Ups. Hey there, everybody. It is Thursday. And not only that,
it's the first Thursday of the month, which means we've got the man,
the myth, the Professor, doctor Will Dotson. Welcome back, sir,
how are we? Oh man? I was just going through a month
where you know, every day is gray, every day is like Sunday,
and uh I spend most of the time just trying to stave off the darkness.
And then we come to the first Thursday and I'm like, oh,
a cravas of joy. Oh man, I might have to make that the
backside of the redesigned Tope bag that I'm releasing with your name on it soon
in the March store. I think it screams to be on the back of
a pair of shorts. Yeah, that works too. There's a lot of
things that scream to be on the back of a pair of shorts. Welcome
everybody to reconnect it if you've never been a part of these, Every single
Thursday, we go over all of the physical media announcements from the previous week.
We tend to go over some recent pickups, some recent watches, and
then after the show we usually have some sort of a film based discussion,
unless Will's here, and then we kind of just shoot the shit for a
little while, because this is usually the longest show anyways, so we don't
want to go seven hours the first Thursday of every month, but we do
tend to have a lot of tangents and other discussions along the way. One
Josephine DeMarco's here with us tonight. She wants to know, are we looking
forward to Miglopolis. Yeah, you know, I am Francis Ford. Coppola
is like all great artists, misunderstood and sometimes sometimes makes mistakes. But I
love the story, uh you know, of how he's pouring, you know,
his own resources into it. And I'm not saying it's his swan song,
but I've actually been really interested in you know, a lot of filmmakers
go back to their their older movies and make changes and alterations. He's been
making a project of it and in several cases has discovered really good movies in
there, like his his uh Reducts of the Cotton Club, I think was
fantastic, And I'm looking forward to seeing the the the re edited edited one
from the Heart as well. So yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to Megalopolis.
I am too, it's getting pretty interesting reviews for the few that have
seen it. In a couple of these preview shows, there was somebody that
said, Francis Ford Coppola somehow finding new things to do with cinema in twenty
twenty four, and it's his masterpiece, which is wild to hear about of
Francis Ford Coppola film in twenty twenty four. Yeah, you know, I
think it's great that there's that excitement. I try not to ever listen to
critics and marketers, but but they're very well, maybe because something to it.
I'm also I think it's really cool that Warner Archives just announced Blu Ray
upgrades of You're a Big Boy Now and what is it? The River People,
The Rain People, The Rain People, And I haven't seen The Rain
People before, so I'm pretty stoked about that. Still need a four K
Patton, which he wrote. Come on, I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
Yeah, lots of lots of interesting stuff to talk about. We have a
ton of announcements to go over. I think we got like sixty sixty five
something like that, and of course it's o C N week. We have
Radiance titles. You and I don't get a chance to talk about ratiings together
all that often. So we're gonna be discussing that tonight. We've got lots
of stuff to hype up for what's coming up. But first, any any
recent pickups you want to share with everybody? Would you say? We have
a plethora of announcements at least yes pickups or watches? What are we doing
first? Let's do pickups first? Oh man, I had a good monk.
I see a wild Spider Labyrinth behind you. Yeah, got my contributor
copy of Spider labinth Let's see. There was an opportunity on an unnameable giant
conglomerate to pick up a couple of Fritz Long movies that I did not have
Human Desire, which is a Keynote release and I Warner Archive release for Rancho
Notorious. So that was I haven't seen either of them, so and I'm
a big Fritz Lana. I was very bummed when this went out of print,
and I would not have done this OCN and Vinegar Syndrome Overlords. I
would not have done this had it not gone out of print. But I
did find on eBay for a very reasonable price Boggy Creek two and the legend
continues. So pretty stoked about that. And then all of our good friends
Mike Grindhouse Video, I had a very nice eighty eight sale on the website,
and so you know, I got stupid, got Taxi Hunter, Nice,
got long Armed Law one and two, God Magic Cop, Postman fights
Back. That one, that's one that I wanted to watch here soon,
last Blood Nice and a Fernando de lio film, Blood and Diamond. So
that was very very pleasing to me. I bit the bullet, and I
shouldn't have because I bit the bullet before doing our taxes. But I did
get onto a little shout select situation because Takashi mi K's deadly outlaw RecA even
with no special features. Hey, shout Factory, you know we're here.
You got four yeah, four commentaries on Orphan, come on, Four commentaries
on Orphan. Huh. Four brand new coming new commentaries on Orpon. It's
like I can only think of one other disc that is as stacked as that.
But anyway, I got Deadley hotlal Recca. I got the great fred
Ol and Ray Venomous, and of course Jill Rips really preferred Jill the Ripper
as a title but it's Dolphs, It's Anthony Hickock's Rest in Peace. And
then finally I got some art films. I got the Keynote Silent avant garde
selection and a film that I've really admired for a long time and for some
reason never had a copy, another little indie art film, Zombiavers Beavers.
Oh man, I need to see I think I have that one. I
need to verify that's worth a watch. Yep, definitely have that one.
Yeah, I remember liking that one. That one's been a long time.
Yeah. Man, you got a lot more than what I was going to
share. First to just too in from Imprint this month, I got in
their release of nineteen seventy nine's Ravagers. This one is unfortunately completely empty of
extras, which is super rare for Imprint, but it's a it's a movie
I wanted to see for quite some time. And then the other one,
this is the one that people were very very excited about. Thankfully, we
got a couple of new extras on this one. Batteries not included this one.
We've got an interview with the director on this, an interview with the
writer Garris, and then also a brand new interview with Sarah Horner. So
there's a few things on there. You mentioned eBay, So I will say
recently, I was involved in a conversation with Jesse from Diabolic. We were
chatting for a little while and there was some title that everybody was talking about
on Twitter that day, and unfortunately the title was out of print, and
Jesse and I were both looking for it at the same time. And the
next day he found a store on eBay that was selling not necessarily the entire
release because it was out of print, but they were selling the sleeve and
the disc, not of this one. I mean they were, but it
was this film Lost River. So Jesse and I both picked us up from
this eBay score. So just a little heads up for everybody if you got
extra cases laying around. This thing was like four dollars and fifty cents for
an out of print title that was going crazy because everybody wanted it all of
a sudden because it's supposedly a really great Ryan Gosling film, and I had
been wanting to see this for quite some time, and four fifty like,
you can't really argue with that. But the cool thing they had both of
these and they was buy to get one free of their entire eBay store.
So these all together was like seven fifty something like that. And I got
a third title. It was a couple of DVDs. The next day I
got an email that said that title was damaged. They couldn't send it to
me, so they discounted these even further. So I got these for like
five dollars and twenty cents shipped from eBay. That's insane nice. That feels
good. It did feel good. I gotta admit, you know what else
feels good? Brand new. Finally in hand all of the physical releases of
the Physical Media Advocate. I did want to shout out to everybody right now
if you are interested in these, I have two full sets at home.
If you don't want to shot through Amazon, send me a DM I can
get you sent them out here. The other big thing is we need letters
to the editor. If you are looking to featured and you want somebody to
respond to you, that's not necessarily me. We've got other people responding to
You can write into the editor. Yes, no, No, I want
to be the You'll have to play rock paper scissors with ED to be able
to do that. If you want to do that. If you ever wanted
to contribute, write an essay of some sort, or do a review or
anything like that, we'd love to have you. Not just you, will
anybody else. If there's something you'd like to share. You've got a written
piece ready, let us know. We would like to check it out and
see if we can put it in a future issue. We've got issue number
nine, should be coming out here the next month or so, as soon
as we got it ready. It's been wild to see this grow. Check
it out if you get a chance. There's a link in the description below
for the electronic version and the physical version. Other than that, will what
have you been watching? Well? I have a couple of questions before we
even pivot, Jude, have you considered a subscription for the Physical Media Advocate?
Do you feel like I have? I feel like the foundation is getting
strong enough. Uh? Yeah, actually I do. Unfortunately, I don't
know that it's gonna be super possible until I get the website up and running.
And even then, yeah, even then, I think setting up a
full store on that site seems very out of my comfort zone. But we'll
see. Because well, I mean, it's looking like Fangoria quality with the
with the paper stock and everything. And I gotta admit it's nicer than than
Goria for some of these, Like the paper actually feels better, I mean
full color. Everything we've got in house made graphics promoting certain boutiques. Nice.
We've got full list of release dates in here, so if you ever
lose track of what's coming out, it's this page. So let me let
me share, Like if you just lose track of everything that's coming out all
over the world. We get the most important titles so you can take a
look and highlight the ones that you want, like you always used to do
the zines. We've got ongoing you know, pieces on some old school Hollywood
actors. We've got every month, we've got a piece on the first one
hundred spines from Arrow in the US. We've got somebody reviewing all one hundred
titles. We've got Eugenio Urkalani who is checking in from Italy every month with
what he's working on, who he's interviewing, the reactions to some of his
stuff. Like I said, we've got letters to the editor. There's all
kinds of stuff in here. Check them out. Yeah, I don't have
to read one of those. Hey, I agree with Craig. I would
love to do advice column or something. I would honestly love that. We'll
have to talk about it. Did you I don't know, Well, it's
in the comments. But did you see def Crocodile teasing the entire audience with
I didn't not with the teaser, there was such great tease. Slow it
down? Will there may or may not be a new subscription coming that you'll
need to pay for? Well, hell, let me call my bank real
quick. Great? Interesting, All right, yeah, let's do some watches.
What have you been checking out? Okay, well, I'm definitely gonna
talk more about this and the next few minutes. But I just watch Lady
Reporter the Eureka release. Wat Why are we going to talk about that?
Featuring a goddamn commentary? Three commentaries? Ye, so yeah, we're gonna
have a discussion about that, for sure. I'm continuing my typical research deep
dives and this is gonna be a combo recent watches and these still don't have
Blu Ray Edition restorations worlds. Somebody please release these. Well, so here's
a these are all something weird double features the defilers of course, Lee Frost
has gotten a release, but Scum of the Earth by Herschel Gordon Lewis has
not, and we definitely need Scum of the Earth restored just for the hell
of it and Blast Off Girls, great uh juvenile, delinquent movies. His
last couple movies Blood Feast two All You Can Eat featuring a John Waters cameo.
I feel like this needs a blue raye and The uh Oh Show,
which is quite good and features that one guy that one what clearly a research
piece, Mike Christopher, Joel Win Coop, all those dudes. And I
discovered what I think might actually be my favorite Hershel Gordon Lewis movie one I
had never seen before, a double feature of This Stuff Will Kill You,
featuring the very first appearance of Larry Drake, interesting of dark Man and La
Law and also he is doctor Giggles. Huh so Larry Jake's very first film
credit is Hershel Gordon Lewis is This Stuff will Kill You. But I think
Lewis's best movie, which is a political satire that came out before Robert Redford's
The Candidate, The Year of the Ahoo, about a marketing company attempting to
engineer a country singer Senate campaign sounds kind of like Robert Oltwin's Nashville as well.
In some Place, You're the a who's pretty good. I'm gonna be
uh is some of the Earth and the Feast box Set. I just checked.
Scum of the Earth is on Blu Ray in the Feast box set.
Well, yeah, that goes to the Forest nail Pod. Oh man,
that's funny too because the Herschel Warren Lewis said is right behind me. But
I guess, I guess I haven't. As as I revealed, I haven't
watched all of it yet. I'm still working my way through so those.
Oh, I also watch something else on streaming. I have to watch more
streaming stuff now because most of my collection is in boxes. But I didn't
think I would like this, and I did dash Cam. You liked dash
Cam? The Rob Savage, the guy who did host. I can see
you did not like dash Cam. I have not watched it yet because of
the people that I tend to agree with, which this checks out, because
you and I tend to be polar opposites. Most of them have said that
dash Cam is just insufferable, right because of any Clark's character. Yeah,
well she isn't. She's supposed to be. She's supposed to be. It's
like it's like an exaggerated version of herself. But man, her her life
story, her music is amazing, first of all, and her life story,
holy cow, just tragic and uh and yeah, you know some of
her some of her real life political views are to the right of me.
But she's not like the character on Some people say, oh, yeah,
she's a trumper. She's not a trumper. She she does that to piss
people off. She voted for Kanye so nothing wrong with that, right,
what a protest vote. I think it was pre uh you know, anti
semitism. But but I did I well, I'll say this, it was
only seventy eight minutes and I did get exhausted, right, Like like,
so I say, I liked it, but I'm not, like I don't
want to buy it, right, I don't want to see it again.
But like the scares in the movie, like really it takes a lot to
get to me, and the scares in that movie. For whatever reason,
I was like, whoa, you know, So that is not an endorsement
or a recommendation. I'm just it's something that I watched I totally get it.
Man. The Kanye thing just reminded me of the moment when I was
interviewing Bill Plimpton for Deaf Crocodile's release of the tune recently, and I was
like, yeah, it seems like Bill Plimpton was always there showing up in
a Kanye West music video and he goes, yeah, that was before all
of the other stuff. Well, you know, who knows what dark miss
lurks in the heart of a man until he spews it all over social media,
you know. And this is this is one of the reasons why I
think Bergmann is one of my favorite filmmakers, because you know, when it
comes to wallowing in the dark spaces of human psyche, he gets it.
And and that's where I've been the last several dozen years, just in this
dark space where I'm glad that I haven't had access to social media to to
to give voice to my inarticulable rage, resentment, depression, self loathing.
And you know, that's why Bergmann's right up there with Wainorski for me.
Get through that deaded was great job. That was amazing. Some recent watches
for me which I had a surprisingly busy week for myself speaking of things that
are a chore to get through. A lot of people have said that about
the most recent Scorsese film. Did you ever watch Killers of the Flower Moon?
Will No, not yet. It's at the end of my Scorsese festival.
Real quick, though, I need to respond to Sam who said I'm
being political. I'm not being political. I'm not endorsing Kanye West. Pay
attention to what I'm saying. It's sad tires, Sam. Come on.
My wife had not seen Killers of the Flower Moon, and we got away
this weekend, went away from the kids. They got to stay with Grahama
for a few days, and I got to rewatch Killers, and I canna
admit it worked a lot more for me on the second try, for some
reason. And I loved it the first time. It just it grew an
esteem. The second time. I thought it was remarkable achievement and honestly jumped
up to top tier Scorsese for me. Before it was hovering near like the
top of the middle, but it's it's pretty firmly in the top for me.
I think at this point the wife loved it. But unlike Dashcam,
that was seventy eight minutes and Killers of the Flower Moon is like three and
a half hours long. So yeah, well, and another thing that has
a common dash cam is neither of them on oscars. That's a good point.
That's a good point. After that, I was able to do a
double feature in a theater for the first time in like twelve years. I
don't think that I've been able to do that in ages since long before we
even had kids. So I was able to take my wife to see Late
Night with the Devil, and we followed that up with Maculate. Late Night
with the Devil I thought was pretty fun. I think it was very overhyped
by everybody out in the zeitgeist. I don't think it's God's gift to cinema
this year or anything like that. I think it was an interesting story.
I think there was a whole lot of missteps taken, Like the whole the
whole conceit of the found footage aspect kind of breaks when you realize that these
people are having very like personal conversations with a with a camera behind the scenes
of a TV show. That that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Obviously. It was good though, and I think it the ending paid off.
It was just a little abrupt like it was not paced super well.
But either way, I had fun. It was it was a fun watch.
But then after that Immaculate man, I could talk about Immaculate for the
next forty five minutes. I I don't be political. This is a very
political movie. I don't want to spoil anything for anybody, but speaking of
a political you know, stance on a movie, I think that in twenty
twenty four, it speaks a lot to talk about a movie called a maculate
that is referring to immaculate conception when we're talking about consent and women's rights in
a movie that is made to be horrifying in a very seventies fashion. I
think Sidney Sweeney absolutely killed it. I think that everybody should see Immaculate.
You should probably see it in a theater. It played really well in a
theater. Great sound again, continuing the trend that I noticed last year.
It seems like movies are stepping up their sound game. A lot of them
are really doing better, to do much better with surround sound. The atmost
is killing it. Great movie though, and it definitely like the last ten
minutes of that movie. He's worth the price of admission. Alone. I
think the director of that deserves everything that he's got coming towards him. I
hope he's got a couple blank slates coming up because he is great. Yeah.
