| 10 Cloverfield Lane | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Along Came Jones | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young | ||||||||
| Ambulance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones | ||||||||
| American Gigolo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Amityville Horror | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Are You In the House Alone? | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Blythe Danner | ||||||||
| Arena (1991) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Claudia Christian before Babylon 5 | ||||||||
| Big Heat | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Big Short | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Ryan Gosling | ||||||||
| Bill and Ted Face the Music | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blue Sky | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bridges at Toko-Ri | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring William Holden, Grace Kelly, and Fredric March | ||||||||
| Bubba Ho-Tep | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Carver’s Gate | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cash | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Sean Bean and Chris Hemsworth | ||||||||
| Changing Lanes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson | ||||||||
| Charade (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cinderella Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Covert Affairs | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Crime and Punishment | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Crispin Glover, Vanessa Redgrave, and John Hurt | ||||||||
| Crisscross | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Goldie Hawn | ||||||||
| Dead Like Me: Life After Death | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dead Man Walking | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Diary of a Hitman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Forest Whitaker and Sherilyn Fenn | ||||||||
| Diggstown | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., and Oliver Platt | ||||||||
| Dirty Pictures | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doctor Blood’s Coffin | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doctor Who (2023) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: The second season with Ncuti Gatwa. I don’t think I’ve ever warmed up to a new Doctor as quickly as I warmed to Mr. Gatwa. | ||||||||
| Double Trouble | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Escape from L.A. | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Event Horizon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Executive Suite | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Five Easy Pictures (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black | ||||||||
| Flintstones | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: The live action film, starring John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, and Rosie O’Donnell. | ||||||||
| Fort | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fort Yuma | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Peter Graves and John Hudson | ||||||||
| Gambler | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Garden of Eden | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Golden Child | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gravedancers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Dominic Purcell, Josie Maran, and Clare Kramer | ||||||||
| Great Bank Robbery That Created West Virginia | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Danny Trejo | ||||||||
| Gungo Ho | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Michael Keaton and Mimi Rogers | ||||||||
| Hokum | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Holiday Heart | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Ving Rhames and Alfre Woodard | ||||||||
| Homestead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hoppers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hot Pursuit | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| I Was a Communist for the FBI | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Frank Lovejoy, who also played the role in an ongoing radio program. | ||||||||
| In the Grey | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill | ||||||||
| Infidelity Inc | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jupiter Ascending 3D | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Keep | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Scott Glenn and Gabriel Byrne, directed by Michael Mann | ||||||||
| King of the Underworld | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, and James Stephenson | ||||||||
| Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Charles Bronson | ||||||||
| Kismet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lifeforce | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Love or Money? | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Timothy Daly | ||||||||
| Machurian Candidate (2004) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Madhouse | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley | ||||||||
| Miami Blues | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Fred Ward | ||||||||
| Misery | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nana | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Josei drama anime about a girl from the country and a city girl in a rock band, both named Nana, whose lives intersect in Tokyo. | ||||||||
| Nobody Lives Forever (1946) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald | ||||||||
| Nutty Professor (1963) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The Jerry Lewis movie | ||||||||
| One Battle After Another | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The most recent Best Picture winner. | ||||||||
| Partysaurus Rex | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A short film from the Toy Story universe. | ||||||||
| Perez Family | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, and Chazz Palminteri | ||||||||
| Pet Sematary | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Players Club | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Protector | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Quest for Fire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Racket (1951) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan | ||||||||
| Rambo III | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ride Lonesome | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Randolph Scott | ||||||||
| Rift | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring R. Lee Ermey, Jack Scalia, and Ray Wise | ||||||||
| Rosemary’s Baby | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: The first Roman Polanski movie I’ve ever seen. It was so good I went Webcrawler as soon as it was done to find other movies by the same director. The search results I found are why I’ll never be able to stomach a Roman Polanski movie ever again. | ||||||||
| Siege of Firebase Gloria | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring R. Lee Ermey | ||||||||
| Single Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Spaceballs | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| St. Elmo’s Fire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, and Demi Moore | ||||||||
| Stargate: The Ark of Truth | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Storm Warning | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, and Doris Day | ||||||||
| Thelma and Louise | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Three Strangers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Peter Lorre | ||||||||
| Time Limit | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Richard Widmark | ||||||||
| Troop Beverly Hills | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trooper Hook | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea | ||||||||
| True Grit (1969) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Twice Told Tales | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Vincent Price and Sebastian Cabot | ||||||||
| War Gods of the Deep | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Vincent Price | ||||||||
| Warriors (1979) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| West Point Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wizard of Oz | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Note that the Blu-Ray version won’t be released until June 16. | ||||||||
| Young Man with a Horn | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day. Blaine: Note that Natalie Wood did NOT remember Kirk Douglas fondly, according to Wood’s sister. | ||||||||
| Young Pope | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “As far as The Wizard of Oz goes, I’d have to see reviews on how the transfer is before I give this release a recommendation – if it’s overly cleaned up I might honestly need to give it a miss. Otherwise, there are a lot of good digital releases this week, but on the physical side of things, I’m going with Nana on the anime side, and Ncuti Gatwa’s second season of Doctor Who otherwise.” Blaine says, “it also comes down to The Wizard of Oz or Doctor Who this week.”
I might have mentioned but Spaceballs is probably the movie I’ve seen the most times. Back in the day I had it on VHS and all my friends (and their friends, and their friends) wanted to see it and I probably watched it with all of them. There was basically a summer break where I watched it daily — sometimes several times. And I still love it.
The Golden Child is a pretty underappreciated movie. It’s very much Of Its Time, but if you can put up with that, it’s a fun Eddie Murphy movie. Oh with Charles Dance, too.
The Big Short is an excellent movie that breaks down the 2008 housing crisis in an entertaining way with horrifying details of incompetence, greed, and corruption.
Event Horizon is one of my favorite horror films. It’s disturbing and doesn’t lean on the “characters have to be dumb to make the plot go” trope.
Also adding: Hoppers just came and went without much buzz (good or bad). I’ll catch it on Disney+.