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Speaker 6: Hey y'all, and welcome to Reconnected another Thursday, here live
Speaker 6: and uh here with one of the big guns. We
Speaker 6: got mister Brian sour from Just the Discs.
Speaker 7: Buddy man, you always got embarrass.
Speaker 6: Me and Barry. I mean, let's let's be honest in
Speaker 6: this space. You are a genuine celebrity. I mean, oh
Speaker 6: my gosh, people adore you, people of you, people want
Speaker 6: to take pictures with you, and from Beverly, like, what
Speaker 6: is that life? That's amazing.
Speaker 7: I mean it's a very localized celebrity. If it's a
Speaker 7: celebrity at all. You know, if you're if you're at
Speaker 7: the New Beverly, if you're at the Vista, maybe uh
Speaker 7: it might happen, but otherwise, you know, it's not a thing.
Speaker 7: So but that's very kind. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Or if you like me, you just invite Brian out
Speaker 6: to Korean barbecue and you have to take the picture there.
Speaker 7: That works too, Yeah, yeah, I have I have a
Speaker 7: story about that later when we get into what we've
Speaker 7: been watching.
Speaker 6: Interesting, all right, I'm I'm genuinely stoked to here. You
Speaker 6: obviously host the Pure Cinema Cup podcast. You are the face,
Speaker 6: the voice, the name behind just the discs. You have
Speaker 6: been doing a lot of screenings around the Los Angeles area.
Speaker 6: I have been doing what you can to to hold
Speaker 6: up the world of cinema on your shoulders. How's everything
Speaker 6: be going.
Speaker 7: Everything's everything's going pretty good. It's it has been. I
Speaker 7: was just talking to you before we got live here,
Speaker 7: and it's it's been an interesting year because it's been
Speaker 7: about a year since I was on and folks very sweet, yeah,
Speaker 7: and it's been a lot has happened, i think for
Speaker 7: both of us certainly, And we're going to talk about
Speaker 7: some of the stuff that's been going on with you
Speaker 7: which people know about and which I'm very excited about.
Speaker 7: Congrats on antenna and I can't wait. But personally, just
Speaker 7: real quickly before when I spoke to you last year,
Speaker 7: I was married and I am not married now, and
Speaker 7: it's a big difference. And that's okay. You know, it's
Speaker 7: been it was an amicable thing. It was just something
Speaker 7: that it was. It was just time for it to happen.
Speaker 7: But so I'm in a different space. If you've been
Speaker 7: watching my channel, you know, this is my apartment. This
Speaker 7: is not my house, and you know, I things are,
Speaker 7: things are pretty good. I have a girlfriend and she's great,
Speaker 7: and so I spent a lot of time with her,
Speaker 7: a lot of time watching movies with her. In fact,
Speaker 7: some of the movies I might talk about if we
Speaker 7: talk about recent watches, would the things we've watched and
Speaker 7: stuff like that. But yeah, it's been in terms of
Speaker 7: a personal shift, it's probably been one of the biggest
Speaker 7: in recent memory in my life. But for the for
Speaker 7: the good ultimately, you know.
Speaker 6: So how about some pure cinema highlights from this last year.
Speaker 6: It would have been some of the big standout moments
Speaker 6: for you.
Speaker 7: I'd see pure cinema. I mean, it's it's just an
Speaker 7: ongoing thing. We had a nice screening of Zero Effect
Speaker 7: as part of the American Cinema Tech Friend of the
Speaker 7: Fast series. Uh, that was really neat. I know that
Speaker 7: we had some folks in the crowd there that had
Speaker 7: never seen that one before and it went over well.
Speaker 7: And you know, here's fingers cross, He's open for a
Speaker 7: Blu ray. That'd be great for that. But I'm trying
Speaker 7: to think I don't know. We you know, we did
Speaker 7: our kup Brick episodes. Those were well received. We had
Speaker 7: Edgar Wright.
Speaker 6: On the show, just a little guy named Edgar. Right.
Speaker 7: He's been I gotta say, not to be whatever, but
Speaker 7: he's been really sweet about enjoying the show, Like, you know,
Speaker 7: sent me a message saying how much you like the
Speaker 7: Kubrick episodes and stuff just stuff like that. You're just like,
Speaker 7: what is happening? Yeah, and that. So that's been really nice.
Speaker 7: The Kuprick I think was the one of the highlights.
Speaker 7: The Kubrick double episode we did. Got a lot of
Speaker 7: nice feedback and it was a lot of work but
Speaker 7: worth it. And yeah, I mean we're just we're just
Speaker 7: we just keep going, you know, we just keep going,
Speaker 7: you know, thinking about new episodes, and that is a
Speaker 7: lot of what helps me put my movie watching focus
Speaker 7: onto things and not get scattered. You know. I like
Speaker 7: having stuff to do and stuff to research.
Speaker 6: I I have not thought about in a long time.
Speaker 6: What is this year seven of pure cinema.
Speaker 7: Actually we're gonna be We're gonna be starting into nine.
Speaker 7: Oh Jesus twenty seventeen, February twenty seventeen, So it'll be gosh,
Speaker 7: nine years in February.
Speaker 6: Twenty eighteen. Yeah, that's that's insanity.
Speaker 7: Yeah, nuts, And we're excited about ten years. We got
Speaker 7: to come up with something good for that. I don't
Speaker 7: know what we're gonna do, but but yeah, that's a
Speaker 7: long time. It's a long time. You realize that, like,
Speaker 7: you know, if there's younger people that listen. Like one
Speaker 7: of the things that got me, I think it was
Speaker 7: last year, maybe it was twenty twenty four. We had
Speaker 7: a kid come up to me at the NEWBEV and
Speaker 7: he was talking about how he'd been listening since he
Speaker 7: was in high school or something, and you think about
Speaker 7: nine years, you're like, well, that's you know, two entire
Speaker 7: high school classes went through. You know, if they not
Speaker 7: to say that young people are listening to the show,
Speaker 7: because it's a lot of older people, but there are
Speaker 7: some younger folks that listen, And it's crazy to think
Speaker 7: nine years is a really long time for a lot
Speaker 7: of people and younger you know, this is true.
Speaker 6: I've been doing that myself lately. It's really interesting when
Speaker 6: you're when you're like gauging timeframes in terms of years,
Speaker 6: the number doesn't always sound big, but I started thinking
Speaker 6: about it, I was like, wait, my oldest was six
Speaker 6: years old when I started disconnected. He's literally about to
Speaker 6: go in to middle school. Like that is so much
Speaker 6: of his adolescent life. That's just been Oh, my dad's
Speaker 6: on YouTube and now like my youngest is my youngest
Speaker 6: is saying that he wants to make movies when he's older.
Speaker 6: Now my oldest is writing essays about paranormal activity and
Speaker 6: making fun short films on his Google Chrome.
Speaker 7: For some Oh my gosh, that's so cool.
Speaker 6: The making paranormal activity. I love that, and I mean,
Speaker 6: none of this would have happened. I don't think if
Speaker 6: I wasn't doing stuff in front of a camera. So
Speaker 6: it's crazy that they've been inspired that way. But man,
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 7: That is so cool. Man, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 7: That's great.
Speaker 6: So other than pure cinema screenings, what are some of
Speaker 6: the other films that you've shown around town and tell
Speaker 6: people about the theaters that you show them at. I
Speaker 6: think that's the most interesting thing because you and I
Speaker 6: take it for granted, but there's a lot of places
Speaker 6: that don't have REP screens like you have access to
Speaker 6: it all.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's it's a pretty great setup in
Speaker 7: LA right now in terms of rep in general, but
Speaker 7: a lot of my microcinemas. The only public screening we
Speaker 7: did last year that I'm remembering is the Zero Effect,
Speaker 7: But I did do two private screenings at Whammy, which
Speaker 7: is probably my favorite microcinema in town. There's a lot
Speaker 7: of good ones, though, and there's several that I haven't
Speaker 7: even been to. There's like a place called the Eastwood
Speaker 7: that I gotta go check out still, and there's a
Speaker 7: bunch that I still need to try. But Whammy is
Speaker 7: literally about an a ten minute walk from my apartment
Speaker 7: right now, and great little venue. If folks don't know,
Speaker 7: it's it's like a video They sell videos, vhs, their
Speaker 7: analog Whammy Analog Media. Yeah, so it's like laser discs
Speaker 7: and vhs, and they definitely keep an eye on things
Speaker 7: that are often less available on disc, you know. I
Speaker 7: can sense that when you go in there, You're like, oh,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of stuff here that's not really on disc.
Speaker 7: And so Eric, one of the guys there, nice guy,
Speaker 7: is aware of that stuff. So it's neat to go
Speaker 7: in there and look around. But they have a really
Speaker 7: nice microcinema with a few rows of theater seats, and
Speaker 7: then they can they have a lot of padded seats
Speaker 7: they can put in, so I can set about forty five.
Speaker 7: And I did two screenings there last year. One was
Speaker 7: for my birthday and I showed I'll shoot a movie
Speaker 7: called Thief, but not the Michael Man. This is a
Speaker 7: nineteen seventy one TV movie with Oh Man, I'm blanking
Speaker 7: on everything. Actually, I have it right back here, I
Speaker 7: hold on, there we go, Richard Krenna, That's what I
Speaker 7: was trying to think of. Richard Kreanna, Andy, Andreie Dickinson,
Speaker 7: Cameron Mitchell. I had a VHS so that we played
Speaker 7: that off VHS, and then I got a file of
Speaker 7: Murder by Natural Causes, which is a really good seventies
Speaker 7: TV movie with hal Oolbrook, Barry Bostwick and Katherine Ross.
Speaker 7: Kind of a death trapp Ye kind of thing, but
Speaker 7: a whole lot of fun. So I did that one
Speaker 7: and it was so much fun, and Wammy is so
Speaker 7: affordable in terms of their rentals that I did another
Speaker 7: one in December and I showed Cold Blooded, which to date,
Speaker 7: I think only has this this media book release. This
Speaker 7: is with Jason Priestley and yeah.
