| Armed Girl’s Maciavellism | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fanservice heavy action anime series. | ||||||||
| Art of Crime | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Borderline (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Captain Planet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes both Captain Planet and the Planeteers and The New Adventures of Captain Planet. There is no mention of the live action short with Don Cheadle. | ||||||||
| Career Opportunities | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cheyenne | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cruel Sea (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Foul Play | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Happy End | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Heartland | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hunt | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hysteria! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the comedy-drama series about a high school Satanic metal band in the 1980s. Amazon is listing this release as HD-DVD – it has to be a misprint of DVD or 4K Ultra HD, as the HD DVD format is defunct and has been for over a decade. | ||||||||
| Jakoman and Tetsu | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese crime thriller from Kenji Fukusatsu, based on screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, about conflict in the fishing business in Hokkaido. | ||||||||
| Jean de Florette | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring: Two Films by Claude Berri (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| L’enfer aka Torment | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lady With a Sword | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Film from Shaw Brothers – one of the few Wuxia films of the ’70s and ’80s to be directed by a woman (Kao Pao-shu) with a woman also in the lead role (Lily Ho). Lily Ho plays a woman out to avenge the murder of her sister, only to learn that the man she’s arranged to be married to is the prime suspect. | ||||||||
| Lion’s Game | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Locked | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Manon of the Spring (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sneakers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tombstone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ultraman Z | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The second of the Reiwa era Ultraman TV series. | ||||||||
| Yakuza Wives | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | 1986 crime thriller by director Hideo Gosha (Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron) | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My UHD pick this week is Sneakers – while I like Tombstone a lot, it’s previously gotten a UHD release, so I don’t feel the need to go for the Steelbook version (and also I might like Sneakers more). Otherwise, I’m interested in picking up Lady With A Sword this week – these new Shaw Brothers release have been great.” Blaine says, “I’m also going with Sneakers, an underrated little gem.”
As a nerd and recovering long-time IT security professional, I cannot recommend Sneakers enough.
Sneakers is excellent, but I would also recommend Tombstone if you haven’t seen it yet.
For my money, the best Western out there. I said what I said. Unforgiven stans can come at me.