1: The Movie | |||||||||
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Comments | Documentary on Formula 1 racing. | ||||||||
90s Night In – 8 Movie Set | |||||||||
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Comments | Incdlues Threesome, Wilder Napalm, The Napalm of Gary, Go!, Hexed, Jersey Girl (but not the Kevin Smith one), The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human and The Suburbans. | ||||||||
The Agatha Christie Hour: Complete Collection | |||||||||
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Almost the Truth | |||||||||
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Comments | The “true” story behind Monty Python. | ||||||||
An American Werewolf in London | |||||||||
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Apollo 13 | |||||||||
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Argento’s Dracula | |||||||||
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Babe | |||||||||
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Big Screen Romances – 8 Movie set | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Luzhin Defence, Tempest, This Is My Father, Violets are Blue, No Small Affair, Modern Romance, The Man Who Loved Women and Perfect. | ||||||||
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season | |||||||||
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Bonnie and Clyde (2013) | |||||||||
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Born on the Fourth of July | |||||||||
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Bridemaids | |||||||||
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British Cinema Showcase – 6 movie set | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Still Crazy, Last Orders, Crush, Young Adam and Driving Lessons. | ||||||||
The Charlie Chaplin Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes 23 public domain Chaplin films. | ||||||||
Charlie’s Angels – Season One | |||||||||
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Chick Flicks – 8 Movie Set | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes If Lucy Fell, Imaginary Heroes, Sweet Hearts Dance, You Light Up My Life, Moscow on the Hudson, Mr. Jones, I’m With Lucy and Lies and Alibis. | ||||||||
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 | |||||||||
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Danny Phantom: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Death Duel | |||||||||
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Comments | Shaw Brothers film, released as part of Well Go USA’s “Sword Masters” collection. | ||||||||
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): Deluxe Edition | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: This is a great classic horror. | ||||||||
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial | |||||||||
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Ender’s Game | |||||||||
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iTunes | |||||||||
Comments | Available in physical form on February 11. | ||||||||
Fifth Estate | |||||||||
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Frankenstein Created Woman | |||||||||
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Free Birds | |||||||||
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Comments | Available in physics formats on February 4. | ||||||||
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | |||||||||
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Jaws | |||||||||
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King Kong (2005) | |||||||||
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Last Vegas | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I saw this one a while ago. DeNIro and Freeman steal the show. It’s corny and predictable, but if you’ve seen the trailers and wanted to see it, check it out. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a movie trailer that so accurately represented the film using footage exclusively from the first half of the movie. I don’t know if it’s worth owning, but if you’re tempted to rent it, don’t hesitate. | ||||||||
Legend of the Bat | |||||||||
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Comments | Shaw Brothers film, released as part of Well Go USA’s “Sword Masters” collection. | ||||||||
The Long Day Closes (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Masterpiece: Downton Abbey Season 4 (U.K. Edit) | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: It’s officially called “U.K. Edition,” but I listed it as “U.K. Edit” to emphasize that the content is the U.K. version, but the disc is a Region A/1 disk. | ||||||||
Les Miserables (2012) | |||||||||
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Nura: Rise of the Youkai Clan – Demon Capital Set 1 | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Start of Season 2 of the shonen anime series. | ||||||||
Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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Rush | |||||||||
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Silver Screen Romances – 8 Movie Set | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes The Solid Gold Cadillac, We Were Strangers, Angels Over Broadway, Music In My Heart, The Marrying Kind, It Should Happen To You, Adam Had Four Sons and Down to Earth. | ||||||||
Spartacus | |||||||||
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Snow White and the Huntsman | |||||||||
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Survivor | |||||||||
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Tear Jerkers – 6 Movie Set | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Avalon, My Life, Swept Away, All the Pretty Horses, The End of the Affair and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. | ||||||||
Ted | |||||||||
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Treme | |||||||||
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Wanted | |||||||||
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The War Between Men and Women | |||||||||
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WWE Presents The Best of Raw & Smackdown 2013 | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “This is a really poor week. The Shaw Brothers films have caught my interest, but otherwise, unless you’re following Nura: Rise of the Youkai Clan, I’d recommend giving this week a miss.” Blaine says, “aside from the Universal Oscar Winning rereleases (Apollo 13 and the like) this week is entirely worth skipping.”
Cloudy 2 is definitely worth a rent.
Free Birds – Physics Version made me think this was a different version of Angry Birds, and a game with a good engine was coming out.
“Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain” or “How a studio can take a simple, brilliant idea and s**t all over it.”
Cloudy 2 is really the only thing new of note here. We’ll be renting it first but will most likely end up buying it.
Some of those re-releases are decent movies but just repacked. There may be many, many plot holes in Wanted but I still found it highly enjoyable, Ted was much funnier than expected, Snow White and the Huntsman was alright (though I found Mirror, Mirror to be more enjoyable overall, they both had merits). Those are worth a rental at least but those inclined to rent them probably already have (or Netflix, HBO, etc…)
I want to get Ender’s Game but I’ll be waiting for physical media.