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Speaker 2: this time with one of my favorite people who has
Speaker 2: chosen to remain in hiding for quite some time. Very
Speaker 2: happy to welcome back the amazingly into Christmas period, Miss
Speaker 2: Erica should tie. Hi, how are you?
Speaker 4: I'm ready for the year to be over, That's all
Speaker 4: I'll say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not been a great time for most people,
Speaker 2: but it's been a time. I am glad you're back.
Speaker 2: It's been an interesting year. The big thing I've not
Speaker 2: asked you about this other than the day of how
Speaker 2: does it feel now that you did the whole Miskatonic
Speaker 2: live thing.
Speaker 4: I'm happy that it's over, only because you know, I
Speaker 4: think I've shared many times I have really bad anxiety,
Speaker 4: and so just you know, the time leading up to
Speaker 4: it is stress inducing. But I mean I did have
Speaker 4: a lot of fun putting the presentation together. I think
Speaker 4: it went well. My mom told me that it went well,
Speaker 4: so that just I'm like, okay, well then that's fine.
Speaker 4: I don't need to hear anything about anyone else. So
Speaker 4: but yeah, it was it was just I mean, I
Speaker 4: was just honored to even be asked to do something
Speaker 4: like that, to hear my name on Joe Bob, even
Speaker 4: though he seemed a little disconcerted about the topic when
Speaker 4: Claire brought it up. But yeah, it's the whole thing
Speaker 4: was pretty surreal and I'm just glad I got to
Speaker 4: do it. It's a huge It was you know, it
Speaker 4: wasn't even like a bucket list item thing because oh yeah,
Speaker 4: Josh is awesome. Josh is actually the one who reached
Speaker 4: out to me to get copies of the book for Miskatonic,
Speaker 4: so yeah, he's great. But I didn't even realize Miskatonic,
Speaker 4: like giving a lecture was a bucket list item until
Speaker 4: I was approached for it, because I didn't even think
Speaker 4: nice it was in the realm of possibility that it
Speaker 4: would ever happen.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, what who else is here?
Speaker 4: Thanks?
Speaker 2: Bill?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 2: When when you were doing that was what was the
Speaker 2: prep like? Because obviously you had years of research already
Speaker 2: on the topic, you had done much of this, but
Speaker 2: I don't think you had done like an actual like
Speaker 2: presentation like that before. Have you other than like a
Speaker 2: couple of talks.
Speaker 4: No, but you know, having done a few interviews with folks,
Speaker 4: I plagiarized myself and took a lot of the air
Speaker 4: for forty four visual essay, And really it was just
Speaker 4: I mean, in my fucking day job, I have to
Speaker 4: create you know, powerpoints all day. So that was just like,
Speaker 4: that's not the hard part. That The hard part was
Speaker 4: really censoring my not sensoring myself, but like cutting it
Speaker 4: down to like a certain length, and even then, like
Speaker 4: I was running short, like I had to cut stuff
Speaker 4: during the presentation, So just getting prepared for it, I
Speaker 4: did rehearse like a couple of parts of it where
Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure that the what I was
Speaker 4: talking about matched up with like the video that was
Speaker 4: that was playing at the time. So that was pretty
Speaker 4: much it. Though a lot of it is kind of
Speaker 4: like you know, when you're outlining a video essay and
Speaker 4: you want like what you're talking about to line up
Speaker 4: with what's on screen. So yeah, it all sort of
Speaker 4: came together. Dumb work job, you know work, you know,
Speaker 4: actual job, plus like all the other stuff kind of
Speaker 4: came together to make it a little bit easier than
Speaker 4: it was. But it I mean, it was a lot
Speaker 4: of work. But yeah, glad it's over.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad that something else isn't over. It was
Speaker 2: a while that Unsung WHRSE was off the airwaves for
Speaker 2: a little bit, and now you've been back at it
Speaker 2: almost a year. Has has the year gone? I've been
Speaker 2: excited here every episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a good year. You know. We had
Speaker 4: a few guests back again. We just capped off No
Speaker 4: Rules November with Abraham Castillo Flores and we're taking December
Speaker 4: and January. Well, we have an episode coming out next week,
Speaker 4: but we recorded that at the end of November, like
Speaker 4: we take this time off. We'll be back in February, though,
Speaker 4: but next week is our end of year episode. Where
Speaker 4: in the past we have shared you know, film discoveries,
Speaker 4: our favorite you know new to me watches. Neither Lance
Speaker 4: er I watch enough new movies to create any kind
Speaker 4: of like favorite twenty twenty five or lists, so they
Speaker 4: would just be ridiculous. But this year we decided to
Speaker 4: do something a little bit different instead do uh film resolutions?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: Which is what you and I are going to talk
Speaker 4: about later? My completely different lists though I made. I
Speaker 4: made a lot of resolutions. I mean I made them
Speaker 4: like all easy, like they're all layups. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: not I'm not challenging myself in any way, shape or
Speaker 4: form next year, right, Interesting.
Speaker 2: I was wondering about that. I was wondering if they
Speaker 2: were going to be crossover what That's cool? That's no.
Speaker 4: You have you have you have a set and then
Speaker 4: I have a set for next week's episode. So everyone
Speaker 4: can hear all of my resolutions if they listen.
Speaker 2: That is exciting. Another thing, you have done seemingly more
Speaker 2: contributions than year this year than I thought you were
Speaker 2: doing at the time. But it is a busy year
Speaker 2: this year. Yeah what what? What releases you been on.
Speaker 4: I've got a lot of work on my Shaw Brothers
Speaker 4: this year, and a few of those I've I've done
Speaker 4: with Lance just because especially when i'm you know, we're
Speaker 4: doing commentaries. I'm not in a place where I'm I'm
Speaker 4: comfortable doing those on my own yet. But let's see
Speaker 4: we had Sorry, I have to look at my list,
Speaker 4: because I don't remember. I've done so many, it's just
Speaker 4: I have a really shitty memory. So Men from the Gutter.
Speaker 4: I had a visual essay on that, which we talked
Speaker 4: about when I popped in last time. That one's not
Speaker 4: out yet. It's not out yet.
Speaker 2: You can still tell us go right ahead.
Speaker 4: No, I don't even remember. What was this year? Was
Speaker 4: Possession of Joel Delaney?
Speaker 2: This year, I think, so, yeah, I think that was
Speaker 2: like April or May.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, So that one was a lot of fun
Speaker 4: because I wrote about I had a booklet essay in
Speaker 4: that one, all about like Santoria, representation and film. And
Speaker 4: then I guess, I mean, I'll skip ahead to one
Speaker 4: other section. But I got. One of the things that
Speaker 4: I got recently was my Shaw Scares Box, my contributor copy.
Speaker 4: So Lance and I did a commentary for this one
Speaker 4: on Haunted Tales, which is funny because the other two
Speaker 4: that are on here, Sex Beyond the Grave and Hell
Speaker 4: has no boundary. We did episodes in August for our
Speaker 4: August So but yeah, I've got a few things I'm
Speaker 4: working on right now during our podcas pass break. Get
Speaker 4: those done early and very excited. I'm gonna be working
Speaker 4: on something with Will so people can look forward to that.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so it's it's been a good year, and
Speaker 4: I've got a couple other things lined up already for
Speaker 4: next year. But you know, we'll see how much I
Speaker 4: want to take on. I was already kind of getting
Speaker 4: burned out, and like our friend Ian Jane, who joins
Speaker 4: us every year for sh August and he's got a
Speaker 4: bunch of commentaries on the Arrow sets and the Shout
Speaker 4: Factory sets, even he was like, yeah, I'm a little
Speaker 4: burned out on Shaw Brothers stuff. I don't know how
Speaker 4: Frank Jang does it. Man, that guy's a he can
Speaker 4: he can churn it out. And I'm not doing anywhere
Speaker 4: near what either of them are doing. But even I'm
Speaker 4: kind of like, so, as long as you have an
Speaker 4: angle to approach it, where you know you're not just
Speaker 4: repeating the same names over and over again, I think
Speaker 4: I think there's something for that. So I just said
Speaker 4: yes to something that I was like, Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 4: can I can do something interesting with that, So I'll
Speaker 4: say yes.
Speaker 2: Well, and it sucks because we can't say the title,
Speaker 2: but I've not said this to you. I'm really excited
Speaker 2: for a terror Vision title that you've done that's not
Speaker 2: been announced yet. They should have been announced ages ago
Speaker 2: that I think might be the favorite thing that you've
Speaker 2: my favorite thing of yours that you've done, other than
Speaker 2: the book obviously, which is incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm really proud
Speaker 4: of the thing that you're talking about.
Speaker 2: This sucks for TV, but however, Yeah, I'm really that
Speaker 2: whole release is going to be incredible. I cannot wait
Speaker 2: for them to be able to get caught up and
Speaker 2: get that announced.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I hope to see I hope it sees the
Speaker 4: light of day soon.
Speaker 2: It better. There's a lot of work done on that disc.
Speaker 2: All right, So let's speaking of discs. What have you
Speaker 2: been picking up lately, because I know you don't buy
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff and you're pretty selective, so I'm
Speaker 2: always curious to hear what you're choosing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I yeah, I honestly, I'm I'm going back a
Speaker 4: little while, like this is not within like the last
Speaker 4: couple of weeks or anything like that. But I did
Speaker 4: during the last Criterion Barnes and Noble sale, I went
Speaker 4: and I got one, treated myself to one and I
Speaker 4: got this is one of the Janus contemporaries. Evil does
Speaker 4: not exist. I start to see that, there we go.
Speaker 4: I've never seen it. This was a blind buy for me,
Speaker 4: so I mean, I know that who the director is,
Speaker 4: and but yeah, I'm excited to watch this. And then
Speaker 4: I got John and I both ordered it not knowing
Speaker 4: the other person ordered it. So technically this is his
Speaker 4: pickup because I accidentally got the four K because the
Speaker 4: description did not say Blu ray on it. But Indicator's
Speaker 4: release of Hitchhike. I haven't watched it yet. It is open.
Speaker 4: I mean I've seen it in the past, but I
Speaker 4: have not rewatched this version of it yet. I did
Speaker 4: open it though, because I wanted to watch what was
Speaker 4: the special feature called Oh the Coldest of Dishes. It
Speaker 4: was the documentary that Eugenio or Kalani did you know?
Speaker 4: He's my special features crush. So I was like, well,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch that.
Speaker 2: I love what Eugenia has been doing this year. By
Speaker 2: the way, he's crazy.
Speaker 4: He's everywhere, he really is and justifiably so. And then
Speaker 4: from Arrow I got again this is from a little
Speaker 4: while back, the House of Laughing Windows. You can see
Speaker 4: it's shiny not opened yet. And then the Behemoth.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty incredible release. It's kind of crazy that
Speaker 2: by the fourth of these that they nail the one
Speaker 2: that I think everybody's like most excited. I did four
Speaker 2: so far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was that was like, Okay, I haven't spent
Speaker 4: a lot of money this year. I did not, you know,
Speaker 4: we didn't do Vinegar Syndrome this year. I spent some
Speaker 4: money at the Black Friday Sale and I was thinking
Speaker 4: about it and I was like, I bought four titles
Speaker 4: and they were all ones from this year. And these
Speaker 4: were the only ones that I was like, these were
Speaker 4: ones that I was bummed that we didn't have a
Speaker 4: subscription for. But I told myself, I was like, I'm
Speaker 4: just going to pick them up at the at the
Speaker 4: Black Friday Sale. It's fine. And it was four and
Speaker 4: that was it. And then I was asking John if
Speaker 4: he had bought anything, and I think he only had
Speaker 4: bought like two things from Vineger Syndrome this year. So yeah,
Speaker 4: we haven't talked about whether we're subscribing for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I know that's going to come
Speaker 4: up later.
Speaker 2: I think it is, and it's it's kind of hard
Speaker 2: because it seems like this year, I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was like catch up, but there was just a
Speaker 2: lot of it's a lot of upgrades this year. And
Speaker 2: that's I know you and I are on the same
Speaker 2: fence on that. It's like we'd rather discover something than have. Oh,
Speaker 2: this has been released five times over the last ten
Speaker 2: years across four territories or whatever. So it's tough. But
Speaker 2: on the one hand, and VS does this often. It
Speaker 2: seems like every other year is an incredible year, So
Speaker 2: you would think twenty twenty six might be great, but gosh,
Speaker 2: it's hard to put trust in that after this.
Speaker 4: Year, I mean I trust a lot of what they do,
Speaker 4: and a few years ago, even like this year twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five releases, I was more open to having you know,
Speaker 4: curation for me. Yeah, but I think I've just become
Speaker 4: so incredibly frugal in the last year a year and
Speaker 4: a half that I'm just like, I can't like let
Speaker 4: someone else pick for me anymore, Like I just I can't.
Speaker 4: I need to have more control over where my money goes.
Speaker 4: So and that's really what it comes down to, because
Speaker 4: I kind of, you know, I miss you know that
Speaker 4: box showing up every month, and even though I know
Speaker 4: what's in it, it's like, still, you know, it's still
Speaker 4: nice having that, But I just I can't. I can't
Speaker 4: justify that that cost upfront, and especially in January coming
Speaker 4: off of the holidays, like because this whole, this pile
Speaker 4: that I just showed doesn't even like show like what
Speaker 4: I bought for John for Christmas and all that other stuff.
Speaker 4: So yeah, sucks.
Speaker 2: But obviously we both feel a lot of the same
Speaker 2: things about BS this year. I'm curious, are you I
Speaker 2: know you're still paying attention to everybody. Is there a
Speaker 2: label that still feels like they're curating to you in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five?
Speaker 4: Radiance is really the one that every single thing that
Speaker 4: comes out, I'm like, I would love to own that.
Speaker 4: And there's a part and like, man, back when I
Speaker 4: had money and Radiance like first announced and they were
Speaker 4: doing that subscription, I was like, I should have just
Speaker 4: done it. I should have hold the trigger.
Speaker 2: On that that subscribed to the three year deal got
Speaker 2: a deal of a lifetime.
Speaker 4: I know it's yeah, hindsight and all that, but I mean,
Speaker 4: I feel like Radiance is really the one that stands
Speaker 4: out to me everything else is just sort of like oh,
Speaker 4: that's awesome, Like oh, what's that? And like ew no,
Speaker 4: you know, So it's just a mix across the board,
Speaker 4: with the exception of of Radiance. I do think that
Speaker 4: third window. I'm I'm really a big fan of a
Speaker 4: lot of their a lot of their releases too, but
Speaker 4: of the like the bigger name one, I say Radiance
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 2: Well I'll throw out a couple of things that I've
Speaker 2: got to share. Not a ton came in this week.
Speaker 2: Finally got in the contributor's copy for this brand new
Speaker 2: Toxic Avenger Steel Did you I don't remember. Did you
Speaker 2: happen to see this year? I don't remember you talking
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 4: No, I did not.
Speaker 2: I figured not, but it being fairly positively reviewed, I
Speaker 2: was curious if you would have seen it. This is
Speaker 2: still wild to me that we were able to be
Speaker 2: on a release of the Toxic Avenger and get involved
Speaker 2: with Tiffany Sheppis. It is mind blowing at me. I
Speaker 2: did not get to see this last year, but knowing
Speaker 2: how I love animation, I knew that I had to
Speaker 2: pick up Robot Dreams. This is supposedly incredible. Literally just
Speaker 2: got it in so yeah, I still sealed. Another one
Speaker 2: that came in with it is film Masters. I love
Speaker 2: the old like religious exploitation. That's not a word. What
Speaker 2: should we call it? Christ Christ's there we go. I
Speaker 2: got in the Blood of Jesus that they put out,
Speaker 2: and I've been very curious about checking this one out.
Speaker 2: I love the art on this. That would make a
Speaker 2: really fun post. Yeah, and then I didn't share it
Speaker 2: last week I think or no, when Will was on,
Speaker 2: somebody was saying, you and Will, neither of you got
Speaker 2: any of these. I just want to share. I did
Speaker 2: get all of the Dan Curtis stuff from Keino because
Speaker 2: these were a must, but everybody was getting them, so
Speaker 2: I didn't want to share the same thing across the
Speaker 2: board as everybody. Yeah, what have you been watching? Because
Speaker 2: I know that you're not watching the same things I am.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah. So we'll get into this a little bit
Speaker 4: when we get into like resolutions. But I've been kind
Speaker 4: of mainlining a lot of Hong Kong stuff because I'm
Speaker 4: trying to get all of that out of my system
Speaker 4: this year so that I can focus on something else.
Speaker 4: So there's been quite a few Hong Kong movies, but
Speaker 4: in particular. I'm not going to bring up any of
Speaker 4: those because you again, I gotta go to my letterbox,
Speaker 4: because yeah, I don't know what I'm I don't know
Speaker 4: what I'm watching. One that I did really like, though,
Speaker 4: that I will bring up Hong Kong is The Secret
Speaker 4: from nineteen seventy nine, and we really amazing murder mystery,
Speaker 4: which this kind of this now, this doesn't spoil it
Speaker 4: a little bit. A lot of people compared it to uh,
Speaker 4: don't look now, and not just because there's a red
Speaker 4: coat involved with it, but just like the whole atmosphere
Speaker 4: of it very much feels in that vein. So I
Speaker 4: really enjoyed that. The Secret from nineteen seventy nine. I'd
Speaker 4: seen it before, but we went to a random not
Speaker 4: I wouldn't call it. It wasn't a plan double feature, but
Speaker 4: it was playing. They were both playing at Austin Film Society.
Speaker 4: We saw Strangers on a Train and a Chinese Ghost
Speaker 4: Story in the same of the fun Day Dang at Afs.
Speaker 4: I watched Beast of War. I watched a twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five movie, and you know what, I liked it.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad I've been eager to see this one.
Speaker 4: I well, here's the thing. I don't think it's great,
Speaker 4: but I know a lot of people really liked it.
Speaker 4: I liked it a lot more because I like shark
Speaker 4: movies and this one to me just having a practical
Speaker 4: shark in it. You know, it has so many just
Speaker 4: like you know, tropes of like other types of movies
Speaker 4: that I was just like, all right, this is tired
Speaker 4: and whatever, give me, just give me more Shark. I
Speaker 4: like the Shark very much that I ended up giving
Speaker 4: the three stars, so which is good for me.
Speaker 2: Great modern Everyone clap.
Speaker 4: And then we're planning to go see No Other Choice
Speaker 4: on Christmas. So in order to get my my whook
Speaker 4: excitement turned up, we we watched Thirst the other night,
Speaker 4: which I had never seen. I'd been saving it so
Speaker 4: loved it. Can't wait to see No Other Choice. One
Speaker 4: of the highlights that I've I've ever one of my
Speaker 4: highlight movie going experiences was from Fantastic Fest a few
Speaker 4: years ago where Park Chen was there with his new
Speaker 4: movie and I went to see Joint Security area and
Speaker 4: it was amazing. He was there with Annie CHOI was
Speaker 4: translating for him, and I was I was at first
Speaker 4: upset that the theater wasn't filled, like not every seat
Speaker 4: was taken, and I was like, what are the people doing?
Speaker 4: Like Parcha Woke's here?
Speaker 2: Like yeah and chilling.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So but yeah, that was a great experience. And
Speaker 4: so I finally watched Thirst. It's one of those things
Speaker 4: where like I know it's going to be good, he's less.
