Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
Speaker 2: Hello there, and welcome back to another Thursday. Merry Christmas
Speaker 2: to everybody, and happy Happy Honda Days to everybody that
Speaker 2: doesn't celebrate Toyota. Than for the first time on a
Speaker 2: Thursday night, something that I've been wanting to get for
Speaker 2: a very long time. We finally have the man, the
Speaker 2: myth legend, mister Brian Sour.
Speaker 3: Welcome, sir, Thank you sir too much, too much, but
Speaker 3: I appreciate being here, and I'm sorry it's taken so long.
Speaker 3: This is how many years have been doing this?
Speaker 2: Uh just over three now.
Speaker 3: Wow, It's impressive, and.
Speaker 2: I think we've been doing that. We've been trying to
Speaker 2: do this for those three years.
Speaker 3: I know, well, thank you for having me. Thank you
Speaker 3: for waiting. I know I will disappoint let's go you.
Speaker 4: You certainly will not.
Speaker 2: We have lots of people that messaged me today so
Speaker 2: they were excited for you to be on the channel.
Speaker 2: Multiple people already commenting that excited to have you here.
Speaker 2: You were literally one of the greats, you know, established
Speaker 2: just the discs as as everybody like started coming to
Speaker 2: this hobby and I you know, at the time I
Speaker 2: was immersed in the hobby but not doing things publicly
Speaker 2: like this, and you were always somebody that we could
Speaker 2: always look up to. And you know, I've got many
Speaker 2: fond memories of driving to work and listening to you
Speaker 2: and Brendan small talk about releases and.
Speaker 4: You and Stephanie.
Speaker 2: Crawford laughing about special features together, and it's it's burned
Speaker 2: into my brain that the number of times we've spent
Speaker 2: hours on commutes together.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so nice to hear, man. I got to
Speaker 3: get both of them back on the show. I've I
Speaker 3: have lost my mojo when it comes to guests. I
Speaker 3: haven't done that as much, and I feel bad about it.
Speaker 4: It's difficult, It's super difficult.
Speaker 3: It is. It's hard. Scheduling is hard, and you do it,
Speaker 3: and so I'm even more impressed.
Speaker 4: It's well, I mean, truth be told.
Speaker 2: I think I've got right now four interviews completed. I
Speaker 2: just I'm like hoping for free time to edit them.
Speaker 2: Who knows when they'll come out.
Speaker 3: You are a busy man, sir, and I admire your
Speaker 3: all your you know obviously the show I love and
Speaker 3: all the stuff you've your endeavors. In fact, one of
Speaker 3: them may come up, although I didn't get a chance
Speaker 3: to check it out yet, but it's as part of
Speaker 3: a release I may talk about later.
Speaker 4: So nice, I'm excited to hear.
Speaker 2: We're going to cover all of our normal segments, tag
Speaker 2: over recent watches, recent pickups, do all the announcements, but
Speaker 2: something that Brian and I have always tried to do
Speaker 2: on our respective shows is highlight some of the lesser
Speaker 2: discussed titles, things that people are overlooking. And as this
Speaker 2: is literally the last show of twenty twenty four, we
Speaker 2: talk about doing five titles that we think are gonna
Speaker 2: be kind of forgotten that that came out this year,
Speaker 2: So we're gonna cover some of those, and then of
Speaker 2: course both Brian and I always chet, so we've got
Speaker 2: a couple honorable mentions to talk about too. But first,
Speaker 2: before we get into all of the fun stuff, let's
Speaker 2: let's do some promo. Obviously, you've got just the disc
Speaker 2: that most people probably know about, but Pure Cinema Podcast
Speaker 2: is like the hottest podcast in the world.
Speaker 4: Tell everybody what's been going on with that.
Speaker 3: You know, it's been a tricky year, exciting year for
Speaker 3: us because al Rick made a movie and I still
Speaker 3: haven't seen it, although there is some hope that I
Speaker 3: may get to see it in February. I'm very excited
Speaker 3: about that. But yeah, so that changed our dynamic a
Speaker 3: little bit in terms of we haven't been able to
Speaker 3: stack shows like this time of year. We normally have
Speaker 3: a bunch of episodes ready to go, but it's just
Speaker 3: been a little tricky. But we have our Discoveries episode
Speaker 3: in the can, and that's one of my favorites to do.
Speaker 3: We'll have that out in a couple of weeks. And
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's just it's been it's been fun. You know,
Speaker 3: started the year hanging out with mister Tarantino at his
Speaker 3: house talking about the Vista and Technicolor, and end of
Speaker 3: the year talking about Discoveries and that's just exactly where
Speaker 3: I'd like to be.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of a perfect year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 4: And during this year, I got to meet you. That
Speaker 4: was pretty damn fun.
Speaker 3: That was amazing and so cool. And you know, I
Speaker 3: got to meet Jeremy too, and I've I've hung with
Speaker 3: Jeremy like at least three or four times since then,
Speaker 3: and that's been funny. Sorry, he is a sweetheart and
Speaker 3: he hits all the screenings in town, like he just
Speaker 3: you know, just about anything. Him and Alex. I've seen
Speaker 3: Alex at a few screenings too, which has been great.
Speaker 2: Alex is a busy man that he will go to
Speaker 2: everything he possibly can.
Speaker 3: Both those guys, I'm impressed by how much they get
Speaker 3: out to and I just don't you know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's very, very true.
Speaker 2: And I met Stan yes, and we got to see
Speaker 2: one of the year's greatest films together in a theater.
Speaker 3: Trap so great, so great, But it was a fun
Speaker 3: experience just Hank going with everybody. That was just an
Speaker 3: absolute blast.
Speaker 2: We had almost a full row of a big movie theater.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: It was great, man. I love that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: I miss that. That reminds me of like even in
Speaker 3: my college days, I didn't have that big of a cruise.
Speaker 3: So it was pretty pretty cool. I gotta say.
Speaker 2: It was kind of slammed together the last minute, so
Speaker 2: I love it. Let's do some recent pickups. What have
Speaker 2: you been getting in lately?
Speaker 3: Let's see what have I been getting in lately? I
Speaker 3: got something here, you know, I didn't prepare this, but
Speaker 3: I just got the addiction four K. So that's one
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think if there's anything there might be
Speaker 3: a few that I I might almost talk about in
Speaker 3: the later segments. I mean, you know, that's a spoiler
Speaker 3: for Sorry, A couple of these are spoilers for my discoveries.
Speaker 3: But I got the Torso four K. I got that
Speaker 3: from oh Man. It was a sale, but I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I got Pores of the Black Museum. I got Bloodline,
Speaker 3: which I still don't watch. I'm obviously known of these
Speaker 3: I've watched. This is a weird one. I picked up
Speaker 3: this DVD based on one of the scare Scarecrow was
Speaker 3: doing their employee picks and one of the gals there
Speaker 3: talked about this Lords of the Gourd Gigantic Pumpkin Growers documentary,
Speaker 3: and I was like, what the hell is that? And
Speaker 3: it's a PBS on video. It's not streaming anywhere, so
Speaker 3: it's only like an hour long. But I'm like, I
Speaker 3: gotta check that out. I think, well, you know what,
Speaker 3: I think. I talked about this on the show, but
Speaker 3: I want to talk about it again because it's great.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I got this from Found Footage Film Festival site. This
Speaker 3: is Mark Borchart's second movie, The Dundee Project, and it's
Speaker 3: signed by Mark, which is great, and this one's a
Speaker 3: lot of people aren't talking about this, you know. American
Speaker 3: Movie is obviously a great showcase for him. He did COVID,
Speaker 3: which is sort of highlight in there. He's working on Northwestern,
Speaker 3: but he actually made this other documentary project about this
Speaker 3: town in Wisconsin where they meet and talk about UFOs
Speaker 3: and it's fascinating stuff. You can order this DVD from
Speaker 3: the Found Footage Film Festival site where you can get
Speaker 3: a digital download, and it's just as fun as that sounds,
Speaker 3: with Mark Borchart interviewing dudes who love UFOs, you know,
Speaker 3: so definitely worth your time. What about you, ma'am?
Speaker 2: I got a couple to highlight here. So I love
Speaker 2: how every year for my kids to buy me Christmas presents,
Speaker 2: my wife just tells them, here's his Amazon wish list,
Speaker 2: do what you want. And it makes me be able
Speaker 2: to tell great stories, like my eight year old getting
Speaker 2: me this Criterion release of Rosetta, this wonderful Foign Cinema
Speaker 2: Verita piece, instead of been dying to see for quite
Speaker 2: some time and then he won't be able to watch
Speaker 2: it for years and years. But the other kid got
Speaker 2: me the in Betweeners movies one and two.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, stuff I haven't heard from.
Speaker 4: Over in the UK.
Speaker 2: And then my wife went to Atomic Movie Store, shout
Speaker 2: out Atomic, who's great and picked up this deluxe special
Speaker 2: edition from the UK of Oppenheimer.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, steel.
Speaker 2: Book on the inside and a big booklet. And then
Speaker 2: the last thing this year started up the Monto Macabro
Speaker 2: podcast and we had Tim Paxton on, who is an
Speaker 2: Indian cinema expert, and one of the things that he
Speaker 2: shouted out was this film called Boot Bhoot put it
Speaker 2: in my wish list, and because it was at the top,
Speaker 2: my wife said, I mean, that's a must, and here
Speaker 2: it is now I get to watch it.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2: And then last thing that came in this week a
Speaker 2: Bridge Too Far, brand new from Imprint on four K.
Speaker 2: Other big hard box releases you can see loaded with
Speaker 2: extra features, multiple discs. You got a big booklet, four
Speaker 2: K disc, Blu ray disc, pretty nice sized booklet, probably
Speaker 2: about forty ish pages. I am so to see this
Speaker 2: huge cast James conn Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Elliot Gould,
Speaker 2: Gene Hackman, A bunch of people were actually gonna.
Speaker 4: Be talking about tonight in many of our announcements.
Speaker 3: So that's awesome. You didn't get convoy, did you.
Speaker 4: I did not get convoy yet.
Speaker 3: We're hoping for domestic four K of that. That's kind
Speaker 3: of what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm you know, Keino is kind of following up
Speaker 2: most imprint stuff, so I'm I'm betting they'll get it eventually.
Speaker 2: Just the odds are when and and some of them
Speaker 2: they can't license in the in the US, so I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: It's a crapshoot.
Speaker 2: Sometimes.
Speaker 3: I'm obviously also hoping for uh never never any story.
Speaker 2: Oh you didn't pay two hundred dollars for the five pounds?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about it. It looks great. I've seen
Speaker 3: enough videos that I'm like, oh, that's but I don't
Speaker 3: really need it. But I would like the movie in
Speaker 3: four K, so I'm kind of like, I'll wait May.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love to do it, but also I'm
Speaker 2: already at a room I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 2: where I would put it.
Speaker 3: It's huge, You're right, it's gigantic.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things you need a special shelf for,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I've got some, but like I also have
Speaker 2: the Columbia Classics collections taking up that space already.
Speaker 3: Did you get the Frank Capra that's the other one
Speaker 3: people are talking about. I saw Heath praising that on.
Speaker 2: His uh oh, I mean this gorgeous sit thing. Oh,
Speaker 2: but it's also so uniquely shaped with this little chin
Speaker 2: that has got going on. So it's meant to be.
Speaker 2: It's meant to sit on your shelf and literally present
Speaker 2: itself so the bottom juts out so you can look
Speaker 2: into it and be like marveled at the show that
Speaker 2: you're seeing. And it's crazy. Literally when it sits flat,
Speaker 2: it's it's presented to you. It is such a well
Speaker 2: thought out design.
Speaker 3: Ah man, I'm really really tempted by that one.
Speaker 2: It's so much stuff. The only reason I have it
Speaker 2: is one of the the I think it's a front
Speaker 2: for Alliance Distribution There eBay stores. They were doing a
Speaker 2: bye to get twenty percent off and it's way cheaper
Speaker 2: than anywhere else. Oh wow, and it was all any
Speaker 2: lower than everyone else, so another twenty percent on top
Speaker 2: of that was like, well.
Speaker 3: Do they still have any in stock? I'm just curious
Speaker 3: they do?
Speaker 2: They do?
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna have to talk about this later.
Speaker 2: Very good, Very good. Uh, what about some recent watches
Speaker 2: you've been home without anybody else in the house.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you've been watching quite a bit.
Speaker 3: I mean tons of stuff. I had the most watching.
Speaker 3: It's it's not necessarily a good thing. Like I'm not
Speaker 3: bragging about it, because it's kind of like it numbers
Speaker 3: like this bode the question or you know, make you
Speaker 3: ask like how much time did you spend with your
Speaker 3: child in twenty twenty four because it doesn't seem like
Speaker 3: because right now I'm at like one thousand and fifty
Speaker 3: eight movies for the year, and that's my most I've
Speaker 3: ever done. I've never broken a thousand movies.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I think it speaks to my
Speaker 3: mental state. I think there's a lot of things wrong
Speaker 3: with watching that many. No, I'm okay, I'm not anybody
Speaker 3: that's doing that is great, But for me, I'm just like,
Speaker 3: I don't know so well, again, there's some stuff today
Speaker 3: that I watched that may come up in our later segment,
Speaker 3: but I just look at what stands out here for me.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Okay, so this is kind of funny.
Speaker 3: I don't know what brought this on. I think partially
Speaker 3: because my wife's out of town with my daughter. I
Speaker 3: told you this story. My daughter doesn't fly. So they
Speaker 3: took a train to Chicago, which is a forty eight
Speaker 3: hour train ride, and then one way exactly in a
Speaker 3: very small room, met you know. Anyway, So they're gone
Speaker 3: through almost the end. At the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: and so, for whatever stupid reason, I started thinking about
Speaker 3: romance movies. And then I was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 3: and part of this comes from Thanksgiving, when I watched
Speaker 3: You've Got Mail for the first time and I actually
Speaker 3: really liked it. I just said, there's just this thing
Speaker 3: about me in nineties romantic comedy, Hollywood stuff that I
Speaker 3: just was so small, snow snobby in college when I
Speaker 3: was at the video store that I just avoided all
Speaker 3: of it and I hadn't watched it. And so I
Speaker 3: made this list of movies that I like, big nineties
Speaker 3: romantic films, and I started watching some of them. I
Speaker 3: decided like, Okay, I'll put together this list. I'll try
Speaker 3: and do one a day. This is something I do
Speaker 3: sometimes when I'm trying to pass time. In this case,
Speaker 3: you know, my wife will be gone for almost two weeks,
Speaker 3: so I'm like, I'll try and do one of these
Speaker 3: a day, just sort of for my own whatever. And
Speaker 3: so I watched like I Could Never Be Your Woman
Speaker 3: with Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd, who's absolutely adorable in
Speaker 3: this movie, that one directed by Amy Hackerling. I'd never
Speaker 3: seen it, really really fun, really sweet, romantic comedy. And
Speaker 3: then a bunch more on this list. So I watched
Speaker 3: like Under the Tuscan Sun, which I really liked with
Speaker 3: Diane Lane, and then I watched this one just blew me.
Speaker 3: I finally watched The Holiday, which is, you know, a
Speaker 3: movie everybody's scene, yeah, and I just was like, what
Speaker 3: a sweet film this is, and why did I avoid
Speaker 3: it for so long? What an't what an ass to
Speaker 3: be so snobby as to avoid you know, it's I did?
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: Also, I just you're you're in such a different place
Speaker 3: as you get older that you're just like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: got I got emotional watching that movie, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like that's it doesn't help, but my wife's
Speaker 3: not here, so like that definitely helped was a part
Speaker 3: of the emotion. But also it's just I'm so susceptible
Speaker 3: to this stuff, so I've got a bunch more of
Speaker 3: those that I've been working through, but those are some
Speaker 3: of the highlights of that little I like to do
Speaker 3: little projects. Sometimes we're kind of because Elrick's he's out
Speaker 3: of the country on vacation right now, we don't really
Speaker 3: have an I mean, we have a new episode, but
Speaker 3: I'm already kind of ready for that one, and we
Speaker 3: don't necessarily know what we're doing after that, so I
Speaker 3: don't I need to focus on something. So sometimes I'll
Speaker 3: create projects that may have nothing to do with podcasts
Speaker 3: and just kind of decide, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: throw together this list and run down this list. So
Speaker 3: that's one of the things I've been working on.
Speaker 2: Well, Uh, the only I think the only watch I
Speaker 2: had this week that wasn't a Christmas movie, which there
Speaker 2: was many of those that were watched over the last week.
Speaker 2: Of course, I think a possibly new Christmas movie for
Speaker 2: many people to watch for years to come. As one
Speaker 2: that we both watched. You got to see No Sparatu
Speaker 2: and thirty five Millimeter at the New BEV. I saw
Speaker 2: it today with the one and only John Demarsco, broadcast
Speaker 2: director of the Mets. He happened to be in Kansas
Speaker 2: City for Christmas. We got to go see it together.
Speaker 2: We're not going to get into spoilers, but it's also
Speaker 2: a remake of a literal one hundred year old film.
Speaker 2: So what are some thoughts on the surface for nos Frautu.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to be I don't want
Speaker 3: to be too negative it. I was a touch disappointed
Speaker 3: story wise, but visually it's stunning. It's a beautiful film
Speaker 3: that has so many shots that are just so gorgeous.
Speaker 3: I was really taken with that. But it's weird one
Speaker 3: because I've seen some people a little less positive, and
Speaker 3: some people like Sean Baker saying, like favorite movie the year,
Speaker 3: Oscar nominations for the cast, you know, which is great.
Speaker 3: I just it was it didn't quite hit me in
Speaker 3: that that way. I'm not sure. I'm guessing it probably
Speaker 3: you probably went for it pretty good, right.
Speaker 4: I honestly feel almost exactly like you.
Speaker 2: Oh interesting, okay.
Speaker 4: I thought it was gorgeous.
Speaker 2: To look at, but the second act kind of weighed
Speaker 2: itself down quite a bit. It it got a little
Speaker 2: dialogue heavy, and when you're going with a very beautiful movie,
Speaker 2: it is one that you take away from that when
Speaker 2: you're focusing on the dialogue. I gotta admit Lily Rose
Speaker 2: Depp did not expect her to be able to act
Speaker 2: like that. She was pretty damn incredible in it. I
Speaker 2: was pretty happy with the like last five minutes of
Speaker 2: the movie, really incredible climax.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was good. That part was good.
Speaker 2: You're right, yeah. But one thing that we were talking
Speaker 2: about before we went live, this is a very dark movie.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean like bleak, which it is, but
Speaker 2: I mean literally, like the screen is black for like
Speaker 2: a lot of the movie. I'm sort of worried about
Speaker 2: what this is gonna look like on home video for
Speaker 2: a lot of people, because it literally will be difficult
Speaker 2: to make some of the scenes out, and for people
Speaker 2: that don't have like a really high end O led,
Speaker 2: this movie is probably gonna be one that they kind
Speaker 2: of hate the visuals of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there were definitely moments with even this thirty five
Speaker 3: print that I saw where I was kind of like,
Speaker 3: what is going on in the frame right now? I
Speaker 3: think I know, but it wasn't fully clear and clearly
Speaker 3: that's by design, but it was I was not used
Speaker 3: to that for a new movie. It seems like they
Speaker 3: tend to be not blown out because there's all kinds
Speaker 3: of varieties of lighting and new films. But I haven't
Speaker 3: come across a new film recently where I'm like, I
Speaker 3: can't see what's going on here. That just hasn't happened
Speaker 3: a lot. So very intriguing on that level. But you're right,
Speaker 3: I'm I don't know streaming it's gonna be dicey and physical. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very curious what it's gonna look like unless you've got
Speaker 3: a four K.
Speaker 2: I was already counting out the streaming that was already
Speaker 2: gonna be bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably not gonna work.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much more I want to say about it.
Speaker 2: And the sad part is like seeing in a theater. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's very dark, so I appreciate it being able to
Speaker 2: see that, But I also really think it would have
Speaker 2: benefited from having.
Speaker 4: Subtitles through the whole film. For me, it's.
Speaker 2: There's certain scenes where you could tell like not speaking
Speaker 2: over each other, but there's like ambiguous words that they
Speaker 2: could have been using, and it would have benefited a
Speaker 2: little bit for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the only thing I'll say is that,
Speaker 3: like leading up to this, I keep asking everybody. I
Speaker 3: keep asking everybody, are you a which person? Or are
Speaker 3: you a lighthouse person? I'm a lighthouse person. So when like,
Speaker 3: for instance, when Sean Fantasy was on our Calendar episode
Speaker 3: where we talked about this, he said he's a lighthouse
Speaker 3: person a bit more and he liked it. So I
Speaker 3: guess what I was hoping for was something a little weirder,
Speaker 3: if that makes sense, Like it's not that weird, like
Speaker 3: I mean, it's I don't want to say it's fully faithful.
Speaker 3: He's doing a lot of interesting things with the narrative pieces,
Speaker 3: but ultimately I didn't feel like I was seeing anything
Speaker 3: I hadn't really seen before, right, And that was I
Speaker 3: guess for him, I want I wanted some weirdness, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm like, make it weird, man, I know you can
Speaker 3: be weird and so so I guess like expectations were
Speaker 3: a killer for me, and I was just kind of
Speaker 3: like hoping for a little more lighthouse than the Witch.
Speaker 3: And I don't know which the Witch is weird too,
Speaker 3: so I'm like, it's more it's more conventional than both
Speaker 3: in that sense, you know, I mean it is this
Speaker 3: studio film versus the other ones. Which aren't as much.
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you make late Lighthouse was a
Speaker 3: twenty four too, right?
Speaker 2: Lighthouse was a twenty four. Northman was studio, I think.
Speaker 3: And I still haven't seen that, partially for that reason.
Speaker 2: And honestly, I had a lot of the same thoughts
Speaker 2: that I do about nos frautsu Is. It felt very
Speaker 2: polished and very not the Witch or Lighthouse. And for
Speaker 2: a lot of people that might be a good thing,
Speaker 2: as in it was evolving positively. For me, I wanted
Speaker 2: something much more like the Lighthouse or the Witch. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and for me, the Witch is still tops. I think
Speaker 2: the Witch is like maybe top five from the last
Speaker 2: twenty years even, but I would say Lighthouse is pretty close,
Speaker 2: and then Northman is a few notches down, but knows
Speaker 2: Rautu definitely better than Northmen for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean I would imagine, so I'm not.
Speaker 3: I just have a weird aversion to Viking films. I
Speaker 3: know that sounds strange because I like just about anything,
Speaker 3: so but Viking films weirdly don't always work for me,
Speaker 3: and I cannot explain it. So I haven't seen a
Speaker 3: lot of Vikman Viking films. I got to give a
Speaker 3: look at some point. But if it's more conventional stuff,
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just like not, it's not high
Speaker 3: on my list personally.
Speaker 2: And again, like I thought The Northman looked good, just
Speaker 2: like this looks good.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: It almost feels too polished to a point I could.
Speaker 3: I could see that absolutely, Yeah, yeah, too paused. Too
Speaker 3: conventional isn't quite the right word because it's pretty it's
Speaker 3: a pretty dark movie. But still, yeah, it just felt
Speaker 3: a little more mainstream than I was hoping for personally,
Speaker 3: but still a movie I you know, go out and
Speaker 3: see it, because my gosh, the cinematography is just incredible.
Speaker 3: Some of those shots. I'm like, wow, wow, you know,
Speaker 3: it just blew me away.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm gonna put you on the spot now, as
Speaker 2: somebody that is into film and physical media like all
Speaker 2: of us, what is.
Speaker 4: What is the thing exciting you about physical media right now?
Speaker 3: What is exciting me about physical media? That is a
Speaker 3: good question, and a very broad one at that, and.
Speaker 2: It's meant to be, you know, as we're as we're
Speaker 2: coming to the end of the year, you could apply
Speaker 2: themes to the year. But as somebody that's done it
Speaker 2: for years, why do you and I still do it.
Speaker 4: What excites you about this?
Speaker 3: I think what excites me about physical media in part
Speaker 3: I mean a lot. It's tough because a lot of
Speaker 3: the stuff I'm collecting I have seen. But for instance,
Speaker 3: one thing that I wasn't necessarily going to bring up
Speaker 3: because I don't know where it stands in terms of,
Speaker 3: you know, being celebrated this year, but this Whistler box set,
Speaker 3: the Columbia and One number six probably hands down my
Speaker 3: favorite physical release of the year, and part of that
Speaker 3: has to do with this. I didn't know this series
Speaker 3: of films, So discovery is a big part of it
Speaker 3: for me, and finding new films is a big part
Speaker 3: of it, or seeing older films with a fresh eye
Speaker 3: and a new transfer. Very nice, yes, weird version of
Speaker 3: Viking films indeed, but yeah, so discovery is always like
Speaker 3: that's I think that's what drives me about movies in general,
Speaker 3: is discovery. As much as I love to collect the
Speaker 3: things that I love and rewatch those, I'm always kind
Speaker 3: of looking for new stuff. And thankfully we have a
Speaker 3: lot of boutiques out there that are throwing stuff our way,
Speaker 3: like you know, radiance. I know, like two percent of
Speaker 3: the movie that they you know, like nothing, you know,
Speaker 3: and same thing with Monda Micabre and some of these others.
Speaker 3: And that's enough even to be almost overwhelming to me
Speaker 3: to the point where I'm hesitant to pull the trigger
Speaker 3: even sometimes on stuff, even though I am driven by this.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know, there's something about I think
Speaker 3: classic film getting physical releases is really a big deal
Speaker 3: to me, you know, like forties, fifties, sixties, seventies too.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the older stuff, I just kind of love
Speaker 3: to see it pop up on physical But finding a
Speaker 3: finding a set like that Columbia Noir number six set
Speaker 3: for me, was just such a highlight this year. I
Speaker 3: was like, wow, I just love these movies. And you know,
Speaker 3: so that's definitely one thing I think that drive What
Speaker 3: are the things that drive you? I mean there's the
Speaker 3: other thing is there's so many great folks doing special features,
Speaker 3: you know, doing commentaries, doing video essays, doing featurettes, doing interviews,
Speaker 3: and it has been has been neat to I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, we obviously hear this thing. The whole all
Speaker 3: the time of physical media is dead. LG is not
Speaker 3: producing Blu ray players, the sky is falling, et cetera.
