Hey, Hey, and happy Thursday to everybody. We are here with somebody
that I have enjoyed for quite some time, and somehow this is just astonishing
to me. This is the first time that Tim has been on the channel.
Everybody say hello to Tim Talks Talk. He's Tim. Thanks for doing
this. Thank you so much for asking me. Man, once you ask,
I'm like, heck, yes, I am totally in. I don't
know how it never happened. The first time I swear that this was in
my mind. It happened like six months ago. So I'm glad it's finally
here. For those that have never done anything with Tim Channel, please check
out the link in the description below. Tim is a fantastic creator, big
lover of steel books, somebody that is a positive force for physical media,
which is what we all need right now. So Tim, why don't you
tell everybody what you do on your channel? I wish I could tell,
like an easy focus. I'm never good at promoting myself. It's just I'm
just a guy that loves movies, so I talk physical media, but I
also have hobbies like my statues behind me, and I love movie posters and
different collectibles. So my channel is just all things movies that I love.
I don't really have a focus. I just love movie stuff. Going going
to conventions is a big thing for Tim. Another liming up. Yes,
Steel City in Pittsburgh. I'm gonna be going next month. They're gonna have
mostly everybody from the First Scream, which is awesome. I mean I'm basically
just Courtney Cox and Drew barrymore away from having like the whole cast when I
go. And they're also going to have the whole Christmas Story cast, which
is awesome. It's a big deal. Anybody else that you got your eyes
on, Uh, Alec Baldwin is gonna be there. Fan K Jansen,
Jeez, it's a big con. There's a lot of people. Uh,
McKenna grace Because at New York Comic Con I met Chris Evans and got a
gifted poster signed. So then I'm gonna get McKenna grace to sign it.
Wow. Yeah, very nice. That's pretty damn cool. I am.
I am a big autograph guy. I wasn't for the longest time, and
then since I don't know, maybe like since the pandemic, which is the
great time to be meeting people in person to have them signed. Things that
was like, I, all of a sudden just like, you know,
it's kind of nice to get some of these. I was never like the
Starstrucks kind to go, man, I have to get their signature. But
there's just something about it that is nice to be able to hold onto that.
Oh absolutely, staring at them gives me the memories of the time.
And some of them are more positive. Some people are just great to meet,
and then there's other ones, or like Peter Weller who was kind of
just no old grump, but it was still Peter Weller. Yeah. I
think one of the big reasons that it's kind of flipped on me is because
I met sid Hag in August of the year that he passed, and he
passed like forty five days after we met him, and I happened to get
something signed, and I'm like, you know, this is perfect. I
am so glad that I had this right then. This is a great time.
Yeah. Yeah, you'll always hold onto that memory. You'll just look
at the autograph. It just brings back memories. You know, there's one
question I don't think I've ever heard you answer. Either that or I never
went back to the archives of every single video to find out why why talks
talkies? Why is that part of the name on the channel, because so
many people use Blu ray or movie or some variant of it. And I
love classic movies. And for anyone that doesn't know, after we trans from
silent era into talking they were called talkies and no one refers to it like
that. And I wanted to have something kind of original in me. Pretty
damn original. I'm into it. Let's see tonight. Just so everybody's aware,
we're gonna be talking about criterions next. Next discussion, after all of
our announcements, we're gonna go into five underrated recommendations, things that aren't quite
as on the tip of everybody's tongue right now as they're going through the sale,
and it's a big deal Barnes and Noble sales one of everybody's you know
that's in this hobby. They look forward to this twice a year, and
it's it's the most accessible time for these most of the Barnes and Nobles they
usually stock up at least a couple times during the month, and they really
tried to get some of these titles out there. And I tried to pick
five that they'll probably have ones that you would find, but not ones that
people talk about a lot. So we're gonna talk about those. But first
we normally talk about pickups and recent watches. Why don't we talk about some
recent watches first, tim What have you been watching? Okay, so I
actually I'm not a big letterboxed guy, but I've actually been starting to track
on here at least and I'll convert it. But last night I watched Blue
Steel for the first time. I know we're we have the Vestron now,
but I actually watched it from the imprint release from the Neo noir set.
Really cool movie, man. I enjoyed that a lot. I don't know
why I never watched that one. That That is a darker movie than you
would expect. It came out right in that perfect time of like Unlawful Entry
was coming out right around then, and it's just it's not like pure copaganda,
but it's very Jamie Lee Curtis is just a badass, odd, weird
villain in that film and just crazy storyline. Loved that movie. Yeah,
the dude just will not go down. My wife and I are looking at
it, are like, my god, this guy's like the terminator. He
just keeps coming. The big thing though, that blue steel on Vestron.
That'll be the first time that sound blue in the US, and it sounds
I mean, it's Vestron, So it should be cheap if they they're keeping
with the standard that they've been doing. And well you could have found it
for a while at best Buy and not for much longer now, No,
no, not for much longer, but it should be Walmart normally. Walmart
normally has the restaurants lately. So yeah, yeah, we highly recommend picking
that one up though. It's a good one. You watched that from Imprint?
Did you ever happen to watch Testament? I did not. I didn't
get to that one yet. I'm in the I'm in the noir mood right
now, so I was kind of gone for that, but I did pick
it up. I have it back there because you recommended it. I bought
it from Orbit that night, and I will be getting to it. I
just like I said, I'm heavily in the noir mood right now. It
is a solid overall package, some very apocalyptic extras on that. I'll say,
there's some awkward like a PowerPoint presentation of what to do during a nuclear
explosion type of things. It's wild, great release. Yeah, I'm totally
in for it. Though. When you started selling it and then I looked
it up, I'm like, yeah, this is a me movie. Definitely.
It sounded like a Tim movie. Anything else you were talking about Goosebumps,
I haven't gotten to any of that yet. Yeah, so the Goosebumps
TV show, I've been really dagging it. I went in kind of skeptical
because it looked like kind of typical teenish show now and I wanted more of
the anthology, feel like they were yourself. But they'd somehow make this work.
They throw in the old storylines kind of with the same continuing characters.
It actually works. I like it shockingly, it's fun. I was kind
of a similar vein. I was stoked to see bloody disgusting report that they
are working on another of those Fear Street movies. I really liked that trilogy.
I did too. They were fun. I liked them a lot.
I would love to see another trilogy, but it sounds like it's just gonna
be another one movie at a time, unfortunately. But yeah, otherwise,
I've been in a heavy noir mood. So actually, one thing that's not
noir that I watched that, I actually wright and end. I watched Quiz
Lady on Hulu. I enjoyed that quite a bit. It's with the Aquafina.
It's the new one, Okay. I enjoyed that a lot. Man,
that watching that is making me like, dang it. I wish that
would get a physical because it's probably not going too yeah. I mean you
probably not, but it's getting marketed like crazy. It's good. It's it's
pretty dang good. I was shocked. I had it, had heart and
laughs. I want to own it. How how do you normally feel about
Aquafina, Because I know she's very hit or miss for a lot of people.
Her straight up comedy stuff is eh, but she can do drama stuff
pretty well, Like Quiz Lady has drama moments and The Farewell is fantastic.
I love the Farewell. Yeah. I've liked her in pretty much everything that
she's done. It's the the like one man show type of things that that
she's tried to do. I've never been super big into that stuff for her,
but even some of the comedy shows that she's been a part of.
She when she hit, she hits. Yeah, yeah, I look,
I had a blast with Quiz Lady, But I also I love daytime like
game shows, prices right and things like that, and if you like that
type of stuff, it's fun. One of my recent watches this is for
something I'm working on. Did you ever get see The Final Girls? No?
That was a recommendation from someone and I went it was on no streaming
in the Blue Ripe for some reason. When I looked, was like eighteen
dollars, I'm like, not yet. It's one that doesn't get down to
a decent price very often. It is a shockingly original, like decent movie.
The premise of it is there's an individual whose mom was in a summer
camp slasher like twenty years ago, and they are living life, and she's
like over the fact that she was in the slasher movie. And there's a
tragedy that happens and she dies, and that's not really a spoiler because it
happens in the first three minutes of the movie, but the lives through this
tragedy, and so she's facing the fact that her mom was gone, and
somebody gets her to go to a rep screening of her mom's old movie and
she hasn't seen the movie since her mom passed away, so it's this big,
poignant emotional moment. But as they're in this movie, there's another tragedy
that strikes and because of some weird happenstance, her and her group of friends
end up in the movie with her mom and with all of these actors.
It's this weird, like happy death day kind of premise that it's interesting,
and so she's dealing with the fact that she lost her mom. Now she's
in this movie with her mom and dealing with the weird you know, it's
a slasher. Still, it's a great movie. I think people need to
check it out. So it's sounding a lot like the newer movie Totally Killer,
which maybe it ripped a bunch of that off because as you describe that,
it sounds like you're describing Totally Killer. Like I haven't seen Totally Killer
yet, But a lot of the plot points, it's the mother was was
attacked as a teen and then killed later down the line, and then the
daughter travels back in time accidentally. It's there is it sounds a lot like
it. Man, when you described it interesting, I did not know it
that it was like that. Yeah, Terry says The Final Girls has a
lot of heart that one wouldn't always associate with the genre, and I would
agree, Yeah, it has a lot of emotional beats that are nice.
It's very very You can tell a lot of people could watch that to cope
with losing a loved one from a while ago. I'm gonna have to check
it out, especially because I enjoyed Totally Killer. But if Totally Killer is
kind of a ripoff, I would like to see where it actually came from,
because, man, you described it, I swear it sounds so similar.
Sibners says Totally Killer is basically a slasher back to the future, and
I've heard that exact sentence and I've been wanting to see it. It's just
been, unfortunately at the bottom of the queue. Another one that I watched
recently and I I've watched about two thirds of it. I get to finish
it tomorrow morning. But Monda Macabro, I know that you. You laughed
when I pulled out some of those titles during one of the tournaments we were
in. Have you got anything from them? Have you watched anything from Monda
Micabro Zero, So they put out a Bollywood horror box set and people that
have not dove into that yet and they own it. Please watch something out
of there. Man. This box set is so unique. Some decent music,
really interesting premises, the set pieces are so well done. But through
it all it's just so India, so eighties, so weird. It's it's
just a wonderful box set. It's so much fun. Bollywood puts out some
interesting stuff and that RRR was something. Love that movie. Well, you
always have a shit ton of pickups. What do you got that you want
to talk about tonight? So I just got some time. I like,
I have like all that down there is pickups that I didn't even do for
a video. I love that. It's so obvious that that's Barbie there on
top, so clear. You know. I was so bummed. I wanted
it released day and there was no steel book here. I'm like, what
the heck? Where is the steel book? But then it's like a week
later, Orbit puts it up ad de carte purchase. Yeah. Uh so.
One of the things. We have a lot of books in this house.
I have an entire book room. Also like our own home library.
We have a lot of Stephen King. I enjoy a lot of Stephen King.
This, this set from Via Vision is really freaking cool, man.
I like it a lot. And what's really cool is a bag of bones,
first time to Blu Ray or at least it's not here yet, and
writing the bullet, which I actually watched from here. I think I watched
it when it first came out, but I enjoyed it. I thought it
was fun. The rest of it I didn't necessarily need. But it's a
cool box. This is the definitive. I bought it because of pack essentially,
but even the spines they look like Warren books. Nice. It's it's
cool. It's a cool set. I've held off because of course with Keno
and with the studio did I've already got two of those on four K,
so I don't necessarily want to downgrade those two. But man, having the
other two in there that we don't have here is just a plus. Yeah,
I know. I mean there's a good A lot of the times when
Imprint and Via Vision have them, they do come to the US down the
line. But I just I love King, so I was like, I
gotta get it same. And speaking of Imprint, when I added Barbie to
the cart or no, not Barbie, this is. Actually, when I
bought Testament, I didn't want to just put one thing in there, so
I threw in the Jennifer Connolly box sets. Nice. I really liked their
their actor and director focused box sets. Yeah, so yeah, I had
to have this one man, I swear imprint. It has become like one
of my favorite labels. I I freaking love their stuff. They're so great
at what they do. The only thing I just wish they weren't so cost
prohibitive. Oh they're so expensive, man, so expensive single titles. I
can usually try to justify it around thirty bucks, but when a box set
is, you know, one hundred and thirty, it starts to get a
much more difficult time. I want that Walter Hill set so freaking bad,
and it was it was a one fifty nine on Orbit or something like that.
