| 13 Frightened Girls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| All Dogs go to Heaven 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Society of Magical Negroes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Armenia, My Home | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Back to the Future | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bad Lieutenant | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bloodsport | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blue Velvet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Isekai anime series about a chef who gets ends up in a fantasy world with a special ability that allows him to cook whatever he wants without worrying about any of the more mundane ingredients. | ||||||||
| Chase (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chimera | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Condition Called Love | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Corner Gas | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| D-Day – 80th Anniversary | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Darkness of Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Death Machine (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Horror film from director Stephen Norrington (Blade) | ||||||||
| Doctor Who: Peter Davison | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: I put the season number in quotation marks because it’s Davison’s second season, but not the second season of the series. For the overall series, this is season 20. | ||||||||
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fellow Travelers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Founders Day | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ghost World | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Glory | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Happy Gilmore | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hour Before the Dawn (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Is the Order a Rabbit? | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Cute-Girls-Doing-Cute-Things Workplace comedy based around a restauraunt in a rural Japanese town. | ||||||||
| Judge Dredd (1995) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Magnificent Seven (1960) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Manifest | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mississippi River Sharks | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Marriage | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Old Dark House | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Old Oak | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Paths of Glory | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Directed by Stanley Kubrick | ||||||||
| Perfect Weapon (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Peter Pan (2003) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Platoon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Winner of Best Picture for 1986. It will be covered on 99 Years, 100 Films in October. | ||||||||
| Postal | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Princess Halle and the Jester | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pursued (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rango | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Return to Lonesome Dove | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Saigon (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Santa Jaws | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Seniors | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sexy Beast | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shadow Land | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shilioh: Complete 3 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Skyfall | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: Had you told me that a James Bond movie that effectively turns Bond into a combination of Bruce Wayne and Kevin McCallister would be one of my favourites in the franchise I’d have thought you were nuts, but here we are. | ||||||||
| Speed Racer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Stage of Twilight | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Streetwise | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This series is currently airing. | ||||||||
| Teen Wolf | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Three Musketeers – Part II: Milday | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Time Addicts | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Typhoon Club | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| War of the Wildcats | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wicked Little Letters | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Zotz! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going with the Magnificent Seven as my 4K release of the week, and Peter Davidson’s second season of Doctor Who as my general DVD release.” Blaine says, “I’d also advocate for Doctor Who, as well as Paths of Glory.”
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Ghost World would be my picks. That Terry Gilliam managed to make a film of the Hunter S. Thompson classic book is remarkable. That he made a masterpiece is incredible. Depp becomes Thompson, and the rest of the cast features a number of the famous and the notorious in supporting roles. Ghost World, meanwhile, is a must-see, possible the best film ever made from a graphic novel, with Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson (both still teens but proving their acting chops) and Steve Buscemi in a role based on a couple of people in the source material, and expanded. See them now if you never have.
Skyfall ranks among the finest of Bond films.
Blue Velvet is even less for all tastes than Fear and Loathing, but Lynch did produce an interesting film, much discussed in its day. Everyone I knew had some opinion of it.
The original Corner Gas remains one of the classic Canadian TV series. The animated series, which is what we have this month, has the original cast voicing the roles and the episodes I’ve watched hold up. Animation allows them to do some entertaining things with the original show’s quirky style and splashes of visual humour.
I’ve never heard of Santa Jaws the movie, although a do recall the very silly novelty song from the 70s by that name. William Castle’s 13 Frightened Girls sounds too ridiculous not to see at some point, but I doubt that it’s worth owning.
The American Society of Magical Negroes has a great concept, but the reviews have been uncertain about the results.
I wish we had more Civil War movies in the vein of Glory. Excellent film and launched Denzel Washington’s career.