Speaker 3: And it's it's definitely not going away like it's it's
Speaker 3: definitely becoming more you know, niche, more niche than it was.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's something that's been said a lot. But
Speaker 3: what we're getting is just a lot of people really
Speaker 3: paying attention to presentation. And the only downside to that
Speaker 3: is that prices are going up and up and that's
Speaker 3: a little difficult to be a casual collector at these
Speaker 3: price points. So that's it's a mix. But but unfortunately
Speaker 3: for me, it's like do I want it to go away?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I don't, So I guess ultimately you just have to
Speaker 3: set aside a little more, save a little more, maybe
Speaker 3: buy a little less of the stuff that you really want.
Speaker 3: So I mean that does pull some of the discovery
Speaker 3: out of it, because if you're gonna blind by things,
Speaker 3: those would be probably last on your list, whereas the
Speaker 3: things you know and love would be higher. So that's
Speaker 3: going to push people away from discuss Unfortunately, I'm just
Speaker 3: started talking myself through this, but but yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's been an interesting couple of years, and it's
Speaker 3: been neat to see just how much great stuff has
Speaker 3: come out and how much is getting talked about. How
Speaker 3: much isn't getting talked about? It's there's just too much.
Speaker 3: It's an incredible schmorgasbord, if you will.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The other thing that goes into blind buying, at
Speaker 2: least for me, which I know has always been a
Speaker 2: thing for you because of who you've you know, given
Speaker 2: attention to and really aligned your taste with, is kind
Speaker 2: of just that like finding somebody that you know that
Speaker 2: you can trust their taste. Like you and I both
Speaker 2: have an affinity for Jonathan Hertzberg's taste absolutely ninety seven
Speaker 2: percent of the time what he puts out is going
Speaker 2: to be something that I go, damn, this is a binger.
Speaker 4: This is perfect. And that's true for.
Speaker 2: Me for Monto Macabre and a couple other labels now
Speaker 2: blind buying from those I feel a little more comfortable with.
Speaker 2: But then you look at somebody that I've been let
Speaker 2: down a handful of times, I'm like, oh, I spent
Speaker 2: four thirty five dollars and I thought this was garbage.
Speaker 2: That you're You're less likely to do those blind buys
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it is tricky, and when you get stung
Speaker 3: even once or twice, especially at those price points, it
Speaker 3: really does make it hard to be adventurous, which is
Speaker 3: something I would love people to be more, you know,
Speaker 3: but I get it. It's expensive.
Speaker 2: So Hilton is wanting to know if we collect audio commentaries.
Speaker 2: Is there anybody that you every single time they do
Speaker 2: a commentary you feel like you want to own it.
Speaker 3: I don't know about every single time, but I'm sure
Speaker 3: as hell a a Kim Newman guy. I mean that
Speaker 3: is he is one of the greats for sure. You
Speaker 3: know what the problem for me is that I'm so
Speaker 3: busy watching stuff that I don't have as much time
Speaker 3: to go through some of the commentaries that I'd like
Speaker 3: to go through. So when I do find something that
Speaker 3: I really want to check out, sometimes I'll end up
Speaker 3: just having to rip it to an audio file so
Speaker 3: I can listen on my commute so I can like
Speaker 3: find some time to absorb it. So I don't get
Speaker 3: enough time to listen. But but Kim Newman is definitely
Speaker 3: high on my LISPT. You know of folks that I
Speaker 3: love to collect their stuff. You know, he's he's amazing.
Speaker 3: You know, whoever they pair him with Stephen Jones or
Speaker 3: who's the other one I'm blanking on right now he's
Speaker 3: off in Parabi.
Speaker 2: He's done a few lately. It seems like he's moving
Speaker 2: more towards like the visual essay side. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, Yeah, you're right. I just heard one
Speaker 3: with him. I think actually it's in one of the discs.
Speaker 3: I'm want to talk about nice that that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, he's definitely one. I don't what about you.
Speaker 3: Do you collect specific audio commentaries or I.
Speaker 4: Mean there's a few.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of when certain genres are covered
Speaker 2: by certain people. So if it is a classic Hong
Speaker 2: Kong film, I want to hear Frank Jang talk about it.
Speaker 4: Probably he has.
Speaker 2: I mean, he speaks very quickly, so he's hard to
Speaker 2: understand sometimes, but that is a good thing because the
Speaker 2: amount of information he gets out and he focuses on
Speaker 2: some things that no one else seems to focus on,
Speaker 2: and that is kind of translating two English and to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four what was happening in the film. So
Speaker 2: there's sometimes where jokes are made that made sense in
Speaker 2: the language in nineteen eighty six but mean nothing in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. And he'll literally translate not only the language,
Speaker 2: but say, well, here's the context on why that line
Speaker 2: was so funny and why it's in the movie, And
Speaker 2: that sort of thing is pretty incredible.
Speaker 3: No, I like that. That doesn't happen very much. That's
Speaker 3: pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Another big one, Sam Degan and like Eastern European cinema
Speaker 2: is somebody that I feel like is a matchmate in heaven.
Speaker 2: She's done quite a few of the Deaf Crocodile releases
Speaker 2: and her commentaries are legendary on those for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Alexander Heller Nicholas is another one. I'm
Speaker 3: a big fan of her writing and her audio commentaries.
Speaker 3: She's pretty awesome, so you know, and she and her
Speaker 3: tastes and mind tend to a line in terms of
Speaker 3: the stuff that she does, so I always tend to
Speaker 3: get the stuff she does because it's usually a movie
Speaker 3: that I want to have anyway. Yeah, she's pretty awesome too.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's so many great people doing I don't
Speaker 3: want to make anybody feel bad by not calling out names,
Speaker 3: because there's so many great folks doing commentaries, and I
Speaker 3: know how hard that is. Eerick and I got offered
Speaker 3: this is sort of a behind the scenes We got
Speaker 3: offered a commentary and we had to sort of back
Speaker 3: out because we realized we might not be able to
Speaker 3: do it properly. And that made me feel really bad
Speaker 3: because we didn't want to let the person down and
Speaker 3: we really liked the movie, but we just realized there
Speaker 3: was not enough real estate for us to really talk
Speaker 3: through the full length of the film. And I don't
Speaker 3: love to do something like that. Half asked it just
Speaker 3: it felt like, especially because this would have been in
Speaker 3: our first solo commentary. We've only done really one other commentary,
Speaker 3: and we were just kind of not even moderators, just
Speaker 3: kind of in the background on just hang it out
Speaker 3: with Josh and oh who was who was in the commentary? Oh,
Speaker 3: Larry Karrazuski. Josh and Larry were talking about Dark of
Speaker 3: the Sun and we were there at Josh's house just
Speaker 3: on Mike commenting. So that was easy because they mostly
Speaker 3: drove the drove the car. But we yeah, we would
Speaker 3: have to do this ourselves anyway. My point is I
Speaker 3: respect the heck out of those like yourself who do
Speaker 3: audio commentaries because it is so much work and more
Speaker 3: work than people realize, and it's definitely not I mean
Speaker 3: not to be unkind, but it's definitely not worth the
Speaker 3: money that is currently paid for it, you know. So
Speaker 3: it's got to be a labor of love, and so
Speaker 3: it really has to be a movie that you absolutely
Speaker 3: adore or you have a lot you really have some
Speaker 3: passion about. Oh yeah. Image in Sarah Smith. Absolutely, she's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Absolutely love her. I mean, commentaries are great, but I
Speaker 3: love her interviews. I love anything she does. So and
Speaker 3: she's great on Classic the War like she's really she's
Speaker 3: really up there for me. She's she's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Let's see, Uh, any any trends that you see being
Speaker 2: big for physical media in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Trends? Hmmm, I mean, I don't. I mean a lot
Speaker 3: of four k's.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's that's a good that's a good question. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just seeing a ton of four
Speaker 3: K releases. I think that's the biggest trend that I
Speaker 3: can spot. What are some that you've spotted?
Speaker 4: Probably four K.
Speaker 2: But also I feel like we're you know, not just
Speaker 2: not just some of the giant titles that we've got
Speaker 2: in the last half of the year, but I feel
Speaker 2: like we're finally gonna start seeing some of those we
Speaker 2: never thought this would ever come out on HD. Gonna
Speaker 2: get released, and it's gonna be more and more and
Speaker 2: more of those because they were successful. And when you
Speaker 2: can sell I mean, when you can sell fourteen thousand
Speaker 2: copies of The Keep in thirty seven hours.
Speaker 3: Or whatever, Wow, was it that many? I had no
Speaker 3: idea what it was.
Speaker 2: It was twelve thousand limited edition, and then they sold
Speaker 2: a couple thousand standard edition in that time.
Speaker 3: Crazy. It's physical media is not dead, folks. That's a
Speaker 3: lot of copies. That is a lot of copies.
Speaker 2: Funny enough, I have a title like that in my
Speaker 2: Honorable Mentions tonight because it's not one that we can
Speaker 2: say is gonna be overlooked, but it's gonna get overshadowed.
Speaker 2: And I think that's an important distinction to make true.
Speaker 3: No, I agree with you, there's definitely that was the
Speaker 3: I guess that's one of the hard thing for me.
Speaker 2: A lot of my.
Speaker 3: Stuff is just movies that I like that I feel
Speaker 3: like they're not gonna get mentioned because not because they're
Speaker 3: not good disp but because some people don't know the movies.
Speaker 3: I guess, you know, like so you know, that's definitely
Speaker 3: and that's like you say, that's just something you and
Speaker 3: I like to do, Like what are the movies we
Speaker 3: love we love to talk about, So that definitely entered
Speaker 3: into my thinking with this stuff. But but yeah, that
Speaker 3: is exciting to see so many films we just didn't
Speaker 3: think we're ever gonna make it to not only get
Speaker 3: a Blu Ray release, but to get jump over that
Speaker 3: and get a four K release. Yeah, that is definitely
Speaker 3: a trend getting a movie that, like you say, we
Speaker 3: haven't seen before on Blu Ray in the States at least,
Speaker 3: and having that be also a four K release. Paper Moon,
Speaker 3: for example, I didn't put that on my list, but
Speaker 3: that had a Masters of Cinema release, which I had,
Speaker 3: but now it's got a nice four K from Criterion,
Speaker 3: which is very exciting for me.
Speaker 2: Criterion had like fourteen titles come out in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four that everybody is kind of just quiet about at
Speaker 2: the end of the year. But they were all like,
Speaker 2: this is happening finally, and that that is amazing for
Speaker 2: one label. And the sad thing is it's going to
Speaker 2: get overshadowed because Vinegar Syndrome did all of that in
Speaker 2: one month. In November, they put out, like five titles
Speaker 2: that never should have been on disc and suddenly we
Speaker 2: have them all.
Speaker 3: No, it's true. I mean, like Gummo Happiness, you know,
Speaker 3: the Albert Brooks movies, Risky Business. I think almost is
Speaker 3: one of those that I didn't. I mean that one
Speaker 3: obviously been out, so that's.
Speaker 4: Born on the fourth of July.
Speaker 3: Oh shoot, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's tons of stuff that
Speaker 3: you write Criterion. I didn't put any of their stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm a little I gotta say, I'm just a little
Speaker 3: bit down on them, only because and you've talked about it,
Speaker 3: BEFO for the lack of extra any kind of extra
Speaker 3: supplements when they do an upgrade, it's just too bad.
Speaker 3: But I also get that it's a business. I'm not,
Speaker 3: you know, trying to be overly critical, but I mean, thankfully,
Speaker 3: when you get a title like you know, a real
Speaker 3: uh real Life for instance, then yeah, Pat Garrett, that's
Speaker 3: a good one too. But but at least they have
Speaker 3: some stuff to draw from with something like that, you know.
Speaker 3: But but mostly when those four k's come out, they're
Speaker 3: getting they are getting some new features with them, which
Speaker 3: is cool the way when it's not an upgrade.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Stephanie Crawford.
Speaker 2: There she is.
Speaker 3: Oh, hello Steph. Very nice. Awesome to have Steph in
Speaker 3: the chat. Yeah, no, she's right. It was an incredible year.
Speaker 3: We really are pretty spoiled in terms of just how
Speaker 3: much great stuff came out. In fact, there's way too
Speaker 3: much to talk about in any one episode, in terms
Speaker 3: of like I did my usual three videos for In fact,
Speaker 3: I think I did more last year, but I felt
Speaker 3: like there was as many or more, And and part of
Speaker 3: putting this group together of stuff that's overlooked. Some of
Speaker 3: it is stuff I've talked about in other videos, and
Speaker 3: then other stuff was like, oh my god, I forgot that.
Speaker 3: Oh could I've forgotten this? You know? And so some
Speaker 3: of those will be like questionable. Did they get mentioned enough?
Speaker 3: Because that's the other thing I haven't seen enough. Did
Speaker 3: you do a top ten yet? Because if I you did,
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: See it yet. I've I've been hesitant because everybody for
Speaker 2: the Shelf Shock Rewind Awards is nominating titles right now,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to color anything or make it
Speaker 2: seem like I'm giving out some of the.
Speaker 3: Bol So No, that'll be great when you guys do that.
Speaker 3: That'll be cool because that always is a good indicator
Speaker 3: of what you know, was liked by people, and and
Speaker 3: so that'll be that'll be cool. But yeah, I feel
Speaker 3: like some of my go tos, I haven't seen their
Speaker 3: their videos or I haven't heard their top tens yet,
Speaker 3: so I guess I don't have my finger on the
Speaker 3: pulse as much. Yes, the Iraqi set also a big one,
Speaker 3: huge to get that finally. Uh and the hitcher my God, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that. I mean that's one that I that
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to bring up because I feel like
Speaker 3: we've been waiting so long and in our circles everybody
Speaker 3: knows and was excited and but I mean totally lived
Speaker 3: up to everything I hoped it would be. I mean
Speaker 3: just that, you know, the interview with see Tommy Howell
Speaker 3: alone is pretty pretty fantastic. He's he's an interesting dude
Speaker 3: and and he's got a lot of stories that are
Speaker 3: pretty great. Just that and then of course how great
Speaker 3: it looks. But yeah, I mean, just like that, that's
Speaker 3: another example of a movie that like, is it gonna happen?
Speaker 3: We weren't sure, and oh wow it did and it's amazing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, incredible, really twenty twenty four is pretty great,
Speaker 3: you know. Like I gotta say, I'd probably give it
Speaker 3: the edge over last year. And that's exciting because you know,
Speaker 3: it still feels like there's stuff in the tank in
Speaker 3: terms of this, you know, and I hope that it continues,
Speaker 3: I really do. And I believe that the physical media
Speaker 3: community is strong, just going on a place like Blue
Speaker 3: Sky and seeing how physical media posts blow up, you know,
Speaker 3: like just another article came out today about physical media
Speaker 3: that people are posting about, and that to me really
Speaker 3: speaks to how how folks feel about it and how
Speaker 3: they don't like the idea. Oh yeah, I mean looking
Speaker 3: for mister Goodbar obviously, you know, uh, that's incredible. Never
Speaker 3: thought that would happen. But but yeah, just the the
Speaker 3: way things are going seems positive to me, and I
Speaker 3: want to kind of stay in that mindset really just celebrate.
Speaker 3: We should just be celebrating at the end of a
Speaker 3: great year like this. You know, everybody be happy with
Speaker 3: what we got, because it was a really killer year.
Speaker 3: Just so many titles like you say that I just
Speaker 3: never thought we'd get never you know.
Speaker 2: Well, and on the stay happy point, my the only
Speaker 2: other trend I want to bring up is the fact
Speaker 2: that Terry's here saying, well, it's not my bag. Never
Speaker 2: Ending Story is a mind blowing one too. I think
Speaker 2: that we see I don't know, a thousand people worldwide
Speaker 2: willing to spend one hundred and eighty five dollars on
Speaker 2: a single release. Yes, it's like one of our biggest
Speaker 2: childhood movies for many, many, many, many, many many people.
Speaker 2: I get that, But how many other films are gonna
Speaker 2: suddenly start charging one hundred dollars for one movie and say, well,
Speaker 2: you paid one hundred and eighty five for Never Ending Story.
Speaker 4: This one's a pretty big movie too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that is I don't necessarily love that,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I'm wondering if that's gonna again be part
Speaker 3: of the price of collecting moving forward. Is them the
Speaker 3: boutiques deciding to really make it a big deal, right,
Speaker 3: I have one hundred Oh my god, really make it
Speaker 3: a big deal when they put out something like that,
Speaker 3: so that you you can sort of justify the cost
Speaker 3: a little bit more, right, you know, I guess in
Speaker 3: your head. I mean, I've seen people go through that set.
Speaker 3: It definitely feels like one hundred and eighty five isn't
Speaker 3: terrible for all that you get with that set, And
Speaker 3: like I said, I'm still not necessarily willing to do that,
Speaker 3: but but it's not like they're ripping us off, you know, right, So.
Speaker 4: It's an all good point.
Speaker 2: I think this is probably a good point to transition
Speaker 2: over to announcements.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: First up, this isn't really a physical media announcement, but
Speaker 2: for anybody that didn't see, I dropped a video last
Speaker 2: Friday with Damian k Lahy and for all those that
Speaker 2: haven't listened or watched, there's a giveaway attached to that,
Speaker 2: so make sure you go give that a watch before
Speaker 2: too long and get in on the giveaway. Cool. But
Speaker 2: first up, this week we got some air announcements. March third,
Speaker 2: four K release in the UK. They're doing Dressed to
Speaker 2: Kill from nineteen eighty and this is going to have
Speaker 2: a new commentary by Drusilla Adeline and Joshua Concle that
Speaker 2: you may know from an incredible podcast that I've been
Speaker 2: talking about for a lot and actually advertised in the
Speaker 2: magazine earlier this year. And I really hope people will
Speaker 2: pay attention to this one and check it out because
Speaker 2: it is you know, it's unfortunate that we are many
Speaker 2: of collectors that are buying dual places, you know, over
Speaker 2: the UK, over the US, Australia, and we'll get three
Speaker 2: different releases and you may already have one, but then
Speaker 2: another one comes out and you're like, well, I kind
Speaker 2: of want that part too. It's hard to pick up
Speaker 2: both of them. But if you've never heard the name
Speaker 2: Adeline or Adeline, I'm not sure how she pronounces that.
Speaker 2: This is sister Hyde, an artist that is involved in
Speaker 2: a lot of releases she has done. She did the
Speaker 2: bound cover for Criterion this year. There is all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff that you can find their work on. But
Speaker 2: they also are from the Bloodhouse podcast and they're incredible
Speaker 2: on there, so I may get this one. Unfortunately, there's
Speaker 2: a new visual essay by b J and Harmony Colangelo
Speaker 2: on this as well, a new visual essay by Jessica Kretz,
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of archival extras on this, And they
Speaker 2: were saying on Twitter, I think it was that they
Speaker 2: supposedly have improved on the Keynote picture quality. It's the
Speaker 2: same scan, but they've done some things to make it
Speaker 2: a little bit better. I need to do some more
Speaker 2: research on that. But that's how they get you, because
Speaker 2: this is like one of the best movies of all time.
Speaker 3: No, it's great. It's one of Dipalma's best movies. Yeah,
Speaker 3: now I'm and when I saw it come up, I
Speaker 3: did kind of go damn it, because you know, obviously
Speaker 3: the extras are a big deal, but also Erro tends
Speaker 3: to do it better than most everybody, and and so
Speaker 3: it's always a bummer when they come out second or
Speaker 3: third because then I'm like, shoot, do it?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no, I'm very very tempted by this one,
Speaker 3: very very tempted. I might have to do it too,
Speaker 3: damn it.
Speaker 2: Next up is The Terminal Man, coming on Blu Ray
Speaker 2: in the UK on March tenth. This is gonna have
Speaker 2: a new audio commentary by Howardsberger and Steven Mitchell, new
Speaker 2: visual essay by Josh Nelson, new visual essay by Howard
Speaker 2: as Berger as well, and then some archival extras on
Speaker 2: this and a collector's book with new writing by Guy Adams.
Speaker 2: Lots of stuff coming for this movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a fan. It's an interesting one. I don't
Speaker 3: think it fully fully works for me, but I love
Speaker 3: George Siegel in this period, and it's a really intriguing movie.
Speaker 3: The idea of a man as a time bomb. It
Speaker 3: has a great suspenseful quality to it because if you
Speaker 3: don't know, basically he's got this implant in his head
Speaker 3: that's supposed to help him. Can we get rid of
Speaker 3: lobbit cards and have thicker books. I'm actually I'm on
Speaker 3: the fence there. Like part of me like totally agrees
Speaker 3: with that. Also part of me kind of likes lobby cards,
Speaker 3: although I have to admit that I don't do anything
Speaker 3: with them, and they just end up taking enough space
Speaker 3: in the case. So like I'm a little torn, but
Speaker 3: I might I guess I might agree with that. But yeah, So,
Speaker 3: like he's got this thing in his head and he
Speaker 3: has this cycle that he'll basically freak out and kill
Speaker 3: anything he's in the room with at certain intervals, and
Speaker 3: so you're kind of watching him. He's wandering I think
Speaker 3: it's San Francisco. Maybe he's wandering around the city, and
Speaker 3: so when you realize the time is coming when he
Speaker 3: might have an attack, you just immediately like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: this person he's in the room with has no idea
Speaker 3: and he doesn't he can't even control it, so he
Speaker 3: will go from just having a nice conversation suddenly just
Speaker 3: freaking out. So it's yeah, so it's a really interesting
Speaker 3: dynamic of tension about it. But I have the Wonder
Speaker 3: archive Blu ray, which of course doesn't have anything on it.
Speaker 3: So this is a little tempting. I gotta say a
Speaker 3: little tempting too. I'm torn. I'm torn.
Speaker 2: Totally get that one. Let's go to the next one,
Speaker 2: which is a masterpiece. They are doing Don't Torture a
Speaker 2: Duckling from Luccio Fulci on four K. This is coming
Speaker 2: on March twenty fourth in the UK March twenty fifth
Speaker 2: in North America. Now the hard part, unlike what we
Speaker 2: just talked about with Dressed to Kill, as far as
Speaker 2: I can tell, this has nothing new on it except
Speaker 2: for the four K scan, which this is my favorite
Speaker 2: Fulci film, and I guarantee it will look incredible on
Speaker 2: four K, but nothing new. That's kind of difficult. And
Speaker 2: then the hard part. They're doing the UK and in
Speaker 2: the US, so we can't even say somebody else will
Speaker 2: do a better release.
Speaker 3: Oh shoot, yeah, yeah, this one's tough. I'm a fan
Speaker 3: of it, definitely. I totally get it being your favorite.
Speaker 3: I tend to lean towards sleazier ful cheat personally, but like,
Speaker 3: it is quote unquote one of his best movies, you know,
Speaker 3: like and I don't mean quote unquote like not objectively,
Speaker 3: like it really is one of his best films and
Speaker 3: one of Elrick's favorite. Yeah, Sam's right, it is one
Speaker 3: of his best and I get why it's people's favorite. So, like,
Speaker 3: I'm still tempted, but I got admit, I haven't watched
Speaker 3: my Blu ray of Don't Torture Duckling since I bought it,
Speaker 3: which is stupid because I think I've watched the Anchor
Speaker 3: Bay DVD a few years before that Blu ray came out,
Speaker 3: and I haven't felt the urge. So that's another thing
Speaker 3: that comes into my head when something like this happens.
Speaker 3: But it's pretty tempting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a damn good movie. If you don't ever,
Speaker 2: if you've never picked up Don't Torture Duckling, obviously this
Speaker 2: is the way to go.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, if you're an Italian horror fan,
Speaker 3: like please just do yourself a favor. You won't regret it.
Speaker 3: It's very solid stuff. One of the best Italian horror
Speaker 3: films full stop, you know.
Speaker 2: Easy, easy sentence to make there for sure. Next one
Speaker 2: is play It Cool. This is from nineteen seventy, coming
Speaker 2: on March third in the UK, March fourth in North America.
Speaker 2: And this is the director on this is Yah Suso Massamura.
Speaker 2: They they've done a few Masamura films before, but never
Speaker 2: this one. I think this is one that they had
Speaker 2: trouble with elements for a while or something. This is
Speaker 2: gonna have a new commentary with the one and only
Speaker 2: Jasper Sharp, who's great on all of these, another great
Speaker 2: commentator for not even just Japanese but like a lot
Speaker 2: of Asian cinema. He will be joined by Anne McKnight's
Speaker 2: we got a new visual essay on this and the
Speaker 2: career the writer director by Mark Mark Roberts. And then
Speaker 2: we've got a collector's book would be writing by Earl Jackson.
Speaker 2: I am unfamiliar with Earl ja work, but I mean
Speaker 2: this looks like a pretty easy pickup to me. Pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one I don't know anything about, so
Speaker 3: I'm very curious. It does intrigue me, but yeah, just
Speaker 3: to be a blind buy, but yeah, it definitely looks
Speaker 3: really interesting to me. For sure, and Erro I trust.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I had to really lay it down,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'd still be hard to say for sure.
Speaker 3: But Arrow is definitely top two or three labels for me,
Speaker 3: like all time in terms of the amount of stuff
Speaker 3: that I must have from them and the amount of
Speaker 3: misses they have, which is almost none. Like, I really
Speaker 3: can't think of too many things that I was excited
Speaker 3: about from Arrow that didn't deliver.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: And they had a great year this year too, I
Speaker 3: mean movies that I won't mention, but like narc and
Speaker 3: Simple Plan on four K amazing, you know, and great releases,
Speaker 3: you know, And those are just a couple of the
Speaker 3: things they did this year. I just got Demolition Man
Speaker 3: in the mail. I'm not even that big of a
Speaker 3: fan of the Demolition Man, but it was an Arrow
Speaker 3: release and it's a four K. You have it somewhere there,
Speaker 3: I'm guessing, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was trying to find it there.
Speaker 2: It is nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I almost watched that yesterday. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: it's just like when they do something and then the
Speaker 3: shoscope sets, like I'm just so far behind watching those
Speaker 3: that I didn't pick up the new one. But obviously
Speaker 3: I saw Dave at Snips Movies, Yeah, did his list
Speaker 3: and he put that on their rightfuls. So Dave Wayne
Speaker 3: put it on there, and yeah, I mean it's those
Speaker 3: are great sets. So I mean, anyway, not to get
Speaker 3: too off topic on ero, but the reason I trust
Speaker 3: them is because they do such a good job with
Speaker 3: their stuff. So that's the reason that I would consider
Speaker 3: this one, even not knowing anything about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, after talking to James Flower on
Speaker 2: the show, there's there's a lot of people that are
Speaker 2: you know, very much draw a line in the sand
Speaker 2: and say after the Hut Group purchased them, everything went downhill.
