| 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime Fanservice-Heavy comedy series about a guy who has a bit of a weird curse – he is going to have 100 girls fall in love with him, and he has to juggle these relationships and to help make sure everyone gets along. | ||||||||
| 10th Victim (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| 4:44 Last Days on Earth | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Apothecary Diaries | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The back half of the first season of the series. | ||||||||
| Black Sheep | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bobbie Joe and the Outlaw (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Brutalist | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bullet for Joey | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Choose Me (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Daredevils and Ode to Gallantry: Two Venom Mob Films | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Two films directed by Chang Cheh and starring Lu Feng, Chiang Sheng, Philip Kwok, Sun Chien, Lo Mang, and Wai Pak (the stars of Five Deadly Venoms). | ||||||||
| Delicatessen | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Desperado (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Diary of a Chambermaid | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Glass Web 3D | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Here Comes a New Challenger: Championship Edition | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A documentary about Street Fighter II. Alex: I helped fund this on Kickstarter. | ||||||||
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Magilla Gorilla Show | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Memoir of a Snail | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mexico Trilogy (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico | ||||||||
| Mickey 17 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Moana 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Monogram Wester Matinee | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Mississippi Rhythm, Western Renegades, and Crashing Thru. | ||||||||
| Mother, Couch | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Final Sacrifice | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Night Moves (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: For the record, the release of this Gene Hackman film was planned and announced several months prior to his recent passing. | ||||||||
| Night of the Creeps | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| One Piece | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Private Dancer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Riff Raff | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shaw Brothers Classics | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Swordswomen Three, The Twelve Gold Medallions, The Black Enforcer, Duel for Gold, Finger of Doom, Na Cha and the Seven Devils, Shadow Girl, Swordsman at Large, The Black Tavern, The Young Avenger, and Crazy Nuts of Kung Fu. | ||||||||
| Star Trek: Lower Decks | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tiger | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Dramatic film set during the Japanese occupation of Korea during the WWII, about a hunter tasked by a Japanese governor into hunting the last tiger in Korea. | ||||||||
| Tommy Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Touki Bouki | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trailer Park Boys Presents Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Undead Unluck | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series adapting a currently running manga in Weekly Shonen Jump, where one of the leads has a curse where anything she touches dies due to sheer bad luck, and she ends up teaming up with a guy who is cursed with the ability to regenerate from absolutely any injury – together they fight monsters! | ||||||||
| Venom | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m biased where the Here Comes a New Challenger documentary is concerned, but either way, I think it’s worth picking up. Otherwise, I’m going with the Mexico Trilogy – with 100 Girlfriends Who Really^4 Like You as my anime pick (if you didn’t pick up part 1 of Apothecary Diaries) – it’s farsical in a way that I think makes the premise work.” Blaine says, “I’m going with Star Trek: Lower Decks. While seasons 1-2 were uneven in my opinion, it became something pretty great after that.”
Moana 2 was…a movie. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t grab me like the first movie. My wife, much more the musician, said the music was mediocre and I agree. None of the tunes were memorable like the first movie (How Far I’ll Go, You’re Welcome, Shiny, etc.). This was a similar complaint we had with Wish. Now, the movie is gorgeous. The water animation is truly stunning. The voice cast is doing great work (Johnson is phoning it in, however). I respect Disney for casting race-appropriate voice actors for the roles and not stunt casting every role (looking at you Illumination).
If you spotted the plot hole in the finale, stick around for the mid-credits scene. It answers that and sets up #3.
I’m also putting Lower Decks on my wish list. Everything about that series was delightful. I’m working through the comics which are just as good.
Those comics are awesome, but what can you expect with Ryan North. He’s doing One World Under Doom and is actually making a good case for Doom-led Fascism right now.
I mean, we’re sliding into Fascism now. Might as well have a genius at the helm instead of spoiled rich boy with a room temperature IQ.
If someone is acting against you, you want them to be incompetent.
Doom is the nightmare scenario because if he’s acting against you, you’re probably already lost.
“Room temperature IQ”
You meant that in Celsius, right?