Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast Network.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, welcome home everybody, and welcome back to mister
Speaker 2: Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 3: Sir, thank you, thank you. Great to be back here again.
Speaker 2: It's been too long, far too long, and even better
Speaker 2: since the last time we got to meet in person.
Speaker 3: We did out here in sunny lay l At the
Speaker 3: morning I was.
Speaker 2: About to say to Sunday that day was rough and
Speaker 2: that was already a long day before the tour that
Speaker 2: we took running through the Hollywood Cut. How's everything been
Speaker 2: for you lately?
Speaker 3: Very good, very busy, cranking out commentaries left and right
Speaker 3: and reviews and all that kind of fun stuff, and
Speaker 3: trying to keep track of every like what thirty release
Speaker 3: anum announcements that come out every single day now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that's a great, great point. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about commentaries in just a minute, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: But last time you were on here, we didn't spend
Speaker 2: enough time talking about Mondo Digital. And I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people that still don't understand how useful
Speaker 2: of a site it is. So when you go through
Speaker 2: and get a title to review. How much work are
Speaker 2: you putting into all of these reviews? Just a guestimation
Speaker 2: on an average amount of time for one review.
Speaker 3: Well, it depends on how he defined review, because I
Speaker 3: mean something like the Clone, you know, the end of
Speaker 3: The Clones of Bruce Lead. I mean that takes a week,
Speaker 3: so right, Yeah, it depends on the movie. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean we're talking several hours to watch it, go
Speaker 3: through the extras, and I kind of like try to
Speaker 3: give you a sense of the history behind it and
Speaker 3: if there's pass releases, I do a lot of comparison
Speaker 3: grabs and sort of like I don't really do like
Speaker 3: star ratings or like grade ratings on it because I
Speaker 3: kind of try to treat the movie by itself and
Speaker 3: sort of like say, describe in a way that if
Speaker 3: it would appeal to you, then you'll realize it. So
Speaker 3: you know, I think you'll remember using decide that movies
Speaker 3: for them or if this is a good release. I
Speaker 3: think it should be pretty obvious hopefully. I know some
Speaker 3: people are just like, well, is it thumbs up or
Speaker 3: thumbs down? Like it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 2: So with with Mondo Digital, you've been doing this how
Speaker 2: long now, we're going on.
Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety eight. Yeah, yeah, good god. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: in four years it's going to be thirty like I
Speaker 3: started when I was a little pup. It's crazy, right,
Speaker 3: that's amazing.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking about surprising releases tonight, and I'm
Speaker 2: excited because this is, first off, such a subjective topic.
Speaker 2: There's so many reasons something be surprising, and I really
Speaker 2: wanted to highlight what Mando Digital does because you are
Speaker 2: you know, the historical aspect is something that not enough
Speaker 2: people embrace and run to. Gosh, what is the best
Speaker 2: way to ask this, Like, is there a title that's
Speaker 2: had so many home video releases that the history portion
Speaker 2: alone is overwhelming for you to cover other than like
Speaker 2: Evil Dead or Texas Chaince.
Speaker 3: I'm asking Yeah, Actually, if you look at my reviews
Speaker 3: for like Phenomena or Opera, I mean they're like books now.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like it it goes all the way back
Speaker 3: to like pre lasered beaches and lasers. But there's been
Speaker 3: so many and they're all different. I mean it, every
Speaker 3: time they put a new one out, I'm like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, it's getting longer. And I haven't even done
Speaker 3: the seven Operacts. I'm waiting for their replacement. But I
Speaker 3: mean it's that review is probably gonna be like the
Speaker 3: Record Holder, It's I mean, it's it'll probably take you, like,
Speaker 3: you know, three hours.
Speaker 2: Just to read the review as far as surprising goes, Uh,
Speaker 2: what is what is exciting you about releases in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four?
Speaker 3: I mean just all the stuff they're finding. I mean
Speaker 3: it seems like almost every week there's something popping up
Speaker 3: or I'm you know, things that reader lost or incomplete
Speaker 3: or or just you know, caught up in legal rights
Speaker 3: or whatever did they keep untangling. I mean, there's just
Speaker 3: stuff popping out left and right where I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, how did they do that? Like? How is this
Speaker 2: coming out?
Speaker 3: That seems like it's happening more and more lately, which
Speaker 3: makes me very happy. I Mean, there's still obviously some
Speaker 3: Holy Grail titles that are still locked Inovolve somewhere, but
Speaker 3: now it's like it kind of gives me hope that
Speaker 3: just about anything could come out, except for my number
Speaker 3: one choice that we'll talk about that's never gonna come
Speaker 3: out here, but we'll get to that later.
Speaker 2: There has been God probably on that note, like seven
Speaker 2: or eight titles that people have been listing as number
Speaker 2: one most coveted title on their list for years, and
Speaker 2: they just keep moving up this year because we keep
Speaker 2: getting these announcements, like Criterion alone has put out like
Speaker 2: four or five of them just this year. And yet
Speaker 2: there are so many things that people are clamoring for,
Speaker 2: and of course we're all dealing with this in the
Speaker 2: environment of streaming and the constant back when we were
Speaker 2: on disc and we're like, well we still are. Yeah.
Speaker 2: On that note, though, as far as streaming, there's still
Speaker 2: lots of great stuff happening there, including a recent Shutter show.
Speaker 2: You were on What did you get to appear on?
Speaker 2: And date?
Speaker 3: It's a show called Horror's Greatest Episode three has just
Speaker 3: gone up, but they're dropping the first five episodes or
Speaker 3: this fall. Then there's gonna be another five coming up
Speaker 3: early next year. I think that's public knowledge, I hope.
Speaker 3: And that was a lot of fun to work on.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like in obviously I was in one
Speaker 3: season The Ross History of Horror and then The Hunter
Speaker 3: One Scariest Movements of All Times? Another Shutter show, but
Speaker 3: this one is a lot of fun. They kind of
Speaker 3: shaken it up, got some new faces on the ear
Speaker 3: and it's really cool just if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 3: but the main title sequence alone is worth it. It's
Speaker 3: a it's a practical, like clamation animated opening sequence, and
Speaker 3: the first time I saw it, I just died laughing.
Speaker 3: It's it's brilliant. Yeah, really really fun show. Very proud
Speaker 3: to be a part of it. But yeah, on shutter
Speaker 3: dropping every.
Speaker 2: Week, there has been I don't want to call it
Speaker 2: a resurgence because it's still only like four, but there's
Speaker 2: been a great awakening of claymation this year in a
Speaker 2: few movies that have been so great, and I'm so
Speaker 2: excited to see fully physical versions of these happening. It's
Speaker 2: I hope people keep embracing.
Speaker 3: It, including the number one movie at the world wide
Speaker 3: box office right now, just opened last weekend, has a
Speaker 3: great clamation scene in it.
Speaker 2: Exactly That's what I was referring to, And funny enough,
Speaker 2: that's the first announcement we're gonna talk about tonight. Actually great.
Speaker 2: On that note, you obviously keep up with a lot
Speaker 2: of films in theater at home reviews, but the big
Speaker 2: thing commentaries. As somebody that just started doing these myself
Speaker 2: a little over a year ago, how are you cranking
Speaker 2: out so many How much time are you putting into
Speaker 2: every commentary?
Speaker 3: Well, again, it depends on the movie. Like I was, really,
Speaker 3: I know you covered this, I think on your Last
Speaker 3: Word one before. But I put a ton of work
Speaker 3: into the one I did with Troy for Bloodline because
Speaker 3: that was one I never thought I would actually get
Speaker 3: to do it. But that movie is fascinated me since
Speaker 3: I was a kid, and I've just always been into
Speaker 3: the history and I've dug into like I mean, I've
Speaker 3: read every screenplay draft that exists everywhere. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know the history of this thing back wasn't forward. So
Speaker 3: that one came along and I was like, I was
Speaker 3: born to do this one. So I put a ton
Speaker 3: into that, like a lot of work, Like I just
Speaker 3: did one last night with hard Berger. That was a
Speaker 3: really fun one. It wasn't like super research intensive, but
Speaker 3: it was. Yeah, it was a really fun one. But
Speaker 3: that'll be announced very soon, I think as well can Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know, you know, it depends, but at least
Speaker 3: a few hours, but you know, a few days, it depends.
Speaker 3: I mean, these like Us was a solo one, so
Speaker 3: with that obvious or Paradise, so those take a long time,
Speaker 3: but it's worth it.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's that's the thing. I mean, even Tony
Speaker 2: just commented it. Nathaniel and Howard are beast When it
Speaker 2: comes to commentaries. It seems like every single week there
Speaker 2: are I don't know three commentaries I announced with your
Speaker 2: name on it. And you start thinking and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: I know he works too, How is this possible? How
Speaker 2: much are you sleeping every night? Well?
Speaker 3: It's weird though, because like sometimes they'll know I mean, well, okay,
Speaker 3: so like in Australia they announced the Plansky Box which
Speaker 3: had the commentary for the ninth game, but I did
Speaker 3: a Troy but that was like a year and a
Speaker 3: half ago that we did. But I mean, so, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't think people know. Like sometimes they're sitting on
Speaker 3: the sholf for a long time, you and I'm like,
Speaker 3: is this ever coming out? Like yeah, so you never know.
Speaker 3: So when they come out as necessarily even close to
Speaker 3: the order that they get done in there.
Speaker 2: Are i mean three of my first four commentaries the
Speaker 2: films haven't been announced or release yet. They were recorded
Speaker 2: last summer. That stuff happens all the time. It's crazy. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Bloodline is great. Cannot wait to be able to see
Speaker 2: that one and actually hold it. That's one that I
Speaker 2: feel like I've been hearing about for years and people
Speaker 2: speculating what's going on with it, and now that it's here,
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem possible. But I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3: I'm just the fact they put the TV version on
Speaker 3: there because that oh, like, yeah, that is so essential.
Speaker 3: I'm really glad they cleared that up because I had
Speaker 3: to be on there.
Speaker 2: Well, and you obviously love a lot of the stuff,
Speaker 2: just like all of us watching. Have you had any
Speaker 2: recent pickups that you're excited about anything that you've got
Speaker 2: in recently? Oh? God, yeah, what do I have on
Speaker 2: my shelf here? I'm looking over here.
Speaker 3: Well, I've only got all this UK second run things
Speaker 3: like Inside and Frontiers, and uh I was slacking on those,
Speaker 3: so I finally grabbed all those buddinggar from Beijing the
Speaker 3: UHD just got Obviously, I got a bunch of UK
Speaker 3: stuff in the mail. As you can tell. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm staring at right now. Yeah, there's a lot. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll be taking and all that stuff later this week.
Speaker 3: And I'm not reviewing things, but and you know, it's
Speaker 3: got a big box of partner label pictures and stuff
Speaker 3: to review, so I just did. Actually one of my
Speaker 3: picks I just reviewed. I'm not gonna say what it is,
Speaker 3: but uh yeah, a lot of good stuff in there too.
Speaker 2: I will say. Everybody needs to go check out Mondo
Speaker 2: hyphendigital dot com. All of the reviews are up there.
Speaker 2: The newest ones, I believe, stay on the top of
Speaker 2: the main site. Right yeah, newest one I believe at
Speaker 2: the moment, A second run's Pharaoh from over in the UK.
Speaker 2: Not anymore. No, No, I just did want to.
Speaker 3: I posted one about an hour ago, which will tell
Speaker 3: you what one of my picks is because I wanted
Speaker 3: to get I wanted to have it up before the show.
Speaker 3: So if you want to sneak peek, go look at
Speaker 3: the site.
Speaker 2: I see it. Uh uh, did not mean to spoil that.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, this is this is so such a good
Speaker 2: sign that I refer back to so often, And it's
Speaker 2: one of those things that because of that historical aspect,
Speaker 2: you can find out like which edition is better, why
Speaker 2: is this edition here? What are we missing? And I
Speaker 2: mean we're covering some of that in the magazine I
Speaker 2: published that there's certain films that you should hold on
Speaker 2: to certain releases because the four K has no special features,
Speaker 2: but there was hours and hours of special features on
Speaker 2: the DVD, so hold on to it. So stuff like
Speaker 2: that is why I love Mono Digital always have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean, and don't just rely on me.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's it's something you should know in general.
Speaker 3: I know people have been having headaches trying to sort
Speaker 3: of out, like Pat Yourrett and Billy the Kid, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: do not get rid of your DVDs, folks, like you
Speaker 3: need you need the criterion, You need the DVDs like
Speaker 3: they're you can't have the whole thing without because each
Speaker 3: one has different cuts. And I mean yeah, like the
Speaker 3: average consumer, I mean it's it kind of gives you
Speaker 3: a headache trying to follow this stuff sometimes. So but yeah,
Speaker 3: you gotta pay attention. Don't get rid of your old discs, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, unless you're absolutely sure right. Speaking of the UK,
Speaker 3: I got an order of three UK items from the
Speaker 3: Atomic Movie Store today. I got in the in Sandy's
Speaker 3: four K that one on one put out, which they
Speaker 3: are have you have you reviewed much from.
Speaker 2: Them on and off?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I've done a few tracks for them.
Speaker 2: As well. They are I don't know, like hit and
Speaker 2: miss with quality on some of the discs, and I
Speaker 2: hear in Sandy's is one of the hits, and that's
Speaker 2: why I waited to find out on that one. But
Speaker 2: there's been a couple that have just not been up
Speaker 2: to what I would want for that movie, and I
Speaker 2: still hope for something better. This one was supposedly selling
Speaker 2: really well, and after waiting for some people that I
Speaker 2: trust on the reviews, had to pick up the Arrow
Speaker 2: Silent the Lambs four K. Yeah, I go into this thing.
Speaker 2: Is way chunkier than I expected. Interesting that they're going
Speaker 2: with the slip around the whole hard box thing, but
Speaker 2: one that I've been excited about all this last year
Speaker 2: and this year, Radiance continues to impress people, and I
Speaker 2: had to get in the World War Volume two box sets.
Speaker 2: These are fran Is doing special things for Radiance, and
Speaker 2: I'm very excited because it seems like some of these
Speaker 2: titles would have fit very well because he was with
Speaker 2: Arrow under the Arrow Academy line, or even under regular
Speaker 2: Arrow with some of the titles that they used to
Speaker 2: put out. But Arrow's kind of shifted into this mainstream
Speaker 2: focus and now Fran's back to save the Day. It
Speaker 2: feels like, and even we're gonna talk about a bunch
Speaker 2: of eighty eight film stuff tonight that they've kind of
Speaker 2: filled in some of these niches that Arrow would have
Speaker 2: done probably a good four or five years ago. So
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's a lot of exciting stuff happening
Speaker 2: over in the UK right now.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well everywhere. It seems like between them Australia, Germany,
Speaker 3: it's like they're killing my wallet.
Speaker 2: It's very, very true. Other than pickups, what you been
Speaker 2: watching recently? Anything exciting?
Speaker 3: Well, I saw the movie that we're gonna announce we're
Speaker 3: gonna cover. I saw the theater obviously, well let's spoil that.
Speaker 3: The first title we're talking about is Beetlejuice, Beetled. What'd
Speaker 3: you think about it? I really enjoyed it. Actually, I
Speaker 3: had heard sort of mixed things, so my affectations were
Speaker 3: just sort of like right in the middle. I understand
Speaker 3: people's misgivings because if you look at it, if you're
Speaker 3: expecting like a coherent, like three act movie, you're not
Speaker 3: really going to get that. But it's sort of Tim
Speaker 3: Burton but just having a real full throttle Tim Burton
Speaker 3: movie just kind of made me just grin. I mean,
Speaker 3: I was just so happy because I've been i mean
Speaker 3: everything like post Swinny Todd had been kind of like so,
Speaker 3: but this really felt like him from back in the saddle.
Speaker 3: But I just had a really great time with it.
Speaker 3: I mean, just the Wilm of the Foe stuff alone
Speaker 3: just had me just howling. I mean, there's some gags
Speaker 3: with him. They're great that have the audience. I don't
Speaker 3: think a lot of people didn't even seem to catch
Speaker 3: some of the jokes, which is too bad. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I was just giving like crazy through a lot of it.
Speaker 3: And the music is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just had a really fun time with it.
Speaker 2: I kind of with one brand new one this last week,
Speaker 2: I've got to see Jeremy Solomier's Rebel Ridge that premiered
Speaker 2: over on Netflix. How'd you feel about that one? I
Speaker 2: enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was an interesting well, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: not really spoiler to say that, to do it like
Speaker 3: a sort of an action pack thriller, Well, that's non lethal.
Speaker 3: I guess which again, people compared it to First Blood,
Speaker 3: is that's the same thing, because you know Ramma doesn't
Speaker 3: technically kill anybody in the course of that movie, and
Speaker 3: this kind of does the same thing.
Speaker 2: Right, But yeah, I thought it was good.