Speaker 2: And I don't truly agree with that. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's clear that they they definitely went for some more
Speaker 2: commercial titles, which you can say is a good thing
Speaker 2: or a bad thing, And I would totally understand either argument.
Speaker 3: There when sale, sorry, when did that sale happen?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that was probably only twenty twenty two or
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Even interesting, I see, I see the demarcation there a
Speaker 3: little bit. But they haven't really, I don't want to
Speaker 3: say they haven't disappointed me. I mean, there are definitely
Speaker 3: months where there are, you know, months where their slate
Speaker 3: comes out and I'm a little less excited, But there's
Speaker 3: almost always at least one title that I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: there's the one I gotta get. And I can't really
Speaker 3: say that for that many labels, you know, they don't
Speaker 3: always I mean, Keno does it differently, so they're just
Speaker 3: constantly bombing us with stuff, which is great. And there's
Speaker 3: one of my all timers in the list for today
Speaker 3: that I was super excited to see get a four
Speaker 3: K upgrade. But yeah, I mean in terms of like
Speaker 3: the ones that do monthly announcements are almost always has
Speaker 3: something that I want to check out, I want.
Speaker 2: To get, you know, And then, like you said, Keno
Speaker 2: announces twenty three and damn it, you'll like at least
Speaker 2: one of them exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean their average is actually a little higher than
Speaker 3: I would have considering how much they nownce. It's higher
Speaker 3: than that for me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean literally last year, I think they
Speaker 2: were three or four short of two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: titles for the year gos like I think it was
Speaker 2: two hundred and forty seven. Wow, And with that happening, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, even if you like I don't know. Even
Speaker 2: if you like thirty of those movies, that's a pretty
Speaker 2: significant number compared to most other labels.
Speaker 3: I mean, based on that, and when I think about it,
Speaker 3: I definitely own more Keno than almost anything because of
Speaker 3: just how much stuff they put out and how much
Speaker 3: how much of it is actually pretty cool stuff, you know,
Speaker 3: especially the stuff they're upgrading. Put that one up again.
Speaker 3: What was that comment? I'm sorry I.
Speaker 2: Missed Erica from Unsung Horses. Today I learned that Brian's
Speaker 2: ancestors were hurt by vikings and he doesn't use the
Speaker 2: three seashells.
Speaker 3: These things are both true well.
Speaker 2: Titles from Arrow that everybody wanted on four K. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about Deep Blue Sea from nineteen ninety nine, getting
Speaker 2: a four K on March seventeenth in the UK March
Speaker 2: eighteenth in North America.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I haven't pre ordered it yet,
Speaker 3: but I probably will. I gotta say.
Speaker 4: It's a fun movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, this is one that was interesting because I
Speaker 3: I remember when I first started working at the video
Speaker 3: store Laser Blazer. Yes, that seems like a wasted opportunity.
Speaker 3: We you know, Deep Blue Cy was one of the
Speaker 3: first DVDs that I remember coming out, so I think
Speaker 3: it was even one maybe they gave away with players.
Speaker 3: I can't remember it. I can't remember it was pretty early,
Speaker 3: but it was definitely one that we watched on the
Speaker 3: TVs all the time, and the Sam Jackson demise is
Speaker 3: certainly unforgettable. I'm wondering how this is gonna look in
Speaker 3: four K with some of those digital I mean, it
Speaker 3: wasn't something I thought about until this moment, but but
Speaker 3: I do love shark movies. I have a weird affinity
Speaker 3: for shark movies, so this seems like something I would
Speaker 3: have probably end up getting.
Speaker 2: You know, this is one I kind of want to
Speaker 2: wait for a review from somebody that is a stickler
Speaker 2: for the technical side of things. Mm hm. I definitely
Speaker 2: want to see what people think because the CG in
Speaker 2: this looked really bad in DVD and Blu ray. The
Speaker 2: funny thing is it won't be worse in four K, obviously,
Speaker 2: but everything else around it being gorgeous will make it
Speaker 2: look worse. It's true, and so it's definitely something I'm
Speaker 2: worried about. We watched this uh as part of my
Speaker 2: Patreon we do a watch along every month, and we
Speaker 2: watched this one I don't know, a good eight or
Speaker 2: nine months ago, and it was fun in a group,
Speaker 2: but I just don't know if I need it with
Speaker 2: four K.
Speaker 3: It's a fair point. It is definitely more of a
Speaker 3: group watch kind of movie than than watched by yourself
Speaker 3: kind of movie. In fact, yeah, I would if I
Speaker 3: was gonna watch said, I would finitely want to watch
Speaker 3: it with my daughter or with somebody, right, you know,
Speaker 3: it's definitely that kind of movie. I just watched Driven
Speaker 3: by the Way for the first time. Oh nice, which
Speaker 3: is interesting. You know, I guess I don't mind. Renny
Speaker 3: Harland actually had a small Renny Harland run because I
Speaker 3: rewatched Diehard too, which did not hold up as well
Speaker 3: this time for me as before. But yeah, Driven was interesting.
Speaker 3: Definitely not great, but interesting.
Speaker 2: Deep Blue SI gets a new commentary by the screenwriter
Speaker 2: Duncan Kennedy, another new commentator by somebody you know, Rebecca McKendree.
Speaker 2: We got some archival interviews and commentaries on here, and
Speaker 2: then some new interviews, one with the production designer William Sandal,
Speaker 2: a new visual essay by Trace Thurman, some archival featurettes,
Speaker 2: optional commentary on some directed deleted scenes with Rennie Harlan
Speaker 2: and then a sixty page book with new writing by
Speaker 2: Josh Utato, Jenny Kermode and Murray Leader, plus some previously
Speaker 2: unseen production art and designs.
Speaker 4: That's pretty fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great package.
Speaker 2: A lot of stuff coming from this one, and I
Speaker 2: hope it makes people happy, because I know it's a
Speaker 2: lot of people. It's like one of their I hate
Speaker 2: using the term guilty pleasure, but guilt.
Speaker 3: Yeah whatever, so bad, it's good those terms. I'm not
Speaker 3: a fan of either, but you know it has a
Speaker 3: very loyal fan base, you could say absolutely.
Speaker 2: Next up is one from overseas. In the UK, the
Speaker 2: BBC is doing Doctor Who the Collection season seven from
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy and they're just slowly churning these out. They're
Speaker 2: not really going in order, but there is a punch
Speaker 2: in this package. Check it out. There's also some other
Speaker 2: new Doctor Who things available on Zavvy. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: do some research because there's not a lot of info
Speaker 2: out there yet, but I will be posting those as
Speaker 2: soon as I get some more. I know, just in
Speaker 2: case you're wondering. They are doing The Savages, which is gosh.
Speaker 2: I think it's from nineteen sixty six and they're doing
Speaker 2: a steel book for it that you can pre order now.
Speaker 2: But more info on that to come.
Speaker 3: Check out the Big Brains on Sharks looking at the comments.
Speaker 2: Next up is is a replacement program. Last week I
Speaker 2: talked about that people were reporting a visual discrepancy on
Speaker 2: looking for Mister Goodbar. Looks like they will be putting
Speaker 2: a replacement out. If you purchased it from Vinegar Syndrome,
Speaker 2: they will be giving you a replacement disc on their own.
Speaker 2: You don't need to sign any forms or anything. However,
Speaker 2: if you bought a third party, you're gonna want the
Speaker 2: replacement disc. You got to email them and show them
Speaker 2: your proof of purchase and you will get that replacement disc.
Speaker 3: So what's so does it freeze up? Like? What's the
Speaker 3: hang up?
Speaker 2: There's some visual glitches that happened for just a minute,
Speaker 2: and it's it's not very long, but it's super noticeable.
Speaker 3: You haven't happened for you, Oh.
Speaker 2: It's literally for everyone.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It is in the digital file on the disc and oh,
Speaker 2: the sad thing is no go ahead.
Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was maybe it was saying certain players,
Speaker 3: certain people, but it sounds like it's.
Speaker 4: Not that yeah, it is. It is not that.
Speaker 2: The only big thing I believe, let's see, if you
Speaker 2: have Dolby Vision enabled, is when it shows up. But
Speaker 2: if you don't have Dolby Vision, it doesn't happen. For
Speaker 2: a good four K disc. Most people are wanting Tolby
Speaker 2: Vision enabled, so that makes sense that they would replace it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And I'm glad that they're doing that. They've
Speaker 3: stopped a long time ago with the like you gotta
Speaker 3: write us and let us know, and they're doing the
Speaker 3: automatic that's just so much more the right thing to do,
Speaker 3: you know, which is great.
Speaker 2: So got to bring up though there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people upset with the and I'm gonna put some people
Speaker 2: on blast here but not by name, the people saying
Speaker 2: they need quality control, Like none of these labels are
Speaker 2: testing for quality control. What's your take on how we're
Speaker 2: getting seemingly more and more disc replacements and errors happening
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I mean, I guess I
Speaker 3: want to hear your take first, because, like I'm I
Speaker 3: feel like it's relatively consistent in terms of how much
Speaker 3: we get. I feel like we had a really bad
Speaker 3: run of several years ago where there was like camera,
Speaker 3: it was arrow, but there was a bunch of replacements
Speaker 3: from a bunch of different labels. It feels like it
Speaker 3: is just part of the process now kind of. So
Speaker 3: I'll say it doesn't bother me that much, especially when
Speaker 3: they get right on it. But yeah, how do you
Speaker 3: feel about it where you stand on this? You think
Speaker 3: there's enough not enough quality control? I mean, clearly they
Speaker 3: have quality control. I'm just curious how some of these
Speaker 3: things get by. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a couple things here. So first off,
Speaker 2: this definitely varies by company. Some of the companies that
Speaker 2: I work with, we are you know, we'll have three
Speaker 2: different people do QC on everything on the desk two
Speaker 2: or three times, and then the authoring company also does
Speaker 2: QC on it.
Speaker 4: And that's a lot.
Speaker 2: That is a lot of eyes on a lot of
Speaker 2: disk and it takes a hell of a lot of time.
Speaker 2: The other thing is I do this announcement show every
Speaker 2: single Thursday, and this is the lightest week of the
Speaker 2: entire year, and there's still like thirty one announcements that
Speaker 2: were going over.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I didn't I was leaving that many.
Speaker 2: Wow. And on an average week an average week, I'm
Speaker 2: hitting about seventy to seventy five.
Speaker 3: Wow, and that is crazy. Those numbers are staggering, even
Speaker 3: though I've I live it from week to week and
Speaker 3: just hearing those numbers is really kind of shocking.
Speaker 2: The first week of every month, I'm I'm hitting somewhere
Speaker 2: between ninety to one hundred and fifteen every single first
Speaker 2: week of the month.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean the other thing is you're also covering
Speaker 3: global because you cover everybody, and that's you know, if
Speaker 3: you go to Blu ray dot Com obviously, if you
Speaker 3: put the region on you, you know all you can
Speaker 3: catch everything. But even they don't catch everything, so you're
Speaker 3: really you're really hitting everything that's coming out, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot and a lot that doesn't get One of
Speaker 3: the things I love about you is that you're covering
Speaker 3: labels that I've never even heard of, you know, consistently
Speaker 3: put out interesting stuff. So I love that about this show. Anyway,
Speaker 3: that's a lot of titles, so I think there's something
Speaker 3: to that, just a glut of titles. And how based
Speaker 3: on the number of titles, the average is still relatively
Speaker 3: low in terms of these problems. I think you know, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, I would agree with that.
Speaker 2: It's also there's a couple things like it's it's not
Speaker 2: really a big deal to get a replacement disc. The
Speaker 2: problem is when there's an issue and the label doesn't
Speaker 2: admit it and they try to hide it.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that I have seen a few times, and
Speaker 3: that is discouraging. And I get that it's a tough
Speaker 3: thing for their bottom line to be like, oh man,
Speaker 3: we got to redo this whole thing, and we gotta
Speaker 3: mail all these it's expensive, yeah, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: you're charging a premium price. You want to make the
Speaker 3: customer happy. You can't put out something shoddy, and you
Speaker 3: know that's tough. When they don't admit it, that that
Speaker 3: does bother me. You know that does bother me. And yes,
Speaker 3: there are people out there that are nitpicking and maybe
Speaker 3: their specific player has some kind of an issue that
Speaker 3: you know, that can't be dealt with on a grand scale,
Speaker 3: And I get that that's difficult. But when it's clear
Speaker 3: that there's a lot of people having issues and they're
Speaker 3: still denying it, that's a bummer. It's definitely a bummer.
Speaker 2: The other big thing is we are such a niche
Speaker 2: community now that there are there are multiple steps in
Speaker 2: creating all of these discs, that there are legitimately only
Speaker 2: like five high quality places in the world. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: literally that perform that action, whether that is manufacturing, whether
Speaker 2: that is authoring, whether that is encoding, whether whatever. Like
Speaker 2: there's a few things where there's literally five or less
Speaker 2: places in the world that complete that action. And with
Speaker 2: that happening, and you know, even averaging seventy titles in
Speaker 2: now a week, that's almost three hundred a month. And
Speaker 2: if you're relying on five companies to do three hundred
Speaker 2: every month, Holy shit, that's overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot for anybody to
Speaker 3: I honestly can't believe those five places can handle the
Speaker 3: workload of all that's coming out. Like, that's pretty incredible,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: So I this is one of those things that I
Speaker 2: don't want to sound a bit like looking down on
Speaker 2: other collectors, but I do want to say, MA, ask
Speaker 2: some questions and be a little slower to grabbing pitchforks
Speaker 2: when a replacement disc happens, and sometimes it is warranted,
Speaker 2: especially when there's a problem in the company does not
Speaker 2: admit it, but honestly, the replacement program should be a
Speaker 2: good thing. You should see that they're willing to admit
Speaker 2: it and fix it. It's the silent ones that's the
Speaker 2: bigger problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and do they give you notice certain labels that
Speaker 3: are more hesitant to admit their mistakes.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have.
Speaker 4: Are we running for the next announcement?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead. We don't want
Speaker 3: to call anybody out that you might be working with.
Speaker 3: So that's that's okay, let's keep going.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, i'll a'll fully admit.
Speaker 2: Like Keno Larber has had two or three major public
Speaker 2: fuck ups like that they have. Uh, the biggest one was, uh,
Speaker 2: they'll even say it now, I think, so what we
Speaker 2: can all talk about it? Bring me the head of
Speaker 2: Alfredo Garcia. They put that out and they advertised it
Speaker 2: as the newer arrow Blu ray scan that had come out,
Speaker 2: and so people expected that in the States, hey, I'm
Speaker 2: finally gonna be able to get this ANUHD scan that
Speaker 2: everybody said looked great. And then when it came out
Speaker 2: it was still the old scan and they went, no,
Speaker 2: it's not Nope, it's perfect, don't question us. And then
Speaker 2: finally they said, you know, okay, it was the wrong
Speaker 2: file here you go, but that sort of thing, like
Speaker 2: it's not it's not okay to just straight lie like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I mean, it's it's not going to help
Speaker 3: you later. It's just, you know, I know, it's hard
Speaker 3: sometimes to admit that stuff, and you have certain folks
Speaker 3: that don't want to to put themselves on the spot
Speaker 3: like that, and I get it, but it's tough. You
Speaker 3: just kind of have to suck it up at some point.
Speaker 3: I'm not not Keno specifically, but just when these mistakes happen,
Speaker 3: it's tough. It's tough, I get.
Speaker 2: It, but Kenos specifically. Yes, got a question in the chat,
Speaker 2: what is currently the best option for Alfredo Garcia. I
Speaker 2: believe it's still the Keno Disc, which is newer than
Speaker 2: the Arrow disc. It might have less special features, But
Speaker 2: for those of you that are reason.
Speaker 3: Logged, doesn't that seem like there's got to be a
Speaker 3: four K bub Land somewhere?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 3: I mean it just feels like it's it's still an
Speaker 3: MGM title, and I know they're not always the easiest
Speaker 3: to work with from what I've heard, but yeah, that
Speaker 3: still feels like fairly accessible material. Yeah, so I'm kind
Speaker 3: of hoping for that because I'm a big Alfredo fan.
Speaker 2: Four months from now, that Blu ray disc is already
Speaker 2: four years old.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is that's actually what's fun. I guess if
Speaker 3: there's another trend, it's the upgrading too soon after the
Speaker 3: Blu Ray release, and four years is actually surprisingly Oh
Speaker 3: the Imprint's good too. That's good to know, Terry, thank you.
Speaker 3: The you know, that's four years is axt kind of
Speaker 3: a long time and that shouldn't be the case, like
Speaker 3: that should be sort of the norm. But four years
Speaker 3: is actually quite a long time from a Blu Ray,
Speaker 3: so it's about due for an upgrade.
Speaker 2: It feels like I'm gonna be honest, I forgot Imprint
Speaker 2: did that. They did it in September of twenty three,
Speaker 2: and I think they do have some exclusive special features
Speaker 2: and it's region free, so go for that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's a double diss set too, right, I mean
Speaker 3: multiple Yeah. Yeah, that's a good I have that. That's
Speaker 3: a good set.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then on Blu Ray, Wrestler's Rhapsody from nineteen eighty five
Speaker 2: coming on Blu Ray from a four kse gan of
Speaker 2: the OCN. This is a Tom Berenger joint written and
Speaker 2: directed by Hugh Wilson. I've never seen this one, but
Speaker 2: it sounds like you may have love it.
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan. I talked about this. We did two.
Speaker 3: We've done a few Western episodes, but we did like
Speaker 3: a pre and post Wild Bunch. We used that it's
Speaker 3: our demarcation point, and this is in my post Wild Bunch.
Speaker 3: It is a really fun spoof, but it's also it's
Speaker 3: not quite like airplane style spoof. It's a little bit
Speaker 3: more narratively driven than those films, but it is also
Speaker 3: really funny. So I love this. I think Tom Barrage
Speaker 3: is great in it. He's becomes this sort of self aware,
Speaker 3: you know, hopol On Cassidy kind of singing cowboy character,
Speaker 3: and and it's bizarre, like he eats this root and
Speaker 3: it makes him it's like Popeye shit, and it's bizarre.
Speaker 3: But I'm a big fan, and I know it's probably
Speaker 3: not gonna happen, but boy, I would love to hear
Speaker 3: Hugh Wilson talk about this movie. I just am so
Speaker 3: curious because this is and I think I figured it
Speaker 3: out at one point. This is probably his you know,
Speaker 3: cash in the Chips movie after Police Academy, and so
Speaker 3: you know, why do you make that choice? You know?
Speaker 3: And I love that he made that choice. Obviously he
Speaker 3: had an affection for old westerns, you know, not not
Speaker 3: even just like Sergio Leoni, but more like the serialized,
Speaker 3: singing cowboy western kind of stuff. And that's such a
Speaker 3: specific choice. I just I'm always fascinated by those choices
Speaker 3: that directors make after a gigantic success, you know, like
Speaker 3: Soderberg making Kafka, you know, and stuff like that, where
Speaker 3: you're just like, I'm pushing all my chips in on this,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, wow, that is cool, because those movies
Speaker 3: don't get made unless you have a big success. So
Speaker 3: I'm always kind of fascinated by those that come out
Speaker 3: after a big success like this. So it's a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. I think you'll dig it. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: you're gonna have a good time. And I'm just excited
Speaker 3: that more people will see it now that it's coming
Speaker 3: to Blu Ray. So big thumbs up for me.
Speaker 2: All I heard out of that is you thought the
Speaker 2: plot line and airplane was trash?
Speaker 4: Can you explain? No, no, no, I'm getting.
Speaker 3: More narrative, just a little more narrative, that's all.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see. Yeah, the cast alone is pretty great
Speaker 2: on this one.
Speaker 3: It looks like, hmm yeah, very good cast too.
Speaker 2: Uh Nexti'm next, imagine not apropos nothing. Has anyone heard
Speaker 2: whether any other retailers will receiving copies of arrows the Keep?
Speaker 2: I think you mean vinegar syndromes the Keep in the
Speaker 2: coming weeks. Yes, Diabolic DVD is getting something in. They
Speaker 2: should be going up soon, but they're probably gonna sell
Speaker 2: out in like twenty six seconds.
Speaker 3: So yeah, definitely keep an eye on their socials real close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they will be announcing something on it soon. Jesse
Speaker 2: was posting about that today. Prophecy from nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 2: getting a four K from Keno here soon. This is
Speaker 2: a big one, directed by John Frankenheimer. I know that
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that think this movie is awful,
Speaker 2: But there's a couple of things I'm excited about. One is,
Speaker 2: as you can see in the comment on this post here,
Speaker 2: everybody on like all the vinegar syndrome social media is
Speaker 2: always guessing that a Prophecy four K fits all of
Speaker 2: the clues they're giving. And now we can stop speculating.
Speaker 2: Keino has it. Vinegar syndrome will not be putting it
Speaker 2: out now. The other thing, this movie is actually really great.
Speaker 2: This has like one of the most fun kills of
Speaker 2: all time in it. But what do you think of Prophecy?
Speaker 3: I'm a fan, definitely a fan. And oh, man, who's
Speaker 3: the director? Is it Tom Everhart? No, I'm blanking gosh.
Speaker 3: There's a great story that was on el Rick's old
Speaker 3: podcast Killer POV where I want to say it was
Speaker 3: like Tom Everhard or somebody somebody that went on to
Speaker 3: direct movies was the guy in the bear suit and
Speaker 3: he is like giving. He has a great story about
Speaker 3: giving Frankenheimer like directing advice while in the suit on
Speaker 3: the set and Frankenheimer surprisingly not losing his shit on
Speaker 3: him publicly, like taking him aside and losing his shit
Speaker 3: on him. But Frankenheimer's a notorious yeller, like a guy
Speaker 3: who did not suffer fools at all.
Speaker 2: You get it.
Speaker 3: You listen to him talk for five minutes, You're like, Oh,
Speaker 3: this guy doesn't fuck around. He's not gonna listen to
Speaker 3: some idiot in a bear suit telling him what anyway.
Speaker 3: So that's those stories are great. But just that Frankenheimer
Speaker 3: made this eco horror, fucking bizarre movie is fascinating to me.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan of basically everything he ever did, and
Speaker 3: this one, Steph very nice. Oh the Eureka release, oh shit,
Speaker 3: I didn't even I miss that completely. I only had
Speaker 3: the scream.
Speaker 2: They did that shortly after they did Kujo. I think, oh.
Speaker 3: Damn, well, I'm guessing Keno's probably not gonna get all
Speaker 3: their extras to now. I gotta go look at what
Speaker 3: that has on it. Thank you, Steph. Legitimately fantastic. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: and it is. It has got some cool scary moments
Speaker 3: in it. Like I'm just a big I mean, as
Speaker 3: I've talked about on my shows, animal attack films are
Speaker 3: just a sweet spot for me. So whenever a new
Speaker 3: one gets a blu ray that it hasn't been out
Speaker 3: before or in this case of four K, I'm super
Speaker 3: excited and I'll be talking about it and watching it
Speaker 3: as soon as it comes out. Yeah no, this is.
Speaker 3: This is very cool. I mean it Some will say
Speaker 3: it's a little cheesy in spots and such, but you know, ultimately,
Speaker 3: I don't know. This and Orca both have a sort
Speaker 3: of similar like mother defending baby kind of thing. That's
Speaker 3: kind of going on that I kind of like in
Speaker 3: these eco horror sort of movies. But but yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's super fun with an attack vikings. I would actually
Speaker 3: watch that, Aaron would. I would definitely watch animals attacking vikings,
Speaker 3: but it have to be definitely a heavy animal attack
Speaker 3: on the vikings.
Speaker 2: Well, and I'd like to know going into who wins
Speaker 2: the vikings or the animals.
Speaker 3: Because I got to see the animals would have to
Speaker 3: win for me to be really on board with.
Speaker 2: It, exactly toted, Uh, this is pretty exciting. March twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: Paramount putting out Tommy Boy on four K for its
Speaker 2: twenty or no not twenty thirtieth anniversary, and that is
Speaker 2: a huge deal. And if you don't like the steel
Speaker 2: book on the same day, you can pick it up
Speaker 2: on standard four K as well. We don't know if
Speaker 2: there's any new features yet. I don't think that was
Speaker 2: revealed on Amazon, which means probably nothing new.
Speaker 4: But I mean, it's Tommy Boy.
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of people that would want
Speaker 2: to talk about it, but it's a studio release. They're
Speaker 2: not known for reaching out to scholars or anything, so I.
Speaker 3: Mean, does David Spade want to talk about it in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Probably not, Probably not, which is too
Speaker 3: bad because I'd kind of love to hear him talk
Speaker 3: about it. Yeah, like it's a classic, it's super adorable
Speaker 3: and fun and yeah, I've been a fan for a
Speaker 3: long time, you know, I've been a big fan.
Speaker 4: Gotta get it for Farley.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely one of his best and plenty of quotable
Speaker 3: lines for sure.
Speaker 4: All Right.
Speaker 2: Our next one we are seeing on February fourth, Film
Speaker 2: Masters doing Monster from the Ocean Floor from nineteen fifty four,
Speaker 2: another Roger Corman joint that they're doing. They've done quite
Speaker 2: a few of these, and I'm glad we're getting them.
Speaker 2: They got a brand new four K restoration from the
Speaker 2: OCN on this new commentary by Tom Weaver and the
Speaker 2: Weaver players. Wow, I want to know who else is
Speaker 2: with them on that.
Speaker 4: That is great new.
Speaker 2: Interview with Justin Humphries on the career of Bob Baker
Speaker 2: and then archival interview with the producer Roger Corman about
Speaker 2: his early career, which will be a great archival interview.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we've had it elsewhere, but they'll be an
Speaker 2: illustrated booklet with an essay by Tom Weaver as well
Speaker 2: film Masters. They do a lot of really fun work.
Speaker 2: Have you checked out many of their discs?
Speaker 3: Not enough? To be honest, this is the year when
Speaker 3: I started to check them out. In fact, spoiler, I
Speaker 3: have one of their discs in my not talked about
Speaker 3: enough stack.
Speaker 4: I almost grabbed one too.