I'm like, oh my god, I want it though so bad.
This one's gonna be one that's gonna probably make you like shocked because the physical
meaning community has been loving this label. My very first Radiance title, which
I'm gonna be checking out wow soon. Yeah. Everything I've seen and heard
about Radiance is fantastic, But I just never grabbed any of their stuff,
but everyone has been going and guying over this one, so I had to
pick it up. And I'm gonna finally dive into radiance and see what they're
all about packaging, Lise, it looks awesome. Have you ever seen Messiah
Evil? No, this is taking a blind chance, man, blind chance.
You are going to be ecstatic. This is probably one of the easiest
blind buys that I don't usually say this often. I think almost anybody could
get this film and like it way more than most films. Messiah Evil is
like an across the board great film for most people. Oh damn, you're
making me want to jump out of the noir this month to watch that.
It would be a nice one for you. I think I got two more
here to show. Yeah, we're excited to get this one in. Yeah.
It was either the end of September or the beginning of October. I
watched the first jinge of Snaps for the first time in my life. I
enjoyed the heck out of it. It was a lot of fun, man,
I dug it so second site, having a box set for the trilogy,
I had to second site, box sets are incredible, So I'm not
going to rewatch the first yeah, because I just watched it, but I
have to dive into two and three. I hear they're not as good,
but they're not. Yeah, but look at that that artwork. It's pretty
great. And second site is always fantastic. Yeah, so I had to.
And then because I'm kind of a you know, kind of a horror
for steel books. Uh, I don't know why we didn't get a black
Phone steel book here, but that's a gorgeous steel book. And I loved
Black Phone, one of my favorite movies from that year. I enjoyed the
hell out of it. So, uh, this is great that you're showing
this, because I forgot to mention this last week. I'm hearing the Black
Phone from Turbine is quietly already out of print, and this is a big
deal because it just released, and supposedly one of the reasons that it's out
of print so quickly is because the four K in Germany is an incredible restoration,
not restoration, but an incredible scan, incredible four K release and it
was like X but better than the four K release in the States, and
the studio didn't like that, so they quietly said, you're not gonna sell
anymore. Well, damn, I'm I'm happy I got this then, because
I freaking loved this one. Did you like this movie? I thought that
it was great for about two thirds of it. I wasn't a huge fan
of the final act. I loved the tension they created before the main character
was kidnapped, but after that it kind of let me down a little bit.
But I adore Ethan Hawk. Supposedly they're working on a sequel. I
just hope that it's very Ethan Hawk heavy. Yeah. I don't know how
you I guess you go prequel probably, Yeah. But the little the actress
that played the sister, she was good, man, she was amazing good.
Yeah. I was a big fan of the first one to two acts
of that. I really wish that they could have kept that tension going.
But I don't know, it's just something about it didn't sit right for me.
I pulled out three to talk about because I feel like not many people
are talking about the Pusher trilogy from Umbrella. You talked about a couple imprint
releases and Umbrella also from Australia, and this trilogy. First off, I've
never seen any of these movies, and some people that I trust are telling
me that these are the best crime films they've ever seen. Oh and people
that love Nicholas Winding refence saying everything in this box set is way better than
Drive, which a lot of people worship that film. I don't really worship
it like most, but it's a good movie and if these are even better.
The big thing to me is Friend of Mine Howard as Berger did in
an ongoing visual essay over all three pieces, so you get this big,
connecting snapshot. I can't wait to check that out. Which one to show
next? I love this movie. I am very surprised that Aero put out
a four K of Witness. Yes that's over my pile. Oh yes,
if you've never seen Witness, please pick this up and check it out.
This is such a unique storyline for a movie, a film that probably would
not come together nowadays because they wouldn't they wouldn't put money into something like this,
They would think that it would fail. This movie is amazing. And
Harrison Ford maybe a hot take here. I think he might be at the
top of his game in this movie. So what's funny is back on Hawks
pop Culture Cafes channel, he did a Harrison Ford tournament thing I was on.
A bunch of us were pretty much going through all of his movies and
deciding what's the best Harrison Ford movie? That one because we just Witness is
his best role. Witness is the best movie of his I'm very impressed by
that. Yeah, it's a fantastic movie. It really is, really,
really is. Video Store Review says I can endorse the praise for the Pusher
films. I also think they're the best reference made by a mile Wow.
Love that witnesses terrific. Peter Weird doesn't get the love he deserves. Indeed.
Last thing, I've not seen many people talking about this, but showing
up the four K from a twenty four. Yeah, yeah, I want
to see that really bad. It looks good. I wanted to go to
theaters for it. Yeah, I did too. Love me some Kelly Raichkart
one of the best modern filmmakers, and I for some reason, I glossed
over the fact when I was posting this that these beautiful art cards are in
here, like these are some of the better supplements that I've seen in some
of these releases. I'm very happy to get this. Yeah, I'm absolutely
ordering that soon enough. But when I order that, I'll probably throw that
in. And I still never got Marcel to shell, so I'll probably just
order several things at once. I've got my Marcel somewhere. Stan says it's
not Ford's best, Well, then what's better? Come on? If you're
going Harrison Ford roles? So that's taking out Star Wars. Is he's just
in Star Wars? Right? And Indiana Jones. Yes, But Indiana Jones,
I think is just the collective of how fun they are acting Wise Witnesses.
He's better in Witness, I would agree. I don't know what else
comes comes close. Witness is just as a whole. It's yeah, it's
just it's the number one for me. I mean, it's just it's fantastic.
The only other one I could see somebody arguing is maybe the Fugitive A.
It doesn't hit me the same way. No, And I'll be honest,
Tommy Lee Jones kills it in a lot of a lot of scenes in
that though, that are more memorable than even Harrison's roles. I want every
house, every roll, and every when he's I love that scene. I
can't quote it, but I love that scene. Oh man. Lots of
good comments on that, I am stoked. Uh. Regarding Henry, that's
another good one too. I enjoyed it. No, come on, dude,
it's not Harrison Ford's best in American graffiti. Six Days, seven nights,
all right, one of the things that we should probably at least argue
about for a moment. Oh god, I think I know where you're gonna
go. So why don't you tell us about the video you posted this morning?
Oh god, my most recent video on my channel is one. Actually,
I thought it would be more disruptive in the community than it is,
which is nice. Actually, Uh, I'm not a fan of sleptcovers.
I really don't care about them. I'm thinking about taking off all of my
all of my slips and pretty much just giving them to people because I don't
I don't need them. They need nothing. Before we get too deep into
this, I completely agreed with every thing you said. I I've considered it
many many times. I just haven't taken the time to do it. It
is it. It seems like something I would love to have accomplished, but
it's so cumbersome just to sit down and do it. I figured it out
too. If you have a full show or at least with the shelves I
have. I can fit twenty across with slips. I fit twenty three without
slips. That's a lot of movies when you go shelf by shelf that that's
a lot of extra room, and it just I think looks better. So
like, there's a lot of people, so the Keno Lauribers, there's a
lot of people that don't like they're just plain black. I love it.
I love it. I love it, and when you take the slips off
of them, it's just all uniform across the board. I just prefer it.
Craig from Deaf Crocodile says, that's an interesting take for someone who's a
self confessed steel book or I love steel books. I love them. My
mind places value and I care about steel books. I've spent I've spent one
hundred and fifty on a single steel book already, but I won't spend even
a penny more for a copy with a slipcover. It just doesn't mean anything
to me. It's just especially when it's most of the time the same artwork,
and at least from studios, it's mostly all the same exact artwork,
and it's not it's not even like, hey, all releases have slips,
they pick and choose which ones have slips, So what's the point then?
Yeah, And for those that haven't watched the video yet, he's primarily talking
about the studio of slipcovers, not things like Paramount Presents, not things like
a vinegar Syndrome partner label title. We're talking about the ones that are the
same exact art, the pointless cover overcover. It's the same art. I've
never understood that. Yep. That's why I had to make sure I put
ninety nine percent of slipcovers, because there's there's that one percent that I care
and I'll keep, but the rest of them. Yeah, blessed him.
He finally lost me. Yeah, I've never understood the studio thing. Like,
if you're gonna put a slip cover on it, and you're gonna you're
gonna spend a couple cents on it, why not just do it the original
poster art. If you're gonna do new new promotional art, do the original
poster or do something something. Yes, I don't know, man, even
if they even if it's the same artwork, but the sleeve is reversible,
and then it gives you the option to reverse it, so you have different
art for slip and cover. But most of them don't do that. We
don't. We hardly get reversible artwork as a whole. But true, when
when we did that that trip to uh to bull Moose, a whole bunch
of the community went to Bull Moose and I'm watching everyone in this store just
they're going they're going to talent, They're going ap shit over this stuff.
They're grabbing all these things like, oh, look at this, And most
of it was because of they were finding copies with slipcovers. And to me,
I'm looking at the store, it was like it was mostly common stuff,
Like I didn't come away with that much because it was a lot of
commons, right, but they cared about finding the slip covers. And I'm
like, eh, that means nothing that makes sense. Uh oh, John
says, come on, fellows, no politics, religion, or slip slander.
Slip slanders should almost be like the name of a podcast or something talking
about the most ridiculous eBay sales of the week, something like that. If
anyone was subscribed, now they're unsubscribing. They had you open another tapic went
oh never mind, I'm actually, to be honest, though, I'm shocked
that video has been pretty pretty well received. I'm shocked ause I thought people
were just gonna rip into me. But it's pretty well received, which is
pretty cool. People love you, Tim, We're glad to have it.
I was just Josh and yeah, there's no reason to arregue there. It's
especially when it's the same art. It's absolutely pointless. And I mean,
we're all out of space. Well not all of us, but many of
us are out of space. If you just toss slipcovers, you've got at
least room for another forty more probably. Yeah. And the thing is,
it's sounding like I do want toss them, toss them. I'm just giving
them to people. I get Bob like thirty of them, and I'll give
them to people I don't care. Right, Well, are we ready for
some announcements, sir? Yeah, Yeah, let's dive in. First one
this week is one amazing cover super Into This coming early in twenty twenty four
on Blu Ray from Ascilloscope is Moon Garden. This is a twenty twenty two
film, and I gosh, just the first sentence of this very much intrigued
me. It says shot on expired thirty five millimeter film stock with vintage rehoused
lenses, Moon Garden is a fantastical odyssey and a visionary, handcrafted and fully
practical work of art that shows how a child can shine light even in the
darkest places. They did a good job selling it because between artwork and the
description that does intrigue me. I don't love a telescope's packaging, but that
does sound really good. I'll even go a step further. I mostly hate
a telescope package, but that being said, I've been a very happy subscriber
of us Telloscope for three or four times in a row. Yeah, they
do great stuff. I'm generally happy with their catalog, are they They do
really good stuff. I'm a big cat person. And their documentary Caddy is
so adorable. I loved it. That was a big one. Next up,
Keena Lober coming soon on Blue ray man Eater of Kumeun something like that.
I'm not sure how to pronounce that last word. Nineteen forty eight,
this came out. This is a big one for a lot of people.
More of a sable on Blu ray. That's the big draw. Yeah,
so I've not seen this but I'm all over classic stuff, and Keno Larber
is one of the main ones really pumping it out. Man. They they
pump out so much old black and white stuff. It is awesome because they're
they're saving these movies that really no one is caring about nowadays, which is
I love it. So this is something I would probably it'll probably end up
in the collection at some point. Well, and who else is putting out
black and white movies as often as that? Nobody, that's the big thing.