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of an interesting hybrid of like kind
Speaker 3: of a legal procedur rule with like bookend with action scenes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I really liked it. I thought that actors,
Speaker 3: all the leads are really great. I was just talking
Speaker 3: about this with the Bruce pultcheck. The only thing I
Speaker 3: can't figure out is why it's called Rebel Ridge because
Speaker 3: they only actually go to that location for about half
Speaker 3: a minute, but it has nothing to do with the plot.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like, I guess you're trying to
Speaker 3: make it like Chinatown is a metaphor, but I'm not
Speaker 3: sure what that metaphor is.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I've always loved Jeremy's Solnier stuff. I feel
Speaker 2: like his style fits with my taste a lot. For
Speaker 2: some reason, I thought the action on the first half
Speaker 2: was great. The conspiracy thriller side that hits right about
Speaker 2: the halfway point. It really slows it down for a minute,
Speaker 2: but at least it's interesting. I won't like complain necessarily
Speaker 2: that we went from high voltage action to storming into
Speaker 2: a courthouse at night in the middle of nowhere. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it worked well. And again, the acting was incredible. I'm
Speaker 2: really happy with mostly no name faces that you've seen before.
Speaker 2: There's a couple that you'll probably recognize, but that's that
Speaker 2: was it. It was a lot of people that are
Speaker 2: just small time character actors really killing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it actually kind of goes against the cliches
Speaker 3: in some ways.
Speaker 2: I liked.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, it assumes you've seen these movies because
Speaker 3: there's there's a again not spoiling it, but there's kind
Speaker 3: of the character they called Cerpiico, who's like an informer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they kind of assume that you're going to expect
Speaker 3: something and you think you predict it, and they're like,
Speaker 3: actually and they kind of like reverse it on you.
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was special. And then I also I got
Speaker 2: a good chance to watch a lot of stuff with
Speaker 2: my kids this week. We don't tend to be able
Speaker 2: to see a ton of movies during the week, but
Speaker 2: we went to a friend's house this last week and
Speaker 2: who watches the show What's going On? Ben? And we
Speaker 2: projected on the side of his uh, like shed outside.
Speaker 2: Muppets take Manhattan for a ten year old, a nine
Speaker 2: year old, and a seven year old, or in an
Speaker 2: eight year old, and it crushed. They all loved it.
Speaker 2: It was such a damn good time. It was the
Speaker 2: perfect temperature outside. Absolutely loved it. And I was so
Speaker 2: happy because we got in the car and my oldest went,
Speaker 2: we need to watch more Muppets and I was like, Victory,
Speaker 2: you have to. It's uh, it's on the list for soon. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then we checked out School of Rock. My kid
Speaker 2: has never seen that, and that's like a perfect movie
Speaker 2: for me. Literally beat for beat, just wonderful. And then
Speaker 2: finish it up the for This Last Week with Batman returns.
Speaker 2: Haven't seen that in years and that is such a
Speaker 2: weird movie. I love it. But man, my kids were like,
Speaker 2: this is a Batman movie.
Speaker 3: Probably not the right time year to watch it though,
Speaker 3: and it's such.
Speaker 2: A good no no, but well, if you're yearning for
Speaker 2: the cold, it's a fun.
Speaker 3: One right yeah, exactly, So I got I remember I
Speaker 3: saw him this stake had in the theater when I
Speaker 3: was a kid. But like I remember, like the Muppet
Speaker 3: baby scene, the flashback like just brought the house down
Speaker 3: when I was the whole theaters went nuts during that
Speaker 3: whole scene. You could barely even hear the songs. People
Speaker 3: were just like dying. Yep, so did that still work?
Speaker 2: It did work. My I had shown my kids Muppet
Speaker 2: Babies on this is gonna sound ridiculous, but on a
Speaker 2: really low quality bootleg disc like two years ago, and
Speaker 2: all they know from that show, like they barely even
Speaker 2: remember Kermit being in it, but they loved the theme song,
Speaker 2: and so we get to see it in the show
Speaker 2: and they were like Muppet babies, they remembered it all
Speaker 2: of a sudden. It was so perfect. I feel like
Speaker 2: they loved it. I God, I had a blast. It
Speaker 2: was so much fun. All right, let's get on to
Speaker 2: our announcements. Then we'll talk more about releases from this
Speaker 2: year and some other stuff going on. Afterwards, we'll talk
Speaker 2: about some of the Thaniel's commentaries as we go through,
Speaker 2: of course, because I'm sure there's about fourteen being announced
Speaker 2: this week. First up, Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice is getting a Glow
Speaker 2: in the Dark four K steelbook. I know this was
Speaker 2: confusing for some people because it looks like there's two slipcovers.
Speaker 2: This is a double sided slipcover and this is just
Speaker 2: a weird looking three D mock up here. So you're
Speaker 2: gonna have Yonah on one side and Michael Keaton on
Speaker 2: the other of this Glow in the Dark Steel book.
Speaker 2: But it seems like a lot of people are happy
Speaker 2: with the film, so I hope people get this if
Speaker 2: they want it.
Speaker 3: And I see Bob gets on the packaging because he
Speaker 3: kind of steals the movie too.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I had to all over the inside of that.
Speaker 2: Then after that this kind of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna ask you if you know anything about this.
Speaker 2: October First, D and D Productions is giving us Billy Bevin,
Speaker 2: Silent Comedian from nineteen twenty to nineteen twenty nine. I've
Speaker 2: never heard of these people. Supposedly it was a Kickstarter
Speaker 2: title a couple of years ago. News to me, but
Speaker 2: I'm intrigued. Silent shorts. They're doing a little box set.
Speaker 2: There are going to be I believe, two different discs
Speaker 2: in this. They've got some bonus shorts in there. This
Speaker 2: is region free. You can pick this up on Amazon,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure a lot of the other places will
Speaker 2: have it, like Orbit and Diabolic as long as they're
Speaker 2: carrying it, which I think they will be. Yeah. Eighty
Speaker 2: eight Films announced a ton of stuff in this last week,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna be covering them in like two big chunks.
Speaker 2: First October twenty eighth in the UK and October twenty
Speaker 2: second in North America that includes Canada. They're giving us
Speaker 2: a blu ray of The Kung Fu Instructor from nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy nine. This is going to have a slipcover on
Speaker 2: it with four collector's art cards, and we've got a trailer, stills, gallery,
Speaker 2: and not much else on it. But this is a
Speaker 2: movie that I know a lot of people love, and
Speaker 2: I'm glad this is coming out, and the artwork is
Speaker 2: pretty dan great on this. Yeah, great cover.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I yet their Martialage releases are great, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I have total confidence in this.
Speaker 2: One is artwork by seventeenth and Oak. I don't know
Speaker 2: that I've ever heard of seventeenth and Oak, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Good job, yeah, very good job. Next one is The
Speaker 2: Kid from Kwang Tongu. This is coming on the same
Speaker 2: dates October twenty eighth in the UK, twenty second in
Speaker 2: North America. It's a blu ray. We've got a slipcover
Speaker 2: and art cards on this one as well, and again
Speaker 2: very few special features. We've got a trailer in Still's Gallery.
Speaker 2: That's it, but it'll be region free since it's releasing
Speaker 2: in both places. And of course this is a Shaw
Speaker 2: Brothers title. I know there's a bunch of people picking
Speaker 2: up all of those right now.
Speaker 3: There are, and they still have only gone to like
Speaker 3: ten percent of the Shaw Brothers.
Speaker 2: Like I was about to say, there are so many
Speaker 2: coming out. People are pouring hand and fists to make
Speaker 2: money to be able to buy all these, and we're
Speaker 2: barely even into the barrel to be able to get these.
Speaker 3: Like they've still barely done the crime movies, so we
Speaker 3: got a long way to go.
Speaker 2: Next one is Facets of Love from nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2: Same thing October twenty eighth, UK, twenty second in North America.
Speaker 2: This one obviously cover in art cards as well. This
Speaker 2: one is an HD transfer from the original leg with
Speaker 2: the trailer in Stills Gallery and that's it. But art
Speaker 2: looks good on this one. Glad people will have this one.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised they're not going all in for
Speaker 2: some of these special features this one. Shaw Brothers as well.
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah yeah, everythink with the Shaw start
Speaker 3: they could go nuts with it. But you know, at
Speaker 3: least they're coming out.
Speaker 2: That's very very true. Then this is a pretty big title.
Speaker 2: November twenty fifth, eighty eight Films is releasing This is
Speaker 2: UK only a four K and Blu ray release of
Speaker 2: Eyeball from nineteen seventy five. And you have the opportunity
Speaker 2: to buy this eighty eight Film Site exclusive rigid slipcase
Speaker 2: with the original poster art, or you can buy this
Speaker 2: standard slipcover that will be available everywhere else. They're both
Speaker 2: pretty damn great. I love the original on this one,
Speaker 2: but the new art that got is pretty decent. It is,
Speaker 2: and I'm on that one. You are on this one,
Speaker 2: so brand new four K remaster from the original Technoscope negative.
Speaker 2: This one is gonna have a commentary by the three Amigos,
Speaker 2: Troy Howard, Nathaniel Thompson and Eugenio eric Alani. We had
Speaker 2: a commentary by Kim Newman and David Flint commentary with
Speaker 2: hystery continues. Are all three of those brand new too.
Speaker 3: I believe I think some of it was on the
Speaker 3: on their previous Blu Ray, But yeah, a lot of
Speaker 3: this stuff is new.
Speaker 2: Interview with Martine Royd De Troy did.
Speaker 3: A solo one on the old one, so that's yeah,
Speaker 3: So it's all getting updated.
Speaker 2: Three new commentaries for iball that's crazy. Interview with them
Speaker 2: Back to Lenzi visual essay by Mike Foster Locations FEATURETTE.
Speaker 2: I believe a couple of those were on the original release.
Speaker 2: But your commentary for this one, what can we expect
Speaker 2: to hear about?
Speaker 3: Oh, we have a lot of fun with this one.
Speaker 3: I mean this this movie is just such a joy.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is one of the most fun jolly
Speaker 3: out there. I wouldn't say it's like the best technically,
Speaker 3: and it's not deep red, but oh my god, it's
Speaker 3: so entertaining. We had a great time with this one,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of become a running joke. Aus Troy
Speaker 3: and I have done, like I think, more in Bertel
Speaker 3: Lindsay commentaries than any other director that we've tackled. For
Speaker 3: some reason. But yeah, pretty much anytime we tack do
Speaker 3: we do an umberto Now it's always just a you know,
Speaker 3: a causer celebration. But yeah, we really really enjoyed.
Speaker 2: Doing this one. I I'm excited for this one. I
Speaker 2: don't think this has had well, hold on before I
Speaker 2: put my foot in my mouth. Has this had a
Speaker 2: US release on Blue? Never?
Speaker 3: Now hasn't been out here since VHS?
Speaker 2: Wow? Do we know why or is there?
Speaker 3: Apparently they have not yet determined who owns it. As
Speaker 3: far as I'm aware, I've never seen a pop up
Speaker 3: on any Licenser's list. I guess because it was Josep Brenner.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like falling into some hole like cause
Speaker 3: like autopsy and like tors and all that stuff like
Speaker 3: those of all you know been cleared up. But yeah,
Speaker 3: eyeball is a mystery one in the US for some reason. Hmmm,
Speaker 3: very interesting.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see Chris is asking if this is missing
Speaker 2: the eighty minute doc from the old release. I don't
Speaker 2: see it listed here.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's on there.
Speaker 2: Interesting, So again we this before, hold on to the
Speaker 2: old release that you got it. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: With a lot of eighty eight narrow stuff, it's like
Speaker 3: keep your old discs because yeah, they tend to like
Speaker 3: swap extras out like crazy.
Speaker 2: Makes it rough. Another big one. The twenty fifth of
Speaker 2: November four K and Blu ray in the UK is
Speaker 2: the legend of Fongsai You collection. There is going to
Speaker 2: be these individual cover arts on both films, and then
Speaker 2: this is the outer box, a couple of jet Lee films.
Speaker 2: This is gonna have a rigid slipcase with new art
Speaker 2: by Kung Fu Bob, very specific style as always for him.
Speaker 2: Two single digipacks in there with a forty page booklet
Speaker 2: with articles by James Oliver, Paul Braml and David East.
Speaker 2: This is gonna have a commentary by Chris Paggiali and
Speaker 2: Frankie Balboa, interview with Corey Un Kwai and an interview
Speaker 2: with the writer Jeff Lao. This looks like a pretty
Speaker 2: solid release. The second film is gonna have a comment
Speaker 2: excuse me, commentary as well, region free because it's four K.
Speaker 2: I'm very very excited about this. Jelly's having a hell
Speaker 2: of a release here.
Speaker 3: No kidding, especially the UK. They're going like UHD crazy
Speaker 3: with him, So it's great bringing on.
Speaker 2: These are both very good movies, says Brian. And then
Speaker 2: Eyeball is a rare Lindsey attempt at self conscious satire. Hilarious.
Speaker 3: It is definitely a satire most absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is great. Looks like a really solid release. Yeah,
Speaker 2: excited for this one. What is next? Uh? Via Vision
Speaker 2: in Australia is running a replacement program for the substitute collection,
Speaker 2: and the sad thing is there's been a couple replacement
Speaker 2: programs that we have missed covering over the last few months,
Speaker 2: so I want to make sure that we got it.
Speaker 2: We got two in this last week alone to cover.
Speaker 2: But this one was really bad. They got sent an
Speaker 2: HD master that was full on missing scenes. It was
Speaker 2: a I believe the TV cut and that hurts this film.
Speaker 2: And this is a This is a box that people
Speaker 2: were really excited for because again I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any HD releases of this anywhere else that are legal
Speaker 2: releases at least yeah, any streaming. Yeah, that's a very
Speaker 2: exciting release. If you are needing a replacement, they will
Speaker 2: be sending it out. You can email them and just
Speaker 2: provide proof of purchase and your postal address. They think
Speaker 2: it'll be shipping in October. This one such an interesting
Speaker 2: choice for a slip on. This November twelfth, Arbelows is
Speaker 2: releasing two duo from nineteen ninety seven. This is the
Speaker 2: poster art that people will probably recognize. This is gonna
Speaker 2: have the limited edition slipcase that will be die cut
Speaker 2: on the front there with that number two. If you
Speaker 2: buy it from their website with that slip it'll come
Speaker 2: with this number two air freshener as well. Hilarious. Arbilos
Speaker 2: always does great. We're exciting to see this. This is
Speaker 2: gonna have a new video interview with the director. We've
Speaker 2: got Sue's feature link student film from nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 2: a silent short film from nineteen eighty six, another short
Speaker 2: film commissioned by the Gianju International Film Festival from two
Speaker 2: thousand and two, short introductory film about the children meet
Speaker 2: Cinema from twenty nineteen. They just got to put everything
Speaker 2: they could on here. And then we've got a new
Speaker 2: essay called two to Tango by Jonathan Rosenbaum in a
Speaker 2: sixteen sixteen page booklet. This is pretty damn cool.
Speaker 3: So is this only the second disc release that comes
Speaker 3: with an air freshener that I can think of?
Speaker 2: Oo, there's gotta be. I think Air forty four forty
Speaker 2: four did one?
Speaker 3: I can't remember because I know the Burt Reynolds Australian
Speaker 3: Box have one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this might be like number four five, It should
Speaker 2: have an more offen. Ronnie says, do you really want
Speaker 2: your car to smell like number two? That's a great question. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that always happens. Paul says he picked up the substitute
Speaker 2: collection and then the very next day they announced the replacement.
Speaker 2: Ask oh, man, I wonder if they will be doing
Speaker 2: some sort of black light art for the minimalist slip cover.
Speaker 2: Its possible. They did that for Chameleon Street, which is
Speaker 2: again really solid disc from ar Blows. Ar Blows. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you've watched quite a few of their discs over
Speaker 2: the years. Are you pretty happy with their stuff? Any favorite? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Their track record is really good,
Speaker 3: really solid.
Speaker 2: They do a lot of great extras and kind of
Speaker 2: just put as much as they possibly can because they
Speaker 2: know it'll probably be the last release from any of
Speaker 2: these films. Yeah, that's safe to say. Another eighty eight
Speaker 2: Films release November twenty fifth on Blu Ray in the UK.
Speaker 2: Black Cat two coming in one of their deluxe hard
Speaker 2: box releases. This is gonna be one of their slim
Speaker 2: hard boxes, so it'll still be a rigid case, but
Speaker 2: it'll be better on your shelf. This is going to
Speaker 2: have an audio commentary by Frank Jang and Robin Shoe
Speaker 2: interview with Jade Lung on this interview with Robin Shue
Speaker 2: as well. We've got some credits and a trailer in
Speaker 2: Cantonese and in English and the stills gallery. I know
Speaker 2: a lot of people were waiting on this because they
Speaker 2: did such a solid Black Cat release, and I just
Speaker 2: found out this week that I didn't even know this
Speaker 2: was the case. But there's a Black Cat three and
Speaker 2: Black Cat for Did you know about that? I know
Speaker 2: they exist. I've not seen them, but yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: think they've ever had HD releases, so I'm curious if
Speaker 2: there's any any indication those might be coming someday. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I understand they're not on the same caliver as the
Speaker 3: first two.
Speaker 2: But no, I think they're in name only. Gotta love it,
Speaker 2: moving right along, muppets joke. October twenty ninth, Pino is
Speaker 2: releasing Deadly Circuit from nineteen eighty three. This is gonna
Speaker 2: have a new audio commentary with Daniel Kramer. He just
Speaker 2: mentioned that he did this one and very excited about this.
Speaker 2: The stars Isabella Johnny. I have never seen this movie
Speaker 2: and it seems like you're excited about this. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us about man, this is a cool movie. I'm
Speaker 2: really glad this is happening.
