| After the Fox | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Peter Sellers | ||||||||
| Ambassador’s Daughter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Olivia De Havilland and John Forsythe | ||||||||
| Amityville III | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Angelique: Complete Five Film Collection (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Anthropophagous | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bad Counselors | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bad Influence | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Rob Lowe and James Spader | ||||||||
| Battle Royale (2000) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the film by Kinji Fukusatsu based on the novel of the same title which is generally credited for popularizing the concept of “totalitarian government forces teenagers to fight to the death to keep the population in line” in YA fiction. | ||||||||
| Bells of Coronado | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans | ||||||||
| Beverly Hills Ninja | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Big Heat (1953) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: This is a classic film noir starring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. | ||||||||
| Bogie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Humphrey Bogart biopic | ||||||||
| Boogeyman (2005) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Borrowers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Brit Noir Collection IV | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Teckman Mystery, Time Is My Enemy, and They Can’t Hang Me | ||||||||
| Bullet (2012) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bullet in the Head | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | When John Woo and Tsui Hark had a falling out over the making of A Better Tomorrow 3, Hark would go on to make that film, and Woo would make this one based on his original concept. | ||||||||
| Bumblebee and Transformers Ultimate 6 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cannonball Run 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Carnival of Souls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Caveman’s Valentine | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cheaters’ Club | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Child is Waiting | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland | ||||||||
| Christine | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Clambake | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Connecting Rooms | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Bette Davis and Michael Redgrave | ||||||||
| Couch Trip | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Coyote vs. Acme | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Curse of Inferno | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Days and Nights in the Forest (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Days of Heaven | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Richard Gere and Brooke Adams | ||||||||
| Dead Poets Society | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Currently #175 on the IMDB Top 250 movies of all time. Nominated for Best Picture and lost to Driving Miss Daisy, which didn’t make the top 250 list at all (and shouldn’t have). | ||||||||
| Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The most recent film in the Demon Slayer TV/Film portion of the franchise (the manga has since concluded) | ||||||||
| Desperate Hours | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Mickey Rourke and Anthony Hopkins | ||||||||
| Diamonds Are Forever | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Die Another Day | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Flashdance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| For Your Eyes Only | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Forbidden Planet | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fort Defiance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Dane Clark and Peter Graves | ||||||||
| Fred: The Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| From Up On Poppy Hill | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fuzz | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Burt Reynolds and Tom Skerritt | ||||||||
| Go (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Godsend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, and Cameron Bright | ||||||||
| GoldenEye | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Goldfinger | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Grave of the Fireflies | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Grudge 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Happy’s Place | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hazing | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: I’ve never heard of this before, but it stars Brad Dourif. I’m sure he plays a perfectly normal person. | ||||||||
| Hellraiser: Revelations | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Holiday Inn | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Howl’s Moving Castle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hunted | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro | ||||||||
| Ice Cream Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Identity | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| In Old Amarillo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Roy Rogers | ||||||||
| In the Line of Fire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Italian Job (1969) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward, and Benny Hill | ||||||||
| Jason’s Lyric | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Jesus Christ Superstar | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz’ The Honey Pot | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, and Cliff Robertson | ||||||||
| Kiki’s Delivery Service | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| King and Four Queens | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Clark Gable | ||||||||
| Kings of the Sun | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Knight’s Tale | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kramer vs Kramer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Best Picture 1979 | ||||||||
| Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lawrence of Arabia | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Best Picture 1962 | ||||||||
| Licence to Kill | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Life | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Live and Let Die | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Living Daylights | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Man with the Golden Gun | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Man With the Gun | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Robert Mitchum | ||||||||
| Marked Woman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart | ||||||||