Speaker 4: So i'd been waiting and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 4: let's just watch it because we're going to go see
Speaker 4: No Other Choice at Christmas and I want to see it.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you saw Josh's here too,
Speaker 2: by the way, Oh gay hi. So I got lucky.
Speaker 2: I got to see No Other Choice last month at
Speaker 2: a film festival, and I truly think you're gonna love it.
Speaker 2: It is such a big fuck you to capitalism and
Speaker 2: like the corporate world. It is great. It is very
Speaker 2: much needed. Right now, did you see? I think it's
Speaker 2: in New York. They're doing a special screening where CEOs
Speaker 2: of tech companies can come watch it for free. You
Speaker 2: just have to prove you're a CEO. And just the
Speaker 2: branding of that is hilarious. Go but I love the idea.
Speaker 2: It's so which fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what have you been watching.
Speaker 2: Sir, very different things, because my year has been things
Speaker 2: that I can't talk about. And then to kind of
Speaker 2: like blow off steam, I go and watch brand new
Speaker 2: movies and complain about them a lot.
Speaker 4: Oh I like to do that too.
Speaker 2: It's fun, but I like them a little more than you.
Speaker 2: So this last weekend I did see the new Silent
Speaker 2: Night Deadly Night. I thought it was fine. It's I
Speaker 2: actually like it more than the original. I've never been
Speaker 2: a big fan of the original one. It's just I.
Speaker 4: Haven't even seen it and that's like the worst take
Speaker 4: I've ever heard. Ryan.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of the cheesiness of it.
Speaker 2: That's never been my thing. I'm sorry, So it's okay. Anyways.
Speaker 2: The other thing I have you heard of sarat Spell.
Speaker 2: It s I R a T. It's a Spanish film,
Speaker 2: and you would love it because there is a child death.
Speaker 2: Oh maybe I should not have said that, because it
Speaker 2: is a spoiler. It is.
Speaker 4: I don't care. It's always a spoiler when someone tells
Speaker 4: me there's a dead kid.
Speaker 2: So well I say that. But eight hundred people are
Speaker 2: gonna hopefully see this eventually.
Speaker 4: Oh well they should, you know, they should want to
Speaker 4: see it. For the right reasons, and that's because they're Oh,
Speaker 4: it's already in my watch list. That means did you
Speaker 4: already tell me about.
Speaker 2: This I might have This movie is kind of incredible.
Speaker 2: It starts off like deep in the heart of the
Speaker 2: rave scene in Spain, and it takes you on what scene,
Speaker 2: the rave are a ve?
Speaker 4: Oh v Jesus wow, I thought, yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is not It is the rave scene and
Speaker 2: this child and his father they are on their way
Speaker 2: to they're at this rave. They're trying to find like
Speaker 2: the child sibling that the father's other child that didn't
Speaker 2: run away because they're like nineteen, but they've not known
Speaker 2: where this other person is for like five months, so
Speaker 2: they're trying to track them down and they're into the
Speaker 2: rave scene. So they went there to check them out,
Speaker 2: and somebody at the raves says, well, there's another one
Speaker 2: coming up if you want to go, like, we'll take
Speaker 2: you to the next one and you can check there.
Speaker 2: And the whole film is basically about the journey to
Speaker 2: this second rave, and this takes crazy turns. Things like
Speaker 2: I could have listed eight hundred things that I would
Speaker 2: think might be in this movie. There are things that
Speaker 2: have in this movie that would be like ten lists
Speaker 2: down from that. It's kind of crazy. You would like
Speaker 2: a lot of it, Okay.
Speaker 4: I hope it doesn't bring back any bad memories of
Speaker 4: when I used to go to raves.
Speaker 2: No, it's there's very little of that, very little of
Speaker 2: that fun But that's really funny. I'm sorry, Dustin. Dustin says,
Speaker 2: everybody hit yourself on the head to forget the serrot spoiler. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I won't even mention what it was. And then the
Speaker 2: other one that I watched that I want to talk
Speaker 2: about because I feel like harlelynybody's talking about this is
Speaker 2: Left Handed Girl. This is a Taiwanese film that premiered
Speaker 2: on Netflix, shot entirely on iPhone, written by Sean Baker
Speaker 2: in part, and it is directed by Sean Baker's longtime collaborator,
Speaker 2: Shinshu Shoe. And it's very good. Another movie that is
Speaker 2: like very human, very set in a very time and
Speaker 2: place and you're just looking at a snippet of their
Speaker 2: life and it's directed very well, I will say, as
Speaker 2: it goes for a modern film. It is shot on iPhone,
Speaker 2: so it's not going to be like lush and textured,
Speaker 2: but there's something about this movie. The blues in this
Speaker 2: movie are gorgeous, and it made me want to just
Speaker 2: go visit like the markets in Taiwan. It is so
Speaker 2: so pretty to look at. Really great movie, good ending.
Speaker 2: I feel like they really nailed it with this one.
Speaker 2: Sean's a great writer, so I'm not really surprised there,
Speaker 2: but I truly liked it.
Speaker 4: I hope this goes somewhere besides Netflix.
Speaker 2: It probably won't, sadly, that's just how it goes nowadays.
Speaker 4: Fine. Also, I need to give credit. Bill is the
Speaker 4: one who told me about Sarah, so I want to
Speaker 4: make oh nice Nice.
Speaker 2: I'm glad Bill saw it because it does seem like
Speaker 2: one of the Bill was Bill would list on his
Speaker 2: end of year list. It's so good. Yeah, and Sean
Speaker 2: Baker's highlighting left handed girl all over the place, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. All right. Before we get into announcements, like
Speaker 2: Eric I said, after this, we're talking about our film
Speaker 2: resolutions for next year, things that we want to do,
Speaker 2: things that we want to focus on, just any like
Speaker 2: promise to ourselves we're making for twenty twenty six, and
Speaker 2: I want to hear everybody else's in the chat. I'm
Speaker 2: very curious to hear yours now too, anything else you
Speaker 2: want to cover, anything else coming up that has been
Speaker 2: announced that you can hype, or anything for Unsung Horrors
Speaker 2: you want to hype up? You got a January movie
Speaker 2: you want people to watch.
Speaker 4: No, now, I just want to be left alone for
Speaker 4: the next two months.
Speaker 2: That's it, all right. I am excited for you to
Speaker 2: be completely sequestered from the world. Let's get into it
Speaker 2: and you can hit me on the head again because
Speaker 2: our first discussion Tonight, Silent Night, Deadly Knight. Four K
Speaker 2: steelebook from Cineverse is coming out on February seventeenth. Already. Yes,
Speaker 2: this just premiered in theaters this last week and they
Speaker 2: are riding high on the publicity and want you to
Speaker 2: pre order it now. Like I said, the movie's pretty good.
Speaker 2: I thought it was well done. We've got the guy
Speaker 2: from Halloween Kills which makes Erica cringe. Is the main star.
Speaker 2: Here is Billy and the big thing. I thought Ruby Modine,
Speaker 2: Matthew Modine's daughter. She is like the counterpart to Billy.
Speaker 2: Here she is the Pamela. I thought she was really
Speaker 2: fun of this movie. Yeah, you can pick this up.
Speaker 2: Blu Ray four k Standard, all that stuff. Silent Night,
Speaker 2: Deadly Knight. Youre going to see it someday.
Speaker 4: I believe I am because somebody told me that there
Speaker 4: is a dead kid in it.
Speaker 2: So there is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I Am going to eventually have to see it.
Speaker 4: But you know, I'm I'm going to try to lean
Speaker 4: on the library a lot more in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, checks out, all right. Next, we got a couple
Speaker 2: of announcements from Imprint. I'm gonna be talking about Imprint
Speaker 2: a lot tonight. March twenty fifth, we got a Blu
Speaker 2: Ray box set of the Sidney Lumette Volume two. This
Speaker 2: box set has The Whiz, Daniel a Stranger among Us,
Speaker 2: Critical Care, which is the first time on Blu Ray
Speaker 2: anywhere in the world, and Gloria from nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 2: first time anywhere in the world on Blu Ray. We
Speaker 2: got some new extras here. The main one that I
Speaker 2: want to talk about is The Whiz from nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 2: This is the last physical media contributions of the late
Speaker 2: Lee Gambon, the person that I respected, maybe more than
Speaker 2: most people before I started doing all this myself. He
Speaker 2: was an incredible person and he got this stuff done
Speaker 2: early when they knew that they had signed these. He
Speaker 2: did this commentary a while back. He also hired Michelle
Speaker 2: Kisner to do the visual essay on this. And I
Speaker 2: really need to see this disc. I'm just so excited
Speaker 2: to pick up more from his contributions. Yeah, Yeah, new
Speaker 2: extras all over this weegein, New commentary by Adrian Martin
Speaker 2: on Daniel. We've got new featurette on Sidney Limetz later
Speaker 2: years over on a Stranger among Us, Critical Cares, new
Speaker 2: commentary by Howard s Berger and Nathaniel Thompson, and then
Speaker 2: some more new special features coming eventually. Gloria. No new extras,
Speaker 2: but that's because it seems to be everybody's response to this.
Speaker 2: Everybody This's scene. Gloria kind of hates it, so there
Speaker 2: we go. Then they also offered another box set. This
Speaker 2: is a directed by John mackenzie box set covering from
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty to ninety two. We've got the Long Good Friday,
Speaker 2: the Honorary Console, the Fourth Prodigal, the Fourth Proto Call
Speaker 2: Ruby First Time Anywhere in the World on Blu Ray
Speaker 2: from ninety two, and this is all coming in a
Speaker 2: four disc card box. Other than a Long Good Friday.
Speaker 2: You've seen any of these other three?
Speaker 4: I thought I had seen Ruby, but now, what's the
Speaker 4: Michael Caine one?
Speaker 2: The Michael Caine one is the fourth Protocol from nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty seven.
Speaker 4: No, I've not seen that.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have either. Obviously, the Long Good
Speaker 2: Friday I've seen and it's great. Yeah, new commentary by
Speaker 2: Matthew Aspy Asprey Gear on the Honorary Console. Nothing new
Speaker 2: but all kinds of archival stuff on the Fourth Protocol.
Speaker 2: And then Ruby gets a new commentary by Kevin Lyons. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I need to see more of these Long Good Friday.
Speaker 2: If you've seen it, you hopefully you know that it's
Speaker 2: great and check it out all right, next up? Okay,
Speaker 2: so this is kind of funny to me, Maybe it
Speaker 2: shouldn't be. Lionsgate send an email about their American Psycho
Speaker 2: four case deal book that they just like re released
Speaker 2: a special one with some new bonus features. They announced
Speaker 2: to everybody that hey, we screwed up and we sent
Speaker 2: you the wrong disc in there, and we got to
Speaker 2: send you a replacement disc. Turns out the old four
Speaker 2: K disc just got printed again. All those brand new
Speaker 2: special features that they put all the time and effort
Speaker 2: into just forgotten off the disc, and they sent out
Speaker 2: the old disc anyway, So if you ordered this, you
Speaker 2: will be getting it. But because this is a side exclusive,
Speaker 2: nobody has to prove that they bought it, so you'll
Speaker 2: just get the disc immediately. And that's the really nice
Speaker 2: part is when you screw up a side exclusive, nobody
Speaker 2: has to send emails.
Speaker 4: Good job lines, Kate.
Speaker 2: Next May fifth, Warner Brothers is releasing a four K
Speaker 2: steel book of the brand new IT Welcome to Dairy
Speaker 2: Season one. I know you love some Stephen King stuff.
Speaker 2: How excited are you to watch this adaptation?
Speaker 4: Zero out of ten? I mean, I don't have what
Speaker 4: was this on HBO?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But also like I as much as I love Stephen King,
Speaker 4: I love like you know, back in my day Stephen King.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't. I don't want to watch the Uh.
Speaker 4: I watched the new IT movies. I didn't care for him.
Speaker 4: I had zero interest in this, even though I was
Speaker 4: told that there's you know, more dead kids.
Speaker 2: Lots of dead kid spoilers tonight. I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know, but yeah, I don't care about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to see this. I will see it
Speaker 2: someday hopefully. But yeah, the amount of time for watching
Speaker 2: a TV series takes up too much. There's so many
Speaker 2: other things to watch.
Speaker 4: Yep, agreed.
Speaker 2: That's also coming out in the UK, by the way,
Speaker 2: and it's coming out of standard Blu Ray no Standard
Speaker 2: four K, but check that out if you are into it.
Speaker 2: Next coming soon on Blu Ray from Kino is The
Speaker 2: Lost Man from nineteen sixty nine. This is a Sidney
Speaker 2: Potier film that I need to see. I've seen this
Speaker 2: poster many many times. I've always been very curious about
Speaker 2: the pose in this poster and how this fits into
Speaker 2: the movie. But I need to see this for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I missed this one. They had a Sidney Poitier
Speaker 4: retrospective a few years ago at AFS and I missed it.
Speaker 4: So I hope to to see this one. And Celeste, now,
Speaker 4: I am not gonna watch it because it's a TV show.
Speaker 2: I don't remember, is there. I know there's a section
Speaker 2: on made for TV movies in the book if I
Speaker 2: remember right, but is there anything on TV shows or like?
Speaker 4: No there, I mean there are like made for TV
Speaker 4: movies in the book, and I included like a few
Speaker 4: movies that technically were TV shows but then got like,
Speaker 4: you know, they've now been collectively sort of decided like
Speaker 4: I would just call it a movie. Right, So there's
Speaker 4: some of that, but I'm not watching Welcome to Welcome
Speaker 4: to Dairy. I don't care, all right.
Speaker 2: Next up, Keno is putting out a four K soon
Speaker 2: of MacArthur from nineteen seventy seven. This is Gregory Peth
Speaker 2: Gregory Peck starring is MacArthur. This will have Dolby Vision.
Speaker 2: No release date on this. It'll come out eventually as
Speaker 2: a Sergeant movie with a nice Jerry Goldsmith score. It
Speaker 2: sounds like I need to see this one. Same Adam says,
Speaker 2: I like Erica's stance against TV shows they generally suck.
Speaker 4: So you got a fan there, Okay, I mean I'm
Speaker 4: there are some TV shows that I like, but no,
Speaker 4: I can't remember the last time I actually sat down
Speaker 4: to watch anything new as a as a television show.
Speaker 4: That's also just comes with me not having any streaming
Speaker 4: except PBS. They get my five dollars a month.
Speaker 2: Good, good, good good. H Like I said it. Welcome
Speaker 2: to Darry is also getting a standard Blu Raine DVD
Speaker 2: in the US and the UK. Here is the art
Speaker 2: for that check it out. But this one's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Over in Germany on Well today, Cape Light is releasing
Speaker 2: The Adams Family, the TV series that we were just
Speaker 2: shitting on TV series. There's a lot of TV series
Speaker 2: we're were good to talk about. Tonight, they're putting out
Speaker 2: the whole complete series on Blu Ray for the first
Speaker 2: time anywhere in the world. They have confirmed that this
Speaker 2: will be English friendly, so that is a plus. You
Speaker 2: can pre order this from Diabolic already, so if you
Speaker 2: really want this and you love the show, this will
Speaker 2: be the way to get it.
Speaker 4: Wait, let's say d Adams Family. Yes, why is it German?
Speaker 4: For the but family is not in German like it
Speaker 4: should be fam. I l I e for German.
Speaker 2: I believe when they copy the title itself, the it's
Speaker 2: not the subject whatever it is. The thes and the
Speaker 2: a's and and those are always translated to be different.
Speaker 2: But I think they keep the main thing. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 2: not sure.
Speaker 4: I don't like it. It is it is, and I
Speaker 4: still want it, but I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I get it. Yes, I do like this cover and
Speaker 2: I do like I will say one.
Speaker 4: We'll get it. D bart d.
Speaker 2: One big thing I love about Cape Light is that
Speaker 2: they advertise with this picture that the sticker is peelable.
Speaker 2: I really wish everybody would do that, so that you
Speaker 2: know that you're not buying something that's stuck there. All right,
Speaker 2: This one is interesting. You can pick up a Blu
Speaker 2: ray and DVD here in the US from a self
Speaker 2: published release of a film called Clocking the t from
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. Now, one of the main reasons I posted
Speaker 2: this as an announcement is I don't think I've seen
Speaker 2: this before. They are advertising for this. A part of
Speaker 2: these special features is that they're giving you all of
Speaker 2: the files for two dailies and they want you to
Speaker 2: be able to edit the scene yourself, so you can
Speaker 2: take it and be a filmmaker and like compared to
Speaker 2: what they ended up with, and you can make your
Speaker 2: own version. I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. I mean I wouldn't do it, and
Speaker 4: I don't have any interest in it, but I appreciate
Speaker 4: the hustle you put your own thing out, and I
Speaker 4: appreciate that this is something new and other people would
Speaker 4: want to do this, just not me.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. That next up a label that I don't
Speaker 2: think I've had to talk about in like ten months.
Speaker 2: Anti World's releasing over in the UK, which is like
Speaker 2: a sister company to Indicator, I believe January twenty sixth
Speaker 2: they are releasing a blu ray of a new film
Speaker 2: called Miss Mantler from twenty twenty five. This is limited
Speaker 2: to one thousand only. It will have the CD with it,
Speaker 2: and that is because this is a dark stream of
Speaker 2: consciousness fever dream that resembles nothing you've seen before. It's
Speaker 2: a collaboration between the director and Nurse with Wound, the
Speaker 2: band Nurse with Wound and so the film great of
Speaker 2: animated visuals for a live Nurse with Wound show. The
Speaker 2: main character of the Miss Manteler is taken from a
Speaker 2: collage by one of the individuals associated with it. It's
Speaker 2: a post apocalyptic landscape pictured in a number of major
Speaker 2: films that are now part of the collective Unconscious. You
Speaker 2: see Terminator of the Road are clear. Terminator and the
Speaker 2: Road are clear influences for this release. His obstinate close
Speaker 2: up dive into the physicality of surviving, however, is its
Speaker 2: own thing. This will have the audio CD, like I said,
Speaker 2: and then an eight panel digipack packaging featuring new artwork
Speaker 2: and limited to a thousand, but it is region free.
Speaker 2: I really like that they're doing this. This is pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I'm interested, but it does sound like a little bit
Speaker 4: too inside my own head, so yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4: how I feel about that.
Speaker 2: Brandon loving the band. Yeah, lots of people excited about this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have to admit I had never heard of Nurse
Speaker 2: with Wound before this announcement. All right. Next up, the
Speaker 2: newest Jackie Chan film, The Shadows Edge, is getting a
Speaker 2: four km blu ray over in the UK on February
Speaker 2: sixteenth from Sinney Asia. This is a twenty twenty five film.
Speaker 2: This I'll have a collector's booklet with an action feature
Speaker 2: at some music videos and then some directors and cast
Speaker 2: greeting clips. I read that. I was like, are they
Speaker 2: just saying hi and weaving? And that's the whole feature?
Speaker 2: A photo gallery, some trailers and that is it. Have
Speaker 2: you always been into Jackie Chan? Is this somebody that
Speaker 2: you like?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 4: Since like the nineties? Like I love all like Police Story,
Speaker 4: all that you know that era Jackie Chan. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: have zero interest in this, Like I'm I'm not keeping
Speaker 4: up with Jackie Chan like he's got I try to
Speaker 4: keep my you know, artists separated from the artists, the
Speaker 4: art and all that. But you know, he's got some
Speaker 4: takes that I just don't care for. And I don't,
Speaker 4: you know, he's still alive, Like I don't. You know,
Speaker 4: there's people who are dead now that I'm like, wow,
Speaker 4: that was a shitty person. But you know, they're not
Speaker 4: getting any more money from me because they're dead. But
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't. I don't have any interest
Speaker 4: in seeing in Jackie Chan in twenty twenty five movie.