Speaker 6: I remember your pickup video of this got that's so specific.
Speaker 6: It was a German release that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just this one's been I've been a fan
Speaker 7: of this one for I don't know, thirty years. It's
Speaker 7: it's one that came out in ninety five, I think,
Speaker 7: and my friend that I was working with found it
Speaker 7: and just a really interesting hitman dramedy. Peter Riegert is
Speaker 7: the other one. Well, Robert los is in it, Michael J.
Speaker 7: Fox is it. It's a really a movie that sort
Speaker 7: of disappeared in a way, and that was a fun
Speaker 7: one to show. And then I showed Midnight Offerings, which
Speaker 7: is another TV movie with Melissa su Anderson. Like I
Speaker 7: would imagine, the pitch was something like if what if
Speaker 7: there were two carries? And it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Brian is saying cold Blooded has a Japanese laser disc.
Speaker 7: Very nice, very nice. Yeah, that's very cool. It just
Speaker 7: needs something else, so I'm assuming there's some issue holding
Speaker 7: it up somewhere, but I'd love to see another release
Speaker 7: of it. But yeah, those were the main screenings I
Speaker 7: think I did last year. Those are a lot of fun,
Speaker 7: but Whammy is the best. If you come to La.
Speaker 7: Definitely check out Whammy. It's it's a blast.
Speaker 6: I was meaning the last time I was there to
Speaker 6: go to Whammy, and in fact I was. I set
Speaker 6: up an interview with the owner of Whammy to be
Speaker 6: able to shoot in Whammy, but we just we literally
Speaker 6: ran out of time so I couldn't do it. But
Speaker 6: everybody seems to love those guys. I dying to go
Speaker 6: visit the next time I'm down there, for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah it is. And like I said, check in with
Speaker 7: them about rates for rental. If you wanna microcinema space
Speaker 7: to screen something. Yeah, that's cool. It's it does have
Speaker 7: a multiple cover art kind of thing for that media book.
Speaker 7: I almost want to get the other one too.
Speaker 6: I love the German media books, but they're like, you
Speaker 6: know what, we're doing five covers. If you want all
Speaker 6: of them, get it. And yeah, it's it's stoked. Okay,
Speaker 6: let's see what else tonight. After announcements, we're gonna be
Speaker 6: talking about underrated releases. From twenty twenty five underrated physical
Speaker 6: media releases, Brian has about eighty four to share. I've
Speaker 6: got like twenty something like that that I feel like
Speaker 6: not enough people are talking about. I've got a couple
Speaker 6: that I don't like. I don't understand how nobody nominated
Speaker 6: them for the Shelf Shock Freebind Awards this year because
Speaker 6: they're they're incredible. So we'll get deep into those. But
Speaker 6: let's go into some pickups. What have you been buying lately?
Speaker 7: Okay, there's a lot here, but I'll go quickly. Let's see.
Speaker 7: Le's start with I mean, we'll start with this, Goodbye Columbus.
Speaker 7: This is the fun say Editions New Blu Ray. I've
Speaker 7: been a fan of this one for a long time.
Speaker 7: I haven't even had a chance to crack it yet.
Speaker 7: I'm excited to. But has a commentary by my pal
Speaker 7: Bill Ackerman. New Vineer interview with the composer on stage
Speaker 7: conversation with Richard Benjamin and a bunch of the other
Speaker 7: folks involved, including Ali McGraw and Larry Pearce. I just
Speaker 7: I like this movie a lot. It's sort of a
Speaker 7: coming of age, but like it's a like college age
Speaker 7: type thing where where you have Richard Benjamin kind of
Speaker 7: falling for Ali McGraw and she's kind of out of
Speaker 7: his league. She's kind of he's like a working class
Speaker 7: Jewish guy, and she's you know, upper class kind of.
Speaker 7: Oh that's very nice, thank you, and they just sort
Speaker 7: of end up connecting. But it's a little bittersweet. It's
Speaker 7: just a really great movie that I'm I'm very excited
Speaker 7: that John got this and very excited to check that
Speaker 7: one out.
Speaker 6: Shout out to Herzburg. We both love Hersburg a lot.
Speaker 7: I was just talking to him on the phone today,
Speaker 7: you know. Yeah, he and I have a lot to
Speaker 7: talk about lately, just personally and stuff like that, so
Speaker 7: we talk quite a bit. I just got this, uh
Speaker 7: in the Maddle like a dead Man four K from Criterion. Uh.
Speaker 7: I'm a Jarmish head from way back, and this is
Speaker 7: really exciting. I'm very excited to see this. Uh in
Speaker 7: four K. Black and white always really gets me going
Speaker 7: in four K. So this is a beautiful movie and
Speaker 7: funny and you know, great score and yeah, I'm very
Speaker 7: much looking forward to checking that one out again. I
Speaker 7: don't want to take forever on this stuff, but.
Speaker 6: That's why you're here.
Speaker 7: Uh So this just literally showed up today. This is
Speaker 7: the Yeah, this one's very exciting. They did correct the
Speaker 7: little error, so I think this is one I'm gonna keep.
Speaker 7: You know. I had the Knot and the Kinot was good,
Speaker 7: but none of the Juggler from Transmission and Transmission, by
Speaker 7: the way, I mean talk about you know, batting a
Speaker 7: thousand every single one. I can't wait for the stunt Man,
Speaker 7: I can't wait for Cutter's Way. These are really really exciting.
Speaker 7: Four K is coming from from fran and Transmission, and
Speaker 7: I just, yeah, this is a really cool sub label.
Speaker 7: It's become actually one of my favorite sub labels, like
Speaker 7: right out of the gate and I haven't even opened this,
Speaker 7: but I've seen people open this thing up. And there's
Speaker 7: just so much good stuff in here. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 7: know which I'm not even you know, we can get into,
Speaker 7: not get into or not. How much I feel about
Speaker 7: extra stuff. I don't need it. I don't mind it,
Speaker 7: but I don't go out of my way to get it.
Speaker 7: In this case, it was just what comes with it.
Speaker 7: But but yeah, very very excited about Night of the
Speaker 7: Juggler on four K corrected. You know, let's see here,
Speaker 7: this one would almost be on my list. Yeah, this
Speaker 7: is Motorcycle, which one of the I feel like, you know,
Speaker 7: the russ Meyer Severn stuff definitely got a general buzz,
Speaker 7: but I don't know this one in particular, I hadn't
Speaker 7: seen and so checking it out for the first time
Speaker 7: four K was really great because I'm I'm determining that
Speaker 7: Russ Meyer is While I love him as a filmmaker,
Speaker 7: I think I love his early stuff a little more.
Speaker 7: I'm you know, the faster this is. I want to say,
Speaker 7: this is the same year as Fast Faster Pussycat. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's like they're bout sixty four. I think this comes
Speaker 7: out right before Faster Pussycat and it's almost like this
Speaker 7: is a I've seen it said that this is like
Speaker 7: a dry run for a Faster Posty Cat, except it's
Speaker 7: like a gender flip. So you have a bunch of guys,
Speaker 7: which is a little creepier, a little harder to watch.
Speaker 7: But there is a certain charm to his filmmaking, and
Speaker 7: there's this is very soft core, so there's no nudity
Speaker 7: or anything in this one. Uh, but it's got Alex
Speaker 7: Rocco in it, which is maybe one of the high
Speaker 7: more high profile actors he's ever worked with, and there's
Speaker 7: some bizarre stuff with him. But yeah, I definitely was
Speaker 7: I do have you heard I mean, I don't know
Speaker 7: that you can say, but for what you can say,
Speaker 7: have you heard if they're working on more or if
Speaker 7: it's still up in the air.
Speaker 6: Yes, we can now because they've said it publicly. I
Speaker 6: have a podcast episode for the new year. They were
Speaker 6: teasing because this is the what is this the twentieth
Speaker 6: anniversary of seven? I think in twenty two.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, that's amazing.
Speaker 6: So they made a big deal on their podcast and
Speaker 6: they said, yes, we can confirm now that finally more
Speaker 6: russ Meyer is coming. That first deal was only the
Speaker 6: five titles, so it's not like they were holding them back.
Speaker 6: After those came out and they did well, they went
Speaker 6: back to the well and they were able to get more.
Speaker 6: So it is exciting.
Speaker 7: No, I'm very excited to see what else they have.
Speaker 7: And I just love that that. I think David is
Speaker 7: a great collaborator for this, like absolutely, you know, so
Speaker 7: like I just think Severn and russ Meyer that to me,
Speaker 7: like I could really couldn't say there's another label that
Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm just really happy for him. I
Speaker 7: think it's a big deal and it's exciting.
Speaker 6: So I think they've definitely like that that's the right choice.
Speaker 6: They came together, just those two brands working together makes
Speaker 6: a lot of sense.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. I just got this. This is the via vision
Speaker 7: four K of John Carpenter's Vampires.
Speaker 6: Nice.
Speaker 7: This has already got a shout scream those Yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's what I thought. So I'm assuming this is basically
Speaker 7: the same, although it looks like maybe there's a new
Speaker 7: video essay on here.
Speaker 6: That and is there a booklet in that one too?
Speaker 6: I think the book Yeah, there's a booklet.
Speaker 7: And the Troy Horworth commentary is that that's says twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five. Did they both come out in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 6: I think so?
Speaker 7: Okay, so maybe that commentary's there too. But anyway, I
Speaker 7: like this one. Elrick and I joke about this movie
Speaker 7: all the time. Gott Wood Padre is just something we
Speaker 7: like this. Whatever this comes up, we can't help but
Speaker 7: quote that line in the movie. It's just endlessly enjoyable.