Speaker 3: And you know what it is because you saw my picture.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, they the creature with the Blue Hand
Speaker 3: is one that I'm really been circling for a long
Speaker 3: time and want to check out. But they really seem
Speaker 3: to do right by the restorations and the extras and
Speaker 3: kind of I don't know, like I feel like they're
Speaker 3: flying a little under the radar. Yeah that too, Like
Speaker 3: I'm considering everything that's coming into these Yeah, see Terry
Speaker 3: knows what's up. Like it's it's These guys are good.
Speaker 3: They're really doing a nice job, and I want more
Speaker 3: people to check out their stuff because I'm just now
Speaker 3: getting into it, and I feel bad I haven't been
Speaker 3: able to highlight them as much as I would have
Speaker 3: liked to. So this this seems like something I totally
Speaker 3: want to check.
Speaker 2: Out the biggest thing and I don't want to. I
Speaker 2: hate telling people by this to support it. But this
Speaker 2: is one of those things that I feel like I
Speaker 2: kind of want to say that for because frequently, on
Speaker 2: not all, but many, many, many of their releases, they'll
Speaker 2: do a four K restoration with bonus features on like
Speaker 2: a feature and then throw on a B side that
Speaker 2: doesn't have a four K restoration, which will also get
Speaker 2: new bonus features. But what's crazy is on release day
Speaker 2: you can get it for under twenty dollars.
Speaker 3: That's pretty awesome. And the fact that they're taking sometimes
Speaker 3: public those notorious public domain titles, yeah, and cleaning those up,
Speaker 3: and that I know is a tough, tough scenario because
Speaker 3: oh freebies through their YouTube channel. Didn't know about that.
Speaker 3: That's cool. I guess their YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: They do visual essays and then I think they release
Speaker 2: full like full film restorations on there.
Speaker 3: There's something people need to do. Subscribe to that channel
Speaker 3: and get a sense of what they're doing before you buy,
Speaker 3: if you want. But everything I've I've I've got a
Speaker 3: couple of their discs, and I've been very impressed with
Speaker 3: the work they're doing so far. They're like an up
Speaker 3: and comer for me in terms of stuff that I
Speaker 3: want to start checking out. And each of these new titles,
Speaker 3: you know, I want to say, like every other title
Speaker 3: they announce is one I want to get, and not
Speaker 3: to say that I don't want to get the ones
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the others, but they there's just lots
Speaker 3: of interesting Like Salt of the Earth is so different
Speaker 3: from Monster from the Ocean. Couldn't be more different, and
Speaker 3: they're doing so they're doing that, and then they're doing
Speaker 3: one like the title I'm going to talk about later
Speaker 3: that's different than this. So it's not just old classic
Speaker 3: monster movies, which I totally get why they're put you know,
Speaker 3: putting their sights on these because this is stuff people
Speaker 3: will buy. But they're doing more than that, so just
Speaker 3: keep an eye on them. I would say they're great work.
Speaker 3: I mean really not substandard by any stretch of the imagination,
Speaker 3: Like really really solid stuff. So check out film Masters,
Speaker 3: is all I can say.
Speaker 2: From my point of view, I agree fully. Next one,
Speaker 2: we got some details. March eleventh, Kino is releasing Best
Speaker 2: Defense from nineteen eighty four. This is when they announced
Speaker 2: last year. We finally got a date and some features
Speaker 2: on This is gonna have a new audio commentary by
Speaker 2: Alan Spencer and Justin Humphreys, And I think it's hilarious
Speaker 2: that they went with the alternate poster for this. This
Speaker 2: is slightly different than the original theatrical poster art because
Speaker 2: I guess when this came out, people come planed because
Speaker 2: Eddie Murphy was featured heavily on the original poster, and
Speaker 2: they realized that this isn't an Eddie Murphy movie.
Speaker 4: Really, He's not the feature.
Speaker 2: So people thought it was a bit of a bait
Speaker 2: and switch. But uh, I I've never seen this one.
Speaker 4: Have you seen best defense?
Speaker 3: I have, and I don't remember being too fond of it.
Speaker 3: I remember being kind of a misfire because I was
Speaker 3: a huge, I mean still am to a certain degree
Speaker 3: Ednie Murphy fan, and so I was seeing anything and
Speaker 3: everything that he had to put out, and I felt
Speaker 3: like there was just some where they just I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's not that in it that much. And I think,
Speaker 3: so you go, and I think there's all ultimately, And
Speaker 3: I love Dudley Moore too. Actually, you know, like it
Speaker 3: is kind of but like it is a little bit
Speaker 3: unfairly abused. Oh fair enough, stand fair enough, all right,
Speaker 3: I need to rewatch it. I'm not gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: with statistic star Any Murphy. Yeah, I think that's all
Speaker 3: makes sense. Like I just remember being deeply.
Speaker 4: It's a great descriptor terry deeply or.
Speaker 3: I love it that that's should have been on the cover,
Speaker 3: should have.
Speaker 4: Been what's I shirt? Do you wear? Brian extra medium?
Speaker 3: Extra boring? Yeah, no, I I I gotta rewatch it.
Speaker 3: If Stan says it's it's abused, I need to rewatch it.
Speaker 3: I I do like Dudley more enough that I want
Speaker 3: to kind of give another look. It's really been a
Speaker 3: long time, Like I literally haven't seen it since VHS,
Speaker 3: so there's no way that my you know, old ass
Speaker 3: brain has any real memory of you know what it.
Speaker 3: I just remember probably being disappointed there wasn't more Annie
Speaker 3: Murphy if I if I'm honest, like that probably was it,
Speaker 3: but like couldn't couldn't tell you a single stitch of
Speaker 3: the plot. So like, I really don't it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a new to me movie basically what I watch.
Speaker 2: That, to be fair, that's what I feel like many
Speaker 2: of these, Like I I could have sworn I've seen
Speaker 2: some of these movies twenty two years ago.
Speaker 4: I can't tell you in a single scene out of some.
Speaker 3: Of them, No chance for me, no chance.
Speaker 2: Well have you seen the Triumph of sher Lock Holmes
Speaker 2: or Silver Blaze? Also coming from Filmmasters as part of
Speaker 2: their Archive collection. This is coming on February fourth, And
Speaker 2: with the Archive collection, this is essentially what it's called
Speaker 2: the Archive collection to save these, otherwise there's no reason
Speaker 2: to put them out. They're not doing any special features.
Speaker 2: They will have close captioning, but that is it.
Speaker 3: So this line is it's more of the classic film titles.
Speaker 3: Is that also what I'm getting, not just I mean
Speaker 3: saving them, and but older than the Monster.
Speaker 2: Movies typically sometimes but even on their regular line, they
Speaker 2: will do some of the older ones too if they
Speaker 2: think I more deserving. Feels like a weird qualifier there,
Speaker 2: but something that they feel like they can do more with.
Speaker 2: And the big thing is these probably will not have
Speaker 2: four K scans. These will probably just be whatever they
Speaker 2: could possibly get to archive it on physical media.
Speaker 3: I mean, I respect that I don't know either of
Speaker 3: these movies. But again I'm so getting excited about film
Speaker 3: Masters and what they're doing that I'm kind of open,
Speaker 3: you know, like I don't know if it's a day
Speaker 3: one purchase. But I'm definitely curious because I like what
Speaker 3: they're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My big thing is film Masters is the same
Speaker 2: company that used to be Film Detective, and they put I.
Speaker 3: Can ask, Yeah, I thought that was the case.
Speaker 2: They put out some of the Sherlock Holmes films before,
Speaker 2: and I don't remember if these were involved in that
Speaker 2: release or not, but the Sherlock films they did before,
Speaker 2: they didn't look great. It was not like a high
Speaker 2: quality release. So I'm kind of betting these are probably
Speaker 2: the same thing, just to get them back in print anywhere.
Speaker 3: Interesting. That's an interesting speculation, and you're probably right.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just think sir.
Speaker 2: Next Universal putting out were Wolves from twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: on Blu ray only on February fourth. This will have
Speaker 2: a deleted scene, some trailers and subtitles, but if you're
Speaker 2: thinking it's a brand new film, Universal will probably release
Speaker 2: it on four K later. I can almost guarantee that
Speaker 2: because on January two third, you can buy it on
Speaker 2: four K from Germany from Cape Light Pictures. This doesn't
Speaker 2: have any more bonus features, but you can get it
Speaker 2: on four K from overseas before you get it on
Speaker 2: Blu Ray in the country that it's from.
Speaker 3: Two questions. One, Cape Light. I don't know. Have you
Speaker 3: gotten any of their stuff?
Speaker 2: How is it? Cape Light is quite good. They have
Speaker 2: worked with MPI Media Group in the US to release
Speaker 2: some of their stuff. They're this oddly global brand. They've
Speaker 2: been doing some of it. And the title that you
Speaker 2: probably know them most for is blood Sport. They're the
Speaker 2: ones that did that blood Sport four.
Speaker 3: K, which I've considered a few times.
Speaker 2: Do you have it? I've got a couple versions. If
Speaker 2: you want one of them, I can probably send you one.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks great on four K. They do pretty
Speaker 2: well with packaging. They do a lot of media books.
Speaker 2: They're the same ones that did I think it's Hanseling
Speaker 2: Gretel the old twet years that I don't remember.
Speaker 3: But like a two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: No, old old like sixties, sixties something.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what that is. They don't even know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 2: They've done quite a few of those media book type
Speaker 2: releases to give special attention to some of these titles.
Speaker 4: They're the ones that.
Speaker 2: Did oh gosh, there was another big title that they
Speaker 2: just did in the UK, but yeah, they regularly do
Speaker 2: stuff in the UK and Germany, they'll do stuff here.
Speaker 2: It's it's really interesting what they're getting their hands on.
Speaker 3: That's cool, Like, I appreciate your your insights because, uh,
Speaker 3: I don't know some of these the Germans labels. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's not like I've had bad experiences, but you just
Speaker 3: never know sometimes, and so it's cool.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just only heard of this movie, like
Speaker 3: in the last couple of weeks, so I don't know
Speaker 3: anything about it. I do like Werewolf movies, but I
Speaker 3: don't know. I can't speak to its quality at all.
Speaker 2: This is a weird one, and I don't know why
Speaker 2: this happens. But I swear once or twice a month
Speaker 2: one of my posts on Facebook that's just a regular
Speaker 2: andnounce post will go like what I call viral. For me,
Speaker 2: it's viral. And there was, you know, about a day.
Speaker 2: Let's see, I posted this three days ago and so
Speaker 2: I think it was Christmas Eve. About every three and
Speaker 2: a half minutes, I was getting a new comment on
Speaker 2: this post the entire day. Wow. It now has like
Speaker 2: fourteen hundred comments on it, and most of them are
Speaker 2: either this movie is such a great entry into the
Speaker 2: Werewolves movie Cannon or this is the worst movie I've
Speaker 2: ever seen.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's great. Can glean nothing from those two poles, really,
Speaker 3: so I don't know what to take away.
Speaker 2: From one thing that is surprising. This supposedly leans very
Speaker 2: heavily in practical effects, which is pretty rare. Like that.
Speaker 3: Definitely like that, Okay, No, I mean I'll watch it.
Speaker 3: I'll definitely watch it at some point. I'm not going
Speaker 3: to shell out for physical release until I have some
Speaker 3: idea what I'm getting into. But that's that's very intriguing
Speaker 3: that Universal's got this deal with overseas distributors or whatever
Speaker 3: is happening where you get a four K before you
Speaker 3: can get their Blu Ray domestic.
Speaker 2: Well, and now we'll probably get a four K from
Speaker 2: Screen Factory in like August of next year or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that could happen, all right.
Speaker 4: That is where Wolves.
Speaker 2: Next up is Sonic three, the big theater hit again.
Speaker 2: You can get this on four K Steel Book standard
Speaker 2: Blu Rain DVD coming soon. You can already pre order
Speaker 2: the Steel Book. And this is one of those movies
Speaker 2: that is a shockingly huge hit. And I could see
Speaker 2: the Steel book selling out long before this ever gets released.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a tough one for me, not
Speaker 3: tough at all. Actually, I'm I'm pretty good friends with
Speaker 3: one of the writers of this, so it's one of
Speaker 3: those things where you know, I'm not fully unbiased. I
Speaker 3: saw it in a theater invite from from him from
Speaker 3: Josh to go and hang with a bunch of people
Speaker 3: that he knows, and I had a drink with him afterwards,
Speaker 3: and so, like, you know, I'm so happy for him.
Speaker 3: I'm just so happy that Josh Miller, my friend, is
Speaker 3: got he had the number one movies in the country
Speaker 3: and such a good guy. Like I'm just a big
Speaker 3: Josh is just a great dude. Like I'm just a
Speaker 3: really big fan of him. He showed me something that
Speaker 3: I know you would be fascinated by. I can't remember
Speaker 3: which disc it was, but he was showing me this
Speaker 3: picture he had on his phone either somebody had sent
Speaker 3: him or something where it was like an old special
Speaker 3: feature from one of the Sonic discs and they had
Speaker 3: him and his co writer Pat Casey sitting there and
Speaker 3: they misnamed them. He's like, this is how much Hollywood
Speaker 3: respects writers. He's like, I know this isn't Hollywood, but
Speaker 3: this is so perfect because their names were switched and
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, it's not a joke. He's like, no,
Speaker 3: that wasn't a joke. They didn't bother to check who
Speaker 3: was who, and they just put the wrong name on.
Speaker 3: And I just thought that was so funny that I
Speaker 3: got to go find that special feature. But he's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the kind of respect we get in Hollywood.
Speaker 3: My avatar is actually a Sonic dude a good friend
Speaker 3: Drew and which, oh that's really interesting. Wow, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: have would have come. Yeah, But so anyway it was.
Speaker 3: I thought I had a lot of fun with it.
Speaker 3: I'm you know, I'm kind of aged out, you know,
Speaker 3: of these kind of movies because my daughter doesn't watch
Speaker 3: them anymore. Although she was, I did rub it in
Speaker 3: her face a little bit that, hey, I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: see Sonic with the writer of Sonic because she went
Speaker 3: on this trip and she's like, Dad, that's not cool,
Speaker 3: you know, So I think she will want to see it.
Speaker 3: She this is kind of a franchise she's grown up with,
Speaker 3: so I may end up getting this because of that. Uh,
Speaker 3: but it's super fun if you haven't seen it, KENU.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, it's and you know Jim Carrey
Speaker 3: in a dual role. I fucking love dual roles. So
Speaker 3: I legit get the Sonic least if they had writer
Speaker 3: director comedies commentary. Yeah, no, I'm I'm I want a
Speaker 3: commentary from Josh. Although Josh has done a ton of interviews.
Speaker 3: If you look on YouTube, there's a lot of folks
Speaker 3: interviewing those guys there. They've been really made themselves available
Speaker 3: for interviews and stuff. So I'd love to get a
Speaker 3: commentary from Josh just because I think he's I mean,
Speaker 3: he's a podcaster that I like. If you don't listen
Speaker 3: to his show, best Movie's Never made, I highly recommend it.
Speaker 3: It's him and my friend Steven Scarlatta and Steve and
Speaker 3: I go way back, like Steve and I go back
Speaker 3: to I mean fourteen fifteen years we used to listen
Speaker 3: to Gentlemen's Guide to Midnight Cinema together and I just
Speaker 3: I saw Steve at the screen anyway, great podcast, but
Speaker 3: Josh is great, so I recommend anything he's involved with,
Speaker 3: So definitely pick this up. It's it's super it's super fun,
Speaker 3: it's a super fun family comedy adventure movie. You know,
Speaker 3: like it's a fun series.
Speaker 2: Need to see it. My kids keep asking for it.
Speaker 2: Next one up is Levels. This is coming on March
Speaker 2: fourth on Blu Ray from RLJE. This will have a
Speaker 2: behind the scenes of Levels, a trailer, and a descriptive
Speaker 2: audio track. Supposedly this is actually supposed to be pretty good,
Speaker 2: even though I heard literally nothing about it all year,
Speaker 2: But this is coming out soon.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one. This is occasionally. I'm a regular
Speaker 3: haunter of the Voodoo Fandango at home, like Tuesday releases,
Speaker 3: so when new stuff gets announced on Tuesdays, I'm actually
Speaker 3: checking it Monday night at nine thirty to kind of
Speaker 3: just see what's up. Like I bought the order just
Speaker 3: came out this week, and everybody's talking up, have you
Speaker 3: seen the order yet?
Speaker 4: No, we're gonna talk about it just a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, Well I haven't seen it yet, so I'm
Speaker 3: that's one for this week that I want to check out.
Speaker 3: But I saw that pop up and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: people just keep talking about this. I got to check
Speaker 3: it out. So this is what I'm getting is I
Speaker 3: saw this pop up and I was like, what is
Speaker 3: that I don't know. It looks interesting, but I have
Speaker 3: no data, no confirmable data about.
Speaker 4: It, nothing at all.
Speaker 3: Zero.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Next is February fourth a Walmart exclusive four kse steal
Speaker 2: book of Blade, the original from nineteen ninety eight. This
Speaker 2: is literally just a reprint of Steel Book. This is
Speaker 2: one that sold out pretty quickly when it went at
Speaker 2: best Buy, I believe, and you can get this pre
Speaker 2: order now.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen this in a minute, so I'm due
Speaker 3: to rewatch it very soon.
Speaker 2: The rumor is we might get two and three on
Speaker 2: four K this year. Exciting, so if that's the case,
Speaker 2: you know they're going to give us a one two
Speaker 2: three set. So I'm not clamoring to get this, but yeah, yeah, cool.
Speaker 2: Another one of those Evil Dead rise getting a reissue
Speaker 2: of a Steel book. This is coming on to February
Speaker 2: eighteenth as a Walmart exclusive. Now, the big thing is
Speaker 2: it looks like this carries over the exclusive bonus features
Speaker 2: that were released in the UK and not on the
Speaker 2: US disc. Oh, there may actually be a reason to
Speaker 2: pick this one up if you are super into the
Speaker 2: Evil Dead franchise, which, if I know everybody watching most
Speaker 2: of you probably are.
Speaker 3: And I am too, but shamefully have not yet seen
Speaker 3: Evil Dead Rise. I'm embarrassed. Oh I just missed it.
Speaker 2: Is what it's first off, it as one of the
Speaker 2: best title screens ever in FILD like that. It's good.
Speaker 2: But to me, it didn't feel like a true Evil Dead.
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of the vibe that I got
Speaker 3: from a lot of people and part of the reason
Speaker 3: I didn't rush to see it. But I like to
Speaker 3: support new horror, and for whatever reason, it didn't, you know,
Speaker 3: it just hit at the right time. Had it hit
Speaker 3: like this year, Let's say my daughter is now into
Speaker 3: horror in the biggest like in fact, most movies I
Speaker 3: can't draw her interest in at all. But we took
Speaker 3: her to see Long Legs. We took her to see Maxine.
Speaker 3: We took her to see And That's not really horror, obviously,
Speaker 3: But and we took her to see Oh, Shoot Cuckoo
Speaker 3: at the Vista this year. And so this had come
Speaker 3: out this year, I would have taken her to see it.
Speaker 3: So if another Evil Dead movie comes out in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five or twenty six or whatever, I'll probably be
Speaker 3: more likely to see it. Evil Dead Rise feels like
Speaker 3: Evil Dead meets Demons. Well, I mean you are selling
Speaker 3: me with that. I did hear that it. I do
Speaker 3: like demons too. I love apartment building horror.
Speaker 4: You know. The cod is great for that aspect.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like I but I get what you're saying,
Speaker 3: like that doesn't to me. Ring doesn't say evil dead movies,
Speaker 3: you know, But so I do need to check it out.
Speaker 3: The visionary producers of the original classic.
Speaker 2: So Stan is asking the original classic, what the fuck?
Speaker 2: It's in tiny print from the visionary producers of the
Speaker 2: original Classic, which just means Bruce Campbell was there giving
Speaker 2: some money to it, and Sam Raimi, of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I should see it. I want to see it.
Speaker 3: It's just like I fall behind a new horror pretty easily.
Speaker 3: And with al Rick. The other thing is I think
Speaker 3: Alric liked it. I can't remember his take, but I
Speaker 3: kind of with the new stuff, especially, I'll lean to
Speaker 3: him and be like, you know, what did you like
Speaker 3: when I have a moment to watch a new horror movie?
Speaker 3: And again he may have said he liked it, but
Speaker 3: I may have. In some cases, even he can't override
Speaker 3: the general vibe that I'm getting from people, which is
Speaker 3: it's okay. You know, which is fine, Like I want
Speaker 3: to see it. I should check it out. But it's
Speaker 3: exciting to me when we get a this is a
Speaker 3: domestic release, right and they're bringing over UK like features.
Speaker 3: That doesn't seem like that ever really happens.
Speaker 4: It's not super common.
Speaker 2: But the original release of this came out first in
Speaker 2: the US, and then they released the Steel Book in
Speaker 2: the UK, and that one, like it felt like they
Speaker 2: were getting the bonus features ready and the US disc
Speaker 2: like time to turn it in just came and they
Speaker 2: weren't ready, and so they put them on the UK
Speaker 2: disc and people in the US that already bought it
Speaker 2: were just sol oh wow.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad it's they're getting another opportunity if they
Speaker 3: want or those that waited, I guess that's cool.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of getting another opportunity, a company that has
Speaker 2: not had a lot of opportunities to keep some people
Speaker 2: interested in quite some time, Culture Shock Releasing is back
Speaker 2: in February. They are releasing from Grave Faced Distribution. For
Speaker 2: all of those that forgot, they're literally a tear Vision
Speaker 2: partner label. Oh. They're putting out Late Night Classics Volume two,
Speaker 2: which includes Assault of the Party Nerds, and Assault of
Speaker 2: the Party Nerds two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, didn't know there was a second part to Assault
Speaker 3: of the Party Nerds.
Speaker 2: It came out six years later.
Speaker 3: That's why Hobby Petting Detective Okay interesting.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety five. And this is
Speaker 2: a pretty stacked release. For the first film, we got
Speaker 2: a commentary with Michelle Bauer Richard Gabby, and then we've
Speaker 2: got production still, slide show, some bloopers, trailer, b movie
Speaker 2: Awards with Ronda Sheer, all that stuff. But then the
Speaker 2: big thing. Disc two for the second film includes the
Speaker 2: introduction with Ronda Sheer, commentary with the same people behind
Speaker 2: the scenes, and the USA Up all Night appearance with
Speaker 2: Ronda Sheer and Richard Gabby. That is incredibly rare.
Speaker 3: How did they clear that?
Speaker 2: Even's the great great question.
Speaker 3: Because I mean, I've never heard of that being included
Speaker 3: in a disc, right, were that kind of thing?
Speaker 2: And then on this one they also have a third
Speaker 2: disc which will be the soundtrack from both films, and
Speaker 2: from what I hear, that might always be included because
Speaker 2: the person that took care of the whole soundtrack is
Speaker 2: like really proud of it and once it always included,
Speaker 2: So I don't know if they're going to do a
Speaker 2: standard edition without the disc, but you can get this
Speaker 2: now with the slipcovers supposedly selling fairly well. We'll be
Speaker 2: shipping in February on Blu Ray.
Speaker 3: This is one I always confuse with Killer Nerd the
Speaker 3: Trauma movie. Yeah, so I never saw either, Weirdly the
Speaker 3: Nerd the nerd trend of movies in the eighties, like
Speaker 3: somehow missed some of them, and so I don't even
Speaker 3: really know. Very nice Maddy, Yeah, I don't even have
Speaker 3: a take on this as well. If Steph pre ordered,
Speaker 3: then shit, I guess I gotta I gotta think about this.
Speaker 2: Damn the other big thing and I this is not
Speaker 2: to induce fomo. This is if you're even remotely interested
Speaker 2: in this. One thing that Tear Vision is doing is
Speaker 2: I don't even know what they're calling it, but it's
Speaker 2: like introductory pricing. So the first week of this movie
Speaker 2: is going to be a special lower price if you
Speaker 2: pre order. So right now it's twenty nine ninety nine
Speaker 2: and in a few days it'll go up to thirty
Speaker 2: two ninety nine. It's not a huge jump, no, but
Speaker 2: it is an incentive to buy now.
Speaker 3: It's good to know. And that's why I love your
Speaker 3: show man. You know, you saved me a couple bucks
Speaker 3: here and there, like that's that's important. No, that's important.
Speaker 3: And damn it. This was definitely not what I was thinking.
Speaker 3: I was gonna have to pre order for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: But now the soundtrack. Weirdly, I didn't even know what
Speaker 3: the soundtrack is, but for some reason, it seems like
Speaker 3: it be fun. So yep, shit, all right.
Speaker 2: I kind of want it. Yeah, this is this is
Speaker 2: a big one. And for them to come back, I
Speaker 2: mean their last release was A Night of the Bastard
Speaker 2: and that was like, oh gosh, shipped last February. I think,
Speaker 2: oh wow. I mean they got announced as a partner
Speaker 2: label of Terror Vision in August or September of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, and this will only be their second release
Speaker 2: since then.
Speaker 3: Wow. Interesting.
Speaker 2: This is a big return for Culture Shock. Hopefully they
Speaker 2: can be at least a little more consistent over the
Speaker 2: coming months. As somebody that knows some of the titles
Speaker 2: they have, they've got some great stuff.
Speaker 4: I would love to see some of their stuff get
Speaker 4: some good love.
Speaker 3: So okay, well that's I'm very curious because I'll be honest, like,
Speaker 3: the amount of culture shock titles that I needed when
Speaker 3: they were a Vinegar Syndrome Partner label was maybe fifteen percent.
Speaker 3: It was a very low percentage. And they started out
Speaker 3: with maybe one of their best titles, which is Girlfriend
Speaker 3: from Hell. Yep, And it was for me. I'm not
Speaker 3: trying to be a dick. It was just kind of
Speaker 3: all down hill from there in terms of some of
Speaker 3: the stuff they were doing. But I'll be honest, there's
Speaker 3: some of those that I don't know. I ended up
Speaker 3: getting American Scream and Game of Survival I think, And
Speaker 3: did they do No Resistance?
Speaker 4: No, that's Saturn's core.
Speaker 3: Saturn's core, that's right. Okay, So I guess that's maybe
Speaker 3: the only three of theirs that I owned, So this
Speaker 3: would be four if I end up getting it.
Speaker 4: Girlfriend from Hell is great.
