| All We Imagine as Light (Janus Contemporaries) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic comedy anime where, as the title states, the female lead hides her feelings for the male lead by speaking in Russian (little does she know he speaks Russian). | ||||||||
| Ash | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beast to Die | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bewitched | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Black Daruma | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bride Hard | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Carnal Knowledge (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cobra (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: Fun fact: Sylvester Stallone was originally meant to star in Beverly Hills Cop, but he wanted it to be more series than Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer did. Stallone left the project and took his ideas to make Cobra, while Eddie Murphy came in on BHC and leaned more heavily into the comedy than Stallone wanted to. | ||||||||
| Danger: Diabolik (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dangerous Animals | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Detonation! Violent Riders | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese biker gang exploitation film starring Sonny Chiba. | ||||||||
| Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fabulous Dorseys (1947) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fight or Flight | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Final Destination 6 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Final Destination: Bloodlines | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hand of Death (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Early film written by John Woo, with Jackie Chan in a lower role, and choreographed by Sammo Hung. | ||||||||
| Killer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Directed by John Woo – this is the original film, starring Chow Yun-Fat, instead of Woo’s own remake set in France. | ||||||||
| Knight Rider | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The original David Hasselhoff series | ||||||||
| Last Voyage of the Demeter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little Buddha | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Madagascar | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Man in the Attic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Materialists | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Momokyun Sword | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fanservice heavy action anime based on the story of Momotaro. | ||||||||
| Mother | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nightwatch Collection (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Series of Nordic Noir thrillers. | ||||||||
| Northern Lights | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nudie-Cutie Triple Feature (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: We don’t generally cover pornographic titles, but the “nudie-cutie” genre was a short lived oddity of movies with nudity but not eroticism. Kino-Lorber is a reputable company who will likely handle this release well. Includes Mr. Peters’ Pets, Everybody Loves It, and 50,000 B.C.. | ||||||||
| Original Sin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Peking Opera Blues | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Action comedy film set in turn-of-the-20th-century China, directed by Tsui Hark | ||||||||
| Pokemon Journeys: The Series | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Re:Monster | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Isekai anime series where the main character is reincarnated as a Goblin. | ||||||||
| Serenity (2005) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This can’t possibly be the 20th anniversary of the Firefly movie, because if that’s 20 years old, then how old am I? Alex: (Turns into dust and blows away). | ||||||||
| Silent Scream | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Small Soldiers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Solo Leveling | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Portal fantasy anime based on a Korean webnovel. | ||||||||
| Strangers with Candy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Comedy film based on the Amy Sedaris sitcom | ||||||||
| Stuff (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tattooed Dragon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Martial arts film made to showcase Jimmy Wang Yu after he jumped ship from Shaw Brothers to Golden Harvest, after Bruce Lee’s death. | ||||||||
| That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| This Is Spinal Tap | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trouble with Jessica | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Walking with Dinosaurs | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Warriors Two (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Sammo Hung’s second film in the director’s chair, focusing on the martial art of Wing Chun. | ||||||||
| You Can Count on Me (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “The Killer is one of John Woo’s greatest films, so if you’re cutting back on your physical media footprint, the digital version is worth picking up. Otherwise, I’d recommend Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian as a nice cute rom-com anime.” Blaine says, “I have to go with Serenity, even if that conclusion to Firefly is about six seasons shorter than it should have been.”
This Is Spinal Tap is one of my all time favorite movies.
Serenity’s… twenty?
–Looks down at Firefly shirt—
“Inara!!! Come here, I need to go shake a fist at some clouds. Come help your dad to get up from the chair…”
Hah. This reminds me of the people who named their daughter Delenn… which now reminds me that in the grand scheme of things, _Babylon 5_ and _Firefly_ aired _really close_ to each other.