Speaker 7: See here. Okay, let's just do Okay, So I've got
Speaker 7: a bunch from the last This is basically from the
Speaker 7: Vinegar Syndrome sale. But I haven't opened these, so I'll
Speaker 7: just flip through these really fast, just because I know
Speaker 7: it's old news at this point. But I picked up
Speaker 7: Blue City. I don't know why this one. It's like
Speaker 7: every time I watch it, I'm like, this isn't as
Speaker 7: good as I want it to be, right, but I
Speaker 7: still find it really entertaining. And I love the idea
Speaker 7: of Judd Nelson. Is this guy who comes into town
Speaker 7: and just starts messing with people, just starts tearing stuff
Speaker 7: up and making a nuisance of himself and something about that.
Speaker 7: Even though you can tell like this isn't this is
Speaker 7: not a good idea, this is going to go bad,
Speaker 7: it's still kind of fun. And the fact that Ali
Speaker 7: Sheety's in it, I don't know, it's I think there
Speaker 7: are some people out there that would dig it and
Speaker 7: I don't know why. But the Olive Blu ray was
Speaker 7: not enough. I'm like, I need a special edition of
Speaker 7: Blues City for whatever reason. I don't know. Okay, Time Crimes,
Speaker 7: I got the four K. I mean this is great.
Speaker 7: This is great. I mean, I'm such a huge fan
Speaker 7: of this. I love that it has I think The
Speaker 7: Umbrella had this too, the Chronological not that I want
Speaker 7: to watch that, but like, right, there's there's a lot
Speaker 7: of good stuff on here, but this is just I'm
Speaker 7: a big time bounce time travel movie guy. And this
Speaker 7: is in recent memory. This is one of the best.
Speaker 6: I think it's a good one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, really really nice.
Speaker 6: Which was a great filmmaker overall.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely. I I like his stuff. I I would
Speaker 7: love to see him do more like that. I don't
Speaker 7: know why I picked up Iceed the Degaza. I this
Speaker 7: is what I've seen, but like and I remember some
Speaker 7: of the kills in it, but I just was kind
Speaker 7: of feeling like a goofy slasher and it was I
Speaker 7: think it was one of the it was like at
Speaker 7: least fifty percent off.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 7: It was a good deal, so I had to snag that.
Speaker 7: The Strange Affair. This one I just have heard decent
Speaker 7: things about, but I've never seen it. Directed by David Green,
Speaker 7: who I think did he do I stopped, I start counting.
Speaker 7: Maybe I want to say he's the I start counting guy. Yeah,
Speaker 7: And I think he did this before that. And this
Speaker 7: has Michael Yorke in it. Detective Sergeant Pears is obsessed
Speaker 7: with taking down a local kingpin Quince.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't know. This is just one of those movies
Speaker 7: that I'm like, I don't know what this is, but
Speaker 7: it's in a spot in terms of time and cast
Speaker 7: where I'm like, this could be interesting as a potential discovery.
Speaker 7: So yeah, so I snagged Strange Affair. I got suckered
Speaker 7: by Garbage Field Kids. I don't know why I felt
Speaker 7: the need to get this. It's a disgusting movie. It's
Speaker 7: a movie. But and I always joke with my boss
Speaker 7: because my boss I work for a movie marketing company,
Speaker 7: and my boss worked for Fox at the time this
Speaker 7: came out. I want to say, this is like the
Speaker 7: first movie he ever worked on. He did marketing for
Speaker 7: it back in the day, and I just told him,
Speaker 7: like super nerd in one of our staff mediums, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 7: you know that Garish Pail Kids is coming out on
Speaker 7: four K. I think he was amused momentarily anyway, But yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean, it's just one of those movies that's so
Speaker 7: uniquely like no other movie that I just I just
Speaker 7: couldn't not get it. I don't know four K, Yeah,
Speaker 7: we'll see. I finally grabbed Joy of Sex just the
Speaker 7: standard cinematograph. I mean, I do love Martha Coolidge. I
Speaker 7: know there's some people who just hate this movie, like
Speaker 7: hate it, And I gotta say I don't know. I
Speaker 7: think it's I think it's all right personally, but you know,
Speaker 7: I get it. Everybody's not going to be a fan.
Speaker 7: Another one, I haven't seen female Perversions Snag the standard
Speaker 7: of that. I've heard good things about it, but I
Speaker 7: don't I never did see it, So that's another possible discovery.
Speaker 7: And then this one I have seen, actually saw for
Speaker 7: the first time last year. This is the last of
Speaker 7: the Red Hot Lovers, which is really fun really funny
Speaker 7: Alan Arkin and actually one of my favorite Sally Kellerman performances.
Speaker 7: She's like incredibly funny in this. Yeah, yeah, really really
Speaker 7: enjoyable stuff. And then just a few more here Thunderheart four.
Speaker 6: K nice just came out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've just been it's the right time that I'm
Speaker 7: ready to revisit this, especially after when we talk when
Speaker 7: we if we talk about recent watches, there's a recent
Speaker 7: watch with Valcolmer that ties into me being excited about
Speaker 7: rewatching this. But it's been a long time since I've
Speaker 7: seen this, and I remember liking it, but I just
Speaker 7: it's been so long that it's like it's a little
Speaker 7: fuzzy at this point. And then just a couple of
Speaker 7: Warner archives that I'm really excited about one is called
Speaker 7: On Borrowed Time.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: This is a really great, like classic film with Lionel
Speaker 7: Barrymore where it's like a fable. It's kind of like
Speaker 7: one of those kind of overlease maybe overlease sentimental movies.
Speaker 7: So it might turn some people off. But the idea
Speaker 7: is that he tricks Death into getting caught in a
Speaker 7: tree and that's a whole mythology, and then Death is
Speaker 7: unable to kill anybody during that time and he eventually
Speaker 7: they have to have some kind of reconciliation. But how
Speaker 7: it gets there it feels like very capra ask a
Speaker 7: little bit but slightly. I don't know. I can't quite
Speaker 7: quantify it. But I'm a big, big fan of this one.
Speaker 7: And it was one of the first, if I remember,
Speaker 7: it was one of the first Warner Archive DDDs that
Speaker 7: got released, and it was one that a friend of
Speaker 7: mine at the video store back in the early two
Speaker 7: thousands was a huge fan of and I had never
Speaker 7: seen it, and then when I watched it, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 7: I get it. And the kid's pretty good at it.
Speaker 7: It's about him and his grandkid kind of. And then
Speaker 7: I love Melvin, which is Donald O'Connor from Singing in
Speaker 7: the Rain. It's like it's it's not Singing in the
Speaker 7: Rain by any stretch, but it's a fun Donald O'Connor
Speaker 7: as the star kind of movie, and he didn't have
Speaker 7: a lot of those. So there's some fun musical numbers,
Speaker 7: some fun dancing, and I just remember being kind of
Speaker 7: This is another one that came out on Warner Archive
Speaker 7: DVD that I discovered through that and being like, oh,
Speaker 7: that's cool, Like that's a lot of fun. So I
Speaker 7: love Melvin. And then lastly, I have a paper. I
Speaker 7: finally got my hands on, the Will Sloan Edward book,
Speaker 7: which I'm Edwood made in Hollywood, USA. Will Sloan for
Speaker 7: folks who don't know great cinephile, but has a show
Speaker 7: called Important Cinema Club, which I definitely recommend, and is
Speaker 7: a great writer like If You Fought, like one of
Speaker 7: my favorite follows on letterbox, Like he writes funny reviews,
Speaker 7: he can write insightful reviews. Just a good writer. And
Speaker 7: so I'm very excited to dig into this because I've
Speaker 7: only read that it's just really well written and he's
Speaker 7: just one of these guys who unabashedly loves Edwood, like
Speaker 7: not ironically, like really loves him. And so this has
Speaker 7: been on my want list for a long time and
Speaker 7: I finally got a gift card and I was like,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna get me some ed Wood. So I did.
Speaker 7: That's all I got. Sorry, that was a lot, but.
Speaker 6: That's why we're here. Buddy, he will Sloan and Justin
Speaker 6: just so good together. Anybody that's not just the clue
Speaker 6: you absolutely need to Yeah, definitely, Brian. Inquiring minds want
Speaker 6: to know. Karina in the chat says do you buy
Speaker 6: most of your stuff or do you get a lot
Speaker 6: of it for free because you're famous now.
Speaker 7: It's I want to say, it's probably like sixty forty
Speaker 7: buy to receive something like that. So I do get
Speaker 7: some stuff, but not not all of it. I'm definitely
Speaker 7: still buying quite a bit. I'm actually this is I mean,
Speaker 7: like this is a lot, but this is We're talking
Speaker 7: about like month's worth here, So this isn't like stuff
Speaker 7: I got like last week. I just had stacks of
Speaker 7: stuff that I haven't gotten to yet, so I'm like,
Speaker 7: well just bring these on. But yeah, I do get
Speaker 7: some stuff sent for the channel and stuff like that,
Speaker 7: And that's kind of surprising to me always that people
Speaker 7: keep sending stuff. But it's very sweet of them. So
Speaker 7: I try to do my best. But yeah, so it's
Speaker 7: about sixty forty something like that.
Speaker 6: It's not too bad. I hope one day to get
Speaker 6: about thirty six percent more and then maybe I can
Speaker 6: match yours.
Speaker 7: Believe that's ridiculous to me, dude. That's that's the thing
Speaker 7: that I don't get at all. The work to do
Speaker 7: in the space.
Speaker 6: No big deal. Speaking of buying things to proof that
Speaker 6: I bought this one. Last weekend, I was at with
Speaker 6: a couple of friends that had flown in physical media.
Speaker 6: Friends that I've known literally online for like seven or
Speaker 6: eight years. We met in person for the first time.
Speaker 6: Last weekend. I went and bought dope at a lower
Speaker 6: oh nice store. Dope, for some reason, is out of stock,
Speaker 6: like most of the time online, you can't find it
Speaker 6: a lot of the time, and when you do, it's
Speaker 6: always like seventeen dollars to thirty dollars. I don't know why.
Speaker 6: This movie is great, and I've never got the release,
Speaker 6: so I was glad to be able to get this friendly.
Speaker 7: Ten bucks so very nice.