I'm hoping to go see that this weekend. Maybe a double feature.
Who knows. It's difficult to get out of the theater, you know how
it is, but yeah, I want to do that. I did something.
Speaking of going out, I did something. Yeah, I interacted live
with Rock Hudson with the guest we had last week. Yeah, well,
John, we met up went to see Sleepy Time Guerrilla Museum. It's such
a When he told me that was the name of the band, I went,
yep, that's a band Will would like. Oh yeah, they're a
performance they've been around for like thirty some years. Performance are at Collective Very
Doda. That's where the name comes from Earth and they were great. But
the opening act was this instrumental like kind of like technical rock jazz improv thing.
Trevor Dunn from Mister Bungle was the bass player. And they're they're called
Titan to Takions. Highly recommend checking them out. Check out their band camp.
Tightened to Tacons. They were they they rocked the stage to oblivion and
it was cool. It was cool, you know, meeting a fellow film
fan, film collector in person and kind of interact, and you know,
it's hard for middle ages. He's he's not middle aged, but it's hard
for middle aged men to make friends, and particularly hard for me. It
helps when I can make that introduction and you happen to live twenty five minutes
away from him. Twenty five minutes, twenty five hours, it makes no
difference. It's hard. It's hard to leave the house. I actually happened
to watch a couple more after that too. We've talked about Rob Zombie a
bunch on this channel, and one that everybody always hounded me that I needed
to watch. I finally got to see thirty one, and man, was
that a slog did not care much for Rob Zombies thirty one. I liked
a couple of the scenes, but other than that, man was that movie
rough to watch. Other than that, I won't get too negative about it.
But the other one that I could probably get a little more negative about.
I saw Fincher's The Killer last year from last year, watched it this
week. I was very let down with that one too. Man, I
wanted so much more. But the Fincher style was there and that was cool,
but man, the style over substance did not really jibe with me.
I thought that a couple of performances were decent. Obviously, the action scenes
were very classic Inventure, which was nice, but everything in between was just
not working for me. I really wanted something else from it. I want
Fincher to go back to something like Zodiac. He really could shine with something
like that. But sorry, John, Sorry, Well it come as no
surprise. I'm not a fan. Could Did you actually watch it The Killer?
No? I haven't seen it yet, so I have nothing another positive
or negative to say about The Killer, But other films of finterest that I
have seen I have strong opinions about. I don't understand that he has made
some genuine masterpieces. What what Zodiac? First of all, that that is
absolutely for God's sake, you couldn't even figure out who the killer was.
That was really funny. I I still stand by the Social Network being an
absolute masterpiece. Okay, and then of course seven seven is great. I'm
not the FI. I'm trying to be positive. Oh got it? Got
it? Absolutely love it? I mean, I like I guess to me,
I guess to me, the Social Network is kind of like a remake
of Fight Club, except with nerds instead of rich, pretty boys. That's
not that's not a criticism. I just think they're the same movie. I
don't even know what to say to that. I mean, they're both.
They're both about guys who have imaginary friends and are kind of misogynistic. Anyways,
I wasn't saying that Fincher was misogynistic. I'm saying those characters. Anyways.
What anything else that we want to bring up before we get into announcements
for the night. Well, now I want to talk about all kinds of
things, but I won't. What was I going to say, Hey,
you know what I don't? You know, Stan hasn't made any comments.
But I'd like to point out at my point to my lighting, my thirteen
year old laptop finally died, and I had this other one that is five
years old that was still in a box in my old office, and so
I got it out and it had a dead battery, so I had to
get the battery replaced. But now I have a new five year old computer,
and I actually messed around with the ring light before we started and I
know it's not great, but I think I look better than usual. You
look pretty great. I will give you that. I don't, man,
I hate myself. Uh you know what I mean, Like you just get
those feelings deep inside and you can't shake them, even though you know you're
like a really lucky person, but you're just like ah, just you look,
you look in the mirror and just like fuck you, you know,
like what a gross loser, and and all that stuff was actually supposed to
just be an inner monologue. I'm sorry. Dave says we'll need to be
on stage at a comedy club. He'd kill it. I agree, he'd
kill something. I think I think I would get heckled out of there.
Political still, a wedded animator says I would love an individual Boxers omen Shop
Brothers release some day that throw in donation. Appreciate that, honestly agree.
I think that it would do fairly well for them too. There's if you
watched you know we're gonna talk about this in the announcements tonight. But there
was a conversation done with James flower Over at Aero Video this week posted that
on the channel, and he did confirm Shoscope Volume three is coming, I
believe this year, and it sounds like heads up for the big thing for
anybody that hasn't listened to it yet. The big thing that he dropped is
the first two Shoscopes hung around longer than they wanted to. They didn't sell
us quick. I think they printed more than they probably should have, but
basically said we're gonna be printing less of Shoscope volume three. So that means
if you want it, you're probably gonna want to buy volume three sooner than
the later. Dag nabit. Yeah. The other thing you brought up Fritz
Lang earlier, I wanted to ask, do you have the big Fritz Lang
silence box set that came up? Is that good? Yeah? Could you?
Could you expand on it? Because there's a reason I wanted to highlight
for everybody. Keino Lober is having their one of their big sales right now.
This Fritz Lange box set is on sale for only eighty dollars and it's
the cheapest it ever will be. So take this with a grain of grain
of salt, because I did manage to get that box set through my work,
and you know, because that even an eighty dollars, that's a hefty
price tag. And if you're not like into silent film, then there's no
point. But if you like Fritz Lan, if you are interested in silent
film grammar, like there's a whole different storytelling methods, if you're interested in
the kind of evolution of visual style of which Fritz Lang is probably one of
the top ten. Yeah, they're great. I mean the sets that I
mean, well, you get Metropolis, you know you get, but also
spies, like all these all these like early narratives when when filmmaking is still
figuring it out and Fritz Lang is figuring out faster than pretty much anybody else
and kind of incorporating all of the you know, artistic developments, expressionism,
et cetera. Like it's yeah, it's it's one of my favorites. I
want to clarify something. D Sibners said that I said Zodiac is bad.
I did not say that. He said he did not like it. I
said I didn't like it. Every movie is somebody's favorite movie. I learned
that like first month here, and it had changed my life for the better.
I used to hold hatred in my heart for others. Now I just
hold it for myself. I think it's I'm I'm like, I know I'm
joking around, but like I'm serious, Like I might not like a movie,
but it's it's rare if ever that i'll i'll say something is bad because
that's not that's not what a historian or film scholar writer. That's for a
critic. I'm not a film critic. There, you know, I agree
Silhouette. It also wants Invincible season one and two on Blu Ray. I've
heard good things. I've not been able to watch that one yet. Also
brought up Metropolis. That's a that's the big one. Of course, the
the Qunot release of Metropolis is still like one of the best releases they've put
out. I love that. Yeah, yeah, that's uh, that's what
we got going on. I wanted to shout out that Kenot thing because I
didn't realize that the that set was on sale this time, so I wanted
to make sure everybody could get the heads up because it doesn't go on sale
in most of the Kino sales no, I mean if if And it's also
like the packaging is really great. There's lots of great extras. I mean,
it's it's a it's a big investment, but like if you did the
like if you have bought any imprint box set in the last two years,
then you really don't have an excuse not to get this one. Well,
and I really I hate the idea of induced fomo will and I have talked
about this before. I hate like the whole this has down to five hundred
bite now if you really want it, not going to talk like that.
However, one thing I will say is last year, Kino did say that
it was going out of print soon. So this I'm not gonna say.
I know this for sure, but that Fritz set is probably on sale for
the last time because that thing, it doesn't even go on sale once a
year, and for it to go on sale if it's going out of print
soon, this is the time. Yeah, no fomo, but this is
your last chance essentially, yes, And I hate saying that, but also
this is one of those things that like again I think I talked about this
last week with under Crank. I also hate saying support some of these releases
just to support them, but like you can't go wrong with the Fritz said,
we need some of this for for for silence, like there's not enough
about it. Yes, I know I just said it about Shaskop. I'm
sorry. I'm not trying to induce Fobo. I promise induceo. Here's your
next creature. Oh gosh, it'll have to have stethoscope and it will be
a picture of you, and it says the doctor's in here to induce Foma.
Some the Clapper things we can make it like the doctor giggles. That's
great. I might have to photoshop. Then are our eleven thirty three asks.
If anyone has the anime Wong set, I do. I have not
watched it yet, but I love anime. Wong. Sam Egan's got a
commentary on one of the films, so I got it at the last sale,
so it was down to like twenty twenty five something with them. I
think Anthony has it. He might be commenting soon about that. I believe
he does have it. There he goes yep, Anthony just said yes.
It's like I can see through it. He is all that is man on
the thing tonight. He is not live at the moment. Oh okay,
well it's funny. I saw I'll just say it for the rest of the
audience. I saw all that his man's handle. I mean I've seen it
a million times, but I never really thought about it. And then I
was looking at it and all of a sudden, like some dialogue from the
Maximum Gorky play The Lower Depths came into my head. The Lower Depths,
you know, which Geen Renoir and a character I saw it both adapted into
film, and it's a great play and has this long section in which a
drunk you know, expounds on the sort of infinite complexity of human human beings
man, right, And I was like, wow, all that is man
is referencing the Lower Depths, you know. So I went back to the
script and or the play, you know, the script of the play,
and read the section to and it was more or less like all that is
Man is like a near direct quote. And I was like, wow,
that is deep for your handle. And then then I realized, oh no,
no, no, that's a Super Troopers quote. So never mind,
dude, says, I stopped to watching cat video. Might have missed something
important. Is Metropolis going out of print? The Fritz Long silent box set
is going out of print? Uh? Man? That was that was a
That was a lot. It was a lot, Like I'm not kidding.
I literally thought that for like a whole day, and then I was like,
oh, super Troopers, right right, Well, man, we are
almost forty two minutes into this and we haven't even seen a single announcement or
are we ready to get started? Sir? I don't think. I mean,
all the good stuff was last week. Well, I mean I'd argue
against that for sure. Mute Witness, Baby, I'm done, Witness.
Why don't you why don't you tell everybody why they why they should take a
look at that, which, by the way, just started streaming on shutter
If you have access to that, I like it, damn it. Oh
man, oh man. If you know, if you want to teach,
if you want to teach film students how to frame shots and edit for suspense,
you could do worse than Mute Witness. I'll tell you that. It's
just it's great. It was. It's been my number one film for many
years for like most desired Blu Ray upgrade, and now it's when it jumped
straight to the like, are you kidding me? I can't wait. It
was in you know, the Alamo draft House last December, and so I
got to see it in the theater. But before that, I'd only ever
seen it on you know, kind of a crappy looking DVD. And it's
funny, how like I talk about crappy looking DVDs when I grew up in
the VHS area era, and the crappiest DVD just looks like a VHS.
So the DVD looked better than the VHS did. But uh, yeah,
yeah, And I can't to hear the commentary. There's so many cool stories
about the making of the film. The filmmaker what's his name, Anthony Waller,
like he made this freaking masterpiece and then right after an American Werewolf in
Paris, and has even made anything since then. It's a good question.
I've not checked. But anyway, I looked over at the commentary and got
lost. The chat is flying tonight, so I totally get that. Yeah,
normally I can't see it, but now I've got a screen wide enough
to see it, and it's thrown me off. Man, I don't know.
So as a director, Anthony Waller since an American Werewolf in Paris,
he did The Guilty in two thousand and then Nine Miles Down in two thousand
and nine, and the Singularity is Near in twenty ten, and then something
called the Piper from last year. Okay, I don't know any of these.
I have to see if they're something I don't know. The one from
last year stars Elizabeth Hurley because oh Elizabeth Hurley, SA, I haven't heard
her name a long time? Right? Interesting? Interesting? All right?
That means it's time to transition over to announcements, and our first one this
week is a Keyno announcement with no release date, of course, coming soon
on Blu Ray. They are putting out Number one of the Secret Service.
This is coming as part of their Keno Cult line. I've been dying to
hear. Have you seen this one? Will? Because it seems like most
people have not, but this one. I looked this up. This thing
looks hilarious. I'm trying to remember if I've ever even seen the box art
before, but I don't think my video store had this. Any of the
video stores I worked out had this. H I don't know. It looks
fun, I am. I'm certainly eager to see it and mean Keto cole
line. If they get as many extras as they've been getting on some of
these others, it's gonna be pretty great. M can't really argue with it.
But then immediately we got a big announcement from them that they're putting out
bottom from last year on Blu Ray And yeah, I assume you did not
see this one last year. No, but they said it was I don't
well, I don't really read reviews until after I see a movie. But
it looked funny, right, It's it's great. I've seen it three times.
I love this movie. Wow, it's got that really funny actress from
The Bear. No, from Shiva Baby No, well, yeah that too.
But I'm thinking of what's that game? That game? Uh, Pete
Davidson's in it. Oh uh uh gosh, I don't even remember what the
what the title was, Body's Bodies Bodies, that's it. I liked Bodies,
Bodies Bodies. Body's Body's Bodies was great. Yeah. Rachel Sennett,
she is incredible and she's the best in this easily. Aodbris is the one
from The Bear that she Uh. I think she just got an Emmy for
that performance in The Bear too, But she had a hell of a year.
This movie is amazing. There's a whole lot of people that said,
uh, that this one should have been on four K. Honestly, it's
a bit of a risk for Keno to put this out at all. We
don't know the right situation. There's so many things that could have come into
play, but this is this is an incredible movie. I highly recommend you
checking this out. This is a really great like satire piece. There's so
many things in this that are just subtly funny in the background, like you
got to read the chalkboards as they go through some of the classrooms, and
the dialogue is just a masterclass. It is hilarious and will I think you
would appreciate a lot of the humor in this what because it is over the
top and leaning into the silliest of things. You think I'm silly? Yes,
Yeah, this movie's great. Highly recommend it. Moving on from here,
we're gonna talk about a big one now, Chinatown coming on four K
on June eighteenth from Paramount as part of their Paramount Presents line, and with
it you also get the two Jakes on Blu Ray not on four K for
that one, but after this got announced, they also put out some new
features that are coming on this We got author Sam wasan Is speaking about Chinatown
Hot cook share stories from his time as the ad on this film. We've
got the author again discussing the planned third installment of this trilogy that never happened.
But man Chinatown, this is a big title, and this is one
that of course, it gets announced on April first, and people immediately think
it's a joke. And it doesn't help that, Uh the art that they're
using for Did you look closely at this? How bad this is? Yeah,
that's some AI retouching or something that's more than retouching. That's like somebody
typed in the words give me a young Jack Nicholson in a hat, and
this is what we got. This is this is pretty bad. Yeah,
well hopefully the four KR scan doesn't look like that. Let me tell you
that looks waxy. Yeah, but it's China, you know. It's Uh,
it's a no, no, no way you can comment on it.
It's a It's a really well made movie, one that certainly had a huge
impact on film and film history. Two Jake's was less successful in many ways.
But I kind of think it's cool that that it's included as a bonus.
I think that's appropriate in some ways. Yeah, maybe the cover art
is the April Fool's joke. I hope so, but yeah, as a
big disc Energy pointed out, paramount transfers are usually pretty good. So oh,
I mean they're about fifty to fifty. I think I would say that's
not a good percentage. No, it wasn't. I will say they have
been on an upswing over the last like nine or ten months. Their stuff
has been improving. But the big thing Brian here says the four K has
been playing in the cinemas recently and he heard from a friend that it was
an amazing restoration. Okay, so well, I am hopeful. I'm gonna
stay positive. Yeah, this is a big deal. This is a big
title obviously. Stan says, it's a stone called Classic Nikomedes. Two Jakes
broke my Heart. It was their opening night, then Harvey's I was,
uh. The first time I saw Chinatown, I was like, Wow,
what's this mystery gonna be? And then when the mystery is resolved, I
was like, what the whoa? And then I was like, I guess
this is a metaphor for America. I don't know, but that's pretty great.