Speaker 2: Not only does he have some takes, he's made some bad,
Speaker 2: bad choices. Yeah, that's enough about Jackie. Criterion announcements, I'm
Speaker 2: very curious to hear what you say about these. March
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, we get our most surprising one. We get
Speaker 2: a four K blu ray and DVD release of Killers
Speaker 2: of the Flower Moon from twenty twenty three. This is
Speaker 2: a Martin Scorsese film, of course. We get a brand
Speaker 2: new four K digital master approved by the director. We've
Speaker 2: got a new documentary featuring Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lilly Gladstone,
Speaker 2: David Grant, The Osage Nation principal chief, Jeffrey Standingbear, Osage
Speaker 2: cultural consultant John Williams, the editor film a schoonmaker, and
Speaker 2: other members of the cast and crew. We've got a
Speaker 2: song for the Osage and new documentary illuminating the film's
Speaker 2: final shot, which I loved. We've got excerpts from the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three can Film Festival press conference. We got
Speaker 2: a short pro on the cover art. We've got a trailer.
Speaker 2: Lots of stuff here, plus an essay by Vincent Cunningham
Speaker 2: and film programmer Adam Perrone. I know that a lot
Speaker 2: of people thought this was like, not surprising, it's a
Speaker 2: Scorsese film. However, this is a pretty big deal because
Speaker 2: this is the first time that Apple themselves have licensed
Speaker 2: something to another company. As far as I can tell,
Speaker 2: everything else that they put out that you're going to say, well,
Speaker 2: Apple stuff has been released before. Those were done by
Speaker 2: the production companies. Apple did not own the home video
Speaker 2: rights like F one earlier this year was a Warner
Speaker 2: Brothers home video release, not Apple, but I guess Coda
Speaker 2: coming out a month or two ago, that was the
Speaker 2: first big Apple physical media move. However, this was not
Speaker 2: a given them licensing. It is pretty cool. Did you
Speaker 2: get to see Killers of the Flower Moon? Is this
Speaker 2: something you were excited to see?
Speaker 4: I did see it in theater. I enjoyed it very much.
Speaker 4: I did not realize that this was a big deal
Speaker 4: because I didn't even know who owned the physical media
Speaker 4: rights to it. So I am happy for everyone that's for.
Speaker 2: This well and for everybody that was like, oh, finally
Speaker 2: it's on physical media. Don't forget this. Did have an
Speaker 2: Italian four K release that was readily available, and yes,
Speaker 2: I will be buying it a second time because there's
Speaker 2: so much about this that is important. The cover art,
Speaker 2: getting a featurette is important either way.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, so did a lot of people buy the
Speaker 4: Italian one because they didn't think this was ever going
Speaker 4: to happen?
Speaker 2: Yes, like Orbit, Diabolic and Atomic and a bunch of places.
Speaker 2: They all imported it and we all bought it up
Speaker 2: as soon it was in stock every time. And sip
Speaker 2: ted Lasso was not done by Apple. Actually it was
Speaker 2: a Produce Production RAND release. Yeah, that was not Apple themselves,
Speaker 2: all right. So that's Killers of the Flower Moon. That's
Speaker 2: the first title. Next up, March tenth, we're getting Verdiana
Speaker 2: from nineteen sixty one. This is coming on four K
Speaker 2: and Blu Ray from them. This was previously a Radiance release,
Speaker 2: and this is a Bunuel film. We've got a new
Speaker 2: four K digital restoration. We've got all the extras on
Speaker 2: here are extras that were on previous releases of this.
Speaker 2: I believe I may be wrong there, but I think
Speaker 2: that's the case. Boudoul I know that you've got a
Speaker 2: couple of things to say about Bonuell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm a big fan. This is one that
Speaker 4: I would definitely add to my ever growing list. I'll
Speaker 4: buy it the next Criterion sale, I swear.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 4: No, I'm excited to have this. He's somebody who's movies.
Speaker 4: Whenever I watch, I want to immediately rewatch him. But
Speaker 4: I also want to kind of sit with them for
Speaker 4: a while and then revisit it when I'm at a
Speaker 4: different point in my life, because I feel like the
Speaker 4: first time I watched one, I was way too young
Speaker 4: and I was like, what's this and I didn't quite
Speaker 4: get it. And I feel like I'm in a place
Speaker 4: now where they sit much better with me, especially after
Speaker 4: fucking twenty twenty five. Man like it very well with
Speaker 4: me now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense, all right. Next up from Them
Speaker 2: March seventeenth, we were getting a Blu ray only of
Speaker 2: Testament from nineteen eighty three. For those that don't know,
Speaker 2: this is a nuclear themed film that is very good.
Speaker 2: This was released previously by Imprint. This has most of
Speaker 2: the excerpts from the Imprint release, but the Imprint disc
Speaker 2: does have a couple things that are missing on this one.
Speaker 2: So if you got that first one and you love
Speaker 2: this movie, which I don't know how much, this is
Speaker 2: a rewatch, but this movie is quite good. Have you
Speaker 2: seen Testament Erica?
Speaker 4: I have not. I will say that this artwork is
Speaker 4: like depressing and spot on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna mention that because I saw a
Speaker 2: couple of people saying, what is this art or what
Speaker 2: is this poster or whatever? This is the poster it
Speaker 2: should be. It is harrowing. There are some new things
Speaker 2: on here. We got a new conversation between Litman and
Speaker 2: author Sam Wasawson. There is a couple documentaries on here.
Speaker 2: There's Testament at twenty which I really liked. This Testament
Speaker 2: at twenty featurette, so definitely something to watch. There's a
Speaker 2: couple of other things here than an essay by Michael Kresky,
Speaker 2: This movie is rough. There is you know so many
Speaker 2: people that will say I can never watch Threads again.
Speaker 2: To me, this is like a little more real than
Speaker 2: Threads and a little more difficult to rewatch for sure.
Speaker 4: All Right, well, I'm definitely not watching it this year. Right,
Speaker 4: I've had a rough year.
Speaker 2: That's all right. It doesn't come back to March. You're good,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to not exercise my French and
Speaker 2: allow Erica to say, on March seventeenth, we're getting four
Speaker 2: k in blu Ray, how do you say this?
Speaker 4: Erica Class two risks?
Speaker 2: Okay, that was way better than I would have This
Speaker 2: is from nineteen sixty and says, after hiding out Milan
Speaker 2: for nearly a decade, fugitive gangled gad, that's too far
Speaker 2: away from me to read. Fugitive Gangland chief Able Dapo
Speaker 2: sneaks back to Paris with children despite a death sentence
Speaker 2: hanging over his head, accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark.
Speaker 2: Fresh office start turn in Breathless is Jean pel Balmondo
Speaker 2: and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a throat grabbing,
Speaker 2: soul searching journey through the post war Parsian Underworld. I've
Speaker 2: never seen this movie. I don't think have you seen
Speaker 2: this one?
Speaker 4: I have not, but I am immediately and I saw
Speaker 4: Leno and Jean Paul Delmondo pop up, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm already and I don't even know what this movie
Speaker 4: is about, but I'm in. This is something like I'll
Speaker 4: probably buy for John for his birthday or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a hell of a cast. Immediately, ah, and
Speaker 2: there was a BFI release. That makes sense. So this one,
Speaker 2: We've got excerpts from a two thousand and three documentary.
Speaker 2: We've got interview with the novelist and co screenwriter on this.
Speaker 2: We've got some archival interview footage essays by Bertrand Tavernier
Speaker 2: and been a reprinted interview with ste and a nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty two tribute by Jean Pierre Melville. And yes, I
Speaker 2: need to see this as well, Ronnie. It's not personal.
Speaker 2: I can't read French. I admitted to it. I'm awful.
Speaker 2: That is probably the worst language I deal with, which
Speaker 2: sucks too, dealing with immigration stuff, because honestly, there's a
Speaker 2: lot less French immigrants that come in than a lot
Speaker 2: of the other countries. So I deal with those languages
Speaker 2: much more often. All right, March thirty. First, I'm Blu
Speaker 2: Ray is a Man and a Woman from nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 2: This is not one that I've seen. I don't even
Speaker 2: think i'd heard of this one. This one's an an
Speaker 2: Oscar winning international sensation with a two brand new two
Speaker 2: K did digital restoration, new interview with the director, a
Speaker 2: making of doc shot on location, archival footage at the
Speaker 2: can Film Festival from nineteen sixty six, a short film
Speaker 2: from seventy six, and an essay by Kerrie Ricky. Is
Speaker 2: this one that you know?
Speaker 4: I know of it and I am going to make
Speaker 4: a note to requests this from my library as soon
Speaker 4: as it becomes available.
Speaker 2: Nice they are? They pretty good with criterion titles at least.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are.
Speaker 2: I've seen I've seen the Oh gosh, I can't remember
Speaker 2: what it was. There was something you shared in the
Speaker 2: Unsung Horror Discord like a year ago that you got
Speaker 2: from the library. I was like, man, I need to
Speaker 2: go to the library more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was some What did I just I just
Speaker 4: order or requested a Tony Tony Jaw movie called Striking Rescue,
Speaker 4: and I requested it way back when someone first only
Speaker 4: there was a dead kid in it, more spoilers, and
Speaker 4: then they approved it and I was like, holy shit,
Speaker 4: all right, yeah cheer c U Austin Public Library. And
Speaker 4: then it still hasn't come in yet. They's like approved
Speaker 4: it and they're like, oh, it's you know, it's on order.
Speaker 4: And now of course it's like you know, streaming on
Speaker 4: fucking tub or something. I'm like, I'm trying to support
Speaker 4: the library and you're taking the fucking long.
Speaker 2: Come on, says I think that was me.
Speaker 4: Ah probably, yeah.
Speaker 2: All right. Next up one that I'm excited for coming
Speaker 2: on March thirty. First, a four K blu ray release
Speaker 2: of The Blade from nineteen ninety five. This is a
Speaker 2: shoey hark film. Among the boldest accomplishments of Hong Kong
Speaker 2: cinema's golden age. This uniquely visceral martial arts movie puts
Speaker 2: a gritty new spin on the story of the One
Speaker 2: Armed Swordsman, an iconic figure from the moment he was
Speaker 2: introduced by the Shaw Brothers in sixty seven. And this
Speaker 2: is very divisive. Some people think this is awful, and
Speaker 2: then there are other people that are like, this is
Speaker 2: the masterpiece from the nineties.
Speaker 4: This movie's fucking great. I love this movie. If you
Speaker 4: like I mean really, if you like anything that Choi
Speaker 4: Heart did in the nineties, if you like Shaw Brothers,
Speaker 4: you know, or any type of like Wouja movies, like
Speaker 4: this movie is great. Yeah, I'm excited for this. I
Speaker 4: want to own this.
Speaker 2: I love the cover on this too. It's a this
Speaker 2: will look nice on the shelves of Barnes and Noble
Speaker 2: and call out to people for sure. We got a
Speaker 2: new commentary on here by the one that we mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2: Mister Frank Jang got to go sit I think he
Speaker 2: said that he sat in Oh gosh, maybe it was
Speaker 2: Francis Ford Coppola's office for this one to record it.
Speaker 2: They had him come down and do it. And it
Speaker 2: was that or Paul Schrader, one like a big director's name,
Speaker 2: and he's like, yeah, I got to sit at his
Speaker 2: desk and get this recorded for Criterion. It was nice.
Speaker 2: There's a documentary from two thousand and six on here.
Speaker 2: New visual essay by Taylor Ramos and Tony Jao the
Speaker 2: New York Asian Film Festival Q and A was Shoey
Speaker 2: from twenty eleven has some footage here and then an
Speaker 2: essay by Lisa Morton who is an author. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: definitely need to be this one right. Next, we've got
Speaker 2: some cool stuff coming out of Sweden which is rare
Speaker 2: for US to say, December seventeenth, Club Super eight, which
Speaker 2: is the one of the newer Ocean Partner label title
Speaker 2: Partner labels, which could indicate that this could get a
Speaker 2: US release from them eventually. That's not a guarantee, but
Speaker 2: just saying it's possibility. They are putting out a Nikatsu
Speaker 2: Sweden Poruno line is what they call it over there,
Speaker 2: and this first title is House of the Beast from
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three. And for the record, if you are
Speaker 2: into these, you can go on their site and they
Speaker 2: are also selling a collection of all six films from
Speaker 2: this line that they're going to be doing, so you
Speaker 2: know that they're going to be doing sex. We're only
Speaker 2: talking about two tonight, and it's slightly discounted. I will say,
Speaker 2: if you buy direct from their site, their stuffs pretty expensive,
Speaker 2: but you can usually get these from retailers like Diabolic,
Speaker 2: which I think you can pre order there right now.
Speaker 2: And then Brother Belisle should get them. Atomic should get
Speaker 2: them orbit should get them, so yeah, pretty cool. This one, though,
Speaker 2: Three escaped convicts rob a gunshop and Stockholm before heading
Speaker 2: into the countryside where one of them is hidden a
Speaker 2: stash of money. They seek refuge in an old manner
Speaker 2: and take the owner's hostage, but the family that lives
Speaker 2: there proves to be both bizarre and deprayed. Soon everyone
Speaker 2: is entangled with everyone else sexually and otherwise, until all
Speaker 2: boundaries collapse and it becomes unclear who truly holds power
Speaker 2: inside the matter. This says the director. Shogorro Nishimura made
Speaker 2: eighty five Roman Peruno films for Nikatsu between nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: one and nineteen eighty seven. This is going to be
Speaker 2: newly restored and it is the first time ever that
Speaker 2: the films have been shown outside of Japan. This Blonde
Speaker 2: Animals is a featurete on here Swedish sin through the
Speaker 2: lens of Nikatsu Roman Pruno Visual essay by Johan Nordstrom.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a visual essay by Ricard Gramfers,
Speaker 2: who is the owner of Club Super. We had an
Speaker 2: image and postery gallery, theatrical trailer and then a commentary
Speaker 2: with the one and only mister Jasper Sharp, and then
Speaker 2: Johan Nordstrom's on there and Ricard Gramfer's all joined him
Speaker 2: as well. Well, stuff, I'm assuming you haven't seen this then, No, I.
Speaker 4: Have not seen any of these. I'm familiar like with them,
Speaker 4: I haven't seen any of them, though, I'll wait till all.
Speaker 4: Let's Celest weigh in on them first, and then I'll decide.
Speaker 2: The gentleman behind the two in the Pinku podcast have
Speaker 2: been pushing for these this week because supposedly they're pretty great.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 2: Next up, also on December seventeenth, on this as part
Speaker 2: of that line as Drops of Honey from nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2: This is an atmospheric, tragic, and melodramatic story of an
Speaker 2: ice hockey player who becomes obsessed with the mysterious red
Speaker 2: haired woman with the dark secret. The hockey player Alan
Speaker 2: has problems with his frigid wife, maybe because she's stuck
Speaker 2: on the hockey rink. After a match, he has turned
Speaker 2: on by the mysterious Eva. After a night of love making,
Speaker 2: they are separated. Alan eventually ends up at a sex
Speaker 2: club where his wife is making out with his best friend.
Speaker 2: Eva performs in a live sex show wearing only a
Speaker 2: pair of enormous swan wings. Alan is enchanted by Eva
Speaker 2: begins to desperately search for her. And this is Nikatsu's
Speaker 2: profound quote Bergmann film with several ingmar Bergmann like tropes,
Speaker 2: which I okay, I have to see this, Okay, well.
Speaker 4: Now I'm definitely like, yeah, there's another. I was kind
Speaker 4: of like, yeah, okay, I'm intrigued this one. I'm like,
Speaker 4: all these just the all the things you kept listening
Speaker 4: and then ending it with Bergmann. I'm like, all right, fine, fine.
Speaker 2: All those disparate words hockey, swan, sex club. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then Bergmann what a day? All right, and then pretty
Speaker 2: much the identical extra or some the other release. I
Speaker 2: think they all work comings at the same time. So
Speaker 2: that's nice. These look pretty good. I am eager to
Speaker 2: see them keeping it in the adult world. You can
Speaker 2: get from Ultra Flesh Lives or what is their full title,
Speaker 2: Ultra Flesh Archives. Right now, they're putting out wild Heart
Speaker 2: the Leslie Winston collection. This is a legend of the
Speaker 2: Golden Age of adult film and an Avian Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame inductee. Leslie Winston appeared in hundreds of magazines, nearly
Speaker 2: one hundred loops, films and videos during your career spanning
Speaker 2: two decades. This will be fifteen eight millimeters Super eight
Speaker 2: films transferred and restored in HD with authentic film projector sound,
Speaker 2: full running commentary by Leslie Winston herself, a photo gallery.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a bonus Leslie Winston Loop Restoration
Speaker 2: featurette The Seculent Disco Sounds of Sex rare restored vintage
Speaker 2: nudy film, four panel color inserts, double sided cover art,
Speaker 2: die cut info card with a strip of eight milimeter
Speaker 2: film included with it. There's an exclusive Leslie Winston trading
Speaker 2: card all house at a Beautiful spot, class side load
Speaker 2: sleeve and this has about three hours of footage in there.
Speaker 2: Plus if you are one of the first five hundred
Speaker 2: to order, you can get the signature edition, which is
Speaker 2: going to be signed by Leslie Winston herself.
Speaker 4: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: It is a lot.
Speaker 4: I'll wait again for Celestiowagan on this one.
Speaker 2: Fail. Celest definitely will. I love this joke. Silent Mannible's
Speaker 2: thought when I said AVN Hall of Famer, he thought,
Speaker 2: I'm at Avian like she's part red sir. Hilarious. All right,
Speaker 2: next exit proto cal from this year is coming on
Speaker 2: a BDR Blu ray on January sixth from Welgo USA
Speaker 2: or on a DVD. This is starring Dolph Lundgren Michael J.
Speaker 2: White and that cover art is not putting a lot
Speaker 2: of confidence in my soul.
Speaker 4: No moving on, but there's a trailer Erica.
Speaker 2: No, let's talk about this one because this is one
Speaker 2: of the more exciting ditions.
Speaker 4: Tell Yeah.
Speaker 2: February twenty third on Blu ray from Third Window Films
Speaker 2: over in the UK is the Angel Guts collection covering
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine to ninety four. We've got Angel Guts,
Speaker 2: Red Classroom, Angel Gets Nami, Angel Gets Red, Porno, Angel
Speaker 2: Gets Red, Vertigo and then Angel Gets Red. Flash is
Speaker 2: on here as like a bonus film. It was also
Speaker 2: in their Tales of Nomi collection that they put out recently.
Speaker 2: On Red Classroom, we got a new commentary by Jasper Sharp,
Speaker 2: we got a visual essay by Frankie Boboa to archival
Speaker 2: interviews with Takashie on It Not Me. We get a
Speaker 2: new commentary by Jasper Sharp, new visual essay by James Belmont,
Speaker 2: and an archival interview with Niboru Tanaka. On Red pornoe.
Speaker 2: We got a commentary by Tom Mess, another commentary by
Speaker 2: Sam Degan, an archival interview with Toshi Haru a Keita,
Speaker 2: and an archival interview with Takashi and then that bonus
Speaker 2: disc Like I said, it's a copy from that last collection,
Speaker 2: but Angel gots tell us about it.