Speaker 6: Just came out one of my favorites from last year.
Speaker 6: Everybody should see this movie. This is not at all
Speaker 6: what you're expecting going into this Roofman on four K
Speaker 6: with chanting Tata. This movie is genuinely great. Kirsten Dunst
Speaker 6: is incredible in this I loved this movie. I cannot
Speaker 6: wait to watch it again. I think it is genuinely
Speaker 6: like freaking fantastic.
Speaker 7: One of my really good friends I was hanging out
Speaker 7: with the other night told me, he's like, dude, I
Speaker 7: really think you'd like roof Man, and I so I gotta,
Speaker 7: I gotta check it out. I really got to check
Speaker 7: it out.
Speaker 6: It is way better than the trailers made it out
Speaker 6: to be, that's for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, you never can tell
Speaker 7: now from marketing campaign what you're actually in for. And
Speaker 7: if you let that and I'm certainly you know, I've
Speaker 7: certainly done that where I've let a marketing campaign be
Speaker 7: like the thing that I go, h, I don't think
Speaker 7: I'm gonna see that, you know, And that's just you know, dumb.
Speaker 6: What are these people in marketing thinking, Brian, Like, if
Speaker 6: we ever knew.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, I wish it was you know,
Speaker 7: there's there's a it's a complex thing. Let's just put
Speaker 7: it like that. It's a complex thing. But by the way,
Speaker 7: Dope is a really cool movie. Yeah, it's under it's
Speaker 7: slept on. I think it's been slept on since it
Speaker 7: came out.
Speaker 6: It is. Yeah, And honestly, that is a perfect example
Speaker 6: of marketing kind of doing a movie wrong, because the
Speaker 6: trailer for that movie is like, it's a fun teenager
Speaker 6: hangout movie. You watch that movie and it is for
Speaker 6: like six minutes, and then that movie goes batshit in
Speaker 6: a way that you are not ready for. And it
Speaker 6: is great, superbly acted, really great soundtrack, but the story
Speaker 6: is self. Adope is incredible, absolutely, no, really good.
Speaker 7: I'm glad you brought it up. Actually the movie that
Speaker 7: I just haven't thought about in a minute, but I
Speaker 7: really liked.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Uh, three from Lionsgate, one from Amazon because it's
Speaker 6: an Amazon exclusive, and then the other two straight from Lionsgate.
Speaker 6: The brand new fourteen oh eight to four book just
Speaker 6: came out. The I need to see this, this just
Speaker 6: arrived in the last day. Kind of surprised, Uh, debossed
Speaker 6: steel books they actually went into to make it kind
Speaker 6: of nice and wait.
Speaker 7: So that one's the Amazon exclusive, right.
Speaker 6: This is the Amazon exclusive. Yes, I'm ordering. This has
Speaker 6: the director's cut and the theatrical cut on four K
Speaker 6: and I think it was the theatrical cut was not
Speaker 6: even on the Blu ray, so this had both of them.
Speaker 7: Oh nice, And that's the one, by the way. I
Speaker 7: you know, when I got it, I texted Larry Karrazouskia,
Speaker 7: I'm like, director's cut are theatrical and he's like theatrical,
Speaker 7: you know, He's like, don't mess with it. Don't mess
Speaker 7: with that director's cut. The ending is different, and there
Speaker 7: are some there's a big difference in the ending if
Speaker 7: you haven't seen it. And this is one that I
Speaker 7: actually brought up on when we had to had to
Speaker 7: go right on the show. If you want to check
Speaker 7: it out. We it was when Running Man came out,
Speaker 7: and so we did Stephen King and fourteen o eight
Speaker 7: for me, is is still I think pretty underrated and underseening.
Speaker 7: Especially Wow, forty bucks is this? Forty bucks?
Speaker 6: Is that that is now the going rate for many
Speaker 6: of these steel books And don't forget before Best Buy
Speaker 6: close down Physical Media. Lions Gate steel books for twenty
Speaker 6: two to ninety nine Wow.
Speaker 7: All right, well, I gotta get it anyway, damn it
Speaker 7: because I really love this movie, all right. Good to know.
Speaker 6: Well, speaking of incredible cinema, they also just put out
Speaker 6: the four K of Cabin Fever in a steel book.
Speaker 6: And this is the Lenti art on the front of
Speaker 6: this I when you take the slipcover off, it is
Speaker 6: just the gore print on the front. I gotta say,
Speaker 6: I love this movie genuinely. I know if Eric is watching,
Speaker 6: she's gonna be cursing me, but I'd like Eli Roth
Speaker 6: directing this one. I gotta say, though, this whole Lenticular thing,
Speaker 6: it's the Lenticular itself isn't bad, but we are gluing
Speaker 6: this onto like barely better quality than a shout factory slipcover.
Speaker 6: We can be doing better than that. There's way better ways,
Speaker 6: way better ways to take care of this. No, I
Speaker 6: have never hated Kevin Feversid. I love that movie all right.
Speaker 6: Next from lions Gate, this is my last physical media
Speaker 6: pickup that's not book or paper related. Another one that
Speaker 6: this is what made me pull the trigger on a
Speaker 6: lions Gate order. They put out Mystery Team on Blu
Speaker 6: Ray and this movie is so damn incredible. Derek Comedy
Speaker 6: was a huge, huge influence on my early comedy stuff,
Speaker 6: and I do still think it's incredibly weird that we
Speaker 6: have a vestdra on video release of Mystery Team. But
Speaker 6: childish gambino Donald Glover, whatever you want to call him,
Speaker 6: has risen to stardom in a way that if you
Speaker 6: told him on the Mystery Team days that that was
Speaker 6: going to be happening, he'd probably believe you, because he's
Speaker 6: always been that confident, but he'd be stoked. Genuinely incredible movie,
Speaker 6: very very funny, I think too style comedy, but like
Speaker 6: maybe one of the best of the best.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I gotta say that one I've been chilling for
Speaker 7: since it came out, pretty much like I was able.
Speaker 7: I can't remember how I got to see an early
Speaker 7: I had a friend who's a screenwriter who for a
Speaker 7: brief period was like, we should do these little screenings
Speaker 7: at bars, and he got he got an early copy
Speaker 7: of it, and we watched it as a screening and
Speaker 7: I was like, this movie rule so hard, is so
Speaker 7: funny and so ridiculous, and I just have been such
Speaker 7: a fan. I've been waiting for that Blu Ray. Actually,
Speaker 7: I think I have one coming. I think I have
Speaker 7: my copy coming. But yeah, just everything Donald Glover. They're
Speaker 7: all funny, but everything Donald Glover's doing, especially in the
Speaker 7: beginning when when he goes to the neighbor's house and
Speaker 7: is just trying to be like a normal neighbor guy.
Speaker 7: He's like, aha, we're laughing, just like everything he's doing
Speaker 7: is hilarious. Yeah, forty one, Ay, just talking about the
Speaker 7: light bulbs. This ridiculous, stupid, I can't and hated you.
Speaker 7: Fuck the spread. It's still one of my favorite jokes
Speaker 7: in a movie like ever.
Speaker 6: Beyond that, if you are are into Misery Team, maybe
Speaker 6: you've never seen it before and you watch it for
Speaker 6: the first time, please go on YouTube and look up
Speaker 6: Derek Comedy and watch some of the stuff they still
Speaker 6: have out there. It's ridiculous. Some of the stuff that
Speaker 6: they have out there for free that you can see
Speaker 6: on YouTube from Derek Comedy is better than like what
Speaker 6: most comedians dream of doing. I love their stuff, all right.
Speaker 6: So A twenty four sent out their newest zine this
Speaker 6: is that copy here. They got a Marty Supreme little
Speaker 6: fold out poster in the middle of that one this month,
Speaker 6: and then of course right about the same time we
Speaker 6: got in the brand new Fangoria with Sam reim sin
Speaker 6: Hill on the cover of this one. But one thing
Speaker 6: I really wanted to call out tonight and I've got
Speaker 6: years ago on the channel, I did a video about
Speaker 6: these guys, Layered Butter. Yes, that is a real term.
Speaker 6: That is a weird name for a company. However, Layered
Speaker 6: Butter is an essentially an art focused popcor culture company.
Speaker 6: They have made their name by putting out I don't
Speaker 6: even know what you call them. They're not magazines. They're
Speaker 6: kind of art books, but there's also like articles dispersed
Speaker 6: in between. They're more like coffee table books. But they're
Speaker 6: not hardcover or anything like that. They are gorgeous, though,
Speaker 6: we're talking like full art spread from like big name
Speaker 6: artists that you can buy this a whole. It's basically
Speaker 6: like a high quality magazine, I'm gonna say. And they're
Speaker 6: not bad. They're like forty bucks and they only do
Speaker 6: two or three a year. Maybe they've kind of slowed
Speaker 6: down because of the pandemic. But before that they've done
Speaker 6: like seven I think they've done a Quentin Tarantino one,
Speaker 6: they've done a Wes Anderson one, They've done a few
Speaker 6: others that are like really stylistic individuals to inspire these
Speaker 6: and they over on their Patreon have started something called
Speaker 6: the Tiny Poster Club. You can sign up. I think
Speaker 6: the cheapest one is only five bucks. They might have
Speaker 6: a level that's at ten, and then they have their
Speaker 6: VIP which is fifteen and you can sign up and
Speaker 6: you get tiny posters sent to you every single month.
Speaker 6: This is commissioned artwork for Jurassic Park. And then here
Speaker 6: is one for sinners. And because of when I signed up,
Speaker 6: I was like a weird in between two months, so
Speaker 6: I got two within one week, so they just happened
Speaker 6: to show up at the same time. I love their
Speaker 6: artwork and I will genuinely use them. And also they
Speaker 6: are shaped to be postcards, so if you want to
Speaker 6: use them for something else, you got them in here,
Speaker 6: you can put them in a portfolio. I love the
Speaker 6: art that they choose, so I wanted to highlight it
Speaker 6: and layered butter.
