| Americana | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Artist and the Astronaut | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Big Helium Dog | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blue Lock the Movie – Episode Nagi | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Born in Flames (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Brokenwood Mysteries | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Buster Keaton Show | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cinderella Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cinema of Powell and Pressburger | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Days with My Stepsister | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is a visually unique (in a good way) anime with an unfortunately bad plotline about stepsibling romance. | ||||||||
| Dial M for Maya | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The Evangelion Rebuild films have also been available on Amazon Prime streaming for a while. | ||||||||
| Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Father Brown, Detective (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fire Country | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Flaming Brothers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Hong Kong gangster action film from the 1980s starring Chow Yun-Fat and written by Wong Kar-Wai | ||||||||
| Food Wars: Season 1 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Halloween (1978) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hellbender (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hotel | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hotel Rwanda | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Krull | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Ronin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lilo and Stitch (2025) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Maedchen in Uniform (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| MASH – The Comedy That Changed Television | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece Mystery! Unforgotten | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Meatballs | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Metal Skin Panic Madox-01 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Mecha anime – previously received a kickstarter release from Animeigo. | ||||||||
| Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Dead Friend Zoe | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ne Zha II | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: The domestic gross is extremely modest ($23 million at time of this writing), but the worldwide gross for this is close to $2 billion US. | ||||||||
| Night of the Juggler | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Phantom Planet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Professor T | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ragna Crimson | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Gritty fantasy anime. | ||||||||
| Speak No Evil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sunset Six | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Swordsman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The first installment in the Swordsman series, which started out being directed by King Hu, until he dropped out of the project and Tsui Hark took over. | ||||||||
| Swordsman II | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The second of the film adaptations of the wuxia novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer | ||||||||
| Swordsman III: The East is Red | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The third film in the series, focusing on the character of Dongfang Bubai. | ||||||||
| Thirty-Nine Steps / The Lady Vanishes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: These are the 1970s made for TV movie versions, with stars like Angela Lansbury and Cybil Sheppherd, not the Hitchcock originals | ||||||||
| This Is My Father | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| This Is Spinal Tap (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tower of God: Return of the Prince | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| TRON | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| TRON: Legacy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wrong Arm of the Law (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you don’t already have the 4K releases of Tron and Tron: Legacy, go ahead and pick those up (and the releases have the Blu-Ray versions, if you want to future-proof).” Blaine says, “I would also upgrade the TRON films, but they just barely edge out This Is Spinal Tap and its Criterion Collection treatment.”
This Is Spinal Tap is one of my favourite movies, but I already have enough versions of it…
I need to watch Krull with adult eyes. I remember watching it as a kid and it made so very little sense (I did play the Atari game, however).
I have Tron: Legacy on Blu-Ray, but the original only on DVD. Maybe I’ll watch it on Disney+ to see if it’s worth the “upgrade”.
Oh and the “last” Mission Impossible is finally here. Guess I’ll get around to watching the penultimate one and this one.