Weekly New Releases – January 28, 2025

Apothecary Diaries
Amazon
Comments Mystery drama set in the courts of a fictitious Chinese emperor, following a teenage girl who has been trained as an Apothecary. Season 2 is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
Babygirl
Amazon
Blaxpoitation (1972-1973)
Amazon
Comments Includes The Legend of Black Charley, The Soul of Black Charley, Superfly T.N.T, and Detroit 9000.
Breed Apart
Amazon
Bronx Tale: One Man Show
Amazon
Cannibal! The Musical
Amazon
Cash Calls Hell
Amazon
Comments Japanese film noir from director Hideo Gosha
Chris Claremont’s X-Men
Amazon
Congo
Amazon
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters
Amazon
Dangers in My Heart
Amazon
Death Laughs Among Us: The Complete Works of John Schnall
Amazon
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Amazon
Fire Inside
Amazon
Fool For Love
Amazon
Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles
Amazon
Gabriel Over the White House
Amazon
Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers
Amazon
Girl with the Needle
Amazon
House
Amazon
Houseboat (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Hundreds of Beavers
Amazon
Comments Alex: Slapstick comedy inspired by the Looney Tunes cartoons and Buster Keaton films – I watched this on streaming, and felt that at 110 minutes without the brevity of those works it ends up wearing out its welcome.
Inserts
Amazon
Keep
Amazon
Comments Michael Mann film adapting the novel by F. Paul Wilson.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Amazon
Land That Time Forgot
Amazon
Last Embrace
Amazon
Last Stand at Saber River
Amazon
Last Witch Hunter
Amazon
Little Sweetheart
Amazon
Man With no Past
Amazon
Moon of the Wolf (1972)
Amazon
NATURE: Attenborough’s Life Journey
Amazon
Nine Perfect Strangers
Amazon
Ninja Scroll
Amazon
Comments Re-release of the classic anime film.
Orca (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Promise of Time Travel
Amazon
Regarding Us
Amazon
Sea of Love (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Shout at the Devil (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Sliver
Amazon
Teacher’s Pet (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Underworld Beauty
Amazon
Comments Japanese crime noir from Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter), about two diamond thieves trying to get the stones from a heist after one of them had gotten out of jail.
Valkyrie
Amazon
Vienna Blood
Amazon
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Amazon
Whiteout
Amazon
Winchester ’73 (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Apothecary Diaries is an excellent series – well written with great characters and some fun court intrigue. I give it a full recommendation. On the 4K front, I’m going with The Keep.” Blaine says, “I would go with the complete series of House.”