Oh man, that is a really funny reaction. Right after this,
it was the first of the month. Like I said, it was April
first, so of course we jumped straight into my OCN announcements, the first
being the title that will just mentioned. Cynthia Rothrock's Lady Reporter is a part
of the Vinegar Syndrome slate for this month. This is coming with a newly
restored by Vinegar Syndrome master on. This includes the eighty eight minute Hong Kong
theatrical version in Cantonese with English subs, and the ninety minute English language export
version. There is a new commentary with Frank Jing on the Hong Kong version,
which is different than the commentary that's on the Eureka version. Frank,
did you not know that different? He did two different Frank does the same
film commentaries for multiple companies all the time and never allows repeated commentaries. Wow,
he sets out to do a brand new one every single time. Impressive.
Okay, So but to be clear, I'm not I think I'm suggesting
people get both because all right, so they have the same restoration, right,
No, Vinegar Syndrome is doing different restorations. There's screenshots that show that
they do look a little bit different already. Okay, so different restoration,
but this the Eureka has three commentaries, including the original Frank Jang with Vincent
Lynn. Uh and there's a Manghoi interview. So if you so this is
this is a situation where double dipping actually results in completely different experiences. If
you if you love Cynthia Rothrock or this movie, this is one that you
might want to get both because the special features are fully different. Well now
it looks like the same Cynthia Rothrock interview though, are they're they're both fourteen
minutes. I thought that was different too. Shit, I don't know,
maybe it's different. Wow. Either way, it's a lot. Maybe there's
a lot of rothrocking happening lately. I'm telling you that's a rough rocaissance in
these And I mean, if you're my age, your adolescence was spent.
If you had cable, your adolescence was spent. You know, pretty much
thinking that Cynthia Rothrock was the biggest martial art art star in the world,
because like, if you're watching late night Cinemax or Showtime, it's like just
Rothrock after Rothrock. It's amazing. Anyway, I thought Later Reporter was pretty
good. I enjoyed it. That is a rousing endorsement from Will. I
Will say, a lot of people pointing out that they don't love this cover.
The big thing for me is a lot of the Vineger syndrome stuff has
been done by the same artist lately, and they all just look the same.
They're leaning into the same coloring, they're leaning into the same character drawing.
All of it just feels like it's repeating itself over and over again.
Anyways, if you love Cynthia Rothrocky, you might want to get both of
Eureka and the vs of Lady Reporter. Wow. Yeah, that's what I
got room for that. Well, I'm automatically getting because it's in the subscription,
So there you go. This next one, we are getting a blu
ray of the House where Death Lives from nineteen eighty one. This is the
one that they were teasing with this promo picture of the skull in the arch.
This one is also called Delusion. I think more people know this one
is Delusion rather than the House where Death Lives. This is from nineteen eighty
one. This is newly scanner restored in four K from the OCN commentary track
on this with the Hysteria Continues podcast interview with the actor John Dukakis interview with
actor David Hayward and then Stephen Thrower speaks on this one for twenty five minutes.
Pretty solid looking release in the sub Have you seen this one? Joey
c my man, Joe Cotton bringing the gravitas. This had to be one
of his last movie, right, maybe the last one. I don't need
one around there, so now I haven't seen it. You know, this
has been on my two C list for a long time. If Stephen throw
has got some words for it, I've got some I've got some room.
I kind of figured that was coming next up as part of the Vinegar Syndrome
slate. This is also coming as part of the subscription for all these subscribers,
which story coming on four K. This is from nineteen eighty nine.
This is a two disc set four K and Blu Ray. You've got HDR
on this and it is coming with a commentary track with Troy Howard, Nathaniel
Thompson and a Eugenio eric Alani interview with the director Alessandro Capone, interview with
the producer Giuseppe Peter Sally, interview with the cinematographer Roberto Giremedi and British actors
in Italian horror. There's a seventeen minute video essay by Mike Foster, and
then we've got some archival stuff. There's a forty four minute archival making of
documentary, some raw audition footage, and image gallery. Looks like a pretty,
uh pretty chock full release of this one, though, I gotta admit,
did not see many great reviews of this one. Have you seen this
one? No? I mean, I'm always up for a good well which
story, so I'm looking forward to checking it out. I never believe reviews.
I get that. Actually, I just I never believe anybody any about
anything anymore. I've just been I've been fucked over so much in my life.
Like you know, you can't believe your boss, you can't believe your
employee, you can't believe your friends, you can't believe your family, can't
believe anything anybody says. So why I'm I gonna believe some internet review?
I just can't believe you argued with me for twelve minutes that you look decent
tonight? Who said that? You? What about it? You argued with
me for twelve minutes after I said you looked decent. I didn't believe yet
that was the joke, quill, come on, all right, continuing continuing
on down the line. I'm wow they reinstated this. I'm shocked they pulled
this and I had to repost it again. So I guess I can pull
the repost. I guess. So here we are. I'll show the back
just well. The pack is awful. So we're getting Kinski's Paganini from nineteen
eighty nine. This is the sole directorial effort from Klaus Kinski, newly restored
in two K from its thirty five milimeter OCN. This one my gosh.
New commentary track with agen Eric Alani and Troy Howarth. Audio interview with the
actress Deborah Caprioglio, That's wrong. Interview with the music consultant and violinist Salvatory
Acardo. Interview with the sound man, interview with a unit manager. Interview
with the film historian and Eugenie or Kalani. We've got a ninety five minute
English language director's cut sourced from tape on this. We've got some press conferences
from cann We've got behind the scenes footage that's almost an hour long. There
is a lot of stuff on this disc. We have talked about Kinski,
a lot behind the scenes recently. How do you feel about Kinski and this
one? This is a trick question. You're trying to get me canceled tonight.
Maybe Kinski was a troubled man who did some unforgivable things. He was
a very talented actor and gave some wonderfully nuanced and eccentric performances. I'm loving
all these comments. I've not seen this one. Have you Have you seen
this one? I feel like you have. I think I've only seen clips
of it, which is something I really hate when my students say, like
I say, as anybody's seen this movie, They're like, They'll say yes,
and then they say, well I saw clips, right, Like,
I'm like, well, you needn't see it, so I'm going to say
no. But it's definitely been something I've read a lot about. I read
Kinski's autobiography and of course all things Verner Hertzog. So this was, yeah,
I did. I picked this up. This was one of a couple
of titles that I picked up on announcement day. Well the big thing and
I don't want to harp too much on this because it's stuff that people have
talked about for quite some time. But this is coming as not a part
of the subscription, but this is a part of the Vinegar Syndrome Labs line,
which is one of their sub labels, and it says they are hoping
to expand and defy expectations with the diversity of films that they restore and release.
This is a testing area for releasing genres and eras of film that one
might not immediately expect to come from VS. This feels like a quintessential Vinegar
Syndrome title. How is this not a part of the subscription? Like?
I don't want to lean too much into it or be too much of a
complainer about it, but this feels just like, let's sell this on the
side so that subscribers don't get it and we can charge more money. Any
thoughts, You know, I'm totally naive about the business side of things.
I always wish everything would be part of the subscription, just because that would
be easier on my pocketbook. I don't know. I mean, how many
VSLs have been released, like four or five something like that. Yeah,
and most of them have been like older like B movies type titles. Am
I remembering correctly? They've also they've been all over the place they started with
the couple old old like forties and fifties titles. But that's what I'm thinking
about. But that's not where they all went. They've started just kind of
throwing other random titles that normally would have been VS titles. Well, I
don't know, I guess. I guess we'll have to give it a few
more releases to see if they truly are living up to their ambitions. I
don't know, And I don't know if the cover art certainly and the trailer
make it make it look like it certainly belongs in the Vinegar Syndrome catalogs,
so but I don't know. There's so many different sub labels now I can't
tell what's what. Yeah, I can't argue with that. I fully agree
with it. It's it's really hard, and you should imagine, like,
if you're gonna have sub labels, I should be able to hear the title
or what it's, what's it about, and guess what sub label it's going
to be on. Oh, I see what you mean, because there's a
reason for it to be there. But this is this is klaus Kinski in
nineteen eighty nine. This isn't from an era that doesn't make sense for VS.
This doesn't seem like something that's out of the realm of normal VS titles.
This just seems like a VS title. Well, I'll let you in
the next month what I think of it. All right, Next, this
is one that so far has a pretty solid identity. I would say the
next cinematograph title is a blu ray of Paul Schrader's touch from nineteen ninety seven.
We got some massive names in this one. Christopher Walkin, Skeet Ulrich,
Bridget Fonda, Tom Arnold that was a massive name, Tom Arnold making
his cinematograph debut, Gina Gershan's in this, and the man ll coolj as
well. But the cool thing like this is going to be the standard cinematograph
type titled media book in one of these hard cases, all that fane stuff
that they do. But they got a new video interview with Paul Schrader himself,
new audio commentary with Howard s Berger and Steve Mitchell on this new video
essay by Daniel Kramer. There's essays by Chris Cabin and Bill Jabiri, and
then a filmmaker and writer, Cosmo Bjorkenheim, also did an essay for this
one as well. Schrader getting a lot of love recently. Well, now
I'm confused because Patty Hurst is VS. So why is Touch cinematic? Now?
I think this is a This was a welcome and surprise announcement for me.
It fills a gap in my Paul Schrader both collection and viewing because I
haven't seen Touch. So that was another title that I picked up on day
one. Nice. Nice, Since Skeet Alrich got mentioned, I gotta say
this, So, the most of the cast of the original Scream are going
to be at Galaxy Con this summer, which is in Raleigh. Well,
it's all over the place, but the one your means in Raleigh. And
I was so Nev Campbell and Skeet Alrich and Jamie Kennedy and Matthew Lillard are
going to be there. And I was looking up prices for what you have
to pay to like take a picture with him, and and wouldn't you know
it, Lillard and all Rich are charging more than Nev. But Nev,
you do have to pay a little bit more for Nev than you do for
Jamie Kennedy. I'm not shocked there it's ten bucks cheaper for Jamie that I
mean that right. There is my problem with cons nowadays is everything is just
so damn expensive. On top of paying to get in the door, and
then you have to pay for a picture. You got to pay for an
autograph, pay for everything. Yeah, if you want to get your picture
taken with Londa Hamilton, it's like one hundred and seventy bucks or something like
that. Jesus, And that's for a cell phone picture. That's like for
a selfie, not a pro photo op. That's the crazy thing. Oh
wow, I don't know. I've never I've never really done cons. I
don't know how that stuff works, but i'd like to. I just well,
they're crowded. They are very crowded. That's ah, that's my problem.
Moving on to the next There is the next VS Publishing comic available.
You can get Maniac to Roadkill. This is a wild looking set. I
hope some people are checking these out and loving these. It's it looks pretty
great, it says. This box contains freshly minted and rebranded editions of each
issue with new pages, colors, and graphic design, including the never before
published issue number four, more than a year in the making. You're gonna
get with this. Two eleven x seventeen posters not available in any other edition,
and a bunch of bookmarks, trading cards, newsletters, and art prints.
Some cool art. Yeah, something for the kids. Going to the
next one. A bunch of new merch dropped on the site. The first
is they did one of their Degosser videos, the limited led Deluxe VHS things
for Blonde Death. You can see what that looks like there that lights up.
Then they also did a VS. Catacomb's art print and if you like
that design you can get a VS. Catacomb shirt and then a pebble gray
variant as well. Okay, I no genitals on these, Nope, this
is something you can wear in front of the kids. It seems like,
well, I don't know if it depends on how young the kids are.
I guess that is nightmare inducing, h I guess. Uh. Then we
got into some partner labels. Let's get into it. First film Movement is
putting out all about Lily Chu Chu from two thousand and one, and I
believe this is just a repress of a previous title they did with a slipcover,
and I think that's it. It does say there's a new essay by
Stephen Kremen, who's the deputy director of the NYA Film Festival. Not sure
if that's actually new or if it's like new from their release and it's carried
over anyways, because sometimes that verbage can mean that. But chow chow,
that's what I meant? Sorry seven? Or come on? Did you say
choo choo? I did? I was reading quickly. I didn't even it
didn't even register. I'm still in training. Oh man, that was that
was awful this one though, lots lots of praise on this one and Film
Movement. One thing I really wanted to say. One of the big things
that is cool about them becoming a partner label is their titles are generally pretty
great titles, and they've historically been pretty expensive, although they do sales fairly
often, but even then they're they're pretty pricey to get. But this,
like, if you're a subscriber and you can get the discount already, this
is a pretty damn good price. So this is one that if you're if
you're super into some of these Film Movement titles, you got this at a
decent rate, not too bad. This says for kids around the world,
music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes
too much to bear. Yuichi's in the eighth grade and he worships Lily.
I'm not even gonna say the last name a byork like shantuis, I don't
know how to say that word, Who's epic music is lush and transcendent.
Yuichi only lives for Lily's big Tokyo concert, where the lies and violence can
be washed away by the presence of his goddess and her powerful music. But
fate has yet another obstacle in store for Lily's devoted fan chantoos, that's what
I meant. Yeah, good look and release. Yeah um, going to
the next one. Daniel Isn't Real. This is coming from Yellow Veil Pictures.
This is a title from twenty nineteen and the big draw on this is
Patrick Schwarzenegger was in this arrow put this out a couple of years ago in
the UK and I got that release. Have you seen this movie yet?
Patrick? Was that the guy in the Jen Jens V show. That's I
know he did some show. Real sad about that young actor Dan? Yeah
no, I don't know. Daniel isn't real. I saw. I watched
the trailer and it looked like it could go either way from me, So
I'll probably uh check this out on streaming. First, I will say,
this movie has a lot of really great ideas and uh it's it falls flat
on some of them. I don't think the movie works as a whole,
but there's there's some really good stuff in it and the acting. Honestly,
for a fairly low budget like thriller type movie, it's pretty good. Dallas
Dallas Jones likes it. Dallas is Daniel isn't real. It's awesome. Major
Elm Street vibes. Interesting Elm Street vibes. I did not get that the
first time. But yeah, this this movie is pretty good. Got some
decent scenes in it. I don't think that tagline and pretty much sums up
my philosophy those listening later. It says the mind will do anything to avoid
confronting just how alone it is in the year. Sounds like I need to
check it out. Then, ironically this means I'm not alone. Maybe somebody
else feels alone in the exact same way. Well, it could just be
a simulation. I had a friend once, just once, and and she
said something she said something that I thought was very wise in being frustrated around
other people. She said, I just want to go somewhere where I can
hate everyone from a distance. And I was like, yeah, yeah,
that sounds good. And you know that German novel Perfume. Oh I don't.
They did a film version of it, I've heard. Well, anyway,
so Perfume is about this this this this child of squalid, squalid origins
who grows up abused and unloved, but he has an incredible gift of old
factory power and he finds that he can make the most exquisite perfumes and the
best ones are have essential oils from recently murdered people. And uh so he
becomes a mass murderer and everything, and there's some there's some other stuff in
there too. But there's a there's a scene in the book. Well,
it's a section I guess where he kind of comes of age and murders his
foster parent and he goes into the wilderness and he finds this cave and he
goes into the cave and he finds that there's a spot in the cave where
he can sit perfectly still and on one side he can just barely turn his
head, and there's a steady drip of water, and he can turn his
head the other way, and there's a replenishing, edible lichen on the rocks,
so he can he can gain substance. And he sits there, perfectly
still, in the silent darkness alone for like nine years. And part of
what he's supposed to convey is is you know, the like absolute inhumanity of
this person. Right, this guy is bad news. But when I read
it, I was like, God, that sounds great. I want to
do that. I love that. That was like the punchline leads we were
leading up to Dallas clarified what he meant. He says it has elm Street
two vibes, and then in parentheses hom Homoerotic Dream Demon. I just want
to see a movie actually called homo Erotic Dream Demon. Now okay, and
now I'm actually sold. That sounds great. Dallas wants to know if you're
stoned. Will no, but I will say, this is this is what
you get when I do not have fermented grade. This is this is this
is what happens when when doctor Dodson is drinking water. I love this.
Next Utopia is put out Drift from twenty twenty two. This is starring Cynthia
Rivo and ali As shot Kat. Which that alone, it was enough to
get me to be say like that every time. Yes, Yes I will.
Jacqueline, a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island,
where she tries first to survive and then to cope with her past.