Speaker 2: I just for some reason, I wish you'd got a
Speaker 2: little more like Assault of the Party Nerds, a little
Speaker 2: more sleazy with it. It was, I'm with you, it
Speaker 2: was the perfect eighty vibes, but man, you needed just
Speaker 2: a little more edge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like it's gonna be edgier than it is.
Speaker 2: You're right, absolutely, Uh, it's weird transition. But speaking of Edgie,
Speaker 2: have you ever seen The General's Daughter? March eighteenth, Kino
Speaker 2: is releasing The General's Daughter on four K. This is
Speaker 2: like the dad movie of all dad movies. No new
Speaker 2: bonus features on this. We got an audio commentary from
Speaker 2: the director that was done years ago. The Blu ray
Speaker 2: disc has some behind the scenes, alternate ending, deleted scenes,
Speaker 2: stuff like that. But as you're looking at this, you
Speaker 2: got the five point once around and new four K
Speaker 2: scan and that's pretty much what you would buy this for.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember, does this have any kind of
Speaker 3: a Rashaman plot device thing going or am I thinking
Speaker 3: of Basic?
Speaker 4: Though I don't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't call this rasha moan like, I don't think,
Speaker 2: But it's been a long time since I've seen it.
Speaker 3: I remember hating it when it came out, but I
Speaker 3: feel like I watched it again and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't hate it, right, but I'm I feel like
Speaker 3: I also conflate it with other movies. I only saw
Speaker 3: Basic for the first time. Okay, I couldn't stand this way.
Speaker 3: I do remember really being turned off. Is Terry's on
Speaker 3: fire tonight? Yes, that's probably a good, good way to
Speaker 3: put it, Terry, if I need something to knock me out,
Speaker 3: some Benadryl and or General's Daughter and I'll be good
Speaker 3: to go. I think, Yeah, I know, I'm not. I
Speaker 3: can't say I'm particularly excited about this one, although I'd
Speaker 3: loved it. Speaking of Basic, I'd love to see Basic
Speaker 3: get a. I think it has a blu ray, but
Speaker 3: I think it's out of print. I only saw that
Speaker 3: for the first time this year because my friend Ben
Speaker 3: David Grabinsky was on blank Check talking about when they
Speaker 3: did McTiernan, and I was like, what the fuck is
Speaker 3: this movie? And it's not. It's a flawed movie, but
Speaker 3: it's really interesting and it is Rachamon like so anyway,
Speaker 3: not to get that's also Travolta, which is why I'm
Speaker 3: sidetracking from General. True anyway, Yeah, not as psyched about this,
Speaker 3: but for those General's daughters fans, those two of them,
Speaker 3: they'll be really excited that this is coming out.
Speaker 2: I likewise, I don't remember liking this all that much,
Speaker 2: but I remember my dad loving this, So I've always
Speaker 2: just thought of this.
Speaker 4: As a dance movie.
Speaker 3: That's hilarious, that's funny.
Speaker 2: All right, Going to the next one, We've got Black
Speaker 2: Sheep the partner for Tommy Boy. This is coming out
Speaker 2: on four K from Keno Lober, which I'm kind of
Speaker 2: surprised Paramount just didn't do both of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why not do a double? Seems crazy that they
Speaker 3: I mean, it is a step down from Tommy Boy,
Speaker 3: no question, sure, but it's still pretty funny if I
Speaker 3: recall it that this is one and I again that
Speaker 3: I have seen like once and was like, oh, it
Speaker 3: wasn't Tommy Boy. I don't need to come back to
Speaker 3: it as much, but now, weirdly, i'd kind of be
Speaker 3: almost nostalgic for it. I almost want to watch it
Speaker 3: now just because I don't remember, and I'm always in
Speaker 3: the mood for something that will make me laugh these days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the cool Thing.
Speaker 2: New commentary by Penelope Spearus on this moderated by Simon Abrams.
Speaker 2: Penelope Spearus has had some incredible titles come out over
Speaker 2: the last handful of years, and I mean she she
Speaker 2: does great when she's speaking about them.
Speaker 3: I'm not a huge huge fan of hers, love her stuff.
Speaker 3: It's been great to see most of her movies get
Speaker 3: some kind of physical release, you know when even when
Speaker 3: just like Dudes came out. I was like, I never
Speaker 3: thought this was going to get a physical release. Same
Speaker 3: thing with Suburbia. I mean, if you haven't seen both
Speaker 3: of those, definitely check those out. I think those are
Speaker 3: both Shout factory releases.
Speaker 4: Yes, I believe so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, she's great. So that's really the fact that
Speaker 3: she does a commentary just up my interest in this
Speaker 3: release for sure.
Speaker 2: All Right, that is Black Sheep. Next up, incredible Christmas movie,
Speaker 2: The Silent Partner, getting a four K release from Keno soon.
Speaker 2: We don't have a release date on it. This is
Speaker 2: One starring Elliott Gold, Christopher Plumber, Susanna York directed by
Speaker 2: Darryl Duke. Really like one of my favorite Elliott Golds.
Speaker 2: This movie is incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the best Christmas movies for me out there.
Speaker 3: Curtis Hanson's screenplay and a truly unhinged performance. Yes, Stan,
Speaker 3: that's the proper response. Truly unhinged performance from Christopher Plumber,
Speaker 3: Like if you watch I always say, if you watch
Speaker 3: sound of Music in this movie, it will fuck you up, man,
Speaker 3: because he is so fucking evil in this movie. And
Speaker 3: for those who don't know, it's also got an early
Speaker 3: John candy in a small yah but yeah. Elliot Gould
Speaker 3: plays a bank teller named Miles and he is able
Speaker 3: to sort of anticipate a bank robbery based on some
Speaker 3: circumstances and sides he's gonna set aside some of the
Speaker 3: cash for himself and Christopher Plummer when the tally for
Speaker 3: the robberies announced is like, hey, I just got fucked
Speaker 3: on this. What's going on? And then he decides to
Speaker 3: go after Elliot Gould's character and it becomes one of
Speaker 3: the best cat and mouse, you know scenarios that I
Speaker 3: can think of in terms of how they fuck with
Speaker 3: each other and they fuck you fucking with each other
Speaker 3: real good. And there's there's some grizzly there's a grizzly
Speaker 3: death in this thing that you don't see coming, and
Speaker 3: it's It's one of my favorite things Curtis Hansen has
Speaker 3: ever been involved with. This is an unpopular opinion. I
Speaker 3: like this better than La Confidential. That's how much I
Speaker 3: like this movie. I just think it's such a great movie.
Speaker 2: One of the best things I think about this and
Speaker 2: probably more credit for the screen writing, I guess. But
Speaker 2: one one thing this movie does that a lot of
Speaker 2: movies of the time didn't do is. It did not
Speaker 2: take like the education of the people doing it for granted,
Speaker 2: So Christopher Plummer just sort of works out. Elliott Gold
Speaker 2: ripped him off. He didn't have to be told anything,
Speaker 2: and usually the criminal or bad guy would just be
Speaker 2: dumb as rocks, and he went like full intelligence and
Speaker 2: was all about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this movie, this movie rules.
Speaker 3: It's great. I high recommend you should watch it now
Speaker 3: close to the holidays. It's it's the best Christmas. This
Speaker 3: was in my you know, letterbox four for I just
Speaker 3: did some Christmas noirs and it was like this and
Speaker 3: the Ice Harvest and blast Asylums and ah shit, I
Speaker 3: can't remember the fourth one.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 3: No, not actually not leave the level, but yeah, this is.
Speaker 3: I mean that the New BEV used to do a
Speaker 3: really surprisingly great double feature of this and die Hard.
Speaker 3: They do die Hard in the Silent Partner, and weirdly
Speaker 3: they work incredibly well together, and I'm bummed. I don't
Speaker 3: know if something happened with the print for a Silent
Speaker 3: Partner that it became easy harder to get, but they
Speaker 3: stopped doing that double bill, and I reckon I saw
Speaker 3: it as a double bill at the New BEV and
Speaker 3: it was one of my favorite movie going experiences in
Speaker 3: a while. Yeah, they owned its Canadian setting and try
Speaker 3: to prevent Yeah. No, I agree it is very Canadian
Speaker 3: and they don't. Yeah, you're right. It is more of
Speaker 3: a Christmas movie than Diehard. Definitely your right stand. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's dressed as Santa Claus for God's sake, so right right,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Brendan, definitely check this out. This is of
Speaker 3: the stuff we've talked about. This is my favorite thing
Speaker 3: of this round for sure. This is like purely an
Speaker 3: all time favorite and a movie that we've championed on
Speaker 3: the show. I love Darryl Duke in general. I think
Speaker 3: Payday is another movie that I adore from him. That
Speaker 3: is just a great look behind the scenes at the
Speaker 3: country music lifestyle with a great performance from Ripped Torn.
Speaker 3: That's still a DVD only, not streaming movie. But I
Speaker 3: put it The Silent Partner and Payday together. You put
Speaker 3: those two in the same conversation and you've got a
Speaker 3: filmmaker that you're suddenly like, Wow, who is this guy?
Speaker 3: Because this is really good stuff? You know.
Speaker 2: Nice, Well, it looks like I believe this is on
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime Video. So if you get a I'M account,
Speaker 2: you might be able to stream it.
Speaker 3: Just to watch it. Folks, watch it before New Years.
Speaker 3: It'll still play.
Speaker 2: All right. Next up ray from two thousand and four
Speaker 2: getting a four K release from Keno here soon. This
Speaker 2: is the Jamie Fox, Regina King, Carrie Washington joint. Another
Speaker 2: great movie. Glad this is coming out. Hopefully they get
Speaker 2: some some new special features on this one, because I
Speaker 2: feel like this one, what are we get twenty yeah,
Speaker 2: twenty years old. I feel like we could have some
Speaker 2: sort of like recontextualizing of a pretty great biopic here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember liking it. This has been a while
Speaker 3: since I've seen.
Speaker 4: This, but obviously this is where everybody got Jamie Fox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a big Jamie Fox man. I think he's
Speaker 3: truly fantastic as an actor, and I'm sure they talk
Speaker 3: to him at some point, but I'd love to get
Speaker 3: a new interview with him. But that might be too
Speaker 3: much fast for from the niche market that we live
Speaker 3: in now. I know it's harder to get a high
Speaker 3: profile guy like that. They want money, budgets are tight.
Speaker 3: I get it, you know, but I would love to
Speaker 3: hear him looking back on this movie and maybe what
Speaker 3: it meant to his career from that point on.
Speaker 2: It would be nice to see next up. Dune Prophecy,
Speaker 2: a show that I did not know existed, is coming
Speaker 2: to four K and Blu Ray on April fifteenth from
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers. As far as I can tell, no bonus features,
Speaker 2: but you can preorder these now. I had literally never
Speaker 2: even seen this advertised, never heard it announced.
Speaker 4: Did not know it existed.
Speaker 3: Anybody's seen it, Anybody in the comments tell us if
Speaker 3: this is good, because I have no clue, no comments
Speaker 3: to make.
Speaker 2: About it, nothing at all. Shoot, I still haven't even
Speaker 2: seen the two Dune movies are.
Speaker 4: Gonna be honest.
Speaker 3: Wait, have you seen neither of them?
Speaker 4: Neither of them?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you like those. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I think you.
Speaker 2: Like For some reason, sand politics just has not been
Speaker 2: exciting for me yet.
Speaker 3: They do say the word spice quite a bit. But
Speaker 3: when you watch them both back to back, I really
Speaker 3: think it's hard to deny the cool stuff Denny is
Speaker 3: just he's a great director.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: He's really one of the great folks working right now.
Speaker 3: It's a prequel to this series of current Okay, good to
Speaker 3: know more information than I had no clue, all right.
Speaker 2: Next up, Small Things like These from twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: is getting a Blu Ray in the UK on February
Speaker 2: third from Lionsgate. My indication means that that probably will
Speaker 2: come to the US shortly after from Lionsgate as well.
Speaker 2: I've heard this is great, but I also hear there
Speaker 2: was some sort of controversy with this film or the
Speaker 2: director or something. I'm not sure. Don't quote me on that,
Speaker 2: but from what I hear, it's like people were surprised
Speaker 2: this actually is getting a release for some reason.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah, I only heard vague rumblings that it's pretty good,
Speaker 3: but beyond that, I don't even really know what it's about.
Speaker 3: I think you saw one trailer that I can't remember
Speaker 3: at the moment, so have little to go on with
Speaker 3: this one. But Killian's obviously a great actor, so I.
Speaker 2: Know he's been pretty incredible, all right. Next up, the
Speaker 2: talking about cast in this one. Pretty incredible. Jude Law,
Speaker 2: Nicholas holt Ty, Sheridan Jerreny Smolette, and Mark Merrin of
Speaker 2: all people. This is based on a true story, and
Speaker 2: this is from twenty twenty four, coming on Blu Ray
Speaker 2: in the US from Vertical Entertainment on February eighteenth.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna watch this very soon just because I've heard
Speaker 3: some great things about it. I didn't even realize there's
Speaker 3: a period piece set in nineteen eighty three, so that's
Speaker 3: cool Nicholas Holt having a hell of the year. Although
Speaker 3: I will say reiterate something I said to my wife
Speaker 3: this morning when she asked me what I thought of
Speaker 3: nos Fratu. I have an issue where when an actor
Speaker 3: does multiple basically headlining roles in the same year, because
Speaker 3: it doesn't allow my brain enough space to divorce from
Speaker 3: the last time I saw them. So the fact that
Speaker 3: I've seen him and Jury Number two and nos Fratu
Speaker 3: and now this, it starts to make it difficult for
Speaker 3: me to separate Nicholas Holt the actor from the characters
Speaker 3: that he's playing when I see them too much and
Speaker 3: I need a year of gestation period. I'm not saying
Speaker 3: actors shouldn't work more, but I'm just saying for me,
Speaker 3: when they work three times in the year or more,
Speaker 3: it's unless it's a character actor, that's fine, but I
Speaker 3: start to be affected. It affects my ability to buy
Speaker 3: in emotionally to a story somehow, which is not totally fair.
Speaker 3: It's just something that honestly, I have an issue with.
Speaker 4: One of the other shows that I do.
Speaker 2: We were talking about like surprising not necessarily performances, just
Speaker 2: like general overall things from this year, and what got
Speaker 2: me thinking about that is Kieran and Shipka. I think
Speaker 2: she was in five great movies from this year. She's
Speaker 2: not lead, She's not lead in all of them. She's
Speaker 2: leading I think two of them, but she like she
Speaker 2: was in Long Legs, she was in Twisters, she was
Speaker 2: in that Sweethearts movie that just came out. She did
Speaker 2: a couple other smaller parts, and that is crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one year. No, I agree, and again I'm not.
Speaker 3: I want actors to work as much as they can.
Speaker 3: It's great. I mean that's actually true. Like he does
Speaker 3: kind of look like John Reno and like the professional
Speaker 3: or Ronan or something on the cover here. Agreed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but no, I'm really excited for this one. Like I
Speaker 3: dropped twenty five bucks just for a digital copy of this,
Speaker 3: and so that's you know, indication that I'm ready to watch.
Speaker 3: And I don't do that very much. You know, with
Speaker 3: the new titles, it really depends. But the buzz on
Speaker 3: this one. Oh okay, I gotta.
Speaker 2: See Red One.
Speaker 3: I gotta see Red one. Stuff that's definitely on my
Speaker 3: list and I should watch it is different and everyone
Speaker 3: that's good. That's good too. I mean, I'm not saying.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Nicholas Holt plays a husband in
Speaker 3: both Jural number two and nos Fraut too. They're different husbands.
Speaker 2: But he's also been two big parts and two vampire movies.
Speaker 2: That's the hard part.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that is tricky. I agree again. I like
Speaker 3: him very much. I've liked him since About a Boy
Speaker 3: and it's the about a boy reunion that happens in
Speaker 3: Juring number two is pretty right. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: one of those things where I want to connect as
Speaker 3: much as I can emotionally, and sometimes there are some
Speaker 3: small obstacles like that that are kind of ridiculously silly.
Speaker 3: But my own issue. I gotta see Red One. It's free,
Speaker 3: and it's Jake Kasden. And you know, one of the
Speaker 3: prompts on Blue Sky recently was name a movie that
Speaker 3: need that should have had a sequel. I could have
Speaker 3: done the Nice Guys, but I figured that was too easy.
Speaker 3: I did zero fact, so obviously I love Jake Kasen
Speaker 3: from day one, and because he did read one makes
Speaker 3: me he's one of the main reasons I'd want to
Speaker 3: watch it is because it's Jake Kasen, so I gotta
Speaker 3: check it out.
Speaker 2: Totally get that, all right, I think we're on our
Speaker 2: last one. And this is sort of a weird one
Speaker 2: to end on so apologies in advance. Sam Hell Films,
Speaker 2: which is one of those like over the top, like
Speaker 2: not safe for work eighteen plus type of video labels,
Speaker 2: they're putting out a movie called Worms through this line
Speaker 2: that they're doing that is called Doom Perversion. This one
Speaker 2: is interesting because you can pick it up and order
Speaker 2: it now and it will be shipping in about a month,
Speaker 2: but it will only be available until March first, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 4: So if you want stuff like this, this.
Speaker 2: Is the only time to get it, and then it
Speaker 2: will no longer be available.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting business model for sure.
Speaker 2: Is but it's also an interesting line of films that
Speaker 2: a lot of people could not possibly ever put on
Speaker 2: because they could never watch the full thing.
Speaker 4: All Right, That is it for the week.
Speaker 2: But as usual, we normally talk about what is coming
Speaker 2: out next week in case you forgot, and unlike last week,
Speaker 2: there's actual titles releasing next week. So just a reminder, Well,
Speaker 2: first of all, the Searchers four K has been a
Speaker 2: weird one coming from Warner Archive. It should have released
Speaker 2: there you go. Some people finally started showing it up
Speaker 2: in their pickups. It got held up for like half
Speaker 2: a week. I think for a couple of people that
Speaker 2: one should be out available everywhere over the next week
Speaker 2: or so. Then we go to the regular stuff. Keino
Speaker 2: in one week releasing, Snake Eyes four K, Hatari four K,
Speaker 2: Internal Affairs four K, Miracle Mile Cherry two thousand and
Speaker 2: Mister Monk's Last Case, Pray for Death, the show Kasuji film,
Speaker 2: The Killer is Loose, Rage of Honor, the Beast Within
Speaker 2: Monty Walsh, and these are all still just Kedo, Lober
Speaker 2: still going, thank goodness, Blood and Lace, Hatari on Blu Ray,
Speaker 2: Snake Eyes on Blu Ray, Internal Affairs Blu Ray, the
Speaker 2: Arthur Dong collection, and that's it for Keno and now
Speaker 2: everything else. The Terror Vision four K of Rumpelstiltskin will
Speaker 2: be shipping over the next week to ten days or so.
Speaker 2: Yellowstone Chapter Season five, Part two is getting released the
Speaker 2: Spanish Main from Warner Archive, Black Eye from Warner Archive,
Speaker 2: Night Full of Rain from Warner Archive, The Lords of
Speaker 2: Flatbush from Sony that I believe, Yeah, that is it?
Speaker 2: Over the next week, Uh, the Searchers, you had a chance.
Speaker 3: To put that in yet I just got it, so
Speaker 3: I didn't yet. It was between that and Demolition Man,
Speaker 3: and I ended up not watching either because I was
Speaker 3: trying to watch some stuff for this episode. But I
Speaker 3: will say I think the Searchers are gonna get lost.
Speaker 3: I know it's I'd like, I don't even have to
Speaker 3: put this in. I was on a live stream with
Speaker 3: some of the folks from Water Archive talking about everything
Speaker 3: that went into it, and it got me so excited
Speaker 3: for the to check it out. I mean, have been
Speaker 3: hearing about this restoration playing theaters for you know, the
Speaker 3: better part of a year in seventy and how much
Speaker 3: people love it, and so I know it's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: But what I'm worried about is it's coming at the
Speaker 3: end of the year, and I feel like a lot
Speaker 3: of people have already done their best of lists, and
Speaker 3: so I think this will would likely have been on
Speaker 3: my list had I gotten it a little sooner, but
Speaker 3: unfortunately I didn't. So I almost wanted to put it
Speaker 3: on our group of you know, lesser talked about, but
Speaker 3: I don't. It's I know it's gonna get some love
Speaker 3: coming into the new year, but I still feel like
Speaker 3: it should be one that we're all really really excited
Speaker 3: about because it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's also a big deal. It's War Archives
Speaker 2: first four K. It's the searcher that everybody asks for
Speaker 2: every single day. It feels like, yeah, not only is
Speaker 2: it the first four K, but you can tell they're
Speaker 2: gonna do them right. They got fidelity emotion to do
Speaker 2: all the authoring and encoding, and it's again from a
Speaker 2: great restoration. They also, I don't know how widely talked
Speaker 2: about this has been, but warn Archive has already said like,
Speaker 2: don't expect a ton of four K. We're talking like
Speaker 2: maybe two or three over the next year.
Speaker 3: That was one of my questions. I got one question
Speaker 3: in for George, and that was like how many are
Speaker 3: you gonna do? And he definitely made it sound like
Speaker 3: it's gonna be few and far between for them, But
Speaker 3: that said, this is a pretty great start and so
Speaker 3: if that then the indication. I'm super excited for anything
Speaker 3: else they're gonna do on four K. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: big stuff. It's gonna be titles they know they can
Speaker 3: sell a lot of and so I don't know that
Speaker 3: really opens it up in terms of there's a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff they've done over the years that could easily
Speaker 3: you know, or Warner titles that maybe they would pick
Speaker 3: up you know in there that could be exciting. So
Speaker 3: I can't wait. But yeah, they talked to we heard
Speaker 3: from the restoration guys, and it just sounds like it's
Speaker 3: gonna be epic. It's gonna be wonderful. I'm gonna watch
Speaker 3: it between now and this weekend, between now and the
Speaker 3: New year. Ill again, I wanted to watch it for today,
Speaker 3: but I just couldn't squeeze it in. But can't wait.
Speaker 3: I know it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: And the other thing obviously this isn't a guarantee, but
Speaker 2: Warner Archive might not be doing a ton of four k's.
Speaker 2: But we also just saw the Alternative Criterion just got
Speaker 2: a Warner Archive title that they're making four K with
Speaker 2: Night Moves. And so the fact that there's multiple avenues
Speaker 2: that we can see these come whether it be Warner Archive,
Speaker 2: whether it be Criterion or some other label that gets
Speaker 2: a Warner deal, or Warner puts it out themselves, Like,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of ways for some of these titles
Speaker 2: to get.
Speaker 3: Out there so now, and that's exciting because Warner Archives
Speaker 3: done a ton of titles that I would love to
Speaker 3: see get four K's and Night Moves was I mean,
Speaker 3: that's one of my favorite movie. So I was so
Speaker 3: excited when Criterion announced that four K. I mean, I
Speaker 3: can't tell you cannot wait for that, super super jazzed
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: So, as we discussed previously, we've got some some titles
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about that we're overlooked from this year,
Speaker 2: and we got some honorable mentions. First, you want to
Speaker 2: go through some honorable mentions before a list. You want
Speaker 2: to do those after.
Speaker 3: Let's stim after because I may have more more than.
Speaker 4: You, and I don't want to I think I have four.
Speaker 3: I might have more, but I can be quick about them.
Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing. All right, let's start with your first one.
Speaker 2: That's uh, that's from the list.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we're doing five to start.
Speaker 2: All right, let me just count my favorites.
Speaker 3: Yeah, two, three, all right, that works.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start with one that I just think is
Speaker 3: pretty adorable but awesomely fun, and that's Cooking price Wise.
Speaker 3: This one I actually found out through Blue Sky through
Speaker 3: somebody posting that they were getting this. I knew about
Speaker 3: Vincent Price's cookbooks, but I hadn't heard about this short
Speaker 3: lived British TV show that he did, and this release
Speaker 3: is fucking great. It is such I mean, I'm not
Speaker 3: even one of those people that puts on cooking shows
Speaker 3: as sort of a background y like let's chill out
Speaker 3: vibe kind of thing, but Vincent Price doing a cooking
Speaker 3: show is definitely my kind of chill out vibe. And
Speaker 3: this is just a really nice release from BFI. This
Speaker 3: is a Region B release unfortunately, but it's any episodes.
Speaker 3: I want to say, there's six parts. But what's really
Speaker 3: neat is there's a great interview with his daughter, and
Speaker 3: that's about eighteen minutes that I watched last night, and
Speaker 3: she talked about how her dad loved to eat, but
Speaker 3: he also loved to go around to restaurants and because
Speaker 3: he was him, he's the kind of guy that he
Speaker 3: could ask the chef at a restaurant can I get
Speaker 3: the recipe for X Y or Z and they would
Speaker 3: give it to him, And so he collected a lot
Speaker 3: of those recipes and those ended up going into the
Speaker 3: multiple cookbooks that he did, and I do recommend checking
Speaker 3: out there's treasury of great recipes. Cooking price Wise is
Speaker 3: an actual book. I feel like there's even like a
Speaker 3: third one. But it's so adorable to watch him cooking,
Speaker 3: even in this like really low budget set that they
Speaker 3: have for him. Uh, there's commentaries on all these There's
Speaker 3: a great interview with this woman a shoot I forget
Speaker 3: her name. She has like a blog about celebrity recipes
Speaker 3: and she's collected like nine thousand celebrity recipes of the years,
Speaker 3: and she's done a book on celebrity drink recipes. She
Speaker 3: did one on Colombo recipes like I can't remember if
Speaker 3: it's based on episodes. She did one for Murder, she
Speaker 3: wrote Angela Lansbury Recipes. So she's interviewed a couple times,
Speaker 3: and that's great. It's just a really well put together
Speaker 3: disc Like on top of you know it being it's
Speaker 3: also got like these really I mean adorably cheap graphics
Speaker 3: that are at the front of the show. That I
Speaker 3: kind of just love, but just putting these on at
Speaker 3: the end of the night when you're trying to calm down.
Speaker 3: I found it to be really really neat, Like, I know,
Speaker 3: this is a movie show and we're about movies, but
Speaker 3: this is for me. It's total catnip kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: And it's a high recommend. I got this from Diabolic.
Speaker 3: Definitely worth it. Definitely worth a recommend. And I don't
Speaker 3: feel like this is going to be on a lot
Speaker 3: of people's top ten lists, but it is well worth
Speaker 3: your time. I really love this cooking price wise one percent.
