| Beetlejuice 2 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blazing Saddles | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| California (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cattle Drive (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| CC40 (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Criterion Collection. Includes 8 1/2, Tokyo Story, All That Jazz, Bicycle Thieves, Repo Man, Naked, Jules and Jim, Being There, Weekend, Yi Yi, The Night of the Hunter, Pickpocket, Sweet Smell of Success, On the Waterfront, Do the Right Thing, Ratcatcher, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Mirror, Barry Lyndon, Safe, Seconds, His Girl Friday, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Y tu mama tambien, My Own Private Idaho, Love and Basketball, Night of the Living Dead, Ace in the Hole, 3 Women, The Red Shoes, Down By Law, La Cienaga, Wanda, House, Sullivan’s Travels, The Battle of Algiers, A Woman Under the Influence, Cleo from 5 to 7, Persona, and In the Mood for Love. | ||||||||
| Christmas Carol (2024) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Jefferson Mays | ||||||||
| Dark Crystal | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (2024) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | BET remake of the 1991 original | ||||||||
| Double Identity | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dreaming Boy is a Realist | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic Comedy anime about a high school girl who starts to fall for the guy she had previously rejected through Middle School. | ||||||||
| Eiger Sanction | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ex Machina | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| For All Mankind (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Frank Capra at Columbia Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes So This Is Love, The Way of the Strong, That Certain Thing, Submarine, The Younger Generation, Flight, Ladies of Leisure, Rain or Shine, Dirigible, The Miracle Woman, Platinum Blonde, American Madness, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Forbidden, Lady for a Day, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can’t Take It With You, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. | ||||||||
| Funny Girl (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Godzilla Minus One | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The first and (to date) only Godzilla film to win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. | ||||||||
| Great War (2019) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| House of the Dragon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| In the Mood for Love (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Killer’s Game | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Labyrinth | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Laurel and Hardy: Year Two | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little Rascals | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little Women (1994) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lost Highway (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Man Who Had Power Over Women | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| North by Northwest | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: One of Hitchcock’s best movies, and that’s saying something. At 2 hours and 16 minutes, it’s also Hitchcock’s longest movie. | ||||||||
| Planet Earth Trilogy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Play Misty For Me | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Reagan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Reincarnated as a Sword | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rush | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sally of the Sawdust | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Seven Chances and Sherlock Jr. (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Buster Keaton | ||||||||
| Simple Plan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Skincare | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Smile 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Speak No Evil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| SpongeBob SquarePants | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Super Spies and Secret Lies | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Collection of 3 crime and suspense thrillers from Shaw Brothers from the mid-60s and set in the (then) present day. Includes The Golden Buddha (A man picks up the wrong suitcase in the airport – one with a gold Buddha inside – and gets dragged into a web of criminal conspiracy), Angel with the Iron Fists (A woman with a suitcase full of stolen diamonds makes her way into a criminal gang), and The Singing Thief (A thief retires and becomes a lounge singer, only for someone to start using his signature methods, forcing him to track down the thief). | ||||||||
| Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Terminator | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tomie (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Horror film based on a manga series by Junji Ito (Uzumaki). | ||||||||
| Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Martial arts film – set as a semi-period piece, where a underground fighter is pursued by a gang boss and his men into Kowloon Walled City. | ||||||||
| Two Mules for Sister Sara | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| ZAZ: The Collection! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Airplaine, Top Secret, and The Naked Gun | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you can afford it, get the CC40 collection. If you can’t, and can play 4K movies, go with North By Northwest. If you can’t play 4K movies, I’m actually going to pick Tomie.” Blaine says, “of those I’ve seen, it’s the CC40 or North by Northwest releases. Of those I know only by reputation, I would go with Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.”
The 4K version of Star Trek: TMP is gorgeous. Yes, the movie plods along, but the exterior shots of the Enterprise are worth the time.
I have to agree with Matt Jeffries, the interior of the ship does look like a Hilton Hotel.
And those exterior shots are a significant portion of the film’s running time.
(I actually rather like much of TMP)
If you haven’t seen it, Godzilla Minus One is either the best since the original, or, possibly ever.
It would be interesting to know what 4K adds to Blazing Saddles. The title shot, I suppose, would look great.