While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour guide,
and together they find the resilience to forge ahead. This one looks pretty good.
Yeah. You know, here I am whining and complaining about my problems.
I'm sitting here in a perfectly air conditioned room surrounded by you know,
movies, and here here's jacqueline struggle, actual struggles. I I watched the
trailer this and looked, you know, I mean, looked like some some
standard stuff for trauma narratives like this. But what I could see of the
performances looks pretty intriguing. Yeah, I definitely want to see this looks like
a good one in my opinion. Next one is one that so what do
you want to go back to the last one? No? No, I
really want to see this one. This one looks amazing. Everybody's talking about
this one Canadian International Pictures putting out the Great Land of Small. If you
recognize this illustrated face here on the front, that is the gentleman from Twin
Peaks. This is from nineteen eighty seven, and it says, armed with
a sack of gold dust and five magic spells, kind hearted dwarf Fritz leaves
his fantastical home to test the intentions of humans. Soon after his arrival,
he crosses pass with Flannagan, a shady hunter who makes off with the magical
gold and starts plotting evil deeds. After forging a friendship with siblings Jenny and
David, Fritz takes them to the alternate dimension he calls home the Great Land
of Small, as the authority search for the missing children. Jenny and David
are wowed by a fantastical world of acrobats and a gold spitting creature known as
Slimo, But when the King and Queen plot to make those kids their own,
Fritz must risk his own well being to get them home and stop planning
again from wreaking magic havoc. That sounds wild, Yeah, yeah, A
lot of people don't know there was a sequel Fritz ex Leprechaun was. It
was kind of like one of Jason versus Freddy things, King Kong, Godzilla
things kind of went the way of the Roger Korman Fantastic Four, moving in
that both are awesome and deserve rediscovery. Well, the big thing, if
you watch all of Reconnected over the last month or so, you might recognize
New World Pictures podcast. Ryan was on an episode recently and they are on
this disc. The episode of the New World Pictures podcast covering the Great Land
a small is available here, which that's amazing. I am so stoked on
that. Congrats to Ryan and the rest of the podcast. That's a big
deal. Good podcasts worth of subscribe people. That's a good endorsement. The
rest of this we got a new commentary with Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth,
Busy Busy People, New interviews with stars from this film, new interview with
the visual effects producer. We've got Blaze discussing the animation techniques used in the
film. There's an episode of the classic public Access TV show featuring Michael J.
Anderson. There's also an archival interview with some people from the series,
and so much more that again I could not type it all. It's wild
how much is on this disc. Canadian International Pictures is one of like three
labels that always there's so much on their discs you can't even hear everything that
they're putting on there. There's also a booklet featuring an essay by film programmer
Ark Lamoth. Uh this this looks like a winner for sure. So I
gotta stop there because Stan said something that caused my heart to go flutter.
Stan knows the guy that played the human torch in the final or Fast Fantastic,
as far as I'm conserved, the only Fantastic four movie. Uh,
that's Jay Underwood, Right, isn't that Jay Underwood. I've not thought about
that one in a long time, am I right? I gotta look it
up now he is? Oh my god, Stan, I'm the biggest Jay
Hunderwood fan that ever lived. The Boy Who Could Fly? Are you kidding
me? One of the greatest films in the history of cinema. I love
that your star struck because Stan mentioned him. Dude, you don't understand Jay
Underwood. He he should have been the Ryan Gosling of his era. J
Underwood is such, He's got the pathos man, like you can. He
didn't have to say a word, and like all the emotions of the world
are in that face. Oh he was the best. He was in some
movie where he was Robot two. I can't remember the name of that one,
but I love Jay Underwood. Oh, Stan, we're gonna have to
talk, Okay. The great Land is small. That's definite pickup. Love
cip. The movie looks crazy. All the kids stuff they've been doing it.
It has been. They're great, just great what they're doing. But
the big seller for this month, this thing sold out very very fast.
Man, I didn't get a chance. AGFA has put out Hey folks,
it's the Intermission Time video party. This thing. The slipcover sold out in
two hours and the standard edition sold out in five hours. Just a heads
up for everybody. This will be reprinted. This was not a limited title
or anything like that. This will be back. But man, this uh,
this flew off the virtual shelf. For those that don't know, this
is a Something Weird compilation and says in the nineteen ninety something Weird video gifted
humankind with Hey folks, It's Intermission Time, a series of six magical VHS
compilations that preserved vintage movie and driven ads. Hey Folks, It's the Intermission
Time Video Party is a loving tribute to those cathode tube fueled days featuring Hey
Folks, It's the Intermission Time Mixtape, an exclusive feature length mixtape from the
AGFA team, as well as all six volumes of the original uncut Something Weird
VHS releases from the nineties. This two disc collection serves as a mind altering
time machine to a beloved era in home video history. Two discs, both
region free, and we've got a lot on here. We've even got commentaries
with Brett Berg and Joe Ziemba on the first disc. There, we've got
the original uncut Something Weird VHS compilations, Like I said, and then on
disc two, transferred from the original Something Weird s VHS masters. Hey folks,
it's Intermission Time. You got three through six. This is wild.
It's sold so fast. Yeah, no, fomo here, this is Yomo.
You missed out. I really would have liked to see this, but
you know what, since this is impossible, I think we should spend this
moment putting out vibes in the boutique Blu Ray universe that the boy who could
Fly starring Jay Underwood, directed by Nick Castle. Uh, with Fred Gwinn
and Fred Savage. That's a lot of big names and Bonnie Badelia. Bonnie
Badelia can be restored and I definitely you know it would be a great cinematograph
title. Uh who who owns that? Do we know? I don't know.
Man, probably mg fucking M. So Amazon will do it as a
BDR. What Amazon's been putting out burned discs of MGM titles because they own
the MGM. I don't know if it's MGM or not. I just heard
they're difficult to work with. Everybody's talking about The Boy Who Can Fly?
Now good? I want that movie? Is? Oh god? It so
and Nick Castle? Nick Castle is underrated as a director. Uh. The
intermission time ag release was a delightful surprise. Looking forward to the upgrade,
Craig is pointing out the big thing. This thing has seven hundred and eighteen
minutes of content. It's like it's like three Killers of the Flowers move.
I love that you just scored it. Oh man, Yeah, that's a
that's quite quite true. Speaking of Craig, why don't we talk about kin
dot Za. Kin dot Za is available from Deaf Crocodile this month from nineteen
eighty six. This is of course available on the VS site or direct on
the Deaf Crocodile site. You can order it now, it's available. Get
on it this one. I'm gonna read this synopsis, then we're gonna talk
about this at full Imagine Andre Tarkowsky Circus Solaris directing Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy, and you'll I'm close to the existential weirdness of the wonderful,
loopy Soviet era sci fi comedy Kinzatsa two average Muscovites, a plane spoken
construction foreman and a Georgian student carrying a violin case, and counter an odd
homeless man on the street who asked, tell me the number of your planet
in the Tentura. In a flash, they're teleported across the universe of the
planet Pluk in the Kinzatza galaxy, a tattooine like desert world whose inhabitants are
hilariously non communicative. Their main words are coup for good and Q for very
bad, and where common wooden matches are tremendously valuable. Tell Us about Kinzatza
will well for once, there are no there's no exaggeration in the in the
kind of tagline it really Tarkowski directing The Hitchhiker's Guide is pretty at white apped.
Yeah, it's a fantastic film. Uh it's the director is Georgian And
this was made towards the end of Glass Ghost as the Soviet Union was kind
of beginning to break up, right before the fall of the Soviet Union,
and very satirical towards the kind of bureaucratic machinations of the Soviet censorship state.
I don't want to say any more about the film because I want you to
watch it and watch the special features. But it was really a revelation and
I want to I want to I don't mean to be like schmancy, but
I want to thank Craig and Dennis at def Crocodile for having us on there,
because up until this point we had only done genre films and it was
really cool to them to take a chance and trust us to produce something for
you know, different kind of film, one that's you know, more yeah,
high brow, I guess yeah. I love this film. Really proud
of the visual essay we did I managed to get an interview with David A.
Cook, who is an expert on Eastern European and former Soviet satellite state
cinema. Really is an expert on film history all over the world. So
it's great. And you know the mhmm, Walter Walter Chow chaw chaw commentary
I want, is it? I'm sure it's not true. I am sure
on this one, yes, Walter Chaw. The print is too small for
me, but I'm interested in learning more about the film. So yeah,
so on this disc in case that was not enough to sell you. New
restoration from the OCN and sand Elements by Most Film. New hour long video
interview with the lead actor about the making of this and the contributions of his
father, who is a co writer, and that is moderated by Dennis from
Deaf Crocodile. New video interview about Kinzatza on the rich history of Soviet science
fiction cinema with comics artists Stephen Arbassett. That's really damn cool. New commentary
by film critic Walt Chaw, Like we said, new written essay by Justin
Humphries and then, as Will alluded to, he and I have a visual
essay on this called Gotta Match on Vodka and Vinegar at the End of History.
And to back up what Will said, I canna be honest. I
think this is the this is the visual essay that we've done that I'm by
far the most proud of. I think that there's a lot of really great
information here, and we built some humor into it. I don't want to
say by far I will at at least the ones have been announced and the
big thing there is there. There's like no way to explain how wild the
history of this movie is. Like you're seeing right here in the back of
the slip cover a frickin' ferris wheel in the middle of a desert. So
they built a ferris wheel in Russia and then shipped it hundreds of miles away
to put it back together in the middle of the desert to film this.
They did that with all kinds of stuff. They had all kinds of scenery
built for this that looks like the closest thing to say is steampunk, but
it's not even really steampunk. Uh, it's it's such a weird like apocalyptic
sci fi, just oddity. This is one of those movies that I genuinely
is a masterpiece. And I think that finally, now that it's got a
real English language release, this is gonna go like in the pantheon a big
deal releases for people that like especially Eastern European sci fi stuff. This is
gonna be up there with like on the Silver Globe and those types of releases.
In my opinion, this movie is a genuine masterpiece. Cool. Yeah,
it's it's been on It's been on like lists of like best movie you've
never heard of. Yeah, for Western audiences for forever. It was highly
regarded when it came out, you know, and it's home country. But
yeah, this is a big one. Next up another one that has sold
pretty damn quickly. Saturn's Core is putting out Mom and Pop the indie video
store boom of the eighties and nineties, and it seems like almost every single
partner label has put out a document menory on home video stores at this point,
or on the history of physical media or something like that. But this
one is a big one because it's been made pretty recently. This is a
twenty twenty three film and Mark from Orbit DVD is featured in this documentary.
They speak to him he's on camera. Quite a few names that you might
recognize. Joel d win Koop, who was mentioned earlier, is in this,
I believe, Lloyd Kaufman, Tim Ritter, a few others. This
has an audio commentary with the director, bonus interviews with some people that did
not make the documentary, extended interviews, behind the scenes, still gallery,
the Creature Preachers music video, and a few more things on this disc.
Looks like a fun release, though, Man, I missed before Blockbuster,
you know, because it used to be you'd go in, it'd be it'd
always be like in a kind of interesting part of town, like some concrete
building, walking and the clerk's like smoking a cigarette watching you know, something
inappropriate on black and white TV. And there's no organization like blood Orgy,
the she Devils, and like clean and sober next to each other. Right,
What a great way to to learn about movies, you know, Dallas
says the chick on the cover looks like nineties Lisa Lobe a little bit.
Oh man, hey, you could do worse than nineties, Lisa Lobe,
my friend. It's a good point. I also love the perfect synchronicity of
we have Gholies too, animated on this and we're going to talk about ghoulies
to tonight. Can't wait? Uh, all right coming, that's like,
that's like Lisa Lobe, Daria and Janine Grafflo I'll mix together, which would
be my Perfect Woman and it would sell like fourteen copies on MTV for some
reason, even though it's the perfect demographic. Next up is another pretty big
one again, really great month for partner labels, Bleeding Skull putting out The
Other Dimension and the films of Fabio Seleerno. This is big closing the gap
between dreams and reality. Fabia Seleerno's films are the missing link between Dario Argento
and George and Mike Kuchar. What are we laughing at? Now? That's
a funny comparison. Sure is the Other Dimension in the films of Fabias.
Silearno is a two disc set that presents the late Selenos complete filmography for the
first time in North America, from the accomplished anthology The Other Dimension to the
fan favorite short ARP. These diy art house horror films from Italy are true
discoveries for adventurous horror heads. We have a forty sorry four hundred and forty
one minute combined two discs. Here these are gonna have English subtitles. You've
got a bunch of shorts, a bunch of features. This was released in
Europe, I believe, but it did not have all of the shorts.
So this is a comprehensive, giant release of this one. Have you seen
anything from Fabio No, but I'm certainly interested in doing so now. Bleeding
School brand new, relatively partner label, and they have put out some pretty
big things so far. That's it's been a big year for them. Not
everything's sold out before I can get it though. A Blond Death went pretty
damn quick that first month, all right, Next one, another big one.
Enjoy the Ride, which we've all talked about in the past, and
multiple multiple areas of the spectrum on how we feel about them. Out in
the Ring is their next title. This is from twenty twenty two, and
this is a documentary that explores the rise and history of LGBTQ plus professional wrestlers
and representation in the sports. This is going to be a region a lock
blue ray. It's got a trailer, exclusive clips and outtakes, a commentary
track with the director and the editor as well and this one, I gotta
admit, looks pretty damn good. Yeah. Always. I don't really like
wrestling, but I like wrestling documentaries, especially one like this. Yeah,
I completely agree. Next up, Quantum Cowboys. This is coming from Factory
twenty five. This is a twenty twenty two film. And this one,
the big Thing is a number one headline on This is starring Lily Gladstone.
She didn't get an oscar for this one either. I don't know why,
not entirely sure, but I gotta admit I know a few people that have
seen this, and I was, unfortunately a little saddened to hear what they
thought of it, Basically that it's pretty dreadful. I I wanted to love
this, and I still plan on watching this. Looks looks interesting, But
man, look at the stills for this before you purchase it, just an
FYI. Check out the way that it's filmed. It is a very unique
looking movie. And it's like, uh, it's like, uh, it's
like that uh link later movie with the anime all the different animation styles.
Right, you are right, yeah, it looks just like that. What
movie was that? I tell you, man, the alcohol rots your brain?
My uh my, memory used to be like that was the main thing
that I had going for me, is I could remember all this stuff a
scanner darkly, And now I've just pickled. I'm pickled, man, I've
been pickled. Waking Life is the one I was thinking of. Oh,
I was thinking of Scanner Darkly. Well, anyway, you're pickled. I'm
pickled, man. I kind of want to see this in part because of
all the I really like Ho Gelb you know, the Giant sand Yeah,
he's in it, and uh Nic Nico Case, John Doe, you know,
some real some real rock royalty, uh in this in this? Yeah,
oh man, let's go to the next one. Next is I was
gonna I was gonna talk about quantum lovers do it? Go ahead. Well,
it's just all philosophical and stuff about the nature of memory. That's that's
why we're here to help you. Yeah, which is ironic that I'm I'm
here like forgetting everything all of a sudden. Maybe I'm part of the movie.
But yeah, you know, I like pretentious stuff like that, you
know, like when they're when they're going for it, and I'll probably I'll
probably watch it and be like, ah, stupid, But then I'll like
I'll have like a couple of like earwigs that stick with me. So I'm
looking forward to watching this at some point. I agree, I definitely want
to see it. Next is the film desk putting out The Spirit of forty
five, a film by it gonna be cool. That's a weird thing to
say after I say the Spirit of forty five, But go ahead. If
Scott Bacula had been in it, that's if if I'd been making the movie,
that would have been like my number one ask. I'd be like,
can we get Bacula anyway? Kim loch Man. Yeah, this was another
first day pick up for me. Let's talk about it, let's do it.
