the Fleischer Superman cartoons plus about 8 cartoons produced by Paramount after their hostile takeover of the studio.
Moonrunners
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Moving On
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Muhammed Ali a.k.a. Cassius Clay
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Nova: New Eye on the Universe
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Oleanna
Amazon
Comments Starring William H. Macy
Onipan!
Amazon
Comments Anime series about a group of girls who get magical powers if they wear a some shorts that used to be owned by oni.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
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Opposing Force
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Playboys
Amazon
Comments Starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, and Robin Wright
Purple Death From Outer Space
Amazon
Comments This is the original Flash Gordon serial from the 1940s, cut down to movie length at 88 minutes.
Samurai Wolf 1 and 2
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Shanghai Joe
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Shooter
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Sisu
Amazon
Comments The movie with the infamously violent trailer about a man trying to take home gold now in Nazi possession.
Targets (Criterion Collection)
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
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Transformers: EarthSpark
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Tweeny Witches: The Complete Book of Spells
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Twisted Nerve
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Comments Starring Hayley Mills
Vienna Blood
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Walker
Amazon
Comments The Jared Padalecki series
Wolf Girl and Black Prince
Amazon
Comments Romantic dramedy series aimed for girls with some (ahem) BDSM tones.
Yakuza Graveyard
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Young Ip Man
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “On the 4K front, I’m going with Ant-Man and the Wasp. Otherwise, outside from also getting Ant-Man and the Wasp, I’d also give a recommendation for the Max Fleicher’s Superman collection.” Blaine says, “I agree with Alex.”