Speaker 3: This was out on Blu ray in France for like
Speaker 3: a minute and then it was out of print before
Speaker 3: I could even get it, and I was so mad
Speaker 3: that I missed it. So and I'm glad I waited. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is a really great one. This was actually remade
Speaker 3: very controversially in the US, as I have The Beholder
Speaker 3: with actually Judd and you and McGregor. This is a
Speaker 3: much more coherent film, uh that one turned out. Now,
Speaker 3: this is a very very cool one. I love this movie.
Speaker 3: Funny thing is I knew it was coming because I
Speaker 3: actually bumped into Daniel. We crossed Pazer at the Academy
Speaker 3: Library overt Beverly Hills, and he was coming to pull
Speaker 3: research on this and I was pulling it on the
Speaker 3: one that I just did with Howard last night, so
Speaker 3: well back, so yeah, just funny timing. So yeah, as
Speaker 3: soon as he said he was working on this, I
Speaker 3: was very very happy. This is a really, really great one.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Daniel, you were interviewed in his new dock, right,
Speaker 2: I am, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Sylvia Nortono doc that's gonna be coming out
Speaker 3: on a release from Imprint or no indicator. Sorry indicator, sorry,
Speaker 3: go in print. Yeah it's Imprint.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, sorry. I saw the title card at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the dock.
Speaker 3: It's definitely yeah yeah sorry yeah yeah and the second
Speaker 3: guess myself, I was tream over the logo.
Speaker 2: I I'm very excited for people to see it. The
Speaker 2: documentary is so well put together, and god, he is
Speaker 2: passionate as hell about it. Yeah. Speaking of, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be talking to Daniel soon about the documentary. We'll be
Speaker 2: discussing that with everybody excellent. Next, Keena Lover putting out
Speaker 2: Played again Sam from nineteen seventy two. Now, I have
Speaker 2: never been a Woody Allen person. This is coming with
Speaker 2: the four K scan of the OCN. How do you
Speaker 2: feel either about Woody Allen as a whole or about
Speaker 2: this film.
Speaker 3: Well, this isn't really a Woody Allen movie, so that's
Speaker 3: got that going for it.
Speaker 2: He's only in it.
Speaker 3: It is kind of like the Front it's one that
Speaker 3: he stars him, but it's a Herbert Ross movie.
Speaker 2: So I actually love this one.
Speaker 3: This is kind of a movie for Castle Blanka fans
Speaker 3: obviously as you talk to the title. But I saw
Speaker 3: this one when I was a kid. I've always had
Speaker 3: a sauce spot for it. This is one of the
Speaker 3: one of the silly ones. But this one's a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. If you don't like Woody Allen, you're probably
Speaker 3: not gonna enjoy this because it's you know, it's im
Speaker 3: riffing on bogie. So but yeah, I really like it,
Speaker 3: and it's yeah again, it's very funny. They used show
Speaker 3: this on TV all the time back in the nay eighties,
Speaker 3: and yeah, it was just kind of like one of
Speaker 3: those like, you know, warm blanket movies you just kind
Speaker 3: of throw on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really like this one. Gotta love those warm
Speaker 2: blanket movies. Next World one is The Killer Whale Orca
Speaker 2: The Killer Whale coming on four K from you Know Soon.
Speaker 2: This was just recently released by Studio Canal in the
Speaker 2: UK on four K, so you can bet it's likely
Speaker 2: the exact same four K transfer I party it. They
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're gonna port over all the
Speaker 2: extras from the Studio Canal. They've been kind of picky
Speaker 2: and choosy about those lately, but they likely record another
Speaker 2: new commentary for it. That's just what they've been doing
Speaker 2: for every release. Yeah, coming soon, and since Studio Canal's
Speaker 2: done with it, I either they probably put this out
Speaker 2: soon or they wait until like next May to capitalize
Speaker 2: on the summer rush. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Although if they don't have the leagu Gamma track on there,
Speaker 3: that would be a real shame. But you know, he's
Speaker 3: obviously the guy that you would go to for this one,
Speaker 3: and that's not gonna happen again.
Speaker 2: So Yeah, on four November fifth, Paramount is releasing White
Speaker 2: Christmas on four K. This is the nineteen fifty four
Speaker 2: Bing Crosby film and one that I'm kind of surprised
Speaker 2: they didn't go a little more all out on. How
Speaker 2: do you How do you feel about fifty four's White Christmas?
Speaker 2: I like the movie.
Speaker 3: It is not much of a Christmas movie, though, Like
Speaker 3: I know, people keep recommend it, like they like they
Speaker 3: always screen in La here on Christmas time, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: you realize you're only get in like five minutes of
Speaker 3: Christmas in the movie, right, I Mean, it's really not
Speaker 3: a whole lot here, but it's it's a beautiful film.
Speaker 3: It was shot in Best division. They the four K
Speaker 3: restoration has been up on like I have I have
Speaker 3: Claude Escape here so you can watch. You can see
Speaker 3: the master up that they've had.
Speaker 2: For a little while.
Speaker 3: It looks great, it looks spectacular. Anything best division scanning
Speaker 3: four K looks just ridiculously good. And this that's the
Speaker 3: case as well. So they have this a look amazing. Again,
Speaker 3: they could have gone heavy on the extras, but you know, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm goin. They're finally putting it out dust Yeah, heat
Speaker 3: wave with a snow cameo exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great title. Oh man, next up, this
Speaker 2: one's pretty cool. October twenty eighth, Fabulous Films over in
Speaker 2: the UK is releasing The Paddington Bear the Complete Collection.
Speaker 2: This is going to be coming on Blu Ray and
Speaker 2: they're doing a really like cute little pop up version
Speaker 2: as well. The other standard version is here and it's
Speaker 2: like eight dollars cheaper, but if you really want to
Speaker 2: go all in, you can get this little pop up
Speaker 2: cover on it. They're going to have a couple of
Speaker 2: restored features on here, and this is going to include
Speaker 2: let's see Barry Leath the film fair animator feature on
Speaker 2: it as well. I remember watching some of these when
Speaker 2: I was younger. I always liked these. Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 2: Baggaging too. They went all in on the animation style.
Speaker 2: I love when companies do something like that's really neat.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the UK, Vertigo releasing over there is putting
Speaker 2: The Beast from twenty twenty three out on Blu ray
Speaker 2: on October twenty first. No extras on this as far
Speaker 2: as I can tell, but I have heard that this
Speaker 2: one is a pretty decent movie. Did you get a
Speaker 2: chance to see this one? I did.
Speaker 3: It's actually it's streaming on the Criterion channel right now,
Speaker 3: maybe a month ago, so I watched it there.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 3: It's it's a pretty cool It's it's grim, but it's
Speaker 3: a cool little movie. So I assume Criterion is going
Speaker 3: to be putting out a blue ray of it at
Speaker 3: some point. That's pretty sim That was an extras. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna wait you if you're playing on importing.
Speaker 2: Could be on their Janus Contemporaries line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would almost bet on it. Yeah, because I
Speaker 3: think they flied out on.
Speaker 2: It over here. Yeah, uh, I totally forgot. This was
Speaker 2: this week November nineteenth, Paramount is also releasing the Zazz
Speaker 2: Collection on four K with Airplane, Top Secret and the
Speaker 2: Naked Gun. Now this is this is cool, But I've
Speaker 2: had a lot of people commenting, I would only buy
Speaker 2: this if it had both of the Naked Gun sequels
Speaker 2: and the Airplane sequel on four K. First off, sure
Speaker 2: we'd all love that, but second, it wouldn't be zas
Speaker 2: the collection because it wasn't Zazz working on all of those.
Speaker 2: So I get it. But they went all in to
Speaker 2: get these three on here. I'm glad we're gonna get
Speaker 2: this release. A couple of these have not been on
Speaker 2: a four K yet, so this is a big deal.
Speaker 2: This is exciting. Which one of these three is your favorite? Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, I gotta go with Airplane because I mean it's
Speaker 3: one of the funniest movies ever made.
Speaker 2: But I love the other two.
Speaker 3: But folks, I mean, if you know the history is
Speaker 3: as they tried to put Airplane two on here, like
Speaker 3: they would go over and they would bring the studio down.
Speaker 3: That's not gonna happen because they were pissed off of
Speaker 3: that movie even got made, So.
Speaker 2: Ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But I mean, the big news here obvious he's getting
Speaker 3: top secret in four K because the airplane four K
Speaker 3: Master has been out for a while again streaming. I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously it looked better on UHD fingers crossed. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I finally get doing top secret. That's that's really cool
Speaker 3: because that just has some brilliantly funny stuff and I'm
Speaker 3: so glad they're doing it, and that they tried to
Speaker 3: make the Blue Rey look as good as they could
Speaker 3: with that old Master, but it was pretty limited. So
Speaker 3: this was really really much needed.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the four K Master. Does it look
Speaker 2: better for top secret? I don't know, I know which.
Speaker 3: It just needed so desperately because that Blu Ray. They
Speaker 3: took the old HD Master at the Lease Blue Range
Speaker 3: and they tried to like spip it up and it
Speaker 3: was like, here, come on, guys, you can do better
Speaker 3: than this, and they.
Speaker 2: Did so well, and it's paramount. Paramount's kind of been
Speaker 2: hit or miss over the last couple of years. I'm
Speaker 2: really hoping that this is knocked out of the park.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I'm still like terrified to catch a thief,
Speaker 3: but that's going to.
Speaker 2: Be I mean, it's supposedly same scan, new restoration, so
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. I will tell.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Next up Cohen Media Group, who is like a partner
Speaker 2: label or distribution partner of Kenolber. Uh. They are putting
Speaker 2: out merchant Ivory, and I see that this is flat
Speaker 2: up missing the date. It's the same date as this
Speaker 2: next one, which is also missing the date. Whoops, let
Speaker 2: me pull that up while we talk about this. But
Speaker 2: this is a documentary about merchant Ivory. And this is
Speaker 2: going to have interviews with Emmati, some Helen and Bona Parter,
Speaker 2: Hugh Grant, Vanessa Redgrave, hero Yuki Sonata. We got some
Speaker 2: deleted scenes. We've got an introduction from the New York
Speaker 2: Indian Film Festival, another conversation from a film festival. This
Speaker 2: is pretty cool. I'm really excited to see this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want to see this too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They were kind of part of my childhood growing up,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm really looking more to this.
Speaker 2: Well, and Coen Media Group does not get enough attention.
Speaker 2: They put out some really great stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah they do, they really do. And yeah, they sort
Speaker 3: of had like a lull with their merchant Ivory stuff
Speaker 3: some weather getting back to it, I guess because they
Speaker 3: were waiting on with the doc, but you know, they
Speaker 3: kind of went guns blazing there for a little while
Speaker 3: and then got really quiet.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess ano. They're back at it again.
Speaker 2: And this one is coming out on November twelfth. That's
Speaker 2: the date I finally was able to find it. This
Speaker 2: next one is also November twelfth. This is Roseland from
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seven, also Cohen Media Group. This is going
Speaker 2: to come with conversations from the Quad. James Ivory and
Speaker 2: Larry Kardish discussed the making of this. Christopher walk and
Speaker 2: Teresa Right, Geraldine Chaplin, lu Jacobi. I have never seen this,
Speaker 2: but this sounds fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have only seen this on like really crappy vhs,
Speaker 3: So I'm really curious how this is gonna play.
Speaker 2: Very very interested to see it. Christopher Walkeett looking mighty
Speaker 2: young on the cover of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very that's like, yeah really really William Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 2: This was what seventy seven? Jeezus, this was like pre
Speaker 2: Deer Hunter. Oh that's true. Next up, Keena Luber November twelfth.
Speaker 2: Triumph of the Spirit with Willem Dafoe and Edward James
Speaker 2: almost from nineteen eighty nine. Hell of a slipcover on this.
Speaker 2: They went with a nice evocative scene on this. This
Speaker 2: is a powerfully moving boxing drama that takes place during
Speaker 2: World War Two at the Auschwitzen Tournament camp. Willem Dafoe
Speaker 2: stars as Solomo, a roots and turned at the death
Speaker 2: camp with his family and friends, which include Edward James,
Speaker 2: Almost and Robert Loggia. He's forced to fight fellow inmates
Speaker 2: to amuse the guards. The loser assents to the gas chamber.
Speaker 2: Solomo's prowess in the ring is both the salvation and
Speaker 2: his nightmare, as his hollow victories condemned others to death. Still,
Speaker 2: he fights on, hoping he might somehow save his father,
Speaker 2: his friends, perhaps even his soul. Audio commentary on this
Speaker 2: one with Manuela Lasik and this to me seems like
Speaker 2: a must. Yeah, this is a cool movie.
Speaker 3: Again, I haven't seen this since VHS like back in
Speaker 3: the day, but yeah, this is a cool one.
Speaker 2: Actually.
Speaker 3: I always hated the title though it's so generic, but
Speaker 3: it's a much cooler moving you think from the title
Speaker 3: that's just awful.
Speaker 2: Well, and with the synopsis you would think it would
Speaker 2: be a little more emotional of a title. I guess. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 2: Next up Arabesque, which came out on blueberray from Keno
Speaker 2: about three three and a half years ago. Getting a
Speaker 2: four K from Keno. This is a brand new UHD
Speaker 2: SDR Master from Universal four K scan of the OCN.
Speaker 2: Everything else on here I believe is the original, including
Speaker 2: a commentary with Nathaniel Thompson and Howards Berger and Steve Mitchell.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed that was a fun one to do. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm my god, the blue ray alone was psychondelic enough.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine this is going to look in foro K.
Speaker 3: It might be a blessing. This doesn't have HDR actually
Speaker 3: because it might like blow your projector up. But yeah,
Speaker 3: this movie is very visually overwhelming if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 3: for like Stanley down and just goes nuts with like
Speaker 3: the crazy lenses and colored lighting and everything.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, this one's a treat. I have to imagine
Speaker 2: you probably recorded that commentary a good four four and
Speaker 2: a half years ago at this point at least.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they had a lot of fun with it.
Speaker 3: I remember that we've enjoyed doing that one. It was
Speaker 3: it right here at my house for recording.
Speaker 2: Miss nice RaRo is putting out a couple of films
Speaker 2: that they've released through Radiance in the UK, and they
Speaker 2: are now releasing it with Keno here in the US,
Speaker 2: including this November fifth release of The Italian Connection. A
Speaker 2: lot of people commented that this was something that was
Speaker 2: part of a collection before, like we all didn't know
Speaker 2: that this is a brand new four K remaster that
Speaker 2: got got way better reviews than the old release of
Speaker 2: this because the box set release they did of the
Speaker 2: Delao stuff was very not great scans of the films
Speaker 2: it was before Rero was able to get really in
Speaker 2: there with some better equipment. This one also has an
Speaker 2: audio commentary with Sam Degan on it and Archima documentary
Speaker 2: Roots of the Mafia. This looks like a hell of
Speaker 2: a great release, Yeah it does.
Speaker 3: And yeah, boy, this one need a new scan really badly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and that UK one has done very well
Speaker 2: for people, so excited to see this. Speaking of replacement programs,
Speaker 2: a little while ago, Phil Movement has announced that Green
Speaker 2: Fish from their Poetry of Lee Changdong box set that
Speaker 2: they just did, there was a master problem. So if
Speaker 2: you watched your disc, your disc probably looked fine, but
Speaker 2: it was just an older master. They were supposed to
Speaker 2: have released a newer HD Master and they didn't like
Speaker 2: what was on the disc, so they're gonna be sending
Speaker 2: you a brand new one. If you ordered this through
Speaker 2: Vinegar Scendroime, it will just come with your next package.
Speaker 2: Next up is the other one from Rero the Boss,
Speaker 2: coming out on Blue on November twelfth. This is another
Speaker 2: new four K restoration from the Ocen, another audio commentary
Speaker 2: by Sam Degan, and another archival documentary, Mafia Stories, this
Speaker 2: one also with Henry Silva, and again the Kenolber sales
Speaker 2: or on release day. Whatever feels like this absolutely deserves
Speaker 2: a pickup. Italian Chevy Chase definitely looks like him on
Speaker 2: the cover, which one yes, at different stages of life.
Speaker 3: That's like community Chevy Chase on the right.
Speaker 2: Oh man, this is the announcement that rocked the world
Speaker 2: earlier this week November, Fourth Studio Canal is releasing The
Speaker 2: Third Man on four K as part of their Vintage
Speaker 2: Classics line. A four K collector's edition of this that
Speaker 2: looks first off beautiful but second off massive, like this
Speaker 2: is something that will take up half of a shelf
Speaker 2: by itself. Let's go through some of this first off
Speaker 2: pop up rigid box packaging and when you open it,
Speaker 2: the Third Man theme plates that's insane. Sixty four page
Speaker 2: booklet with brand new essays, fully annotated shooting script is
Speaker 2: in this four art cards. A poster of the brand
Speaker 2: new artwork. There is an excerpt from a BHP audio
Speaker 2: interview filmmaker's influence on The Third Man, restoring the Third
Speaker 2: Man audio commentary, Joseph Cotton's alternate opening, A bunch of
Speaker 2: old archival extras, and yeah, lots of stuff coming. I'm
Speaker 2: assuming this is gonna look absolutely stunning in four K,
Speaker 2: but holy god, the size of this project.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised it doesn't actually open up and have like
Speaker 3: a zepther inside that you can actually play like the
Speaker 3: opening credits. You know, that would be great. Maybe the
Speaker 3: next time.
