| All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Black Tight Killers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A sort of Magical-surrealist action film from 1966 about a Japanese war photographer who has to fight a group of ninja women who use throwing blades disguised as records to rescue a stewardess who he’s fallen for. | ||||||||
| Boys in the Boat | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bridge | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | One of those isekai anime where the premise is literally the title. | ||||||||
| Contagion | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Divinity | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dream Scenario | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime action series based around multiverse theory (in the variety shown in the Star Trek: TNG episode Paralells), from the creator of Tenchi Muyo. | ||||||||
| Extreme Dinosaurs | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | 90s kids animated series. | ||||||||
| Fear and Desire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This is Stanley Kubrick’s first and weakest feature film. Kubrick personally bought and destroyed every copy known to exist during his lifetime, comparing it to “a child’s crayon scratching on his mother’s fridge”. It is interesting to watch for film nerds familiar with Kubrick in the sense that it is filled with experimentation about breaking conventions, but (in my opinion) for every experiment that works, there are two that fail. Kubrick is probably my favourite director of all time, but this film is not why that is true. | ||||||||
| Fear the Walking Dead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Vice Squad, Black Tuesday, and Nightmare | ||||||||
| Gay USA: Snapshots of 1970s LGBT Resistance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hand Maid May | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about a Juvenile Delinquent who gets a miniature version of a girl replacing his hand (and it’s a comedy series) | ||||||||
| Hush | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| I’ve Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Another Isekai anime series where the premise is the title. | ||||||||
| Independent | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Infinitum: Subject Unknown | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jackie Brown | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lisa Frankenstein | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little Darlings | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Miranda’s Victim | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Monk (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Moon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | South Korean suspense film based around a disaster on a manned South Korean flight to the moon. | ||||||||
| Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Next Goal Wins | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Night They Came Home | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ocean Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| One Ranger | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Orphan Black | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Out of Darkness | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Payback | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pokemon: Tales of Lugia | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pokemon: The Arceus Chronicles | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Puss n Boots Around the World | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Film from Toei animation featuring their mascot character. | ||||||||
| Raiders of the Living Dead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rainbow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime prison film. | ||||||||
| Roaring Twenties (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Smallville | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Southern Comfort | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Space Sheriff Sharivan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Tokusatsu series that is a sequel to Space Sheriff Gavan. | ||||||||
| Three Muskateers: Part 1: D’Artagnan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| V/H/S 85 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wonka | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Dual! Paralell Trouble Adventure cataches my interet after seeing various ads for it back in the day, but nothing else really grabs me.” Blaine says, “of those I’ve seen, I’d recommend The Roaring Twenties as one of the best gangster films of that genre’s heyday. I keep hearing wonderful things about Orphan Black, and really should get around to checking it out.”
We reviewed Orphan Black back during its run. It is one of the great SF TV series, with a few weak links in the middle seasons where they had to retool a bit because they (1) realized they had to make the story a bit bigger so that it could go further and (2) gradually embraced the Toronto main setting that they had tried to obscure, needlessly, in the early seasons. Tatiana Maslany gets full credit, of course, but the rest of the cast is excellent.
I haven’t seen the Galaxy Quest doc, but I suspect it would be worthwhile.
Little Darlings may be from 1980, but it’s very 70s. No masterpiece, but an interesting curiosity of the “they wouldn’t make it like that anymore” variety. It handles its exploitive premise better than you might expect.
I haven’t seen the latest V/H/S, but even fans of the series seem to be finding this one a little tired, and the stories have always been a mixed bag at best.
Orphan Black was awesome, and after I watched Tatiana play a character playing a different character she played, but do it in a way the audience wasn’t supposed to realize but could detect after they knew was something I feel deserves awards.