Speaker 7: Check them out Layered butter popcorn.
Speaker 6: That was good. You watch a lot of stuff. What
Speaker 6: have you been watching?
Speaker 7: Okay, so this is sort of a curated list, but okay,
Speaker 7: so my girlfriend, she's in Portugal right now. She gets
Speaker 7: back Saturday, but her mom came to town. Her mom's
Speaker 7: like eighty four, the sweetest woman ever, and she was
Speaker 7: hanging out with us. So we were kind of just
Speaker 7: watching movies with her mom, and one night, her mom
Speaker 7: was totally down to watch Night Shift, so we rewatched
Speaker 7: Night Shift, which is one of my favorite eighties comedies
Speaker 7: of all time, still one of my favorite Ron Howard movies,
Speaker 7: and I just think one of the best Michael Keaton
Speaker 7: breakout kind of things. My girlfriend and I quote this
Speaker 7: movie all the time, so it's a classic. This this
Speaker 7: seemed like a timely watch rewatching The Insider, which is
Speaker 7: maybe my favorite Michaelman. Yeah, I think so. I think
Speaker 7: it's tough, but I just love this movie so much.
Speaker 7: And obviously with the stuff with I think it was
Speaker 7: CBS again happening, it was really seemed like, oh, let's
Speaker 7: watch The Insider again, and I still think it's amazing
Speaker 7: and please four K this motherfucker now, God damn it.
Speaker 7: And then so one of the things that my girlfriend
Speaker 7: and I are big mutual fans of is documentary. She's
Speaker 7: a big documentary person, so it's been really exciting to
Speaker 7: me to share some of my favorite docs with her.
Speaker 7: One of them is actually in my stacks over here
Speaker 7: that I'll talk about later because it's a great well,
Speaker 7: it's an exciting release for me from twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7: But the stuff that well, actually one of these actually
Speaker 7: has come out recently. But so I was showing her
Speaker 7: a bunch of docks that I love and one of
Speaker 7: my all time's favorites, his Hands on a Hard Body,
Speaker 7: which is only on DVD. But my god, this movie
Speaker 7: is just I mean, this is like American movie level good,
Speaker 7: you know, in terms of the characters that you meet,
Speaker 7: American movie level Vernon Florida level. I gotta show a
Speaker 7: vern in Florida by the way too, But yeah, this one.
Speaker 7: It's just about a contest in a truck dealership in
Speaker 7: Texas where a bunch of people put their hands on
Speaker 7: a truck and the last person to take their hands
Speaker 7: off wins the truck. And the people that are involved
Speaker 7: in this contest are all characters and all entertaining. And
Speaker 7: this movie is just I absolutely love it. I was saying,
Speaker 7: I was thinking, like it'd be great to get a
Speaker 7: Blu ray of it. Although it's shot I think on
Speaker 7: like mini DV maybe yeah, but I know this is
Speaker 7: a big Quentin Tarantino favorite, like it's maybe one of
Speaker 7: his favorite docs. I've heard, and they played a thirty
Speaker 7: five print of it at the NUBEV and part of
Speaker 7: me who is like, maybe that's not your source, but
Speaker 7: it'd be great, like like they did with the you know,
Speaker 7: the Sean Baker, you know, like Takeout and Prince of
Speaker 7: Broadway where they bring him to film and scan him
Speaker 7: back or however they did it.
Speaker 6: I forget it.
Speaker 7: But I only saw a Takeout for the first time
Speaker 7: through the Criterion transfer, and when it looks filmmic, it's
Speaker 7: it's a totally different thing. And so this would be
Speaker 7: really interesting in that way. I don't think it needs it,
Speaker 7: but you know, if we're gonna get a blue ray,
Speaker 7: maybe that is something like that happened. I don't know.
Speaker 7: It's so good. This actually did just come out and
Speaker 7: it's really great. And this is the Hearts of Darkness,
Speaker 7: the four K from uh Lionsgate. Now I've I've read
Speaker 7: online that it's missing some Eleanor Coppola documentary shorts that
Speaker 7: I think are on some kind of British release. I
Speaker 7: don't know if it's a four K or just a
Speaker 7: blu ray of Hearts of Darkness. But I'm like, now
Speaker 7: I gotta get that too. But my girlfriend hadn't seen
Speaker 7: this one, and I realized this is like maybe one
Speaker 7: of the first documentaries that made me understand how great
Speaker 7: documentary can be. Yeah, and just to see, especially with Copla.
Speaker 7: Now you have mega doc and so you could go
Speaker 7: and watch Copla dealing with apocalypse now, and then you
Speaker 7: can go watch a mega doc on Criterion channel and
Speaker 7: see him dealing with you know, exactly right, and he
Speaker 7: is and he is dramatic right out of the gate
Speaker 7: man only smokes. But yeah, this this documentary is truly spectacular,
Speaker 7: just in terms of they have archival footage obviously of
Speaker 7: the actors, including like a fourteen year old Laurence Fishburne,
Speaker 7: and then they have you know, like them reflecting on
Speaker 7: the movie in the like early nineties. But then they
Speaker 7: do this great thing where they use orson Wells as
Speaker 7: I think it was a radio broadcast of him reading
Speaker 7: Hearts of Darkness, the Conrad book, and so they'll take
Speaker 7: little clips of that and they'll play it over footage
Speaker 7: of the Just it's really well put together, I know,
Speaker 7: it's not just eleanor Coppola, it's George Chicken Looper as well.
Speaker 7: But it's really such a great put together documentary. And
Speaker 7: you watch it and you see Copola in the movie
Speaker 7: just being like, this movie sucks, this is never gonna
Speaker 7: be He's so it's inspirational in that way that you're like, wow,
Speaker 7: he was so not thinking this was gonna be any
Speaker 7: good and he was wrong. So great release. And then
Speaker 7: the last one is a DVD only release from Shout
Speaker 7: called Off the Charts. This is a recommendation from my
Speaker 7: friend Brendan Small. Uh he I'm sorry. I just have
Speaker 7: to be honest. He's the one who I wouldn't know.
Speaker 6: About Thishole, which, by the way, if somebody out there
Speaker 6: has never listened to them, go listen to all of
Speaker 6: the episodes of Just the This with Brendan on them.
Speaker 6: They're they're some of the best.
Speaker 7: You know. What's funny is that I gotta, I gotta,
Speaker 7: I gotta say. One of my favorite things that's come
Speaker 7: about because of the podcast, I think pure cinema first
Speaker 7: and then just this is that I've become really good
Speaker 7: friends with Brendan and he's like a really good friend
Speaker 7: and and that's not a thing, but just a thing
Speaker 7: where I was like, no way could the guy who
Speaker 7: made home Movies, which I love and Meta Acalypse be
Speaker 7: a really good friend of mine. But like he's really
Speaker 7: a close friend of mine. And this documentary is fantastic.
Speaker 7: It's short, it's like an hour long, and it's all
Speaker 7: about song poems, basically the services that you would see
Speaker 7: in magazines where they're like, send us your lyrics and
Speaker 7: we'll make a song for you, and so you get
Speaker 7: it again. This is like American movie type, you know,
Speaker 7: characters American movie, fast, cheap and out of control, just
Speaker 7: people that are real characters. The people that wrote the
Speaker 7: songs are just completely bonkers, and the songs that they
Speaker 7: make are bonkers. And the people that make the songs,
Speaker 7: like the guys that actually record them and make them.
Speaker 7: They deal with a couple of those different companies, and
Speaker 7: it's just one of those things where you just are
Speaker 7: kind of like mouth agape, like wow. It's one of
Speaker 7: those reason where you kind of feel bad while you're
Speaker 7: watching it because you feel bad, a little embarrassed for
Speaker 7: the people in there. But they're excited about it. They're
Speaker 7: excited that their songs are real, and you know, like
Speaker 7: so we already have like some inside jokes off this movie.
Speaker 7: My girlfriend and I. It's it's a really good like
Speaker 7: you can get it on Vimeo too, I think, but
Speaker 7: it's really recommended. I watched The Zombies stock from Utopia
Speaker 7: hung Up on a Dream. I'm a big fan of
Speaker 7: the Zombe. He's one of my favorite bands of all time,
Speaker 7: the sixties band, And this is Robert Schwartzman's documentary, and
Speaker 7: it's fascinating because I guess there's some things I knew
Speaker 7: and some I didn't. But a lot of it has
Speaker 7: to do with the fact that the Zombies were a
Speaker 7: band that never really got a proper shake, you know,
Speaker 7: like they they just like all their stuff gained popularity
Speaker 7: after the fact, and they just didn't get to celebrate
Speaker 7: their own legacy in its time. You know. It's so
Speaker 7: it's neat to see them all interviewed and tell the
Speaker 7: stories of how the band came to be, But it's
Speaker 7: kind of sad to see just like, oh wow, they
Speaker 7: were not like the Beatles, like that people didn't know
Speaker 7: about them and they actually had to go off and
Speaker 7: get real jobs after they made like Odyssey an Oracle,
Speaker 7: which to me is like one of the great albums
Speaker 7: of all time, and it just wasn't a thing like
Speaker 7: you know, you find out that some of their biggest
Speaker 7: hits were picked up like much later, and you know,
Speaker 7: they never really got to tour with them until much later,
Speaker 7: much much later, like you know, within the last ten
Speaker 7: to fifteen years. But it's a pretty good doc. I
Speaker 7: got to say, I enjoyed it, and I just love
Speaker 7: their music. It's very sweet. Let's see here in terms
Speaker 7: of reach. Okay, so this is coming back to the
Speaker 7: Korean barbecue where I met our mutual friend Alex for
Speaker 7: the first time, and that was great because Alex has
Speaker 7: become like a really good friend of mine and he's
Speaker 7: a sweetheart, and we go to movies all the time.
