Weekly New Releases – May 20, 2025

American Experience: Forgotten Hero – Walter White and the NAACP
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Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
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Bitten
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Blaxploitation Classics
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Comments Includes Coffy, Black Caesar, Hell Up in Harlem, Across 110th Street, Truck Turner, and Sheba, Baby.
Blood for Dracula
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Comments The Andy Warhol produced German horror film, part of a duology with Flesh for Frankenstein.
Bob Trevino Likes It
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Buster Keaton Silent Classics Collection
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Comments Includes College, The Navigator, and Seven Chances.
Canary Murder Case
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Comments Starring William Powell as Philo Vance
Date a Live V
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Comments Fifth season of the romantic dramedy science fiction anime series based on a series of light novels.
Dead Mail
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Doctor Who: The Savages
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Comments A first Doctor story, which fits between The Gunfighters and The War Macines
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (2024)
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Fade to Black
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Father Brown
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Flesh for Frankenstein
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Girls Without Shame
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Gods’ Games We Play
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Comments Anime adaptation of a light novel series involving mortals caught in a game between gods.
Godzilla/Kong 10 Film Cinematic Anthology
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Comments Includes King Kong (2005), King Kong vs. Godzilla, King Kong Escapes, Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Kong: Skull Island, Son of Kong, King Kong (1933), Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, and Godzilla (2014).
Happy Valley
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Criterion Collection)
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Hunt the Wicked
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Insomniacs After School
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Comments Romantic comedy anime about two high school students with insomnia who end up meeting up at their high school’s disused observatory.
Inspector Ellis
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Iron Rose
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Jason Goes to Hell
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Jason X (Arrow)
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Knight’s Tale
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Knox Goes Away
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Lady of the Law
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Comments 1975 Shaw Brothers Wuxia film about a woman investigator trying to help a man framed for murder.
Last Breath (2025)
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Law Abiding Citizen
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
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Mary Pickford, Hollywood’s First Queen of the Screen
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Comments Includes The Little American, Madame Butterfly, and Suds
Night They Came Home
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Now You See Me
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Now You See Me 2
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Oliver!
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Palindromes
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Poor Little Peppina
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Presence
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Comments Haunted house film directed by Stephen Soderberg.
Prophecy
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Rapacious Jailbreaker
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Comments Japanese gangster film about a post-WWII Black Marketeer who is a repeat prison escapee.
Retribution
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Rookie Blue
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Sharks Attack 8 Film Collection
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Comments Includes Deep Blue Sea, Deep Blue Sea 2, Deep Blue Sea 3, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, Jaws: The Revenge, The Meg, and The Meg 2: The Trench.
Stolen Time
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Talk to Me
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Texas Streak
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Withnail and I (Criterion Collection)
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Comments Blaine: When I first heard about this years ago, it meant nothing to me that there was a movie starring both Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann.
Wolfs
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Wonder Dogs! (Kino-Lorber)
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Younger Generation
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Comments Directed by Frank Capra

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going with Withnail and I in the highest resolution version you can get, with Insomniacs After School as my anime picks.” Blaine says, “A Knight’s Tale is my pick of the titles I’ve seen, but Withnail and I has a fantastic reputation.”

3 replies on “Weekly New Releases – May 20, 2025”

  1. As a history nerd, I should not like A Knight’s Tale, but damned if it isn’t just fun. And, you get to see young versions of several now-big-name actors go to town. Tudyk is awesome as always, but Bettany’s monologues are worth the price of admission (or purchase).

    • I love that movie. It introduced me to David Bowie’s “Golden Years,” and I know there a lot of complaints about how out-of-place the music is, but it captures the feel for each scene so well that I think it worked great.

      • I think leading the movie off with “We Will Rock You” sets the tone perfectly. Like, this ain’t textbook history. Just roll with it.

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