Not at the rate they do too, Like they they'll put out like
five and in one week. It's crazy. It is impossible to stay up
to date with Keo. That's for sure one of my favorite newer ish ones
though that's been doing a lot of that stuff. I love Film Detective also.
Film Detective does cool stuff, So I've been digging them, and I
enjoy classic flicks, but neither one. Yeah, but neither one has the
output of Keno even close to the output of Quino. Right well, and
Film Detective is no more already you know that, right, No? I
didn't, So Film Detective is now film Masters. I saw the name film
Masters. I just thought that was kind of like a sub label, but
it's it is. It is Film Detective with a new shiny coat of paint.
So the owner of Film Detective sold it to somebody else thinking because he
was basically under the impression that they were gonna be able to work together to
do something magnificent, and they said, nope, we're gonna screw your company
that you built from the ground up over and not gonna be anything like you
envisioned. So he said, fine, I'm going to take a little bit
of the money that you gave me and we're going to go start our own
thing. And it's even the same type of branding. And yeah, that's
I thought it was with the same company essentially, It literally is they're doing
all of the same type of things. And yeah, they they're putting out
some great stuff and they were the ones to announce the first release that I'm
on, so I'm to support them. That's awesome because actually I I had
this I just on my desk because I recommended this in a different stream.
But like this was a cool box set, like no one was saving these
super early Sherlock Holmes films, Like this is awesome. I'm gonna sound like
a dick now after tucking them up so much. I think that's the only
release from them that I didn't love. Like the movies, but boxes chintzy.
Yeah, but the box is awful. But also the restorations are really
not great on there. And I think it's because there were so many films
they couldn't afford great restorations for. I think it's four films in there.
Yeah, yeah, so to do all of that for the price that they
did, that would have been a lot of money on restorations. And it's
they they probably needed a little more restoration work. Yeah. I only watched
one of the four, but I enjoyed it. It's I mean, the
good movies are they even? They might be even public domain too, I'm
not even sure. I wouldn't be surprised. They do a lot of public
domain stuff actually. Yeah. Next up, pet Cemetery Bloodlines from this year
is getting a four K and blu ray release from Paramount. This is coming
on December nineteenth, and I've not seen this. I know a lot of
people were upset when that remake came out. I actually liked the remake.
Did you get a chance to check this out? So I didn't see this
one yet. I just watched the original right around the time the remake came
out. I never saw the original before, so I watched basically the original
and their remake almost back to back. Wow, I really I thought they
were both fine. That was about to sum it up. I thought they
were both fine. Yeah, So I'll probably check this one out at some
point. But I'm not like hyped fard or anything. I am into John
Lithgow, so him being in that second one or the remake, Now,
the second one was a fairly big draw for me. I think he did
pretty great in that role. And then this one. I mean, Henry
Thomas is fantastic in pretty much everything nowadays, obviously delivers great stuff for Flanninggan.
But then you know, Pam Greer's in the David Duchovney. It's a
pretty nice cast. Yeah. Yeah, I'll probably check it out at some
point. And it's a streaming thing coming a disc that's always good. That's
a big reason to support it too, showing that we'll buy it. Yeah.
Next one that is a little infuriating but also really exciting. December fourth,
the BBC is releasing black Adder the Complete Collection with the little asterisk there
because they're not advertising that. Even though they're calling this the complete collection,
it's only the complete collection of what they have the rights to, meaning Back
and Forth is not included in this, which is an interesting time traveling type
episode, and then the original pilot episode. This is an odd show because
there was two pilots and so complete collection it's not really what is Blu Ray
releases of an incredible series and I would love to have this is the one
pilot, basically the unaired pilot. I think it literally played once if I
remember reading about it correctly. But yeah, it's it's kind of rare and
it's not something that the BBC themselves have had the rights to, so yeah,
okay, they couldn't put it out there. It's a It's an awesome
looking set though, Yeah, for an incredible show, and there's a lot
of stuff on here. Yeah, this is a big deal. And I
see the comment that I said out loud when I saw this announcement, Jesus
Christ, Blackadder is forty years old and it really is. Yeah, this
is wild. I would love to get this. You can actually pre order
this on Amazon dot co dot UK already, and it needs to do on
my wish list. I wish I. So this is probably more of a
bank problem for me. But anytime I ordered anything from Amazon UK, it
never I always have problems with my bank just for fuses to let the charge
go through. It's like their fraud detection. So I never gets a pre
order on anything from Amazon UK because no matter how many times I tell the
bank accept it, it's good, it doesn't and then Amazon cancels the order
just I've given up. See, And that's when I try to do any
of the international amazons or directly even from some of these other boutiques. Not
everybody has access to that, and I know that's privileged speaking here. But
Capital one credit cards best thing to do in my opinion for those because not
only do they they have good fraud detection and it never gets you know,
there's no alarm bells going off for any of these. But on top of
that, Capital One doesn't charge fourign transaction fees, So the only thing that
you got to worry about is the what am I trying to think of the
currency conversion? But other than that, you're good. You don't ever have
to pay that extra two percent or whatever it is. Yes, I generally
I paypals on most websites, and I try to do my foreign stuff apal
because that gives me no issues. Yeah, that's a good thing. Next
one March twenty sixth, VCI is releasing Dark Knight of the Scarecrows one and
two on four K. They're also releasing the two Pac on Blu ray.
Man this first off, do you have much experience with VCI or have you
seen Dark Knight of the Scarecrow No? No, Well, the first movie
is actually brilliant. It's a wonderful, great, great scarecrow movie, like
one of the best, maybe the best scarecrow movie of all time. But
the hard part, VCI is absolute garbage. Most of their releases are burned
Blu rays with cover art that looks like it was printed. I'm gonna sound
like I'm repeating myself for those in the discord because I just said this earlier
today. It looks like cover art that was printed from like a two thousand
and four laser printer and then haphazardly kind of sideways. And it's on top
of that just poor restorations. None of it works. It's just usually bad
and trusting. VCI with the four K does not sound like a great time
for me, but also the hard part is there, I don't know.
They're probably gonna do them standalone eventually. The second Dark Knight of the Scarecrows
I've not seen, but the trailer for it alone was god awful. It
was so bad. There was somebody wearing a VCI hat to advertise the company
in the trailer. Wow. Yeah, No, I have no experience with
these. I so a lot of older horror. I'm working my way through
some stuff with them. But I didn't grow up with horror. I didn't
really actually start watching horror until like somewhere in my teens. Right, there's
a lot of stuff that people talk about horror and like, I don't know,
I don't know, I don't watch it. I grew up with classic
movies going in the house. Yeah, I didn't get much classics. And
the funny thing is I only got mainstream horror. So a lot of this
I'm actually very much still still discovering myself. So it's always fun. But
yeah, the first one of these is a really good movie. Not from
VCI though. And this is a slightly off topic, but since you mentioned
about the bet that cover art, this just popped into my mind. Do
you have the Domestic Disturbance released from Paramount? I think it's Paramount, right,
Domestic Disturbance, Yeah, I think I much because that is one of
the worst cover arts I've ever seen, because it's all pixelated and looks like
they took a twenty DPI picture and printed it out. I just that popped
into my mind because it's it's absolutely terrible, and I wonder I have not
seen it. Ah, the DS are next to me, but there's no
way I'm gonna find it so many but yeah, it is awful. It's
it's really bad cover art, like it's you see the actual pixels in it.
I was flabber gashed that they shift that. Wow, that's pretty embarrassing.
Uh. We got a question. How was the Children Shouldn't Play with
Dead Things? Four K? That's another that was the first v C I
four K and from I'm not gonna pick it up because I have an older
release that's not v C I. Uh, and this one the reviews that
I've been reading on that is essentially vc I Blu rays finally look like DVD
quality, and now the four k's finally look like Blu rays. So if
you want it in a high definition you can finally pick up the four K
to get it on what you should have had ten years ago. There,
I go that that's a that's resounding news. There teas, I've heard great
things about that movie though. Yeah, it's a it's a good one for
sure. Uh. Next up kind of an exprin mental turn for reconnected at
the moment. Black Zero they are a company that is like Gold Ninja Video
out of Canada. They work on creating their entire product themselves, especially with
special features. They worked with a lot of filmmakers to get these out and
they got their second wave of titles out there finally. This first one is
A man whose life was full of woe has been surprised by joy. This
is from nineteen ninety seven, and this is about transformations, about transformations of
imagery through collage and montage, about history as transformation, about arrows as a
transformative power, and most of all about the transformations of the self. It
rejects modernity's inhumane technological order and seeks to reconnect the body and the self.
This is all done by R. Bruce Elder and it's newly restored, and
it's newly restored from the films elements themselves, commentary by R. Bruce Elder
and Stephen Brumer who owns Black Zero, and then we got a new interview
with R. Bruce Elder on this and a new video essay done by Stephen
Brumer as well. I don't know anything about these, and most people don't
either. It sounds intriguing enough. But the cover art, though, is
bad. I do not like that at all. That doesn't sell me on
anything, but it sounds intriguing. Yeah, most people that have bought these,
they know going into it that it's experimental, and they're usually into it.
I don't love a lot of the cover art. I think there's one
or two from this batch that I tend to enjoy. The next one,
Green Dreams. See this one's not bad. No, that's fine, that's
pretty standard. That's not bad. This one is going to have a bunch
of stuff on here. So this is the comprehensive collection covering the origins as
a student filmmaker of Josephine Massarella who is at the University of British Columbia in
the early nineteen eighties. And this is going to include One Woman, One
Woman Waiting, Number five reversal Interference, Green Dream, Night, Stream Light
Study, No End, and one six five, seven zero eight. I
guess. So these are individual commentaries on each film by an international selection of
film critics, artist, filmmakers, and poets. There are four early films
by Mazilla as well, and then some archival interviews and the liner notes lots
of stuff going into these. There are not a lot of information about a
lot of these releases. People have not been super into it if they're not
into experimental films, So just take that with a grain of salts and realize
too, it's from Canada, so when you go into it, you're gonna
end up paying probably another twenty dollars in shipping depending on what you buy,
and you're not gonna be able to find their releases anywhere else. So if
these are super intriguing to you, check out Black Zero. Everybody that has
supported them that knew what they were getting were very happy. That's about all
I can say. Something I love though about physical media, even if this
isn't my jam at all, It's fantastic that something like this is even put
on disc and released like that's awesome. I don't care if it if something's
the worst movie in the world. I want it on disc. Like,
that's awesome. So that very cool. This is basically a Criterion level box
set for somebody that none of us know about. This is fantastic. Like
that's hard to argue with. Yeah. Next up from them is see I
like this cover too. Field Trips by Richard Kerr. This is from nineteen
eighty eight to twenty twenty one. Canadian artist filmmaker Richard Kerr was raised in
a North South family near the American border. From a young age, he
was preoccupied with the vision of empire reflected an American mass culture and sport.
As he matured as a filmmaker, Kerr began to turn his attention increasingly to
America as a subject, undertaking road trips through the American south West, studying
the spirit of a landscape made for cinema. And so he's gonna have on
here the Last Days of Contrition, Cruel Rhythm, and Field Trip. And
these are all restored four K digital masters, approved by Kerr himself. There's
also a bonus film from two thousand and four, New Interview with the Filmmaker,
a video essay documenting portrait of Kerr in his home studio and some liner
notes like again, lots of stuff on this. Yeah, that sounds pretty
cool though, I mean again, might not be my thing, but that's
awesome. It exists exactly my thoughts exactly, and I think, yeah,
that's it. I mean, we'll talk about the Tim's big thing in a
second. That was a weird sentence. Oh three release wave from Black Zero.