Speaker 2: They can do the AKA as somebody that loves these releases,
Speaker 2: how do you feel about these giant freaking box that's
Speaker 2: for one film?
Speaker 3: Uh, I appreciate the effort. If it's too big, it
Speaker 3: kind of asked to go into storage somewhere. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean there's I mean, this is fine. Actually, I
Speaker 3: mean I only get peeved when it's something like the Criterion.
Speaker 3: God's the whole thing, or it's just a shape that
Speaker 3: absolutely will not fit anywhere, like there's no shelf. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I think, well, accommodate this thing. So at least
Speaker 3: they're considered making it kind of sort of over slightly
Speaker 3: over disc sized, so you know, at least you can
Speaker 3: do It's it's huge, but you know it's not too
Speaker 3: and Willy, I think at least, like, yeah, it's it's weird.
Speaker 3: Do you think how far we've come with this movie though? Like,
Speaker 3: do you remember way back when Criterion did the very
Speaker 3: first blue ray of The Third Man, Like how rough
Speaker 3: that thing looked? Yep, I mean because I was like
Speaker 3: in their very first batch when like they hadn't really
Speaker 3: gotten the compression thing down. But like that and like
Speaker 3: Last Metro and all those, I mean those look really bad,
Speaker 3: but they were like so super compressed and Third Man
Speaker 3: like it was a grainy scan anyway, we don't think
Speaker 3: it was just like super chunky. So yeah, and then yeah,
Speaker 3: it just keeps getting better and better and better. So
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it in four K. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Reggie is saying, I'm afraid to hear the price if
Speaker 2: you order it from Amazon UK and you're in the US,
Speaker 2: it's about sixty five dollars shipped. If you order it
Speaker 2: over in the UK, it's oh gosh, I think it
Speaker 2: was like forty seven pounds something like that, and then
Speaker 2: if you order it from a US retailer you're Atomic
Speaker 2: Diabolic Orbit. They are priced at seventy two dollars at
Speaker 2: the moment, which that's a lot for one film. It's
Speaker 2: not Never Ending Story from Australia a lot, but it's
Speaker 2: a lot for one film. That's for sure.
Speaker 3: Still cheaper than The Islands Expanded on Blue Ray.
Speaker 2: That is true. It's also this crazy addition is cheaper
Speaker 2: than the out of print Criterion Blu Ray, so that's true.
Speaker 2: That's true. Next up, brand new, exciting release from Fun
Speaker 2: City Editions. We don't have a release date on this yet,
Speaker 2: but they are putting out a two disc Blu Ray
Speaker 2: of something that they are calling Welcome to Fun City.
Speaker 2: This is gonna have a strictly limited slipcover that is
Speaker 2: only on their website and it's a collection of about
Speaker 2: two hundred theatrical trailers, TV spots and radio spots sourced
Speaker 2: entirely from fresh scans of original film and audio materials.
Speaker 2: It's a first of its kind document of New York
Speaker 2: as it appeared on film during the Fun City era.
Speaker 2: Each trailer and TV spot is accompanied by a unique,
Speaker 2: optional audio commentary track from a varied roster of esteemed
Speaker 2: film journalists, programmers, academics, historians, podcasters, and everybody, including people
Speaker 2: like Bill Ackerman, who's announced that he's a part of this,
Speaker 2: and our friend Chris O'Neil is also a part of this.
Speaker 2: Are you on any of these? I guess I am not.
Speaker 2: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've rather merciful and like, let people only do
Speaker 3: a few trailers apiece, because yeah, Howard and I did
Speaker 3: a commentary for one of those garage house action trailer comps.
Speaker 3: It was like two and a half and my god,
Speaker 3: my brain hurts so bad by the time it was over.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't not do that again. So yeah,
Speaker 3: thank you Fun City for being mercled with the commentators.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine trying to write notes for you know,
Speaker 2: seventy five trailers back to back to back to back
Speaker 2: and do a commedy.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to jam it into like ninety seconds.
Speaker 2: You're just like, right, Jesus Christ describing specific trailer shots. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's awful. Yeah, let's see stanceas I would suggest
Speaker 2: a film with a similar goal. Los Angeles plays itself,
Speaker 2: which is great. Every centophile should see it for sure.
Speaker 2: Great dog, absolutely very curious to see what hard to
Speaker 2: find movies show up on Welcome to Fun City, and
Speaker 2: myself included.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's pretty safe. Like now the Juggler
Speaker 3: is going to be on there, I would cover it.
Speaker 2: Would be weird if it wasn't. I want it. But
Speaker 2: it's fifty dollars after shipping and tax. Now what's interesting
Speaker 2: this is a lot of people are complaining about this
Speaker 2: two blu rays and it's there. They're just calling it
Speaker 2: a trailer camp and saying, but it's forty dollars, how
Speaker 2: come again? Fresh scans of two hundred trailers, TV spots
Speaker 2: and radio spots. First off, this could not have been
Speaker 2: cheap to license everything. But second off, just the restoration
Speaker 2: work for two hundred of these is astounding. Yeah and
Speaker 2: you crazy, Yeah, it's worth it. I have a feeling
Speaker 2: he didn't introduce himself, but I have a feeling this
Speaker 2: is our friend. Mister Howard Esberger says the trailer comp
Speaker 2: was over three hours for garage House.
Speaker 3: That hurts even more. Yeah, it's been a few years.
Speaker 3: As I came out, I remember it was really long.
Speaker 3: I mean it took all night to record that thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, what an ambitious idea. Completely agree. Oh, look at
Speaker 2: that La Plays Itself is on sale on Grindhouse with
Speaker 2: their brand new sale that they just launched. Nice. Chris
Speaker 2: has got to say, I get why, but physical media
Speaker 2: is crazy expensive now and hard to keep up with.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, but you also don't have to buy everything,
Speaker 2: Brian says, I agree, very expensive for trailers. Don't know
Speaker 2: why we care about trailers. Don't get it. Well, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of history there and they're really fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm excited for it. Next up, we got some Clint
Speaker 2: Eastwood four K announcements Keno doing the Eiger Sanction from
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five on four K and November fifth, we
Speaker 2: got a new audio commentary by Justin Humphries on here
Speaker 2: also includes the archival commentary with Nick Pinkerton. And this
Speaker 2: should look pretty pretty great on four K. That should
Speaker 2: look amazing, especially with Dolby Vision.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next one is Play Misty for Me, which is the
Speaker 2: one I'm most excited for out of all these again
Speaker 2: Dolby vision Master, new commentary by Alan Spencer who is
Speaker 2: a screenwriter, And yeah, again this looks like a really
Speaker 2: great release. Oh yeah, I love that they're putting all
Speaker 2: these out on the same day so that everybody can
Speaker 2: have their wallet's hurt all at once. Sarah is the
Speaker 2: third one. Yeah, we just talked about how expensive this
Speaker 2: is by three on day one again November fifth, four K,
Speaker 2: brand new Dolby vision Master. This one also has a
Speaker 2: new audio commentary by Justin Humphrees, and it includes a
Speaker 2: bunch of archival extras, and it's got the Blu rain
Speaker 2: there as well. This is a prettiest standing stack of
Speaker 2: releases for Eastwood fans.
Speaker 3: The fact that we're getting two Meals for Sister Sarah
Speaker 3: and Paint the Wagon on UHD in the same year
Speaker 3: just cracks me up because they might be the two
Speaker 3: weirdest Clint Eastwood movies. So yeah, it seems kind of appropriate.
Speaker 2: I guess Howard Asking doesn't have my features on their
Speaker 2: Yes video essay by Howard as Berger played again look
Speaker 2: back at Playmossdy documentary. Uh is that all that you
Speaker 2: had on there? It's got the old Tim Lucas commentary
Speaker 2: as well. Uh, there's a good question. Adam is saying, Oh,
Speaker 2: I went all the way back Aigre Sanction, didn't I
Speaker 2: look at that. Somebody is saying Adam saying, Play Missy
Speaker 2: is his best film. What do you think about that
Speaker 2: statement there, Nate.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's one of my favorites. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I'm not necessarily sure.
Speaker 2: I'd say it's the best, but it's up there. It's
Speaker 2: really high up. Now he's saying, other than une forgiven.
Speaker 3: I'm also I'm gonna I'm gonna go with a dark
Speaker 3: Horse figure. But I really love Highplanes Drifter a lot,
Speaker 3: So not one you hear often for a feet No,
Speaker 3: it isn't. But I really love that movie to pieces.
Speaker 3: It's hard to pick one.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's toughy interesting. Then this was pretty
Speaker 2: damn cool. November twelfth, they're doing a Blu Ray release
Speaker 2: of The Martian Chronicles again. This is the twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: HD master that they had before. However, they're adding audio
Speaker 2: commentaries for all of the episodes. All of them have
Speaker 2: Amanda ray Is on it. The first one also has
Speaker 2: Heath Hollin from Over On Cereal at Midnight. The second
Speaker 2: one as Justin Kurzwell, the third one has Daniel Budnick.
Speaker 2: There's also an archival interview with j Was Falkner on here,
Speaker 2: and Amanda revealed today that there's some other miniseries coming
Speaker 2: from Keno here soon, so that's pretty exciting too. I
Speaker 2: can't wait. I've never seen this one and I'm very
Speaker 2: very curious to check this out.
Speaker 3: No, this is a great one. I don't I'm not
Speaker 3: sure why this one really spooked me out a lot
Speaker 3: as a kid. It's not really all less scary, but
Speaker 3: I just really really kind of like got gone under
Speaker 3: my skin for some reason. But yeah, this is a
Speaker 3: really cool one.
Speaker 2: Nice, this is cool. November nineteenth, The Visitors from nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy two is coming to Blu Ray. This one has
Speaker 2: been semi difficult to see. It was on like a
Speaker 2: double feature DVD I think for a while, and that's
Speaker 2: been out of print for like a generation or something,
Speaker 2: and then there was a there was a VHS that
Speaker 2: was also like kind of hard to come by. This
Speaker 2: one's gonna have an audio commentary by Kat Ellinger and
Speaker 2: Martin Conterio, who she just married. Very curious to see
Speaker 2: how that turns out. She seemed very excited to be
Speaker 2: a part of this great release. So I like this
Speaker 2: slipcover on this The art looks really good. Yeah, excited
Speaker 2: to see this one.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see it looking good because every home
Speaker 3: video version of this poor just looked like crap. It
Speaker 3: was off like dingy old prints and just looked really bad.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm fingers crossed this is going to look good.
Speaker 3: Oh perfect world. Yeah, good, good choice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait for this one. Next up is
Speaker 2: Harrison's Flowers from two thousand, coming on Blue from Keno
Speaker 2: on November nineteenth. Annie McDowell, Elias Kotius, and Brendan Gleeson
Speaker 2: and Adrian Brody. In this one, we get an audio
Speaker 2: commentary by Manuela Lazik. And this is a huge cast.
Speaker 2: And somehow I don't think I've ever heard of this
Speaker 2: film at all.
Speaker 3: I actually saw this, I think on VHS maybe, but
Speaker 3: I remember nothing about it at all, positive or negative.
Speaker 2: It's a very interesting poster art on this. I want
Speaker 2: to know what exactly that is. Go in to our
Speaker 2: next one. Mag Nolia is releasing Dance First. This is
Speaker 2: a Samuel Beckett film, starring Gabriel Byrne and I've heard
Speaker 2: great things about this is from this year. Did you
Speaker 2: get a chance to see this one too? I haven't
Speaker 2: seen it, darn. Next up is The Bat from nineteen
Speaker 2: twenty six. Under Crank putting this out. This is for
Speaker 2: everybody that is not excited about this next part had
Speaker 2: to warn you. Mod Blu Ray will be made on demand,
Speaker 2: will not be pressed. Coming on October fifteenth. There's a
Speaker 2: brand new two K restoration they did as part of
Speaker 2: a Kickstarter thing. If you were on the Kickstarter you
Speaker 2: would have gotten a pressed Blu ray. This is going
Speaker 2: to be digital restoration by under Crank from thirty five
Speaker 2: millimeter film elements, was preserved by UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Speaker 2: Has a new score of course by Ben Modell, and
Speaker 2: includes the nineteen twenty six comedy two reeler, a fraternity
Speaker 2: mix Up, and a short documentary in the life and
Speaker 2: career of director Roland West. This looks like it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a great release. The film sounds fun.
Speaker 3: As hell well in good timing because BCI just put
Speaker 3: The Bat Whispers out. Is that double disc bluerray, which
Speaker 3: is the sound version, which is amazing you haven't seen that.
Speaker 3: It's the fact was made as early as it was
Speaker 3: ridiculous because it's just visually staggering the invention in it.
Speaker 3: But this is pretty much the same movie but silent
Speaker 3: and they actually have a like a side by side
Speaker 3: comparison with the Silent One. So thank god they're putting
Speaker 3: us out on Bluery because Yah, after Bat Whispers, I
Speaker 3: was like, come on, where's the Bat? And here it is,
Speaker 3: so hey.
Speaker 2: I love what Ben Model is doing over with under Crank.
Speaker 2: They always do great stuff. Uh what a weird transition
Speaker 2: from the Bat to Feed. From that one, Unearthed is
Speaker 2: releasing Feed from two thousand and six. This is coming.
Speaker 2: I think this is the first twenty twenty five announcement
Speaker 2: we've had January twenty first, and uh, just so that
Speaker 2: you know what this one is about, it says intensely
Speaker 2: grotesque and shocking as hell. Feed is a heavyweight through
Speaker 2: right through the depths of depravity. A veteran of cyber
Speaker 2: porn investigations, Australian cop Philip Jackson is no stranger to
Speaker 2: the dangerous side of sexual fetishes. He may have found
Speaker 2: the sickest case yet when he discovers a sinister side
Speaker 2: to an American website devoted to fat admiring men and
Speaker 2: obese women called feeders and gainers. Could demand behind it
Speaker 2: all be force feeding missing women to death. It's tense,
Speaker 2: dark and deeply disturbing. And Brett Leonard, who is the
Speaker 2: director behind The Lawnmower, Man, Virtuosity, and Man Thing, takes
Speaker 2: the crime thriller genre to a twisted, gut wrenching new level.
Speaker 2: I'll get a commentary by the director on this, some
Speaker 2: deleted scenes with commentary, an alternate ending with the commentary,
Speaker 2: a final day interview with the director, some interviews with
Speaker 2: some of the cast and crew, and then Feed in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: the North American featurette. Not sure what that is? And
Speaker 2: Behind the Seeds Footage featurette. This sounds intense.
Speaker 3: I'm just curied, is from the director of Man Thing.
Speaker 3: A selling point I'm not. I mean, he did Hideaway.
Speaker 3: Isn't that a bigger movie than whatever?
Speaker 2: Michael, I assume fans of Feed will probably gravitate more
Speaker 2: towards Man Thing than Hideaway.
Speaker 3: Maybe, I guess, yeah, maybe?
Speaker 2: Oh curious, Yeah, I mean, even Virtuosity is a not
Speaker 2: one even the list Anyways, Radius had a hell of
Speaker 2: a lineup to announce this time so December sixteenth on
Speaker 2: Blu Ray in the UK. Only the Man from New
Speaker 2: yorka Madjorka Mahorka. However, they're pronouncing this one from nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty four. This is a bo Widerberg film, and god,
Speaker 2: I love the art on all of the Radiance releases,
Speaker 2: but this is just great. This is essentially a follow
Speaker 2: up to the other bou Widerberg film that they did.
Speaker 2: It's very much feels like it's in the same world supposedly,
Speaker 2: though the story is clearly different that other film is
Speaker 2: the Man on the Roof. This is going to have
Speaker 2: on set hoarding, including behind the scenes images and comments
Speaker 2: from the director. TV featurette interview with Barry Forshaw, who
Speaker 2: did Nordic Noir and everybody knows Berry Foreshaw. Tons of stuff,
Speaker 2: new English subtitle translation on this new booklet with brand
Speaker 2: new writing, and again this sounds fantastic. This is a great,
Speaker 2: great movie.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy it's finally coming out because Yea, I
Speaker 3: actually had the like, yeah, thank you, yeah, I actually
Speaker 3: like VPN and watch this on like Netflix, Sweeten to
Speaker 3: watch it within their subs. That's the only way you
Speaker 3: can do it back the back when they're running it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm so happy it's getting a disc release.
Speaker 2: This is a really cool movie, Adams says, Man on
Speaker 2: the Roof is excellent. Then you should love this too. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2: Brian says, feed is super disgusted. Next one from Them,
Speaker 2: which also sounded great. December sixteenth in the UK and
Speaker 2: December seventeenth in North America. On Blue is Yokohama BJ
Speaker 2: Blues and this movie sounds I mean, it sounds like
Speaker 2: it has everything but also sounds like everything I want
Speaker 2: in a movie. When his police detective best friend is
Speaker 2: killed down at heel, private eye and part time Blue
Speaker 2: singer BJ gets the blame. He must start his own
Speaker 2: investigation to clear his name, But what he uncovers as
Speaker 2: a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug dealing gangsters, the
Speaker 2: city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past.
