| 007: James Bond – Sean Connery 6 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| 11 Rebels | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| 7th Voyage of Sinbad | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Air America | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Audie Murphy Collection (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Walk of the Proud Land, Seven Ways from Sundown, and Bullet for a Badman | ||||||||
| Career Opportunities | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Clark Gable 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Mutiny on the Bountry, San Francisco, Wife vs. Secretary, and Idiot’s Delight. | ||||||||
| Clash of the Titans / Wrath of the Titans (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | These are the 21st century films, staring Sam Worthington. | ||||||||
| Crime Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dan Da Dan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series available for streaming on Netflix and Crunchyroll, about a girl who belives in ghosts but not aliens, and a boy who believes in aliens but not ghosts, who meet up and end up learning that the entities they don’t belive in exist, and having to deal with those entites in the aftermath. | ||||||||
| Dead Zone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dexter: Original Sin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Drop | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dungeon People | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Elizabeth Taylor 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Father of the Bride, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Reflections in a Golden Eye. | ||||||||
| Emmanuelle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is a new film adaptation of the novel by Emmanuelle Arslan/Marayat Rollet-Andriane, with Noémie Merlant in the title role. | ||||||||
| Friend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gunslingers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| In the Lost Lands | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| J-Horror Rising (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Shikoku, Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, Inugami, St. John’s Wort, Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, Persona (no relation to the game series), and Noroi: The Curse | ||||||||
| Little American | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lord of Illusions | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece: Wolf Hall | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Murder by Decree (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Argentine Heart | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Picture of Dorian Gray | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pusher | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Return of the Living Dead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shoresy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Surfer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Swordfish (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vengeance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wiz (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Film adaptation of the broadway musical, starring Diana Ross & Michael Jackson. | ||||||||
| Working Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My anime pick for this week is DanDaDan, with The Wiz as my UHD pick.” Blaine says, “if you can still stomach Mel Gibson, Air America is an underrated comedy.”
I got nothing this week but I did watch Life Stinks which was mentioned last week.
It’s OK. It was a critical and financial failure and widely considered Mel Brooks’ worst movie, but if you go into it thinking “This is a drama and not a Mel Brooks movie” it’s really not that bad.
Plus the message that billionaires are awful people might be a bit timely…
It was true then and it’s true now.
The only real takeaway is that we’ve learned nothing in 30 years.
I’m watching Babylon 5 for the first time now. We really haven’t learned a single thing.
When Babylon 5 was fist airing, the show’s creator was very active online (on the limited Internet we had plus stuff like CompuServe). You can probably find archives on Usenet. But one of the things he said was that people would complain that the political stuff was “unrealistic” and could “never happen” in what was essentially the US. He basically ripped them apart, pointing out stuff like McCarthyism and WWII internment camps, and saying that what happened before can and will happen again if people are not vigilant.
The “funny” thing is a lot of that happened after 9/11. Babylon 5 has been timely before…
I need to watch Wolf Hall. I’ve heard good things and we’re big Historical Drama nerds in this house.