| 31 Kills of Halloween | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Alto Knights | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Android Kikaider (1972) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Live action tokusatsu adaptation of the manga by Shotaro Ishinomori. The series did have a limited airing in the US in Hawaii and on the West Coast (particularly Northern California). | ||||||||
| Angel Heart | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A sort of alternative universe spinoff of City Hunter, with a setting where Ryo Saeba’s romantic interest, Kaori, dies when saving someone from a out of control truck, and her heart is stolen to be implanted in the body of a young woman assassin, Xiang Ying, who in turn is drawn into seeking out Ryo. | ||||||||
| Audie Murphy Collection IV (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Kid from Texas, The Cimaroon Kid, and Drums Across the River. | ||||||||
| Bang the Drum Slowly | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bottoms | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Child’s Play | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Colors Within | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime film about music from the director of A Silent Voice. | ||||||||
| Dangers in My Heart | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic comedy anime about a teenager who is kind of an edgelord who falls for one of his classmates. | ||||||||
| Dante’s Peak | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: My High School geology class screened this film as an assignment, with a questionairre students needed to fill out about what it got right and wrong about volcanoes. | ||||||||
| Day the Earth Blew Up – A Looney Tunes Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Eureka | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Flame of Recca | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fog of War | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Foyle’s War | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gruffalo and Friends | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
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| I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jazz Ramsey: A K-9 Mystery | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kekko Kamen | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | These are the live action direct-to-video films based on the very fanservicy character created by Go Nagai. | ||||||||
| Killer of Sheep (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| King of Kings (Flicker Alley) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kingpin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| La Vie en Rose | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Tango in Paris | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lean On Me | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lupin the 3rd | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus) | ||||||||
| Magnificent 7 Deadly Sins (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Marie Antoinette | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Marquise of O… | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece: Miss Austen | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Murderock | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mystery Street | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| October 8 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| One Piece | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Outlander | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pokemon: Sun and Moon Ultra Legends | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Prosecutor | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rhapsody in Blue | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scent of a Woman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shakey Grounds | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shatter aka Call HIm Mr. Shatter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Special Investigation Robo Janperson | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Tokusatsu series that’s part of the Metal Heroes franchise. | ||||||||
| Star Trek: Section 31 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Starman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Steppenwolf | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Street Fighter Animated TV Series | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the USA Network animated series. | ||||||||
| Terror in the Fog: The Wallace Krimi at CCC | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Thai Horror Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Doom, Alone, Phobia, Coming Soon, Phobia 2, Laddaland, Countdown, and The Promise. | ||||||||
| Three Comrades | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Three Musketeers / Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Urotsukidoji Legend of the Overfiend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Yes, this is Hentai. It’s also one of the first anime films to be screened as anime in the theaters in the US and UK, getting screened on the arthouse circuit (in some cases in the same theaters that were screening Babette’s Feast). Discotek gave the film a Criterion Collection/Arrow Video level remaster. | ||||||||
| Wayne’s World 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Woman in the Yard | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Yellowstone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I really like Richard Lester’s Musketeers films, so I’m really interested in seeing those in a UHD release. On the anime side, I’m going with Flame of Recca.”
There are a bunch of “Well that’s almost interesting…” releases this week.
Also only two LoTR movies? Not all three?
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King knows what it did.
I doubled checked that there is no ROTK this week, especially since I recently recorded that podcast.
I really wanted Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to be a better film. It was decent. Love the Dieselpunk aesthetic, but it didn’t quite get there.