Speaker 2: A loose remake of The Long Goodbye that also draws
Speaker 2: from Visconte's death in Venice. This was Matsuda's break with
Speaker 2: his action hero image. Samurai movie veteran Aichi Kudo relishes
Speaker 2: his chance at directing a neo noir that captures urban
Speaker 2: Japan at the height of nineteen eighties decadence. Sounds perfect.
Speaker 2: We've got interview with the star, interview the screenwriter, interview
Speaker 2: with the writer and Yokohama expert Torusano on the film,
Speaker 2: and a look at the locations limited edition booklet with
Speaker 2: new writing by Dimitri Yani on to a Central film
Speaker 2: and some other stuff poured in there. There's just so
Speaker 2: much on these Radiance releases that I can't wait to see. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this looks like a colin. I am excited about this.
Speaker 2: This whole month just looks great from them, because the
Speaker 2: last thing announced from them for this month, December sixteenth
Speaker 2: in the UK only is Nothing is Sacred. Three heresies
Speaker 2: by Boonwell. First off, holy striking imagery on the front
Speaker 2: of this Batman.
Speaker 3: Yeah wow, Yeah, this is gonna be a hell of
Speaker 3: a set. I think these are like new restorations is
Speaker 3: blowing in my mind souse the first I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: are they gonna It's just like the criterions like, oh no,
Speaker 3: it's not right. Yeah, that's this is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: We've got new four K restorations on two of the films,
Speaker 2: including Simon in the Desert and Gianna. We've got a
Speaker 2: new restoration of the Exterminating Angel from a four K
Speaker 2: scan by Radiance themselves. And then we've got newly filmed
Speaker 2: appreciations by Richard Ayowade, Alex Cox, Guillermo del Toro and
Speaker 2: Lulu Waning. What that's amazing at the life and times
Speaker 2: of Boonewell, which is a BBC Arena doc that played
Speaker 2: back in the eighties and nineties on BBC. This is
Speaker 2: gonna be on Blu Ray for the first time ever.
Speaker 2: A doc directed It's called a Mexican Bootonwell doc directed
Speaker 2: by Milio Malee from nineteen ninety five. That's almost an
Speaker 2: hour long. Boonwell a surrealist filmmaker, a feature length doc
Speaker 2: directed by Jaberristpata on Blu Ray for the first time
Speaker 2: ever from twenty twenty one. Some other archival experts writing
Speaker 2: here and essays and tons of stuff like this is
Speaker 2: getting so much, plus an eighty page booklet and this
Speaker 2: screams pre order. I feel like this box is going
Speaker 2: to go very quick for them. Yeah, this looks absolutely insane.
Speaker 2: I can't wait, Sam, who is here and typically not
Speaker 2: so welcome Sam. The Bodonwell set looks very up my street.
Speaker 2: I think one of the films was restored by ratiings themselves.
Speaker 2: How many have they done and how it's not a
Speaker 2: ton but yeah, this is definitely gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Well, I know one of the films in
Speaker 3: the Monkey set they had to fix themselves because the
Speaker 3: French Master was messed up. So yeah, it does happen. Thankfully,
Speaker 3: they keep an eye on this stuff, thank goodness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is Radiance for December, And just a heads up,
Speaker 2: a little update. I've had a couple of people ask
Speaker 2: about subs and all that stuff for Radiance because they've
Speaker 2: allowed around this time of year people to come in
Speaker 2: and sub for the next year. And they did say
Speaker 2: that they're gonna be talking about that soon. There is
Speaker 2: gonna be an opportunity to be able to subscribe again,
Speaker 2: and yeah they're excited. They said, lots of great stuff
Speaker 2: coming up for twenty twenty five. And I don't even like,
Speaker 2: how do they keep raising the bar? Radiance is intense.
Speaker 2: Whoever subscribed for their three year packages, you made out
Speaker 2: like a bandit. Moving on make Flix, who I feel
Speaker 2: like I've not heard anything from in the longest of times.
Speaker 2: They are shipping this next week This is coming on
Speaker 2: mod Blu Ray and this is crow Haven Farm from
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy with John Carroding and Hope Laying. Not one
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. This is gonna include twelve minutes of
Speaker 2: classic TV commercials featuring your favorite horror stars. Love that
Speaker 2: that's listed to special features there. Yeah, be on a
Speaker 2: BD twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is I was really encouraged by the little
Speaker 3: trailer sample they put up on the site. This is
Speaker 3: a really great one, and we've never had anything beyond
Speaker 3: like super super low res boot leg VHS quality. I'm
Speaker 3: surprised we're not playing up the folk car thing because
Speaker 3: this is one hundred percent of folk horror movie. I
Speaker 3: would think they would catch in on that, but whatever,
Speaker 3: but don't. If you look at the on the specs,
Speaker 3: it says wide screen. That's actually not accurate. I kind
Speaker 3: of freaked when I saw that. But if you look
Speaker 3: at the sample, it actually as the original through feet
Speaker 3: to one. Oh okay, thank god, because I was like,
Speaker 3: please don't crop it. But it looks like they did
Speaker 3: not based on the they up so interesting, I hope not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they did one more from them.
Speaker 2: This is also shipping next Week Trivial from twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four and the firste hundred order of the orders of
Speaker 2: this get a little mini poster. This is also going
Speaker 2: to be mod This is coming out on DVD as well.
Speaker 2: This is a brand new, like low budget horror film.
Speaker 2: And then Keino announced Daytime Revolution coming out November twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: This is crazy. I've seen the clip for this, but
Speaker 2: I never knew it was a part of like this
Speaker 2: bigger story. This is for one extraordinary week. Beginning on
Speaker 2: February fourteenth, nineteen seventy two, the Revolution was televised. Daytime
Speaker 2: Revolution takes us back in time to the week that
Speaker 2: John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting
Speaker 2: studio to co host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at
Speaker 2: the time, the most popular show on daytime TV, with
Speaker 2: an audience of This is still crazy forty million viewers
Speaker 2: a week. If anything got forty million viewers a week nowadays,
Speaker 2: it would be the most watched thing ever. It says.
Speaker 2: What followed was five unforgettable episodes of TV, with Lennon
Speaker 2: and yoko On at the helm and Douglas bravely keeping
Speaker 2: the show on track, acting as both producers and host
Speaker 2: Lennon and No No handpicked their guest including controversial choices
Speaker 2: like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther chairman Bobby Seal,
Speaker 2: as well as political political activists Ralph Nader and comic
Speaker 2: truth teller George Carltt. Their version of daytime TV was
Speaker 2: a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q
Speaker 2: and A sessions with a transfixed audience, conversations about current
Speaker 2: issues like police violence, of women's liberation, and on this
Speaker 2: they're gonna have some uncut musical performances. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: a handful on there and a trailer and a restoration demonstration.
Speaker 2: This is such a cool, random thing to get on
Speaker 2: Blu Ray, very cool. So glad this has happening. Next
Speaker 2: up Mountains of the Moon from nineteen ninety getting a
Speaker 2: Blue from Keto. In November twenty sixth Adrian Martin does
Speaker 2: the commentary on this one. I believe was it Imprint
Speaker 2: that did this previously?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's been out. But yeah, beautiful movie. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is totally candy film. This is a great one.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it looks pretty nice. I hope.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but you can't screw up the transferm this
Speaker 3: one December tenth.
Speaker 2: VCI doing The Love Light from nineteen twenty one, another
Speaker 2: Mary Pickford film, and thankfully they've done very well with
Speaker 2: the Pickford stuff that they've done so far. This was
Speaker 2: filmed in nineteen twelve as a collaboration between friends Mary
Speaker 2: Pickford and Francis Marion. The Silent Gem was reconstructed from
Speaker 2: multiple sources by UCLA Film and TV Archive for the
Speaker 2: Mary Pickford Foundation and past the VCI for final restoration
Speaker 2: work before it gets released. Should be good absolutely. Barfly
Speaker 2: is the first one announced as part of the Next
Speaker 2: eighty eight Films batch. This is from nineteen eighty seven
Speaker 2: Astounding film coming on November twenty fifth in the UK
Speaker 2: only this one. Does this have a US Blue Ray yet?
Speaker 2: I know imprint did it yet? Crazy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder, I wonder what's holding that up here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think anybody could license it as far
Speaker 3: as I know, But yeah, I mean, I mean when
Speaker 3: you think of Cannon Film, this is obviously the movie
Speaker 3: you think of, right.
Speaker 2: Probably. Well, I just saw this might be a reason
Speaker 2: people aren't licensing it. I mean they're licensing from MGM,
Speaker 2: but people who do people who do special features don't
Speaker 2: really love MGM.
Speaker 3: Yeah we all know why.
Speaker 2: So this is gonna be fun because eighty eight film's
Speaker 2: got rather horny. This week November twenty in the UK,
Speaker 2: we're getting a blue part of their brand new Roman
Speaker 2: porno line of Apartment Wife a Fair in the Afternoon
Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy one. A lot of these are going
Speaker 2: to be involved in the Hole Nakatsu scene and they
Speaker 2: were scandalizing the nation when it launched. And yeah, some
Speaker 2: of these. I'm very very surprised that we're getting a release.
Speaker 3: And I'm very excited about these because you know, Impulse
Speaker 3: did a ton of these on DVD back in the day,
Speaker 3: but like almost none of them got yeah no kidding,
Speaker 3: but like almost none of them had blue red. There's
Speaker 3: only tiny handful they did, and they kind of again
Speaker 3: just vanished. So yeah, I'm STI glad to pick were
Speaker 3: picking up where those left off, and yeah, I'm really
Speaker 3: bad there's more on the way, because yeah, these movies
Speaker 3: are just crazy entertaining.
Speaker 2: That's the first one. Then we get Woods Are Wet.
Speaker 2: This is from nineteen seventy three, also a part of
Speaker 2: the Roman Porno line and again these all are going
Speaker 2: to have special features. I believe Jasper Sharp is on
Speaker 2: all of this first round. Not sure what else is
Speaker 2: going to be on there, but eighty eight Films is
Speaker 2: kind of weird, like Shout Factory where they announced the
Speaker 2: title and then months later they first off they'll announce
Speaker 2: a delay, and then second off they'll announce all the
Speaker 2: special features. So that's woods Are Wet. Next up, Knife
Speaker 2: under the Throat from nineteen eighty six getting a release
Speaker 2: from eighty eight Films. I thought this was hilarious. This
Speaker 2: is the cover that Instagram decided to blur and one
Speaker 2: yeah about for me, and it was like the least
Speaker 2: scandalous one. It was just that it was blood. I
Speaker 2: go figure, I guess. But yeah, this is a really
Speaker 2: this is like a sort of French take on the Jala.
Speaker 2: This was out on blue ray from the Shack. You
Speaker 2: fume a while back with thing with subs. But yeah,
Speaker 2: nice its getting a UK release. Yeah.
Speaker 3: This is a very sleazy, very trashy, very entertaining.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's a good one featuring the one and only
Speaker 2: Brigit le Hey yep u. Next up November twenty fifth
Speaker 2: in the UK is I Am an Infamniac from nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy one. This is the Max PEAKUS film that we
Speaker 2: just got in the US from Mondo Macabro. So if
Speaker 2: you got that set, may not need this one. But
Speaker 2: this will likely have different special features, so if you
Speaker 2: really love it, you might want to pick up both. Uh.
Speaker 2: Then they are getting their Slasher Classics collection having something
Speaker 2: added to it. November twenty fifth, they get Mortuary from
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three. This could be exciting because there was
Speaker 2: an MVD rewind release of this recently and it was
Speaker 2: fairly lackluster, not much on there. I hope there's something
Speaker 2: on this to make this one special. I feel like
Speaker 2: this one gets forgotten a lot of the time. This
Speaker 2: is a This is a pretty good movie. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fun one and has a really interesting
Speaker 3: performance by Bill Paxton that nobody talks about.
Speaker 2: Look who's here? Daniel Kramer says, Hey, there, Feller's about
Speaker 2: to record a new track on What I'll Never Tell. Nathaniel,
Speaker 2: I already told you so never Thank you. Stilvia mentioned yeah,
Speaker 2: we had to shout it out earlier. Next up eighty
Speaker 2: eight films four K and Blu Ray in the US
Speaker 2: they're doing Dragonfist from nineteen seventy nine. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: a website exclusive version of this, and I gotta admit
Speaker 2: the website exclusive hard box release, I like it a
Speaker 2: lot worse than this cover art. I feel like Kung
Speaker 2: Fu Bob has deserved his reputation. This one looks quite
Speaker 2: a bit better to me. No idea on the bonus features,
Speaker 2: but this looks pretty great.
Speaker 3: And this one need a newscand because in that initial
Speaker 3: bat to Jackie Chans, this was, oh my god, this
Speaker 3: one look terrible. That was the only one who it
Speaker 3: was terrible. It was so den r to death was unwatchable.
Speaker 3: So yeah, thank god.
Speaker 2: Then the title I've gotten the most complaints about today.
Speaker 2: Masters of the Universe of nineteen eighty seven coming out
Speaker 2: December sixteenth. I'm blue in the UK again. It's an
Speaker 2: MGM title over there. I don't know why there's no
Speaker 2: new master for this. This is probably gonna be the
Speaker 2: exact same old HG Master that's like eleven or twelve
Speaker 2: years old at this point. But the big thing for
Speaker 2: everybody that's complaining, this is the first Blu ray release
Speaker 2: of this film the UK ever, so it's deserved it's deserved.
Speaker 2: Still the UHD, it's no point of course, it'll happen
Speaker 2: skipped over one with very visible nipples. I missed that
Speaker 2: the first time because it was obscured by the blue
Speaker 2: but Instagram doesn't care. Hopefully YouTube doesn't. December sixteenth, as
Speaker 2: part of the Italian collection Story of a Cloistered Nun
Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy three. We've got a release of this previously,
Speaker 2: but that was not over in the UK. So glad
Speaker 2: we're getting a release of this and uh looks like
Speaker 2: it's gonna be good stuff. Should have brand new extras
Speaker 2: steamy cover on this as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're an expotation fan, you haven't seen this
Speaker 3: one of This is one of the sort of the
Speaker 3: classy ones.
Speaker 2: So the cover I make anything.
Speaker 3: It's a little sleazier than it is, but it's a
Speaker 3: good one. It's a beautiful.
Speaker 2: Film and beyond that, I I love that eighty eight
Speaker 2: Films has gone all in on the crazy cover art
Speaker 2: this month, but it made it very difficult to share everywhere.
Speaker 2: I will say no kidding for those that are wondering,
Speaker 2: I see Brian asking in the chat who releases in
Speaker 2: the US. This is a part of that Nunsploitation box
Speaker 2: at that's seven, right, that nasty habits bock set. Next
Speaker 2: one is Watcher in the Attic from nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 2: coming as part of that Roman Porno collection. Jasper Sharp
Speaker 2: will be a part of this one as well. God,
Speaker 2: I love the poster on this too.
Speaker 3: This is a great one. Yeah, this hasn't been out
Speaker 3: since I think the old DVD. Now this one really
Speaker 3: is needed up. Great, Yeah, this is fantastic and this
Speaker 3: is also basically a horror movie as well, so yeah,
Speaker 3: this is a really spooky one. It's great, interesting all right.
Speaker 2: Next one from eighty eight films, Madame Cloud from nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy seven, coming on December sixteenth. This is a just
Speaker 2: jaking title. Cold Epix released this one in the US.
Speaker 2: Oh year and a half ago, two years ago, something
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, cold Epics doing great stuff associated eight films,
Speaker 2: too many good things. Speaking of too many oh boy,
Speaker 2: November nineteenth, me maybe you got three Sony Pictures releasing
Speaker 2: the Frank Capra at Columbia collection. Now this is where
Speaker 2: it gets interesting because this is a mix of four
Speaker 2: K and Blu ray titles. Uh, there are twenty films here.
Speaker 2: Nine of them are in four K UHD and they
Speaker 2: all have special features on them. They all are coming
Speaker 2: in their own box as you can see here, lots
Speaker 2: of disc coming in this set. I'm very impressed that
Speaker 2: they're giving us bonus features that are brand new on
Speaker 2: many of these. Uh, it's not something that was totally expected.
Speaker 2: Now the hard part. Two of these that we're getting
Speaker 2: in four K in this box were in the Columbia
Speaker 2: Classics volume. I think it was one in three something
Speaker 2: like that, but those ones did not have any Dolby Vision,
Speaker 2: so of course they had to upgrade it in this
Speaker 2: box set to make you feel like you're getting something different.
Speaker 2: So now if you've got those other box sets, you'll
Speaker 2: probably still feel compelled. This has so many titles going
Speaker 2: through these quickly, so this is Love from nineteen twenty eight,
Speaker 2: The Way of the Strong from twenty eight, That Certain
Speaker 2: Thing from twenty eight, Submarine from twenty eight, The Younger
Speaker 2: Generation from twenty nine, Flight from twenty nine, Ladies of
Speaker 2: Leisure from nineteen thirty, Rain or Shine from thirty Garrigible
Speaker 2: from thirty one, The Miracle Woman from thirty one, Platinum
Speaker 2: Blonde from thirty one. American Man is from thirty two,
Speaker 2: The Bitter Tea of General Yen from thirty two, Forbidden
Speaker 2: from thirty two, Lady for a Day from thirty three,
Speaker 2: It Happened One Night from thirty four. Mister Deeds goes
Speaker 2: to Town thirty six. Lost Horizon from thirty seven, so
Speaker 2: many Instagram posts you can't take it with you from
Speaker 2: thirty eight. Mister Smith goes to Washington from thirty nine.
