| And Yet the Town Moves | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Slice of life comedy about a maid cafe in a small town that is run by people who are completely unfamiliar with the concept of maid cafes. | ||||||||
| Ballerina: From the World of John Wick | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | As the title states, a spinoff film set in the world of John Wick, following a character played by Ana De Armas. | ||||||||
| Ben 10 Classic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Brenda Lee Rockin’ Around: The Story Behind the Iconic Singer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bride Hard | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Causeway | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chicago PD | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chouchou | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Clown in a Cornfield | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Coal Miner’s Daughter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dark Winds | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Day of the Badman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dear Ruth | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Derailed | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Drums Across the River | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Elio | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Escaping My Stalker | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Foxfire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gunfight in Abilene | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Honey Don’t! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| I’m Standing on a Million Lives | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Dark Fantasy isekai anime series. | ||||||||
| Ice Road: Vengeance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| In the Land of the Leadale | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Another isekai anime series – this one more cozy, following a terminally ill girl who reincarnates in the world of her favorite game, 200 years in the future from since the last time she played it. | ||||||||
| Jolly Monkey | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jurassic 7 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jurassic World Rebirth | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This was covered on the debut episode of the Anime Explorations podcast (https://bureau42.com/view/29668/anime-explorations-podcast-episode-1-keep-your-hands-off-eizouken). This release includes a concept artbook and a storyboard book. | ||||||||
| Kung Fu Panda 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little House on the Prairie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Macabre (1958) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Materialists | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Memphis Belle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Midnight Manhunt | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Boys are Good Boys (1978) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| NCIS | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ouija | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pointed Heels | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Proof of the Man (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Proud Rebel | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Raw Edge | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ritual | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Samurai Resurrection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Live action adaptation of the novel Makai Tensho made in 2003 – previously adapted by Kenji Fukusatsu with a film starring Sonny Chiba in 1981, and then again later as an anime directed by Yasunori Urata in the mid-90s. | ||||||||
| Slaves in Bondage | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Spenser: For Hire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Street Fighter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the Sonny Chiba film. | ||||||||
| Surfer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tales of Frankenstein | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| The Phantom Fiend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Three Guys Named Mike | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Thunderbolt | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Thunderbolts* | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| To the Last Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| True Glory | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Uzumaki | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime adaptation of the manga by Junji Ito (which I reviewed in its 3-volume form back in 2012) – which has a strong start and a decend finish, but stumbles hard in the middle. | ||||||||
| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| W.C. Fields Collected Shorts | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wake Me When the War is Over | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Weapons | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| White Lotus | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wildcat | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Winterset | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wrong Arm of the Law | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| X Marks the Spot | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My pick of the week, beyond a doubt, is Keep Your Hands off Eizouken, anime or not-anime. Yes there are other things you can get as 4K picks this week – I’d pick Eizouken above all of them. Yes, it’s pricey, but this is also a case where I’d say these specific extras, because of what the work is about (specifically the process of animation), tremendously complement the work.” Blaine says, “of those I’ve seen, I’m picking Thunderbolts*, which is something of a return to form for the MCU without feeling formulaic. I’ve heard amazing things about Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, so that’s pretty high on the watch list.”
Thunderbolts was really good. Felt good to watch an MCU movie with people being heroes (NGL, I had a big grin on my face when they came together to save civilians in the streets from falling debris).
Gonna watch Jurassic World because…dinosaurs. I’m always down for dinos.
Memphis Belle is such a good WW2. Probably eclipsed by the fact that we know life aboard those bombers was actually much worse, but it’s a good outing by some of the 90s biggest up-and-comers.