Weekly New Releases – August 19, 2025

Amazing Mr. X (1948)
Amazon
Bad Guys 2
Amazon
Blaxploitation Classics: Volume 2
Amazon
Comments Includes Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Bucktown, Slaughter, and Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off.
Boys
Amazon
Bring Her Back
Amazon
Bullet in the Head
Amazon
Comments Directed by John Woo
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Flicker Alley
Amazon
Coneheads
Amazon
Confucian Confusion / Mahjong: Two Films by Edward Yang (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Dreamland
Amazon
Funny Things Happen Down Under
Amazon
Gung Ho
Amazon
Happy Gilmore
Amazon
Harvey
Amazon
House of Sand
Amazon
Hush
Amazon
Knock Knock
Amazon
Last Anniversary
Amazon
Lips of Blood
Amazon
Martial Law: Lo Wei’s Wuxia World
Amazon
Comments Has 3 wuxia films from director Lo Wei (who directed Bruce Lee’s films with Golden Harvest) – contains The Black Butterfly, Death Valley and Vengeance of a Snow Girl.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Amazon
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Amazon
Comments The Amazon Listing has the season information wrong – this is season 2.
NCIS: Sydney
Amazon
No Longer Allowed in Another World
Amazon
Comments Isekai anime where Japanese author Osamu Dazai’s suicide attempt instead caused him to be sent to another world.
One Piece
Amazon
Out of the Clouds
Amazon
Patterns (1956)
Amazon
Queen’s Blade Rebellion
Amazon
Comments Season 2 of Queen’s Blade.
Rainbow Jacket
Amazon
Repossessed
Amazon
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Amazon
Comments Directed by Ang Lee, starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman.
Shinobi Vol. 2
Amazon
Comments Contains the films Siege, The Return of Mist Saizo, and The Last Iga Spy
Shoeshine (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (Kino-Lorber)
Amazon
Comments Blaine: The first two entries in the franchise were directed by the highly respected Fritz Lang. This sequel was directed by Jess Franco, a director who is more infamous than famous.
Xanadu
Amazon

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My pick of the week for this week is the Lo Wei Wuxia collection.” Blaine says, “I’m going with Harvey, the classic James Stewart comedy.”

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