So this one, says a powerful, unabashedly pro socialist documentary of England's
post war transformation from a working class healthscape in the thirties, endemic poverty and
Dickenzie and squalor are upended by Clement Attlee's nineteen forty five Labor Party landslide over
the patrician Winston Churchill. What follows is the nationalization of the mines, railways,
postal service, and the jewel in the Crown, the National Health Service,
which made medical care free of charge. This is going to have a
twenty four page booklet, including a new essay by Sukhdev Sandhu, vintage interview
with ken Loach by Gavin Smith, a transcription of ken Loach and Nigel Lawson's
debate on BBC's Newsnight from two thousand and nine, and then a new trailer
by Zach Clark. But that is it. This is pretty much just the
doc on this one. Are we allowed to talk about it? Go right
ahead? Yeah? No. I mean for anybody who's kind of following what's
been happening in the UK over the last you know, ten years, with
with the Brexit and the sort of deliberate undercutting of the national health care system
bye by politicians, this will this will give you a lot of historical context
for how things, yeah, got set up in the first place, how
they used to be uh and Kim Loach, love him or hate him,
has has a a real earnestness and commitment to to progressive politics. And if
that's a value you share, then you'll find a kindred spirit. And it's
value you don't share, then you'll find somebody that you can kind of argue
with, and that's worth while as well. How was that was that even
handed enough? But that was almost too even handed and it was Greeen.
I'm obviously Proloch. We agree on almost everything a little too political, will
let's go. Next up is coming from Umbrella, The Tunnel and The Tunnel
the Other Side of Darkness. This is from twenty eleven. It is a
found footage film that Umbrella just released in Australia fairly recently. This has the
full feature length behind the scenes doc that is what the Tunnel the Other Side
of Darkness is. It's not a sequel, it's a documentary attached to it.
The Tunnel is pretty great. I've got the original blu ray that was
released from the director itself. Really, if you like found footage, I
think you'll probably like this one. It's pretty well made. There's a couple
there's not really a better word to use. This does sound a little too
mean for this movie. There's a couple annoying scenes, but it's found footage.
That seems to be the case about most found footage films. There's one
or two where you go, ah, this didn't really need to happen.
Yeah, how do you? I don't think you and I've ever talked about
foun footage. How do you fee about fan footage? It's really hard to
do well. But we just talked about dash Can. That one's fan footage,
right, Yeah, And as you were saying that, I was thinking,
yeah, there are definitely a couple of spots where I'm like, uh,
yeah, that doesn't quite you know, why are they still holding the
camera? But they do. They do a pretty good job in that one
of like you need the camera for the light. Yeah. But anyway,
we're not talking about dash Can. I've never seen the tunnel. I've heard
nothing but good things about it, So this is all I recommend it.
Yeah, Umbrella has been doing pretty dang good with what they're putting out.
Obviously they are doing a lot in the Aussie side of things. Oh sorry,
go ahead, nope, I just I just got a shipping confirmation from
Umbrella yesterday. I'm pretty pretty stoked. What are you getting, Chaser,
Oh, here's finally on the way. Also, so like an idiot,
I got the whole shebang for the Dead End Drive in Oh that movie is
amazing though, And also their release of Coffee, which includes a high definition
upgrade of the great documentary Badass. So that that having that is a special
feature. Maybe want again it. Plus I think my copy of Coffee is
the Olive release and doesn't have much on it. Or I could be wrong.
Maybe I'll have two coffees. I don't know. I think I've got
the I think Arrow did it in the UK, is that right? I
don't have years ago at this point, Like I don't have that sixteen.
I think that's the one that I still have. Yeah, they've got a
lot of neat stuff. The the month before the one Will is talking about
that is starting to show up at retailers in the States now, so like
Bully is available at Orbit. That's one that I'm looking forward to. Something
about the all the titles that they've been doing recently, they're just super appealing.
I totally get it. One thing to keep in mind, though,
unless it's the Aussie stuff, they usually don't have brand new restorations, so
make sure you're paying attention to the extras and all that. It's probably not
much of an upgrade for other things unless it's a format upgrade. And obviously
if you want that Giant Super Mario Brothers release, make sure you get that
pre order in soon because they reopened it that's amazing. I can I can
only think of one movie that is getting a more ridiculous package of special features
that we can't talk about yet. Oh yeah, that's uh, it's pretty
ridiculous, but I gotta I gotta admit it's not quite as thick as the
umbrella released, that's for sure. Phrasing. Uh. Yes. The last
thing is uh. Vinegar Syndrome did one of their yearly April Fools things.
This is what they have done three years running now. The first year it
was I can't remember if it was ten dollars the first year, but it
was for the extra special slipcover for Invisible Maniac. Then last year they did
a ten dollars April Fools and that one was for their Fatal Games extra slipcover.
That's right, sim no, thank you. That first year was only
six bucks, last year was ten and it was just a bonus slipcover.
But this year, this year was twenty four dollars. So there's been lots
of conversation with a lot of people saying, you know, I was in
at ten to take the gamble, but twenty four is too rich for my
blood. So no matter what it is, so you don't know what it
is. No, No, no, of course not so. So you
can actually so you actually pay the money. So what happened if you paid
the money for the Invisible man slip Maniac slipcover? Because I thought that was
a funny. But you didn't know you were paying for the Invisible Maniac slipcover.
It was just a random thing, and they called it an April Fool's
Day donation. But if you gave that donation when Black Friday rolled around,
you got the slipcover in the mail. Oh they did a real slipcover,
Yes, and they did. They did that last year as well with Fatal
Games. Okay, so you do get something, yes, Okay. The
funny thing is, I'm willing to bet for twenty four dollars. This is
clearly more than a slipcover. I don't I've seen people say it's going to
be a box for the Lost Picture Show. No it's not. They're not
going to give you a box for a title from last year. No,
of course not. I have a feeling it's probably an actual film that will
not be available anywhere else. It will probably only be available if you donated
to this. Oh my god. If it's the boy who could fly.
I will lose my mind. I was talking to Oscar this last week.
I'm gonna text him and say, Oscar, can you get the boy you
could fly? I would go crazy. I will. I definitely want to
do an extra for that. Oh Humboldt horror. Honey is going off to
watch Mute Witness. That's a good reason to leave. I enjoy. Have
you seen it before? She's already gone, probably already gone. Yes.
And this whole Oscar votes thing. This was only available on April Fool's Day,
so you don't even have a chance to order it anymore. This is
all in the past, man. Yeah, but that wasn't it. They
also had stuff listed over at mail You Scene, the first Intimate Lessons.
This is coming from the quality x Line. Kind of odd cover art.
These are getting very samy too over at mail You Scene. I think they're
using the same artists for all of these. This one says Sir Aubrey Coxworth
and Lady Amanda post weekend getaways for erotic self discovery at their spacious country estate.
This time they've invited over a group of highly inhibited guests with whom they
intend to share their vast and unusual sexual knowledge. It's not long before this
eager class of would be deviots already to surrender to their deeply buried perverted desires,
all under the watchful instruction of the Lord and Lady of the house,
as well as their lectrous chauffeur and hunchbacked servant. Boris this one starring Kay
Parker, and we've got a newly scanned, restored and four K from the
Ocean. We got a trailer on here, but that's it, just a
trailer on this release. Yeah, I don't know. I'm always like dubious
when people claim to have some kind of sexual knowledge. There's not much to
know. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of nuance. I guess that's
what they're saying. Like to do things as well. I guess I don't
know. When I watch these movies, you know, because this is an
era half most of the time they ain't even I don't know. I love
watching the mental gymnastics in your mind right there. Well, I'm just trying
to decid what I could, what I should say. But this is this
is an era where there was a lot of they had to they had to
utilize a lot of stuntcock. You know what I'm saying, Like everybody's all
coked out and at half mast most of the time. Harvey stuntcock. I
don't know what kind of sexual these guys. That wasn't the only email you
seen title. They also are releasing Midnight Desires. Uh. This one,
starring Jamie gillis big name for the VS sleet. We also have Vanessa del
Rio in this one. This is newly scanned restored in two K from a
thirty five millimeter answer print. This one also has an audio commentary with Sean
Costello, who is the director of the film, moderated by Joe Rubin himself
from Vinegar Syndrome. There's also an image gallery on this one. But yeah,
Quality X have put out some pardon the pun, but Quality four K.
I'm out I speaking. I've gotten that comment so many times in the
last week. We can speaking of being out our our eleven thirty three says
a lot of straight guys think that, Yeah, I bet they do.
That was a that was a good response. Well, going to the next
one, which I believe we are finally done with OCN and going to a
shell of its former self, Let's head over to Shout Factor. Uh.
So June eleventh, I thought that good. Anyway. June eleventh, they're
releasing Digimond Adventure two the Beginning on Blu Ray. Don't know much about this
again introduction by the director. Then on June twenty fifth, they are teaming
up with g Kids for another release. This one of the first slam dunk
on Blu Ray. This is that's the straight sexual knowledge. So guys,
guys, I got my first slam dunk. It totally loved it. This
is supposed to be pretty good. This has an interview with the director behind
the starting lineup English Dub futurette color commentary with the English dub team. Sounds
just like a release the first dunk. We'll come back to shout because they
they forgot how to do announcements, so we got a couple of other things
to talk about before we find out the rest of their slate. First,
I did indicate that there was a new interview on the channel James Flower from
Arrow this week. Give it a watch. I will lean heavily into this
one because he he gets pretty candid about a lot of the Arrow stuff from
the last couple of years. We talk about the the failure of the Bruce
Lesett coming damage to everybody. We talk about the Hut Group purchase. We
talk about the titles that they have been, you know, acquiring that people
are upset about because they're a little more mainstream than they're used to. We
talk about everybody crying about Arrow releasing a title and then four months later releasing
it on four K, which has literally never happened. This is this is
a big one, and with Arrow, we don't get to hear from Arrow
very much. So I really recommend taking advantage of this one. Thanks for
that, Nick Comedes. Going to the next thing, Stop Motion, the
one that I have had recommended many many times in the last few months,
which I still need to watch. I was going to try to watch it
while we were out of town this last weekend, but we just ran out
of time. R LJE is putting us out on Blu Ray on June eleventh,
and everything I hear about this is that this movie is incredible. I
really really can't wait to see this one. Yeah, I assume you haven't
watched this one yet. No, No, I've not heard of us.
It's supposed to be great. This one is like getting a lot of buzz
of people's favorite horror over the last like six months. It's on shutter.
Okay, it is on Shutter. Yeah, or at least it was.
I don't it may not be anymore. That's what it was. Next,
going back to shout Factory, we are getting Species two on four K.
They say that final extras will be confirmed at a later date. It could
mean that they're not putting anything new and it's just gonna be the exact same
thing. But Species two pretty decent, uh sequel? I would say,
it's not terrible. This is really where she shares her sexual knowledge. This
is true. I remember seeing the first Species in the theater when it when
it first came out, and for some reason, I can't remember much about
the movie. I remember being underwhelmed. That'd being my experience. But I
know a lot of people really like it. I might have to I might
have to see it again. I'm trying. I feel like I've seen Species
too, But if I have, I know I can't remember a damn thing.
Is it? Have you seen it? Is it good? I saw
years ago? I again, it's a it's a okay sequel, It's not
It's not nearly as good as the first one. I don't love this franchise,
I will say, I like Natasha Henstridge. Yeah, I do want
to highlight what Simner said. The big thing about this it's not just a
regular Hey, this has been available on Blu Ray for years and now it's
going to be four K. This was out of print, so this is
actually coming back in print going four K's a that's a bigger deal than normal.
So I'm glad that's happening. I mean, as far as homicidal sex
aliens go on, life force them all the way, this life Force,
that's gonna be my number one always. But but I'll check. I'll revisit
the species franchise. Why not, Well, if you want to revisit a
franchise, one that is getting a lot of attention is RoboCop, and they're
starting with the RoboCop remake from twenty fourteen, which this has a hell of
a cast. You've got Abby Cornish, J. Bruschel, Michael Kenneth Williams,
You've got Jackie Earl Haley, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman of
Colse, Joel Kinneman, Michael Keaton. I gotta be honest, I saw
this when it first came out. I feel like if this wasn't titled RoboCop,
people would like this a lot more. Obviously, it's nothing like the
original. I think it's it's pretty rough, but it's a lot better than
people make it out to be. People talk about this being like one of
the worst movies of all time. If it was called Robot Policemen, it'd
probably get better reviews. Funny enough, seen this one, No, No,
I didn't. I didn't see it. Yeah. The funny thing is
this one they're completely honest about. They're not doing anything to put more features
on this. They're just putting us out on four K. It's just a
standard upgrade from Blu Ray to four K. Nothing crazy. It is gonna
have a slipcover if that's your your bag for screen factory. If only they
had called it cyper officer at the cop who can Well, that's RoboCop three,
And I'm hoping that that's going to get Fred Decker's RoboCop three. I
hope that gets a four K at some point. He does have a jet
pack in that one. You know what else they should they should do?
Since we're doing robo things, do you know robo chick and it's like c
H I see, I can't remember what it stands for, cybernetic something or
either. Robo Chick a Wonderman project might have been thinking of the same movie.
As far as I know, it's languishing on VHS still, but robo
Chick is quite a cinematic experience, and I would love to see Blu rays.
Fine, we don't have to get crazy or anything. I really want
to see robo Chick get restored, though, I'd be that'd be a good
vsl Brian has it on LaserDisc from Hong Kong. That's amazing. I will
also point out that Simmoner is trying to correct you that it's robo Chic.
That's she's check though. Anyways, moving right along, speaking of the RoboCop
franchise, they're also putting RoboCop two out on four K. This one is
interesting as well because they don't say anything about any new special features and they
are still doing their best to sell a crazy bundle. With this. You
can get two different slipcovers, two different posters, and a Prism sticker,
or you can go all the way and you can get not only those two
posters, slipcovers and the Prism sticker, but also a bumper sticker and a
limited edition enamel pin set, and then a limited edition vinyl or sorry not
vinyl lobby card set. So will we're gonna do the same thing that we
did last time? Tell me this giant sets from RoboCop two, with the
stickers, the art cards, the pins and everything. How much do you
think the jump is, which, by the way, the one with two
slipcovers and posters, that is forty five dollars? How much do you think
the jump is to get the full bundle? Well, Bob, one hundred
and forty nine ninety nine, you must have cheated. I mean I preordered
it? Are you serious? No? Thank god? One hundred and fifty
dollars. Will one hundred and fifty dollars win? Do I win the showcase
one hundred and fifty dollars? Yeah? I mean I wouldn't even pay that
for killer clowns. For a bumper sticker, five pins and some lobby cards,
it's an extra one hundred and five dollars. Yeah, I'm not doing
that. I do really like RoboCop two. I mean, Irvin Kershner is
the best director of Number two's and series. That's such a specific compliment.
That's true, the Empire straights back, But I really hope that we get
RoboCop three, Like I can hardly think about RoboCop two because I so want
RoboCop three. It's like I've got to get through RoboCop two in order for
de similar of all the mean things you've said to me tonight, you totally
redeem yourself with that joke. Oh man, Yeah, I every time Will's
on here, we seem to rip in or I seem to rip into shout
factor. But this is getting this is getting bad. Like you do for
a a copy of RoboCop two on four K with pins, some lobby cards,
a sticker, and a bumper sticker with two slipcovers, one of which
you can't use because you already have one on the movie. Where else are
you putting the other one? If you've learned anything from watching your Melusine films
one and fifty dollars that that is, that is absurd. Please please don't
buy it. I want to respond to two things. Nick Coomedes is probably
correct. I don't even actually like Empire strikes back. Keith. The answer
to your question is complicated. RoboCop three again, good and bad are really
not the operative words. You know, RoboCop three is an experience, and
in many ways it's it's a painful experience because if you know Fred Decker and
you see what's going on in RoboCop three, and you and you think about
what could have been if he'd been allowed to make the film the way he
wanted to make it. Yeah, but it's fun. I like. I
like RoboCop three. It's fun. Uh. What what I really wanted to
point out here, which is hilarious in hindsight, because I'm still going to
go off in a small tangent for one copy of RoboCop two on four K
with all these trinkets. This is more expensive than last year's Shelf Shock winning
Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest four K set was on release for one movie,
and it's RoboCop two on four K, the whole box that costs less than
this bundle will. Yeah, and let me tell you, I don't want
to spoil anything for next year's shelf Shock, but I don't anticipate this winning
any award. Oh man. You know what said is somebody pointed out and
I didn't even realize at first, shout wasn't nominated for anything in this year's
Shelf Shock. Yeah, nothing at all. Last year at least they were
nominated for I think one. I take no pleasure in it. You know,
I want every company to make great releases and succeed, and I think
I think Shout Factory Screen Factory has done amazing, amazing work. They've done
great things. That Friday the thirteenth box set has been called like the miracle
release. And you know what, it costs less on release than this whole
bundle did of RoboCop two on four K oh Man. Look at that.