Speaker 4: So a few other details about it. One that's appealing.
Speaker 2: It's inexpensive, it's only like twenty one to ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Definitely worth it at that price too. Honored that a
Speaker 2: friend of mine is on the disc as well, interviewing
Speaker 2: Victoria Price.
Speaker 3: Oh well that's a great interview. Well done. Nice.
Speaker 2: And then another thing for this is it's a label
Speaker 2: showing that they're willing to do SD files on Blu Ray.
Speaker 2: All of these episodes are in SD they're not HD. However,
Speaker 2: Blu Ray's still the best way to archive these. You know,
Speaker 2: it's more scratch resistant the DVD save space all this other.
Speaker 2: There's like nine different benefits to do that over DVD
Speaker 2: and BFI doing it that's a big deal compared to,
Speaker 2: you know, putting it on three different DVDs, which it
Speaker 2: probably would have been.
Speaker 3: Well, it says they're both high def and standard, right,
Speaker 3: so you get both.
Speaker 2: Well, the the bonus features are HG. I don't know
Speaker 2: if any of the actual episodes are HG.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, it's as presented on Blu Ray and high
Speaker 3: definition and standard, because they the way they listed on
Speaker 3: the disc is like, also, we have these an SD,
Speaker 3: so that makes it sound like I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: I take your word over there as honestly, but yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it's great. And Steph is still in the chat. I
Speaker 3: want to know if Steph pick this up, because this
Speaker 3: made me think of Steph as something she would dig. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's great. It's really just the perfect kind of great thing,
Speaker 3: you know, holiday vibes, but generally any time of year vibes.
Speaker 3: I love Vincent Price Cooking is wonderful.
Speaker 2: Uh so, Mary says Neka the action figure company. He
Speaker 2: just released a Vincent Price action figure and the cookbook
Speaker 2: comes as an accessory. Shit, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yes it is, and I don't even collect action figures anymore,
Speaker 3: but god damn it, I need to.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, Okay, So I had I had a lot
Speaker 2: of trouble making this list, actually because I feel like
Speaker 2: I give a lot of attention to stuff in ways
Speaker 2: that I don't know, maybe people look at weirdly because
Speaker 2: I know there's gonna be you know, four three hundred
Speaker 2: and twelve people talking about the hitcher of this year,
Speaker 2: which I get that's a big deal and all that,
Speaker 2: but some of these I feel like I've talked about
Speaker 2: almost too much already. So I kind of wanted to
Speaker 2: shed some light on some things that I think people
Speaker 2: are gonna forget even came out this year. And the
Speaker 2: first one is Death Dream from Blue Underground. And this
Speaker 2: is this is an interesting one because it's.
Speaker 4: A four K upgrade.
Speaker 2: It's not one that you know, a lot of people
Speaker 2: aren't clamoring to upgrade these, even though Blue Underground is
Speaker 2: kind of like the high bar for four K and
Speaker 2: UHD overall because or four k's are exceptional every single time.
Speaker 2: But this is a Bob Bob Clark classic, quite possibly
Speaker 2: maybe his best movie. It's I wouldn't make it. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say it's my favorite, but it could be his
Speaker 2: best movie. Literally, incredible film, looks amazing. And then on
Speaker 2: top of that, because it's Blue Underground, it's an upgrade.
Speaker 2: But it got a new audio commentary with Troy Hawart
Speaker 2: and Nathaniel Thompson. I got a new interview with the
Speaker 2: actor Gary Swanson. And then it has like every other
Speaker 2: bonus feature it's ever had, so now by far the
Speaker 2: definitive release of death Dream, and it's an incredible release.
Speaker 2: And I feel like so many people aren't even mentioning
Speaker 2: that Blue Underground put this out this year. Serve Laurels
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 3: I feel bad I left it off mine and I
Speaker 3: should have included it's great. No, I love Bob Clark,
Speaker 3: I might prefer Murdered by Decree personally, I love murder
Speaker 3: by Decree. Okay, yeah, Steph, let me know what you
Speaker 3: think of it, because it's feels like something you would
Speaker 3: totally dig.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I'm saying it is much better than.
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely, but yeah, I Murdered by Decree getting a
Speaker 3: four K next year from Keno. Very psyched about that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, Blue Underground. The only question is where's Manhattan, Baby,
Speaker 3: I just keep asking, I want to just the OCD
Speaker 3: in me is like, finish off that fulgie that you've
Speaker 3: already done. There must be some issue with it. I
Speaker 3: guess I don't know. But yeah, death Dream great movie.
Speaker 3: Al Rick loves it, and another one that I'm only
Speaker 3: now coming to appreciate as much as I should as
Speaker 3: the sort of classic, you know, groundbreaking film that it is.
Speaker 3: It really is intriguing and has a rather downbeat ending
Speaker 3: for this kind of movie, like impactful in a way
Speaker 3: that some of these exploitation horror movies are not. Like
Speaker 3: it's a movie You're like, damn ouch, okay, fuck.
Speaker 2: It is a movie that will linger with you and
Speaker 2: saying right now kind of a spoiler no no, but it.
Speaker 3: Is lingering right now. It's one of those one I
Speaker 3: rewatched it on that four K. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 3: this is way more just more impactful on a lot
Speaker 3: of levels than I would have given it credit for.
Speaker 3: And then I think a lot of people would at
Speaker 3: the for a movie called death Dream, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like, I think that's sort of But Bob
Speaker 3: Clark's just a great filmmaker as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 3: just a really great filmmaker, all kinds of genres.
Speaker 2: That's the thing with Blue Underground too, is a lot
Speaker 2: of people and I've done it. I've done it myself,
Speaker 2: so I'll happily admit it. We overlook The Underground because
Speaker 2: they've not acquired anything new in a decade or more
Speaker 2: or something like that, and that's not great. But when
Speaker 2: you keep giving me the definitive edition of everything you've
Speaker 2: ever done, it's kind of hard to argue with.
Speaker 3: Agreed, No, they really they have not put out a
Speaker 3: bat four K like their four K are top of
Speaker 3: the line, amazing stuff. I really love Blow Underground a lot,
Speaker 3: so great pick. All right, this one's gonna be No,
Speaker 3: it's not really controversial. City of Hope. Sony did a
Speaker 3: nice job with a couple catalog releases. They did shot
Speaker 3: stories as well, which I almost would have put on
Speaker 3: this list. But this is the one for me. John
Speaker 3: sales The City of Hope one of his best movies
Speaker 3: and one that had not had a physical release since
Speaker 3: VHS and laser disc officially, as far as I know,
Speaker 3: I don't think it ever got even an mod DVD,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure. But a really great picture of a
Speaker 3: city it's like an anonymous the city has a name,
Speaker 3: but it's not a specific city. But I've always said
Speaker 3: and I think it's pretty clearly an influence on the Wire.
Speaker 3: So if you're a fan of the Wire, this is
Speaker 3: a movie that looks at city government on all levels
Speaker 3: and the corruption that lies within it, and has a
Speaker 3: really incredible ensemble cast, a lot of regular sales players,
Speaker 3: but beautiful widescreen movie shot by Robert Richardson, looks fantastic
Speaker 3: on this Blu ray, and has a commentary from John
Speaker 3: Sales and really that's all I need, honestly, is a
Speaker 3: sales commentary, because he does a nice job with those.
Speaker 3: So I was more then excited about this. The bummer
Speaker 3: is it comes out from Sony and so it doesn't
Speaker 3: get much fanfare at all, which is the reason I
Speaker 3: put it on this list, is if it had come
Speaker 3: out from Criterion, which, to be honest, if they could
Speaker 3: do a licensing deal with Sony, this is a Criterion movie.
Speaker 3: This is a movie that Criterion could have put out
Speaker 3: alongside Lone Star and you'd be like, oh, yeah, that
Speaker 3: totally makes sense. So I was only slightly bummed that
Speaker 3: it was a Sony solo release, but man, I can't
Speaker 3: recommend this. Yeah, if you love Lone Star, this is
Speaker 3: a totally different kind of movie and I love Lone Star.
Speaker 3: Lone Stars like a favorite, favorite kind of movie for me,
Speaker 3: and I was so psyched that that four K came out,
Speaker 3: But this is really one I gotta recommend if you
Speaker 3: like sales and the other thing for me for sales.
Speaker 3: And this is sort of off topic, but my favorite
Speaker 3: discovery of the year is his movie Gopher Sisters, which
Speaker 3: is his last film from twenty thirteen, which only has
Speaker 3: a DVD release, which is out of print, no physical,
Speaker 3: no streaming release, no other physical release, and I I
Speaker 3: fucking loved it. I thought it was so good. I'd
Speaker 3: love to see him do another movie, but as a
Speaker 3: last movie. If it ends up being his last movie
Speaker 3: from twenty thirteen, I'm okay with that. Like I'm not
Speaker 3: okay with him not doing another movie, but like it's great.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Sales has just been one of my favorites
Speaker 3: for a long time. So really psyched to see this
Speaker 3: get a physical Blu ray City of Hope. Baby.
Speaker 4: It's a dang good pick, really good.
Speaker 2: So I knew when we decided on this topic, I
Speaker 2: had to cover something from Monto Micabre and I feel
Speaker 2: like they had a lot of titles this year that
Speaker 2: were at tension grabbing for one way or another. But
Speaker 2: I feel like this one is going to be the
Speaker 2: one that's most overlooked and shouldn't be for a few reasons.
Speaker 2: We had somebody in the chat earlier mentioned Indonesian film
Speaker 2: needs a bigger highlight, and that's why I wanted to
Speaker 2: go with the Warrior trilogy that came out this year.
Speaker 2: This is the first Warrior film they put out on
Speaker 2: DVD years ago through Monto Micabre and now you get
Speaker 2: all three on Blu Ray. And the first Warrior film
Speaker 2: is astonishing because it looks immaculate. The restoration on it
Speaker 2: is like twenty years old, and it looks like the
Speaker 2: film is not even twenty years old. It looks so good.
Speaker 2: There's new bonus features. You get three films from a
Speaker 2: culture that we don't see enough releases from, and based
Speaker 2: on that, this is something that needs to be in
Speaker 2: a lot of people that are pushing boundaries, I guess,
Speaker 2: or wanting to watch films from other countries in a
Speaker 2: way that you don't get a lot of access to.
Speaker 2: And Barry Prima is one of the best that you
Speaker 2: can have when looking into Indonesian film.
Speaker 4: And so when you get.
Speaker 2: Something like this and you look at the fact that
Speaker 2: they've got new bonus features, they've got some archival bonus features,
Speaker 2: and they put a lot of love into this. I mean,
Speaker 2: this comes properly handled. It's a two disc release, it's
Speaker 2: three full films, and it was very inexpensive for everything
Speaker 2: that you're getting and it looks incredible. So based on that,
Speaker 2: please check out the Warrior Trilogy from Ato Macabro.
Speaker 3: I totally flew under my radar. As much as I
Speaker 3: try to keep track of what they're doing there. Like
Speaker 3: I said, they're one of those labels that you know
Speaker 3: a good percentage of what they put out, I'm like,
Speaker 3: what is that movie which you know? To a guy
Speaker 3: that I feel like I've seen a movie or two
Speaker 3: in my day, it's it's impresses me when they can
Speaker 3: dig stuff out that I've never heard of. So that's
Speaker 3: a trilogy I completely missed. So I really got to
Speaker 3: look into that. That sounds really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great, and I hope more people look at.
Speaker 3: Well, now we're just getting into stuff that are movies
Speaker 3: that I like Hungry Snake. Lemon was awesome. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3: I gotta check that out too. Okay, so this is
Speaker 3: a big deal because this movie never came out on
Speaker 3: Blu Ray before, and DVD was a little spotty. I
Speaker 3: got a UK DVD that was four x three. It's
Speaker 3: called Banning. It's from nineteen sixty seven. It is a
Speaker 3: golf noir and it stars what Robert Wagner and anginette
Speaker 3: comer Jill Saint, John Guy Stockwell, and it's it has
Speaker 3: some slight similarities to Caddyshack obviously years before kay Shak,
Speaker 3: but basically Robert Wagner shows up at this golf club
Speaker 3: and he basically blackmails his way into becoming. Oh good,
Speaker 3: Terry knows what I'm talking about. Best sports movie ever,
Speaker 3: very nice. No, I mean, it's it's a great like.
Speaker 3: I've not seen another golf noir ever. This is totally
Speaker 3: a Terry kind of movie. Terry digs out a lot
Speaker 3: of underseen kind of movies. And yeah, so it was
Speaker 3: really exciting for this to get a release because it
Speaker 3: is a widescreen movie, and so they did. I don't
Speaker 3: know if they got it's not like a new scan.
Speaker 3: Oh no new scan that they did. Yeah, that's another
Speaker 3: thing Imprint started. I feel like this year is the
Speaker 3: year they started doing their own scans, right. I don't
Speaker 3: feel like I saw a lot of.
Speaker 2: The first year, but they've done more this year for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm noticing that more so. A new two K
Speaker 3: scan of the interpositive by them, commentary by Howard Berger
Speaker 3: and Steve Mitchell, interviews with Robert Wagner and Jill Saint
Speaker 3: John and Sean Berlin game talking about the Quincy Jones score,
Speaker 3: which is really good. But so yeah, Robert Wagner shows
Speaker 3: up at this golf club and he starts blackmailing his
Speaker 3: way into getting a job, and then he's sort of
Speaker 3: getting involved with some of the housewives that are involved
Speaker 3: in this community. And it's kind of sleazy for what
Speaker 3: it is, and it ends in sort of a similar
Speaker 3: kind of They call it the Calcutta, which is basically
Speaker 3: a couple of golfers play together on teams in this
Speaker 3: case for like a whole lot of money, and that
Speaker 3: gets really intense too. But yeah, just one of those
Speaker 3: movies that I was like, I only discovered like three
Speaker 3: or four years ago for the show, and I never
Speaker 3: thought it was gonna get a nice release, and I
Speaker 3: don't think it'll get another release outside, Like, I don't
Speaker 3: think this is coming. You know, some of these Universal
Speaker 3: releases get a domestic. I don't think that's happening with this.
Speaker 3: I'm just pretty sure this one's not selling enough that
Speaker 3: they're gonna get a domestic. So, you know, hats off
Speaker 3: slightly to Imprint for always trying to go for stuff
Speaker 3: that isn't on disk. I know Hertzburg tries to do
Speaker 3: that too, and some of the other labels do, but
Speaker 3: this is one I just didn't expect to get and
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of so it ends up being
Speaker 3: one of my favorite releases of the year because it's
Speaker 3: a good movie. You know, it's just a really good,
Speaker 3: you know, golf de war that you know, has hard
Speaker 3: boiled dialogue and a golf movie. It's just it's it's
Speaker 3: it's weird, but it's fun.
Speaker 2: I will continue to say often that Imprint Films every
Speaker 2: single month. Being able to say worldwide first on Blu
Speaker 2: Ray for even one title every single month, yeah, is astonishing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's impressive. I got to say that that is
Speaker 3: clearly part of their mission statement. I can't I can't
Speaker 3: let that be disrespected, Like that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So one of the things that I've really tried
Speaker 2: to do this year is continue to ring the bell
Speaker 2: for people that have left OCN distribution and broke out
Speaker 2: on their own. And so we've got a handful. Now,
Speaker 2: We've got Fun City additions, We've got Deaf, Crocodile Terror, Vision,
Speaker 2: Altered Innocence, Culture Shock releasing, and maybe one more that
Speaker 2: I'm forgetting. But one that already had a very small
Speaker 2: crowd following them and decided it was best for them
Speaker 2: to go elsewhere is Altered Innocence and their stuff with
Speaker 2: Diabolic continues to be incredible. And really wanted to shout
Speaker 2: out she is Conan with one of the first off
Speaker 2: coolest art pieces on a slipcover all year. This is
Speaker 2: a film by bertrand Mandico. They've done a couple other
Speaker 2: releases for Mandico and this is a film that will
Speaker 2: appeal to a lot of people if you give it
Speaker 2: a chance. This is a modern modern fantasy like time travel,
Speaker 2: gender bending, sword and sandals epic and those are a
Speaker 2: lot of adjectives you don't normally hear together. No, and
Speaker 2: the only person that I would trust to pull that
Speaker 2: off right now is bertrand Mandico, And based on that,
Speaker 2: if you like any of those adjectives, you should check
Speaker 2: out She is Conan. They continue to do incredible work.
Speaker 2: They continue to put out subversive coming of age and
Speaker 2: queer stories that really don't get a lot of love
Speaker 2: anywhere else. And based on that, I will always always
Speaker 2: share anything that Alternate Innocence is doing because they're incredible.
Speaker 3: No, it's cool. I mean, you know, it seems like
Speaker 3: there's like behind the scenes, maybe a little animosity potentially
Speaker 3: from some of these exits, which is too bad, because
Speaker 3: you know, people got to do what they gotta do,
Speaker 3: and so that there's any bad blood about it is unfortunate.
Speaker 3: I get that Vineger syndrome gives a great platform to
Speaker 3: these smaller labels, and they obviously have just an incredible
Speaker 3: two consumer you know base, and so for you to
Speaker 3: take that and then leave, I get that that could
Speaker 3: be seen as you know, that could that could leave
Speaker 3: a bad taste for some folks. But that said, I
Speaker 3: do love to see these folks continue. I love that
Speaker 3: diabolic Is is partnering with a couple of them, and
Speaker 3: that MVD is partnered with fun City and that things are,
Speaker 3: you know, continuing to do okay. I know that sometimes
Speaker 3: they don't get the same kind of notoriety like I didn't.
Speaker 3: For instance, I didn't know about that release at all.
Speaker 3: So I feel bad because I do keep a pretty
Speaker 3: close eye on the at least what comes out from
Speaker 3: the Vinegar Syndrome Partner labels, and so sometimes I lose
Speaker 3: track of this stuff and I'm like you, I'm like
Speaker 3: really into this stuff. So the fact that I didn't
Speaker 3: know about it makes me feel bad. It makes me
Speaker 3: feel like maybe there's definitely some other folks that didn't
Speaker 3: hear about it, which is a shame because I want
Speaker 3: these guys to succeed as much as they can, because
Speaker 3: everybody's just trying to get by and put out movies
Speaker 3: that they think are important and interesting, and I want
Speaker 3: to just say I'm behind that whatever it is that
Speaker 3: they're doing. So that's exciting coming back to Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they put out movies that I don't expect from them,
Speaker 3: and five Card stud was definitely movie I did not
Speaker 3: see coming from them at all. It's a Henry Hathaway
Speaker 3: mystery western with a great cast including Dean Martin, Robert
Speaker 3: mitcham Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowell, and it's I just really like,
Speaker 3: I'm guessing this wasn't a huge seller for them. I
Speaker 3: just have a feeling that this isn't the movie that
Speaker 3: the Vinegar Syndrome folks are clamoring for. But I think
Speaker 3: it's great. It's one that I brought up. We had
Speaker 3: the honor of having Ryan Johnson on the show back
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen, whenever the First Knives Out
Speaker 3: came out. We had them on the show and we
Speaker 3: did mysteries, and this is one that I picked for
Speaker 3: that episode, and again didn't think it was going to
Speaker 3: get a blu ray at all because it just had
Speaker 3: an old paramount I think DVD. But it's a really
Speaker 3: great Western mystery. That's a genre you almost never see.
Speaker 3: It's just not something that happens where you have like
Speaker 3: a card game where things go south and then suddenly
Speaker 3: people that were involved in that card game start to die,
Speaker 3: and it's like it's not a Giallo exactly, but it's
Speaker 3: kind of a mystery as to like who's doing the killing.
Speaker 3: And it's a great cast you off I codos in
Speaker 3: here too, I'm just a big fan of it, so
Speaker 3: I was really psyched when I saw this get announced
Speaker 3: from them, and it's new, of course, newly scanned and
Speaker 3: restored in four K from its thirty five camera negative
Speaker 3: commentary track with Brian Hannon, Jack of all Trades Walter
Speaker 3: Chow talking about the films of Henry Hathaway that alone
Speaker 3: is worth the price of admission for this A woman
Speaker 3: of true Grit Lizzie Franca on screenwriter Marguerite Roberts Legacy.
Speaker 3: So a really nice collection of extras and just a
Speaker 3: really good kind of classic western. It's from what fifty
Speaker 3: or No? Sixty something? Right sixty eight, it's almost nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just is a movie that I just
Speaker 3: really like and was really surprised to see get a
Speaker 3: physical release from anybody, let alone Vinegar Syndrome. So I
Speaker 3: gotta bring it up. It was on a couple of
Speaker 3: several of these I've talked about on my Favorite Blu
Speaker 3: Rays of the Year episode, but I had to bring
Speaker 3: it back because I really didn't expect that one.
Speaker 2: I don't remember is that one from their VSL line.
Speaker 3: It should have been, but I don't. Yeah, I know
Speaker 3: you're right, it is it is VSL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would have been an odd one
Speaker 2: to be a subscriber to Vinegar Syndrome and get that.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think that's what I got confused
Speaker 3: about was I was like, really, they're putting this out right, No,
Speaker 3: it's a lab's release, and that makes sense, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure that those classic The bummer about for VSL for
Speaker 3: me is that clearly what happened, or seemingly what happened,
Speaker 3: is that they put out these classic titles, they didn't
Speaker 3: sell well, or at least not as well as they hoped,
Speaker 3: and so they I mean, I get that based on
Speaker 3: your interview with Joe Rubin, which by the way, is
Speaker 3: still one of my favorite podcasts of the entire year. Like,
Speaker 3: I really love that interview with Joe, and Joe's just
Speaker 3: I mean, what an interesting guy. But like, and I
Speaker 3: get that Venison Lambs was not set up to be
Speaker 3: just one thing, but it's like they were gonna do
Speaker 3: classic titles, and I was so there for that, But
Speaker 3: I also understand that maybe those aren't gonna sell as
Speaker 3: well with their core audience, and so I don't know
Speaker 3: if it was a pivot away from that uh, to
Speaker 3: other things, or if they always my guess is they
Speaker 3: always just kind of had like, this will be our
Speaker 3: miscellaneous category. Let's start with classics and then see where
Speaker 3: it goes. But I would love to see them do
Speaker 3: more classic stuff like this or The Cat Creeps or whatever.
Speaker 3: Not the Cat Creeps. What was the first one they
Speaker 3: did with Eddie Robinson. That's an anthology. I can't think
Speaker 3: anyway that stuff. I was just like, Yeah, let's that's great.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see them keep doing that, and we'll
Speaker 3: see if it happens. But I'm guessing those titles will
Speaker 3: be maybe one a year, you know, probably because that's
Speaker 3: what they can risk financially to do it. But again,
Speaker 3: I was excited to see a movie like that get
Speaker 3: a BSL release.
Speaker 2: And what's hard, Like we can talk all day about
Speaker 2: how to keep sold fourteen thousand copies and that's a
Speaker 2: big deal because if you literally just tally up the
Speaker 2: money that in thirty seven hours that made them and
Speaker 2: this is not a dig of vinegar syndrome, but holy shit,
Speaker 2: like six hundred and fifty thousand dollars of income. They
Speaker 2: didn't pay six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to put
Speaker 2: out The Keep. There's no possible way. Their cost for
Speaker 2: all that was way less than that, and so what
Speaker 2: they're making from that could go to stuff like what
Speaker 2: you're talking about now, or their first title for VSL,
Speaker 2: which was Flesh and Fantasy.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Yes, Flesh and Fantasy, which is a great start,
Speaker 3: really great anthology. If you haven't, I'm pretty sure that's
Speaker 3: not sold out, So definitely grab Flesh and Fantasy if
Speaker 3: you haven't. Like really good anthology, noir but like kind
Speaker 3: of like Supernatural too, like really really cool movie. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I hope they'd do more.
Speaker 2: That one release of The Keep could probably pay for
Speaker 2: eight of these smaller titles to go out every year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I get that that's not as easy as saying, okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna put it into that, like you still want
Speaker 3: to make money, but yeah, they if they continue to
Speaker 3: put out one or two classic, interesting titles like this
Speaker 3: on the VSL side, I'd be so so psyched. But
Speaker 3: I also understand, I don't know the numbers, I don't
Speaker 3: know how these are selling, and maybe at some point
Speaker 3: they go, yeah, classic films just isn't exactly working for us,
Speaker 3: But we'll see. I mean That's the other thing I
Speaker 3: love about Joe is that he just kind of seems
Speaker 3: to do what he wants to do too, And so
Speaker 3: from that point of view, they're in a really good
Speaker 3: position to continue this stuff that they want to. I'm
Speaker 3: not saying they have to, but like it's not no
Speaker 3: one title is going to bring them down. So like
Speaker 3: they could do a couple classic titles and see how
Speaker 3: it goes, and I think, hopefully bring in an audience
Speaker 3: that they aren't getting otherwise and maybe that helps. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm not running my own business. I have
Speaker 3: no clue how this stuff works. It just seems like
Speaker 3: you want to bring in as many people as possible,
Speaker 3: and maybe that stuff brings in other people.
Speaker 2: Just And the big thing which we've seen from Vinegar
Speaker 2: Syndrome is fan base has evolved too. What you can
Speaker 2: expect from Vinegar Syndrome eight years ago is not what
Speaker 2: you'd expect in twenty twenty five. So who knows we
Speaker 2: could be looking at an extremely different company in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, but I've been I will say for as
Speaker 3: much as you know. I dropped my subscription this year
Speaker 3: for the first time in a couple of years and
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, I don't regret it. But that said,
Speaker 3: they are obviously a big driving force behind boutique labels
Speaker 3: and physical media buying. Like they've clearly figured something out
Speaker 3: and I respect that they've They've built the brand that
Speaker 3: people are blindly obsessed about and sometimes not watching the
Speaker 3: movies at all, which is unfortunate. But that said, they
Speaker 3: got my copy of the keep er Ive today. Very nice.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be worth some money and also glad you
Speaker 3: got to keep That's great because yeah, those that didn't
Speaker 3: get it, I'm so sorry because it's it's gonna be
Speaker 3: one that you know, it's one of their best that
Speaker 3: they've done. I'm pretty pretty jazz about it. But just
Speaker 3: just like they're driving a lot of money and and
Speaker 3: I can't uh not be excited about that side of things.
