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| Anora (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Comments | The latest winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards | ||||||||
| Asphalt | |||||||||
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| At War With the Army with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis | |||||||||
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| Bail Out | |||||||||
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| Behind Green Lights | |||||||||
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| Bullet for Joey | |||||||||
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| Classroom of the Elite | |||||||||
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| Clean and Sober | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: If you’ve ever wondered why Tim Burton was so sure Michael Keaton was a good fit for Batman, this movie is why. | ||||||||
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| Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff | |||||||||
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| Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe | |||||||||
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| Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage | |||||||||
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| Danger Point: The Road to Hell | |||||||||
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| Day of Reckoning | |||||||||
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| Death of a Unicorn | |||||||||
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| Dirty Harry | |||||||||
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| Dog Man | |||||||||
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| Friend | |||||||||
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| Full Metal Jacket | |||||||||
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| Gandhi | |||||||||
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| Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses | |||||||||
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| Last Breath | |||||||||
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| Naruto Shippuden | |||||||||
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| Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet | |||||||||
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| Night Train Murders | |||||||||
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| NOVA: Dino Birds | |||||||||
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| Paddington in Peru | |||||||||
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| Place Further Than the Universe | |||||||||
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| Comments | Anime series about a group of (modern) high school girls going on an expedition to Antartica | ||||||||
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| Pokemon Detective Pikachu | |||||||||
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| Posse | |||||||||
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| Prince of Broadway (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Rick and Morty: The Anime | |||||||||
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| Side Street | |||||||||
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| Springfield Rifle | |||||||||
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| Star Trek: Section 31 | |||||||||
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| Stranger | |||||||||
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| Stripes | |||||||||
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| Swept Away | |||||||||
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| Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead | |||||||||
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| Three the Hard Way | |||||||||
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| Twister | |||||||||
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| Unbreakable Boy | |||||||||
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| Urusei Yatsura | |||||||||
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| Comments | The back half of the modern adaptation of the Urusei Yatsura manga. | ||||||||
| V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets and Betrayal (Arrow) | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage, Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet, Stranger, Carlos, Burning Dog, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat, The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses, Danger Point: The Road to Hell, and XX: Beautiful Hunter. Many of these titles are also available individually for digital download. Alex: These were direct-to-video crime films made in Japan in the 80s and 90s. | ||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My anime pick for this week is A Place Further Than The Universe. It’s one of the best anime series (and possibly TV series in general) of the past decade, and it was previously only available for streaming on Crunchyroll. Otherwise, my UHD pick is Pale Rider, and my regular DVD pick is the V-Cinema boxed set from Arrow.” Blaine says, “of the titles I’ve seen, Full Metal Jacket is the front runner. Of the rest, Anora is the most appealing, having just won the Best Picture award. Those who have been reading this column for a while know what it means for a first release of a Star Trek product not to make my list.”
I saw Star Trek: Section 31. At least they tried something new and different.
They did. When it was first announced, it was announced as a series, and it only became a movie when Yeoh won the Oscar and her price went up. This did not feel like a movie to me. It felt like an early draft of the two hour pilot of a TV series, which needs a different narrative structure. One more pass on the script to change that job could have made a huge difference. By not taking it, the finished product felt like a substandard rush job to me.
Death of a Unicorn looks right up my alley. I love horror-comedy.
Stripes doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.
Section 31. Oh…man. What a waste of Yeoh. Shatner should be thanking them. Star Trek V is no longer the worst Trek film.