| Alien Outlaw (Kino Cult #2) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Andy Griffith Show | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes 4 episodes | ||||||||
| Angry Fist / Iron Kung Fu | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This looks almost but not quite like a bootleg release. | ||||||||
| Beast From Haunted Cave / Ski Troop Attack | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Black Sabbath (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the AIP version of the movie. | ||||||||
| Blade and Soul | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime based on the Korean MMORPG. | ||||||||
| Blue Collar | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Boys | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Caddy Hack | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Christopher Strong | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Clear Cut | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cujo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cujo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dark Power (Kino Cult #3) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dark Winds | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Deadgirl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Decision to Leave | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Devil Doll | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Exorcist | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Comes with a booklet, art cards, reproduction posters and lobby cards, | ||||||||
| Exorcist: Believer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fall | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fascination | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fire That Took Her | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Godzilla (1998) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Golden Years of Television: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Great | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Happy Valley Year 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hercules: Mighty Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Hercules Unchained, Hercules Against the Moon Men, Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon, Colossus and the Amazon Queen, Hercules Against the Mongols, Hercules and the Masked rider, Fury of Hercules, and Vulcan. | ||||||||
| Iron Fisted Monk (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Martial arts film from Golden Harvest in 1977 starring Sammo Hung. | ||||||||
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| John Wayne Early Movies Collection: Before “The Duke” | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes His Private Secretary, Desert Commando, The Hurricane Express, and The Shadow of the Eagle | ||||||||
| Le Mepris (Contempt) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | ||||||||
| Lips of Blood | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lorna the Exorcist (Kino Cult #1) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Meg 2-Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Meg and The Meg 2: The Trench | ||||||||
| Meg 2: The Trench | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Muppets Take Manhattan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Murdoch Mysteries | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nightmare | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Others (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Overlord IV | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Paramount Scares | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Rosemary’s Baby, Pet Sematary, Smile, Crawl, and a fifth title that they are not revealing in the promotional materials. | ||||||||
| Red Dragon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ride On | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ring 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the US version. | ||||||||
| Rock Around the Clock | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Save the Last Dance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Saw X | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shaw Brothers Classics | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains Killer Clans, The Shaolin Avengers, The Web of Death, The Vengeful Beauty, Death Duel, Life Gamble, Soul of the Sword, Deadly Breaking Sword, Clan of the White Lotus, Shaolin Abbot, Shaolin Rescuers | ||||||||
| Spirited Away: Live on Stage | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Stage adaptation of the Hayao Miyazaki animated film. | ||||||||
| Superhero Kindergarten: Weirdo World | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Swan Princess: Far Longer Than Forever | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tombs of the Blind Dead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Toxic Avenger Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes all four Toxic Avenger movies on both Blu-Ray and Ultra HD | ||||||||
| Two Small Bodies (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| V for Vengeance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vampires and Other Stereotypes Visual Vengeance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Zelensky | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “On the non-4K front, I’m going for the new re-release of The Exorcist if you don’t have it already (and you can’t watch the recent 4K release), and can’t afford the Shaw Brothers Vol. 3 Collection). Otherwise, on the 4K UHD front, I’m going Muppets Take Manhattan.” Blaine says, “I would also recommend The Exorcist.”
The Boys is brilliant, if aggressively not for all tastes. We have two this week which, while not masterpieces, are significant in film history. It! The Terror from Beyond Space is one of the inspirations for Alien, and Rock Around the Clock is one of the better teen “Rock ‘n’ Roll flicks from the 50s. These things were cheaply made and laughably dumb but they gave teens in East Podunk a chance to see their new heroes on the screen, and it brought rock ‘n’ roll a wider audience.
I haven’t seen Zelensky but it’s clearly historically important for weightier reasons.
“Aggressively not for all tastes” is an apt description. It’s an excellent commentary on society and a realistic look at what superheroes would actually be like.