| 12 Angry Men (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This movie wasn’t just robbed of the Best Picture Academy Award, it was probably the best picture of its decade. | ||||||||
| About Sunny | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Abracadavers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Agent Jade Black | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Experience: Nazi Town, USA | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Experience: The Gilded Age | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Experience: The Pilgrims | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| American Family | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Amityverse: Infinity | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Annihilation | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Armenia, My Home | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Arrival | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Await the Dawn | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Batman: Knightfall | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bellbird | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Brivido Giallo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Ogre and Dinner with a Vampire | ||||||||
| Bronx Tale: One Man Show | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The “one man” writer, director, producer and star is Chazz Palminteri | ||||||||
| City on Fire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Undercover cop thriller starring Chow Yun-Fat and directed by Ringo Lam that served as an inspiration to Reservoir Dogs. | ||||||||
| Danza Macabra | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Don’t Suck | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dragons Forever | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Frontline: 2000 Meters to Andriivka | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Funny Woman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Good Girl Jane | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Graduation Day | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Guyver: Dark Hero | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Sequel to the American Toksatsu film. The original film starred Jack Armstrong and was co-directed by Steve Wang and the late Screaming Mad George. This stars David Hayter (the voice of Solid Snake) as the protagonist and Steve Wang is directing solo. | ||||||||
| Heaven’s Burning | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hot Spot (2026) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hotel Portofino | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| I Lived With a Killer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Independent Lens: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Inspector Wears Skirts Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Series of action-comedy martial arts films from Hong Kong starring Cynthia Rothrock and Cynthia Kahn. | ||||||||
| Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Documentary film about the career of Ishiro Honda, the director of many of the Godzilla films, among numerous other movies, science fiction and otherwise. | ||||||||
| Kaiju No. 8: MIssion Recon – The Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This appears to be a between-seasons recap movie. | ||||||||
| Leviticus | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lolirock | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Franco-Japanese Magical girl series. | ||||||||
| Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece Mystery! Annika | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece Mystery! Death Comes to Pemberley | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece Mystery! Van der Valk | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Materpiece Mystery! Grantchester | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Minions 3 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Minions and Monsters | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mobland | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Hero Academia: Vigilantes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is a prequel series set before the events of My Hero Academia, following various street level, unlicensed heroes. | ||||||||
| Nature: Bears | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nature: Becoming Elephant – The Orphans of Reteti | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nature: Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nature: Equus: Story of the Horse | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nature: Grizzly 399 – Queen of the Tetons | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nature: Parenthood | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nip/Tuck | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| NOVA: Critical Condition – Health in Black America | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| NOVA: Dino Birds | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nova: Revolutionary War Weapons | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| NOVA: What are UFOs? | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| O.C. | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Occupant | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Canadian grad student moves into an apartment in Hong Kong while researching Chinese superstitions, only to discover the place is haunted. | ||||||||
| Our Last Crusade or the Rise of the New World | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Romantic Fantasy drama anime series. | ||||||||
| Passenger | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Patrick and the Whale | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Peking Opera Blues | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Crime thriller set in 1920s Peking, centered around the Peking Opera, and involving some stolen jewels. | ||||||||
| Pompeii: The New Dig | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ricco The Mean Machine | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ridley | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Roaring Fire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Action film starring a young Hiroyuki Sanada (the new Shogun series). | ||||||||
| Route 66: The Ultimate DVD Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Secrets of Great British Castles | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shaun the Sheep | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sheep in the Box | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese science fiction film about a couple who adopt a robot child after their son’s death. | ||||||||
| Sopranos | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek: First Contact: 30th Anniversary Edition | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek: The Original Series 60th Anniversary Edition | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Supergirl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sweet Meats | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Tulsa King | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Voices: American Historia – The Untold History of Latinos | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Warriors of the Wasteland | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| We Want the Funk! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| White Oleander | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going with City on Fire as my UHD pick of the week, 12 Angry Men as my regular pick, and My Hero Academia: Vigilantes as my anime pick.” Blaine says, “my pick is 12 Angry Men without hesitation, despite having nice editions of Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: First Contact coming out this week. In fact, 12 Angry Men might be the best directorial debut in cinema history.”
To this day, my brain refuses to believe that 12 Angry Men wasn’t a play first then a movie, not the other way around. It has all the hallmarks of a great play. I have the script on my bookshelf. I would love to have a role in that. Any role, honestly.
Despite the title, there is nothing intrinsically male about any role in the story. I know one local all-girls high school did 12 Angry Women (instead of the oft-used 12 Angry Jurors)
On the wildly other end of the spectrum, I’ll probably what Minions and Monsters. It’ll be dumb, but I don’t care.