| Basic Instinct | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bossa Nova 2000 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Brood | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Call of the Void | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chungking Express (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This is one of the most delightfully quirky movies I’ve ever seen. | ||||||||
| Clockwork Orange | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cyborg She | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Donovan’s Reef | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Full Metal Jacket | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Good German | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Great Yokai War: Guardians | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The sequel to Takeshi Miike’s “The Great Yokai War”. | ||||||||
| Heavens Above | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| In the Bedroom | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Informant | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Prequel anime to Fist of the North Star showing the rise of the main antagonist of the series – Raoh. | ||||||||
| Lioness | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Love Hurts | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Merry-Go-Round | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ninja Terminator | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: This is a Godfrey Ho Ninja Movie. Which means it’s two movies awkwardly stitched together, with interstitial footage involving a white guy fighting the “Ninja Empire” – and also receving redubbed phone calls from the characters from the other two movies (generally on a Garfield phone). | ||||||||
| Sands of Iwo Jima | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Some Other Woman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek: Lower Decks | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tarpon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Unbreakable Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Working Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Outside of Chungking Express, nothing calls out to me this week.” Blaine says, “I will wholeheartedly endorse Chungking Express at every opportunity.”
Chungking Express, by all means, but two other, even rather bleaker cinematic masterpieces stand out. A Clockwork Orange, of course, and Full Metal Jacket. The latter features an incredible and disturbing supporting performance by Vincent D’Onofrio, more recently known as the Kingpin.
Not to repeat the comment above verbatim, but Full Metal Jacket is a classic and A Clockwork Orange is one of my three Top 1 movies. Not that both haven’t had five billion releases already.
I hate to admit it, but I have never seen A Clockwork Orange. I probably know most of the beats from references, but never sat down and watched it.
Might be something to do while the US burns down around me.
Or get the complete Lower Decks and lose myself in that.
First time I watched Clockwork Orange I was surprised that it was Malcolm McDowell. I’d start there, because after that you can cheer yourself up with Lower Decks.