Always keep it near me. Well, let's carry on down the Shout road.
And next is just kind of a heads up. These were previously Walmart
exclusives, the four K steel Book for Platoon and the Magnificent Seven. You
can now pre order these from the Shout website and from Amazon and it'll probably
be available everywhere as wide releases. But it's odd that they were exclusive and
now pretty much immediately they're not. So Yeah, I just picked up the
Magnificent seven four K upgrade, of course, not with this steel book.
No, I get it. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't know
about it. I don't. I mean, I don't really have some Steel
books and they're fine. I don't, but I'm not like Jones and Forum,
right, but this Platoon transfer is problematic, right it is? Yeah,
it's it's basically the same thing that was out on Blue put up on
four K, which is not great. Unfortunately, there's some definite issues in
it for sure. Is it waxy? Unfortunately it is for quite a bit.
Yeah. Going to the last one from Shout, which is maybe the
most exciting announcement of their month for me, mattin a from nineteen ninety three
starring John Goodman is getting a four K upgrade. Now. The cool thing
is this isn't just getting a spit it Out Again release where it's the exact
same thing, just upgraded at four K. They got Justin Beam's Reverend Entertainment
to do some brand new extras for this, so there will be something new
for those that have never seen it. I really want everybody to understand this
movie is fantastic. If you're a fan of fifty sci fi, if you're
a fan of John Goodman, this is this is one that you should have
in your collection. This is a wonderful, wonderful movie. Joe Dante,
and John Sales. Hell yeah, well some good comments on it too.
Getty loves it. Dev Crocodile says it's a fun flick, good stuff.
That's it for Shout and next a Shout title is getting a four K upgrade.
Keena Lober is releasing April Fools Day on four K this October. A
lot of people thought this was an actual April Fools joke, but it was
confirmed by Debbie Foreman herself. Quido went out and got a cameo from Debbie
to announce it. This is coming with I believe a couple of new features
at least coming this October and should be a pretty good looking release. How
do you feel about April Fool's Day? Oh my god, dude, we
should get a cameo. Are you saying we should make an account or we
should hire somebody? Oh my god. Though you can get Dolph Lungdern to
introduce the show, He's only like five hundred bucks or something. Yes,
So what do you think about April Fool's Day? I'm not like there are
some people who are like obsessed with it, and I'm not one of those.
But it's a fun. Yeah, it's fun. I like it.
I'll probably get this. It's not like in my top tier slasher films,
but yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah, I don't. I
don't love this movie. I think that it's a fun premise and there's a
couple of scenes that are pretty good, but yeah, not a huge fan.
Michaels Michael Smith is like, sorry for the spoiler, but then spoils
the entire fucking movie. That's why I did not share it. Well it's
longer, yeah, yes, but not for everybody listening. Yeah, that's
that's the biggest spoiler about the movie for sure. Next up Air four four
four four. I think that was the right number of fours. They announced
their first of three new releases coming, the Crazy Family from nineteen eighty four.
This is coming with a collector's edition new art slipcover. This is limited
to seven hundred and fifty. They also have this retro art, also limited
to seven hundred and fifty. There's a booklet with some stickers. You got
a double sided slipcover with new artwork. Booklet with an essay by Amber Tegan
will list some photos old ad artwork, three stickers, reversible artwork, and
then on the special features. It is a director's approved remaster feature length audio
commentary by Tom mess and then there's a director Sogo Eeshe interview, and then
a video essay by James Beaumont. I was kind of surprised they didn't announce
the other two immediately. We are still just waiting for those other two.
So yeah, any thoughts. I think I'm like logged into this as you
because you're on stream Yard as the admin. You're commenting as me. Oh,
I wish I hadn't said that though, now I'm just kidding. I
was. I was trying to tell Michael Smith it was okay, we weren't
mad. I said the same thing. We literally said the same thing like
eight times. This. Yeah, this looks now. I guess we're gonna
be talking about this title again in a few minutes. Sorry, So let's
just jump right into it. Because Third Window Films announced three of their Director's
Company titles. They just did three of these, they're doing three more.
The first one is Luminous Woman from nineteen eighty seven. This is coming on
May twentieth in the UK, and this is going to have some fifty minutes
of deleted scenes, a fifty minute making of two K restoration on this one
with a slipcover. You've got an insert by Jasper Sharp in this and then
also, like we just alluded to, they're also doing the Crazy Family all
the same extras. It'll be literally the exact same disc, literally exactly the
same. Third Window and Air forty four forty four have been working together on
some of the releases. They did it for like the what was it called
the Wicked Forest, the Weird Forest, whatever that one was, They did
that, and then they're working together on this one as well for us Warped
Forest. That's it. It was Warped Forest and Funky Forest that was the
other one, Funky Forest. Yeah. So the Third Windows putting out this
disc and then they also announced Love Hotel from nineteen eighty five. This one
is gonna have an audio commentary by Jasper Sharp, video essay by Josh Slater
Williams. It's gonna have some archival interviews, and then a slipcover and that
look to be about it, with an insert by Jasper Sharp on this one
as well. Third Window doing some great work with these. All three of
these releases sound really good, but I always love to see two boutiques working
together on the same disc because that means they're splitting the cost, and them
splitting the cost helps all of us because they're spending less on their own release
of it and that keeps their cost down. But also announcing it on the
same day in different regions, less people are going to be compelled to double
dip that way. So yeah, win win all around, and more Asian
titles. I'm all about it. Yeah, yeah, so cool. We
can support forty four, forty four, we can support third window. All
is good. Have you seen any of those three titles? No, these
are all new to me, so as the commenters are saying, apparently I
made some quagmire movement with my neck. Oh it must have been a love
hotel. Oh nice random. So yeah, that's pretty damn cool. I'm
glad that we're getting these. Uh. Next is a fundraiser. If you
have been watching the channel from the very beginning, one of my first two
interviews was Lucky Serrudi. He's an indie horror director. He also runs Dead
Vision Productions. They are doing a campaign for a movie called box Cutter,
and it sounds great. It says, after a horrific accident, a family's
plunged into an unimaginable nightmare where every choice made may cost them everything. And
they've got some decent perks on their Indiegogo. I included the link there.
Go check it out and support if you'd like. He does pretty great on
his his films. I've been a fan of his for a while. For
sure, cool looks like a good family film, Yeah, definitely does.
Uh. Then we got an announcement from Warner Brothers that they are putting out
Rocky five and Rocky Balboa on a four K steel book standalone. The big
thing is, as you'll see on this little sticker here, Rocky Balboa will
include the theatrical version and a director's cut, both in four K in this
release. That is, I believe a newer release of the director's cuts that
they were working on. I know that he had hinted at a Rocky five
director's cut that he wanted to work on. This, I guess confirms that
they probably couldn't work that out. So either that or they're gonna have fans
of Rocky quadruple dip here in the next couple of years. The only thing,
let's say, Rocky five, I remember Stallone's great line delivery im out.
Now you see if you can knock me out? Because he's got brain
damage or whatever. I think I got like two of those words. He
says. Okay, you knocked him out, Now see if you can knock
me out. That's what he was saying. Thanks. Translation. Yeah,
that's the one where they had that boxer who was famous for a little while,
Tommy somebody possibly cool. Yeah, I'm gonna check out the box Cutter
campaign. Let's go to our next one, Imaginary. Lionsgate is putting out
Imaginary on Blu Ray on May fourteenth. We don't have any information about special
features yet. I'm sure there'll be like one or two small things on this,
but this is another one of those titles coming through Universal and Lionsgate for
Blumhouse that's coming out on Blue and a lot of people speculating this will probably
come out on four K in a year. If this does, okay,
it's all in your head. Nice, I will say. It is kind
of like a weird Catch twenty two thing where they, hey, there's been
a decent amount of Blu Ray sales. Maybe that means that people want it
on four K. Then you put out a four K and people complain about
that it's hard because four K is expensive. I get that, but uh,
I don't know this is tough. I didn't see it, so yeah,
I haven't seen it either, probably from the trailer. Didn't look like
it for me. It didn't even it doesn't look scary at all. It
looks pretty weak. Yeah, anyways, let's go to the next one.
This one's pretty cool. VCI is releasing four Dick Tracy films from the RKO
catalog on Blu Ray later this year. We got Dick Tracy from nineteen forty
five, Dick Tracy Versus Cuball from forty six, Dick Tracy's Dilemma from forty
seven, and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome from forty seven as well, including Boris
Karloff in that last one. Yeah, these are these are pretty rad.
I'm glad these are getting upgraded. I know a lot of people don't love
VCI, me included, but I gotta admit that they're improving a little bit
over the last couple of years. They've they've put out some quality releases.
I mean these are cheap, pretty cheap movies, you know, the quick
quickie public domain even I think, Yeah, and that's kind of part of
their charm. I think, yeah, no idea of release dates or if
we'll have anything with them. If these got actual restorations, I doubt there's
gonna be anything else with them. Uh. Going on, Ava du Vernay's
Origin from last year was delayed unfortunately. It was supposed to come out this
month. Now it is coming on July eleventh on Blu Ray from Neon and
Decal. Uh. It will have a Dolby atmost track and then a behind
the scenes of origin featurette. Uh. Decent movie, fairly divisive movie though,
definitely recommend people check it out. Make a decision for yourself if you
like it. I thought it was pretty good, uh, Avid Duverney,
I think it's pretty damn talented, great cast in this. The release the
release was delayed so long that was retitled epilogue. Oh that was a good
giggle, will good giggle. I have not seen this yet. I was
supposed to go see it in the theater and then didn't happen. And I
will cut myself. I love and that is the origin of my sepsis.
So I'm still planning on checking this out. Yeah. I love it's Verna.
She's an institution. At this point, I will say Angeen new Ellis
Taylor is great in this movie for sure. Next up, the next Janice
contemporary film is coming out. That is Orlando, my political biography that's coming
on June twenty fifth on Blu Ray. This is going to have a meet
the Filmmaker's interview with the director, and that is about it. I have
not heard about this one until the announcement. Looks and sounds pretty decent.
And then Janis contemporaries everything coming out when it's on sales like fifteen bucks.
Hard to argue with that price. Grunts of approval, yeah, you know,
well as the as the you know, pull quotes there indicate you know,
this is a film very much about gender identity and transness. And anytime
you get a chance to spread visibility around and be a part of that conversation,
it's great. Indeed, trying to say things non politically, we can
stop leaning into that. I'm totally fine with that. Next one is Chakla
from nineteen ninety eight. This is a Claared Denise film getting a brand new
four K restoration from BFI, coming on April twenty ninth, just later this
month, Johnny Depp. Just to be clear, this is not the Johnny
Depp. This is the Claire Deny film. Yeah. I want to see
people buy it and then be like confused by our hour two of Where's Johnny?
This one is getting a few things on here. We got an audio
commentary by Kate Rennenbaum Claire Deni, Apropos de Chakralt from twenty twenty three to
eighteen minutes discussion about its new restoration, forty nine minute conversation from twenty nineteen
with Claire Deny. There is a multi layered autobiographical animation exploring memories of a
childhood visit to Lagos, Nigeria. And then if you get that first pressing,
there will be a booklet with new essays in it. BFI again one
of those companies that they do some really great work and highly recommend checking them
out. Absolutely. This is a must great movie. Next up Hidden City
from nineteen eighty seven coming from a BFI on May thirteenth. This is getting
a Blu Ray release. We don't have any extras announced for this one yet,
but this one's got Charles Dance in it. It's a name from some
old British films. I know that's all I got, though, I don't
know anything else about this one. I don't either, I've never seen this.
This is a looks tense about I'm about to check those out. Next
one, Billy Connolly in Big Banana feat From nineteen seventy six, coming on
May twentieth from BFI in the UK as well. This one is gonna have
a booklet in that first pressing and then they are announcing the extras later.
Koulala Billy Connelly going to the next one, Floating Clouds is coming on lou
from BFI. I've heard about this one. This one's supposed to be great.
This is from nineteen fifty five. During the war in French Indo,
China. A marry Japanese man falls in love with a young typist, Yukiko,
and promises to marry her after the war. Upon their return to Tokyo,
their idyllic relationship crumbles, but they cannot keep away from one another.
Despite finding nothing but conflict and instant ability, they helplessly return to each other
repeatedly as they attempt to rebuild their lives from the ruins of World War Two.
This is a classic of Japanese Cinema newly restored or presented an HD new
audio commentary by Adrian Martin on this one interview with Japanese film expert Freda Freeberg
from two thousand and seven. We've got a couple other things commentary on a
scene booklet in the first pressing, including Adrian Martin writing and that as well.
Great, this is a Narusa film that I do not have in my
collection, so we'll rectify that perfect moving right along. We don't need to
talk about that one because it got replaced. This one is really just a
heads up, big difference from Narusa to The Avengers. But the titles that
we talked about before, the Mondo X Steel books, if you were into
them for The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Doctor Strange,
you can now order these online from Walmart. A couple of them have
sold out when I had posted this. They may have all sold out by
now, but they're also showing up in store, so check those out if
you are into them. No, thank you Radiance. So I got a
lot to say about Radiance Tonight. First title July twenty ninth in the UK,
July thirtieth in the US. They're giving us a blu ray of eighteen
years in prison. The next film by Tay Kato that they're doing. This
one is going to have an appreciation by Tony Rain's visual essay on Japanese prison
films by Tom mess We got a limited edition booklet with some writing on it.
This again looks like an absolutely brilliant release from Radiance. Yeah, their
whole slate looks pretty amazing. On to the next one. I'm not even
an attempt to say this title Will This is on you now? How am
I saying this? Chiao panton okay chow panton. It sounded very white.
Coming on July twenty ninth again in the UK, July thirtieth of the US
and Canada. This one is from nineteen eighty three four K restoration Once Upon
a Time. There's a documentary on this on the film feature with interviews with
writer director Claude Berry, novelist Elaine Page, some stars from the film.
And that's almost an hour long. There's going to be more extras that they
are working on currently, but that will be coming later. The next title,
since Will is disappeared from the screen and bent over. No I'm here,
I know. Next is the Landlord according to thenet Chow Punta Punta Punton,
Okay, Supuntan. Hal Ashby's the Landlord from nineteen seventy. This is
coming on Blue in the UK only July twenty ninth. This is one you
probably recognized that cover that posters Classic Kino did put this out previously two K
transfer done by Keno, so it's the exact same transfer. You've got some
archival featurettes on here from twenty nineteen, new interview with hal Ashby, biographer
Nick Dawson from this year, interview with broadcaster and author Ellen E. Jones
from this year, and then a booklet with new Riding by Jordan Seals,
and archival piece with hal Ashby. I believe this is Yeah, this is
the first time this has been released on Blu Ray in the UK and more.
Hal Ashby is usually a great thing. Oh yeah, well this re
frend should be proprietaria. Bill Gunn wrote this. That's amazing. Yeah.
Norman Jewison Rip also produced this. Yeah. Al Ashby of course is great.
So I already have the Kino so I shall refrain lit Rafrayne. But
if you have not seen the Landlord, rectify it. Next up from them
is Mississippi Mermaid. This is coming in the UK only. This is Catherine
deneuvee in this. This is Francois Truffau's film from nineteen sixty nine HD digital
transfer. Some archival interviews from nineteen sixty nine with Truffau on this. We've
got an interview with John Renoir who discusses the work of Trufaux from sixty nine.
Interview with Jeannette Vincent Dill from twenty twenty four, commentary Glenn Kenny from
this year, as well, limited edition booklet with writing by true Faux and
contemporary writing on the film as well. Trouepa's got a lot coming out over
the last year and a half. I believe the previous release of this was
Twilight Time, right, I believe. So it's got a Nick Redmand commentary.