Speaker 2: Frank Campra Mister America, a brand new documentary from twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. It is ninety two minutes long, so feature
Speaker 2: length and seems like a really great doc. Huge, massive box.
Speaker 2: This is this is crazy. Hit me with all of
Speaker 2: your feelings there, Nathaniel, Well, I.
Speaker 3: Think what shocked me was actually Submarine I believe is
Speaker 3: one of the UHD titles, which I think that would
Speaker 3: make this the earliest American title to hit four K.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 3: I can't think of one earlier than that. I mean know,
Speaker 3: we've had like Doctor Caligari, you know, from Germany, but
Speaker 3: I can't think of any Hollywood movies that, if it
Speaker 3: USHD either were made before that one, So that's wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about some of the bonus films in that
Speaker 2: Columbia Classics Volume five or any of those earlier, because I.
Speaker 3: Don't think I don't think any of those were actual
Speaker 3: four K though I don't believe.
Speaker 2: The bonus ones. There's a couple of them.
Speaker 3: That are maybe, Yeah, I have to go back and look,
Speaker 3: but I think as far as like a standalone release,
Speaker 3: So this is like they're going further back. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of encouraging. So I hope they twenty eight I
Speaker 3: keep doing that. Yeah, I can't think of one far
Speaker 3: to that.
Speaker 2: It's pretty impressive. I gotta say this is as.
Speaker 3: The wild set, and it kind of makes me even
Speaker 3: more like disappointed they wound up not putting out that
Speaker 3: uhd of me John Doe right, because like God, the
Speaker 3: timing would have been perfect, so they kind of missed
Speaker 3: the boat on that one. It's too bad.
Speaker 2: Siveners says, this is the ultimate Dad box set for
Speaker 2: the holidays. Adam is happy, says a great box set.
Speaker 2: Chris is guessing two hundred and fifty dollars USD you
Speaker 2: what do you think?
Speaker 3: And this is going to cost Nathaniel's well yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean if you look at what the three Stooges that cost,
Speaker 3: and that was only Blu Ray. I mean that was
Speaker 3: in the two hundreds, So yeah, probably about two fifty.
Speaker 3: That sounds about right.
Speaker 2: I yeah, I was. I was earlier thinking maybe two hundred,
Speaker 2: but then just the sheer number of discs in this
Speaker 2: and the fact that they're going individual cases, that's a
Speaker 2: lot of materials. It's probably gonna be two twenty five
Speaker 2: to fifty somewhere around there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it's that just based on the Stoges is
Speaker 3: kind of where I'm thinking that's probably where it's going
Speaker 3: to wind up hitting.
Speaker 2: And I will say beautiful looking box, not not putting
Speaker 2: it down at all, that this is. This is something
Speaker 2: that I have to applaud Sony, who continuously is the
Speaker 2: one major studio that seems to put a lot of
Speaker 2: love and affection into not only just catalog titles, but
Speaker 2: like foundational studio starting major important titles from their past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like why does Warner Brothers do this for the
Speaker 3: Eastwood set? I mean, like right that, Like, come on,
Speaker 3: it's a no brainer.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. Yeah, there's so much that they
Speaker 2: that Warner Brothers specifically owns that they could have killed. Anyways,
Speaker 2: straight from Frank Tapr It's a Sweden Porno Blonde Animal,
Speaker 2: Would you do this? On purpose? Eighty eight films again
Speaker 2: in the UK. This is coming as part of their
Speaker 2: Roman Porno collection. This is a Japanese take on the
Speaker 2: Swedish sin phenomenon. This I will share. This cover art
Speaker 2: got me temporarily banned from Facebook for about twelve minutes
Speaker 2: earlier today.
Speaker 3: I'll just say, have you ever had a week with
Speaker 3: more black boxes on the artwork?
Speaker 2: No? No, this is the most by far, by far. Uh.
Speaker 2: Sand Hamdwich is here, says wow, I've listened to so
Speaker 2: many Nathaniel Thompson commentaries. Nice to see his face. Hello,
Speaker 2: I have one couches left of the transitions. I swear
Speaker 2: I did not plan it. Uh. Next up is a
Speaker 2: deluxe edition of Sex and Zen, coming on December sixteenth
Speaker 2: on Blu Ray in the UK. This is a big
Speaker 2: deal because this Cat three film is uncut and remastered
Speaker 2: for the very first time. The previous releases of this
Speaker 2: looked god awful, very very hopeful that this looks pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and weirdly subdued cover art for what the movie is.
Speaker 2: If you've seen compared to everything else one, this is
Speaker 2: the one they pulled back on like oh, man. Speaking
Speaker 2: of censorship, let's look at Virgin which which alone has
Speaker 2: four black boxes. Uh November twenty fifth. This is coming
Speaker 2: as part of their Taigon collection. This is from nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy two. Again, I may be the odd one out,
Speaker 2: but I feel like this one's slightly boring, and again
Speaker 2: the cover makes it look way sleazier than the overall
Speaker 2: film is. But good movie.
Speaker 3: It has a huge fan base thoughks. I mean, we
Speaker 3: did this on DVD back at Image when I worked
Speaker 3: on this thing, so like crazy. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's the title and all the like
Speaker 3: naked British women and stuff, that's all you need. But
Speaker 3: I mean it's got to be it. It never stopped
Speaker 3: selling the whole time we had it. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I love these Tigon releases. Eighty it's doing though.
Speaker 3: These all look gorgeous. I mean, if you run on
Speaker 3: the fence with these, like every single one of them
Speaker 3: is like a massive, massive upgrade interesting disconnected after dark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike says this film is not good. This is
Speaker 2: uh God, who oh, look, I have it right here.
Speaker 2: I don't know how everything is always right within reach.
Speaker 2: Somebody screen Bound put this out in the UK just
Speaker 2: like two years ago or two and a half years ago.
Speaker 2: Huh interesting, I'm gonna have to research that afterwards. I
Speaker 2: forgot that came out, all right. Moving to our next one,
Speaker 2: which we're almost done already. Nine Queens Back from two
Speaker 2: thousand Coming is a Sony Pictures Classics release on October fifteenth.
Speaker 2: I've never seen this movie, and this closter is really odd.
Speaker 2: That is a terrible cover.
Speaker 3: I don't know what photoshop monstrosity they did to pull
Speaker 3: that off, but yeah, that is awful. But this is
Speaker 3: a really good movie if you like sort of like
Speaker 3: con artists, like, you know, kind of movies. This one's early, twisty,
Speaker 3: very David mammondy. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 3: Just ignore the cover though, that's that's putrid.
Speaker 2: Next up Sony Pictures classic Secret Ballot on the same day.
Speaker 2: Have you seen this one too? I have not seen
Speaker 2: this one. That's too bad, this one, says award winner
Speaker 2: at five international film festivals. Secret Bolt is a satirical
Speaker 2: comedy that humorously sheds light on the universal discrepancies of
Speaker 2: the voting process. We don't need that right now, and interdifferences.
Speaker 2: It's election day on a remote island off the coast
Speaker 2: of Iran, and a ballot box is parachuted to shore.
Speaker 2: An unnamed soldier is assigned to escort a female bureaucrat
Speaker 2: to gather votes. Together, they embark on a chaotic journey,
Speaker 2: turning the island upside down, desperately seeking anyone's vote. There
Speaker 2: is more to the secret ballot than the two could
Speaker 2: ever imagine. I wonder if there's any strategy to releasing
Speaker 2: that three weeks before voting. Do you think? Oh man,
Speaker 2: I love right after that cover? TB. Kaine says, graphic
Speaker 2: design is my passion.
Speaker 3: Can you do a new car for nine queens while
Speaker 3: you're at it?
Speaker 2: Please? Please? All right? Las Vegas Hillbillies from nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: six is coming on Blu Ray from VCI on December tenth.
Speaker 2: This is it's odd that they did it in this order,
Speaker 2: but this is the film that came before the one
Speaker 2: that they just recently put out the what is the
Speaker 2: Full Time House? Yeah, yeah, Billbillies on the House, which
Speaker 2: honestly looked way better than expected on Blu Ray. It
Speaker 2: looks stupidly great. I'm hoping this one looks good. I've
Speaker 2: never seen this one. We got Jane Mansfield in this one.
Speaker 2: Have you seen this one too? I have?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like for some reason, this was like
Speaker 3: a very popular VHS back in the day. It was
Speaker 3: in like every video store. I don't know why that
Speaker 3: ain't on it house. Yeah, like Blockbuster Videos talks heavy
Speaker 3: on these, I don't know why, like Movie Gallery and
Speaker 3: then they all bought in on this. Who knows. Interesting,
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's a fun one. I mean a lot
Speaker 3: of that's that's a musical comedy. You know, you know
Speaker 3: what you're getting, of course.
Speaker 2: Jane Mansfield, November twenty sixth. We are getting a four
Speaker 2: K and DVD release from Dark Arts Entertainment of the
Speaker 2: record holder for the least amount of money made in
Speaker 2: a theatrical run ever for is Isaac's Road or Zazis Road.
Speaker 2: However you want to say that, I grew up in Barstow, California,
Speaker 2: which is literally only about forty five minutes to an
Speaker 2: hour away from this fabled road in the middle of
Speaker 2: the desert, and to see that this is getting a
Speaker 2: four K release is amazing. There are some extras coming
Speaker 2: on this, Like if you look in IMDb, there's actually
Speaker 2: a documentary that's listed as somebody producing it, so I'm
Speaker 2: sure that's going to be a part of this disc
Speaker 2: For those that don't remember, Dark Art's Entertainment is a
Speaker 2: brand new label that is owned by John Penny and
Speaker 2: Brian Yusna, and this film happened to be directed by
Speaker 2: Jion Penny, so that's very obviously why this movie is
Speaker 2: getting a four K release from this label. I am
Speaker 2: this movie is going to cost more on four K
Speaker 2: than it made and it's the atrical run.
Speaker 3: Literally, so will this be the lowest selling USG title
Speaker 3: of all time?
Speaker 2: One time will tell well, no VCIS puts them out.
Speaker 2: I Love you VCI. Yeah, this is interesting. I've never
Speaker 2: seen this. I'm actually curious to see it. Since I
Speaker 2: grew up so close to the road. I've gotten off
Speaker 2: of that exit many times. Never been able to see
Speaker 2: this one, though. Did you see this back in the
Speaker 2: day at all?
Speaker 3: Never seen it? No one saw it.
Speaker 2: No one saw it. Literally. Yeah. It played in a
Speaker 2: Texas theater and supposedly out of four tickets that were
Speaker 2: sold for two were crew members from the film. Last
Speaker 2: announcement for the week December seventeenth, Discothech is releasing Digimon
Speaker 2: the Movies. This is the first three movies from Digimon
Speaker 2: on Blu Ray, and these are fixed from dubs that
Speaker 2: were just awful previously. Supposedly all three movies uncut with
Speaker 2: a new dub with the original cast. Also includes the
Speaker 2: original English dubbed version from two thousand and they've got
Speaker 2: no special features on here, even though they included the
Speaker 2: word features. It's a lie.
Speaker 3: Special features chapter stops back in the DVD days.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what we would have seen. That's what dinah right.
Speaker 2: We always cover what is coming out next week after this,
Speaker 2: just in case you forgot, and it's a big week.
Speaker 2: We got bringing Out the Dead four K from Paramount
Speaker 2: Presents next week, the two thousand and nine remake of
Speaker 2: Friday the Thirteenth four K from Arrow, which I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people have had that for the last
Speaker 2: like two weeks. For some reason. MVD always ships a
Speaker 2: lot of Aero stuff. Super early chronicles are ready on
Speaker 2: four K Long Good Friday four K, Doomsday four K
Speaker 2: from Scream Factory, Torso four K, including the site exclusive
Speaker 2: which sold out on pre order a while ago. And
Speaker 2: then we are getting Tomcat or sorry top Cat, the
Speaker 2: complete series Warner Archive, which I'm excited to get Film
Speaker 2: Noir Dark Side of Cinema number twenty one and twenty
Speaker 2: both coming out in the same week. Then we've got
Speaker 2: Madness coming from Brero next week, Lefem from Keno, larber
Speaker 2: Man of the Year from Shout Factory, Mother's in Instinct
Speaker 2: coming out next week, The Great Escape too. If you've
Speaker 2: ever wanted one of the most sought after sequels of
Speaker 2: never a Model House from this year coming from Scream
Speaker 2: Factory as well. That is it, though nothing which one
Speaker 2: of these are you most excited for?
Speaker 3: Oddly enough, I'm really psyched about bringing out the Dead
Speaker 3: finally coming out. That was like way overdue. That's extremely cool. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's actually a lot of really good stuff here. I've
Speaker 3: seen the UHD of Torso and it's pretty spippy from
Speaker 3: what I've gone through so far. Yeah, it was really
Speaker 3: good stuff.
Speaker 2: The UHG of Torso looks amazing. I'm very excited for
Speaker 2: people to see that. Yeah, all right, that was a lot.
Speaker 2: That was more than we normally have on Nathaniels on
Speaker 2: the show so much smart, I've never had the center
Speaker 2: so much, and today today was crazy. I Facebook. At
Speaker 2: one point I put the one that I said that
Speaker 2: they pulled me down for I don't remember the title now.
Speaker 2: They made it so I couldn't be in any Facebook groups,
Speaker 2: and I administrate like six of them. I run the
Speaker 2: Screen Factory group, a boutique Blu Ray selling group. I
Speaker 2: run my community group here in Kansas City, and they're like,
Speaker 2: you can't use groups like oh, okay, cool Exactly we
Speaker 2: are talking tonight surprising discs from twenty twenty four. Now.
Speaker 2: I feel bad because we normally have very specific topics
Speaker 2: when Nathaniel's on very genre specific topics that I've loved
Speaker 2: every time, and I kind of wanted to highlight Mondo
Speaker 2: Digital tonight because I feel like we haven't talked about
Speaker 2: it enough on these And one of the ways that
Speaker 2: I like reading Mondo Digital is all the random tidbits
Speaker 2: that we get in your reviews that are like, oh,
Speaker 2: the old release had X, and it will be just
Speaker 2: like a throwaway sentence in a random review that most
Speaker 2: people just don't know is written in your so they
Speaker 2: don't ever find this random, great piece of information. And
Speaker 2: so I said, well, let's throw kind of a curveball
Speaker 2: and make it super subjective and let's see when it
Speaker 2: Nathaniel picks as surprising. So when you were thinking about
Speaker 2: this tonight, what makes a surprising release in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Four, I would so Mike criteria was it was a
Speaker 3: release that sort of caught me off guard because it
Speaker 3: was either something that I thought would never get a
Speaker 3: physical disc release for various reasons, or something that was
Speaker 3: just completely off my radar that just like just really
Speaker 3: kind of floored me, or just something that just seemed
Speaker 3: like just so out of left field for a company
Speaker 3: to put out like just random. Mainly, it was just
Speaker 3: things that I never thought would come out, though. That
Speaker 3: was kind of the main thing, like just I can't
Speaker 3: believe I actually had this on a disc.
Speaker 2: That was the main thing. I think four of mine
Speaker 2: are that exact same criteria, So I'm excited Nathaniel picked
Speaker 2: out like twelve, so we're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 2: honorable mentions to discuss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually it was fourteen titles that I got
Speaker 3: down to and you want me to do a top five,
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, this.
Speaker 2: Is hard, all right, So what is your first one?
Speaker 2: And we'll go back and forth and then we'll list
Speaker 2: all those honorable mentions.
Speaker 3: Okay, So are we starting with like number five going on. Sure, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: all right, So my number five is Little Darlings, which
Speaker 3: I came out from Cinematograph. If you know the history
Speaker 3: of this film, it seemed.
Speaker 2: Like that was yep, number five, Yep.
Speaker 3: It was tied up in music rights hell forever and
Speaker 3: it would show on cable oddly enough, you know, uncut,
Speaker 3: and then eventually popped up on Amazon. But it was
Speaker 3: like it was just never gonna get a disks. Really,
Speaker 3: it seemed like it just seemed like it was just hopeless.
Speaker 3: And thank god, Cinematograph just came out swinging with their
Speaker 3: their right up with their first release. They got it
Speaker 3: all cleared up, they got to put out music's in there.
Speaker 3: It looks great, it's on UHD, really solid extras. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what can I say, It's essential and it's it's a
Speaker 3: real dream release. I can't believe it's actually out. It's
Speaker 3: it's kind of surreal still thinking that it's out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I primarily picked it because again it's surprising, because
Speaker 2: it's one of those titles that we were told for
Speaker 2: years like this will likely never come out. People have
Speaker 2: used the word never many many times for this one,
Speaker 2: and then to have it come out and have it
Speaker 2: be affiliated with Vinegar Syndrome. It's not a very typical
Speaker 2: vinegar Syndrome title, which is why it's on this brand
Speaker 2: new cinematograph line, and it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: It looks great, the disc is good. I wish the
Speaker 2: special features had little more people from the cast involved,
Speaker 2: But other than that, the only thing I will say,
Speaker 2: I really don't love the cover art on a lot
Speaker 2: of the cinematographs so far. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there's a few factors in there. There's a
Speaker 3: whole there's like art, those artists, likeness issues, and the
Speaker 3: fact that also they were putting it together that this
Speaker 3: started getting particular during COVID, which also presented some issues.