| Masterpiece: Les Miserables | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A six episode miniseries from 2018. | ||||||||
| Men With Brooms | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: Entertaining Canadian comedy. It’s not Earth-shattering or life changing, but it’s an enjoyable time spent with Paul Gross, Molly Parker, and Leslie Nielsen. | ||||||||
| Moonraker | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mr. Church | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mrs. Doubtfire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Blueberry Nights | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law | ||||||||
| My Neighbor Totoro | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nadine | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger | ||||||||
| Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nicholas Nickleby | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ninja Wars | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | An jidaigeki (period film) action horror film from 1982 starring Sonny Chiba. | ||||||||
| Officer and a Gentleman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Richard Gere and Debra Winger | ||||||||
| On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Only Yesterday | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Only You | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., and Bonnie Hunt | ||||||||
| Operation Bikini | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Frankie Avalon | ||||||||
| Operation Hadal | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Over the Top | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert Loggia | ||||||||
| Pandemonium | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Tom Smothers and Carol Kane | ||||||||
| Patient Zero | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Matt Smith (yes, Doctor #11), Stanley Tucci, and Natalie Dormer | ||||||||
| Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pennies from Heaven | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| People vs. Larry Flynt | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Please Don’t Eat the Daisies | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Doris Day and David Niven | ||||||||
| Ponyo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Porco Rosso | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Princess Mononoke | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Red Dawn | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Revue Starlight: Curtain Call | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Has the complete TV series and the film. | ||||||||
| Robocop | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rocky IV | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Roman Holiday | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rules of Attraction | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Faye Dunaway, Eric Stoltz, and Fred Savage | ||||||||
| Secret World of Arrietty | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shampoo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shortcut | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man from “The X-Files”) | ||||||||
| Skyfall | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Skyscraper Souls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Maureen O’Sullivan | ||||||||
| Solomon and Sheba | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida | ||||||||
| Spectre | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Spirited Away | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek Kelvin Timeline Trilogy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond | ||||||||
| Star Trek: Enterprise | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Starman (1984) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Strung | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sunset Boulevard | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Nominated for Best Picture 1950. It lost to All About Eve | ||||||||
| Tale of the Princess Kaguya | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The final film from Isao Takahata, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature in the 2015 Academy Awards, and lost to Big Hero 6 (according to an article from The Hollywood Reporter, the majority of voters in this category either didn’t watch the nominees and only watched Big Hero 6, went on what their children or grandchildren liked, or dismissed this and Song of the Sea as being “Chinese f***ing things” – https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-no-773905/). | ||||||||
| Thief | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring James Belushi and James Caan | ||||||||
| Three Films by Leos Carax (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Boy Meets Girl, Mauvais Sang, and The Lovers on the Bridge | ||||||||
| Thunderball | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Timebomb | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Michael Biehn and Tracy Scoggins | ||||||||
| Tommy (1975) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, and Oliver Reed | ||||||||
| Tomorrow Never Dies | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Train to Busan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Zombie horror film from Korea. | ||||||||
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Underground | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Universal Monster Legacy Collections | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Veil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Boris Karloff | ||||||||
| We Were Soldiers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| When Marnie Was There | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wind Rises | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Yellowstone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Zodiac | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m really interested in the UHD release of Bullet in the Head, because it’s a film in a particular stripe of John Woo’s filmography that I particularly like – when he’s merging the epic and the crime thriller. That said, otherwise there’s a lot of Studio Ghibli films here, with quality releases, which looking at the packaging matches their last Ghibli steelbook release, so if there’s a gap in your collection, not only can fill that gap, but if you built up your collection during the last set of steelbook releases, you should be reasonably confident that everything will match.” Blaine says, “It’s a tough call between Dead Poets Society and Forbidden Planet. Both are excellent, but they are different enough it’s hard to pick one over the other.”
A lot of people don’t know that Howl’s Moving Castle is based on a book, and I’m going to highly recommend the book (and frankly everything else by the author, Diana Wynne Jones). The movie completely neglects a lot of what makes the book great, and for absolutely no reason. Then again, adapting Diana Wynne Jones’ whimsical writing style would be difficult regardless.