Speaker 7: I went to see House with Laughing Windows at Cinematic Void,
Speaker 7: which is one of our local screening things they do
Speaker 7: at Las Phelis three, which is close on Monday night,
Speaker 7: and we had a really great day about a week
Speaker 7: or so ago where we watched four movies. I can
Speaker 7: only talk about three of them because one of them
Speaker 7: sort of pertains to an episode that I can can't
Speaker 7: talk about, but I'll show the movies that we did
Speaker 7: watch at his place, and it was fun because Alex
Speaker 7: is the kind of guy who's down for you know,
Speaker 7: four movies in a row, and it was He's He's
Speaker 7: the great. I love Alex. Okay, so we watched Hitchhike
Speaker 7: the four K, which Alex hadn't seen, in which I
Speaker 7: was like, dude, this is so up your alley, and
Speaker 7: it totally was up his alley. It probably I would,
Speaker 7: I would half. I had to guess. It might have
Speaker 7: been the winner of the four that we watched. And
Speaker 7: this is a really great disc. I'man not surprisingly it's
Speaker 7: indicator they always do great work. Looks great. This movie
Speaker 7: was darker but also funnier than I remembered, which is
Speaker 7: kind of messed up. There's definitely some stuff in it
Speaker 7: you feel bad laughing at, but it's I don't know,
Speaker 7: if you don't If so, if you don't know, it's
Speaker 7: like Franco Niro and who plays his wife in this,
Speaker 7: I forget Kareem Clary, Kareeen Clary, I think, yeah. So
Speaker 7: they're on a road trip in what is clearly Italy,
Speaker 7: but it was supposed to be playing for the United States,
Speaker 7: and their marriage is not in great shape. He's a
Speaker 7: magazine writer, he's a drunk, he's embarrassing, and he's chauvinistic
Speaker 7: and he is an asshole. So they're already bad, right,
Speaker 7: and then they pick up David Hess along the side
Speaker 7: of the road and David hasse in your car as
Speaker 7: a hitchhiker is a terrible idea in any movie, but
Speaker 7: it's actually one of my favorite David Hass performances too.
Speaker 7: I think he's really good. And then when David Hess
Speaker 7: and Franco Nero start to get into it, the movie
Speaker 7: becomes really entertaining and fun, and so that was great.
Speaker 7: So that was what we opened with, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 7: we followed it with Bushwhacked with Daniel Stern, which I've
Speaker 7: gotten a lot of jokes since I posted this, because unfortunately,
Speaker 7: he had a little incident with a prostitute. Yeah he
Speaker 7: got bushwhacked. Everybody's like, he got bushwhacked. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 7: I set that up. I feel bad for the guy,
Speaker 7: But I had never seen Bushwhacked, which is like, you know,
Speaker 7: him feeding off his wet bandits character basically and having
Speaker 7: to babysit a bunch of kids in the woods, and
Speaker 7: it was super funny because I actually follow Max Goldblatt
Speaker 7: and I've met him a few times, son of Mark Goldblatt,
Speaker 7: the editor. Max is an editor in his own right,
Speaker 7: had done some prominent projects last year or so, and
Speaker 7: I noticed that Max had, literally as we were watching this,
Speaker 7: had posted a story that was him on some podcasts
Speaker 7: talking because he's in Bushwhacked and he's in Heavyweights, and
Speaker 7: he was on some podcast talking about Bushwhacked, and I
Speaker 7: hadn't even seen it. It was some weird confluence of like,
Speaker 7: now he's the sticky fan, and it was just such
Speaker 7: a weird confluence of like because he was like, I
Speaker 7: was like, dude, I did not see that at all.
Speaker 7: I had no idea. And then he told me. Even
Speaker 7: funnier than that was that he had recorded that podcast
Speaker 7: literally like a year prior, and they had just put
Speaker 7: it out out on that day. So there was some
Speaker 7: kind of Bushwhacked universal confluence that happened on that susher.
Speaker 7: I don't know what happened, but it was super funny. Anyway,
Speaker 7: It's fun This is a Adam Risky who's part of
Speaker 7: the f This Movie Podcast. Some of my favorite episodes
Speaker 7: of the f This Movie Pod shout out to my
Speaker 7: friend Patrick Bromley, who's been on the show a bunch,
Speaker 7: but when he and Adam get together and talk about
Speaker 7: movies they watch, it's one of my favorite things to
Speaker 7: hear on the podcast. Adam's a big Bushwhacked fan, and
Speaker 7: so when I saw it, I was just I had
Speaker 7: to let him know. And last one I'll talk about
Speaker 7: that we watched together Alex and I was Spartan. The
Speaker 7: David Mammott movie, which needs a blue ray does not
Speaker 7: have a blue ray that I know of. Do you
Speaker 7: know of a blue ray outside the US?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I don't think so either. But a really the Val
Speaker 7: Kilber performance that led me to want to catch up
Speaker 7: with Thunderheart ultimately, which is before this. This is actually
Speaker 7: one of the lat one of the latter almost latest
Speaker 7: Vowel performances where he's really good and this is like
Speaker 7: sort of a secret service conspiracy movie, but like really
Speaker 7: well done. Like I think a little slept on in
Speaker 7: David Mammott's filmography. Yeah, for sure, you know, I know,
Speaker 7: h Ben David Grabinski is a big fan of this one,
Speaker 7: and he I think he did a screening in New
Speaker 7: York where he hosted it, Like it's that good for him,
Speaker 7: that kind of movie vert interest. Okay, I have to
Speaker 7: share this. I was cleaning my apartment the other day
Speaker 7: and I was in my closet and I was moving
Speaker 7: some clothes and I had an iron that was on
Speaker 7: a shelf literally and it fucking hit me on the head,
Speaker 7: like like I was fucking Daniel Stearn and home alone.
Speaker 7: I got smacked on the head with an iron, and
Speaker 7: I was just like, DW this is not fun in
Speaker 7: real life. This is not something I'm happy about. So anyway,
Speaker 7: poor guy. Okay, two more really quick. Uh. I finally
Speaker 7: caught up with this scissors Oh nice? Yeah, this is
Speaker 7: uh Frank Defiletta. Phil blanket Ship, my friend who programs
Speaker 7: the New at the New Beverly who's on our I
Speaker 7: don't myself, Yes, I totally did. Uh he. Phil blank
Speaker 7: Ship's a big fan of this one, and he brought
Speaker 7: it up on like a bonkers episode that we did,
Speaker 7: and it is Oh, Spartan has a Spanish blue where
Speaker 7: I didn't know.
Speaker 6: That Spanish sometimes means not exactly legal, but uh yeah, also.
Speaker 7: Like sometimes like a ten ady I versus.
Speaker 6: You know, and act. There is a German four K
Speaker 6: Spartan from Studio Canal supposedly holy shit.
Speaker 7: Okay, well that's the big news.
Speaker 6: Brian is buying that before the show's over.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna get that. This is why I come
Speaker 7: on here. This is the you folks got me here.
Speaker 7: This is great. I gotta get me some Spartan four
Speaker 7: K holy shit. But anyway, this movie is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 7: Sharon Stone and uh Steve Railsback playing twins and I
Speaker 7: can't even begin to describe what this movie's about. There's
Speaker 7: unfortunate sexual assault and then just one creepy twin played
Speaker 7: by Steve Railsback and one nicer twin and it's you
Speaker 7: just it's the kind of movie this is made ninety six, So,
Speaker 7: I mean, Sharon Stone's pretty well established at this point.
Speaker 7: You almost go like, what made her want to do
Speaker 7: this movie? I don't even know, but it's truly fascinating.
Speaker 7: It off the wall. It's a Phil special. It's one
Speaker 7: of those movies where you watch it and it's it's
Speaker 7: just like not like any other movie you've seen. And
Speaker 7: Phil has a knack for finding those movies. And so
Speaker 7: I finally saw that, and lastly I saw this is
Speaker 7: a Warner Archive DV. Love is a racket. This is
Speaker 7: directed by William Wellman, and it's kind of a fun
Speaker 7: pre code. I want to say it's a pre code.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure it is, with and Devorak and Lee
Speaker 7: Tracy and yeah, it's I don't want to spoil it,
Speaker 7: but it's just sort of like newsmen. They a lot
Speaker 7: of pre codes with news guys, and and Lee Tracy
Speaker 7: was really good as a fast talking newsman. In this case,
Speaker 7: he's like second fiddle to another guy. And I don't know,
Speaker 7: it's it was enjoyable. It deals with him having to
Speaker 7: his buddy who works with the who's the I forget
Speaker 7: the guy that plays this Lyle Talbot, No, I don't
Speaker 7: even know.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: Anyway, I was looking at some William Wellman movies and
Speaker 7: this was one I hadn't seen and it was not bad.
Speaker 7: Love's Racket anyway, that's a lot of me talking.
Speaker 6: Sorry, it's totally fine. Uh, We're gonna have somebody else
Speaker 6: talk for just a minute. Actually, either of the two
Speaker 6: of us nice. It is great is that we've had
Speaker 6: a hell of a week around here. We had a
Speaker 6: fairly large announcement at the beginning of this week where
Speaker 6: I announced Antenna releasing here is the website and to
Speaker 6: celebrate and discuss, here's one mister Billy Ray Bruton the
Speaker 6: partner and Antenna.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, guys, you caught me off You caught me
Speaker 4: off guard. I was just doing my nightly cocaine bath.
Speaker 6: That's how you get it all done. Amazing.
Speaker 4: Hi Billy Ray, Hi Ryan, Hi Brian.
Speaker 7: This is a lot of Billy Ray. I've seen him
Speaker 7: twice this week in person online.
Speaker 6: This is great.
Speaker 4: You know, I find that most people thrive when they
Speaker 4: get a lot of Billy Ray.
Speaker 6: I have found the same for me.
Speaker 4: The only people who don't enjoy it is the CDC.