So I don't know if I necessarily want to get rid of it,
but I definitely want to get this upgrade. Do you know? Every time
and I come across the Mississippi Mermaid, like, not like super often,
but often enough that it bugs me that every time I see the title Mississippi
Queen by Mountain comes into my head, I'm glad I'm not the only one
Mermaid. I was looking at the the Kino sale right now and Mississippi Burning
Is is for sale and I do the same thing with that title too,
That damn Mountain song. Oh man, I love it. I got there
was another one I don't remember where it was. Oh my h Jonah that
my oldest is getting into music like crazy. He's been watching like, I'm
so happy about this. He's been watching Prince performance videos, Michael Jackson performance
videos, and then he's uh. I got him into watching some of the
old school queen videos and he's going crazy with them. And we we found
this video that's like, uh, Jeopardy style music trivia, and my kids
were pissed that I was getting like three or four out of every category right,
and they were like, I've never heard of this. And one of
them was Deep Purple, and they were like, that's not a real name
that it came up that that was the answer, and I was like,
see deep Purple, dude, Yeah, good stuff. All right, Moving
along. This is the last thing related to Radiance that I wanted to talk
about them, ever so slightly. But RaRo, who is a hosted label
by Radiance. They're putting out Revenge of the Blood Beast aka the She Beast
from nineteen sixty six. This is Gonna be Coming with an audio commentary with
Paul Meslansky, Ian Ogilvie and Barbara Steele from two thousand and seven. David
Gregory's the one that moderated that one. We got a new interview with the
star Ian Ogilvie, new filmed interview with the author and critic Kim Newman on
this, and then we also got a booklet with Kevin Lyons, author of
the encyclopedia Fantastic Film and Television. Raro's stuff coming in the UK has been
looking pretty good, pretty dad, pretty good radiance. One thing I really
wanted to say, and I'm I'm gonna go back to so this one specifically,
these first couple there are, like we've talked about a little bit recently
on the show, there's about one hundred and fifty literally like about one hundred
and fifty active boutique labels in the world around there, give or take probably
twenty there's probably a little more than that. There are many of the bigger
boutique labels that are and I'm not saying not talking shit or anything like that.
They're doing good work, but many of them are resting on their laurels
and going down paths that they know, Like we just talked about with Shout,
like giving RoboCop two a four kpgrade, it'll sell really well. They're
you know, over the next ten years, they're probably gonna make way more
than what they put into that title. Not knocking them for that. Everybody
needs to make a profit, But I really just want to highlight how important
it is that places like Radiance and Imprint, which I was talking about this
with Brian who's in the chat tonight as the Wondermint Project. We were talking
about this earlier today. Imprint and Radiance specifically are pushing boundaries that challenge the
way that boutiques exist in twenty twenty four. They're chasing down leads that don't
follow like a consistent narrative. When you hear about some of these titles,
like in Print putting out these film focus box sets, they're not just getting
the giant films that everybody's heard of. They're getting maybe one of those,
but then the other four films in the box sets are ones that everybody goes.
What even is this the film focused box sets are there to focus on
the work of an actor or director in a way that you don't hear like
in the zeitgeist. It's something that's expanding that and radiance pretty much everything.
It's things that many people have never heard of, that France saw somewhere thirty
three years ago and he's loved ever since then. And somehow they're all like,
miraclely, miraculously amazing movies. Fran is just incredible. But I just
really want to like allow people the framework to think about how important it is
in the year of twenty twenty four that we have labels that are still doing
that. You know, many people are in comment sections on my videos or
on announcements on Facebook and Twitter saying, here, we are nothing for me
this month. The Arrow just putting out the same shit on four K.
Go reward the labels that are doing new things. If that's how you feel,
Go look at the way that these labels are putting work into titles.
That takes a lot to provide context when we are not hearing about those films.
You know, another one, Severn, is doing it in a lot
of different ways. They're not working with any studios anymore. Whether that's their
choice or the studio said never mind after Cruel Jaws, that's for debate.
But the way that Severn is digging into things like Spider Labyrinth, I can
say this out of a experience Spider Labyrinth will and I had to research everything
because there's no academic writing about this film anywhere in English. We had to
go out there and find what we could about something that is basically not talked
about by anyone, and that's very difficult to do, and it's a very
risky move for some of these labels. So as a point of archiving film
and discussing art that's existed for decades, take a look at those for sure.
Obviously you don't want them to go so far off the deep end that
nobody wants to buy them or they're bad movies. But it looks like most
people are pretty damn happy with like Radiance. I mean, look how many
awards they won last year. Sure, a handful of them were for Messiah
Evil, which is maybe their most well known title that they put out last
year, But the amount of stuff that people have picked up because it was
Radiance, They're discovering new art that they never would have taken a look at
it. So just just a real big like endorsement of these labels. And
sorry this is a weird tangent, but Will and I don't get to talk
about Radiance enough because they usually announce in the second or third week of the
month. But some of these they deserve attention and recognition and investment from people
that are buying physical media because of the risks they're willing to take. Anything
you want to answer, I'm hearing Jay Underwood box set film focus. That
sounds like a good idea. Dallas, I this is so great. I
appreciate Radiance not slapping a slipcover on every title. The movie is the draw.
One hundred percent completely agree. Oh man, Yeah, well, I
have nothing to add because you said it quite well. Uh, if you
go to os, if you're a good number of titles stay on the shelf
and the label suffers, right, that is possible. But also I think
if you're somebody like Radiance and you've built up that trust already in a very
short period of time, I don't think that's as much of a worry.
Completely agree. Oh yeah, Welcome to the Dollhouse was pretty big. You're
right, Bury the Dick wants to start a petition for a Jay Underwood box
set with you. I appreciate that. Oh, that's amazing. All right.
Speaking of some stuff that we talked about earlier, let's talk about the
next title, which is a big one, Goolies Too, coming to four
K from MVD rewind on July ninth. This is one that earlier last year
when they put out Goolies Too on Blu Ray, they said, hey,
we think we might be able to get the four K. It might come
in the future, just letting everybody know some people about the Blu Ray,
knowing that that was possible. And here we are Goolies Too finally coming out
on four K, and I will stand by Goolies Too is infinitely better than
Goolies One. How do you feel about that, Will Well? So,
as with RoboCop, I immediately get excited about a sequel farther down the road.
I really want to get to Goolies for of course, which is my
favorite of the series. But you're right, Goolies two is a huge step
up, uh from the original. And I'm trying to determine actually, if
I am one of those people the Blu Ray, I can't remember because I
got a box set of crappy DVDs of Well, if I do have the
Blu ray, I don't know, I might upgrade. It was a good
movie for no reason. Yeah, goole is but goulese for Let's get the
Goolies for petition, restore the wine Orski verse. Uh, next up,
man, speaking of archiving films that needed, eight Men Out is coming out
from MGM as a burned disc. BDR really not serving this one. Well,
so this is is this different from the Blu ray that previously was released
that one I think was olive. This one is going to be straight from
MGM. And uh there's no extras listed. I'm not sure if there will
be any. Damn it. Man. All I want is more John Sales
and goolise for because I'm so excited about the City of Hope announcement from a
couple of weeks ago, right, because that was that came out of nowhere
and it was out of print on DVD. Eight Men Out is one of
sales most successful mainstream films. Yeah. Uh, Blake's right, Uh that
that that could have been a Criterion one. I hope criterions all in on
sales. I hope we see more and more. I want to see turn
of this well. Brother from Another Planet is the Leanna oh Man talk about
sexual knowledge. I love Lehota, passion Fish, I mean just everything.
But anyway, yeah, this one deserves better. Yeah, yeah, you
know, I guess it's appropriate to feel cheated that's released that they now it's
like a super meta good movie. Good movie. Recommend this one if you've
never seen it. Nineteen eighty eight. Really strong cast in this one,
clearly. Yeah, this is Charlie Sheene's best baseball movie. Yeah, that's
that's eight man out and really really depressing. But something is not depressing.
Let's talk about Blue Underground announcing High Crime on four K from nineteen seventy three.
Not only on four K, they are releasing this on four K,
Blu ray and DVD because this is the title that Blue Underground has never released,
Like this is a big deal that doesn't happen. This is their release
in years. This is the first thing that's been out on DVD or higher
in the US for this film, and studio can now put this out in
the UK. But it was cut by like ten minutes. Big Franco Nero
movie NZOG Castellari directed This is Coming for the first time ever in America,
world premiere of a brand new twenty twenty four Dolby Vision HDR four K restoration
of the complete uncensored version from the ocen and oddly the last reel of the
Ocean has disappeared, so the last ten minutes of the film were restored from
the best available print and they say it still looks pretty good. Man.
This is this is a big deal and a Eugenie Orcalani chimed in on Facebook
that he has worked on this release and it will be stuffed to the gills
with brand new extras, which for him that probably means at least a brand
new interview with Franco Niro, which is exciting. Ah, love it,
love it, love it, love it. And de Sidner says, high
crime and misdemeanor snum. I'm reimagining the movie as a buddy cop film with
Franco Niro and Woody Allen, way better than cop Out. Could not be
more stoked. Love me some, Enzo Castellari, Love me some Franco Niro,
and of course blew Underground as among best in the game for their four
K. So this is truly one of the top announcements of the night.
That and got a highlight. We're just about two and a half years from
when mister Lustig came out publicly and said that he thinks physical media only has
five years left. We're halfway there, Champ, and you're announcing a big
title like this. I love that if this really is the end in your
mind, that you're still getting high Crime on four K, which this is
the title he's been working on, supposedly for like the last fifteen years.
Well, to be fair to Bill Lustigh didn't say when the countdown was going
to start. Oh, he said in the next five years, like from
where from? That was November December of twenty twenty one. That was on
the serial show. Yeah. Well, I for one am always happy when
something negative I think turns out to be wrong, and I'm sure I'm sure
mister Lustig is feeling the same way. And I mean, you know,
the it's a volatile market and it does seem to be small but strong right
now, and I hope it continues, fully agreed fully agreed, looking to
the last. We've got only just a couple left here. I'll tell you
one thing. We'll know for sure that Lustig has changed his mind. If
we get high definition restorations of shit, I forget the name of it.
Those the pornos that he made, the fucking and I forget the names of
them. Now. See what's happened to me? God, I've been pickled.
It's late for me. Like I'm trying to do the right thing.
I'm trying to recover. I'm trying to I'm not entertaining anymore. I'm just
I can't remember anything. It's all that rose. I'm not. I'm not
funny, I'm not. I can't do it. I just I'm next.
I'm just gonna you're such a diva? Were you thinking of Cecilia? No,
all right, let's carry on. We only got like four left.
Next up Epic Pictures. As part of Dread Presents, they're putting out Bag
of Lies from twenty twenty four. You can pre order this already. The
trailer for this looks weird. Not wanting to put it down necessarily, but
it definitely looks like a twenty twenty four film. What's the title? I
see the relief on your face. The violation of Claudia and Hot Honey too
understood. I want to see a restoration moving right along? What do we
just see? Basically nothing. Dread Presents in the US is releasing Bag of
Lies, a brand new indie horror from this year. Bag of Lies coming
on June eleventh on Blu Ray. Do you know who did the soundtrack?
Leasa Lobe? You say, I only hear what I want to just a
back of lies? Uh. One of One Films in the UK is releasing
the lawnmower Man collection as part of their Black Label collection. This is coming
on June tenth. They are gonna give us the lawnmower Man and lawnmower Man
two Beyond Cyberspace. This is gonna have a rigid box packaging grassroots and cyber
suits variations. The lawnmreer Man by Rich Johnson in that Rich has been on
the show previously. He's a great dude to check that out. And this
diseased mainframe the abject horror of bodily digitization in the lawnmower Man by Andy Marshall
Roberts. You're gonna have a couple or sorry, three discs in this.
The first is the lawn moreer Man Theatrical Cut. Disc two is the lawnmoreer
Man Director's Cut Disc three, lawnmower Man two Beyond Cyberspace. The first lawn
more Man on each cut is going to have some special features, including commentaries.
The second film doesn't look to have anything. Okay, speaking of bag
of lies, how can they call this the Lowmerman Collection. There's the third
one is I don't think that's cannon though, is it? What? I
don't know? I mean, they did the complete omen collection. They included
the remake for some reason. Uh, I just feel I feel deceived.
I get it. I remember seeing the lawnmower Man. The only thing I
remember. There's this weirdly creepy sex scene where I don't know, is it
the is it the philanderum wife or something like takes Jeff Fayy's hand and puts
it on her boob and goes soft and then and then like rubs his crotch
and goes hard. And then Oldilocks walks in and says, just right,
oh my gosh. R. Eleven thirty three is doing the Lord's work by
pointing out that the DVD of Boy Who Could Fly is still in print and
it is a snapcase or for you, oh wait, well and maybe it's
not a snapcase. The one I have is a snapcase. I don't think
it's a Warner Archive. Addition, I think it must have come out earlier.
So yeah, we definitely need a an upgrade of The Boy Who Could
Fly. Great movie. God damn, it's good, oh man. And
I've said several times that I try not to say good or bad. It's
great, all right. Next thing is I really just want to talk about
Unsung Horrors for a second. They are great people, an incredible podcast.
You know. I was talking about things like radiance and imprint, shining light
on underseen movies. That's literally the entire point of Unsung Horrors. Any movie
that is a horror movie with less than a thousand views on letterbox is one
that they will consider talking about. And one thing that you could do to
help right now is go nominate them for the Austin Chronicle Best in Austin under
the podcast category. I would really appreciate it if you just give them that
attention and take over the Austin Chronicle website with everybody from disconnected voting. Unfortunately,
you do have to register with your email. I did. I have
not gotten any email from them, but I believe that you're just trying to
log so you don't double vote for anybody. But you can also only vote
for one category. So if you sign up and just vote for podcasts,
you can be done. So that's a good thing. I did it good.
Also, just realized I have like six different email addresses, so maybe
I could do it again. Maybe they're logging IP addresses so it's different for
every computer, right, I think so. I think that's how it works.
I have four laptops in here right now. Jesus, well, no,
they're not mine anyways. On Sung Whores, Erica and Lance incredible people,
great at what they do. Wonderful podcast. I highly recommend. Now,
wait a second, does They Live by Film not count as an Austin
podcast? I guess technically they could. It's so weird that both of them
are in Austin, but we're just like sorry. I was listening to Erica
and promoting. But hey, if you if you got another email, go
vote for They Live by Film as well. I had to vote Runs Cars,
wonderful, wonderful show. Well, I'll give this attention to They Live
by Film. If you haven't listened to it, go listen to the they
Live by Film episode with Sam Degan that was put up recently. Will has
been gratinging the praise of that interview, and Sam always deserves the attention.
But Chris is a pretty great interview over there as well. He is a
great interviewer. I really enjoyed my time on that show as well. But
that particular interview with Sam Deagan is really really good. She kind of pulls
the curtain back on a lot of her work in ways that I haven't heard
it. Well. I mean, she's on like a million podcasts, so
she might have done it in one of the Hunters, so I haven't heard
yet, but I was really really into it. Yeah. Well, we
are down to our last announcement of the week and it's a big one.
Colligula, the Ultimate Cut from nineteen seventy nine God announced today is coming on
four K later this year from draft House Films, which is interesting that they
went with that name because draft House Films was around for quite some time,
but draft House was bought I believe by Neon and the fact that they're using
the draft House Films logline for this is an interesting move. Colt Epics had
had the rights to release this. They passed on doing this four K because
Tinto Brass is not sanctioning this release, of course, because he's not sanctioned
anything for this in quite some time. And Cold Epics is rather close to
Tinto so they just decided to pass on it and let Draft House pick it
up. This is going to be coming with a four K ultra HD reconstruction
of the notorious Tinto Brass movie, like we've been promised for a while.
This latest presentation of the movie made its world premiere at the can Film Festival
last year, and it includes never before seeing footage and alternate takes and camera
angles, and draft House will release the film theatrically across North America in August
of this year, followed by streaming in four K Blu ray release. It'll
have new interviews with Malcolm McDowell and the film's reconstructionist art historian Thomas Nigovin.
