Weekly New Releases – June 27, 2023

21 Beacon Street
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Alien from the Abyss
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Angel Face
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Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
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Barefoot Contessa
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Battle Kaiju Series 1: Ultraman vs Red King
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Comments Blu-Ray set collecting every episode of any Ultraman series where the antagonist Red King appears.
Big George Foreman
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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
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Comments Exploitation film set during the Tokugawa shogunate.
Caged
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Cold Eyes of Fear
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Creepshow
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Damned Don’t Cry
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Dangerous When Wet
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Dead and Buried
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Duet for One
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Evil Dead Rise
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Girlish Number
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Comments Darkly comic anime series about an aspiring anime voice actress who gets cast in an dysfunctional anime production.
Hollywood Werewolf
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Irreversible
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K-19: The Widowmaker
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Knights of the Zodiac
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Comments This is the live action film staring Famke Jannsen & Sean Bean based on the manga “Saint Seiya” (and which basically only ran in theaters for 3 days) – as part of Toei’s latest effort to despirately get people outside of Japan and Latin America to like Saint Saiya.
Lighthouse
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Lupin the 3rd: Angel Tactics
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Comments The 2005 Lupin the Third TV special, involving Lupin III having to steal something from Area 51.
Mallrats (Arrow)
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Marriage
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Mazinkaiser VS The Great General of Darkness
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Comments 2003 Mazinger Z OVA (direct-to-video) series, focusing on Mazinger’s battle against the Mycenae Empire.
Medabots Medarot
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Comments The Japanese version of Medabots.
Mickey and Friends: 10 Classic Shorts
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Comments Includes Mr. Duck Steps Out, Winter Storage, Pluto’s Party, Pluto and the Gopher, Mickey’s Trailer, Pluto’s Sweater, Boat Builders, Tugboat Mickey, The Band Concert, and Lonesome Ghosts. Blaine: Be aware that this DVD has a 1.78:1 aspect ratio but these shorts were originally released in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Mission: Impossible
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Mission: Impossible 2
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My Isekai Life
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Comments Another Isekai anime series.
National Lampoon’s Vacation
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Nature: Niagara Falls
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Old Man and the Sea
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Our House
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Pasolini 101 (Criterion Collection)
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Project A-Ko 4: Final
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Comments The final chapter of the main Project A-Ko series.
Secret of Santa Vittoria
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Skeleton Knight in Another World
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Comments Isekai anime where the main character has the form of a skeleton knight.
Unleashed
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Comments Martial arts film about an underground fighter who ends up in a fight to save his mentor’s martial arts school.
Waterworld (Arrow)
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White Buffalo (Kino-Lorber)
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Will Penny (Kino-Lorber)
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you are going to limit yourself to only one of the Mission: Impossible films on 4K, Brian DePalma’s first outing is a pretty good one to go with (though I find M:I-2 to be a guilty pleasure). Otherwise, if you watched Metabots on Saturday mornings back in the day, I’d recommend picking up the SD-BD collection from Discotek media.” Blaine says, “nothing really jumps out at me, though I do enjoy the original Mission: Impossible and the original Vacation.”