Speaker 6: Well, Billy Ray. Uh, why don't you give your pitch
Speaker 6: on what Intenor Releasing is for anybody that wasn't here
Speaker 6: earlier this week? Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So my first title is A Midnight Clear. It
Speaker 4: is a It is a lovely Keith Gordon directed Christmas
Speaker 4: war film. So we're not doing that, even though I
Speaker 4: am surrounded by right now myself. Yeah, and Tenor Releasing,
Speaker 4: which is really exciting, which is something that Ryan and
Speaker 4: Fran and I have concocted and yeah, it's it's really exciting.
Speaker 4: So essentially, we think distributors are awful. Not all distributors
Speaker 4: there are. Yeah, I just want to be clear because
Speaker 4: I think people have this idea that I just hate
Speaker 4: all distributors. There are some distributors that are crushing it
Speaker 4: Liketered Innocence and Yellow Veil, and like Grasshopper, there are
Speaker 4: some bigger ones that are doing really cool stuff too,
Speaker 4: like I think Magnolia Pictures does some really cool stuff.
Speaker 4: Like there are good distributors out there, but unfortunately, over
Speaker 4: the last decade we have seen the rise of predatory distributors,
Speaker 4: which are distributors that I define as distributors who are
Speaker 4: quite literally in the bulk business and only I only
Speaker 4: want to build filmmakers essentially out of every dime they have.
Speaker 4: And as we know, most filmmakers when they finish a
Speaker 4: film probably don't have half a dime, let alone a
Speaker 4: whole dime. And so we thought, well, let's try something
Speaker 4: that maybe is different and benefits the filmmaker in a
Speaker 4: more sort of partnership forward way, instead of bringing a
Speaker 4: film and the filmmaker on and then immediately turning antagonistic.
Speaker 4: Because we're the distributor, we know better, we have all
Speaker 4: the answers, we don't need to work with you. That's
Speaker 4: just nonsensical to me. Why would you not want to
Speaker 4: work with the people who know the film better than
Speaker 4: anybody else. So Hits and Tannor Releasing was born and
Speaker 4: we have our first title, Stolen Kingdom, which is incredible.
Speaker 4: It's one of the most fun documentaries you will see
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty six, I guarantee you. And if you're
Speaker 4: a Disney fan, you are just going You're probably gonna
Speaker 4: just probably die in the theater. You might just pass away.
Speaker 6: It is truly the greatest combination of Disney fandom's urban
Speaker 6: exploring and true crime in all of the best ways.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really, really is. It's such a crowd pleaser. I saw,
Speaker 4: you know, our film Corner to the Stars World premier
Speaker 4: at slam Dance twenty twenty five. Stolen Kingdom was there
Speaker 4: as well, so I got to see it in a
Speaker 4: packed crowd of like four hundred people. And it's a
Speaker 4: movie you want to see in a theater with an audience,
Speaker 4: like you really get that sort of commun communal theatrical
Speaker 4: experience which you don't get from documentaries a lot of
Speaker 4: the time. Like you're not going generally, I mean, no,
Speaker 4: no one's going to, you know, the Angelica Film Center
Speaker 4: to see Shoa on a Sunday, expecting it to be
Speaker 4: like a big crowd movie. Stolen Kingdom, you can get that.
Speaker 6: So the big thing here is we are a film
Speaker 6: distribution company that we are going to be doing theatrical releasing.
Speaker 6: We're gonna be doing streaming VOD and then later this
Speaker 6: year starting with our very first physical media release. We
Speaker 6: are not announcing that specific title yet, but you can
Speaker 6: count on that coming soon. We will talk about that
Speaker 6: in the amount of time that it will take to
Speaker 6: get that ready and out into your hands in the
Speaker 6: best way possible. Billy Ray, your history? How are you
Speaker 6: one of the best people to be able to work
Speaker 6: for a distribution company?
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, well that's I don't know that. I don't
Speaker 4: know that I am one of the best.
Speaker 6: With your experience, I'm just the.
Speaker 4: One you've got. But why, I'll say, why am I
Speaker 4: a good fit for distribution compy? I think because I
Speaker 4: have I have seen the business from pretty much every angle.
Speaker 4: I've worked in film festivals for over twenty years. I've
Speaker 4: done quite literally everything you can potentially do at a
Speaker 4: film festival. I have founded film festivals, I've been a
Speaker 4: film a festival director, development programmer, film traffic like you
Speaker 4: net created DC like if there's nothing for a film
Speaker 4: festival that I have not done. But I've also worked
Speaker 4: in the distribution and exhibition space for years. I've program
Speaker 4: for some large theaters like Rooftop Cinema Club where I
Speaker 4: was programming for the US and UK like literally a
Speaker 4: thousand titles a month. And yeah, and I'm a filmmaker,
Speaker 4: which I think makes is probably the biggest feather in
Speaker 4: that cap, which is I am a filmmaker. I've written
Speaker 4: and directed a feature, I've produced features. I have worked
Speaker 4: with distributors in that capacity, and I know how difficult
Speaker 4: and uncertain it can be, especially for young first time filmmakers,
Speaker 4: and so I kind of bring all that to the table,
Speaker 4: which I hope, I hope gives me a slightly different
Speaker 4: perspective than a lot of other folks out there. We'll see.
Speaker 4: I am, you know, I personally think that I have
Speaker 4: good tastes in curating films. I think if you're a
Speaker 4: screen draft listener, you probably fifty percent of you probably agree,
Speaker 4: and fifty percent of you think that I was sprung
Speaker 4: forth from hell to ruin cinema for all eternative. But
Speaker 4: I like to think that I have pretty good taste.
Speaker 4: I guess time will tell.
Speaker 6: Beyond that. Two things that I wanted to make sure
Speaker 6: that we covered tonight. One, I've gotten a lot of
Speaker 6: questions of if is this just new films and we
Speaker 6: are working a lot in contemporary cinema, but no, we
Speaker 6: are definitely working with a lot of REP cinema and
Speaker 6: catalog titles as well. There's gonna be some stuff that
Speaker 6: will absolutely surprise you that we're able to get our
Speaker 6: hands on. And then the other big thing. You'll notice
Speaker 6: there are three partners listed on the website. We wanted
Speaker 6: to make sure that we give a shout out to
Speaker 6: mister Francis Galoopi, the third partner in this. He is
Speaker 6: the director of the twenty twenty seven Evil Dead film
Speaker 6: coming out. He's the director of Last Top and You mccounty,
Speaker 6: a film that we both loved, and he is somebody
Speaker 6: that's got a huge eye for art. He loves focusing
Speaker 6: on that side. So he is our creative director. And yeah,
Speaker 6: we got lots of fun stuff going on and cannot
Speaker 6: wait to share more with these.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I mean, I kind of just want to
Speaker 4: announce everything right now, but we can't. But it's like
Speaker 4: it's burning a hole in my brain not being able
Speaker 4: to talk about some of this stuff. Yeah, it's a well,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm glad you had dinner with a relative.
Speaker 4: I hope it was. I hope it was a relative
Speaker 4: that you have not seen in many years and you
Speaker 4: decided to reconnect and it went better than you.
Speaker 6: Expected reconnect, that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love that, love that.
Speaker 6: Uh what was I about to say? Oh, I guess
Speaker 6: we could say we just found out one of our
Speaker 6: films got a festival premiere that we will announce eventually.
Speaker 6: But that was really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we we won't announce the title quite yet,
Speaker 4: but it's a really cool film. They actually signed with
Speaker 4: us before they had even had their world premiere, So
Speaker 4: and they're gonna be world premiering at a very large,
Speaker 4: very prestigious genre festival that we're very excited about.
Speaker 6: So more to come on that note. Anything else you
Speaker 6: want to shut up before you called a night Billy Ray.
Speaker 4: So Midnight Clear is this directed by Keith Norden, and
Speaker 4: it is one of the most underrated you know, even
Speaker 4: better than that, Let me go through all of these
Speaker 4: this collection of twenty nine.
Speaker 6: Can somebody cut the mike?
Speaker 4: Cut the mic is really fantastic. Let's go through.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we love you, have a good night, see buddy.
Speaker 6: We'll talk to you know.
Speaker 4: I never get asked on here to talk about physical media,
Speaker 4: so it's like I gotta throw it in when I can.
Speaker 6: We talked to each other enough, have a good night. Oh,
Speaker 6: Billy Ray, he's such a character. Goodness, all right, some
Speaker 6: things that I've watched real quick, and then we can
Speaker 6: jump in the announcements now that we're over an hour
Speaker 6: deep into the show. No, that was We'll blame it
Speaker 6: on Billy Ray. The big thing is this last weekend
Speaker 6: got back to the theater for the first time in
Speaker 6: a couple weekends. Saw Marty Supreme for the second time.
Speaker 6: The first time I watched it was at home, and
Speaker 6: nothing compared to the theater. The sound in that film.
Speaker 6: You have to watch that film in the theater.
Speaker 7: It is I did the same as you. I need
Speaker 7: to see in the theater, I think because I was
Speaker 7: a little you know. The other thing is that the
Speaker 7: hype is so high, Yeah, so high, like just out
Speaker 7: of the stratosphere high. And that's really hard for a
Speaker 7: movie to look up to. And yeah, so by the
Speaker 7: time I got to it was it was already just
Speaker 7: overhyped to the point that I don't think there's any
Speaker 7: way the movie could have lived up except if it
Speaker 7: had been slightly different. I mean, okay, it is. But
Speaker 7: my only argument I'll make, and I don't want to
Speaker 7: take a dump on anybody's like of this movie, is
Speaker 7: I do feel like the Safties keep making the same
Speaker 7: movie again and again and again.
Speaker 6: Oh this is absolutely uncut gens but like plus one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's fine because it's a sports movie on
Speaker 7: top of it, so I'm into that. But I was
Speaker 7: kind of like, oh, they're doing their thing again. Okay,
Speaker 7: that's cool. But the score one of my favorite scores
Speaker 7: for sure all year. The soundtrack, although I gotta say
Speaker 7: they He closes with the song that is the closing
Speaker 7: song from another movie, and it's one of my favorite movies,
Speaker 7: so it's kind of and it's one of my girlfriend's
Speaker 7: favorite movies. So I was just kind of like, I
Speaker 7: don't know, I don't know if you can do that
Speaker 7: for your closing song. It's almost like saying you don't
Speaker 7: know that movie exists. Right, so I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 7: I'm like, that's just mean to me. But anyway, it
Speaker 7: is a great performance. He definitely is an asshole. It's tough.
