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| After Hours | |||||||||
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| Ahsoka | |||||||||
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| Alien: Romulus | |||||||||
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| All the Queen’s Men | |||||||||
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| Ancient Aliens | |||||||||
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| Bluey | |||||||||
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| Bulley for Joey | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring Edward G. Robinson | ||||||||
| Cadillac Man | |||||||||
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| Carrie (1976) | |||||||||
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| Cats Don’t Dance | |||||||||
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| Cold Case | |||||||||
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| Crimson Peak (Arrow) | |||||||||
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| Critic | |||||||||
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| Crocodile Dundee | |||||||||
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| Crush | |||||||||
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| Day After Tomorrow | |||||||||
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| Daybreakers | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring Ethan Hawke, WIllem Dafoe, and Sam Neill | ||||||||
| Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Swordsmith Village Arc | |||||||||
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| Doc of Chucky | |||||||||
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| Dunwich Horror (Arrow) | |||||||||
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| Exorcist | |||||||||
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| Galaxy Quest | |||||||||
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| Gift (2000) | |||||||||
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| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | |||||||||
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| Comments | John Sturges directs Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas | ||||||||
| Gushing Over Magical Girls | |||||||||
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| Comments | Fanservice heavy magical girl anime about a girl who is obsessively into Magical Girls, who ends up working for a villain organization. | ||||||||
| Hawkeye | |||||||||
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| Hell on Wheels | |||||||||
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| Holiday Short Films Collection | |||||||||
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| Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies!!? | |||||||||
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| Johnny Be Good | |||||||||
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| Kill Me Again | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring Val Kilmer and Michael Madsen | ||||||||
| King of the Underworld | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring Humphrey Bogart | ||||||||
| Knots Landing | |||||||||
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| Land That Time Forgot | |||||||||
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| Last Starfighter (Arrow) | |||||||||
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| Legends of the Fall | |||||||||
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| Limey | |||||||||
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| Loki | |||||||||
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| Mandalorian | |||||||||
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| Mill of the Stone Women (Arrow) | |||||||||
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| Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | |||||||||
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| Murder, She Wrote | |||||||||
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| Never Let Go | |||||||||
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| Nikita (2010) | |||||||||
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| Oklahoma Kid | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart | ||||||||
| Paris, Texas (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Poltergeist III | |||||||||
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| Pulp Fiction | |||||||||
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| Pumpkinhead | |||||||||
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| Red Dawn | |||||||||
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| Riders of the Range | |||||||||
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| Roaring Twenties | |||||||||
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| Comments | Raoul Walsh directs James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Priscilla Lane | ||||||||
| Rock Paper Scissors | |||||||||
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| Sahara (1984) | |||||||||
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| Scala!!! | |||||||||
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| Shaft (1971) | |||||||||
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| Shaun of the Dead | |||||||||
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| Sisters | |||||||||
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| South Park: The End of Obesity | |||||||||
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| Spenser: For Hire | |||||||||
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| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | |||||||||
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| State’s Attorney | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring John Barrymore | ||||||||
| Strike up the Band | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland | ||||||||
| Substance | |||||||||
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| Super Spies and Secret Lies | |||||||||
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| Swan Princess 12 Movie Limited Edition Gift Set | |||||||||
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| Sword | |||||||||
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| Taking of Pelham One Two Three | |||||||||
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| Talk of the Town | |||||||||
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| Teddy’s Christmas | |||||||||
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| To Me, The One Who Loved You / To Every You I’ve Loved Before | |||||||||
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| Comments | Two paired anime films based around a teenager, and the paths he takes when his parents divorce and which parent he ends up with. | ||||||||
| Train | |||||||||
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| Visit | |||||||||
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| Warriors | |||||||||
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| Watchmen: Chapter 2 | |||||||||
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| Watership Down | |||||||||
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| White Bird | |||||||||
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| Whitest Kids U’Know | |||||||||
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| Wild Robot | |||||||||
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| Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | |||||||||
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| You Can’t Get Away With Murder | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring Humphrey Bogart | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My 4K release for this week, among the numerous solid releases from Arrow, is The Last Starfighter. Otherwise not much else grabs me.” Blaine says, “for me, the top two choices are Galaxy Quest and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.”
Am I the only nerd/scifi person who didn’t like Galaxy Quest at all?
No. My wife wasn’t a fan. I was, but to each their own.
Watership Down is pure Gen X nightmare fuel, but it’s an excellent film. I read the book 5 or so years ago and the movie is a pretty faithful adaptation.
Ahsoka was good, but it could have been so much better. Bringing the characters from Rebels (including Thrawn) was a good idea…just executed in a mediocre way. The show felt like it was written by committee (a complaint that could be leveled at most of Disney’s Star Wars content).
This week bring some interesting cultish offerings, worth seeing if not necessarily owning:
After Hours (1985), a bizarre dark comedy from Scorsese. I doubt a synopsis could do it justice. Supposedly, he ran the rushes by De Palma, Gilliam, and Spielberg trying to figure out an ending.
The Warriors (1979) isn’t remotely as good, but it’s an interesting film that gets referenced in the oddest places: “Warriors…. come out to play….”
Shaft (1971): is Shaft. Should you see it if you haven’t? Damn right.
I had not heard of Scala!!! (2023), but a dive into it led to Hard Wood, a collection of Ed Wood’s little-seen pornographic films (his career after he stopped doing low-rent horror) and the lingering question of why the most-viewed Amazon pick after that is John Ford’s epic western The Searchers (1956) starring John Wayne.