| Amagi Brilliant Park | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on novels from the creator of Full Metal Panic, about a young man who ends up trying to save a failing amusement park. | ||||||||
| Apprentice | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Arthur Dong Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Attack on Titan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ballad of Josie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beloved Rogue (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Below | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blue Bloods | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cast a Giant Shadow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Claim | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Conclave | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Conversation | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This is easily my favourite Francis Ford Coppola film, starring Gene Hackman. | ||||||||
| Dalgliesh | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Darling in the Franxx | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The in retrospect somewhat contraversial anime collaboration between A-1 Pictures and Studio Trigger (which also ended up helping to get us the novel Iron Widow, so that’s a plus) | ||||||||
| Demolition Man (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Digimon: The Movies | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains Digimon Adventure, Our War Game, and Hurricane Touchdown | ||||||||
| Eastern Condors (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Action film directed by Sammo Hung, set during the Vietnam War, and inspired by gritty WWII action films like The Dirty Dozen | ||||||||
| Evil Does Not Exist | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Faculty | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Far and Away | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fear Thy Neighbor | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| For Love or Money (1963, Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Friends | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fantasy anime series about an immortal (age-wise) elf, retracing the steps of the journey she and her past companions took to save the world from the Devil King, now with a new set of companions so she can speak with the spirit of the leader of her past group. | ||||||||
| Ginger in the Morning | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Heavy Traffic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hellboy: The Crooked Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the second attempted reboot of Hellboy, this time going for a lower-budget version, set in the 1950s. | ||||||||
| Holdovers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Immaculate | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Joker 2 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Joker: Folie a Deux | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kickboxer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kingdoms of Ruin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Very gritty fantasy anime. | ||||||||
| Land That Time Forgot | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Rifleman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Video Store | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mallrats (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mean One | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This looks like the kind of horror movie that the Dr. Seuss estate’s lawyers would want to know about. | ||||||||
| Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness, and the Hare Krishnas | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mulholland Falls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Out Come the Wolves | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Outpost | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Paris, Texas | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Piece by Piece | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pope of Greenwich Village | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Quality Assurance in Another World | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| SEAL Team | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Searchers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Seinfeld | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Severence | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sleep | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Small Things Like These | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Smile 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sound! Euphonium | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series from Kyoto Animation about a high school band. | ||||||||
| Stir of Echoes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Talk of the Town | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Terrifier 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tokyo Ghoul | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Transformers One | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vermeil in Gold | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fanservice heavy fantasy anime, about a student at a magic school who ends up making a contract with a succubus. | ||||||||
| Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| You’re Not There | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime film crossing over three Yu-Gi-Oh series – the original, Yu-Gi-Oh GX, and Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is my pick of the week – anime or otherwise – it’s one of the best anime of the past 5 years, and uses the framework of the fantasy quest narrative to tell an engaging story about grief and the passage of time. I’d put it firmly on my ‘Everyone Needs To Watch This’ list.” Blaine says, “I would say Seinfeld is the most significant release of this week, even if big chunks of it are not aging well.”
Hellboy: The Crooked Man had a creepy hillbilly vibe, but I wasn’t impressed with much in the way of story telling.
Transformers One was fun. It’s a low bar, but it was one of the more fun Transformers movies.
There’s an Arthur Dong collection! He is an often-overlooked maker of quality documentaries.
Transformers One was surprisingly good. Whoever cut the trailer should be fired.
Severance was a head trip. Very Black Mirror-esque. I’m glad Apple released it on DVD (now how about the rest of For All Mankind?)