Weekly New Releases – July 18, 2023

52 Pick-Up
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Annabelle
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Annabelle Comes Home
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Audie Murphy Collection II (Kino-Lorber)
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Comments Includes Destry, Kansas Raiders, and Sierra
Beetlejuice
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Before We Die
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Blade Runner 2049
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Blonde Ice
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Breathless (Criterion Collection)
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DC Showcase: Constantine – The House of Mystery
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Director’s Spotlight: Neil LaBute 4 Film Collection
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Comments Includes Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things, and Your Friends and Neighbors.
Doctor Sleep
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End of the World (Kino-Lorber)
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Father of the Bride (2022)
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Flash (2023)
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Fool’s Paradise
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Gloria
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Hugo
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Land of the Pharaohs
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Last of Us
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LEGO Batman Movie
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LEGO Movie
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Les Miserables (2012)
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Love Again
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Medaka Box
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Comments Adaptation of a manga from Shonen Jump created by Nisioisin (creator of Bakemonogatari and its sequels), and animated by Gainax when it was late in life (after Hideaki Anno and the founders of Studio Trigger had left) – the manga is focusing on a High School Student Council, where several of the requests dropped into the school’s suggestion box end up revealing the presence of a sinister conspiracy within the school.
Michael (Kino-Lorber)
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Moonhaven
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Nevada Smith (Kino-Lorber)
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Number One with a Bullet (Kino-Lorber)
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Comments Cannon Films cop movie, starring Billie Dee Williams.
Paddington 2
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Polite Society
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Porky’s
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Ranown Westerns (Criterion Collection)
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Comments Includes The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station.
Roald Dahl’s The Witches
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
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South Park
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Super Sentai: Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
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Comments The Super Sentai series that was adapted into Power Rangers SPD.
The Devil is a Part-Timer!
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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
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Comments Spinoff series of the third arc of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Diamond is Unbreakble), focusing on manga creator Kishibe Rohan.
To Live and Die in L.A.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New
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Comments A new adaptation of the environmentalism-themed Magical Girl series. The earlier adaptation was released in the US by 4Kids as “Mew Mew Power” (and with the usual 4Kids attempts to remove all things Japanese from the series).
When Will Ayumu Make His Move?
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Comments Romantic Comedy anime based around a high school Shogi club.
Your Honor
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Zombie Night
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “On the anime side of things, I thought Tokyo Mew Mew New was actually pretty good, and would consider it worth picking up. Otherwise, for my UHD pick, I’m going with Hugo.” Blaine says, “I’m going with Blade Runner 2049, a very worthy sequel by a new creative team, which is a rare thing.”