Speaker 3: So given what they had to work with, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's pretty darn solid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not putting it down this type of deluxe
Speaker 2: packaging on some great picks. So far, they've had for
Speaker 2: me at least three like amazing titles, and then the
Speaker 2: rest have been at least wow, these are very good.
Speaker 2: So at this point they've been very, very impressive so far.
Speaker 2: We shared at number five, so you can go immediately
Speaker 2: to number.
Speaker 3: Four, because you know, if we share a number four
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be really shocked. My number four is Intrepidous
Speaker 3: Punks from Baker Syndrome.
Speaker 2: I almost put that one over here, but I'm glad
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that in the sequel came out on blu Ery,
Speaker 3: And this is one that I lot of people been wanting,
Speaker 3: especially in LA. This one's kind of legendary because they, yeah,
Speaker 3: I agree, you know, this used to run like as
Speaker 3: as a roberatory screening title with twice they showed it
Speaker 3: here and always brought the house down. But like just
Speaker 3: getting the right sorted out and trying to figure out
Speaker 3: like how what like how can you even get a
Speaker 3: complete version of it? Seem like there were so many
Speaker 3: different counts of it, but they actually managed to, like
Speaker 3: as symbol, a true uncut version of it thro all
Speaker 3: these sources. And yeah, it's just the fact that they
Speaker 3: saw the light of day. It just makes me so
Speaker 3: happy because I never thought we would get a blue
Speaker 3: array of that thing. It seemed impossible. Having both of
Speaker 3: those movies together in a set is just just my
Speaker 3: blowing to me that it actually happened, because I've been
Speaker 3: winting this for like twenty years.
Speaker 2: So thank you. The amazing thing is they first announced
Speaker 2: this like four and a half or five years ago,
Speaker 2: and then they just couldn't do it. They were still
Speaker 2: wrestling with me. Yeah even then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just like and I was like, it's not
Speaker 3: gonna happen, Like it's there's no way you're gonna do
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 2: There is I, as far as I can remember, at
Speaker 2: least two more titles that they've announced that we're coming
Speaker 2: at some point, but they've been years and I'm really
Speaker 2: hoping that we still get them. I doubt we're ever
Speaker 2: going to get Coonskin, but god, I hope we do. God,
Speaker 2: I really hope we do.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the deals with that one, but yeah,
Speaker 3: we need he one badly.
Speaker 2: My number four is again another one where I am
Speaker 2: impressed and surprised that this company wanted to put not
Speaker 2: only this out on disc, but to put this much
Speaker 2: into this release. And that is because we got a
Speaker 2: I believe it's a four disc release and it does
Speaker 2: not say in the side of course, yes, four discs
Speaker 2: of a four K release of Goodbye Uncle Tom Blue One. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how to explain how surprising this
Speaker 2: is because there are so many extras on this the
Speaker 2: fact that the movie looks better than it ever should
Speaker 2: have probably and it's twenty twenty four and this is
Speaker 2: getting an impressive boutique release is nothing short of surprising.
Speaker 2: It is amazing that a company like Blue Underground, who
Speaker 2: a lot of people have critiqued for only putting out
Speaker 2: stuff that they've released previously, would put so much new
Speaker 2: into a film like Goodbye Uncle Tom. Now the other thing,
Speaker 2: I was very surprised that it was so expensive. However,
Speaker 2: I understand, I understand, and it is an astonishing package.
Speaker 2: And if you don't have it yet, and I think
Speaker 2: it's still in print, I probably should. This is this
Speaker 2: is something that is worth it and absolutely worth watching.
Speaker 2: And I don't know it's it's obviously an odd one.
Speaker 2: You gotta get yourself in a mindset and understand what
Speaker 2: you're getting into, essentially.
Speaker 3: And the Italian version, the fact they got both cuts
Speaker 3: in four K was really surprising. But make sure you
Speaker 3: watch the Italian version because it clearizes a lot about
Speaker 3: what they're trying.
Speaker 2: To do with the movie.
Speaker 3: Because when you watch the English Langage version, you're like,
Speaker 3: this is completely insane, Like I don't even.
Speaker 2: Know how to process this, all right, So number three.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, my number three kind of gave it away earlier.
Speaker 3: It's because I put the reew up today just in time.
Speaker 3: Is Blonde on a Bomb Trip from the Strip Picks.
Speaker 3: If you know the Destrip Picks library. It's sort of
Speaker 3: been stuck in home video hell for a very long time.
Speaker 3: We managed to get a few DVDs from them, mainly
Speaker 3: just the adult film stuff, but this was They have
Speaker 3: this amazing exploitation library of stuff that is not hardcore
Speaker 3: that hasn't been around since the VHS days, when they
Speaker 3: had a very brief window where they did stop with
Speaker 3: something weird on VHS and they've been just locked it
Speaker 3: behind the gate ever since then. But this is one
Speaker 3: of the craziest ones. It has this just amazing, just
Speaker 3: banging soundtrack. It is just a while drug exploitation movie.
Speaker 2: It's so great.
Speaker 3: Anybody who saw this on BHS has never forgotten it,
Speaker 3: and thankfully Vener Syndrome has them. It's kind of like
Speaker 3: the Strippicks is sort of like in between the Malosy
Speaker 3: Line and Mininger Syndrome. This one kind of like I'm
Speaker 3: not even sure where it slots in exactly, because you
Speaker 3: can find it.
Speaker 2: On both sides.
Speaker 3: So I don't call it, but it's not a porn movie.
Speaker 3: It's not even remotely close. But it's just amazing. And
Speaker 3: they did the packaging for this thing is just bonkers.
Speaker 3: The fact they went this all out on it is
Speaker 3: just nuts to me. But I cherished this release. I'm
Speaker 3: so happy that it happened.
Speaker 2: I am. I mean, I'm so excited that something weird
Speaker 2: has continued to be such a prolific presence over these
Speaker 2: last couple of years. It's something that obviously, with the
Speaker 2: person that was spearheading it not being a part of
Speaker 2: things anymore, could have quietly went in the background. And
Speaker 2: yet man, she has carried on a legacy and then
Speaker 2: some And I'm so excited about that. Yeah, like what
Speaker 2: the stuff?
Speaker 3: I mean, we're getting like just dream titles every month
Speaker 3: from that catalog. It's get the keeps on giving.
Speaker 2: We got a question from Hilton, how excited are you
Speaker 2: that anything russ Meyer is coming from Severn. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: I can't even put into words. I'm so excited. I
Speaker 3: can't stand it.
Speaker 2: I just I can't wait to find out what they have,
Speaker 2: Like obviously they have supervixens, but do they have four titles.
Speaker 2: Do they have nine titles? Do they have one title?
Speaker 2: We don't know. It'll be a while before we find out, though.
Speaker 2: My number three. There's a few reasons why I'm very
Speaker 2: surprised by this. This is an mbd rewind release of
Speaker 2: Hardware Wars. Now, it is surprising that a company went
Speaker 2: through the trouble of marketing this as a main release
Speaker 2: when Hardware Wars is literally thirteen minutes long. Now, the
Speaker 2: bonus features it makes the disc worth It is absolutely
Speaker 2: worth the pick up. It's a very fairly cheap release,
Speaker 2: but even then, like it's a short that is worth
Speaker 2: putting out on Blu Ray, that's worth owning. And if
Speaker 2: you like any of this stuff, like I had this
Speaker 2: on VHS, I think I still have it on VHS
Speaker 2: here somewhere. The fact that this is a brand new
Speaker 2: two kate restoration of Hearts is mind blowing to me.
Speaker 2: Never expected that to exist. They put this together in
Speaker 2: one of the better MVD rewind packages from this year.
Speaker 2: I feel like their quality has dipped a little bit.
Speaker 2: They put out I'm not going to name any specific titles,
Speaker 2: but they put out a mess of a title earlier
Speaker 2: this year that is so AI upscale garbage that was
Speaker 2: just appalling. Envidy Rewind deserves to be shaken for that one.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Hardware Wars, this release is worth it, absolutely great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dragon's languish tle you're talking about.
Speaker 2: I want to know now it is? I, oh, you
Speaker 2: know what I put it. I keep all my MVD
Speaker 2: stuff there and I put it in the closet because
Speaker 2: it was so bad. I don't remember which title it was.
Speaker 2: I will look up before you go and I will
Speaker 2: let you know which one.
Speaker 3: Okay, I was gonna say, because they also put out
Speaker 3: some of my favorite USHD releases recently, which is the
Speaker 3: Two Goolies movies, which just looks stupidly great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so hees, let me see. I will get it
Speaker 2: here soon. What is your number two? My number two?
Speaker 3: So maybe one of the more surprising labels out there
Speaker 3: is Terror Vision. They managed to throw out some curveballs
Speaker 3: every month, especially if you subscribers. You never know what
Speaker 3: you're gonna get. The big one for me that I
Speaker 3: didn't see coming. And I have to thank Bruce out
Speaker 3: there for this one because he actually like pinged me
Speaker 3: and ran after Christmas right for New Year's actually, because
Speaker 3: I just got back and he was like, you have
Speaker 3: got to put this disc on right away as soon
Speaker 3: as it shows up on your doorstep. And I was like,
Speaker 3: I've never even seen this movie.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: And I'm counting it as this year because technically it
Speaker 3: was pressed and delivered at the very end of last year,
Speaker 3: but nobody really got it until this year unless you
Speaker 3: happen to be living down the street from them. So
Speaker 3: I think it's this year technically a shipp out at Christmas,
Speaker 3: but it's really a twenty twenty four title, and that
Speaker 3: is Hell's Highway.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a movie. This is just a.
Speaker 3: Total joy for every second. This was not on my
Speaker 3: radar at all, and I just loved every second of
Speaker 3: this thing. I can't believe it's on Blu Ray of
Speaker 3: all things, with all these extra features it is. This
Speaker 3: movie is nuts. Imagine sort of like Hitcher and like
Speaker 3: Highway Hell and that stuff, but just throwing to a
Speaker 3: blender with like amazing miniatures and like goes into space
Speaker 3: and like plot twist galore. I mean, it is just
Speaker 3: a great, great disc. I had a fantastic time with
Speaker 3: this completely just sideswipe me. When I popped in, I
Speaker 3: didn't know what I was in for. But nobody's really
Speaker 3: talking about this disc. But my god, please run out
Speaker 3: and get it if you can. I guarantee you'll love
Speaker 3: this thing. It's just something else.
Speaker 2: After starting producing some of the Terrorivision stuff, I was
Speaker 2: paying attention more to what people are saying. Hell's Highway
Speaker 2: never gets brought up.
Speaker 3: I know it is because no one puts it in.
Speaker 3: They look at the cover and they're like, I'll get
Speaker 3: to it at some point subscribing, right, don't just please
Speaker 3: put it in?
Speaker 2: Please? It is. It is incredible. Look at that. Sam
Speaker 2: says Hell's Highways my first tear Vision release. Absolutely love it.
Speaker 2: Phoebe Dollars great and man, absolutely yeah, Hell's Highways at
Speaker 2: sv GYM amazing. So I found it. The MVD rewind
Speaker 2: title is Hail Caesar, released last year. It looks god awful. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so this next one. I know this is gonna be
Speaker 2: a sour taste in some people's mouths because it was
Speaker 2: one of the dreaded replacement programs I mentioned earlier. But
Speaker 2: I'm still amazed and surprised that we got this beautiful
Speaker 2: blu ray box set of Inside the Mind of Coffin
Speaker 2: Joe This is another one of those that we were
Speaker 2: told for years, the Coffin Joe stuff that you got
Speaker 2: from Synapse and a couple other of the companies from
Speaker 2: I don't like eleven years ago. That was the last
Speaker 2: round of those that went out. Those are gonna be
Speaker 2: all that you're gonna have, and unfortunately they were lost
Speaker 2: in a fire and all that, and then Narrow comes
Speaker 2: and releases something that makes all of them look so
Speaker 2: much better, great special features, massive amount of effort goes
Speaker 2: into this, and then an overwhelming list of content on
Speaker 2: every single one of these discs. It's surprising to me
Speaker 2: for many reasons, but just the fact that it's one
Speaker 2: of those we were told, never plan on it, and
Speaker 2: here it is and we've got it, and it's amazing.
Speaker 2: I've not watched all of them yet, but the ones
Speaker 2: that I have, they look better than anything that I've
Speaker 2: ever seen with Coffin Joe, and I'm so glad that
Speaker 2: people have been able to discover him more. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: is a spectacular set.
Speaker 3: And Yeah, the rumor that had gone on for a
Speaker 3: while was because one of his last films is called
Speaker 3: Embodiment of Evil, which he used a lot of clips
Speaker 3: and they said, oh, well, they took the negatives and
Speaker 3: used it for the clips, and they ran through and
Speaker 3: destroyed the film and said now he can never use
Speaker 3: them again, and YadA, YadA, YadA. So thank god that
Speaker 3: wasn't true. Yeah, they all just look gorgeous.
Speaker 2: All right, sir. Number one most surprising of the year
Speaker 2: for you. All right?
Speaker 3: The one import title, the one movie that I can't
Speaker 3: believe is actually on disc and that I have my hands,
Speaker 3: and when I die, I want to be buried with
Speaker 3: this disc because I'm still in shock. And that is
Speaker 3: Hell's a popping from Germany.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: This movie is amazing. It has only been out there
Speaker 3: in god awful quality bootlegs. I mean, just like Dupes
Speaker 3: of Dupes of Dupes off TV. This movie is incredible.
Speaker 3: I mean, we mentioned the Zazz Holmes before, but this
Speaker 3: is like Airplane on steroids. I mean it is like
Speaker 3: every minute of this movie is just jammed with gags.
Speaker 3: It's just a laugh a minute. It like absolutely messes
Speaker 3: with your mind in so many ways. This is like
Speaker 3: meta on top of meta. It starts off with the
Speaker 3: musical number in Hell and it just gets crazier from there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's just a phenomenal film. But the German Blu
Speaker 3: ray looks great. It has a really great making up
Speaker 3: on there, and it will never come out in the US.
Speaker 3: It is, it's stuck in legal hell because of the
Speaker 3: theatrical production that was based on and Jerry Lewis and
Speaker 3: this whole legal thing that it's involved in, and it
Speaker 3: just it's not gonna happen. So it's probably we're ever
Speaker 3: gonna get But that's fine. It's a cheap disc you
Speaker 3: can get at for Amazon Germany or whatever retailer you want,
Speaker 3: region free, and yeah, it's just yeah, I'm still just
Speaker 3: an absolute shock that movie's.
Speaker 2: On Blue Rick. People sleep on a lot of the
Speaker 2: German retailers a lot. But funny enough, they are one
Speaker 2: of the countries where the rights are a little less
Speaker 2: in limbo on many of these titles. There's stuff that's
Speaker 2: been released over there that will never come out in
Speaker 2: the US other than this one. Places like Wicked Vision,
Speaker 2: places like Turbine, places like play On. But this one
Speaker 2: is from a Knowles who Eugenio works on a lot
Speaker 2: of their titles as well.
Speaker 3: They universal i mean the universal logos on it. They
Speaker 3: could do that. I mean, it's a legit release.
Speaker 2: They gave them the master. Yeah, it's wild that they've
Speaker 2: been able to do as much as they could over there.
Speaker 2: Please pay attention to Germany. A lot of their stuff
Speaker 2: is region free and a little like pro tip for
Speaker 2: a lot of people that don't know most of these
Speaker 2: German companies, they put English subtitles on their films, but
Speaker 2: they don't advertise it because they're not supposed to have
Speaker 2: English subtitles. They just do it quietly. So check it out.
Speaker 2: Check out the blu ray dot com forms if you
Speaker 2: really want to verify first. It is worth seeking out.
Speaker 3: Many of these for sure, especially other uhds, because there
Speaker 3: are some you might sleep on because it doesn't say
Speaker 3: on the specs, like right around the Rain, but they're
Speaker 3: on there.
Speaker 2: Oh that was perfect. Okay, so my number one. This
Speaker 2: is probably less surprising as a release itself, but I
Speaker 2: am always impressed when like Radiance can come on the
Speaker 2: scene and their first three titles, everybody looks at them
Speaker 2: and goes, oh, they are here, they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: This is going to be incredible. I was blown away
Speaker 2: and so very surprised by the first release from Celluloid Dreams.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this UHD is one of the best looking
Speaker 2: discs of the entire year, and not enough people talk
Speaker 2: about it. It is. It is a fun film. It
Speaker 2: is a wonderful movie. Obviously, you know a lot of
Speaker 2: us have talked about this before, one of the better jallows.
Speaker 2: But the four K disc is. It cannot be explained
Speaker 2: how beautiful something like this. It is genuinely surprising that
Speaker 2: it could look this good. I am just absolutely astonished
Speaker 2: by it. I do have to throw in I wanted
Speaker 2: to have a bonus because I've done so much of
Speaker 2: Terror Vision and I've done so much for this disc specifically,
Speaker 2: but I had to say I feel the same way
Speaker 2: about Nail Gun Masker. This movie never should have looked
Speaker 2: this good and this UHD. Even though the first reel
Speaker 2: of this they filmed it rather blue, but the rest
Speaker 2: of this movie is beautiful. Bonus features like crazy, but
Speaker 2: the four K, specifically Nail Gun Masker never should have
Speaker 2: been this lush, this textured. It is a gorgeous disc. Anyways,
Speaker 2: love Celluloid Dreams. I'm so excited for Black Belly the
Speaker 2: Transla and they're working on another title to come out
Speaker 2: first before that. Nobody knows what it is yet, so
Speaker 2: other than Howard as Berger. If you're still watching, tell
Speaker 2: me what it is, and please please support Celluloid Dreams.