Speaker 3: You know, the the direct to consumer thing they've set
Speaker 3: up is incredible and they have, like I said, just
Speaker 3: an incredible fan base that's buying this stuff sight unseen
Speaker 3: a lot of it, and that's great for the overall
Speaker 3: you know, industry, uh, in a lot of levels. You know,
Speaker 3: I would love and I don't think those people just
Speaker 3: buy the integer syndrome. So on that level, they're going
Speaker 3: to continue to get people excited, hopefully about other labels
Speaker 3: as well. But they've clearly figured something out and good
Speaker 3: for them, you know, good for physical media on that level.
Speaker 2: Fully, Yeah, absolutely agree. Uh up to my number two now,
Speaker 2: and this is one that you and I both shared
Speaker 2: a lot of love for this company over the last
Speaker 2: five or six years, and it's one that is really
Speaker 2: easy to praise because I've called them the most consistent
Speaker 2: boutique label out there. And this is a title that's
Speaker 2: slightly different than a lot of their stuff this year
Speaker 2: because they've gone very i mean focusing on genre lan
Speaker 2: but also on some classic stuff too. Got to talk
Speaker 2: about Indicator at least once. And one that came out
Speaker 2: of nowhere, seemingly because they used to do some cult stuff.
Speaker 2: But this year we got Bruiser on four K and
Speaker 2: to to have a George A. Ramero title that does
Speaker 2: not end with of the Dead or of the Living
Speaker 2: Dead and it's a four K title, that's a big deal. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, this could have been on my list too. This
Speaker 3: was on my four K list, I think, I think
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I put it. Yeah, no, I did,
Speaker 3: But Yeah, that's and that's a that's a discovery. I
Speaker 3: had not seen Bruiser. I'd meant to see Bruiser for years,
Speaker 3: and you know, it doesn't one hundred percent work for me,
Speaker 3: but it's really interesting. What he's doing is really interesting,
Speaker 3: just like what he's doing in terms of sociological observation
Speaker 3: in something like Don of the Dead. He's doing something
Speaker 3: different here, but it's fascinating stuff. It's really fascinating and
Speaker 3: I was so I'm not glad I waited. I'm never
Speaker 3: glad I waited, but to see it in that four
Speaker 3: K for the first time was really absolutely ideal, especially
Speaker 3: with all the extras they put together. That's that's like
Speaker 3: a really great release from this. Look at that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's Indicator does something. It is a wall
Speaker 2: of works.
Speaker 3: No, I mean I I didn't want to like. I
Speaker 3: don't like. I brought them up at the top of
Speaker 3: the show. I should bring them up more because they
Speaker 3: are still probably a little underrated for everything they do,
Speaker 3: but I love them so much. They're literally when they're like.
Speaker 3: Arrow is a favorite, but Indicator is also a favorite.
Speaker 3: I think for the amount. And I've heard this said before,
Speaker 3: but I agree with it the amount of chances that
Speaker 3: they take and the variety of things they do. They
Speaker 3: really really doubled and tripled down on the genre land stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is incredible. I'm not as big a
Speaker 3: genre land person myself, but my gosh, it's important cinema
Speaker 3: and it's beautiful and putting it out on four K,
Speaker 3: I mean, how can I not get excited about that?
Speaker 3: You know, just as as a film fan, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: so glad they're doing it. But they also have a crazy, weird,
Speaker 3: offbeat emphasis on classic film titles, which I adore, you know,
Speaker 3: even just the singles they put out. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: think there was one that I saw this year on
Speaker 3: Noir that I'm blanking on right now that was really
Speaker 3: solid with George Sanders. But yeah, Bruiser for me, one
Speaker 3: of the one of the better four K releases of
Speaker 3: the year, but also definitely not over praised by any
Speaker 3: means needs a spotlight. So I'm glad you brought that up,
Speaker 3: because I was so glad to discover it this year.
Speaker 2: One of the things I think I said this like
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago on the show too, but
Speaker 2: I don't think I had something in hand to display it.
Speaker 2: The big thing about these Indicator releases for me is
Speaker 2: a lot of us that love the films and love
Speaker 2: good packaging for movies that we love. I like stuff
Speaker 2: like this, and I'm not putting down Imprint in any way.
Speaker 2: Believe me when I say this, but this is a
Speaker 2: four K release of a George Romero film. This is
Speaker 2: a four K release of a Bridge Too Far. Look
Speaker 2: at the difference in shelf space for these films, and
Speaker 2: they are both multiple discs, they are both four K releases,
Speaker 2: they both have booklets. This is to me like, this
Speaker 2: is a really innovative way to do proper packaging that
Speaker 2: helps us in the community not have to go Well,
Speaker 2: I bought eight titles and now this shelf is full.
Speaker 2: I don't like that. I'd rather be able to fit
Speaker 2: twenty five in the space of eight and in print.
Speaker 2: I love the work you do, but I don't need
Speaker 2: If you're doing a two disc release, hey we make
Speaker 2: two disc cases.
Speaker 4: I'll send you some.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: I mean, I get the idea of it's nice to
Speaker 3: have a physical disc and a case for every movie, right,
Speaker 3: but it does take up more space. And I know
Speaker 3: that there's some people who don't like those one of
Speaker 3: those eco cases that Indicator uses. They don't dig that stuff.
Speaker 3: But like you say, it goes on the shelf. It's
Speaker 3: got a lot happening, including a nice I mean, those
Speaker 3: are The other thing about Indicator is they do I
Speaker 3: think the best books around, Like I can't think of like,
Speaker 3: who's who does a better book than them?
Speaker 4: Maybe Second Site?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, second No, you're right, those are those
Speaker 3: are a little bigger. Agreed, those are a little more
Speaker 3: but but second only to Second Site. Who's I mean,
Speaker 3: Second Site's pretty fucking incredible. Yeah, I mean, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: they don't, get me wrong, like those guys are I mean,
Speaker 3: they're another favorite label, you know, and I don't buy
Speaker 3: everything that they put out. But but yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: when they put on a movie that I'm that I'm into,
Speaker 3: like green Room from this year was incredible and obviously
Speaker 3: the Hitcher was incredible. Yeah, no, it's it's it's nice.
Speaker 3: You do make up a good point through about shelf space.
Speaker 3: Shelf space is a big deal. You know, when you're
Speaker 3: running running out like we are, and I'm way running out,
Speaker 3: like I've got stuff stacked on the top of stuff,
Speaker 3: and you do too.
Speaker 2: I can see it.
Speaker 3: Bet yeah, it just happens, you know. Yeah, But Bruiser,
Speaker 3: great choice, and Steph brought up you know we had
Speaker 3: gotten speaking of Second Type, we got Martin recently, you know,
Speaker 3: and and that was one that I didn't you know,
Speaker 3: we were waiting for for a long time, you know,
Speaker 3: a big victory for Second Sight as well.
Speaker 2: But for sure, all right, sir, down to number one
Speaker 2: on your side.
Speaker 3: I mean, these are vaguely not really in order. But
Speaker 3: this is a movie that I really really enjoy and
Speaker 3: that's The Lawyer, uh from Keno, and it stars Barry Newman,
Speaker 3: who is in of course Vanishing Point, which is one
Speaker 3: of my favorites, and Fear is the Key, which is
Speaker 3: also great, which I never thought Fears the Key would
Speaker 3: get one Blu ray release, let alone to Blu rays,
Speaker 3: one of which from Arrow, which is definitely my favorite
Speaker 3: the two. But this is a really neat movie and
Speaker 3: it would spin off into a TV show called Petri Shelley.
Speaker 3: He plays a lawyer who drives a truck camper thing
Speaker 3: and I'm just a sucker for a good courtroom drama.
Speaker 3: Although that's not all that this is. It's kind of
Speaker 3: like an investigative police procedural too. Basically, he is a
Speaker 3: lawyer that gets pulled into this case about a guy
Speaker 3: who supposedly killed his wife, and the guy claims that
Speaker 3: basically what happened was he went drinking with He and
Speaker 3: his wife went drinking with some other couples. They came
Speaker 3: back to his house, he passed out on a couch.
Speaker 3: He woke up and his wife had been He saw
Speaker 3: somebody in the house and then he got hit over
Speaker 3: the head and then woke up and his wife had
Speaker 3: been bludged to death in her bed. And so Barry
Speaker 3: Newman has to take on this case and try and
Speaker 3: prove that this guy didn't do it. And I just
Speaker 3: love that kind of story, and I love Barry Newman,
Speaker 3: and I think he's really good in this. And yeah,
Speaker 3: this is a Sydney J Fury film, which is not
Speaker 3: part of at least any Sydney J. Fury set that's
Speaker 3: come out yet, but it has a commentary with Daniel
Speaker 3: Kreamer and Paul Lynch. Director Paul Lynch, who I'm a
Speaker 3: fan of, by the way, and I've become more of
Speaker 3: a fan of him this year. I've seen some of
Speaker 3: his stuff plus some archival interview in excerpts from Sidney J.
Speaker 3: Fury in that commentary and also includes a new interview
Speaker 3: with Barry Newman and actress Diana Muldor, who plays his
Speaker 3: wife in this but just a really solid nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: R rated lawyer drama. But it's like more than that,
Speaker 3: Like I'm under selling it by calling it that, Like
Speaker 3: it's just a really good movie. Like this is one
Speaker 3: that my friend Matt Lynch from Scarecrow, he and I
Speaker 3: both like. He texted me, He's like, dude, I was
Speaker 3: gonna recommend The Lawyer to you, but I saw that
Speaker 3: you already saw it, and he totally loved it. He
Speaker 3: talked about it on another show that people should be
Speaker 3: watching is why can I think of their show right now?
Speaker 3: I'm blanking. I've had too much wine to drink tonight.
Speaker 3: Viva Physical Media Beava Viva Physical Media. Definitely put that
Speaker 3: on Scarecrow on your subscribe list because they Matt and
Speaker 3: Emily do a great show where they go through a
Speaker 3: ton of cool stuff and I've been very touched that
Speaker 3: they've actually ripped off a couple things from Pure Cinema
Speaker 3: for that show. Emily is a big friend and a
Speaker 3: big fan of the show. But Matt is great. I've
Speaker 3: known Matt for like a decade or more online. I've
Speaker 3: never met Matt in person. I got actually to meet
Speaker 3: Emily this year in person when she came out to LA. Anyway,
Speaker 3: this came up on their show also, so it's doubly recommended.
Speaker 3: Definitely check out Physical Viva Physical Media. It's a great
Speaker 3: YouTube show.
Speaker 4: Sidney J.
Speaker 2: Fury, You've got a lot of love over the last
Speaker 2: couple of years. Incredible filmmaker. Supposedly getting some more releases
Speaker 2: next year, so excited for that.
Speaker 3: Very nice.
Speaker 2: You started with one that you said, I know this
Speaker 2: is about movies, but here's a cooking show. I'm going
Speaker 2: to end on one that does not movies with a
Speaker 2: TV series trilogy.
Speaker 4: Ish.
Speaker 2: I still think it's incredibly random and under the radar
Speaker 2: that people don't understand that this happened.
Speaker 4: That movie.
Speaker 2: Made it possible for everybody to complete their Lars Lars
Speaker 2: von Trier collection with the Kingdom trilogy this year.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a good call.
Speaker 2: And Moby does not do stuff like this very often.
Speaker 2: And now for people that love Lars von Treer, like myself,
Speaker 2: you have the Kingdom one, The Kingdom two, and The
Speaker 2: Kingdom Exodus on Blu Ray big box sets. Lots of
Speaker 2: stuff on here. I know that Lars von Treer is
Speaker 2: not everybody's cup of tea, but if you like him
Speaker 2: and you like the stuff that he does to subvert
Speaker 2: expectations at every single possible opportunity, The Kingdom, I still
Speaker 2: have not finished the third one yet, but I mean
Speaker 2: this is I mean, there's there's almost a thousand minutes
Speaker 2: worth of content in this box set literally just from
Speaker 2: the series. So it's one that if you've never checked
Speaker 2: it out, I think that you would probably like it
Speaker 2: if you were into this type of story. Lars von
Speaker 2: Truer is a hell of a filmmaker, and I understand
Speaker 2: that we might be done with his films if he's
Speaker 2: fully retired. He hasn't said fully yet, but it looks
Speaker 2: like that's quite possible. But yeah, now we have an
Speaker 2: opportunity to literally have everything.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: I remember when that show came out on some kind
Speaker 3: of foreign DVD, you know, probably twenty years ago, and
Speaker 3: I was obsessed with it. I was like, Wow, this
Speaker 3: is crazy, dark, weird stuff that I didn't expect and
Speaker 3: was totally different from anything Lars von Truer had done
Speaker 3: at that point, and I was just like, and it
Speaker 3: still might be one of my favorite things that he's
Speaker 3: ever touched. Like, I think it's such a great, fascinating show,
Speaker 3: Like if you like horror movies, if you're a horror
Speaker 3: person like or Twin Peaks. Yes, that's a good touchstone
Speaker 3: for this. Definitely worth a look. Weird hospital like weird
Speaker 3: Twin Peaks er would be kind of itself, but not
Speaker 3: that's proper, you know, like you can't sell it properly.
Speaker 3: But yeah, fascinating show that I couldn't wait to watch
Speaker 3: the next episode of when I got it, you know,
Speaker 3: so I need to get that set. I didn't. I
Speaker 3: didn't pick that up. TV is weird for me. It's
Speaker 3: weirdly disposable in a way that I don't come back
Speaker 3: to it outside of like you know, Freaks and Geeks
Speaker 3: and some shows that I've watched a ton, I don't
Speaker 3: come back to it as much as I should. But
Speaker 3: that's a show that I want to own on Blu
Speaker 3: Ray and I should get it because that's another one
Speaker 3: I think my daughter would like that I should check out.
Speaker 3: So glad that came out. Yeah, And I forgot it
Speaker 3: was movie too.
Speaker 4: That's great, it is movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an odd choice for them, all right.
Speaker 3: Sir, I mean I got a ton of honorable mentions.
Speaker 3: How do you want to do this? Do you want
Speaker 3: to just do.
Speaker 4: I'll do my four real quick, and then we can
Speaker 4: spend time on yours. Because I like that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go through let's see two. Well, I'm going
Speaker 2: to do one that's weird first, that's not really overlooked.
Speaker 2: But I, like I said, I'll explain. So I have
Speaker 2: a feeling most people don't understand that this is such
Speaker 2: a big deal. In one sale from Vinegar Syndrome that
Speaker 2: you get the Keep looking for mister Goodbar who killed
Speaker 2: Teddy Bear Cannibal to Musical all in one month. This
Speaker 2: is gonna be the one that didn't sell fourteen thousand
Speaker 2: copies in thirty seven hours, and so people are just like, eh,
Speaker 2: it's looking for mister Goodball. I'll get it eventually. No,
Speaker 2: the Keep was not number one on everybody's most wanted
Speaker 2: Blu ray list. This was the fact that you own
Speaker 2: this should be a bigger deal. The fact that this
Speaker 2: is available commercially for people to purchase with everything intact
Speaker 2: save for one song in the background of one scene.
Speaker 2: That is an amazing, amazing win for physical media. And
Speaker 2: it's hard to convey how much that means when it's
Speaker 2: literally been like decades in the making. I I know,
Speaker 2: we just talked about Vinegar Syndrome making six hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars for one title.
Speaker 4: But this is why stuff like that's important.
Speaker 2: Money talks, and sometimes money will pay for lawyers to
Speaker 2: clear things to be released. And now you have like
Speaker 2: literally the number one most requested movie on blue ray
Speaker 2: ever in your hands on four K even.
Speaker 4: That's a huge deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I just of course bought the vhs of it,
Speaker 3: like not even two or three weeks before it came out,
Speaker 3: because I was like, no fucking way are they going
Speaker 3: to clear those that song, those music. There's just too
Speaker 3: much high end music in it that they they'll never
Speaker 3: clear it. And Vinegar Syndrome figured out I can't say
Speaker 3: that I don't respect the hell out of that, because
Speaker 3: that is not an easy legal quagmire to solve, you know,
Speaker 3: So big hats off, Big hats off.
Speaker 2: I've got one genuine and then two that are kind
Speaker 2: of self promoted, so I'll do the genuine one first
Speaker 2: imprint releasing Secretary on Blu Ray. Incredible movie. But the
Speaker 2: big thing great looking Blue ray, lots of new special features.
Speaker 2: That's the big thing for this is people actually contextualizing
Speaker 2: in appropriately. We have a new audio commentary with What's
Speaker 2: His Veronica Fitzpatrick, and then we got an auto commentary
Speaker 2: that was archival from the director and the writer. We've
Speaker 2: got brand new from me but not me, actor Stephen
Speaker 2: Mcatty on finding the heart in an imperfect Father, A
Speaker 2: magical oasis that is the art director and Nick Ralbovski
Speaker 2: doing another interview on this making an indie classic. Like
Speaker 2: there's all kinds of new stuff on here, which on
Speaker 2: a title like Secretary, that's not something I truly expected
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: So it's nice to see.
Speaker 2: That one that I think a lot of people laughed
Speaker 2: at this year that it's on four KUHD. But I
Speaker 2: think it's gonna go unnoticed that we have the definitive
Speaker 2: release of the nail Gun Master out there. Yes, I'm
Speaker 2: on the commentary and did like four of the interviews
Speaker 2: on this, but this release is genuinely incredible. This title
Speaker 2: looks great in four K. It doesn't need to is
Speaker 2: the way it is still available heat incredible four K
Speaker 2: lots of new bonus features two new commentaries for nail
Speaker 2: Gun Master you can check that out, and then the
Speaker 2: last one.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I kind of like you said about the Searchers, this
Speaker 2: is one that I think it showed up at the
Speaker 2: end of the year and some people are gonna forget
Speaker 2: it is still an amazing reality that def Crocodile put
Speaker 2: out Feladay on four K.
Speaker 3: I just I literally, this is one that I gotta admit,
Speaker 3: like slip by me and I didn't even realize it
Speaker 3: was a four K and I watched the first twenty
Speaker 3: minutes before this, and I was like, fuck, I gotta
Speaker 3: finish this movie when I get done. It's one that
Speaker 3: I've been meaning to see for for a long time.
Speaker 3: And I mean it's like, again, like we talked about
Speaker 3: Banning being golf noir, this is like cat noir. I
Speaker 3: mean it's like cat investigating cat murders. And I was like,
Speaker 3: this is so up, my alley man, this is so good.
Speaker 3: Like I'll either finish it tonight or tomorrow. But looks
Speaker 3: gorgeous in four K. You and Will did the commentary,
Speaker 3: which I'm very excited to check out. Yeah, Deaf Crocodile
Speaker 3: a little slept on, I think in general, and I'm
Speaker 3: guilty of that as much as anybody. Like they're doing
Speaker 3: some really nice work. And I apologize to Craig Rogers
Speaker 3: right off the top, because Craig's such a sweet guy
Speaker 3: and a great supporter of mine, and I'm so sorry
Speaker 3: that I haven't been able to dig in more to
Speaker 3: what they're doing. But this one, I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 3: this should have been on my four K list, Like
Speaker 3: right away, I'm like, this is I can tell this
Speaker 3: is something I was hoping you'd bring it up because
Speaker 3: I was like, I can tell this is something I'd
Speaker 3: be into, and it's I was so digging the first
Speaker 3: twenty minutes of this that I got to finish it off.
Speaker 2: Great pick. Nathaniel over at Mondo Digital just posted a
Speaker 2: review for it, and for the first time somebody pointed
Speaker 2: out our puns on our commentary, and he gave a
Speaker 2: special shout out to the fact that we use the
Speaker 2: word sato miosachistic in our commentary.
Speaker 3: Oh that's fucking great. I love it. I love it. No,
Speaker 3: like I said, I'm very excited to hear you guys
Speaker 3: talk about it, but I was like, oh, man, the
Speaker 3: only thing I'll say. And I get why they do it,
Speaker 3: and I get that maybe some of these don't have
Speaker 3: I have English versions. There is no dub available. It's
Speaker 3: only German. Yes, stuff, You're totally right, like they've done.
Speaker 3: Some of my favorite animated releases in the last five
Speaker 3: years have been from them, And so the fact that
Speaker 3: this came out and I didn't jump on it right
Speaker 3: away is just me being a fucking idiot, because I
Speaker 3: should have been like, oh, that sounds I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a movie i'd heard of vaguely, but their release is
Speaker 3: it's beautiful. The animation is like it's like Don Bluth
Speaker 3: meets that later Disney stuff, where like I'm thinking like
Speaker 3: Arista cats, and I love they actually make of reference
Speaker 3: to aristic cats in the first twenty minutes, like this
Speaker 3: is not aristic cats basically, but yeah, oh man, pro
Speaker 3: cat noir. Yeah I'm and I'm not even a cat person.
Speaker 3: No offense to cat people, but I love the idea
Speaker 3: of a sort of a cat detective who's like but
Speaker 3: also like that unlikely cat detective who's just like moves
Speaker 3: into a neighborhood and some dude who lives nearby is like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we just had this fucking murder over here. This cat
Speaker 3: got his throat ripped out over here, and you're like,
Speaker 3: oh shit, and it's dark. I mean, it's really dark shit.
Speaker 3: And it's just getting to the point now where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: there's a lot going on in this story, you know,
Speaker 3: with some crazy you know, cat cults and shit, like,
Speaker 3: oh man, I'm so in on this. So like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought it up, but I would have
Speaker 3: if you hadn't, So I'm glad it's on the list.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Everything else is for you, my friend.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I'll try and be quick about this.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be ridiculous here, but I just
Speaker 3: got this in the mail. The Stone tape. This is
Speaker 3: one on one films, and they, you know, they do
Speaker 3: a lot of re releasing other people's stuff with you know,
Speaker 3: a new commentary here and there. This one, though, pretty
Speaker 3: fucking great. I gotta say, this is the one I
Speaker 3: was trying to hint at before. This has Kim Newman
Speaker 3: on a commentary with Nigel fucking Neil talking about this.
Speaker 3: This thing, which is a BBC. It's a Christmas you
Speaker 3: could make it a Christmas movie if you want. Nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy two, shot on video, supernatural story about some researchers
Speaker 3: working on this team of Times just discover a new
Speaker 3: recording medium and they take over this brooding Gothic mansion
Speaker 3: recently purchased and renovated by the employers, and basically they're
Speaker 3: sort of trying to investigate the hauntedness of it. And
Speaker 3: it's genuinely creepy stuff, Like, it's genuinely unnerving and scary
Speaker 3: in a way that I wouldn't expect a movie, especially
Speaker 3: shot on video, to work. But this is I mean,
Speaker 3: this has got you know, a really nice thick book.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a really nice release from one
Speaker 3: on one Films that I don't hear anybody talking about
Speaker 3: at all right now personally, maybe I missed.
Speaker 2: It, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great, great, great extras on this too, And
Speaker 3: definitely I don't think this is sold out or anything,
Speaker 3: so this is one you could definitely still get. I
Speaker 3: got this through.
Speaker 2: Diabolic shockingly inexpensive too for everything you get with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really really good, like really good British sci
Speaker 3: fi horror stuff, Nigel Neil one of the great uh
Speaker 3: like Quator Mass guy and just a ton of great
Speaker 3: you know content from that. Okay, so this is Oh,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be tricky. This is a mutant Aliens. Oh,
Speaker 3: I want to see that. I didn't even realize that
Speaker 3: was coming. I love that they've They've done stuff with
Speaker 3: Bill primpted.
Speaker 2: In the next few months from Bill Plumm. Nice.
Speaker 3: That's very exciting. No, I'm deaf crocodile. If you take
Speaker 3: nothing away from this livestream. Definitely keep an eye on
Speaker 3: what they're doing, is what I would say, because they
Speaker 3: they sneak up on me and I try to keep
Speaker 3: track of these things.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: This is a German release of How's the Poppin' Uh
Speaker 3: that came out this year in a couple different forms.
Speaker 3: Oh you got it too?
Speaker 2: Very nice?
Speaker 3: Yes, so I was watching this last night. It has
Speaker 3: a German commentary, which is too bad, but it also
Speaker 3: has a video essay which is in English, which is good.
Speaker 3: More than twenty five minutes. It's definitely like a collector's
Speaker 3: print kind of situation. It's a little scratched up, but
Speaker 3: honestly this is one where like I just don't think
Speaker 3: we're gonna get a nicer I don't. I don't know
Speaker 3: if this is getting a restoration. I just think there's
Speaker 3: I don't know what the legal issues are with it,
Speaker 3: but it just feels like this isn't coming. And this
Speaker 3: movie is this is my Christmas eve watch, and I
Speaker 3: was just like, it's just goofy, crazy lunacy. It's just nuts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a Joe Dante favorite and you
Speaker 3: watch it and you totally go, oh, yeah that that tracks.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. But yeah, a little scratchy print. But
Speaker 3: and there's two different cover designs for this. This was
Speaker 3: the easier one to get. I think I got it
Speaker 3: from Amazon Germany. Where'd you get yours?
Speaker 4: Uh? Diabolic?
Speaker 2: I think it's It's hard to track though, because Diabolic
Speaker 2: and Orbit and Brother Belile and maybe Grindhouse Video have
Speaker 2: not Grindhouse, it must have been Atomic. I think they've
Speaker 2: all gotten them, but then they sell out quickly and
Speaker 2: then a restock takes like ten weeks.
Speaker 4: Literally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, and I get you got to put yourself
Speaker 3: on the list at Diabolic or one of these other
Speaker 3: places for when they get restocked. I did that, and
Speaker 3: it took so long. That I eventually found it on
Speaker 3: somewhere else, but dia Boc would be the way if they.
Speaker 3: I'm sure this is a distributor that's hard to get
Speaker 3: a restock on. But this is a really fun movie
Speaker 3: that I highly recommend from Decanalog. I talked to him
Speaker 3: on my channel that guy Dick Miller is one of
Speaker 3: my favorite documentaries in the last ten years, and I
Speaker 3: love Dick Miller. It's a wonderful documentary by Elijah Drenner.
Speaker 3: Definitely check out my interview with Elijah. What's really neat
Speaker 3: about this is that has a whole bonus movie Star
Speaker 3: Hops nineteen seventy eight, which admittedly has a smaller part
Speaker 3: for Dick Miller at the front. But Elijah had a
Speaker 3: nice story about how Bob Rowski at Grindhouse Releasing had
Speaker 3: the movie and he basically just gave it to them.