This is the second time that they've done this. If you're gonna get
them, I the first three seleven sold out yet, So if you get
a few that you're like, man, these sound great, buy a couple
at once. SAVIORLF on the shipping something to make it worth your while to
see if you're really into them before you go all in and be unhappy or
just by one. And because of Canadian shipping, and they're a little price.
Heat's like thirty dollars a release. I think you're going a lot.
If you're only going in for one release, that's a lot of money.
Yeah. Now Tim's favorite Gill Noir, The Dark Side of Cinema eighteen leave,
we're up to that. I have a lot of them to still get.
I have a chunk of them. What do I have? Like seven
of them? So only eleven more to go. But these sets are awesome.
Man. Everything I've seen from them have been at worst entertaining, and
they're cheap. They're crazy cheap for what they are. I can't recommend any
of these sets enough. The big thing with these sets is they they're not
coming with the booklet. It's not a limited slipcover. So you can just
wait for one of the kenot sales and pick this up for twenty five bucks.
Yeah, eight dollars a movie. What are you gonna argue with?
That's fantastic? Yeah, this one. We got City of Shadows, we
got Fingerman, we got crash Out. Have you seen any of these three?
None of them? And that's what I love. I haven't seen most
of everything that's been in these film noir sets, but like I said,
at worst, they've been entertaining enough. I mean, what's to argue with
on that entertaining enough? As long as I I even if it's not all
that memorable, if it entertained me for the hour and a half, I'm
good. These are cool, cool one. I'm happy these exist. A
lot of these things. If Keno didn't pick these up and release them,
they would just be languishing on DVD or VHS. Even some of the stuff
that never even came to DVD, that or Indicator would release them in like
an eight film box set and it would be twice as much. I do
love Indicator, though, man me too to love Indicator. Next up,
Hey, this is an exciting thing. Shelf Shock Rewind twenty twenty three is
happening. It is coming up soon, and we are scheduling this for once
again the Sunday after Super Bowl Sunday, So I believe that is February eighteenth
is when this is going to be happening next year, and it is time.
I've been reaching out to a bunch of people to be on the creator
selection committee, including Tim Here and Man we Are. I thought last year
was exciting and big. This year is about to freakin explode. The number
of people that have already responded and said they're in already dwarfs last year's like
crazy, that's awesome, that is so cool. I cannot wait. We
have a lot of neat ideas, and I don't think it's been said super
publicly yet, so I will say now a co host for Shelf Shock Rewind
twenty twenty three is going to be none other than Celeste de la Cabra,
and I could not be more excited. I loves is amazing. We've got
a ton of great ideas. There are a bunch of people that are on
the CSC and the chat you guys are fantastic. One of the things though,
that I didn't say, if you're a creator, if you've got a
podcast, a YouTube channel, if you've got if you submit items on discs.
Either I've already reached out to you and you've already said yes, or
I've reached out to you and the email went to your junk mail. Or
if I didn't reach out to you and you want to be a part of
it, send me an email and I will get you on the list.
I will send you our poll. We'll make sure that you're in there and
you know, being able to put your opinion out there. It's going to
be a massive year. Yeah, I'm excited, man, I'm really excited.
Well, maybe that's a good time since we're already like halfway through the
discussion on announcements. How do you feel about this year compared to last year
in terms of all physical media, Because I know a lot of us last
year we were looking at it like it was massive. It was this is
the year that's gonna dwarf everything. I almost feel like we've gotten more releases
this year. This really, this year has been killer. It's been better
though, even for steel books, because I'm a big steel book guy.
This has been an insane year for steel books. My goodness. Yeah,
it's it's been pretty great. Yeah, between even import ones that have come
out, and then even the US ones like Lionsgate just keeps releasing you know,
fire Steelbook after Fire Steel Book, and oh my goodness for only twenty
two bucks. Yeah, but even I'm loving Paramount is putting their steel books
out just everywhere, which is fantastic. Yeah, I'm I'm loving the steelbook
game right now. Next is Barnes and Noble Criterion sale is on now and
you can go to any of the in store locations or by online. That
is up until December fourth, and as usual, it's fifty percent off the
MSRP. So for Blu rays, you're looking at twenty bucks, four ks,
twenty five box sets ranging from thirty five all the way up to to
fifty ish and yeah, some great releases, great prices. Can't wait to
put in something because I still have not put in any order, so I'm
going to see what I get. The one thing I try to stress this
to people too. We get two sales a year from Barnes and Noble themselves,
plus we get the flash sales from Criterion themselves, all at fifty percent
off, and Criterion is like ninety five percent. What's in print now will
be in print next year. They only take stuff out of print if they
lose the rights or something like that. Yeah, so don't go crazy buying
hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth. Whatever you don't get in this sale,
you can get in on the next one or the one after that. It's
I never the fomo isn't there with with Criterion sales. It's get what I
want to watch now and I'll get more next time. Yeah, there's there's
not a ton that I'm clamoring for right now. The cool thing about the
Barnes and Noble one each year is that you can do the They do their
fifty percent off of pre orders for what's coming out during this month too,
And there's one or two that I really want from this one. So,
but I really want that second site set. I'm definitely doing second site.
It's hard, Like, I love Criterion, but that's a second site box
set. Man, that's hard to turn down. I could not possibly argue
with that. You are absolutely right, all right, what do we got
next? We've got MVD rewind So this surprise the hell out of me.
February twentieth, on Blu Ray, they are releasing Hardware Wars from nineteen seventy
eight. This is a Star Wars parody that I still have in a VHS
box about ten feet away from me, and I'm astonished that this is getting
a Blu Ray release. This is wild For those that have never heard of
this or checked it out, This is first of all, very short.
This is like, it's like less than twenty minutes even I think that's the
big thing. Yes, let me, let me make sure I'm getting there.
It might be forty minutes on the long end, but if I remember
right, it's very very short. So yeah, it's thirteen minutes long.
And so I know, hearing that, you're like, how are they putting
that out on a Blu Ray? You gotta look at everything that's on this
disc. So on top of that, there is an audio commentary with the
writer, director a video commentary with the writer director. There's a director's cut
which is only ten minutes. There's a prequel featurette which is another five minutes.
There's a four in version which is eleven minutes. Then on top of
that they go through Hardware, War Saves Christmas featurette, a trailer, an
Awards reel. But then they start adding other parodies that they've done. So
they have Porklipse Now, which is a twenty two minute nineteen eighty parody of
Apocalypse Now. There's Plan nine point one from Outer Space, which is twenty
minutes and it's a parody of a Plan nine from outter Space done with puppets.
There's just so much on this disc that's great, and they actually made
it worthwhile. This is fantastic. You know, this is making me think.
So I've never seen this or even actually heard of it, but it
sounds like something I should totally watch. But I wonder if we would also
if we could get weird stuff like this. Do you remember in the early
two thousands those thumb parodies like thumb Tanic and oh wow, imagine a box
set of those a thumbbox set. Jeez, that was I swear you just
unlocked a memory bank somewhere that I've not thought of that in so long.
I wonder how many people like remember I've seen those before? Wow, Waves
says. I messaged Second Site about the main streets four k this week to
ask about their encoding, and they said it's going to be by Fidelity in
Motion, so all the more reason to grab Second Site over Criterion. I
would agree there, Yeah, I mean that's the version I'm going with.
Anyway. Second Site is just incredible, dude, says amazing announcement. Has
it ever had an official release? I only remember ever seeing it on a
friend's crappy VHS in the nineties, and I think that was a bootleg.
It did have an official VHS, but I think that was the only thing
on the VHS. It was fourteen minutes and that's it. Jeez. This
is hilarious. Uh. But the one that people are probably most excited about.
They are releasing Joysticks from nineteen eighty three as well. This is coming
out again on Blu Ray. Now here's the hard thing about this release for
me to get excited about it. It's got a fan commentary that they're putting
on here with Eric Wilkinson from MVD, rewind Heath from Cyrial at Midnight,
and then Diabolic and Cauldron's Jesse Nelson. But other than that, this is
the same exact disc as the Scorpion Blu Ray from twenty fifteen, same scan,
No new restoration work. That's kind of rough to hear, all right,
So I thought this sounded familiar. I think this is one that recently
went into stock on a Diabolic. I think it was like they must have
found old copies sitting around they were going for like fifty bucks or something like
that, because I remember Bob was talking about he grabbed either this or another
one. They had several kind of more obscure out of print titles and stock.
Yeah, I believe it was this one. I'm not sure if it
was Diabolica, Grindhouse, yeah, one of them. Yeah, but yeah.
This is the only thing great about this is they put a really nice
slipcover on it, and after our conversation that feels really funny to say.
But uh, by all the time, it turns out the restoration will be
nine years old. Yeah. I've never seen it before though, so I
have no frame of reference at all. But I'm really digging that atari artwork.
They'll worth for that last one. That's cool, it's great art.
Like I said, they're helping you buy it with some great art. And
the crappy thing though, is now that this is being released, that means
no one else has the rights to this. This will probably be the only
thing that we get for at least the next five years. And like again,
I'm not complaining. I'm glad that people will have the opportunity to buy
this because the old one has been out of print for a very long time.
But I feel like we could have restored it. It didn't look incredible,
then it's gonna look ten times worse with twenty twenty four eyes on it.
Like that's that's rough. Yeah, I always give people another chance at
it at a cheaper price. Yep, I can't complain too too much.
This one brand new from twenty twenty three. We are getting a four K
and Blu ray release of the Creator on December twelfth. Once again, kind
of a big deal because it's it's Disney, this is twentieth century Fox putting
this out. And this actually has some special features. It has a fifty
five minute making of going on. This hard to argue with that because we
could have got nothing, something definitely to be grateful for, and it bombed
pretty bad. So to get a four K is cool because the not getting
a four K on Haunting in Venice when that bomb really annoys me. So
I'm glad this is getting a four K. Not only did it bomb,
but lots of people are saying that this is going to be like the newest
cult classic immediate because it's that great of a film. I'm very eager to
see this. I've heard it's incredible. Yeah, the Haunting eventis thing still
rose in the wrong way too. It does because especially the two movies before
it were great. Four k's Death on the Nile was an incredible four K.
But as for this, Gareth Edwards makes not a lot of money go
a long way. He he kind of puts the some of the other directors
to shame, where like they would probably take two hundred million to create what
I think this is like a forty million dollar movie or something like. It
wasn't really that much and it looks it looks like a two hundred million dollar
movie. It's kind of kind of wild. Next up, Bikini Beach from
nineteen sixty four is getting a pressed mod Blu ray from MGM on November twenty.
First, this to me feels like a Tim movie. It does.
I've never seen it, but that cover just yeah, that totally looks like
something I'd buy. So it says there are big waves crashing at Bikini Beach,
the beach is close to becoming a retirement village, and a British pop
star comes between De Dye and Frankie. Will it all be resolved by the
end of summer vacation? That's all sounds me. I. Yeah, Well,
they're releasing another one, but we have to talk about that a minute
because they waited a couple days to announce it. This week I put up
an interview with Jason Bennet of Culture Shock Releasing. Check that out if you
haven't. Then Dark Force, which we don't talk about a whole lot on
this channel. They are putting out a four K on Black Friday of Mirror
Mirror from nineteen ninety with Karen Black. This is one of those films that
they've released multiple times and now it's coming off four K. Do you dabble
in Dark Force at all? No? I don't think I have any of
them. I would easily say you're smart for that. Not a bad choice.
Next up, Severin has started to announced their Black Friday titles as well.
