| 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Sweatshop | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Aparajito (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ark of the Sun God | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Italian/Turkish Indiana Jones-sploitation film. | ||||||||
| Arrowsmith | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Badge 373 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Boxcar Bertha | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | One of the films Martin Scorsese directed for Roger Corman. | ||||||||
| Call of the Flesh | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Captains Courageous | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Carnival in the Night | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese independant film from 1981 about a single mother who also is an aspiring punk rocker, set in the nightclubs and bars of ’80s Shinjuku. | ||||||||
| Cold Storage | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Confessions of a Nazi Spy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cooking with Legends: Ming Tsai & Rick Bayless | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Crack-Up | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Daddy’s Home 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Devil Wears Prada | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dust Bunny | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Eclipse Series 48: Kinuyo Tanaka Directs (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Love Letter, The Moon Has Risen, Forever a Woman, The Wandering Princess, Girls of the Night, and Love Under the Crucifix. | ||||||||
| Fear Has 1000 Eyes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb | ||||||||
| George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ghost Galleon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gialli, Guns, and Gore! The Films of Darren Ward | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Sudden Fury, A Day of Violence, and Beyond Fury. | ||||||||
| Grapes of Death | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Great Absence | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese film about an actor dealing with his academic father’s dementia. | ||||||||
| Guarding Tess | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gutter Auteur: The Lost Legacy of Andy Milligan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hold That Ghost | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hunters of the Golden Cobra | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Innerspace (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jazz Heaven | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice, and Baby Boy. | ||||||||
| Ju Dou | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jungle Raiders | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| King Richard and the Crusaders | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lips of Blood | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Living Dead Girl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lone Wolf | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Long Live Chainsaw | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Man Who Reclaimed His Head | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Moneyball | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Monogram Matinee | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Louisiana and Song of the Range | ||||||||
| Monsternado | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mortuary Assistant | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Naked as Created: The Pastor Jim Moore Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nashville | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| North Sea is Death Sea | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Numbered Men | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Of the People: Women of the Civil Rights Movement | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Plan 75 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese dystopian film about a government incentive for senior citizens to undergo euthenasia. | ||||||||
| Plot Against America | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The 2018 documentary from A&E, not the 2020 miniseries from HBO Max. | ||||||||
| Private Benjamin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Soldier (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Kurt Russell science fiction film that strongly implies it’s set in the same universe as Blade Runner without having the legal rights to make it explicit. | ||||||||
| Something’s Gotta Give | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Stardust (2007) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Matthew Vaughn directs Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robert Deniro | ||||||||
| Stardust (2020) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | About the creation of David Bowie’s alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. | ||||||||
| Strictly Unconventional | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Student Confidential | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ted E. Bear: Cub Reporter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Throw Momma From the Train | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tiger on the Beat 1 and 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains the Buddy Cop Action-Comedies Tiger on the Beat and Tiger on the Beat 2, starry Danny Lee and Chow Yun-Fat. | ||||||||
| Tiger on the Beat 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Yandere Dark Elf: She Chased Me All the Way from Another World! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: In spite of what the box art suggests, this is an extremely fanservice heavy comedy anime, not a hentai. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “The Tiger on the Beat movies are both on my to-watch list, and I’m going to be adding Carnival in the Night to my watchlist as well.” Blaine says, “Nothing I’ve seen jumps out at you.”
I always thought Soldier was supposed to be in the same universe as Escape From New York/LA.
Either works, I guess.