| All the President’s Men | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Masters: Starring Dick Van Dyke | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Astronaut | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beam Me Up, Sulu | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beautiful Mind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Best Picture 2001 | ||||||||
| Ben Hur (1959) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture | ||||||||
| Ben-Hur (1959) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture | ||||||||
| Benny Goodman Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Birth of the Blues | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: I question the historical accuracy of a movie about the birth of blues music where every major cast member is white. | ||||||||
| Branded to Kill | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Yakuza film from Seijun Sezuki | ||||||||
| Broadway on the Big Screen | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, The Boy Friend, Brigadoon, Damn Yankees, and The Pajama Game | ||||||||
| Brotherhood of the Wolf | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Carpenter’s Son | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Child’s Play 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cliff in Color!: The Technicolor Musicals of Cliff Richard, 1961-1964 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, and Wonderful Life. | ||||||||
| Cloud (Criterion Premieres) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cottonmouth | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dead Silence (2007) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Deathstalker (2025) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Devil’s Trap | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dexter: Resurrection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Double Impact | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Double or Nothing | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Echo Murders | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Love Parade, Monte Carlo, The Smiling Lieutenant, and One Hour With You. | ||||||||
| Farewell My Concubine | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Five Nights at Freddy’s Two Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Flesh and Blood Show (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Focus on Louise Brooks | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fred Astaire 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, Finian’s Rainbow, and Easter Parade. | ||||||||
| Frosty the Snowman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The Rankin/Bass special | ||||||||
| Go-Getter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Godfather | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| He Loves Me Not | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Heaven: A Film by Diane Keaton | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Here Come the Waves | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hi-Lo Country | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Irresistible | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kikaider Ultimate Human Machine | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Live action film reboot adaptation of Shotaro Ishinomori’s manga series. | ||||||||
| Knock Off | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Legend of the Demon Cat | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Chinese period fantasy drama, about the wife of a general who has been possessed by a cat demon. | ||||||||
| Lesbian Space Princess | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Little Trouble Girls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mean Girls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mercy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| New Orleans After Dark | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nightcrawler | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| No Other Choice | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Korean film from Park Chan-Wook, adapted from a Donald Westlake novel, about an employee who is laid off from the paper factory they’d worked for 20 years, who tries to reduce the competition for the other jobs he tries to apply for by offing them. | ||||||||
| Now You See Me: Now You Don’t | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Once Upon a Texas Train | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Only Good Things | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Passing of the Third Floor Back | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Passion of the Christ | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Predator: Badlands | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ray | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Regretting You | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rental Family | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rio Rita | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scott Joplin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scream | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Secret Garden | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese crime dramedy. | ||||||||
| Shin Aim for the Ace | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Reboot of the anime adaptation of Sumika Yamamoto’s shojo sports manga. | ||||||||
| Show of Shows | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Silent Night, Deadly Night | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sing You Sinners | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sisu: Road to Revenge | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Small Soldiers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Someone at the Door | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Song Sung Blue | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sorairo Utility | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Sports anime about a high school Girl’s Golf Club. | ||||||||
| Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the English Dub version with the European score by the Swiss music group Yello (best known for the pieces “The Race” and “Oh Yeah” | ||||||||
| Spencer Tracy 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Fury, Northwest Passage, Libeled Lady, and Bad Day at Black Rock. | ||||||||
| Summer Book | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tomorrow’s Joe: The Live Action Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Adaptation of the boxing manga by Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba | ||||||||
| Transformers One | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trap House | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trick R Treat (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tunnel | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Useful Ghost | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Visitor (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Vultures | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wildcat | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wrath of Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| You Gotta Stay Happy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I feel like All The President’s Men feels topical in an aspirational way, both in terms of the role of the press in pushing the Legislative branch to act against a President who is engaging in illegal acts, and also in terms of when the Washington Post would actively push back against a conservative government, instead of caving to their every whim.” Blaine says, “This Canadian hasn’t gotten around to watching All the President’s Men yet, but I completely agree with Alex: we need people like Woodward and Bernstein to stand up to those who view 1984 and Brave New World as instruction manuals instead of warnings.”
There are a few interesting selections this week, but what caught my eye is that someone, for some unfathomable reason, decided to remake Deathstalker.
Transformers One was one of those movies where the trailer did it dirty. It was surprisingly good. Still aimed at kids, but it’s a solid origin story for Optimus and Megatron. I would not object to more movies in this continuity.
I want to second this. It was definitely “aimed at kids” but if you are looking for some easy entertainment, this hit the spot.
Searching for Sulu. I’ve never heard of this before, but it looks fascinating.
Definitely see All the President’s Men, and I’ll assume we’ve all watched The Godfather and probably Mean Girls. Heaven is such a bizarre film that it’s worth seeing once, and, as a fan of noir, I’ll probably look up, but not buy, New Orleans After Dark, even though its critical reputation is mediocre.
Summer Book…. Sure, it looks like a classic bit of arthouse.
I already own Trick ‘r Treat, which I’ve reviewed here. It’s probably the best film about Halloween night ever made, with the possible exception of the original Halloween, and the most re-watchable.