And uh, yeah, this has been This has been a crazy story to
follow for a long time. I mean, they'll never it'll never be Tinto
Brass's movie. No no, And I think that's important, Like if you
care about Tinto Brass, as Cult Epics of course does. And I freaking
obsessed with Tinto Brass, my my new four k's and book by Nico Beer
on the way I've heard, so I'm pretty excited about that. But and
so I definitely respect that Brass doesn't really won't have anything to do with it.
But Brass's style, his visual style, is what this movie is worth
it for. Nicomedes points out that it's kind of boring, and then,
yeah, I could it kind of is from a certain perspective, but I
just I just like looking at it. It's like every shot is gorgeous,
and so I'll see whatever cut just just because I like thinking about what Brass
was trying to go for and kind of speculating on that. Teresa and Savoy
is she's not in a whole lot of movies. Anything you can see her
in. She's fantastic. She plays a caligulous sister slash lover. It's like
a Roman Chinatown. Well isn't the other Chinatown already Roman? Right? Right?
So yeah, I'm interested, like Mikey and seeing the new footage,
I'd like to see it without the Penthouse footage, just something like closer to
what Brass was going for. But just yeah, his style is so freaking
amazing that. I don't care if it. I don't care if it's boring
or we're shitty or what. I just want to see it. I hear
that, and then of course I mean Helen Mirren and Malcolm McDowell young and
at seemingly the top of their games around that time. It's super weird staring
at this super young picture of Malcolm McDowell. The week I watched Rob Zombies
thirty one, and seeing him in that movie compared to this is a quite
different. Yeah, he's closer to Peter O'Toole. Yeah, interested, interested
in checking this out, but I totally understand could Epics passing on it.
That's not surprising and not a bad move for their side at all. They've
got They've got supposedly more, they said on Facebook today they've got more tinto
Brass coming. So based on that, they got to keep that relationship pretty
copasetic. I got a wish list next week. Just a reminder. King
Kong, the seventy six King Kong coming on a four K steal book from
Paramount, Picnic at Hanging Rock four K from Criterion, The nineties Lost in
Space movie from Screen Factory. For some reason Monster is coming from well Go
USA, and I'm dying to see this one. We got Tormented coming from
Filmmasters, Mean Guns from MVD rewind Lisa Frankenstein getting to release. Still recommend
that movie if you haven't seen it. It's a wonderful knife. Also coming
out next week the Minus Man from Kena Lober Abandoned from Unearthed Films, Night
Swim coming out, The Looters from Kena Lober Fallen Leaves from movie You Never
Can Tell from Keino. We got some standards from Monto Macabro coming out Accident
Only Preserved from Under Crank. We talked about that last week. But all
of it leading to the standard release of Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey
that Will has had pre ordered for months. Any of these that you you
got coming in or already had Tormented definitely, bert I Gordon doing like some
dramatic thriller stuff. I feel like I've already got Mean Guns on Blu Ray.
I already had that release. It just came in last week. So
well, are you talking about a previous release? Yeah? Am I wrong?
Let me I don't know of them. Let me see. Well,
if I don't have it, I'm gonna get this for sure. Me.
There was a UK release according to my spreadsheet, I don't have it,
so that's happening. Love me some Pune. I'm gonna see Lisa Frankenstein next
week in a second run theater. Nice Mo Looters. I'm gonna I'll watch
anything with Rory Calhoun in it. I remember when The Minus Man came out.
I did not see it, and now I kind of want to check
it out. It's a it looks like an interesting one. I'll eventually upgrade
my picnicd Hanging Rock to the Criterion four K. Yeah. De Siminer asked
how many times I had to watch Mandy Only one person I took me up
on it, so thankfully I only had to watch it one more time.
That was tough. It was tough for me to get through, but I
did it. Joel's here from Scarecrow. What's going on? Joel? Hey,
Spaghetti's the one that made you watch it, and he's been in a
chat tonight. So thanks to Spaghetti for giving that torment. Speaking of tormented,
absolute you tormented? I feel like? Was on Mystery Science Theater?
Am I right? I think so. They've done quite a few that were
on that I think. Yeah, they did a lot of bird Eye Gordon's
movies, and I remember it being a pretty funny episode. Some people don't
like the Mystery Science Theater treatment, but I tend to. I enjoy it.
Soon or says, so will you weren't the one who got the second
site deluxet from Grindhouse video scratching dent and section on their store of Mandy wait
of Mandy or of something else? It is not a second site release.
Yeah, no way. I will not be purchasing Mandy. But I did
give it. I have now seen Mandy three times, so I feel like,
my that's enough to call it the old college try. I gave.
Yeah, I gave it. I gave it three shots. Picnic Hanging Rock
got it. Definitely any any someone's favorite stuff that we want to shout out
to people. We've had a couple announcements over the last couple of months.
Stuff is now shipping from Terror Vision. Check out Dreamstalker. It's got Erica
and Lance from Unsung Whores on that for a visual essay that someone's favorite did
Game of Killers as shipping. That's got Sean from the Food for Thought podcasts
that he and I built that visual essay together. That is honestly a really
fun one, very informative and a fun movie. That movie is great.
I can't wait to get that in and watch it on the big screen.
The other big thing, we got a comment for you earlier. Somebody got
in your release of Door Too from Terror Vision. They liked your features on
it. Will drafted a visual essay on that and they did a commentary with
Nina K. Martin on that one. Yeah, I think it turned out
okay. I was. It's funny we're talking about the Sam Deagan interview.
Listening to it kind of reminded me that we're really just kind of starting out.
Did I did a commentary with Chris Woofter for Keno's release of Toby Hooper's
I'm Dangerous Tonight two years ago, and that was really only two years ago.
That was but that that kind of went so fast, Like we didn't
we didn't have a lot of time to prepare for it, but we kind
of were like ready for We've been working on the book for so many years.
So we walked in with like a page of notes and kind of had
a conversation throughout. And we had known each other for so long. So
that so what I'm trying to get to is ah listening to Sam talking.
She's done what like three hundred commentaries and visual essays at this point, and
we're we've done in our short period of time. We've done quite a lot.
We've we've recorded. Can we say how many we've recorded? I think
we've done seven commentaries now seven, you and me? Seven? I think
so, and then have to look at the list then plus the one in
Nina, And we've got several more schedules. Yes, And I really have
appreciated that we've had a chance to do several different kinds of visual essays.
We've done kind of impressionistic, like creative ones, and we've done ones that
are more like traditional talking head interviews, and then we've done more like serious
scholarly ones. Yeah, and then we've done one that I really can't wait
till it gets announced that was gonna be the one. There's a big a
less say that we'll be announced in the next month. That when you see
it, you get to see doctor Dodson in a freaking wig. That that
that that it is so perfect, that's not me. I can't wait the
world to be able to suggest that well. Anyway, My point is,
you know, we started out things happened so fast, and they happened at
a time of great that that coincided with like a whole bunch of like bad
personal stuff going on, health stuff going on, and stress, and we
were trying to kind of find our voices, both individually and together, and
we still are. Absolutely I can't remember I asked you, and now I
can't remember what the answer is. Have we So of the of the commentaries
that we've recorded, I forced Ryan to completely re record from scratch three of
them, like after we had done the whole thing then like, no,
we got to start over three times, and all three I've told you know
at first, and they came out better. Yes, Spider Labyrinth was one
of them. Oh, I remember we had to read the first time.
It's like it's like, can you chair be a little quieter. I was
sitting on this rickety chair. It was like I was like in a looney
tune chairs rickety ass like it was about to collapse. But so yeah,
listen to the way Sam talked about her process and everything just kind of reminded
me that there's no shortcuts at all in order to do these things you have
to, like mh, do the boring grind work over and over and over
and uh in a way that was kind of inspiring to hear that that,
like the drudgery of it is a feature, not a bug. Like it
can be. It can be really tedious to prepare, but at the same
time super exciting and fulfilling, and you have to you have to slow down
and uh find the space and stillness that you need to to do a good
job. And I'm partic curely uh intentional about trying to carve out a or
craft an accessible style because I am an academic. I come from that world.
I'm very familiar with the people who write an inaccessible jargon and I hate
that there's a there's a place for it, and some of it's necessary in
some circles, but I don't want to be that. I want to be
I want it to be fun and or entertaining and also informative. Yeah,
so finding the voice is hard because I've already got a voice, like a
persona that's pretty well established, and depending on the label, you have to
really hone it down because some labels are like do not make a joke,
which is like telling a child not to not to eat the cookie, and
then leaving the child alone in the room with the cookie, and then we
have another commentary that ends with a bunch of puns just because we can.
I'm not sure if they've heard that, because I don't think it's gonna go
over that well. I can guarantee you it will. I don't know,
man, I don't know. We'll see hopefully the law the law come out.
We really do have a lot of like unbelievable stuff and coming out in
the future. And I don't want to sound like we're just on here self
promoting, because I think it's I'm like so honored to be doing this and
to be working on these films for these for these label I want it to
be about promoting them because they're they're putting out some really good shit. I
agree. That's like tonight when we talked about kin Zaza. That's why I
spent so much time talking about it, because that movie, that movie is
amazing, But also it is one of those movies that a lot of labels
would never put that out because it is a risk, it's an it's a
movie that's not super well known in the Western world. It's a movie that
is well made, but it's one that's not like on the surface, extremely
accessible. But most people when you watch it, will fall in love with
that type of a movie. And for Deaf Crocodile like, that's something that
should be applauded that they're willing to do that and try that, and I
think they've sort of earned the fan base that will take a trip with many
of these gonzo titles that they're gonna put out, because when you're talking about
something like The Assassination of the Czar Sultan or World War Three, like those
are two very different movies, but they come from the same heart of curation.
And then you throw in something like Plimpton's the Tune and you're like,
this is odd, but I love the journey that I'm on with this label.
And they continue to make choices like that that, like I said about
Imprint and Radiance, like they are not going down a street that is well
lit in the boutique world. They're going down a dark alley that takes that
that's some risks, but honestly that's where you find some of the coolest shit.
A dark alley through well, it's like a dark alley with Carmen san
Diego. Well, and if it's def Crocodile, it's a dark alley with
a bunch of cats, with a bunch of cats. So many cat movies.
Yeah, just my daughter and I. She asked if we could watch
her favorite Disney movie, which is also my favorite Disney movie, which is
The Arista Cats, and she hadn't seen it in a long time. And
I was really proud of her because when it got to the racist part,
she looked at me and was like, oh, what is that? So,
recognizing that the arist of Cats has a racist part like all Disney movies.
But I was telling her, I was like, you know, honey,
I'm working for a company that puts out a lot of cat based movies.
Would you like to check some of them out? And she was like
not right now, that's funny maybe down the road, but anyway. Yeah.
So I think in the year to come, we're really going to be
growing and evolving Stanzas don't mix up with the Aristocrats. Yeah, definitely and
uh and hopefully getting better and better. I'm I was really happy with how
Door two turned out, and that was really the first one that's gotten released
where We've had multiple pieces on it, so I'm excited for all this stuff
to grow. And that's not true Spider Labor all right, almost forgot we
had like three things that usual and a commentary. Yeah right, John publics
as I order kids outside. Before I realized you guys were on it.
Nice bonus for folks, and that's I hope people appreciate it. Yeah,
I'm so so sit that, like we're on that and that's forever, or
at least for about twenty years, which is how long Blu Rays last.
Think that's a crack. We'll find out. We will any can any other
stories? Any can we can? We share anything about upcoming projects or anything.
I mean, we've got a lot of stuff in the works. There's
some I know that people are gonna be excited for this. There's some Terror
Vision titles that were announced last August that we're going to be a part of
that. We they haven't announced that we're on those discs, but there's there's
some stuff that we're doing for those that is going to make people very very
happy. We are working with some go ahead I hope, so it better
at this point, you know me, until it happens, I'm like God
right fall Apart. We are working with some labels that we've already done some
releases for, so you'll you'll be seeing some new stuff from a few of
those labels actually with our names on it here soon. Excited. There's uh,
there's some big projects on our to do list right now that are intimidating,
that are exciting. But the biggest thing is, I know, the
love that Will and I put onto these things are what we want to see
on these discs when we get them in. And so we are looking at
these as not just passion projects, but like coming from our experience of what
do we enjoy and what do we think other people will enjoy, Let's give
them exactly that. And so, like you know, looking behind you that
Zombie Army disc, there's a really fun, pretty innovative visual essay about asylums
and horror movies. That's it's a unique piece. And now that it's out
and people have started to see it, I will say we turned in that
visual essay for Saturn's Core and Ross messaged me back and said, this is
this is too classy for the Saturn's Core release, and I laughed so hard.
It's wild to see but it is. It's something that we want to
see something like that on a film like Zombie Army because movies like that are
important in cinematic history. These these no budget and low budget indie horrors that
you know, cemented the careers of many people that we all love. They
deserve to be talked about. They deserve to be rantid about, They deserve
to be raved about. They deserve to be explained in context and explain that
they are important. So we will do our best to keep doing that,
Anthony Guestwright. Our next commentary is for ten Cup four K. Yeah,
my two favorite things, Kevin Costner and golf. I mean I like one
of those. I'm still surprised that you ranted about Renee Russo for forty three
minutes. Oh is she in that? I think so that's the only reference
in my mind. I'm not sure. I saw Dallas Jones mentioned Transylvania Twist
and that would definitely be a number one like wish list movie to work on.
Translvating Twist one of my favorites. Jim Wyrski movies that has yet definition.
I know there's a bunch of Worski stuff that if we got word that
it was coming out, Will would like drop everything and run to a label
to beg them to be on the disc. Well, these two shelves,
that's that's all why Norski's mostly DVDC. Most of this stuff has not the
time. We do have the one four k of return, a swamp thing,
which I hope will be shot. I don't remember if I picked that
up or not. Blasphemer Michael Smith. When do you guys think Second Side
is finally going to release the Hitcher? I have a feeling that it'll probably
come out in like the the end of the summer ish. It'll probably be
announced in like May, May or June somewhere around there. I was trying
to figure out a joke that like it had already been released, but it's
just taken a while to get here, like like a hitchhiking joke. But
I couldn't. I couldn't get it together fast enough. That's funny. Stan
wants to know have you ever met Jim I Norski? No, No,
I haven't. Stan has That's that's cool, but standos, everybody, man,
you're true. I tell you know who I have met. I've met
Stan Geezy, whoa really in the flesh, and I hope to hope to
repeat that experience again soon. I'm dying to meet stand in person. It's
cool, dude, man, so cool. I don't know what would I
do if I met Jim when Norski. He wouldn't he wouldn't want to talk
to me. My tits are getting big enough you wouldn't want to talk to
me. But I tell you, oh yeah, huh, I almost said
something I'm not allowed to say yet. What was I about to say?
New World, Ryan says, add to the Umbrella release, Yeah, I
think it's going to be a much better release than the Umbrella release because it
will be a four K release and it will not be the old German scan
of it and the flesh we did talk about shunting just a little bit standard.
Huh, speaking of I'm honestly shocked Arrow has not done a Society four
K yet. Well, hey, talk to that Flower guy. But if
they're thinking about it and they need some new extra I would love to get
into the Arrow stable at some point. Society would be a great place.
There's a lot of places to fit in with that one. Yeah, well
we're at three twenty. Anything else you want to share before we call it
tonight, my friend, No, I mean next time we talk, we
should have several new titles that we can enthuse about. And thanks everybody for
sticking around. This was fun. It was a journey for me and I
appreciate the support. We'll see if I can maintain again. Thank you to
everybody that's always here every Thursday. It is a light in dark weeks sometimes.
This week has been really difficult acclimating back to work after being away from
kids for a few days. That was that was like a miracle time for
us, So it was certainly difficult. Beyond that, moving forward, there
is a lot coming up next week. I've been hinting at the interviews coming
out on the channel. I believe next week you're getting an interview with Josh
Schaeffer, the guy between Lunch meet VHS. We talked a little bit about
his love for VHS and the format in twenty twenty four, where people are
getting VCRs and why people look at VHS and all that other fun stuff.
After that, there's some other interviews that are gonna be super exciting for some
people, including one from a really big boutique that we all love. That
is somebody that I don't think I've ever seen interviewed publicly, so I can't
wait to share that one eager to share with everybody. Will, You're always
incredible to have here the first Thursday of every month. If you all are
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