Speaker 4: Erica, I honestly like, I have these downloaded and I
Speaker 4: can go delete them now. I got them from perfectly
Speaker 4: legal means I should back backtrack there first s, but
Speaker 4: I'm I'm gonna hold out, and I'm I can't wait.
Speaker 4: I've been meaning to watch it as they've just been
Speaker 4: like sitting on on a pile on my computer. But yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I'm super excited. All the people and Frankie Balboa is
Speaker 4: on this Sam Tom Mess like all I'm in like
Speaker 4: you got all the movies and there I'm oh wow,
Speaker 4: this is this is gonna be the announcement of the
Speaker 4: night for me. This is awesome. See, this is why
Speaker 4: I ignored your page all week so you can get
Speaker 4: a genuine reaction ont of me, so I can be
Speaker 4: like fuck that I don't care about this, Like oh
Speaker 4: hell yeah, Angel.
Speaker 2: Guts this is one. Like I'm shocked more people didn't
Speaker 2: reach out to you just say, dude, how excited are you?
Speaker 4: I mean people only reach out to me about dead kids,
Speaker 4: so you branded very well. Yeah I tried. Although Adam
Speaker 4: in the chat seems a little disconcerted about the the
Speaker 4: frequent discussion of dead children.
Speaker 2: So that's true.
Speaker 4: Sorry, guy.
Speaker 2: It's the lessons be Eric Rbigadic. It's of legal adjacent cinema.
Speaker 2: I mean the amount of times I watch PLEX and
Speaker 2: ask other people to get me films so I can
Speaker 2: edit with them. Yes, I'm not fully against it.
Speaker 4: If they were just available everywhere and people weren't like
Speaker 4: gatekeeping them and saying like, oh, just you know you
Speaker 4: can't have them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, if they're just easier to have movies, then I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have to, you know, go roundabout ways. But anyway,
Speaker 4: Bank this is exciting too.
Speaker 2: It is, and it's kind of an interesting one to
Speaker 2: dive into here. So February ninth, Hammer over in the
Speaker 2: UK is releasing the film Crve the Banshee from nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy on four KM blu ray. Now what's interesting This
Speaker 2: is not a Hammer film. This is a film being
Speaker 2: released by Hammer, not a Hammer film, starring Vincent Price
Speaker 2: and it is one of Gordon Hesler and Chris Wickings
Speaker 2: acclaimed run of films for aip UK. This has been
Speaker 2: painstakingly restored by Hammer and four K from the original negatives.
Speaker 2: We are going to have the original director's cut in
Speaker 2: both widescreen and full frame aspect ratios and AIPS re
Speaker 2: edited theatrical version, alongside new and archival materials. We had
Speaker 2: a new commentary by Chris Alexander, new interview with Kim Newman,
Speaker 2: our crivial interview with the director Gordon Hessler. And then
Speaker 2: we need to talk about too, the fact that we've
Speaker 2: got a brand new line to talk about. So this
Speaker 2: is Hammer Presents. This is the first title in Hammer Presents.
Speaker 2: And they have just by what they're doing and like
Speaker 2: what they've funded for their restoration work and all that,
Speaker 2: they've acquired a bunch of other catalogs and they can't
Speaker 2: just release those under the name of Hammer because they're
Speaker 2: not Hammer Films. So we have Hammer Presents. Every title
Speaker 2: in the Hammer Presents collection will be sourced from brand
Speaker 2: new HD restorations by award winning partner Silver Salt Restoration.
Speaker 2: I kind of like that they are telling us who
Speaker 2: is doing the restoration work. You've got a name associated
Speaker 2: with it. Most companies do not say that they are
Speaker 2: going to ensure that they're consistently at exceptional standards for
Speaker 2: what they're releasing. Audio is carefully clean, visual detail from
Speaker 2: the original film materials is preserved always. Each edition will
Speaker 2: also feature a focused set of special features designed to
Speaker 2: illuminate the film's history, craft, and cultural impact, giving context
Speaker 2: for all of their releases. This will continue with future
Speaker 2: releases spanning folk core, gothic terror, psychological thrillers, and cult
Speaker 2: classics from across British horror specifically. And then they they
Speaker 2: announced a second release coming soon will be a Blu
Speaker 2: ray only released not four K of the incredibly strange
Speaker 2: and unsettling Crucible of Horror. So you got something else
Speaker 2: looked for? Cry the Banshee tell us about it.
Speaker 4: I'm very excited. Well, I like Cry of the Banchee.
Speaker 4: I'm not like, oh, like you know, must own, but
Speaker 4: the fact that it's being presented by Hammer and all
Speaker 4: of this, Like, have you bought any of the Hammers released?
Speaker 2: I I will say the one Curse of the Vampire
Speaker 2: that they did and Warner Archive did. I opted for
Speaker 2: the Warner one or the Hammer One Blown Away. The
Speaker 2: amount of attention into everything is astonishing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like so we have three soon to be four
Speaker 4: after Christmas, that's okay. John won't watch us, he won't know.
Speaker 4: But those have been just nominal releases, like It's It's
Speaker 4: It's It's a hefty price tag for one movie, but
Speaker 4: the amount that goes into that, and you know, just
Speaker 4: the book that goes in all of it, it's just amazing.
Speaker 4: Like I think the quator Mess one he had also
Speaker 4: had like three different versions of something I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I don't have them next to me, but I would
Speaker 4: have come more prepared if I knew, like this was
Speaker 4: in the announcements tonight. But yeah, John, who keeps getting
Speaker 4: mentioned is my partner. So the I'm excited about this.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about this Hammer presents and that they're not
Speaker 4: just doing their own films and that, and I hope
Speaker 4: Kim Newman is on every single release, just like Frank
Speaker 4: Jang should be on every single Hong Kong release in
Speaker 4: some capacity, then I would I think Kim Newman should
Speaker 4: be on all these.
Speaker 2: So I agree anything British Kim Newman should be on
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 4: Anything I could listen to talk about any movie. I
Speaker 4: just reu watched Slash listen to Candy Man with Kim
Speaker 4: Newman and I can't remember who else did the commentary with.
Speaker 4: And I mean, man, if I could just like, I
Speaker 4: would just love to just sit down and talk to him.
Speaker 4: I'm like Kim Newman, if you ever just need someone
Speaker 4: that you can just yap at during a commentary, I
Speaker 4: probably won't off I won't be able to offer very much,
Speaker 4: but I would love to just sit and listen to
Speaker 4: you talk about this movie?
Speaker 2: Was that one with Rigby as well? On Candy Man?
Speaker 2: I think or Jonathan or Kevin Lyons?
Speaker 4: Maybe I think it was Kevin Lyons. I don't think
Speaker 4: it was Rigby.
Speaker 2: Brandon is asking was Cruciple of Horror in the vs?
Speaker 2: Cruel Britannia set no very similarly name titled that is
Speaker 2: a Crucible of Terror, not Crucible of Horror? Get your
Speaker 2: crucible straight, Brandon? Just kidding, Yeah, different movie entirely, so, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're not double dipping if you're after this one. I
Speaker 2: love this, like, I don't know if this is a
Speaker 2: compliment or not. Adam says, Kim can talk. Kim can talk,
Speaker 2: and my favorite thing if you get him on a
Speaker 2: film that he not even loves, because Kim loves a
Speaker 2: lot of movies, but if you get him on one
Speaker 2: that he is enamored with, like put him in a
Speaker 2: room and say, what can you tell me about Let's
Speaker 2: talk Jessica or let's scare Jessica to death. You'll be
Speaker 2: in there. He'll talk you to death. That is one
Speaker 2: of the movies, all right. Next up is the brand
Speaker 2: new film that Eric is probably dying to see. January
Speaker 2: twentieth four K and Blu ray here in the US
Speaker 2: from twentieth Century aka Disney of Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere,
Speaker 2: starring Jeremy Allen White. Bonus features on this. They've got
Speaker 2: a four act documentary called The Liner Notes Making Springsteen
Speaker 2: Deliver Me from Nowhere. It's got just four This seems lazy.
Speaker 2: It's just four featurettes put into one documentary, So not
Speaker 2: not much there. This movie is bad. Don't feel bad.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: Instead, let's talk about nicod Embish. January thirteenth, Music Box
Speaker 2: Films putting out a Blu ray and DVD of Naked
Speaker 2: Ambition from twenty twenty three. This is about Bunny Yeger
Speaker 2: Bunny was a trailblazer who's work bucked against conservative nineteen
Speaker 2: fifties America and helped pave the way for the feminist
Speaker 2: movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes that
Speaker 2: she helped usher in would soon render her forgotten relic
Speaker 2: until now I've heard this is really great. This has
Speaker 2: pieces with Betty Page, who Hefner, Larry King, a bunch
Speaker 2: of people that were involved in the scene, like diedemon Tees,
Speaker 2: Bruce Weber or sorry, Diedevon Tess. I don't know why
Speaker 2: I said Diedevon Tees. Yeah, there is a lot here.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it, but I'm interested.
Speaker 2: All right? Next up, are you not watch anime? I
Speaker 2: don't think I've ever heard you talk about may much.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought. February twenty fourth, we got a
Speaker 2: blu Ray steal book in the US coming from Sentai
Speaker 2: of two point five dimensional Seduction. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's how you say it, two and a half two
Speaker 2: dot five, who knows. From twenty twenty four you can
Speaker 2: order that now. It's got four swappable magnetic covers. If
Speaker 2: you want to personalize your steel.
Speaker 4: Book, I'm good someone's gonna come for you. From mispronouncing
Speaker 4: Mike whatever, you just misprote Oh those animate kids, man,
Speaker 4: they're vicious definitely.
Speaker 2: But now, oh go on, tell us why you adore
Speaker 2: Eli Roth?
Speaker 4: I fucking hate that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah? What is it? A brand new VHS of Cabin Fever?
Speaker 4: Why nobody wants this? Nobody? Nobody cares? Go away, Eli Roth?
Speaker 4: Stop talking?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love how this says. What's included? A special
Speaker 2: edition VHS copy of the original unrated film. That's it,
Speaker 2: So check it out if you want thirty dollars when
Speaker 2: you can get I believe the original VHS of this
Speaker 2: was like probably like eleven dollars on eBay last week.
Speaker 4: If that people should never mind. Yeah, see Adam knows. Yeah,
Speaker 4: let's skip this one. Nobody cares.
Speaker 2: Somebody cares about vhs. It's not me.
Speaker 4: I mean I have like a few vhs. I have
Speaker 4: like five or six vhs. I told Will this in
Speaker 4: when he was in your stream last time. I sent
Speaker 4: him a message and I was like, hey, I've got
Speaker 4: vibrations on VHS. It's one of the few vhs I have.
Speaker 4: I have that in my original fun George Lucas fucked
Speaker 4: with Star Wars trilogy. I have those that's it, and
Speaker 4: a couple of like just random vhs owned a few
Speaker 4: big box ones like I got one Emmanuel Big Box
Speaker 4: and The Devil and Miss Jones and I can't remember
Speaker 4: see no one cares about vhs. I don't care about
Speaker 4: my own collection. Let's go.
Speaker 2: That's really funny. And I should say I care about
Speaker 2: a lot of the vhs, not not so much new
Speaker 2: releases of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, especially what is Eli Roth? No one cares about.
Speaker 2: My Wroth second site on February twenty third, releasing a
Speaker 2: deluxe four K box set and then a standard Blu
Speaker 2: ray and four K of The Ugly Stepsister February twenty third,
Speaker 2: Brandy twenty twenty five film. I really want to know
Speaker 2: did you get a chance to see this one?
Speaker 4: I like how you frame it as did you get
Speaker 4: a chance to see this as if like I rush
Speaker 4: out to go see new movies. Well, unless somebody tells
Speaker 4: me that there's a dead kidnet.
Speaker 2: No kid, But I truly think this would be up
Speaker 2: your alley. This is a body horror version of Cinderella
Speaker 2: done in a very unique way. Okay, it is truly great,
Speaker 2: look you think about it.
Speaker 4: I'm not showing out money for this, but I'm okay, well, Celeste,
Speaker 4: all right, I'll think about I'll think about watching it,
Speaker 4: but I'm not paying money for it.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, So this is gonna be if you buy
Speaker 2: the deluxe four K box that you get the four
Speaker 2: K disc and the Blu ray disc. We've got a
Speaker 2: new audio commentary with the director and with filmmaker Patrick
Speaker 2: siverson the director is Emily Bitchfeldt. I think that's that's
Speaker 2: probably wrong. I have to say that. Let me see, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's already wrong. I shouldn't have said that it's blitchfeld
Speaker 2: there's an l in there. Then we got a new
Speaker 2: commentary by Megan Navarro, who is great, glad to see
Speaker 2: her on a release, new interview with the director, a
Speaker 2: new interview with one of the actors, sorry, a couple
Speaker 2: of the actors, a new interview with one of the
Speaker 2: effects artists. We've got the Effects of the Ugly step Sister,
Speaker 2: Kat Hughes speaking on the Ugly Stepsister, some short films.
Speaker 2: I love that they're doing that. And then a booklet
Speaker 2: in this with writing by a bunch of great people.
Speaker 2: Bj Colangelo, Michelle Kisner, Kimberly Lezak, Jeline Marie Richardson, Katie Rife,
Speaker 2: and Amber.
Speaker 4: T Okay, Well, Michelle's in there, so that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like most of these people great looking. Really
Speaker 2: I need this tomorrow. I'm curious what you're gonna say
Speaker 2: about Gilmore Girls the Complete series, you know what?
Speaker 4: All Right, So every time someone brings up Gilmore Girls,
Speaker 4: they're like, oh, Erica, you must love this show, right,
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I've never seen it. They're like, you've
Speaker 4: never seen Gilmore I'm like, no, I've never seen Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 4: Like what about this show? Would you think like I
Speaker 4: would go out of my way to walk?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: And they're like oh, but they're like, you know, snarky
Speaker 4: and witty, like you know, I'm like, that doesn't I
Speaker 4: don't want to watch myself, Like I don't even like that.
Speaker 4: I'm here, like that I could, I'm here, I could
Speaker 4: see myself like there. I don't like this.
Speaker 2: So May fifth, uh May fifth. Warner Brothers is releasing
Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls the Complete Series on Blu Ray for the
Speaker 2: first time anywhere, and a lot of people are very
Speaker 2: happy about that. There will be twenty eight discs and
Speaker 2: there it will be around one hundred and forty dollars
Speaker 2: at retail. It'll probably go down some after that, of course.
Speaker 2: And if you want another TV show, you've got January twentieth,
Speaker 2: Lucifer the Complete Series coming on Blu Ray for the
Speaker 2: first time as a complete set. We'll have twenty two
Speaker 2: discs and also be around one hundred and forty bucks.
Speaker 4: I have never even heard of that show.
Speaker 2: I don't think I had either. January twenty seven, the
Speaker 2: Blu Ray released, coming from Universal of The Thing with
Speaker 2: Feathers from this year. This is starring Benedict Cumberbatch and
Speaker 2: it is about Benedict Cumberbatch's character being left alone to
Speaker 2: raise his two young sons after his wife is killed
Speaker 2: in an accident. And this is if you have been
Speaker 2: against the like A twenty four and horror versions of
Speaker 2: Trauma the movie, this is literally just pure Trauma the
Speaker 2: movie How to deal with Grief. That being said, there
Speaker 2: is some pretty cool creature effects on this. I didn't
Speaker 2: love the movie, but there is a giant crow in
Speaker 2: this movie and they do some pretty cool things with that.
Speaker 2: It's got some creepy imagery.
Speaker 4: Is that what is on his face is that like.
Speaker 2: It is meant to be like surrealist imagery in a way. Okay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Literally scratched my screen because I thought there was something
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 2: Nope, your screen is fine. Here we go. This April
Speaker 2: third is really cool. We're getting a four K release
Speaker 2: from the band themselves of The Warning live from the
Speaker 2: Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City from twenty twenty five. This
Speaker 2: is a band that I've heard a few times. That
Speaker 2: is great and I'd be curious to see this. Probably
Speaker 2: will not get this myself, but you got twenty five tracks,
Speaker 2: all recording, four K plus behind the scenes documentary and
Speaker 2: alternative music videos. Are you into any of these concert
Speaker 2: films on Blu ray or four K? Right now? Ryan,
Speaker 2: come on, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 4: Sorry, what was your best?
Speaker 2: It's all right, let's talk about animes April fourteenth. There's
Speaker 2: a Blu ray coming from g Kids of Colorful Stage,
Speaker 2: the movie A Miku Who Can't Sing from twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: You've got twenty after show concerts, unit two D music videos,
Speaker 2: non credits openings whatever. All those means. I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about this. Enjoy I'm going to the next one.
Speaker 4: Good for people who are fans.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, the big controversy of the last twenty
Speaker 2: four hours. Imprint Films in Australia has announced that they
Speaker 2: are changing their release for Halloween one through five, four
Speaker 2: case steel books that were coming in that pumpkin holder
Speaker 2: set that was supposed to light up and so. Their
Speaker 2: statement here says, it has been a long road to
Speaker 2: Halloween one through five, with our planned October release pushed
Speaker 2: out to December due to manufacturing delays and then many
Speaker 2: challenges along the way. Unfortunately, we have found a manufacturing
Speaker 2: flaw at the final stages of shipping with our limited
Speaker 2: edition Jack O Lantern packaging. This has led us to
Speaker 2: cancel distribution of this release at all. The unacceptable structural
Speaker 2: defect compromise the integrity of the pumpkin packaging only and
Speaker 2: in no way affects the discs or the steel books themselves.
Speaker 2: This discussion or sorry, this decision has not been made lightly,
Speaker 2: but ultimately, as the packaging did not pass our rigorous
Speaker 2: quality standards, we cannot allow it to market in good conscience.
Speaker 2: Despite the setback, we are pleased to be reimagining the
Speaker 2: collection with this a brand new, limited editional steel book
Speaker 2: library packaging. They will be housing those in that it
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Speaker 2: given the option to receive the newly repackaged limited edition
Speaker 2: Steel Book Library collection with a partial refund, or you
Speaker 2: can get a full refund, so they're giving you they're
Speaker 2: giving you options. There at least any refunded units will
Speaker 2: become available for the wider public to pre order in January,
Speaker 2: once the needs of our existing customers have all been served.
Speaker 2: And here is a picture of that Steel Book Library
Speaker 2: that they are now releasing with all five of the
Speaker 2: first five Halloween films housed in this steel book library.
Speaker 2: So yes, originally announced as coming in the back of
Speaker 2: a pumpkin that lights up, now it is coming in
Speaker 2: a steel book library collection that You've seen a handful
Speaker 2: of these out there, I'm sure this is. This is
Speaker 2: lit the boutique blu Ray industry community online on fire essentially.
Speaker 2: So the big things here. The refund they're offering people
Speaker 2: is fifty dollars Australian to go from the light up
Speaker 2: pumpkin to house them to this which in US money
Speaker 2: thirty three dollars. That's the refund that they're offering, or
Speaker 2: you can get a full refund. So I like the options. However,
Speaker 2: I would say thirty three dollars US is way not
Speaker 2: enough for a change like this. I think it should
Speaker 2: have been probably more than double that.
Speaker 4: Did they have like a mogup of what the pumpkin
Speaker 4: was supposed to look like, I'm curious, you don't know, fee.
Speaker 2: Like they did it was a literal picture of like
Speaker 2: a spirit Halloween esque plastic pumpkin, and then on the
Speaker 2: back was just like this steel book library, like five
Speaker 2: slots in the back of a pumpkin to hold the
Speaker 2: five steel books, and it had a little switch on
Speaker 2: the cord to light it up while it's sitting on
Speaker 2: your shelf, so.