First one, they are putting out The Church from nineteen eighty nine on
four K. This is a Mikayla Swab title and it's not the only Swabi
title that we are getting, so we will check out the next in just
moment. November twenty seven, Titans of Cult is releasing the next title,
a four K Steel Book of Gladiator. I've had a lot of people ask
is this going to be a better disc than previous release. No, Titans
of Cults only puts out special packaging. They don't do anything special for the
discs. But what they do is make this a really nice release. So
they are getting this out there with a sculpted pin of Maximus helmet. There's
gonna be a collection of production photography from the set. There's a rigid Titan
box around a steel book case, and then it even has this little stand
to be able to hold it up and display the steel book. Titans of
Cult, how many of those you got only like read? But I dig
their stuff. They're they're cool. My only complaint with them is that the
plastic is kind of brittle when you're opening them up at the top, like
I have one that cracked. But otherwise they're they're nice releases. They are,
and they usually get uh like the pin on. This is actually really
cool that the little fancy object that they got like they did. Uh.
I think they did one of the new Star Trek movies and it came with
like a little notepad or something like that. It was it was neat to
me release. Yeah, and they're they're priced well enough considering their steel books
are mostly always great. Yeah, Simon Er says, I think they've done
away with that plastic casing. Oh did ya? That was my least favorite
part of their releases, So yeah, because that's which is it might be
my thing one that's kind of cracked at the top. Yeah, I feel
like on that one, a lot of people's caam damaged. Yeah, but
a NIC's a nice steal booked though it's true. January ninth, Keina Lober
is releasing The Outside Man from nineteen seventy two on Blu Ray. This is
going to have a new audio commentary by Howard s Berger, friend of the
Channel, Steve Mitchell, and Nathaniel Thompson. This will also include the uncut
version of The Outside Man in English and in French. They also got some
trailers on here, reversible art and the slipcover. Yeah, I mean,
I'm totally down for that though. I saw that when that one got announced.
Roy Scheider is really good actor. Everyone always thanks just Jaws, but
the guy did good stuff outside of Jaws. Plus An Margaret Jean Louis Trenton.
Yeah, this is a big one. Next up one that a lot
of people were surprised by. They are seeing a release on January twenty third
Carlotta Films. This is coming in the US via Keno Lober, but also
Carlotta is releasing this in France themselves. They are putting out Jean Moreau Filmmaker,
which is gonna include Lumier The Adolescent and Lilian Gish. These are from
seventy six, seventy nine and eighty three. There are HD restorations of Lilian
Gish and four K restorations of the other two films with some archival interviews and
uh yeah, glad these are getting released. These sound pretty fantastic. Yeah,
that's that's very cool And I actually never saw I like Lillian gish,
So I didn't even know there was a documentary, to be honest, nice
all right, what is our next one? Uh? Coming at the end
of December on Blu Rain Canada from Raven Banner shin Ultraman from just last year
twenty twenty two. Crazy looking slipcover on this and then the blue on the
inside is the same cover art that we've been seeing elsewhere. This is gonna
have a exclusive O card all new English subs, new video Master on a
BB fifty disc plus an exclusive commentary by Alex Rushti and then Kevin Darren Doorf
is gonna be with him as well. There's a video introduction by Alex Rushti
as well. Did you ever watch an Ultraman? No'm I've never watched any
Ultraman, to be honest. It doesn't look me so I've never seen any.
Are you into Kaiju stuff at all? Godzilla or any of those?
I am? I like Godzilla, but for some reason, I don't know.
I've watched trailers on Ultraman stuff and it just I don't know what's wird.
I like Power Rangers and I like Godzilla, but I just never had
an interest in Ultraman. Interesting, I mean people are. I mean,
it's I'm not a huge fan of it either. I'm gonna be honest.
Some of it is good, but yeah, it's not. I've never been
huge into Kaidu. I don't know. It's tough, No, Craig.
They did not credit the artist, unfortunately. I hate when artists aren't credited.
It's it's it's one of my pet peeves because I so I. As
I mentioned, I collect a lot of posters, but I'm really into like
screenprint posters a lot which have more modern artists, and many of them do
artwork that we see on steel books now, people like Matt Ryan Tobin and
Sarah Deck which Sarah Tula Lote. We just saw hers for Barbarella for Arrow.
But some of these places don't credit the artists, and that bugs the
hell out of me because their art is what's helping to sell your item.
Like, I know you paid them, but come on credit them. I
am always glad to see two of arguably probably the biggest boutiques out there,
Criterion and Vinegar Syndrome, they literally always credit the artist for the slipcovers.
It's so nice to see that. Yeah. Next up Nico from Cult Epics
has launched a GoFundMe to raise funds for a documentary on Ros Williams from Christian
Death. There's a new documentary film that Nico is going to be helping with
and he's looking for some editing and post production funds. And again it's a
GoFundMe, not a kickstarter, so you're not going to be getting anything back
for it. But if you want to fund something because you're into it,
check it out. Just wanted to help spread the word. Man. As
we're talking about how good twenty twenty three is, we just got another announcement
about a new label called Celluloid Dreams and the big thing they are putting out
a four K of the Jallo The Case of the Deadly Iris from nineteen seventy
two. This is pretty damn cool. From their website, it says,
over the past few months, we have been hand picking underserved movies we cherish
so we can allow more viewers to experience these films in the best possible quality.
We will give these films the respect, love and care they deserve,
with brand new transfers and restorations to ensure they do not only match today's home
video standards, but to help preserve them for future viewers and help rescue them
from potential deterioration and obscurity. They are going through final restoration steps for our
initial release, a Blu Ray four K combo of a beloved film that seems
to be the Case of the Bloody Iris, packed with bonus materials old and
new. Keep your eyes open for more infos. We will soon reveal and
officially announce full details and specs for that release, which is scheduled for the
first quarter of twenty twenty four. All of their stuff, they're saying it's
going to be region code for Region A when it's a Blu Ray unless otherwise
noted. There's going to be free shipping from their store if you are ordering
domestically in the US over fifty bucks, and because of licensing arrangements, they
can only ship directly to the US and Canada, which is frustrating. This
is a US based label and I really hope people check them out when they
when they get announced. Yeah, I don't. I've never heard of the
movie before. But you said it's a Yallah. It is a Yallo and
it's pretty damn good. Uh, It's it's one that people might have on
one of the old Shameless Blue rays, the yellow Case Blue Rays. Not
high quality. I think they put that out. It's one that's uh,
it deserves to be replaced. I need to dive more into Jallo's. I've
only seen a couple, and I've been kind of mixed. I've liked some,
haven't liked others. I like someone recommended New York Repper to me,
and I hated New York Reppers so much. Fans it's not a Yallo That's
why. Oh that's not no, not really see that's why. I I
don't know much about that genre at all. And I mean it's got some
of the tropes, but I wouldn't put it firmly in that genre. I
hated that movie. Those are fighting words in this part. Barry is happy
with Canadian shipping. That's good, all right. Next up Radiance. Speaking
of as we talked about Messiah of Evil earlier, they announced their next round
of titles February twenty sixth in the UK February twenty seventh in the US and
Canada. We are getting a blu ray of Black Tight Killers from nineteen sixty
six, and I gotta say this sounds amazing and I'm not sure how I've
never seen this, This says. After wooing stewardess Eureko, war photographer Hondo
sees her kidnapped by a team of deadly female assassins who use Vinyl records as
weapons. Investigating her whereabouts, Hondo uncovers it can inspiracy to steal a buried
stash of World War two era gold. Soon he must dodge go go dancing
ninjas and chewing gum bullets to save Euiko, whose family secret is tied to
the hidden treasure. Every bit as stylish and inventive as the wildest works by
his mentor Seiju and Suzuki Yasuharu Haseb's Spy Spoof is a gouty nineteen sixties pop
delight that ranks with the likes of Joseph Lozi's Modesty Bliz and Mario Baba's danger
Diabolic. I said one of those words wrong, and I apologize. I
was reading quickly. This is going to have an audio commentary by Jasper Sharp,
who's fantastic archival interview with the director. Some English subs, of course,
limited edition booklet with new riding by Japanese cinema expert Chris d and that's
Radiance in the nutshell. Great sounding title and is killer. Can't wait to
see this. Yeah, this looks amazing even without the OBI strip, Like
this looks that's a great looking cover. Yeah it really is. Artist is
like cry after every Radiance announcement. Not enough money to keep up, Will
says New York Ripper is not as Yallow and it's awesome. Quack quack motherfuckers.
Yeah. Like I said, I need to learn more about Yallow's.
I don't know a whole lot on them at all, but uh that oh
the duck aspect. Man, I I can't stress how much I hated that
movie. Like there's movies that that wasn't my cup of tea, and there's
movies like I want my hour and a half back. I hated it,
I will happily say, I I don't love New York Ripper either. It's
not my favorite folk cheat, it's not even my top five. I don't
hate it. But yes, okay, yeah it was so not my cup
of tea. Next up from Radiance, same dates, Same thing, Blu
ray also UK and us the big thing that's different. This will only be
coming as a limited edition. This one will not be getting a standard edition,
so if you want a Lonzan fan, you're gonna want this sooner than
later. This is the nineteen seventy four Taviani film Taviana Brothers Films, and
Yeah, this gets a new two K restoration from the OCN audio commentary by
Michael Brooke, some archiveal interviews with the Taviani brothers by Gideon Bachmann. We
got newly translated subs reversible sleeve, a booklet with new writing by Italian cinema
expert Robert Lumley, and a newly translated contemporary interview with the Tavianni brothers.
Again limited only, this will not have a standard edition, only three thousand
copies. Again nice artwork, yeah, very nice. Radiance is always great,
always great. Finally from Radiance, this one is UK only February twenty
sixth. This is by a Man's Face? Shall you know him? And
man? Do they know how to sell a film? Because I read this
and immediately wanted to see this movie. This says a community struggles against immigrant
gangs in the ruins of post war Tokyo. Only doctor Amamiya can save them,
but he had enough fighting in the war. His passivism is severely tested
by the gang's increasingly outrageous taunts, and when his neighbors decide to take matters
into their own hands, Amamiya is forced to take action. The consequences proved
to be much more far reaching than he could ever foresee, but the story
spread across three time periods. Tai Kato's ambitious revision of the Yakuza movie was
one of the first films to tackle the tattoo subject of Japan's Korean nationals greatly,
when influencing later directors such as Qinji Fukusaku and Takashi mik This sounds incredible.
That does sound really freaking good. So this is going to have a
visual essay on Noboruadu by Nathan Stewart appreciation on filmmaker Kenta Fukusaku. There's some
newly translated subs limited edition booklet with new writing on the film, and uh,
yeah, that's what we got for this one. I'm afraid after I
watched this messiahvivil go going deep down into radiance. So I'm afraid of it
because that's I stayed away right now because I keep hearing how great they are.
But I'm afraid of going down a rabbit hole. Good luck, it's
they do great stuff. Let's see that original three year Radiant sub looks like
the deal of the decade what they've been doing, and I agree fully so
jealous of the people that get onion all that. Next up, the next
announcement from Severn Is Cemetery Man on four K coming on Black Friday of this
year. This is again a Mikayla Sawabi title, and this is gonna be
a four disc set, two four k's, a Blu Ray and a CD,
which means it's gonna be pricey. You probably, but man, can
I not wait to get this title? I know nothing about it. This
is another title that was released by Shameless that looked awful on their Blu Ray
and will be a wonderful upgrade from seven guaranteed. I'm getting schooled on the
horror stuff though here I don't know a lot of this stuff. Thanks coming
up, totally get that. Here's more up your Alley. I'm sure that's
Rock Hudson. That's More up my Alley. January ninth, Keino is releasing
has Anybody seen My gal from nineteen fifty two, not only with Rock Hudson,
but also with Piper Piper Lurie, which is a big deal considering she
just passed. And this is a really interesting thing because not only is she
in this film, there's a new audio commentary with Piper on it that was
moderated by Lee Gambin and they recorded this, as far as I'm aware,
somewhere in last summer. And this is this is the type of thing that
physical media is really out here to do. Imagine if this was not being
released and Piper just passed, we would never would have heard her talking about
this film. I cannot wait to pick this up and listen to that commentary.