Speaker 2: Support good companies that are putting out titles that we
Speaker 2: were told would never come out. It's still amazing to
Speaker 2: me that we're getting some of these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that release just blew me away. I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe how good it was. And also the commentary is
Speaker 3: one of the best of the year. Great commentary.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I cannot wait to see if it gets enough
Speaker 2: love in the Shelve Shock Rewind Awards next year, because
Speaker 2: it deserves it. It is definitely up there for me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I should. That's a great release, all right, sir, Let's
Speaker 2: let's hear about these honorable mentions.
Speaker 3: All right, let me just run through them. Just list them, operl.
Speaker 2: Fast, No, spend some time exactly what you Okay?
Speaker 3: Well, next up, I'm gonna say Severn the Moment and
Speaker 3: the Curse of the Jackals. How this got onto blu
Speaker 3: ray Off, the negative that they found at a freaking
Speaker 3: estate yard sale, Like everything about this release is just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Watch the feature to explain how this happened. But I mean,
Speaker 3: this was a movie that was like treated like trash
Speaker 3: on VHS and just vanished after that and shot in Vegas.
Speaker 3: If you're a Monster movie fan, this thing is amazing,
Speaker 3: and haven't it's a great release. I just I again,
Speaker 3: I just I'm just kind of floored that it's actually
Speaker 3: out there and it just looks stupidly great.
Speaker 2: When they when they announced this, I went and found
Speaker 2: it was it was a really poor quality version, but
Speaker 2: it was up on YouTube and I saw like eight
Speaker 2: minutes of it and went, oh my god, this looks amazing.
Speaker 2: I have to get this. It is. It is just wild.
Speaker 3: I mean, just to see like guys in like in
Speaker 3: in Bonstrap, it is just shoffling down the Vegas strip
Speaker 3: and like just people. I just I can't recommend this
Speaker 3: disk enough.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It is just total joy. That's so much fun.
Speaker 2: All right, all right.
Speaker 3: I want to keep going and doing to do it
Speaker 3: in a new years keep going. I will not grab anymore, okay,
Speaker 3: just because it's a movie that I never thought we
Speaker 3: would even have much less than a three disc edition
Speaker 3: and a freaking trunk is the prime evals from Full Moon?
Speaker 3: Like how I don't know what else I can say.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a movie that that never really
Speaker 3: got completed, and they not only finished it, but they've
Speaker 3: actually giving you two cuts and just like just an
Speaker 3: insane amount of extras. I think one of the most
Speaker 3: just overboard packaging jobs I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 3: If you've seen what looks like on the full movie,
Speaker 3: it's a huge yeah.
Speaker 2: And then Umbrella is doing a huge release of it.
Speaker 2: And then for those I know there was a lot
Speaker 2: of people upset that the Full Moon thing was super limited,
Speaker 2: they did just announce a standard version of the three
Speaker 2: disc version. I'm saying version a lot now. It sounds
Speaker 2: like not a real word. That's coming out in January
Speaker 2: of next year. So if you want to wait, you
Speaker 2: can get like a cut down version of just that.
Speaker 2: And that's good for everybody.
Speaker 3: So yeah, next up, back to vanyardson'd room again. Come
Speaker 3: more in here The Mark and Erotic Passion, which is
Speaker 3: a double feature of Technically they're under the million sne manner.
Speaker 3: I mean, they are technically hardcore, but they're not porn movies.
Speaker 3: There are these two really cool stylish crime movies from
Speaker 3: one of the Gida Wilson and they're both really fun.
Speaker 3: They're really good movies. They just happened to have because
Speaker 3: Greece is kind of like Brazil, they would actually just
Speaker 3: like throw sex into their movies just because that's what
Speaker 3: people wanted for some reason. I don't know why, but
Speaker 3: it's not very much. So if you're reversed that kind
Speaker 3: of thing, I would still say check these out because
Speaker 3: they're actually.
Speaker 2: Like really good thrillers.
Speaker 3: They're very sort of like jallow sort of and like
Speaker 3: sort of like French crime films and all kind of
Speaker 3: stuff is kind of all switched together, but they're really
Speaker 3: really good. I'm afraid people are going to kind of
Speaker 3: miss the boat on this one because they're gonna think
Speaker 3: it's poorant and they're really not. But the fact that
Speaker 3: they're like on Blueberry from the Negatives is just like
Speaker 3: staggeringly insane. I hope they keep doing this kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: because yeah, that was just not one that I saw
Speaker 3: coming at all, and it's it's just a fantastic release.
Speaker 2: I am sort of disheartened by how many it seems like,
Speaker 2: literally never go and check the mail YOUU Sine site.
Speaker 2: Now that they're not on the same website, they just
Speaker 2: are forgotten. And sure quite often the adult titles took
Speaker 2: way longer to sell out than the regular titles. However,
Speaker 2: they didn't take as long as they're taking on mil
Speaker 2: you scene right now, and it feels like there's many
Speaker 2: people that would have purchased them if they were on
Speaker 2: the Vinegar Center site, which doesn't make sense. But check
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you're out, like a regular Meloccene customer, like,
Speaker 3: please give this one a shot. Like I really can't
Speaker 3: recommend it enough. It's it's a really cool double feature.
Speaker 3: Next up back to Germany of Varia, another movie that
Speaker 3: will probably never come out here because the music writes
Speaker 3: are absolute hell. V Loorian rock checks The street Walker
Speaker 3: aka Lamarge from play On in a an insanely stacked
Speaker 3: special edition with a director's cut, which I had never
Speaker 3: even seen before. I didn't know that what we had
Speaker 3: was a producer's cut. We actually get two different versions
Speaker 3: of it, and the packing doesn't mention it but hasing
Speaker 3: the subtitles. But this is kind of an outlight has
Speaker 3: Silver Crystal and Joe Delessandro. It is a just gorgeous,
Speaker 3: like modern day kind of dreamy Paris film drama that
Speaker 3: he did. But the soundtrack is just nuts. It's got
Speaker 3: like tenn CC and like Elton John and like all
Speaker 3: this stuff in the soundtrack.
Speaker 2: This thing is nuts.
Speaker 3: But it's only cleared in Europe, which is why it
Speaker 3: has never come out over here and probably never will
Speaker 3: unless Cinematograph wants take a stab at it. But I
Speaker 3: can't imagine that happening. It's such a cool movie and
Speaker 3: the fact that we have this deluxe edition of it
Speaker 3: just kind of blows my mind. Uh Chris, I agree?
Speaker 3: Does need a blue right?
Speaker 2: Come on?
Speaker 3: I guess that's Specie eyes court would yeah, reptilicous.
Speaker 2: On UHD with with the original cut to.
Speaker 3: With the Danish cut. What else can I say? I
Speaker 3: don't know, it happened. We live in a strange world.
Speaker 3: It is I thank you finger syndrome.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm still trying to process that one, that that actually happened.
Speaker 3: Great release though, just pretty great. Death Squad from Mondo Macabre,
Speaker 3: fantastically trashy, nuts so French crime film with like maybe
Speaker 3: the most shocking title car I've ever seen for a movie.
Speaker 3: It's Oh my god, this movie is so much fun.
Speaker 3: And the fact that even did a limited UHD on
Speaker 3: it and it's out on Blue right now, Please get
Speaker 3: this one. It's very, very entertaining. A lot of people
Speaker 3: don't even know what this thing is, but it is
Speaker 3: just a total riot from start to finish.
Speaker 2: It's so much fun. One of their best, for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is. It is really great. AGFA pulling one
Speaker 3: out of the blue. This one is porn flat out,
Speaker 3: but it's wild sex demon completely lost, utterly forgotten gay
Speaker 3: porn take on The Exorcist. Wow, I didn't know what
Speaker 3: I was in for with this one, but you really
Speaker 3: there's no way I can describe this one here without
Speaker 3: getting your banned. But they really did just do a
Speaker 3: remake of The Exorsist, but as a seventies gayborn movie,
Speaker 3: and it is absolutely nuts. Oh the street Walker, Lamarge,
Speaker 3: I feel a couple Lamarge on Amazon dot di you'll
Speaker 3: find it, or just type silvery Crystal Blue Ray will
Speaker 3: be the first one that pops up.
Speaker 2: Or blu ray dot com. Change your icon at the
Speaker 2: top to the world and then type that yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great release another label of mine that I that
Speaker 3: I really love. There there they don't. They're not as
Speaker 3: prolific as I wish they were. But Lashatka Fume. They
Speaker 3: pout some of the great stuff lately, But the one
Speaker 3: that really threw me was the Matt Hart or Lakurfu.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: If you love like Andreslowsky, that kind of thing, this
Speaker 3: is right in that wheelhouse. It's got that kind of
Speaker 3: same kind of like just crazy kinetic camera style to it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's just kind of like another one that sort of
Speaker 3: tragic love stories out in the woods in France. But
Speaker 3: it is like one of the most visually stunny movies
Speaker 3: I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And I never.
Speaker 3: Even thought it would hit Blue Ray. I thought it
Speaker 3: was still Gonner and somehow they managed to drag up
Speaker 3: the negative and it looks great. It's got English subs
Speaker 3: again region free fantastically. Don't know if it'll ever come
Speaker 3: out here. It deserves too, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I wish more of their titles got English subs, so
Speaker 2: too many of them don't have them, and it unfortunately
Speaker 2: knocks out a lot of people. I will say, while
Speaker 2: I was visiting La and got to see You, stopped
Speaker 2: in CD trader in Tarzana and to nowhere, I've never
Speaker 2: imagined this would be happening. I found the chat Quifume
Speaker 2: titles in a shop for sale on the shelves and
Speaker 2: I was like, this is amazing that. Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye out the the the chat titles that
Speaker 2: I was able to check out. They put so much
Speaker 2: love and attention to their releases. Again, I wish more
Speaker 2: of them were English friendly, but they do great work. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But when yeah, when they're English friendly, though, you can
Speaker 3: pretty much buy with confidence because I don't put out
Speaker 3: anything bad that I can think of. Yeah, their track
Speaker 3: record is pretty immaculate. And last of all, another group
Speaker 3: bene Your Syndrome shout out is Phase four. The fact
Speaker 3: that I actually reasembled the original sella Baths director's cut.
Speaker 3: What a release it's out and four K. It just
Speaker 3: absolutely stacked, has all of these It's just great.
Speaker 2: Like todd a.
Speaker 3: Bottom, it kind of came out during a flurry of
Speaker 3: releases they were doing where they were like dumping out
Speaker 3: so many titles a month. This one really got lost
Speaker 3: in the shuffle. Nobody's really talking about that much. But
Speaker 3: if you don't have it, please grab it. The movie
Speaker 3: is fantastic and UHD looks great and just having like
Speaker 3: the originally ending back in the movie itself, along this
Speaker 3: extra footish before that we didn't even know about before
Speaker 3: it's a real miracle release and I don't know how
Speaker 3: they pulled it off, but thank god.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Phase four is just absolute ten star release.
Speaker 2: In every way. There's been a lot of people complaining
Speaker 2: about the Vinegar Syndrome slate from this year, feeling like
Speaker 2: it's an underwhelming year for them, but there are certain
Speaker 2: ones like face Kiss, the fact that they I mean
Speaker 2: a year ago, if you would have told me Vinegar
Speaker 2: Cindrome was going to do Phase four, I would have
Speaker 2: definitely not agreed with that. I mean, they are They're
Speaker 2: a label that you would not have expected to have
Speaker 2: a title like that. But there's there's so many random
Speaker 2: things that they've done this year that are just sure,
Speaker 2: maybe it wasn't the most strong month, but they put
Speaker 2: out this title and that's very impressive. And the uhds
Speaker 2: that they've done have looked stellar all year. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: a lot. Phase four is an incredible film. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, a lot of surprises this year. I mean
Speaker 3: I'm sure, and I mean rolling in September, I mean
Speaker 3: like I'm almost afraid to see what's going to happen
Speaker 3: by December.
Speaker 2: It's nuts. Yeah, Black Friday coming up, Speaking of that,
Speaker 2: next week is the flash sale pre order for their
Speaker 2: Black Friday sale already, and a lot of people don't
Speaker 2: even have the Severn Summer sales shipment yet, So here
Speaker 2: we are. Lots of complaints in coming on that commentary. Wise,
Speaker 2: Nathaniel's stuff coming out literally every Tuesday. Make sure you're
Speaker 2: following them if you like the way Nathaniel works on
Speaker 2: some of these titles. What's in the last year or so,
Speaker 2: what's the title that's been released with you on the
Speaker 2: disc that you are intensely proud of being able to
Speaker 2: talk about that film?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, obviously I mentioned Bloodline that's gonna be
Speaker 3: coming up very sharly, but that that was a real
Speaker 3: special one for me. I'm really proud of the new
Speaker 3: track that I did with Troy for Opera, but seven
Speaker 3: one that came out Watch of Smooler kind of confies
Speaker 3: because for various reasons, Troy and I did seber tracks
Speaker 3: on the old Scorpion release, but then we teamed up
Speaker 3: on this one.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Completely different track. But it's a really good one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of new stuff in there, so
Speaker 3: even if you have the old ones, you need to
Speaker 3: get this one. But yeah, yeah, really happy with that.
Speaker 2: One as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know a lot. We were still
Speaker 3: win on that sever and stuff, and actually I was
Speaker 3: really glad we got to do two of the in
Speaker 3: the Argenta's Deep Cuts set that came out that That's
Speaker 3: another surprising one. I had no idea that was going
Speaker 3: to be the four disc set when we did those.
Speaker 3: I neither're doing the Door in the Dark and series,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know it was going to be that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: when I saw the announcement, I was like.
Speaker 2: Holy crap.
Speaker 3: But yeah, those are really fun to work on as well.
Speaker 3: Getting to do two of the episodes of that that
Speaker 3: was a really cool one. So hopefully some folks have
Speaker 3: gotten their copies. Again, that's another one nobody's really talking
Speaker 3: about all that much, but take a look because that
Speaker 3: thing is just Aslee, just stacked beyond belief.
Speaker 2: As as we close, this maybe an abnormal plea for
Speaker 2: somebody that is into physical media like this, But I
Speaker 2: really want to say one thing, and that is a
Speaker 2: lot of people and a lot of companies see a
Speaker 2: spike in sales when they first release something, the initial announcement,
Speaker 2: The pre orders go crazy, it'll come out, and then
Speaker 2: it dies down and people just don't go back and
Speaker 2: buy catalog titles all that often unless it's a sale. Sure,
Speaker 2: some things I understand waiting for sales. We're all poor.
Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty four. I totally get that. However, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of places like the smaller companies, like stuff
Speaker 2: that we mentioned tonight, like Manda Macapro. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of older catalog titles that sure. Not a lot of
Speaker 2: people are talking about Hunting Ground that they put out
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. Right now, all the limited
Speaker 2: red cases are sold out. Not very many people are
Speaker 2: buying the Blu ray. Those movies are still great. Go
Speaker 2: check out catalog titles. I know that these brand new
Speaker 2: ones are exciting and as hypocritical as this sounds on
Speaker 2: a night when we talked about amazing, surprising titles from
Speaker 2: this year, check out some older titles. There's still some
Speaker 2: amazing films in print, and before you lose your chance
Speaker 2: to get them, it's a great time to pick them
Speaker 2: up and support those companies. I mean, those films still
Speaker 2: need to make money and they need to be able
Speaker 2: to sustain and if it's something that you're into, always
Speaker 2: always support the company because they do great.
Speaker 3: Work and I would say, if you need more of
Speaker 3: a kick in the butt, just remember go to eBay
Speaker 3: and look at what Mona Micabo DVDs are selling for
Speaker 3: and that money doesn't go to them, so buy the
Speaker 3: stuff now. And Mona Micawber has been killing it this year.
Speaker 3: I mean it's every month. They've really been blowing.
Speaker 2: It out of the water. I mean it's some really
Speaker 2: wild stuff. And we still got Cafe Flesh foward k coming.
Speaker 2: Thank God, incredit well, Nathaniel, Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: taking the time out on a Thursday night. I know
Speaker 2: you're busy man, and this is rare, so I appreciate
Speaker 2: you being able to do this.
Speaker 3: Always a pleasure. Thank you for inviting me, everybody else
Speaker 3: come back next week.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have the boys from the almost major podcast
Speaker 2: back and uh we're gonna be doing something fun next week.
Speaker 2: But on that note, thanks for everything you do, Nathaniel.
Speaker 2: Thanks for everybody for being here. And it's it feels
Speaker 2: like a short night, but I feel like we covered
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff tonight, so sure did.
Speaker 3: Thank you again, and I hope next week has a
Speaker 3: lot of your black boxes for you and we'll just
Speaker 3: keep getting in trouble.
Speaker 2: Well, Criterion announces in a couple of days, we'll see
Speaker 2: how much they make me sense. Oh gosh, another one.
Speaker 2: Have a good week. We'll see everybody next Thursday.
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