Speaker 4: You put the discs in the pumpkins butt essentially.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yes, this was due out in October a
Speaker 2: couple months ago, got delayed to December. And now here's
Speaker 2: where it starts to sting for some of these people
Speaker 2: that really wanted the pumpkin thing. They sent out emails
Speaker 2: this week saying we've received the pumpkins and we're getting
Speaker 2: ready to pack these out. You'll be receiving shipping in
Speaker 2: the next few days, and then out of nowhere, yesterday
Speaker 2: they sent out this notice on social media, started emailing
Speaker 2: people and said it has been canceled and this is
Speaker 2: what we're changing it to. So the original release of
Speaker 2: this was five hundred Australian dollars, which in US money
Speaker 2: like three three twenty something like that. Not after five
Speaker 2: hundred five hundred Australian still yeah, and so now four
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty Australian for this library collection. No, immediately,
Speaker 2: it's quite expensive.
Speaker 4: I'm good, I'll keep I still have my Halloween DVD.
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 2: There's a lot here. I imagine most people will choose
Speaker 2: to refund fully. The partial refund is kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: I have a feeling that it's not as nefarious as
Speaker 2: some people are making it out. To me, the number
Speaker 2: of times I've seen somebody say the word's bait and
Speaker 2: switch over the last twenty four hours that clearly don't
Speaker 2: know what bait and switch means has been through the roof.
Speaker 2: That being said, the fact that they actually received them
Speaker 2: and then found the problem. I'm not going to say
Speaker 2: I sympathize necessarily with the pricing and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I do, on one hand, feel awful about Imprint because
Speaker 2: they are going to take a huge bath on this
Speaker 2: no matter what. They're about to lose a ton of money.
Speaker 4: So they have the pumpkins, but they're not going to
Speaker 4: ship them in. The pumpkins, yes.
Speaker 2: It to me, it sounds like they are probably gonna
Speaker 2: crumble as they get shipped out to people like they
Speaker 2: they It's probably that the walls of the pumpkin itself
Speaker 2: are not sturdy enough to literally hold steel, which you
Speaker 2: probably should have figured that out before you went to
Speaker 2: the process of producing them.
Speaker 4: They should sell them at like some Australian you know,
Speaker 4: con or something like that get their money back. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I feel for everybody that really wanted this
Speaker 2: and aren't going to get it. I feel for Imprint
Speaker 2: in the fact that they're going to lose a lot
Speaker 2: of money. That being said, there's been a lot of
Speaker 2: problems throughout this entire thing and it's a mess. And
Speaker 2: no matter what side that you are hoping for the
Speaker 2: outcome to be, this all this all stinks. And I'm
Speaker 2: sorry silent fists with Blu rays genus Speaking of bait
Speaker 2: and switch. Wasn't the television secret title supposed to be
Speaker 2: to de listed after alloway? Now it's back up even
Speaker 2: though we know what it is? Right? Am I wrong
Speaker 2: about something? I didn't know it was back up on their website.
Speaker 2: You're right. It was supposed to be delisted and it
Speaker 2: was supposed to be up with some third party retailers.
Speaker 2: Only you know they did change their website. I wonder
Speaker 2: if it's accidentally has anybody told them that it's listed.
Speaker 2: They might not even know who?
Speaker 4: Wait, what is it the secret title?
Speaker 2: Well, for anybody that doesn't want to know what the
Speaker 2: Terror Vision secret title is, could maybe it's still coming.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 4: We'll look it up. If you don't want to like
Speaker 4: you for the.
Speaker 2: Next ten seconds, that's it because it's not a big deal.
Speaker 2: So it is Dark Harvest from nineteen ninety two, the
Speaker 2: SOOV film that Inner Vision had released on DVD. Okay,
Speaker 2: we did have a special feature on the disc, so
Speaker 2: go get it if you don't have it yet. All right.
Speaker 2: That is the steel book debacle of the week. Next up,
Speaker 2: February twenty third. Speaking of steel books, the BBC in
Speaker 2: the UK is releasing a steel book of the War
Speaker 2: between the Land and the Sea Season one, which is
Speaker 2: a Doctor Who's spinoff, which means I have a feeling
Speaker 2: you've never seen it, never.
Speaker 4: Will I don't say that. What is it called?
Speaker 2: It is called the War between the Land and the Sea?
Speaker 2: It is a Doctor Who spin off series.
Speaker 4: Hold the War between the what's it in the Land
Speaker 4: and the Sea? Yeah, it's about the sea devils from
Speaker 4: the Third Doctors era?
Speaker 2: But no, I haven't watched it.
Speaker 4: See look for.
Speaker 2: Thanks John, Hey, that's the job that everybody was asking
Speaker 2: about the uh. Next up, David Lynch is The Straight
Speaker 2: Story getting a four K release over in the UK
Speaker 2: from Studio Canal. Uh, this is coming on February ninth.
Speaker 2: And now this had been released this exact same package
Speaker 2: and all that by Studio Canal, but in Germany, and
Speaker 2: something must have happened and they couldn't release in the
Speaker 2: UK yet, and now they are. This is a wonderful movie.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on straight story?
Speaker 4: I love Richard Farnsworth. Ah, yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 4: i'd want to Yeah, I'd probably want to own this maybe. Anyway,
Speaker 4: if you haven't seen it, you should watch it, folks.
Speaker 2: This is probably the most, like I probably shouldn't say, probably,
Speaker 2: this is the most underrated David Lynch film by far.
Speaker 2: Everybody harps on so many of the other ones, and
Speaker 2: this gets forgotten quite often.
Speaker 4: I forget sometimes too that it's David Lynch. But yeah
Speaker 4: it is. It's a great movie.
Speaker 2: Celeste asking is this a big deal because it's Disney.
Speaker 2: It's not Disney in the UK or Germany. I think
Speaker 2: Disney only owns the rights to this in the US. Actually,
Speaker 2: So that's the big deal here, I guess is if
Speaker 2: you want this and you want everything in English, this
Speaker 2: is the way to get it, and not the German
Speaker 2: release because Criterion probably can't release this here in the
Speaker 2: US because of Disney, although who knows, Disney could surprise,
Speaker 2: but that is unlikely. All right, Next up Arrow announcements today.
Speaker 2: This is rare. Usually we get Will to discuss Aaro
Speaker 2: announcements and we get Erica this month March second, we
Speaker 2: get a Blu ray release over in the UK of
Speaker 2: Calvert from two thousand and four. Have you seen this one?
Speaker 4: I have not.
Speaker 2: This is this is a rough one and I hope
Speaker 2: people check us out because this movie is pretty great French.
Speaker 2: It's early on in the New French extremity era, so
Speaker 2: some people coun't it, some people don't. It's there's some
Speaker 2: people that are you know how people get kind of
Speaker 2: territorial about that that term. This one says a terrifying,
Speaker 2: darkly comic tale that drew comparisons to Deliverance, straw Dogs
Speaker 2: and the Texas Chainsaw Masacre.
Speaker 4: Well, I so.
Speaker 2: Right, gripping, utterly involving thriller that will put you through
Speaker 2: the ringer. This has an archival commentary by the director.
Speaker 2: We got an archival commentary by the director of the production.
Speaker 2: Does new commentary by bj and Harmony Clangelo. Introduction by
Speaker 2: the director we got a twenty three and two thousand
Speaker 2: and five archival interviews with the director, new appreciation by
Speaker 2: Whitney Caitlin McLay, who is great. We've got archival making
Speaker 2: a featurette. There is storyboarding, all that other stuff, some
Speaker 2: short films, and then a collector's book with new writing
Speaker 2: by Anton Mattel Simon what is that last name? Hobbs,
Speaker 2: Cerice Howard, and Alexandra Heller Nicholas, who's on pretty much
Speaker 2: every release. Yeah, Calvert is great.
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem just from the comments, it doesn't sound
Speaker 4: like a rewatchable movie very much. So yeah, like Dustin said,
Speaker 4: so library, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That probably makes sense for you. Then another one that's
Speaker 2: quite tense, nineteen seventy seven's Black Sunday coming up March
Speaker 2: ninth on Blu Ray in the UK. This had been
Speaker 2: released previously but not in the UK, so is coming
Speaker 2: Robert Shaw film. Any thoughts on this one since we've
Speaker 2: covered this one before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like this one a lot. Actually it's Frankenheimer, right, yes, Mack, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I like this one. I think my I think I
Speaker 4: actually covered this on my old podcast, the one that
Speaker 4: I wiped from the internet.
Speaker 2: But right, yeah, it's a good movie. Not a lot
Speaker 2: of people talk about this one quite tense like this one.
Speaker 2: All right. March sixteenth, Arrow is releasing a four K
Speaker 2: of Spaceballs over in the UK. Only don't forget Keno
Speaker 2: has already released this on four K here in the US.
Speaker 2: That being said, I do like that they literally titled
Speaker 2: this on the cover Spaceballs the UHD and then when
Speaker 2: you when you zoom in on the postcards, it says
Speaker 2: Spaceball is the Postcard. That being said, there's no new
Speaker 2: extras on this and no booklet, which is really rare
Speaker 2: for Arrow, so they kind of just licensed everything and
Speaker 2: put it out there. But Keino on their four K
Speaker 2: release they had a couple of lines of dialogue that
Speaker 2: we're missing the audio, and supposedly Arrow has fixed everything.
Speaker 2: So I think, you know, if you love this movie
Speaker 2: and you don't have the Keno, this is definitely the
Speaker 2: way to go. If you really love this movie and
Speaker 2: you want to fix what you got and sell yours off,
Speaker 2: you still might want to get this to replace it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Spaseball, it's a great movie. Love it.
Speaker 4: Ero can't fix everything. Ryan, just you know.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about more stuff than they.
Speaker 4: I'm just no, I'm just saying like in general, you know,
Speaker 4: like therapy is more helpful.
Speaker 2: I mean, it depends on the person. You gotta be
Speaker 2: open to that. Okay, speaking of things, that Arrow Is
Speaker 2: Fixed coming on March thirtieth, four K and Blu ray
Speaker 2: release over in the UK of Hard Boiled. First, I
Speaker 2: know not everybody's into it, but I love this Tony
Speaker 2: Stella art.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 2: I think this is a pretty big improvement over the
Speaker 2: bright green, chow yun fat art that we've got in
Speaker 2: the US. This is going to include this double sided
Speaker 2: poster with the original and new art by Tony Stella,
Speaker 2: collector's book with new writing on the film by Priscilla Page,
Speaker 2: and some archival writing and an interview with John Wu.
Speaker 2: We've got all the same extras that were on the
Speaker 2: Shout release, so you're not missing anything if you did
Speaker 2: not get the Shout release and you want this one.
Speaker 2: But this does have a couple extra archival extras that
Speaker 2: were not on the Shout release. Now, the other big thing,
Speaker 2: this has brand new subtitles. These Shout subtitles are reviewed
Speaker 2: as not very good and these are going to be
Speaker 2: much better. And then I got confirmation from Brandon Bentley,
Speaker 2: who works on a lot of the Hong Kong releases
Speaker 2: for Shout and Arrow and all these other companies, that
Speaker 2: he fixed some of his own things and some other
Speaker 2: stuff that slipped by on the Shout release, And so
Speaker 2: there's going to be like, if you want the perfect
Speaker 2: version of this, this is going to be the closest
Speaker 2: to that. He did some audio tweaks, he did some
Speaker 2: other stuff behind the scenes, so this is going to
Speaker 2: be the same scam, but some things might be ever
Speaker 2: so slightly different, probably not enough for you to worry about.
Speaker 2: But if you did not get the Shout, this is
Speaker 2: by far the one to get.
Speaker 4: I did not get it, and I think because I
Speaker 4: think a lot of people in the discord said that
Speaker 4: they thought it was coming from somebody else.
Speaker 2: So it is. It's still coming from Imprint in Australia,
Speaker 2: and then it is also coming from that Italian company,
Speaker 2: the Masters, I believe is what they're called. And then
Speaker 2: Carlata and France is also releasing it. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of releases.
Speaker 4: Of Hard Boiled coming, Well let's get this one.
Speaker 2: It's the best choice. And I should not have clicked
Speaker 2: where I just clicked next one is broken red Sonia
Speaker 2: getting a four K release here in the US from aerow.
Speaker 2: This was released in the UK by Studio Canal with
Speaker 2: a horrendous transfer. Supposedly this fixes all of that and
Speaker 2: it is much much better. We got a new commentary
Speaker 2: by somebody we just mentioned, Eugenie or Kalani and Troy Howard.
Speaker 2: New commentary with the comic book expert Dave Baxter. New
Speaker 2: interview with the actor Ernie Rayes Junior. New interview with
Speaker 2: the action unit supervisor Vic Armstrong, new interview with Schwarzenegger's
Speaker 2: stunt double, new interview with a stuntman, new interview with
Speaker 2: the assistant production manager, new intern of the Xbox artist.
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of stuff. This is a stacked, stacked,
Speaker 2: stacked release. There is also going to be on here
Speaker 2: making a Misunderstanding archival interview with the assistant director, and
Speaker 2: then a Collector's Perfect Band booklet with new writing on
Speaker 2: the film by John Walsh, Nanni Cobretti, and Barry Forshaw.
Speaker 2: Are you a red Sonia.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've seen it since I was a kid.
Speaker 4: I didn't immediately get excited learning about this, so I'm good, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I know, I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people would love to own this, but I don't think
Speaker 4: I need to. I'm good.
Speaker 2: I get that immensely. How about Corey Feldman's movie The
Speaker 2: Birthday from two thousand and four. March sixteenth in the
Speaker 2: UK March seventeenth in North America. You get a four
Speaker 2: K or a Blu Ray release of two thousand and
Speaker 2: four's The Birthday. This has been unreleased for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 2: The Birthday has achieved near mythic status among a cult
Speaker 2: film enthusiast. Shot on a single, meticulously designed location, Eugenio
Speaker 2: Mira's deliriously offbeat dark comedy offers a career best turn
Speaker 2: from Corey Feldman, playing wildly against type, this is rediscovered
Speaker 2: at last. The Birthday blends screwball comedy, cosmic horror, and
Speaker 2: feverish style into an unforgettable cinematic experience restored from the
Speaker 2: original Negative Arrow is proud to present the one of
Speaker 2: a kind descent into madness in the release It's always Deserved.
Speaker 2: This has an audio commentary by Corey Feldman and the
Speaker 2: director Eugenio Mira. A new interview with Mira shot exclusively
Speaker 2: for this release. There is going to be an in
Speaker 2: depth breakdown of a scene from the film by Mira,
Speaker 2: featuring archival behind the scenes footage, storyboards and rushes. You
Speaker 2: and a from twenty twenty four with Corey Feldman, a
Speaker 2: mirror from the film's twentieth anniversary screening Fantastic Fest in Austin,
Speaker 2: then a collector's book with new writing on the film
Speaker 2: by Brian Reeseman. Are you super into this?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I think you got a spammer in the chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah I do, but nobody's watching on Twitch, so we're cool.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I am not into this at all. I
Speaker 4: am mildly intrigued by the thought of a Corey Feldman
Speaker 4: commentary because I feel like that would be hilarious. But no,
Speaker 4: I don't have any interest in this.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. I'm not super stoked either,
Speaker 2: all right, One, I am stoked for coming out March
Speaker 2: thirtieth in the UK, March thirty first here in North America,
Speaker 2: Blu Ray release of the Samurai Revolution trilogy. This is
Speaker 2: from nineteen sixty three, nineteen sixty four, nineteen six seven.
Speaker 2: Have you seen one or all of these?
Speaker 5: I have not.
Speaker 4: No, I think these are ones that I've been wanting
Speaker 4: to see as well, so be happy to see them
Speaker 4: in this form. I actually have these on DVD. I
Speaker 4: don't know, but this is exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is very exciting films that need more attention.
Speaker 2: We've got thirteen Assassins, We've got The Great Killing, We've
Speaker 2: got eleven Samurai. Thirteen Assassins is a new commentary by
Speaker 2: Tom mess new visual essay by music supervisor Japanese cinema
Speaker 2: expert James Belmont on the legendary composer at kira if
Speaker 2: ukubs scored for the film. Archival interview on this one
Speaker 2: part one, and then the second part of that is
Speaker 2: on the second disc, we've got a new commentary by
Speaker 2: David West on The Great Killing, and then a new
Speaker 2: visual essay by Dix K. Miao on the cinematography scene
Speaker 2: in the film. And then Disc three, which is Levin Samurai,
Speaker 2: new commentary by David West, new visual essay by Jonathan Clements,
Speaker 2: and then the third part of that interview and an
Speaker 2: archival interview that's glue to their Yeah, this is this
Speaker 2: was a huge must for me.
Speaker 4: It's exciting.
Speaker 2: It says, each film portrays a group of honorable Samurai
Speaker 2: driven to plan the political assassination of a corrupt lord
Speaker 2: hoping to light the fuse that will eventually destroy the regime. Yes, please,
Speaker 2: it sounds like the films that we need right now.
Speaker 2: Next a big one March thirtieth in the UK. March
Speaker 2: thirty first here in North America, a four K release
Speaker 2: of Salem's Lot nineteen seventy nine. Salem's Lot. The big
Speaker 2: thing is this has both the original two part mini
Speaker 2: series and the shorter theatrical cut that was distributed internationally,
Speaker 2: so you can watch it as if it was on TV,
Speaker 2: or you can watch the one that screened in theaters,
Speaker 2: and it's in four K for both of them. This
Speaker 2: is going to have a collector's perfect band bucklet with
Speaker 2: new writing by Sean Abley, Sorcha nith Jon and Richard Cadre,
Speaker 2: plus select archival material including interviews with Toby Hooper and
Speaker 2: some more. We've got the on the original TV mini
Speaker 2: series version. There's two modes. You've got played as the
Speaker 2: mini series, as two parts, as for the original broadcast,
Speaker 2: or as one extended movie. And so the original broadcast
Speaker 2: will have the piece that came in the middle with
Speaker 2: the title screen and all that stuff, or you can
Speaker 2: watch the full extended version. New commentary on this one
Speaker 2: by Bill Ackerman, who was in the chat earlier, and
Speaker 2: Amanda Reya is eager to hear that we've got archival
Speaker 2: commentary by Hooper himself, and then alternate TV footage with
Speaker 2: commercial bumpers, and the original broadcast version of the Antler's Death.
Speaker 2: There is going to be a second disc here of
Speaker 2: the theatrical version. New commentary here by Chris Alexander from
Speaker 2: Delirium and Full Moon and all that. A new interview
Speaker 2: with Stephen King, biographer Douglas Winter, new appreciation by Great
Speaker 2: Grady Hendrix, new interview with Mick Garris on here. New
Speaker 2: featurette looking at the locations of Salem's Lot today. New
Speaker 2: featurette with Heather Wixon, and then the new featurette with
Speaker 2: film critics Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman, who are both
Speaker 2: the co hosts of the podcast Horror Queers Salem's Lot.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about that one? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think this this is a long overdue release. I know,
Speaker 4: I'm excited for Amanda and Bill. This is huge. I
Speaker 4: feel like she might have mentioned this to me a
Speaker 4: while ago, but anyway, I forgot about it. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, Reggie and Alder is amazing as Barlow in this.