Yeah, that's I mean Douglas Sark with Rock Hudson. Yeah, I'm
I'm so beyond in. Douglas Sark is freaking great. That may or may
not come up with Criterion in a bit, but yeah, I'm so in
nice Will says he loves this artist has never seen this one. Craig is
saying, I can hear the guy the upper left saying fabulous. Next up,
The Road to Hong Kong from nineteen sixty two with Bing Crosby, Bob
Hope, and Joan Collins, Coming on January ninth on Blu Ray from Keena
Lober new audio commentary on this one by Michael Schlessinger, And how about this
one? Is this one that you're in too? Again, that's something that's
totally out of my alley. Yeah, I like Bob Hope a lot,
so that when you're talking forties, fifties, sixties, a lot of this
is me. I'm gonna be the a hole. Then I can't stand Bob
Hope. Oh you don't like Bob Hope, not even a little bit.
So, yeah, I am not looking forward to this one. Not to
mention, this looks ridiculously, ridiculously racist. I'm sure it's great to watch
and look back on with I don't want to say fond memories, but with
memories. It is crazy though, how you view things now. Like,
so, I love Breakfast at Tiffany's freaking love it. Mickey Rooney's character is
so stereotypically racist, it's he's awful. I watched it again and I'm like,
this is insane, Like you could just write his character out of the
movie and it improves. But anyways, I love that movie. But yeah,
it's crazy. Stan says Bob Hope was the Tom Hanks of his time.
Don't you slander Tom Hanks's name like that. Oh God, I can't
stand Jerry Lewis either. Jerry Lewis is terrible. Hate Jerry Lewis. Uh
going from classy to trashy. February sixth, Full Mood is releasing Voodoo Passion
on Blu ray from nineteen seventy seven. This is the Jess Franco film.
This is going to include director Jess Franco. Why does man their copy they
have James Franco. That's that's really funny that I didn't catch that the first
time director Jess Franco. Vintage trailer reel the original Voodoo Passion German trailer rare
photo slide show Franco Bloody Franco audio interview with Jess. I love that they
fixed it then as well. Man, I knew everybody's gonna be commenting towards
Will. Will loves Jess Franco. Oh gosh, I can almost guarantee Tim,
you have never seen a Jess Franco film, have you? No?
It's funny. You could pretty much guess the types of stuff that I would
and wouldn't watch or haven't watched. Yeah, No, never seen Jess Franco
movie. Well, I'm glad that they're putting this out on Blu Ray because
we can finally see it in DVD quality. That's great. December fourth on
Blu Ray in the UK, a boutique called light Bulb Films is releasing Welcome
to the Darkness, and this is about the band The Darkness, which I
love and I really want to check this out. This sounds great. This
is with unprecedented access unseen archive footage and intimate interviews filmed over eight years.
Welcome to the Darkness as a tongue in cheek reflection on fame, failure,
friendship and forgiveness. I'm also a sucker for music documentary, so I'm dying
to see this. I'm totally into this. I actually I just picked up
their debut record finally came to Vinyl and I that thing up. Oh my
god, I believe in a thing called love was played to death and I
still love that song. It's an incredible song, incredible. Next up,
one that I had been waiting to come to Blu Ray for almost a full
year. February sixth, MVD is releasing Candy Land from twenty twenty two.
I've been dying to see this and I knew that it was going to get
a physical release eventually, it's finally coming. Can't wait to check this out.
Zach from They Live by Film love this movie and says this was like
X but slightly worse than a lot trashier. That sounds fantastic. I gotta
admit sure, I love some trash, so I get it. Cohen Film
or Sorry. Cohen Media Group is putting out via Keno two British wartime classics
directed by Lewis Gilbert We Have the Sea Shell Not Have Them and Albert rn
Is. These are coming on January twenty third on Blu Ray via Cohen And
Yeah, you can pre order these now, something I would probably pick up
at some point on a sale. Have you gotten much from Cohen yet?
I only have a few now. It seems like there's not many people that
go all in on them. They've got some great titles, that's the hard
part. Yeah. They do really good with their restoration work too. You
really sold me though. With British war films too. I especially love so
there's so much focus when it comes like World War Two on the American perspective,
yep. And I like seeing the other perspectives, the British perspective,
especially they were in it before us. It's just so much of its focused
on when we entered it. Yep, I agree there. Next up is
a pretty pretty interesting one. I did not expect this. Coming December twelfth,
four K from Sony Pictures. They are putting out school Days from nineteen
eighty eight, the Spike Lee joint. This is going to have a bunch
of I think, all of the archival bonus features from the last release.
But this is a thirty fifth anniversary release and it's Sony, so I'm pretty
sure this is gonna look fantastic in four K. I shouldn't let Criterion have
it though, Yeah, they probably should have, even though honestly, I'll
probably look better on Sony. But yeah, Criterion would have, you know,
get all those Spike joints together. Yeah, especially since Criterion focuses so
much like they get a certain director or actor and they kind of keep running
with them the best they can. That would have been cool. And KB
really wants a Criterion Spike box set. Yeah, that would be great.
I mean, I get well, Keno has four of his films, I
think too, so we'd have to get one or two of those at least,
because man, I love a couple of the ones that Keno has.
Yeah. Next up from Sony, they are putting out a press mod Blu
Ray as part of the Sony Pictures Classics line of Pollock from two thousand.
This is great. I've not seen this in a very long time, but
this is directed by and starring Ed Harris. It's about the legendary American painter
Jackson Pollock. This is gonna have the Ed Harris commentary, A making of
documentary Charlie Rose interview with Ed Harris and fully deserving of the Sony Pictures Classics
line. You said, Yep, how do you feel about this one?
Oh, it's a great, great movie. I haven't seen it in quite
a while of VHS days, but yeah, great movie. Yeah, this
is astonishing. If you've not ever seen Pollock, highly recommend it, Ed
Harris. Ed Harris is sorely underrated. Dude is great. It's great in
everything. Always that right after that cast though, I mean, it's a
yeah, freaking awesome cast. Yep. Marcia gay Harden, Uh No,
Brian, this has not had any other Blu Ray yet. I believe this
is the first one at all. Uh. Yeah, this this cast is
great, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Amy Madigan, but god, Marcia
gay Harden is always great too. Yeah. Uh, this is the other
one I was talking about. And man, this movie sounds wild. Nineteen
sixty four's Pajama Party is coming on Blu ray from MGM. Listen to this
story. When a Martian scout named go Go is sent to explore Earth for
a possible conquest, He lands in the middle of a wild teenage pajama party,
giving Mars second thoughts about invasion and turning the party into an out of
this world cosmic shindig. What what? That sounds awful? It's awesome at
the same time, and I'm so in for something like that. This is
just weird. Yeah, I might have to get that one. Next seven
title this was announced today. They're putting out a Blu ray of Closed Circuit
from nineteen seventy eight, and man, I read I read a synopsis for
this today that I am gonna have to share with everybody because it made this
sound like an incredible film. So Blake Monaghan, who I think he does
some work for seven as well, He says, I think it plays like
if the movie Demons was a thriller with Ray Bradbury vibes, what that sounds
fantastic. I loved Demons, by the way. That was such a nice
I I'm glad you liked that. That was a recommendation to me, and
I went in like, is this really gonna be my thing? But dude,
the whole vibe of it, the music that was that was good.
That was really good good stuff. Next up, Run and Kill pre orders
are finally happening for air four four four four did I say four to three?
Okay? Air forty four to forty four Those are happening tomorrow at twelve
pm Eastern, And we got some bundles and artwork to talk about here.
But the first thing, Run and Kill, this is going to be a
region free press Blu Ray on a fifty gig disc. This is going to
include a slipcover, a double sided slipcover with new artwork by Matthew James and
vlad Rodriguez, a booklet with an essay, photos and add artwork, three
stickers, a reversible artwork Blu Ray sleeve, and then we got a new
two K restoration on that audio commentary by Kenneth Borson and Philip Gillon of the
podcast on Fire Network. Audio commentary by Bruce Holcheck, Markana and Art Eddinger
from Ultra Violet magazine. Run and Kill on Location done by CFK, which
is the Crazy for Coong crew. And then the Kids Aren't All Right?
A video essay by one Erica Schultz from Unsung Whores and Someone's Favorite Productions.
Who's watching tonight? I cannot wait to watch this video essay. Erica is
amazing and loves watching kids dye in movies, so I can't wait to see
this visual essay. Let's see the next one. Of course, they're also
putting out scissor penis. What is this? What is scissor penis? Don't
ask questions, just purchase. I mean, look at that. Oh my
god. This is gonna have a double sided slipcover, a booklet with the
essay photos and add artwork, three stickers, reversible art blu rays leave,
and then we've got an interview with the director, interview with an actress,
introductions by both of them as well conversation. A UFO short film that's fourteen
minutes long. Video essay by Matthew Rowe. That's thirty eight minutes long,
and then Tema Mato trailer show for fourteen minutes and it looks like a solid
release. Thirty six bucks for that one. The trailer for that looks wild.
If you've never checked it out, you probably should. Let's sell your
persay. Everyone says don't judge a book by its cover, but I'm judging
and I'm passing Man Siner Penis will not be in my collection. That's understandable.
However, I will say everybody should probably check out Running Kill. This
looks like an incredible release for this. And just to tease a little bit,
one of the extras on here is the CFK on location video coming up
on my channel on Monday is an inner with many of the dudes from the
CFK crew, and I've got behind the scenes pictures, some videos that they're
letting me share. I've got wild conversations about how they met throwing up on
their shoes under a table in a bar. There's some hilarious stories. I
cannot wait to share this interview with everybody. It was filmed like two and
a half months ago and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Please check
it out next week. It's a great, great interview. But also they're
selling a couple bundles. If you want to go even further, for ninety
bucks, you can get both films. You've got a new Art old Art
slipcover. You've got a two sided slipcover that comes with the original release.
You've got three double sided posters. And then on top of that a condom
case with two condoms, Tim, two condoms, Tim. Oh, just
after we're done, give me your address and I'll send you some condoms.
Oh my god. If that's not enough for you, though, they also
have this two hundred dollars bundle, limited to twenty five pieces, including a
six inch hand crafted and painted figure. Don't worry, you still get the
condom case, but you get this little six inch figure that's hand carved like
that's pretty impressive. But also it's two hundred dollars past two hundred dollars,
Tim, Yeah, no, fast, two hundred dollars. Uh. Think
we're ending on the notes of Scissor Penis. That was the last the announcements
with Scissor Penis. It's it's kind of odd that they're selling condoms with a
movie called Scissor Penis. How as far as I'm aware condoms wouldn't work in
that situation, Waves says Ryan. Are you getting either of the titles?
Absolutely? Am I getting run and killed? I will get anything that eric
A Schultz is on and support one of my closest friends and allies in this
space because she's amazing. No, Scissor Penis, I'm not I'm not super
into it. Again, everybody needs to go watch the trailer. It looks
wild. It's not that. What's the best way to say this. There's
a lot of modern Asian exploitation films that don't fall into the genre of it
seems like they're doing it again, like The Room. Everybody that loves Wiseau's
The Room is because he set out to make a good movie and it ended
up as a piece of shit. Yeah, when you're setting out to make
like, let's make a crazy, fun be movie that's full of exploitation called
Scissor Penis, Like, I'm not super into it. I like the idea
of the movie, but it's not like it's not B grade enough. It's
you trying to make a really nice but also terrible movie called Scissor Penis and
it just doesn't work like that. Yeah, that is definitively nothing that would
interest me, like not even sort of Uh. Let's uh, let's keep
talking about Scissor Penis for thirty more minutes. No, at this point,
movies, let's just thought scissor Peanuts. At this point. We always talk
about what is coming out next week, Just in case you forgot. Next
week is duel on four K Last Picture Show four K from Criterion, that
gorgeous dual four K steel book. It will be mine, rudy four K
steelbook Blue Steel from Vestron, as we discussed earlier terms of endearment. Four
K from Paramount presents that shiny new bone Tomahawk steel book that a lot of
places have had in for a week. So it's weird that the release date
is tomorrow or next Tuesday. Sunny Chiba Collection Volume two, Equalizer three,
two Days in the Valley. I think that one's Keno. We got the
expanse, the complete collection, the None two, which I do not recommend.
