Weekly New Releases – June 20, 2023

About My Father
Amazon
Aoashi
Amazon
Comments Second half of the first season of the soccer anime.
Assassins
Amazon
Comments Adaptation of the latter portion of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Avatar
Amazon
Avatar: The Way of Water
Amazon
Best Seller
Amazon
Boston Blackie
Amazon
Bridges at Toko-Ri (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Cartoon Rarities of the 1920s and 30s
Amazon
City of Ghosts
Amazon
Criminal Minds: Evolution
Amazon
Dragnet
Amazon
Firm
Amazon
Game Trilogy (Arrow)
Amazon
Comments Includes The Most Dangerous Game, The Killing Game, and The Execution Game. A series of Japanese suspense thriller films starring the late Yusaku Matsuda as assassin Shohei Narumi
George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Amazon
Ghosts of Beirut
Amazon
Golden Gate
Amazon
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
Amazon
Haikyu!!
Amazon
Hemingway: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Amazon
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
Amazon
Machine
Amazon
Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Amazon
Medicine for Melancholy (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Mr. Wong Collection
Amazon
Comments Includes Mr. Wong Detective, The Mystery of Mr. Wong, Mr. Wong in Chinatown, The Fatal Hour, and Doomed to Die.
Polite Society
Amazon
Prayer for the Dying
Amazon
ReBoot
Amazon
Red River (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Rin Tin Tin: Clash of the Wolves / Where the North Begins (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Romeo is Bleeding
Amazon
Ronin
Amazon
Servant (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Somewhere in Queens
Amazon
Special ID
Amazon
Stormy Monday
Amazon
Totally Completely Fine
Amazon
Unheard
Amazon
Vanilla Sky
Amazon
Waccha Primagi
Amazon
Comments An idol anime series based on a Japanese rhythm arcade game.
Whisper of the Heart
Amazon
Comments Live-action adaptation of the novel that inspired the Studio Ghibli animated film (released in 2022, almost 17 years after the animated film was released).
Wolf Pack
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My UHD pick of the week is John Frankenheimer’s Ronin – it’s an excellent action suspense film, with one of the best car chases on cinema. Otherwise, I’m interested to pick up The Game trilogy.” Blaine says, “I would go with The Manchurian Candidate this week.”