Speaker 4: It's not my favorite King adaptation or even like Vampire Movie,
Speaker 4: but I mean this seems stacked and it's got like
Speaker 4: both versions in there. I think it'd be cool if
Speaker 4: like the televised version had like all the commercials in
Speaker 4: it too that stuff, But I know that's like, you know, unlikely,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean this looks like a great release,
Speaker 4: So this is probably something i'd wait to pick up
Speaker 4: on sale. And yeah, like somebody call will for a
Speaker 4: Toby Hooper release.
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't want to say it. Well, and
Speaker 2: he did. I'm dangerous tonight for Keno years ago. Anything
Speaker 2: that comes out brand new with with Toby Hooper, the
Speaker 2: people that literally wrote the book on Toby Hooper should
Speaker 2: be on the release. I know it's biased for me
Speaker 2: to call for it, but come on, it's it's what
Speaker 2: it's the right thing to do. Like if you google
Speaker 2: Toby Hooper academic, that's they're coming up.
Speaker 4: Come on, Yeah, with his luck, they'll give them gin.
Speaker 2: Honestly, he'd probably love to talk about it.
Speaker 4: Like for me, I would just be like, really, you're
Speaker 4: gonna give me that one, you know, of course.
Speaker 2: All right. Next, we've got a few compilations that were
Speaker 2: quietly revealed coming from more Archive today. Now, reminder, these
Speaker 2: are all the same discs that were released previously. You're
Speaker 2: getting the full disc for each film. You're not losing
Speaker 2: any features or anything. It's just that the films have
Speaker 2: made their money and now they're packaging these together to
Speaker 2: try to get them to you so that they can
Speaker 2: save you a little bit and hopefully they can sell
Speaker 2: more titles. So this first one, February seventeenth, is a
Speaker 2: four film collection of fred Astaire. You've got the Bandwagon,
Speaker 2: Silk Stockings, You've got Easter Parade, and then the last
Speaker 2: one is Finian's Rainbow. I don't think I've seen any
Speaker 2: of these, not seen many Freda Staire films for the
Speaker 2: most part. I think I've only seen a couple same.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not a Muspi for me, I get it. And then
Speaker 2: the other one is a Spencer Tracy collection. It's coming
Speaker 2: on the same day. This one has Fury, Bad Day
Speaker 2: at black Rock, Libeled Lady, and Northwest Passage. I think
Speaker 2: I've probably seen more in Spencer Tracy films, but I
Speaker 2: don't think I've seen any of these four Bad Day
Speaker 2: of black Rock is.
Speaker 4: I think the only one I've seen. Not movies amazing, nice,
Speaker 4: but I don't I might have seen Fury, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We got one more collection, but first we got to
Speaker 2: talk about this nature doc on January thirteenth. There's a
Speaker 2: blu ray coming from Giant of a double feature. Here
Speaker 2: we got the American Southwest and Borderlands Jaguar. If you
Speaker 2: are into nature docs, supposedly these are actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: This looks interesting. I like nature stuff.
Speaker 4: You know what this is a big miss of though,
Speaker 4: is you know they did not do the documentary Sex
Speaker 4: and the Animals. That is a joke only for unsung
Speaker 4: WRORS listeners. Sorry, but maybe someday if you want to
Speaker 4: know how turkeys get down, Sex and the Animals.
Speaker 2: Sex and the Animals. All right, let's talk about vinegar Syndrome,
Speaker 2: and then we'll go back to Warner stuff after Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 2: Subscriber Week is coming starting on January first, and they
Speaker 2: released all kinds of information about it today, so we
Speaker 2: got a kind of a bit to cover here. This
Speaker 2: is going to run a seven day period. New stuff
Speaker 2: dropping at twelve oh one pm. Eastern, so you don't
Speaker 2: have to stay up late every night to see the
Speaker 2: new stuff. It is gonna run all the way through
Speaker 2: January seventh, at eleventh nine pm Eastern, so it'll be
Speaker 2: done kind of early on that last day. That way
Speaker 2: doesn't go into the eighth day. The new releases and
Speaker 2: daily deals will always happen at noon Eastern. Like I said,
Speaker 2: this year's Subscriber Week will bring to you three new
Speaker 2: VS titles, one VSU one VSL two exciting new releases
Speaker 2: from Cinematograph. Two releases from a new line called Iconoscope.
Speaker 2: It's another sub label that you will have to purchase
Speaker 2: if you are a subscriber. One new Pink line release,
Speaker 2: and then twenty five partner label releases. How how do
Speaker 2: you feel about that much coming out?
Speaker 4: That's too much? I can't even like, I can't even
Speaker 4: remember when, like can't I can't even keep straight, like
Speaker 4: Vinegerson Jerome, and then VSLVSA vs.
Speaker 1: P.
Speaker 4: I don't fucking even I can't even keep them all straight.
Speaker 4: And then on top of that, there's all the partner
Speaker 4: label and now they're adding a new one, and then
Speaker 4: there's all stuff on Melusine. It's a lot.
Speaker 2: It is quite a bit. Yeah, the Iconoscope thing, we
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what it is, but it is named
Speaker 2: after an old TV or a TV brand, And in
Speaker 2: their email that they sent out today they have teased
Speaker 2: a couple made for TV things, So it seems like
Speaker 2: Iconoscope is probably going to be focused on TV if
Speaker 2: That's what I'm guessing.
Speaker 4: Okay, So just to.
Speaker 2: Read what was in their email today that is not
Speaker 2: listed here, it says this year, look forward to a
Speaker 2: genre bending four K debut from VSU, a nineteen seventies
Speaker 2: New Hollywood masterpiece that is sorry and in a nineteen
Speaker 2: eighties classic, both from Cinematograph. Then you get a fifties
Speaker 2: monster deep cut from VSL and then the next in
Speaker 2: the Sado series from Pink Line in collaboration with Melou
Speaker 2: Scene of course, and then the debut duo from our
Speaker 2: latest sub labeled Icotoscope, which will bring to four K
Speaker 2: a seventies horror TV movie classic along with a Blu
Speaker 2: ray collection of a nineteen fifties horror series. Okay, the
Speaker 2: sub labels are a lot, Yeah, totally get it. But
Speaker 2: that being said, more of this being preserved on physical media.
Speaker 2: I'm always four So I can't really fault it too much.
Speaker 2: It's just a whole lot to release. It's especially a
Speaker 2: lot to release in one day. The rest of the year,
Speaker 2: at least here it's spread out seven days, and some
Speaker 2: of them will get some other love. But man, that
Speaker 2: first day, right at noon eastern, there's like twenty what
Speaker 2: is it, twenty twenty five, twenty eight, twenty nine brand
Speaker 2: new releases and then like new merch and everything all
Speaker 2: popping up on their site at once.
Speaker 4: Yeah. See, and this is like, you know, getting back
Speaker 4: to what we were talking about earlier, Like I just
Speaker 4: I and I know partner label stuff isn't included. Nothing
Speaker 4: even outside of vinegar Syndrome proper is ingraded. So to me,
Speaker 4: it's just it's I'd rather just sort of pick and
Speaker 4: choose for myself. And yes, like when I had the subscription,
Speaker 4: having the discount on everything else was fine, but it's
Speaker 4: like I could just get that at one of the
Speaker 4: sales in six months or when I want to, and
Speaker 4: if it's something that I really really want and it's
Speaker 4: selling out, then yeah, I'll pay full price for it.
Speaker 4: That's fine. I don't know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let's see, I talked about the VS releases
Speaker 2: for this one, we don't need ten thousand sub labels,
Speaker 2: says Josh. I mean, I agree, but if this is
Speaker 2: the only way they're going to release it, which of
Speaker 2: course they can't throw all that in the subscription because
Speaker 2: it would be very expensive on top of the already
Speaker 2: expensive subscription. So yeah, we'll talk about the price in
Speaker 2: just a minute, and then let's see mister whateverism is
Speaker 2: asking will I subscribe? I had had it in my
Speaker 2: mind that I was not going to subscribe all year,
Speaker 2: and then I started realizing how much more interested I
Speaker 2: was in the partner label stuff. And the reality is,
Speaker 2: if you are if you are crazy, and if you're
Speaker 2: buying like not even just partner labels, but say five
Speaker 2: five things every month that are sub labels, Malu Scene
Speaker 2: or partner labels, all of a sudden, the discounts alone
Speaker 2: that you're getting makes the subscription like almost borderline free,
Speaker 2: Like you're getting all of the VS titles as an
Speaker 2: addition to what you're already getting the discounted stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so with this many partner labels, I mean, we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about it a second. But they say they I've
Speaker 2: not counted a long time. They just said they have
Speaker 2: over forty partner labels.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, I mean for me, it's a matter of like,
Speaker 4: is this a movie that I'm going to watch more
Speaker 4: than once? I I rarely. I don't think I own
Speaker 4: I actually own any documentaries that aren't special features on
Speaker 4: a feature film disc because I tend to just watch
Speaker 4: documentaries once. But you know, when it comes to yeah,
Speaker 4: the discount is it's nice. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: I just spending that amount of money up front, like
Speaker 4: I just I don't know, I'm not going to.
Speaker 2: I get that. I totally get the people that are out,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about some things that make a lot
Speaker 2: of people probably more going to be out than usual
Speaker 2: this time because they're changing some things up. But the
Speaker 2: other thing that made me consider that I might actually
Speaker 2: do it this year and this is this is dumb
Speaker 2: and you can't do it now. So I feel terrible
Speaker 2: bringing it up now. But I got really lucky and
Speaker 2: found out through another site that PayPal was offering a
Speaker 2: deal where if you did a pay later option where
Speaker 2: it's like PayPal paying for or their pay down the
Speaker 2: road like credit option whatever, they were giving you twenty
Speaker 2: five percent back in rewards up to fifteen hundred dollars
Speaker 2: for a purchase. So if you paid up to fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred dollars, you could get twenty five percent of that
Speaker 2: back in essentially cash, because it just goes into your
Speaker 2: PayPal account. And the cool thing is you don't ever
Speaker 2: have to like get interest, you don't have to get
Speaker 2: a credit check or anything like that. So I did
Speaker 2: it just enough to cover the subscription, and now I'm
Speaker 2: getting like two hundred or two hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: dollars off of the subscription costs essentially.
Speaker 4: Wait, I've already done it for this coming here.
Speaker 2: I did it because I bought us. I used the
Speaker 2: PayPal thing that they were saying to buy Vinegar Syndrome
Speaker 2: gift cards. So now I've got enough in credit to
Speaker 2: purchase the subscription and I'm getting like two hundred fifty
Speaker 2: dollars back.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you use the PayPal thing for give, You're
Speaker 4: going to use that to buy this? Okay? I thought
Speaker 4: you had already bought the subscription. I was like, how'd
Speaker 4: you do that? Are you future?
Speaker 2: I bought the credit to be able to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, celest it is a past deal. I didn't
Speaker 2: know that I could trust it until I tried it,
Speaker 2: and by the time that the rewards appeared to my account,
Speaker 2: it had already expired, or I would have shared it
Speaker 2: with everybody. But I feel quite lucky that it worked out,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I just got a pretty decent discount
Speaker 2: on it all right. Going out to talk about some
Speaker 2: of their changes and stuff, they say, as long as
Speaker 2: you have an unfulfilled subscriber week order on the site,
Speaker 2: you can add to it for free up until it
Speaker 2: ships out. So they've got order stacking like they always do.
Speaker 2: They will have that add to my existing order. So
Speaker 2: if you go on there every day and you want
Speaker 2: something else, you don't have to pay shipping again or
Speaker 2: even once if you buy enough on that first time.
Speaker 2: They will start shipping orders on January twelfth. Vinegar Centrome
Speaker 2: is one of the only ones that are like on
Speaker 2: top of the production wise, you're not pre ordering super
Speaker 2: far in advance. A lot of the stuff the people
Speaker 2: bought for December shipped literally within like three days, so
Speaker 2: they're they're going a little bit quicker during this and
Speaker 2: then that'll be shipping throughout the end of January. So
Speaker 2: don't get too riled up if it hasn't shipped yet,
Speaker 2: but they have changed something. So, yes, you still get
Speaker 2: fifty percent off of all of the partner labels, all
Speaker 2: the mal you've seen, all of the sub labels, all
Speaker 2: of the Command Cinema stuff, everything there. You also get
Speaker 2: your order shipped first after the sales and after the
Speaker 2: pre orders for the month. But this is where something
Speaker 2: started to change. They no longer have three different packages
Speaker 2: for US, Canada and international. It is one price and
Speaker 2: they're just charging a different price for shipping. So if
Speaker 2: you're in the US, standard shipping is free. It's included
Speaker 2: in the base price. Canadians, you will pay one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty dollars for shipping. Internationally, outside of that, two
Speaker 2: hundred twenty dollars for shipping, and the price for subscribing
Speaker 2: this year one thousand, ninety five dollars, and if you
Speaker 2: are a Pass subscriber, you're going to get a coupon
Speaker 2: for one hundred dollars off of that price overall, so
Speaker 2: it'll be nine to ninety five. If you're a US resident. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm good, but this is where it starts to get
Speaker 2: a little weird. If you're asking me, which I don't know,
Speaker 2: if you will to keep our sub numbers around the
Speaker 2: sweet spot for operations in the warehouse. We will be
Speaker 2: capping the number of subscribers to two thousand customers. If
Speaker 2: you are a subscriber in twenty twenty five, you will
Speaker 2: be guaranteed a spot if you want it. But they
Speaker 2: are locking it off at two thousand. Now to me,
Speaker 2: that sounds like they're trying to institute some fomo on
Speaker 2: the subscriptions, which is crazy on a thousand plus dollar purchase.
Speaker 4: So they didn't have a cap on it before, it.
Speaker 2: Was not capped before, and now they're saying it is
Speaker 2: limited to only two thousand customers that can subscribe worldwide.
Speaker 2: That's it. And so imagine, and I'm not saying this
Speaker 2: is going to happen, but on day five of subscriber
Speaker 2: Week they come out and say, by the way, subscriptions
Speaker 2: are selling fast, we have less than three hundred subscriptions left.
Speaker 2: Somebody out there is going to go, oh, if I
Speaker 2: was even like teetering on the line, maybe I want
Speaker 2: to do this, and they're going to go talk somebody.
Speaker 4: To do it. Yeah, yeah, No, I think that's definitely
Speaker 4: creating some fomo like that. That sort of marketing does
Speaker 4: get to people. It's not going to get to me
Speaker 4: because you know, I'm going to take one look at
Speaker 4: my bank account and be like, sorry, someone asked, do
Speaker 4: you have to pay? Is it you have to pay
Speaker 4: taxes on the subscription?
Speaker 2: You do have to pay taxes. This is something that
Speaker 2: you know, it's not food, it's not I know there's
Speaker 2: some states where clothing is free. No, you got to
Speaker 2: pay taxes on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, so let's asked about worth making
Speaker 4: their video this year. I mean I think it. I
Speaker 4: think that video is worth it because I actually sort
Speaker 4: of took a page from that and did that myself
Speaker 4: this year and really looked at, Okay, what were all
Speaker 4: the releases that came out this year that I would
Speaker 4: have got if I had subscribed? What were the ones
Speaker 4: that I would have bought with the discount? And how
Speaker 4: much should I actually pay for it? And really, when
Speaker 4: I sat down and like did the math for last year,
Speaker 4: you know, if I would have got these like okay,
Speaker 4: well I would have just tried to sell them. But
Speaker 4: now because they're their printing or they're making so many
Speaker 4: more targeted so sorry, my cats are fighting behind me. Toby. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't. Yeah, So I like I did my own
Speaker 4: sort of math, and I was like, yeah, this doesn't
Speaker 4: this doesn't make sense for I'm glad I didn't kind
Speaker 4: of thing and thinking about it going into next year,
Speaker 4: like yeah, there's there's gonna be stuff that I'm gonna wish, like, oh,
Speaker 4: I wish I had a subscription this month. This is
Speaker 4: a really great slate. But it's like, there'll always be
Speaker 4: a way to see the movie. You know, I don't
Speaker 4: need to own all the movies I only have. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm an old fucking lady. I've only got so many
Speaker 4: years left that I can watch movies. And I haven't
Speaker 4: even watched everything that's on my shelf yet. I'm fine.
Speaker 2: I don't need to, oh all, I have standard editions
Speaker 2: no matter what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2: So I mean kind of Celeste was saying, is it
Speaker 2: even worth making a video? Celeste, you got to make
Speaker 2: the video. I gotta be honest. I was considering, like
Speaker 2: how much do I talk about this and lay into
Speaker 2: it tonight? Because you know, I'm helping more and more
Speaker 2: of these companies. I feel sometimes like I shouldn't lambass
Speaker 2: the choices these because many of these are are keeping
Speaker 2: other physical media companies going and alive and keeping the
Speaker 2: industry going and all that. But this, to me, this
Speaker 2: feels pretty feels pretty iggy. I'm not stoked on a
Speaker 2: lot of this. It is something that you know, a
Speaker 2: lot of people have already started going against all the
Speaker 2: fomo marketing, which I'm glad, but this, I think more
Speaker 2: people need to speak out about it, for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 2: some other small changes here which are kind of cool
Speaker 2: in a way, but also very gimmicky in some other ways. Obviously,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna get other stuff, make sure you get this.
Speaker 2: If you're going to subscribe, make sure you do that first.
Speaker 2: You get free shipping on everything. I just wanted to
Speaker 2: mention that. But then everybody who is a subscriber in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six is getting at what they're calling a
Speaker 2: Premium Metal membership card. It will be engraved with your
Speaker 2: name and a QR code. Now gimmicky, yes, because like,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna flash that to somebody? That's weird.
Speaker 2: But what is kind of cool here. This is the
Speaker 2: only reason why I do think this is cool is
Speaker 2: you can use this at their physical locations and when
Speaker 2: you go to a convention and they have their table,
Speaker 2: so like, if you are in person and want your
Speaker 2: subscriber discount, you can use it there, which I think
Speaker 2: is very cool. I think that that is something that
Speaker 2: if you were a subscriber in the past and you
Speaker 2: were visiting them and you would be paying more for
Speaker 2: the releases at the table. I think it's cool that
Speaker 2: they give you that option. Now, however, is kind of
Speaker 2: weird to like ship metal cards engraved to two thousand people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's some like trump coin bullshit to me, honestly.
Speaker 4: Like it's just that you don't need to create another thing.
Speaker 4: You already put out enough cardboard into the universe, and
Speaker 4: now you're adding like these metal cards to it where oh,
Speaker 4: you can take these to the table or physical location.
Speaker 4: It's like you have a computer with a database of
Speaker 4: the people who are your subscribers you can get like
Speaker 4: you can look them up in there for their subscription. Like,
Speaker 4: you don't need to make another thing to put in
Speaker 4: the world that is going to end up in a
Speaker 4: fucking landfill. Like I just I'm that's no, I don't
Speaker 4: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's a lot here, lots taken. So yeah,
Speaker 2: like I said, the big news almost eleven hundred dollars
Speaker 2: if you were not a subscriber last year to subscribe
Speaker 2: if you're and that's only if you're in the US.
Speaker 2: If you're outside of the US, shipping cost is going
Speaker 2: to be on top of that, there's going to be
Speaker 2: tax involved. You're getting a metal card and there you go.
Speaker 2: It's a lot. Yeah, all right. Moving on from Vinegar
Speaker 2: Syndrome to Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers, thanks to Bill hunt
Speaker 2: over at the Digital Bits, has revealed some news on
Speaker 2: their four K slate from twenty twenty six. Now saying
Speaker 2: it like that makes it sound like it's exhaustive, it's not.