Color out of Space four K Steelbook. I've got the movie, but
this steel book looks really nice. So I actually got rid of my copy
of the movie because I knew that steel book was coming. And that's a
weird movie. That I dug it a lot. It was. It's a
great movie. Yeah, yeah, I dog you. Uh dude, says
Steel. Need to order that dual Steel book. You know if it's limited
print. I'm sure it is, but it's it's gonna be. It's wide
enough where you can. Uh, it'll probably be in stock for at least
a few more weeks. Yeah, I don't know how that is eight miles
still off even because that was a Groove exclusive. Ooh, that's a good
question. Let me let me see if I can pull it up because last
I checked was it was still in stock and uh ooh no, oh wait,
nope, they have pulled the page for it. Okay, sorry,
I would get it sooner than later. Yeah, so you probably you get
a little bit of time, but it will eventually sell out. Dev Crocodile
is asking anyone seeing Color out of Space. I'm curious again. Yes,
it's it's a very good Lovecraft movie directed by Stanley If that bothers you,
I know that he had some allegations of being a wife beater and stuff,
but Color out of Space is fun. Nicholas Cage does great, and that
of course some cool body horror in it too. Absolutely full body Massage from
unearthed films coming out next week, Neon City from a Keno, The Man
Who Killed Hitler, and then The Bigfoot. I believe that's a four K
steel book. This is the first time I think it's been released on four
K in the US. I think we only had Blu Ray previously guarding tests
coming out on Blu Ray Werewolves Within Blu Ray steel Book next week as well.
Love that movie and if you have been interested in were Wolves Within and
you've never seen it, I'd interviewed the director, Josh Ruben on the channel.
You can go back and check out that interview. Fun dude is he
is fantastic Psycho gore Man Steel Book next week. There. Tim's already had
the Twilight Saga five movie four K steel book set pre order for months.
I'm sure the one right next to it, though, I think, is
like one I'm most excited for with that. Believe it to Beaver getting the
whole complete series. It's a big deal. That's awesome. Man. TV
shows have been getting a lot of love as of late on Blu Ray,
and I'm all for it. Yeah, I fully agree. There rap a
nuity from Warner Archive justified that new little mini series that they did City Primeval.
That one's coming out on Blue next week. Spirit Away Live on stage
from Shouting g Kids. I think I need to pick that one up.
In Love and War from Warner Archive Fog of War. That one is one
that I need to get eventually as well. Arizona four K, steelbook,
Short Circuit two lots of stuff coming out next week. I Killed Giants steelbook,
Vesper steelbook, Doctor Caligari four K from Monto Micabroo. Yeah, this
is that big rlj E wave that was announced like two months ago, all
hitting at once. We were talking about ultraman earlier. You can get the
whole Ultra seven to fifty fifth anniversary anthology, which has pretty much everything in
this You might want to check that out. Computer chests from Keno, Larber
the Aviator's Wife from Keno as well, some standards, some anime, and
that's pretty much the big ones re releases and yeah, what's uh, what's
your big one for next week that you're going after or that you already got?
All right, so leave it to Bieber Is I don't I think I
have to wait till after the con to buy it for the price it is,
So that's what I'm most excited for. But I think Duel is the
one I'm most excited for that I could actually get for release because I'm pumped
for Duel. Man. I love that movie. I I put it in
my top five of all Spielberg, You're like, I love that movie,
Sibmonar, says Ryan. Let's now forget that twelve hundred dollars Disney set.
People want to know. I believe that's fifteen hundred dollars Disney set. Yeah,
it's that set is so astronomically stupid because the there's a UK set that
has most of that in it. For what is it? It's like five
hundred six hundred you could get it four. What is the point of this
US set? It's terrible. I really do not understand it. So that
is last this last week of announcements and next week's releases, and now we
are here just for the two of us, and we're gonna be talking about
some Criterion stuff. Yes, So the first thing, I guess, how
many Criterion releases do you have, sir? In total? Yes? Wall
Part Oh, it's right there, that is is there? That whole thing
is Criterion besides like a couple of straight arrows that didn't fit, but otherwise
that's off Criterion, So I don't know, it's one hundred and something besides
the ones that are pulled out on the floor and next to me. And
yeah, I probably got around like one hundred and thirty hundred and forty nothing,
nothing massive, but still quite a few Criterion Great Great titles. For
the most part, almost everything that they put out is incredibly beloved movies that
are known to be some of the best of the best. They were like
the original boutique label. They started a lot of these audio commentaries to get
them popular. They have shown a lot more care for stuff than many of
these other boutiques ever will, and yet they've also kind of let themselves go
a little bit in the last few years. I would say, I think
that they've been passed in quality by some boutique labels, but they still have
a lot to love and I think that they are up there for top ten
boutique labels of all time still undoubtedly it's not even really a debate. They're
honestly probably top five. But a lot of their stuff kind of gets recommended
into the ground. You hear about Oh gosh, you hear about the Princess
Bride all the damn time, and it just got a four K and it
looks great and it's a great release and you should have that. But we
don't want to talk about Princess Bride. We want to talk about stuff that
most people don't talk about. So we each got five titles. We're gonna
go through them and share some love for some film. Him, why don't
you share your first one? All right? So the first one? So,
I don't know how much do you like twelve Monkeys? I like twelve
Monkeys a lot. Okay, So criterion wise, this double feature, specifically
this Legette is a nineteen sixties black and white silent film told in just pictures,
and it is the inspiration for this. Like, if you watch Legette,
you're gonna be like, oh damn, Like, I totally see where
they got the inspiration of the ideas for twelve Monkeys. So while this isn't
like considered, I don't think a straight up remake, a lot of it
comes from this. It's really damn good, interesting. Yeah, it's only
twenty seven minutes long. It's all told in moving or sorry still images.
Besides one moving image at the very end. Otherwise it's just black and white
still images are the story. It's pretty cool. Wow. Yeah, that's
a that's a much deeper cut than all five of Fine. Like I said,
I chose five that are not harped on enough, but five that I
absolutely love. One is gonna be this first one, very different than a
silent film of just black and white, not moving images. I'm gonna go
with the incredible broadcast News. This has maybe my favorite dialogue in all cinematic
history. And I say that meaning every sense of that word. And that's
a very very strong sentence. And I know that the dialogue in this is
genuine, it's real. The chemistry that comes with it is built in in
a way that feels so authentic. Some incredible performances on here. Overall,
just an amazing drama like this. This movie is hilarious. This movie is
heartfelt and poignant. If you've never seen broadcast News, which doesn't get talked
about enough when it comes to these criterion sills, this movie is a masterpiece.
I adore this movie. Yeah, it's kind of wild. What does
get like? There's these select movies that will get recommended into the ground.
And then there are some of the stuff that we're gonna be talking about.
Even though I feel like some of my pile I've personally recommended into the ground,
but this is a different audience of people that might not have heard me
recommend these into the ground. That's exactly how I feel about this next title
that I'm gonna talk about. So I am going to go with next,
and anyone that watches my channel, you've heard me talk about this one,
but I don't care. I adore Summertime. I love this movie so much,
and this one does not get talked about near as much. Even when
you talk Katin he you're hearing other stuff like bringing up baby and some other
stuff she's in that gets more love. Summertime is a very simple movie.
It's just her in her fifties deciding to finally take a trip by herself.
She's going in Venice, and the first forty minutes of the movie is literally
just her on vacation. You're just taking in the scenery with her, and
then she ends up falling in love with the married man and it is so
bittersweet by the end. The cinematography is outstanding. This is a David Lean
movie. It's fantastic. I hype this one up so freaking much more.
People need to see it. It's a vibe though. That's what I've heard
it described as. It's a vibe movie. You either love that there's very
little story, or you hate it. My wife hates it. She hated
this movie, but I adore it. It's just it's fantastic. You're just
so in the mood. And god, the cinematography is so outstanding. They
almost shot this on a set and he demanded it shot on location in Venice.
Thank goodness, worth it, worth it all the way. It's so
good. That's a good pick. And again, not one that everybody talks
about. Everybody talks about the same handful of titles and that does not ever
get mentioned this one. The filmmaker has multiple films in the collection, and
I think this is his most under rated criterion film. And again, if
you watch this channel a lot, you've heard me talk about this movie.
But it's that time of the year and I don't think enough people are checking
out John Waters, Polyester nice this movie. It is signed divine in this
movie is simply divine. Everything about this is pretty damn close to peak John
Waters, I think some of the funniest scenes that he's ever been able to
get down biggest budget that he had at the time, because this is the
first studio film, really really great performances throughout some of the just weirdest situations,
and then going through the whole process of getting the criterion and then of
course that comes with the Oderama card and doing it the right way. This
release is so damn worth it. I think this is easily the best criterion
John Waters title. And everybody always wants to talk about pink flamingos, but
man, this movie, I think this is the criterion John Waters to get.
So you're kind of selling me on watching my copy that I've had in
my collection for a while. I got it in a trait from someone he
had not much I wanted, but he had that, and I'm like,
it's a criterion, I guess I'll take that, And yeah, it's just
been sitting in the collection. I've never gotten around to watching it. I
think everybody should. It is a role for John wa or for Divine that
is just so odd, playing this housewife that is going through everything. It's
God, it is such a weird movie. Love Paul de Esther nice.
Okay, so, and we are recommending stuff here that people generally don't talk
about. You like, so far, so good. Pink flamingos is by
far what people talk about with him, and I think part of it's because,
oh, it has a pretty slip on it that looks like a bag.
But yeah, anyways, oh I can't reach it. I was gonna
show I've got that one signed too, all right, So for my next
one. Uh before I was kind of googling with Douglas Cirk and Rock Hudson
together because I am a big fan also of Magnificent Obsession, also a Cirque
movie with Rock Hudson. This movie, it's a mellow drama that it's crushing
but poignant. It's it's basically they're on a small little island and her husband
is the doctor on the island, and he's a rich guy that just he's
rich, he gets to do whatever the hell he wants because he's rich.
He ends up crashing a boat needs the one respirator that's on the island,
while the same time the doctor needs it because you know, he's dying.
There's only one, so of course the rich guy gets it. So that
the husband ends up dying and then the whole movie is him trying to pretty
much make it up to her and fall in love with her. Really good
movie, like fantastic movie. H He has great character growth, which is
I guess part of it is rich people are assholes, and this he ends
up actually becoming a good person by the end of the movie. By the
in the start of the movie, yet you hate him. He's a it's
just a rich dick, but by the end he's great. Great cover on
that one too, It really is. So I really loved this movie.
I seriously can't recommend this one enough. Nice My next one I talked about
a little bit on the channel last year because I interviewed the director, and
I gotta highlight Sean Baker's takeout this movie. It knows like how to gut
me quickly. My day job, for those that don't know, I work
for immigration and to tell a good immigrant story and have somebody that is dealing
with paying off some of the debt from moving over here. Our main character
that you see here on the cover goes to a loan shark and he owes
a shit ton of money and they come to collect and basically say, by
sundown, you have to pay us back or we're gonna beat the crap out
of you. And unfortunately, he works his tailoff all day to get this,
and this tells the story of him covering shifts like biking through the rain
to take people their money, to get shafted on tips, and it has
just the most realistic like kind of It's not super realistic obviously, because it's
done in this fantastical way, but it's done. It tells the story in
a way that you just are so emotionally invested that if if he gets it,
you're going to feel this immense freedom, and if he doesn't get it,
you're going to be gutted alongside with him. And it takes you on
every step of that. I still think Sean Baker is a master master storyteller
in modern filmmaking. And this is a great release. A lot of good
special features on it, and they really dove deep with Sean to get as
much as they could, so it's a great release. I love Takeout.
