Weekly New Releases – December 31, 2024

Across 110th Street
Amazon
Ambulance
Amazon
App
Amazon
Apple
Amazon
Aware of the Wolf
Amazon
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men
Amazon
Battleship Potemkin
Amazon
Beast Within (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Belly of an Architect
Amazon
Bent
Amazon
Big Attack – Combat Heroes of WWII
Amazon
Billion Dollar Brain
Amazon
Black Eye
Amazon
Black Klansman
Amazon
Blood and Lace (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Calamity Jane and Same Bass
Amazon
Cherry 2000
Amazon
Cop
Amazon
Crime of Passion
Amazon
Criminal Law
Amazon
Cutting Edge
Amazon
Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold
Amazon
Day of the Outlaw
Amazon
Days of Heaven
Amazon
Different Man
Amazon
Doors
Amazon
Dr. Stone
Amazon
Elmer Gantry
Amazon
Escape Plan: The Extractors
Amazon
Extremities
Amazon
Eye for an Eye
Amazon
Favor
Amazon
FBI Files
Amazon
Fist and Faith
Amazon
Fled
Amazon
Fugitive Kind
Amazon
Gor
Amazon
Group
Amazon
Hatari!
Amazon
Heat
Amazon
Hercules Returns
Amazon
How to Get Away with Murder
Amazon
Internal Affairs
Amazon
Irreversible
Amazon
Italian Job (1969)
Amazon
Killer is Loose
Amazon
King and Four Queens
Amazon
Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Amazon
Comments “Release date coming soon”
Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Extended Preview
Amazon
Man on a Ledge
Amazon
Man Who Loved Women
Amazon
Comments Directed by Francois Truffaut
Miracle Mile
Amazon
Misfits
Amazon
Comments Starring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe
Monte Walsh
Amazon
Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
Amazon
Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Amazon
Narrow Margin
Amazon
Night and Day (1946)
Amazon
Night Full of Rain
Amazon
Nocturne
Amazon
Panic in Year Zero
Amazon
Patty Hearst
Amazon
Phantom of the Opera (1929 re-release)
Amazon
Pope of Greenwich Village
Amazon
Pray for Death
Amazon
Comments One of Sho Kusugi’s ninja films he starred in with Cannon Films.
Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Amazon
Rage of Honor
Amazon
Comments Another of Sho Kusugi’s martial arts films (and one of the few where he didn’t play a Ninja.
RED
Amazon
Return of Captain Invincible
Amazon
Rick Steves’ Europe
Amazon
Rocky
Amazon
Saddle Club
Amazon
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Other Holiday Hallucinations
Amazon
Snake Eyes
Amazon
Soul Men
Amazon
Spanish Main
Amazon
Stargate SG1
Amazon
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop and Boiling Point
Amazon
Comments “Beat” Takeshi Kitano’s first two films he directed (and also starred in), both gritty crime thrillers, in a very different direction from his reputation at that time as a comedian (both as part of the comedy duo “Beat” and as the host of Takeshi’s Castle).
Uktena: The Horned Monstrosity
Amazon
Comments An extremely low budget American Kaiju film.
Who’ll Stop the Rain?
Amazon
Wicked
Amazon
Comments “Release date coming soon”
Wild Robot
Amazon
Woman in Red
Amazon
XXX
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Nothing this week particularly grabs me – maybe the one of the two Sho Kusugi Cannon Films movies.” Blaine says, “I would go for Stargate SG1 if you don’t have it already.”

3 replies on “Weekly New Releases – December 31, 2024”

  1. The 1969 The Italian Job is a classic for a reason and has what is possibly the best cliffhanger ending in movie history.

    If you have any doubts that Marilyn Monroe was indeed a fantastic actress, you should watch Misfits . I will say that, for me, it was a tough movie to get through. It’s a good movie, but it is not a fun movie like anything else she’s been in.

    And I still wish this thing had a preview before you post a comment (:

  2. The Pope of Greenwich Village is an overlooked film from the 80s, no masterpiece maybe, but with great acting and atmosphere. Everyone should see the 1925 Phantom of the Opera (but if you’re here you probably have).

    The 1988 Patty Hearst film isn’t particularly good, but it features a solid central performance and does provide the basic facts (more or less) of the case.

    And then there’s Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Other Holiday Hallucinations. I almost saw the titular classic in the late 80s. I was staying with one sister and waiting for my other sister’s husband to pick me up on Christmas Eve so we could do an eight-hour drive to my parents’ place. He arrived halfway through. I doubt it’s much of a loss, but that fact that this film, which is as old as I am, remains a weird cultural touchstone suggests…. something.

  3. I believe Wicked (Part One) does drop on digital on the 31st (all my theater nerd friends are pumped). I don’t know if I want to watch it or if I’ll just binge parts one and two together in 2025. I’ve read the book and seen the stage production, so I’m in no hurry to catch it.

    RED was one of those movies that had no right to be that much fun. The entire cast is loving the hell out of what they’re doing.

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