Speaker 2: They could still put out more, and they likely still
Speaker 2: would be putting out more. It's just a matter of
Speaker 2: what can they put out in one year. I know
Speaker 2: a couple of these were slated for twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: and got delayed to twenty six, so who knows, but
Speaker 2: those titles coming in twenty twenty six. Ben her this
Speaker 2: is already listed for pre order. It is coming in
Speaker 2: I think January or February. All the President's Men from
Speaker 2: seventy six coming for pre order already. That's quarter one
Speaker 2: as well. January or February, A Racer from nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 2: Gravity from twenty thirteen, Mars Attacks from ninety six, Interview
Speaker 2: with the Vampire from ninety four, Gone with the Wind
Speaker 2: finally from nineteen thirty nine, and Magnolia from nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 2: all getting four K releases either hopefully this year. It's
Speaker 2: planned for this year, but they could get pushed at
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. Any thoughts on any of those.
Speaker 4: I mean, I love Mars Attacks, but Magnolia, yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: they can have it. It just feels that I know
Speaker 4: a lot of people want that for a criterion, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll make their mone That's why they get a
Speaker 2: hold on it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 2: All right. So that's Warner Brothers again. No dates for
Speaker 2: any of these, no pre order other than Ben hur
Speaker 2: and All the President's Men. You can preorder those already.
Speaker 2: This has been confirmed by Bill and his contacts, because
Speaker 2: he does have some studio contacts, but also Warner Brothers
Speaker 2: Korean distributor started teasing the titles. Funny enough, and that's
Speaker 2: how some of these got originally confirmed, all right, and
Speaker 2: then back to Warner Archive for the last of those
Speaker 2: three collections, We're getting a Broadway on the Big Screen
Speaker 2: six film collection, and this has Gypsy guys and dolls.
Speaker 2: It's got Brigadoon, the Damn Yankees, the Pajama Game, and
Speaker 2: then Ken Russell's The Boyfriend.
Speaker 4: I want to see The Boyfriend. I think I don't
Speaker 4: want all of these, so I'm good.
Speaker 2: Well, you can just buy the single disc release thingful. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's yeah, or Brenton from library. All right, a really
Speaker 2: really great couple of announcements from friends of the channel
Speaker 2: new Way Video. This is John Matthews in Australia's label.
Speaker 2: He's been on the show multiple times. These are both
Speaker 2: coming in late February or early March, both on Blu Ray,
Speaker 2: and they are going to be available at all the
Speaker 2: US retailers and overseas, so check it out if you're
Speaker 2: after them. First is nineteen eighty six's ninety Night. We
Speaker 2: had talked about this a little bit on the show
Speaker 2: before when it was teas that it was coming, but
Speaker 2: here it is coming, and you can preorder this now.
Speaker 2: You've got a director's approved special edition here transferred and
Speaker 2: restored from the only surviving videotape master. There's a retrospective
Speaker 2: doc on ninety nine. There's a featurette by Lachlan Sally
Speaker 2: on this there is a full original soundtrack by Save Earth,
Speaker 2: the Small Pebble short film, a forty page behind the
Speaker 2: scenes booklet by Hiroshi Sorry Hiroshia Cocusho featuring rare photos
Speaker 2: and in depth stories, a new slipcover with art by
Speaker 2: Sydney based illustrator James O'Brien. I love the art on
Speaker 2: this release. And then this is the only eight millimeter film.
Speaker 2: Elements that were made were lost. We are working from
Speaker 2: a tape source which underwent color correction and touch up.
Speaker 2: You can look at screenshots on their website to get
Speaker 2: an idea on the quality of the film. It does
Speaker 2: not look incredible, but it is literally the best you
Speaker 2: could possibly get on this film. Now, just so you know,
Speaker 2: so we'll be in Japanese with English subtitles, and this
Speaker 2: is an anthology horror film.
Speaker 4: I like this artwork looks very much like a children's book.
Speaker 2: It does perfect. And then to go with it, you
Speaker 2: can pick up Nourico's Dinner Table, the Shian Sono film
Speaker 2: from nineteen eighty six. That's not the right year. I
Speaker 2: don't believe I think I got that wrong. Maybe it's not. Nope,
Speaker 2: I kept it from the last one I screwed up.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. This is a companion piece to Suicides Club.
Speaker 2: This film expands the story into an emotionally gripping exploration
Speaker 2: of identity, family, and the hidden loneliness of modern life.
Speaker 2: Following the journey of seventeen year old Norico, who flees
Speaker 2: her small town home for Tokyo, the film pulls viewers
Speaker 2: into the unsettling world of a rental family agency. Good
Speaker 2: year for that with that film that came out More
Speaker 2: than just a Jayhorn. Nourico's Dinner Table is a chilling
Speaker 2: exploration of connection and alienation in the digital age. Combining
Speaker 2: intimate storytelling with Sono's signatures surreal flourishes. It is both
Speaker 2: heartbreaking and unforgettable. It's shot on low fi digital video
Speaker 2: and later transferred to thirty five millimeter film. This is
Speaker 2: proud to present a full restoration source from that thirty
Speaker 2: five millimeter picture and sound negatives and now some cool stuff,
Speaker 2: especially for a couple of people in the chat. This
Speaker 2: is going to be a ten adp restoration from a
Speaker 2: brand new four K restoration of the original picture and
Speaker 2: sound negatives. Newly restored Dolby Digital five point one audio,
Speaker 2: new interview with Shian Sono, a new introduction by Shiansno,
Speaker 2: and archival interview with Sono. Interview with the actress Kazue
Speaker 2: Fukuisha I believe is how you say that name? Another
Speaker 2: interview with one of the other actresses. There's a thirty
Speaker 2: minute making of Doc two thousand and six Tokyo premiere footage,
Speaker 2: rare behind the scenes photo gallery. But then a booklet
Speaker 2: with new writing on a film by Celeste day A Cabra.
Speaker 2: Dustin putman two people in the chat. That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: So let's the first collaboration with the label to get
Speaker 2: on a release.
Speaker 4: That's amazing. Congrats you guys.
Speaker 2: Dustin so excited be there with Celestis. Well, yeah, this
Speaker 2: is awesome. I'm stoked for them. And then the cover
Speaker 2: looks great. I think this will be solid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great artwork. I hope that the same people
Speaker 4: who aren't going to complain about the disclaimer that Celeste
Speaker 4: joked about in front of Gone with a Win don't
Speaker 4: complain about this director.
Speaker 2: But too late? Oh really okay, Yeah, I posted this
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky and a couple people over there literally
Speaker 2: like reposting the post and saying boutique labels need to
Speaker 2: stay the fuck away from him, and got like really aggressive.
Speaker 4: Okay, sound down, folks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is amazing, Celeste. I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 2: I hope for many more opportunities in the few and
Speaker 2: can't wait to see what else happens. If you are wanting,
Speaker 2: they're also doing this. This is not the highest quality picture,
Speaker 2: but they're doing a ninety Night shirt. If you want,
Speaker 2: you can pick this up and you can get this
Speaker 2: with just ninety Night the Blu Ray, or you can
Speaker 2: get a bundle with both films, or you can get
Speaker 2: a bundle with both films and the shirt and probably
Speaker 2: get a tiny discount on all of those together. Check
Speaker 2: it out. Then we got some Keno announcements. I believe
Speaker 2: this is Yeah, we're nearing the end. We got like
Speaker 2: five more The Prisoner of Zenda. This was announced previously.
Speaker 2: It's a Peter Sellers film from nineteen seventy nine coming
Speaker 2: up March third from Keno. This is gonna have a
Speaker 2: new audio commentary by Paul Anthony Nelson and Lee Zakaria,
Speaker 2: and that is it. Are you into Peter Sellers at all?
Speaker 4: Uh, passively. I don't know, isn't I don't seek him out.
Speaker 4: I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2: What about when he's the Panther? And on March third
Speaker 2: you can also get a four K of the Return
Speaker 2: of the Pink Panther from nineteen seventy five. Don't forget
Speaker 2: they all that's not the right word. They are doing
Speaker 2: all of these and then after those come out, they're
Speaker 2: gonna do a box set of the Pink Panther films.
Speaker 2: So if you want to wait, you may want to
Speaker 2: wait and get them all in one go. This is
Speaker 2: gonna have a bunch of archival extras on here. We
Speaker 2: got an audio commentary with the Peter Sellers Appreciation Society's
Speaker 2: Jason Simon's and then some other interviews and extras on
Speaker 2: the Blu Ray disc on this one as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's literally the only thing I really know Peter
Speaker 4: Sellers FROMS.
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. Then on March third,
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two's Beethoven Coming to Blu Ray from Keno Lober.
Speaker 2: This is a brand new two K scan of the film,
Speaker 2: new audio commentary by the director moderated by Douglas Hasdale,
Speaker 2: and another new audio commentary by Joe Ramoni. This is
Speaker 2: only a two K scan of the inner positives. This
Speaker 2: will likely never come to four K. For those of
Speaker 2: you that are listening to this later and saying, well,
Speaker 2: I know four K, like everybody does. This will likely
Speaker 2: never get a four K.
Speaker 4: Oh No, yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 2: Matt Haws asking what the straight story finally coming to
Speaker 2: Studio Canal four K? Is there any chance we'll get
Speaker 2: a criterion? I mean there's a chance, but the odds
Speaker 2: are not very high, considering it's owned by Disney here
Speaker 2: in the US. Carrie Mulligan with the like hot Goss
Speaker 2: of the Night, I just recently learned about the tragic
Speaker 2: life of Seller's last wife. I do tell I'm not.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about this, all right? And then
Speaker 2: I feel like this is eric as Hell coming soon
Speaker 2: on a Walmart exclusive Blu ray Steel book from Paramount,
Speaker 2: the brand new film, The SpongeBob Movie. Search for SquarePants.
Speaker 2: You can pick this up now if you want, you
Speaker 2: can get two of these.
Speaker 4: Why don't they make it a spongebook instead of a steal.
Speaker 2: Book because that won't sell as well?
Speaker 4: What the Evil Dead Like? They had the Necronomicon book.
Speaker 4: That's like spongy. They could do it.
Speaker 2: That's true, and then I believe. Yeah, this is our
Speaker 2: last of the week. We got a brand new four
Speaker 2: K steel book of Alien Romulus from last year coming
Speaker 2: over in the UK from Fox themselves. This is coming
Speaker 2: in like late spring. Now. The big thing here is
Speaker 2: this is brand new art from Matt Ferguson, who's a
Speaker 2: really great artist. I love the art on this actually,
Speaker 2: and he's got If you go to his instagram, there
Speaker 2: are the exclusive place behind these is selling prints of
Speaker 2: the same art. Or you can go and order the
Speaker 2: steel book from them and he will sign the steel
Speaker 2: book or the art print if you are into him
Speaker 2: as an artist, and I don't know, that'd be pretty
Speaker 2: cool to own. Are you into the Alien franchise at all?
Speaker 2: Probably not?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but like the original, the original only yeah. God,
Speaker 4: I didn't even see this one. I don't I'm zero
Speaker 4: interest in this.
Speaker 2: I liked it, all right, that's it for for this
Speaker 2: week's announcements. Let's talk about what's coming out next week.
Speaker 2: In case you forgot cloud outless on four K from
Speaker 2: Shout Factory, which kind of crazy they you know, talk
Speaker 2: about bait and switch with the imprint thing. Shout Factory
Speaker 2: pulled an actual bait and switch. They advertised that they
Speaker 2: were selling an alternate slipcover for cloud Outless, and they
Speaker 2: shipped everybody's order without it, which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you just get away with that
Speaker 2: pretty wild perfect blue coming to four K that's limited
Speaker 2: in this edition. Next week Begonia from this year, the
Speaker 2: four K steel Book and Standard is coming out. Did
Speaker 2: you see Pogonia?
Speaker 4: I did, yes, what'd you think? I enjoyed it very much.
Speaker 2: I love that movie. Black Phone two four K is
Speaker 2: next week as well. Laurel and Hardy the collection from
Speaker 2: Classic Flicks. Next week Tales from the Dark Side four
Speaker 2: K Steel Book with some of the weirdest art I've
Speaker 2: ever seen for that film from Shout A Big, bold,
Speaker 2: Beautiful Journey, which Sibner in the chat loved this movie.
Speaker 2: I did not love it, but it's all right. We
Speaker 2: are still here. Tenth anniversary coming next week, pointed heels
Speaker 2: might come out this company. The last couple announcements they've
Speaker 2: had did not come out on the release date, so
Speaker 2: we'll see if that actually happens. And that's it. Other
Speaker 2: than some anime stuff called Learning the hard way. Are
Speaker 2: you gonna check out any of these? And I think
Speaker 2: I know the answer.
Speaker 4: No, that's what I not a one. I already got
Speaker 4: forced into seeing fucking Black Phone two.
Speaker 2: Do you hate that one? Yeah?
Speaker 4: God, I don't know why everyone likes that guy's movies.
Speaker 2: All right, So here's the Peter Sellers thing. Lynn Frederick
Speaker 2: was considerably younger than Sellers and married him during his
Speaker 2: most miserable years, where he was apparently abusive. She died
Speaker 2: at thirty nine of drug and alcohol abuse. Yikes. All right,
Speaker 2: film resolutions, this is something you're covering on Unsung Horrors
Speaker 2: and something we're covering here tonight. Do you do this
Speaker 2: every year? No? Everybody? No.
Speaker 4: So the previous years we have just uh like favorite
Speaker 4: new watches, you know, film discoveries. But I feel like,
Speaker 4: you know, everyone sort of jumped on that bandwagon too,
Speaker 4: and you know, we're like, all right, well, and I
Speaker 4: think a big part of it too, was this year
Speaker 4: just both Lance and I didn't really watch as much
Speaker 4: as we normally do. And I mean we both watched
Speaker 4: like three four hundred movies each, which to a normal
Speaker 4: person is huge. They think that's insane. But most of
Speaker 4: those movies were either for the podcast or related to
Speaker 4: the podcast, or related to you know, special features we're
Speaker 4: working on, So there really wasn't much that we could
Speaker 4: talk about that we hadn't already mentioned, either in the
Speaker 4: podcast or in special features. So we're like, we didn't
Speaker 4: want to just list off movies we'd already talked about.
Speaker 4: So this idea sort of came out of that, I guess,
Speaker 4: and a lot of that too, came from just our
Speaker 4: talking about our letterbox stats before you know, we had
Speaker 4: even started kind of talking about the idea and recording
Speaker 4: and like really just sort of looking at what did
Speaker 4: our twenty twenty five look like kind of thing, And
Speaker 4: so that's where the majority of my resolutions come from,
Speaker 4: is from my letterbox stats.
Speaker 2: All right, I am, I am. I've been wanting to
Speaker 2: do this for a couple of years actually, so I'm glad.
Speaker 2: And actually, outside of the podcast, do you do this
Speaker 2: every year? Have you done this before? Where you've decided
Speaker 2: like for the year, I'm going to focus on a
Speaker 2: couple of things.
Speaker 4: In the past, I've said like I'm going to make
Speaker 4: like this actor, this director my most watched one. And
Speaker 4: there's been years where I've been able to stick to
Speaker 4: that this last year. I didn't make any resolutions for
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, but I was also in a huge
Speaker 4: depression funk, so you know, wasn't really caring about like
Speaker 4: a priority. Well, I'm going to make sure that you know.
Speaker 4: I don't know Quoi che Hung's my most watched director
Speaker 4: this year. Like I wasn't doing that.
Speaker 2: I get it. I like I said, I've wanted to
Speaker 2: do this for the last couple of years, and this
Speaker 2: year ended up being very weird. I focused more on
Speaker 2: theater than I ever have in my life, and that's
Speaker 2: probably never going to happen again, so I'll let that
Speaker 2: stay in the past. But I this list was fun
Speaker 2: to make. That there's a lot of things that I
Speaker 2: want to focus on and want to want to make important.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm ready. What is the first one on
Speaker 2: your list?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, I haven't seen anyone else post any of
Speaker 4: their resolutions in the chat so far, so if you
Speaker 4: folks haven't, I would very much say please post them
Speaker 4: in Ryan's discord. And if you are not in Ryan's discord,
Speaker 4: then that means you are not subscribed to his Patreon,
Speaker 4: which Ryan never plugs for himself. So you should subscribe
Speaker 4: to his Patreon people. Okay, so this year, and I'm
Speaker 4: just going to preface this with, uh, like real quick
Speaker 4: in my my own like letterbox stats for the year,
Speaker 4: just because where are they? Twenty twenty five was very
Speaker 4: Hong Kong heavy for me, like an insane amount. So
Speaker 4: I was even looking at my most watched directors and
Speaker 4: of oh no, my my most watched actors, and of
Speaker 4: the forty like not even just like the top ten,
Speaker 4: of the top forty, only two of them were non
Speaker 4: Hong Kong actors. Like that's not many. That that's insane.
Speaker 4: And most of them are men, Like I think there's
Speaker 4: like two women in there. So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 4: so I'm trying to minimize Hong Kong. My most watched director, uh,
Speaker 4: directors one, two, three, four, five, six, seven of the
Speaker 4: top ten were Hong Kong directors. So like, yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 4: I need to I need to take my foot off
Speaker 4: the gas there a little bit. That being said, there
Speaker 4: are a few things that I definitely want to finish
Speaker 4: on the Hong Kong side. So you know how on
Speaker 4: the stats you can see like the collections of films,
Speaker 4: so there's a bunch of those, and it gives you
Speaker 4: this feature of like almost finished, where you're like one
Speaker 4: away from finishing this whole film series. And so my
Speaker 4: OCD and my need for completing things saw that and
Speaker 4: was immediately like, oh, well, I need to finish all
Speaker 4: these things. So that's the majority of what we're going
Speaker 4: to talk about. So for Hong Kong for next year,
Speaker 4: I need to finish the in the Line of Duty,
Speaker 4: that's the Hong Kong Girls with Guns. I've watched seven
Speaker 4: out of nine. The thirty six Chamber movies, I've watched
Speaker 4: two out of three, so I got one of those
Speaker 4: to why watch The Inspector Wears Skirts? I've watched three
Speaker 4: out of four, so I need to I need to
Speaker 4: watch the second one. Unfortunately I didn't watch them all
Speaker 4: in order. So and then there's apparently a Demon trilogy,
Speaker 4: which I didn't know these films exit like were part
Speaker 4: of a trilogy. But it's Ghost Nursing which Vinigerson dream
Speaker 4: put out, Seeding of a Ghost also, and then Invitation
Speaker 4: of Ghosts from nineteen eighty four, and I haven't seen
Speaker 4: that last one, so I'm gonna watch that and then
Speaker 4: I'll have all of that nice those are my Hong
Speaker 4: Kong resolutions, So only two, three, four five movies from
Speaker 4: Hong Kong, not saying that's all collections. Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 4: to finish up those collections. So that's four collections I
Speaker 4: can finish, right.
Speaker 2: There were there examples of collections that you finished this
Speaker 2: year that you you watched entirely. Oh I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I watched the whole decalogue series, the Christov whatever
Speaker 4: his last name is.
Speaker 2: How'd you feel about that in twenty five?