Yeah, so that's on my list because I will say Florida Project is one
of my favorite, if not my favorite, a twenty four movie, So
I like Sean Baker Florida project was amazing, So Takeout's been kind of on
the list to eventually pick up. Yeah, I agree, Yeah, he's
a really good picks trying to think I actually pulled like seven or eight,
So trying to trying to decide. All right, so next one. Lots
of people love Laura Dern. I love Laura Dern. She's Magees in Jurassic
Park. I'm not talking Jurassic Park. Smooth talk needs love. It's a
hard movie to categorize because the first probably half to three fourths of it is
a coming of age movie for Laura Dern and she's coming to find her sexuality
and she's kind of battling her mom. She's at odds with her mom.
But Treat Williams's character kind of comes into it and you don't know anything about
him, but he's a sleezeball creep and stuff starts to happen. It turns
from like a coming of age into kind of like a thrillery type thing.
It's so weird, it's so good. I my jaw was on the floor
by the end of this thing. Because it leaves a pretty open I think
I know which way my mind says, it went, but it's a really
freaking great movie. Laura durn is fantastic, and she's like fourteen or fifteen
in this movie. She's young. Yeah, so you saw this one?
Oh oh yeah. I adore Laura Dern as well. There there's not a
lot of films from her that I would not recommend very quickly. She is
one that I God, I don't even remember. It was probably Jurassic Park
that I saw first, but gosh, Wild at Heart maybe just took me
from like, oh yeah, she's pretty good to holy shit, can she
act? Yeah? So did you when you watched Smooth Talk? Did you
know much about it going in? Her? And I knew nothing going in?
Did were you also? Like? What the hell? When it took
the tonal shift? It's like, oh my god, that's the thing.
Who else could have pulled that off? Though? Yeah, Laura Dern is
the perfect thing. She portrays him motions so well. Yeah, so well,
yep, so I love that one, and I always I've always loved
Treat Williams also, and to see him play just a ugh. It's it's
icky, That's what it is. It makes you feel icky by the end.
It's ugh. God, these are really good pigs. I'm proud of
us, Tim, We've done great tonight. Uh okay, next one is
from a really solid year of film and I talked about this fairly recently,
and I kind of just wanted to highlight again tonight because if you missed that
last episode, people need to know about nineteen ninety seven's eves By by You.
Oh. I picked that up last sale. I gotta watch that still.
This movie that takes all of this just gorgeous scenery of New Orleans and
takes the which understory, the voodoo understory that always seems to be a part
of what you hear about some of the these tales around New Orleans, and
brings this just pitch perfect cast into this devastating drama that is at heart like
if you're just explaining the synopsis to somebody, it comes off as a horror
story. It doesn't play like a horror story. It plays more as like
this intense drama. But the acting in this film is the best thing about
it. It delivers on every single level. Eves by You is a gift
and people should be looking at it as an acting masterclass from everybody in it.
It tells an incredible story and if you've never seen it again easy to
overlook. It came out around Titanic. It came out and was unfortunately kind
of pushed to the side, primarily because it's a mostly black cast and it's
just so frickin' perfect. That movie's amazing, and if you've never seen it,
put it on your list. So sadly, I think with the most
recent announcements from Criteria and Mudbound was announced, and I loved Mudbound, and
like nobody was talking about it from that announcement. It was basically every other
release button Mudbound, and that's I guess the same thing with eves By you
like, is basically just kind of pushed to the side because I'm need a
champion Mudbound when it's out and no one's gonna care, like it's a fantastic
movie. Yep, good, good pick all right, sir, we're on
our last ones, all right, you know, all right, screw it.
I'm gonna go with this one because I love James Stewart. This one
came and went and no one mentions Flight of the Phoenix so quickly, so
good. This is a great movie. It's an oil Uh what would you
call it? An oil yard or whatever is being shut down and he's the
pilot. He has to take everybody back in. The plane ends up crashing
and they're trapped in the desert for weeks trying to figure out how to get
out. This had a remake in like five with Dennis Quaid if some maybe
people remember that version. But this version is really freaking great. Not only
James Stewart who kind of plays he's kind of a dick, which is unusual
for him. He's normally kind of the likable every man and he's kind of
a dick in this, and you you more so like his co pilot,
which is Richard Attenborough again going with some Jurassic Park here, younger Richard Attenborough.
Really freaking great movie. Man, it's so good. I don't know
why this came and went so fast. And it even has a little buildable
paper airplane. Nice. Yeah, I don't know why this one came and
went. I don't I don't get it. No, I really did.
Like obviously when when it got announced, people talked about it for a good
day and a half and that was it. That's one. I don't have
it and I've not seen it. I need to check it out. It's
always funny when you get playing would you call it an anti hero in that
kind of for a good chunk of it, Like he's he's just this scrouch
that doesn't want to he just wants to kind of wait it out. He's
not very friendly at all, Like Richard Attenborough is the one that's kind of
the buffer between him and everybody else in the movie. It was such a
different time Like nowadays, I feel like we get unlikable characters playing heroes all
the damn time because it's viewed as like this more compelling story. But back
then, it was a genuine risk to put somebody in. And if your
lead is going to be an anti hero or a dick, basically, yeah,
you're not gonna want to cast somebody that people are not going to appreciate.
So when you cast Stuart as the anti hero or the asshole, it's
somebody that the audience is already going, well, it's Jimmy Stewart, Okay,
I can support this a little bit. So it's like buy in and
now they're meeting you halfway. Because if it was anybody else, if it
was somebody that's unknown, fuck this movie. I don't want to watch this.
It's terrible. Yeah, it's so freaking great. It's I don't know
why it doesn't get the love. I don't get it. It's a good
question, and yeah, it's it's one of those that people put it out
there an announcement and then completely forgot about it. That's it. Yeah,
all right. This is not one that I've talked about a whole lot,
but a little bit of an ulterior motive, I guess you could say,
because we were talking about Swiss conspiracy earlier and again, even though he's one
of the most influential directors of all time, Jack Arnold and the incredible Shrinking
Man. Again, this came out and a lot of people they picked it
up and talked about it for five minutes. This movie is so much deeper
than just tiny man large surroundings. There's existential crises, there's nihilism, there's
what is life sort of moments where you're trying to figure out what is the
meaning of everything around you. This movie is so much deeper than you expect,
and again expertly directed by Jack Arnold. I think that people that have
not checked out this and you have checked out a sci fi stuff that is
more capital s sci fi. This is a really great bridge to some of
the other stuff that he's done, and this movie specifically, I think is
one that people should check into, like the way that it was made.
There's so many great stories surrounding this. But yes, part of the reason
why I'm highlighting that is because Will and I we worked on the mini Jack
Arnold documentary that's coming out on that Swiss Conspiracy disc and Jack Arnold has done
so much in his lifetime. It is such a wild just exploration of genres
that he put out, and Incredible Shrinking Man, to me, is his
masterpiece, I think, and I know that a lot of people give a
lot of love to a couple of those sci fi films. Incredible Shrinking Man,
though it gets forgotten somehow in the Criterion catalog and I don't get it.
It hasn't been around for too too long, and I get that,
Oh it really is not that old of a release. But again it kind
of came and went, Yeah, it is such a great freaking disc.
It's one of my favorite releases in the last few years. I absolutely love
it. Yeah, I don't know. There is just those certain movies,
like you mentioned, Princess Bride that just stick around. That's always mentioned,
and we're gonna always hear about Malcolm X and thumba Luise and Parasite in some
of these others. But I mean, how many movies are we uptone criteria
now? Like there's lots of other ones to talk about. Yep, gosh,
we're at I think thirteen hundred something now High Sierra Smithereens Medium cool Fishing
with John Symbiosido's Taxiplasm Take one. I definitely don't have that one yet.
Great criterion least No one talks about Weekend, the twenty eleven Andrew hig film
not a good Yard one. Yeah, there's there's a lot of great criterions
just because they're next to me too. Those were the ones that didn't make
the cut to talk about. Fail Safe is a good one. Yeah,
fail Safe is great, but no one's talking about this. Maybe got a
little bit more talking now just because then there's there is a Nolan remake,
but no one, no one knows what the hell that one is. No,
No, buddy, oh man, there is there's so many films that
if you like, pull pull one strand of interest out of one of these
Criterion films usually there's a tie to another release. And if you just start
going through the spiderweb of cinema justing Criterion, you will discover so many things
that you've never seen. You'll discover things that you haven't heard of in either
ever or in a long time. You will find so much that is great.
And it's it's again, a great, great grouping of films that people
just they seem to pull the same literally like seventy five or eighty titles,
and that's on every list. But come on, like everybody knows that Barry
Lindon is an incredible film. I don't need to recommend people Berry Linton.
Yeah, it's really it's the same movies over and over again. But I'm
telling you, you're the chat is recommending some bangers that people don't really talk
about. I said Night Train to Munich in there, that's a great World
War two movie. No one talks about Night Train to Munich. Ronnie says
five of them here, Personal Shopper, Love, Personal Shopper. That movie's
a masterpiece. God, there's some great titles here, for sure. Mister
whatever ism says, I'm grabbing all of Tim's picks. So you win.
That's going to hope. I don't let you down. But I love all
my picks, Waves says Malcolm X's four k's it must buy still, I
mean, yeah, of course, but oh you gotta recommend other stuff.
Yeah, I'm not trashing that stuff. I mean, I love the Thelma
Louise and Princess Bryan and all that stuff, and just the same stuff gets
recommended over and over again. Yeah, yep, yep, yep, hard
copy blues. I have a modest, yet dedicated collection of Criterions about two
hunder titles, and every sale I find so many more I've never even heard
of. So true dude, says I still haven't bought Barry Lyndon, and
honestly, that's probably smart. He is probably gonna put it out on four
K the next year or two. I wouldn't doubt it. Terry the Incredible
Shrinking Man is great. The only reason I don't have the Criterions that I
picked up the Arro version not too long before Criterions released. Nice. Gosh,
there's so many more that we could just go on and on about.
But oh god, I mean Imitation of Life got mentioned. I mean that
there's some great stuff, even like I've been in the no R mood too.
So, like I mentioned in a video recently, Mildred Pierce is so
fantastic. There's so much in the Criterion collection. Man, Oh my gosh.
Uh, this has been a great discussion. I again, I feel
like we could have made a list of twenty and easily pulled down twenty titles
that people don't talk about enough. Yep. I had a hard time because
I'm like, I have too much that isn't talked about enough. I originally
had nine titles, and I had to whittle down for what were the other
fourth I had funny enough, Personal Shopper was one of them. I put
them away and now I can't remember which ones. Oh well, another one
that people don't talk about enough, I'll throw out here Hoop Dreams. Please
check out Hoop Dreams if you've never seen it. Literally, probably the best
documentary of all time. Love That Came and Went all Right? Deced Ner
is sweet, sweet smell of success awesome and Detour awesome. So my goodness,
like the chat knows what's up and recommend it some really great movies.
Yep, we got a pretty incredible chat here. But tonight we've had a
pretty incredible guest. Tim, thank you for hanging out tonight. Ah,
thank you for having me spent on two hours. My quick man, it
really does on here. Yeah, uh, Tim, Reggie, he showed
the other three. Tim said, you had a titles. What are the
other three say? This one no one, No one talks about this one,
Things to Come and the original Insomnia, which is way ickier feeling than
the Nolan one, like, way ickier. Uh, Tim, You're gonna
have to come back and do another one of these because this has been too
perfect. I would gladly man, I had a blast. We'll get you
on here in the next couple months for sure. Anybody, like I said,
if you've never checked out Tim's channel, please do another positive voice just
talking about movies, talking about physical media, doing what we can to keep
it going because uh, in a hard time of the world, it's it's
it's really easy just to shut down for the night and put out a film
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