Speaker 3: He's like, you know what, here, you guys put it
Speaker 3: out in your disc for free, no charge, and so
Speaker 3: you get a bonus movie, which is always a really
Speaker 3: great We've talked about bonus movies. That's a great feature
Speaker 3: to have. But it also has a commentary with Elijah
Speaker 3: and Laney Miller and cinematographer El Schneider, who I'm a
Speaker 3: big fan of, And yeah, I just love this movie.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite two canalog releases of the year.
Speaker 3: So glad they put this out.
Speaker 2: Just a great dog and starhops. You can't go on
Speaker 2: Blu Ray anywhere other than on that disc.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know if it had a DVD release.
Speaker 3: You could correct me in that, but I think that's
Speaker 3: the first physical release beyond maybe a VHS, which I
Speaker 3: can't guarantee it even had a VHS release to be home. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So it's a really and it's just a fun girls
Speaker 3: takeover a drive in kind of exploitation. It's fun. It's
Speaker 3: a fun movie. Coming back to film Masters here we
Speaker 3: have Redneck Miller, which I talked about on my favorite disc.
Speaker 3: This is one that Tarantino had played as part of
Speaker 3: a Grindhouse retrospective thing he did in like twenty eleven,
Speaker 3: and was impossible to find. Literally, I don't think ever
Speaker 3: got any kind of home media release as far as
Speaker 3: I know. Maybe there was some slight DHS regional thing,
Speaker 3: but I don't. I couldn't find, Like I was digging
Speaker 3: deep for any kind of rip of this movie. I
Speaker 3: wanted to see it so bad, and I'm glad I
Speaker 3: waited because this is just a beautiful restoration they've done
Speaker 3: of this movie looks great. It's kind of like a
Speaker 3: hicksploitation blaxploitation movie. You mentioned Justin Hunphries a few times.
Speaker 3: He does a really nice commentary on this. But this
Speaker 3: was one that I'd just been waiting to see. It's
Speaker 3: basically about a radio DJ is kind of a woman's
Speaker 3: ladies man who gets framed for a drugs steal and
Speaker 3: has some sort of a black gang of drug dealers
Speaker 3: coming after him and they're just kind of messing with
Speaker 3: each other. But it's very regional but fun and just
Speaker 3: kind of not like any Hollywood movie you'd ever see
Speaker 3: from nineteen seventy six. But really so psyched that film
Speaker 3: masters put this out. This is really fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one that never probably would have got any
Speaker 2: other release, and without film Masters, I mean that's a
Speaker 2: big deal. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just really never thought I'd be able to see
Speaker 3: the movie period. Okay, this is one that I'm not sure, like,
Speaker 3: are people talking enough about this because I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yes and no.
Speaker 2: It's it's an odd one because it just started showing
Speaker 2: up in Walmarts and Barnes and Nobles, but it's also
Speaker 2: like really.
Speaker 3: Overpriced at those places or just in general.
Speaker 2: I don't I think they only did the Blu Ray
Speaker 2: version in those stores, and even the Blu Ray version
Speaker 2: is like sixty five dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is a lot, because I didn't pay that
Speaker 3: much for this from the A twenty four side. I
Speaker 3: feel like it was under sixty bucks.
Speaker 4: So the four K version was eighty three.
Speaker 3: I think, Wow, did I pay that much for that?
Speaker 3: Eighty three dollars for us? But yeah, so this is
Speaker 3: a great four K that I got from A twenty four,
Speaker 3: one of the greatest, maybe the greatest concert movie all time.
Speaker 3: It's probably known enough, but I just felt like, you know,
Speaker 3: for what it is, this should be everybody should be
Speaker 3: talking about this, so that I just threw that in
Speaker 3: the mix for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: It's also a big deal to point out that A
Speaker 2: twenty four is now licensing titles to put out on
Speaker 2: physical media. I mean, that's that's something that we're not
Speaker 2: giving enough attention to. They did this and then Pie too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which I still need to get. I really want
Speaker 3: to get that pie this good night. Thanks for hanging
Speaker 3: with us. Sorry we're going to late.
Speaker 4: This is not late yet. You're good.
Speaker 3: So this one I was checking out today. I just
Speaker 3: got this Team week set from Imprint. Nobody's talking about
Speaker 3: this one as far as I can tell. This has
Speaker 3: three movies, two of which I don't think have been
Speaker 3: released before. It has h so it has what okay,
Speaker 3: The Deadly Dream with Bow Bridges and Janet Lee, which
Speaker 3: is my favorite of these three, I think, which is
Speaker 3: very much like a twilight Zone, like he's having he's
Speaker 3: a signist working on this DNA experiment and he's having
Speaker 3: these dream that he's being persecuted by this tribunal and
Speaker 3: it becomes like a dreams and reality melding kind of
Speaker 3: and it's only like seventy three minutes, really solid Twilight
Speaker 3: Zone vibes, coughka vibes, Like I really enjoyed that Baffled,
Speaker 3: which was a TV pilot that Leonard Nimoy did that
Speaker 3: you can see as is supposed to be. They even
Speaker 3: have like the opening credits that's got like that seventies
Speaker 3: like funky kind of like you know, opening credits in
Speaker 3: a movie. So you're like, oh, this feels like a
Speaker 3: show and it's not quite as good as Deadly Dream,
Speaker 3: but I've been wanting to see that one for years.
Speaker 3: I had like the vhs of it for a long time,
Speaker 3: and I guess I didn't watch it because I did
Speaker 3: not remember a damn thing when I I just been
Speaker 3: one before I started. And then it's got screen Pretty Peggy,
Speaker 3: which Keino has already put out, and they do have
Speaker 3: a new audio commentary on it. But they've got lots
Speaker 3: of nice features on these, and The Baffled has like
Speaker 3: two different versions, and it's a nice set and one
Speaker 3: that I feel like nobody's talking about at all. And
Speaker 3: I'm just I know that these don't sell well. Keino
Speaker 3: has people, They've asked Frank a bunch about TV movies,
Speaker 3: and he's clearly stated they just aren't selling as well
Speaker 3: as we'd like. And that bums me out because there's
Speaker 3: so many great TV movies out there that could make
Speaker 3: great releases on Blu Ray, and I just know they're
Speaker 3: probably not gonna happen, unfortunately, which is too bad.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is how many of them are directed by
Speaker 2: huge named directors or have giant stars, and it's like, well,
Speaker 2: focus on those ones and maybe they'll sell with I hope. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a tough thing. You just don't know,
Speaker 3: and I know. I was talking to Hertzburg about this,
Speaker 3: and it's tough because a lot of times they're part
Speaker 3: of certain packages and it's hardly to get one of them.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so nice. Well, I'll try to be on more.
Speaker 3: It's tough to it's I don't here's the thing, just
Speaker 3: for people that don't know. Ryan knows this, But I
Speaker 3: don't have a dedicated space to do podcasts. So I'm
Speaker 3: doing this downstairs in my house right now, and nobody's
Speaker 3: really home right now, so that's part of the reason
Speaker 3: I can do it. But if I have to do
Speaker 3: it on a regular Thursday night when my wife is home,
Speaker 3: I take a little a little heat if I sit
Speaker 3: down here for three hours and she can't but I
Speaker 3: will try to talk to her. But because this has
Speaker 3: been absolutely a blast, Ryan, I've had so much fun
Speaker 3: doing this, so I would love to come back anyway.
Speaker 3: This was fun and great features for Imprint. Just a
Speaker 3: couple more here. I checked out Dog a Vengeance from Severn.
Speaker 3: This is one that Quentin had talked about on our
Speaker 3: show in like twenty twenty one as a discovery and
Speaker 3: pretty solid stuff. And I'm a big dog person, but
Speaker 3: it's all about basically about a German shepherd that kind
Speaker 3: of makes a vendetta against Jason Miller and is hunting him.
Speaker 3: The only thing is the dog gets sidelined a little
Speaker 3: too much for me in this movie, Like I wanted
Speaker 3: more dog hunting him stuff. And there's some like revolutionary
Speaker 3: plot lines that I don't love as much, but it's
Speaker 3: still really interesting and amazing that Severn put this out
Speaker 3: with a lot of great actions too that I haven't
Speaker 3: had a chance to dig into. But just watch this
Speaker 3: for the other for the first time and really dug it.
Speaker 2: Wanted to point out Cloud says I only paid fifty
Speaker 2: eight bucks for that stopped making sense four K back
Speaker 2: in June. I think I was thinking of the bundle
Speaker 2: they did.
Speaker 4: There was something that.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that sounds about right. Fifty eight sounds more
Speaker 3: like because I don't I was like, I don't think
Speaker 3: i'd pay eighty four.
Speaker 4: Fifty eight is high for four K. It is uh.
Speaker 2: And even there they're regular four k's that are coming
Speaker 2: in the regular sized boxes. Those are only like thirty
Speaker 2: five bucks. It was quite a large increase.
Speaker 3: I mean it's tough too because, like I know, people
Speaker 3: don't They're not used to going to the a twenty
Speaker 3: four site to buy them, right, and so I think
Speaker 3: a lot of those aren't as known that they're even available,
Speaker 3: you know, like you know, Love Lies Bleeding. You know,
Speaker 3: I've seen some people buy it, but you got to
Speaker 3: go to a twenty four site. By the way, Love
Speaker 3: Life Bleeding if you haven't seen it, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: just one of the best, yeah movies of the year,
Speaker 3: and I need to pick up that four K personally,
Speaker 3: this is really great Hush four K from Scream Now.
Speaker 3: It's great that this is getting a physical release. We
Speaker 3: can talk about how the fact that this came out
Speaker 3: on Netflix and then is not currently streaming on Netflix anymore.
Speaker 3: This is why this is important. That movie completely goes
Speaker 3: away and then uh, what's his name planning gets gets
Speaker 3: the rights back, and not only does he put it
Speaker 3: out in four K. But what's really really exciting about this,
Speaker 3: And I know the people that know this release know
Speaker 3: about this, but it has what they call the Shush cut,
Speaker 3: which is a new cut of the film black and White,
Speaker 3: which he had planned to do. But he's got a
Speaker 3: great intro with his wife where he talks about they
Speaker 3: almost accidentally stumbled onto the sound mix, which is like
Speaker 3: they were doing the mix and the mixer had turned
Speaker 3: off all the music and just said the sound effects,
Speaker 3: and they were watching it and they were just like, oh,
Speaker 3: what's going on here? That's not right, and he's like,
Speaker 3: oh no, no, I'll just I'll fix it in a minute.
Speaker 3: We're just doing and then he was kind of like,
Speaker 3: oh shit, I'm actually kind of loving this. So basically,
Speaker 3: they stripped out almost all the music except for maybe
Speaker 3: the end and made it black and white. And it's
Speaker 3: even fucking better than the original movie, which I already liked.
Speaker 3: I already liked Hush. I think it's actually one of
Speaker 3: my favorite Flannagan movies. First, that's me, but the Shush
Speaker 3: cut is fucking great. Have you watched this yet?
Speaker 2: I've not watched the Shush Cut, but Hush I've seen
Speaker 2: multiple times. And like you mentioned, it not just disappearing
Speaker 2: from Netflix. It was gone for like eighteen months from everywhere.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. That's crazy. And I in the article today,
Speaker 3: I think was partially about those straight to streaming movies
Speaker 3: that you can only watch and that you know, you
Speaker 3: can't even buy digitally and that could go away, Like
Speaker 3: I will cry the day that Palm Springs drops off
Speaker 3: of Hulu because that is one of my biggest comfort movies.
Speaker 3: In fact, I almost watched it again last night. I've
Speaker 3: probably seen it four times since twenty twenty. And I'm
Speaker 3: not a guy who watches a time.
Speaker 2: I mean, I watch on a bootlegs.
Speaker 3: I need to do that, probably because ultimately it's one
Speaker 3: of those movies I love so much that I need
Speaker 3: I need to have a physical copy because I don't
Speaker 3: want to lose access to it. But that said, these
Speaker 3: movies going away is scary and upsetting, and so that's
Speaker 3: why part of this is really saying that. But not
Speaker 3: only did you get that, you get this new version
Speaker 3: of it, And that's not being talked about enough, because
Speaker 3: this this should have been I can't remember if I
Speaker 3: put this in my fork. I don't think I did.
Speaker 3: I don't think I put this on my four K list,
Speaker 3: which is one of those that I was like, that
Speaker 3: was stupid. You gotta talk about this new cut. But
Speaker 3: a ton of great features on here too. This is
Speaker 3: one of the best screen Factory releases period, Like.
Speaker 4: It's the best of the year, I think.
Speaker 3: Absolutely great stuff.
Speaker 4: And last one with four discs too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a ton of discs. It's like it's
Speaker 3: more dis than I've ever seen from them. It's one two, yeah,
Speaker 3: four discs, Blue Ray Special features Blu Ray Original and
Speaker 3: Shush Cut four K Shush Cut four K Ultra. So
Speaker 3: you get, well, they didn't Yeah, and they didn't put
Speaker 3: them on the same disc, which you know, I mean
Speaker 3: not to not to slag on Shot Factory, but you know,
Speaker 3: they got to save a penny here and there. That's
Speaker 3: not necessarily their mo to put them on multiple discs.
Speaker 3: So the fact that you get the Shush Cut on
Speaker 3: its own disc.
Speaker 2: Is great and choice. Knowing that he loves physical media.
Speaker 3: I would guess if I had to, I would guess
Speaker 3: that he might have been like, come on, guys, let's
Speaker 3: let's do it this way. So hats off to him
Speaker 3: for that. But I'm really excited for him too, And
Speaker 3: I hope more people get to check out the Shush Cut.
Speaker 3: If you were just so so on the movie, watch
Speaker 3: the black and white sound effects only cut, and I
Speaker 3: think you're gonna like it more. That's just mys And
Speaker 3: last one, this is just a sort of an ephemeral
Speaker 3: but this could forty five show from Warner Archive really
Speaker 3: interesting in the wake of something like Once upon a
Speaker 3: Time in Hollywood where we see Bounty Law. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying Bounty Law is based on this. I know it's
Speaker 3: more based on like I think it was one of
Speaker 3: Dead or Alive, this Steve McQueen show, But this is
Speaker 3: a similar kind of show. It's a black and white
Speaker 3: Western show with lots of great guest stars, and they've
Speaker 3: done a really spectacular job with it. It's when I
Speaker 3: didn't bring up on my box sess list and I
Speaker 3: was like, I probably should have brought this up because
Speaker 3: they are all sixty seven episodes of this show and
Speaker 3: it's beautiful. Warner doesn't do a bad job when it
Speaker 3: comes to transfers. So definitely a show that's worth checking
Speaker 3: out if you're a fan of If if Bounty Law
Speaker 3: got you, even the slight has been interested in, you know,
Speaker 3: Western TV shows, right, this is this is worth checking
Speaker 3: out anyway. That's all I got. I'm sorry to go
Speaker 3: on and on about that.
Speaker 2: No, No, you could have gotten another forty minutes and
Speaker 2: I would have been happy. I think Warren Archive did
Speaker 2: like three or four of those this year, and that
Speaker 2: I mean, first off, it's amazing for any boutique to
Speaker 2: look at a Western TV show from the fifties and
Speaker 2: say we're going to remaster sixty seven episodes of this
Speaker 2: and put it on Blu Ray. No one else is
Speaker 2: doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nuts. I just got is this Shennon Doen?
Speaker 3: I think I just got that in the mail. I
Speaker 3: want to check that out. Yeah, their commitment to some
Speaker 3: of these older Western TV shows. Clearly there's an audience there.
Speaker 3: There's people that, uh collect that stuff because otherwise they
Speaker 3: wouldn't do it. But I gotta say it's it's definitely
Speaker 3: caught my interest. You know, there's some good stuff and
Speaker 3: some great guest stars in these older TV shows. It's
Speaker 3: just a wonderful time for character actors and guest stars
Speaker 3: like like Rick Dalton does in Once My Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 3: You're just seeing all these actors like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: he's in this or she's in this. That's amazing, so
Speaker 3: really fun discovery territory for TV shows.
Speaker 2: Well, we've reached the end of our segment to put
Speaker 2: it on like a button on the end of it.
Speaker 2: It's the end of the year. Who's a dream guest
Speaker 2: you'd love to see on Pure Cinema next year?
Speaker 3: I mean, okay, who. Richard Linklater is definitely somebody we've
Speaker 3: wanted on the show forever. I'm trying to think we have.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's people like Scorsese is like
Speaker 3: obviously whatever, Like we'll never get him, but that'd be amazing.
Speaker 3: But like a link Later feels like we could almost
Speaker 3: maybe get him, you know, or like a Soderberg, we
Speaker 3: could almost maybe get him, you know, And it'd be
Speaker 3: great to have.
Speaker 4: You promote a couple of movies next year.
Speaker 3: Who knows, I know, I mean, you never know if
Speaker 3: you can get in touch. We're just not running in
Speaker 3: the circles of certain publicists, and we could if we
Speaker 3: wanted to. I guess we could try and really aggressively
Speaker 3: figure that stuff out. We're just like maybe too lazy
Speaker 3: about it to really dig in. But you know, it's
Speaker 3: we've had a lot of people on that we, you know,
Speaker 3: didn't expect to have on, right and having Quenton on
Speaker 3: like seven or eight times has been kind of ridiculous,
Speaker 3: So you know, we just kind of feel spoiled in
Speaker 3: some respects. But yeah, I mean those two are big ones.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm trying to think if we have some
Speaker 3: other dream guests that I'm blanking on at the moment unfortunately,
Speaker 3: but link Later is like huge. We just love him
Speaker 3: so much and we'd love to talk to him. I'm
Speaker 3: sure he'd probably be bored talking to us, but he
Speaker 3: seems a little bored in a lot of interviews I
Speaker 3: hear with him. But I just adore his filmmaking. I
Speaker 3: still think he's one of the great living filmmakers. And
Speaker 3: even though Hitman didn't make my top ten films of
Speaker 3: the Year, I still was really entertained by it and
Speaker 3: really loved that he has that deal, and I want
Speaker 3: to see what he does next. The only thing I
Speaker 3: hate is that Netflix doesn't do shit to promote their movies,
Speaker 3: and so something like my number one movie of the year,
Speaker 3: Rebel Ridge, gets no promotion at all and is like,
Speaker 3: for me, just stunning, stunning film by Jeremy Solnia. I
Speaker 3: just thought that was crazy good, and you know, we
Speaker 3: were just super bummed that they didn't even play it
Speaker 3: at the Egyptian here in La so we could go
Speaker 3: check it out because it'd be a wonderful crowd movie anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if we could get link later or Soderbergh, that'd be incredible,
Speaker 3: and maybe we'll get lucky. At some point it will happen.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 4: I don't know all that too.
Speaker 2: Selfishly transitioned to say that for my Thursday night show,
Speaker 2: you have been one of my dream guests. You were
Speaker 2: somebody that I've respected for far too long to not
Speaker 2: have on the show, and so to be able to
Speaker 2: finally do this is a literal dream come true. So
Speaker 2: thanks for hanging out. I guarantee you over the next week,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be getting all kinds of comments saying that
Speaker 2: you're one of the best guests that people have had
Speaker 2: on here.
Speaker 4: So thank you, think, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know how to handle stuff like that.
Speaker 3: That's super kind of you, and it's it's just it's
Speaker 3: been so nice to see you do what you've done
Speaker 3: in terms of community building, like on a level that
Speaker 3: I just am not capable. I'm just not capable of that.
Speaker 3: I just can't. I can't. I like to interact with people,
Speaker 3: and I try to interact with much with people as
Speaker 3: much as I can on social media, but you have
Speaker 3: just gone above and beyond with what this community you've
Speaker 3: created here a disconnected in and on top of that
Speaker 3: you and I say this to people who care all
Speaker 3: the time. I'm like, Ryan is the guy that I
Speaker 3: go to when I have questions about physical media, and
Speaker 3: I try to keep track of as much as I can,
Speaker 3: but these days I lose track of a lot of things,
Speaker 3: and you always have the answer on the spot whenever
Speaker 3: I text you or like, Nope, that's this is what's
Speaker 3: happening with that, Nope, that's whatever, Like you always know.
Speaker 3: And I just love how committed you are to it
Speaker 3: the hobby, and how far you've gone with it, and
Speaker 3: the fact that you've gone into doing your own stuff
Speaker 3: these labels, which I know has not been necessarily easy
Speaker 3: in terms of life work balance for you. But that said,
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for you and and maybe even a
Speaker 3: little jealous that you've found the time and the way
Speaker 3: to work with so many labels, and that I know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure twenty twenty five is going to be as
Speaker 3: busy as ever for you moving forward. A little too
Speaker 3: busy maybe, yeah, that's the only thing about it, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: but you know, hats off to you for everything you've
Speaker 3: done man, and I'm honored to be on the show,
Speaker 3: and I would really like to do it again. I'll
Speaker 3: try and get special permission from my better half to
Speaker 3: do another one at some point, because it's been just
Speaker 3: a delight. Honestly, it's been a little bit of if
Speaker 3: I'm honestly you know, being alone for the holidays has
Speaker 3: not been my favorite year, and this has been something
Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to all week and it totally
Speaker 3: lived up to the hangout that I needed, honestly, So
Speaker 3: thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: This is a lot obviously, it's somebody that I've I've
Speaker 2: listened to for years. I mean we talked earlier about
Speaker 2: discoes and for people that have followed you, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know how hipster this is going to sound, but
Speaker 2: when people now say back in the day, they're talking
Speaker 2: like when just the.
Speaker 4: Disc was at at speak.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say back in the day, from back
Speaker 2: in the day when all you were known for was
Speaker 2: Discovery list at the end of the year, like that
Speaker 2: was the big thing. Everybody went to you and you
Speaker 2: yeah at a little website. Yeah, there's so many times
Speaker 2: that I just read those lists and went well, shit,
Speaker 2: my watch list just exploded, and I mean so many
Speaker 2: films I've watched because you've mentioned it offhandedly, and one
Speaker 2: of my favorite parts of this year was browsing a
Speaker 2: video store with you by my shoulder, looking at films
Speaker 2: and just going, this doesn't have a Blu ray release,
Speaker 2: Why the hell not. Let's look at it. Let's look
Speaker 2: at this one. Let's discuss it.
Speaker 3: That was great. CD Trader you're talking about. Was wonderful
Speaker 3: to hang out with you. I hope you can come
Speaker 3: back at some point because I'd love to hang again.
Speaker 3: That was just wonderful. But yeah, no, that was that
Speaker 3: was great. That was a great day, you know, hanging
Speaker 3: at CD Trader with you and Jeremy going to get
Speaker 3: lunch afterward was a highlight. All that stuff was wonderful.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's been wonderful to see. I certainly would
Speaker 3: never try to take any kind of ownership over film
Speaker 3: discoveries lists, but I will say it has been wonderful
Speaker 3: for me to see that it's become a thing, like
Speaker 3: people are doing top ten lists and discoveries list Screenslate
Speaker 3: has just an incredible amount of these discoveries lists, and
Speaker 3: I'm the first one to steal from these, like in fact,
Speaker 3: I'm full of saying that I stole one from one
Speaker 3: of the screen State Slate lists for our Discoveries episode
Speaker 3: because I'm just like, there's too much good stuff on
Speaker 3: these I just love everybody's doing it, everybody's keeping track,
Speaker 3: and that's important because I really think it helps continue
Speaker 3: the ongoing conversation about not just new films. New films
Speaker 3: get plenty of love, but older films, uh, and what
Speaker 3: people are checking out, and what are the things that
Speaker 3: you're surprised maybe somebody hasn't seen, And maybe that makes
Speaker 3: you feel less embarrassed about admitting you haven't seen the
Speaker 3: fucking Holiday or whatever the hell you know you haven't seed,
Speaker 3: and that you're going in and being open and finally
Speaker 3: checking out those movies that you haven't checked out. I
Speaker 3: just think all that stuff is wonderful for the ongoing
Speaker 3: love of movies and keeping the conversation alive about older films,
Speaker 3: and that's what I'm really all about at the end
Speaker 3: of the day.
Speaker 4: Fully agreed.
Speaker 2: If if you are a fan of conversations like this,
Speaker 2: I'd love to have you in the discord. Joined the
Speaker 2: Patreon on the link of the description below. We it's
Speaker 2: kind of wild, how I mean, even during this show tonight,
Speaker 2: there's been tons of messages posted over there, so it's
Speaker 2: a bustling community. We'd love to have you. But other
Speaker 2: than that, all I can say is thanks for ending
Speaker 2: the year on a high note. This has been, This
Speaker 2: has been like a dream month. I had Will, I
Speaker 2: had a Joel from Scarecrow Video. I had Aaron from
Speaker 2: Criteria Now sending journeys and ending on you. That's a
Speaker 2: pretty damn high note.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Joe Ye had Joe from Vineger Syndrome too,
Speaker 3: not this month, but also a great interview. Yeah, really
Speaker 3: good stuff. Man, keep up the great work. I know
Speaker 3: it's taking its toll, and I know you're a family man.
Speaker 3: I know it takes you away from your family, and
Speaker 3: that's you know, that's difficult and all that's so kind.
Speaker 3: Thank you sir, Thank you flickering waves. Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3: As family people, you have to really find that way
Speaker 3: to balance and sometimes the personal movie stuff takes over
Speaker 3: a little bit and maybe you feel bad about it.
Speaker 3: But you are doing a lot for this community and
Speaker 3: for people in general, and I think you know what
Speaker 3: you do is a highlight of their week, you know,
Speaker 3: just doing this stuff consistently for three years and almost
Speaker 3: never missing a week. Dude, I can't. I could never
Speaker 3: do that. I just couldn't know. I know one hundred
Speaker 3: percent there's no way I could do it. So hats
Speaker 3: off to you for all the work you've done to
Speaker 3: keep track of everything that's going on and be my
Speaker 3: ultimate source for physical media information. Like you know, keep
Speaker 3: going if you can. But I certainly wouldn't blame you
Speaker 3: if if you lost this step here and there. But
Speaker 3: you haven't in all the years that I've known you.
Speaker 3: So again, congrats on everything you're doing.
Speaker 2: Here's to a big year for PUER Cinema and just
Speaker 2: the discs and more from both of us to come.
Speaker 2: Thanks for your time, Thank you everybody. Thank you for watching,
Speaker 2: making the interaction fun tonight. Absolutely and uh, I guess
Speaker 2: for the last time I can say this, We'll see
Speaker 2: you next year. That corny joke. See y'all. Thank you
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