Speaker 4: I mean, they were all excellent, but I was having
Speaker 4: a good you know, I planned it for that one.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm gonna I got it from the library,
Speaker 4: shout out my library. They're good with the criterions. And
Speaker 4: I watched all of them in one day.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 4: That was I probably should have broken it up into
Speaker 4: like two days, but I was like, I'm almost done.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just gonna push through. I'm going to
Speaker 4: watch all of them. So he ended up being my
Speaker 4: one of my most watched directors because I logged them
Speaker 4: all separately when each episode.
Speaker 2: So yeah, way to pay the stats. Yeah all right.
Speaker 2: So in terms of that I've been talking about for
Speaker 2: the last year year and a half and this is
Speaker 2: such a like borderline elementary level one, but I wanted
Speaker 2: to throw this out there. I want to do an
Speaker 2: entire filmography in one year, not like I've seen the
Speaker 2: rest of those movies. I'm going to finish this filmography.
Speaker 2: I want to do anybody, I think one of the
Speaker 2: bigger directors that's got like more than ten films, I
Speaker 2: want to watch all of them in this one year.
Speaker 2: Start start like the first week of January, and do
Speaker 2: one each week or one each month, something like that,
Speaker 2: and get as many as I can and get through
Speaker 2: from the very beginning to the end. But when I'm
Speaker 2: saying that, I'm going to try to do everything like
Speaker 2: short films, things they co directed with somebody else, and
Speaker 2: not just do like the major things, but try to
Speaker 2: do something for everything. For a filmography from somebody.
Speaker 4: And you don't do you have one pick in particular.
Speaker 2: There's a couple that I've had in mind. Cubrick is
Speaker 2: one that I've really wanted to see, like the evolution
Speaker 2: of that from the beginning all the way through the end,
Speaker 2: and a short time span to see how he progressed.
Speaker 2: I know that there's a couple that I've seen like
Speaker 2: Dustin he's commenting right now, he watched all of a
Speaker 2: few directors in the last couple of years, I believe,
Speaker 2: and he's he's gone through chronological order, and it's really
Speaker 2: nice to see kind of how like your your sensibilities
Speaker 2: towards that stuff Iole changes kind of how theirs does.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you'll you'll grow to like them more or
Speaker 2: like see patterns that you never would have noticed if
Speaker 2: you weren't watching them so close together. And so I
Speaker 2: don't want to just say I remember watching these three films,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna forget those. I want to do everything
Speaker 2: just in case I see something new. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: think I'm gonna choose Jess Franco.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think Will is the only person that's
Speaker 4: probably closest to actually finishing. So yeah, I actually have
Speaker 4: in so in our episode next week, I have a
Speaker 4: couple of directors who I'm not going to do like
Speaker 4: full filmography watches. But there are a couple of directors
Speaker 4: who I want to finish that I haven't that. I
Speaker 4: was surprised. I well, no, I wasn't surprised. I knew
Speaker 4: there were a couple of ones I'd never gotten around
Speaker 4: to Yeah, it's not Eli Roth, but I mean in
Speaker 4: that vein of directors, I do have one picked out
Speaker 4: where I'm not necessarily going to finish his filmography because
Speaker 4: you know I might. There's a lot of short films
Speaker 4: in there and stuff like that. Oh God's cushing me.
Speaker 4: But there's if you look at your letterbox stats, you
Speaker 4: can look at it year by year, or you can
Speaker 4: look at it lifetime. And one of my directors that's
Speaker 4: in like the top top ten of my all time
Speaker 4: watched is Spielberg. And I'm like, you know, I'm like,
Speaker 4: I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Jaws. I
Speaker 4: love a lot of his movies, but like, it's not
Speaker 4: I don't want it. I don't want him in my
Speaker 4: top ten. There's other people I would rather have in there.
Speaker 4: So my one of my next resolutions is to move
Speaker 4: Cronenberg into my top ten. And it's not going to
Speaker 4: take much, Like I just need that. There's a few
Speaker 4: that I need to watch that I've never seen before.
Speaker 4: And Butterfly, A Dangerous Method, Maps of the Stars, Spider
Speaker 4: and Cosmopolis so nice. That's five that'll get him. That'll
Speaker 4: easily bump Spielberg out. And then just a couple one
Speaker 4: or two films from a few other directors will definitively
Speaker 4: push Stephen, like Waite, I don't want you there. So
Speaker 4: like a few from Argento, a few, Terence Fisher, a
Speaker 4: couple Toby Hooper, a few just Franco Joe demattoed so
Speaker 4: a few of those from each of them. But for
Speaker 4: the most part, I'm going to say, Okay, Cronenberg, I
Speaker 4: gotta watch at least five get Stephen out of there.
Speaker 2: Nice Dustin threw out there that he also did a
Speaker 2: chronological deep dive of Eric Romyer this year and that
Speaker 2: was incredible. And then this is really cool couch outus,
Speaker 2: He says, I completed Lamberto Baba due to all the
Speaker 2: cool releases like The Cauldron did and seven did. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's gotta be a fun one too.
Speaker 4: I need to pick up a couple of those releases
Speaker 4: from last year next year when they're on.
Speaker 2: All right resolution Numero dose? What do you got?
Speaker 4: That was my second one?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: That was your second number one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cronaber got it. I'm sorry my second one. This
Speaker 2: is again kind of very broad, but I over the
Speaker 2: last couple of years, specifically, have been stuck in a
Speaker 2: couple different lanes, and I don't have enough noir in
Speaker 2: my background, and I definitely want to beef up that.
Speaker 2: And then alongside of that, in that era, I want
Speaker 2: to really hit screwball comedies hard. The writing of screwball
Speaker 2: comedies are like always incredible. The fact that you can
Speaker 2: keep the dialogue going that's fast and that smooth in
Speaker 2: a way that is NonStop in those films, I really
Speaker 2: want to take from that learn from it. The editing
Speaker 2: in those movies are always incredible because of how much
Speaker 2: they're kind of like slamming into ten minutes of film,
Speaker 2: which in any other movie nowadays would be like forty
Speaker 2: minutes of film. And so yeah, I really want to
Speaker 2: hit some of those hard and get a lot of
Speaker 2: the bigger titles that I don't have watched ever, or
Speaker 2: have watched and forgotten because the last time I saw
Speaker 2: it was twenty six years ago, and see, uh see
Speaker 2: what I learned from it. I mean, I'm a different
Speaker 2: film person than the last time I saw many of
Speaker 2: those movies, so I'm very eager to see how those
Speaker 2: genres speak to me.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, So my next resolution is again
Speaker 4: part of collections. So the other one was like more
Speaker 4: Hong Kong focused. This is like horror and cult. So
Speaker 4: I need to finish the Species. This is important, you guys,
Speaker 4: the Species collection. I have not seen the fourth one,
Speaker 4: the Awakening. Very excited for this. There's the uh the
Speaker 4: House series and this is like the ghost House Witchery
Speaker 4: Italian ones, not talking like you know, ding don your
Speaker 4: Dead House movies. I have not seeing Claudio Fragoso's Beyond Darkness,
Speaker 4: so wow, throw some Italian trash in the mix.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 4: The sunny Chiba street Fighter movies. I've only seen two
Speaker 4: of the three, so I've got one to watch there.
Speaker 4: And then I have also never seen Beyond re Animator,
Speaker 4: so that will finish my Reanimator collection.
Speaker 2: I think you're actually gonna love Beyond Reanimating.
Speaker 4: I don't know that you know what I'm gonna love.
Speaker 2: I don't think you will. Yeah, it's it's not great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not see. This is why I'm like, this
Speaker 4: is more about completion than like I can't wait to watch.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not all It's not about that. It's
Speaker 4: about you know, getting getting these you know, getting a
Speaker 4: sense of completion in there. So I've got some other
Speaker 4: good ones. O my next collection resolution though, but you
Speaker 4: next year three.
Speaker 2: My this one is not even film specifically, but I
Speaker 2: took a bit of a backseat this year to a
Speaker 2: certain kind of supplement, and it's because it's so time consuming,
Speaker 2: but I miss it. I want to spend more time
Speaker 2: with commentaries this year. There are quite a few that
Speaker 2: I've watched the film and really wanted to listen to
Speaker 2: the commentary, and I just knew another one hundred minutes
Speaker 2: right then was not possible. I want to do what
Speaker 2: I can to rip a bunch of those and not
Speaker 2: sit in front of the TV and be able to
Speaker 2: listen to it elsewhere while I'm taking the kids to
Speaker 2: an appointment, or being able to be outside while I
Speaker 2: have the commentary my earbuds or something. One shout out
Speaker 2: for the Deaf Crocodile podcast right now. I adore that
Speaker 2: they allow me to release as episodes their audio commentaries
Speaker 2: as a podcast form. It is such an interesting way
Speaker 2: to sell a disc for something if you give that
Speaker 2: a chance, or for the people that have already bought it, like,
Speaker 2: we're just adding to your convenience to be able to
Speaker 2: spend the time with that in another format. It's something
Speaker 2: that's a bonus supplement material that you can increase your
Speaker 2: appreciation of a film. However, a lot of times you
Speaker 2: don't need to sit in front of the movie for it.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, like, it's really cool to immerse
Speaker 2: yourself like that. You don't have to, especially if you
Speaker 2: watch it on like a Tuesday night and then you
Speaker 2: listen to the commentary the next day while you're commuting
Speaker 2: to work. You saw it the night before, you can
Speaker 2: probably when they say, oh, in this scene, she's doing this,
Speaker 2: I don't need to see the scene while she's doing that.
Speaker 2: I can remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think a lot of people listen to
Speaker 4: commentaries while they're doing other stuff around the house anyway,
Speaker 4: They're not actually sitting there watching it, So I think
Speaker 4: that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, more commentaries this year. I need them.
Speaker 4: I think we I can definitely get behind that. I
Speaker 4: need to listen to quite a few more too. But okay,
Speaker 4: last collections resolution is classics, so I have never I
Speaker 4: need to complete the Planet of the Apes, so I
Speaker 4: need to watch the last one, which is Battle. I've
Speaker 4: been told it's not good, but that's okay, let's see.
Speaker 4: Then I've got the hammer Dracula that I have not
Speaker 4: seen all of them. I need to watch a d
Speaker 4: and then The Hammer Carstein Carnstein. I always say that wrong.
Speaker 4: I've seen Twins of Evil, I've seen Vampire Lovers, but
Speaker 4: I have not seen Lust for a Vampire. So that's
Speaker 4: coming for next year. So just with all of those
Speaker 4: collections movies that I need to watch, I will have
Speaker 4: completed ten collections. So that's going a nice round number
Speaker 4: for that. So I'm very excited for that.
Speaker 2: Nice all right, you're number four, Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2: That's cool that you're completing those. So my number four
Speaker 2: another another broad one, but another one where I noticed
Speaker 2: a trend that I did not love in myself. And
Speaker 2: that's a lot of times when you know, I don't
Speaker 2: stand off from foreign films. Ever, I don't even pay
Speaker 2: attention to what language it's in or where it's from.
Speaker 2: I will try to watch anything. That being said, it
Speaker 2: seems like a lot of these companies that are releasing
Speaker 2: stuff or theatrically, or I've seen most of them, they're
Speaker 2: mostly like cult or cult adjacent titles. They're mostly horror,
Speaker 2: they're mostly sci fi, they're mostly something along that realm.
Speaker 2: I kind of want to beef up more of like
Speaker 2: the more just foreign dramas and foreign comedies and try
Speaker 2: to get into the culture side of those, because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of great foreign dramas that I've seen, but
Speaker 2: not enough that are just I mean able to completely
Speaker 2: go through this. I have loved most of the ones
Speaker 2: that I've seen, and I need to see more. It's
Speaker 2: not easy to track some of them down. That's the
Speaker 2: hard part. But yeah, I love them. I love foreign films,
Speaker 2: and I need more.
Speaker 4: It's a good goal, so very fitting. Like on that note,
Speaker 4: my last resolution for this, I've got five more in
Speaker 4: our episode next week. But my last resolution here is
Speaker 4: I want to green out more stuff on the world map.
Speaker 4: So if you go to your letterbox stats you all time,
Speaker 4: scroll all the way to the bottom. It'll show you
Speaker 4: your map and like they're greened out, like bright green
Speaker 4: if you've watched movies from that country. So I want
Speaker 4: to try to get a good handful more from those.
Speaker 4: So I've found like ten countries where I could actually
Speaker 4: find movies that were you know, streaming somewhere that made
Speaker 4: made sense. That's a great resolution, Celeste. Everyone should have
Speaker 4: that resolution that watch more Rosalbanieri. That's it.
Speaker 2: But I've heard you say her name more than anyone
Speaker 2: else of the planet.
Speaker 4: Lance does her name more than I do? But well, yes,
Speaker 4: So world map gaps that I think I can easily
Speaker 4: fill next year Greenland, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ukraine, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Afghanistan.
Speaker 4: Slightly more challenging maybe Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Egypt. But
Speaker 4: I think with the with t B canopy that's true,
Speaker 4: all those I should be able to get those. But
Speaker 4: I think I can at minimum, I can get five
Speaker 4: of those countries.
Speaker 2: I think there's a I think there's an Egyptian film
Speaker 2: in one of the World Cinema Project box sets too, Okay,
Speaker 2: I think if I remember right.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I should watch more of my shelf. That's
Speaker 4: just a given. I think that's everyone's anyone who's resolution
Speaker 4: that's like on there.
Speaker 2: That's the understood. Yeah, that's always there. And my last
Speaker 2: one has nothing to do with the shelf, So that's
Speaker 2: kind of fitting as well. My last one is I
Speaker 2: kind of I'd never really focused on it. I want
Speaker 2: to make an effort to go to more film festivals.
Speaker 2: I went to one in kind of a half this year,
Speaker 2: and I really enjoyed the experience, the amount of being
Speaker 2: able to talk to filmmakers, the amount of being able
Speaker 2: to see some things early, the amount of being able
Speaker 2: to see like the actual struggles behind some of these films,
Speaker 2: and like the fight for distribution and the fight for
Speaker 2: being treated right as a filmmaker who put years of
Speaker 2: their life into their first film and now like just
Speaker 2: the hustle to get it out there. It's not something
Speaker 2: that is easily recognizable until you've been like a part
Speaker 2: of it with somebody and witness it up close. And
Speaker 2: so it's nice to see some of that. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hope to go to a few awesome.
Speaker 4: Do you have anyones in mind in particular you want
Speaker 4: to try to get to?
Speaker 2: Oh, well, the easy ones. I'm going to try to
Speaker 2: go to Saint Louis again because it's close and panic
Speaker 2: fest here in Kansas City. But I just for the
Speaker 2: first time, I'd never done this before, never got a passport,
Speaker 2: never been out of the country. I just got my
Speaker 2: passport today, and so I'm I'm even thinking maybe trying
Speaker 2: to do TIFFs or something.
Speaker 4: Okay, she work for immigration.
Speaker 2: You don't have a passport, I've never had a passport
Speaker 2: and never been out of the country, and I've just
Speaker 2: helped people come in.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I appreciate you for that. But I mean,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, I did log Panama the other day. That's
Speaker 4: why I watched it. That's what like sort of inspired
Speaker 4: the whole thing where I was like, I watched my
Speaker 4: first Panamanian horror movie like that, which one Panamanian movie Diablo,
Speaker 4: Oh Diablo, Yes, which was I mean, I'm proud of them.
Speaker 4: I'll say that.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing. One of us isn't working on
Speaker 2: special features for that film right this moment. Anyways, Yes,
Speaker 2: this this is exciting. Yeah, any any other off the wall,
Speaker 2: like plans for film festivals or anything. You doing this,
Speaker 2: You're exciting for that. Other than we'll like, uh, of
Speaker 2: course Horror Gives Back is going to be a thing again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, world, we'll do you know, we always do june'splitation
Speaker 4: and then Horror gives Back for for charity. I don't
Speaker 4: have any plans for film festivals. I think I did
Speaker 4: it a few times and just I think I'm past
Speaker 4: because it's I mean, it is all new movies and
Speaker 4: I like the last time, last couple of times I went,
Speaker 4: I just found myself wanting to go to the retrospective
Speaker 4: screenings and like like the Park Chan Wook one, I
Speaker 4: was like, why is why is this not full? Like
Speaker 4: what is what's wrong with people? And everyone's like, we're
Speaker 4: want to see the new Silent Night Deadly Night remake?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: You know? So no, I.
Speaker 4: If there's anything playing at Fantastic Fest that I really
Speaker 4: want to see. The good thing about them is that
Speaker 4: you can buy a one off ticket on standby, which
Speaker 4: I've done a couple of times. So so if something
Speaker 4: comes up that I really want to see and if
Speaker 4: it's playing on film, then yeah, I'll probably go out
Speaker 4: of my way. But no, no big plans other than
Speaker 4: hopefully finished Volume two by mid year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to ask about it, do you.
Speaker 2: You don't have a timeline for when you want to
Speaker 2: finish or anything other than mid year, I guess.
Speaker 4: I mean I wanted to finish at the end of
Speaker 4: this year, but that's just not happening.
Speaker 2: So a lot of work. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: The hard part too, is that like some of these
Speaker 4: movies I just put in the appendix, but I because
Speaker 4: I watched them, like you know, three four years ago,
Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't have anything to write
Speaker 4: about them now, and now I am putting them like
Speaker 4: in with the proper write up, and I don't remember
Speaker 4: the movie, so I'm like to fucking rewatch that thing.
Speaker 4: So that's you know, it's it's time consuming, but I
Speaker 4: don't know. I'm hoping by mid year. I'm I'm I've
Speaker 4: been keeping up a good pace where like I've been
Speaker 4: getting at least two to three write ups done per
Speaker 4: day on average, but there still are you know, I've
Speaker 4: got about four chapters left. But it's exciting because I've
Speaker 4: gotten a lot of interviews with people for this this version.
Speaker 4: So so far I've got like ten interviews with directors
Speaker 4: or other filmmakers. So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: Incredible as usual. I will say you should be following
Speaker 2: everything Erica does because they are amazing, of course, but
Speaker 2: on Sung Horror specifically, if you've never given it a listen,
Speaker 2: the conversations tonight kind of rely heavily on the exact
Speaker 2: sensibilities behind. On course, for those that have never heard it,
Speaker 2: it is a film that or a show that is
Speaker 2: dedicated to films with less than a thousand views on
Speaker 2: a Letterboxed literally Unsung Horse. It's the definition of the title.
Speaker 2: They are fun, they are exciting, they're always fun to
Speaker 2: listen to. You guys are great. You can follow Eric
Speaker 2: on Letterboxed at hex Maasker. The link is in the
Speaker 2: description below. The book is still unavailable. Anything else you
Speaker 2: want to throw out there? Follow you on Instagram.
Speaker 4: I guess yeah, I'm there too. I don't know. I
Speaker 4: hardly post anything except my cast.
Speaker 2: I know you know what you pitched mine. I'll say, everybody,
Speaker 2: go join the Unsung Horse discord. It's a great little community.
Speaker 2: Every time that there's a new episode, there's a big
Speaker 2: flurry of activity. And during June'splitation and during Horre Gives Back,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that are active over there.
Speaker 2: So it's nice to see.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right. On that note, thanks everybody finding out. We'll
Speaker 2: see you next week for on Thursday's stream. Yes, I
Speaker 2: will be here Onchristmas Night next week, oh my god? Really?
Speaker 2: And New Year's the following week, sir.
Speaker 4: All right, well, and.
Speaker 2: To give people more of a reason, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: here with Howard ask Berger next week.
Speaker 4: Oh that's fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, Christmas Day here with my own Santa Claus. All right,
Speaker 2: have a good week. We'll see all next time. Be safe.
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