Speaker 6: It's true, it's true.
Speaker 7: But but I do need to point being I do
Speaker 7: need to see in a theater. I haven't seen a
Speaker 7: theater yet, so I got to do that.
Speaker 6: It was very, very good in the theater. I will
Speaker 6: say I loved it at home, but man, it was
Speaker 6: incredible in the theater, that's for sure. The other one
Speaker 6: wentz a primate this last weekend, one that I had
Speaker 6: been eager to see, and I was pleasantly surprised. I
Speaker 6: expected this to be just like every uh, we'll say,
Speaker 6: every January horror released from the last seven or eight years,
Speaker 6: which is usual the dumping ground of some rough ones.
Speaker 6: I will say, though, this is to me like Underwater,
Speaker 6: which came out in January and twenty twenty, which was
Speaker 6: pleasantly surprised. So this one came and performed fairly well
Speaker 6: for the sized film that it was. But the big
Speaker 6: thing for me is it wasn't ironic. It wasn't tongue
Speaker 6: in cheek, it wasn't played for laughs. It was a
Speaker 6: fairly straightforward horror movie that's just an animal attacks film.
Speaker 6: It is formulaic and the way that it's supposed to be.
Speaker 6: I thought that it was pretty damn great. The score
Speaker 6: on this is incredible. The acting is very good and
Speaker 6: very heavy on practical effects. All of that to me
Speaker 6: sounds like a win. It's not a perfect movie. There
Speaker 6: are a couple sort of nonsensical things that you just
Speaker 6: got to be okay with. It's a frickin' champanzee going
Speaker 6: on a rampage. That being said, if you just go
Speaker 6: expecting a chimpanzee going on a rampage, you will be
Speaker 6: surprised to how much that you like it. I think
Speaker 6: the gore in this is very good. The acting is
Speaker 6: surprisingly good, the character tropes work very well with it.
Speaker 6: It's a great movie.
Speaker 7: I gotta say. You know, maybe he hasn't spoken about
Speaker 7: a public yet, but Aluric was a big fan of
Speaker 7: it too, And I was texting with him just a
Speaker 7: couple of nights ago and he had just gotten back
Speaker 7: and he was just like blown away, like he ya.
Speaker 7: I think he probably went in low like you. And
Speaker 7: so now we're causing people to have higher expectations, which
Speaker 7: is you know again, whatever it is what it is.
Speaker 7: But now I'm like, i gotta go get a ticket
Speaker 7: for Saturday. I'm gonna go see it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is worth sitting in the theater for sure.
Speaker 6: It is a fun crowd film. There was plenty of
Speaker 6: like gasp moments, genuinely, but beyond that, just like we
Speaker 6: just talked about with Marty Supreme, the score, the score
Speaker 6: for Primates is magnificent. I believe they indicated today that
Speaker 6: Waxwork is putting it out on vinyl. If you are
Speaker 6: a vinyl person, this will be one that you want
Speaker 6: in your house. It is. It is very much like
Speaker 6: a send up of classic Carpenter Cynthia riffs and it
Speaker 6: works so well with this.
Speaker 7: Wow, Okay, now you're selling me a little harder. This
Speaker 7: is good.
Speaker 6: I think you'll like it. It's a good time, very
Speaker 6: pro disability. Like there's certain things in the film. One
Speaker 6: of the main characters is deaf, and there are things
Speaker 6: for the film that work around that and not putting
Speaker 6: anybody down, which is kind of a tough fight in Hollywood.
Speaker 6: I gotta be honest, they don't really handle disability all
Speaker 6: that well.
Speaker 7: Not at all. No, that's impressive.
Speaker 6: That is importing.
Speaker 7: All right, I gotta get on this. I gotta get
Speaker 7: my amc app open and start looking for where I
Speaker 7: can get my ticket.
Speaker 6: That's great, incredible. Well, let's go through some of these
Speaker 6: announcements tonight. We don't have a ton to go through tonight, thankfully,
Speaker 6: but we got some big ones to talk about. These
Speaker 6: first two are January twenty fifth in Blu Ray from
Speaker 6: Club Super eight, the new Ocean partner label. But these
Speaker 6: are not, as far as we can tell, going to
Speaker 6: be part of the oce inside. This is just coming
Speaker 6: in Sweden however, Orbit, Diabolic, Brother Blile, They've all been
Speaker 6: carrying these, so you should be able to get your
Speaker 6: hands on these if you're after them, and I know
Speaker 6: i am, because there are some great people in the
Speaker 6: bonus features on this. So this first one is nineteen
Speaker 6: seventy one's Forest of Beastly Desire. What a what a title.
Speaker 6: This is part of the Swedish Sin uprising from Nikatsu
Speaker 6: at that time. This is going to include a visual
Speaker 6: essay called Blonde Animal Swedish Sin through the lens of
Speaker 6: Nikatu Roman Poruno by Joan Sorry Johan Nordstrom. There's also
Speaker 6: going to be on this and audio commentary by Jasper Sharp,
Speaker 6: Johan and Ricard Gramfers, which is going to be great
Speaker 6: and this looks very good. But to go with it,
Speaker 6: we've also got this title which is Desire first Sex
Speaker 6: Experience from the same year, and this one in the bonus,
Speaker 6: we've got Johan Nordstrom again, and then also a visual
Speaker 6: essay called Queer Nakatsu by Dakota Knut and Christopher of Alasco,
Speaker 6: people who were just recently on the show from the
Speaker 6: two in the Pinko podcast. And then another commentary by
Speaker 6: Jasper and Johan and Ricard. Are you into the the
Speaker 6: Swedish Peruno titles that they're putting out.
Speaker 7: I mean, no shade at all, just not really on
Speaker 7: my radar at the moment, so I don't have a
Speaker 7: lot to say about these. They seem exciting for those
Speaker 7: that are though. They seem pretty great for them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this will hopefully do pretty well for them. So
Speaker 6: these look good. They're coming out as part of like
Speaker 6: a series, so check those out. We already talked about
Speaker 6: Stolen Kingdom and Antenna. I will shout out Antenna Releasing
Speaker 6: dot com. If you want, please go sign up for
Speaker 6: the email newsletter we're gonna be sending out regular newsletters
Speaker 6: and get everybody on board with what we got coming out.
Speaker 6: You'll be for some of the first ones to know
Speaker 6: about it. It's gonna be fun. Nice going to the
Speaker 6: next one that was just a podcast experience. Go check
Speaker 6: out Beyond the Blood. They're great people. March twenty fifth
Speaker 6: on four K Steele book and then a Blu ray
Speaker 6: case coming on the side of this, Imprint is releasing
Speaker 6: a Better Tomorrow trilogy over in Australia. Now what's interesting
Speaker 6: is Shout released these and they are pretty much identical.
Speaker 6: That being said, Imprint should have more improved subtitles, and
Speaker 6: it's got a steel book, so if you're after that,
Speaker 6: you've got a little bit more going on here. But
Speaker 6: also don't forget Arrow is also going to be releasing me,
Speaker 6: so if you want that, it'll likely be cheaper than
Speaker 6: this version. But it does look like a very solid release.
Speaker 6: I do love the art on the hard box on this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I have not seen the third one. I
Speaker 7: don't think. I'm pretty sure I have it, so curious
Speaker 7: about it.
Speaker 6: I've only ever seen the first one, so.
Speaker 7: Oh dude, the second one is so much fun. Man,
Speaker 7: you'll get a kick out of the second one.
Speaker 6: It's a black I'm dying to get these in and
Speaker 6: the hard part is I'm trying to hold myself to
Speaker 6: wait for the Arrow, but gosh, the Shout Factories are
Speaker 6: coming out so early compared to the Arrow, It's like, uh,
Speaker 6: I can't wait. Yes, imprint releases are always quality. I
Speaker 6: agree there, Terry. And then after the Better Tomorrow trilogy,
Speaker 6: it Welcome to Dairy season one. We had announced a
Speaker 6: four K steel book, a standard Blu ray, and a DVD.
Speaker 6: They also just really that they're going to be doing
Speaker 6: a standard four K after everybody was asking. So you
Speaker 6: will have a chance to get this, don't worry about that.
Speaker 6: You can pre order this on Amazon. This is coming
Speaker 6: on May fifth. That is the release date, May fifth
Speaker 6: from Warner Okay, April seventh, We've got an Amigo putting
Speaker 6: out The Dagger of Kamui. This was a kickstarter that
Speaker 6: they had ran and this is going to be the
Speaker 6: wide public release of this, and you can check this out.
Speaker 6: I had never seen this, but a lot of people
Speaker 6: were saying this was like formidable for them when they
Speaker 6: were growing up. Coming out in eighty five, is this
Speaker 6: one that you had seen.
Speaker 7: I had no clue, never heard of this movie ever,
Speaker 7: so totally off.
Speaker 6: The trailer for this genuinely looks really great. I think
Speaker 6: people should check this out if you're into this style
Speaker 6: of film at all. Supposed to be very good. Next
Speaker 6: up is from this last year song Sung Blue, is
Speaker 6: coming on February seventeenth on Blu ray and DVD only.
Speaker 6: No four K. This is coming from Universal. Kind of
Speaker 6: an odd choice because it seems like everybody that has
Speaker 6: seen this movie has sort of loved it. Yeah, but
Speaker 6: are the names not enough to put out a four K?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's Universal too, so I'm always wor worried with the
Speaker 6: Universal that they could just come out eight months later
Speaker 6: and put out a four K.
Speaker 7: Is that something they've been doing with Studio their new
Speaker 7: studio titles.
Speaker 6: Most of theirs, the horror titles, were getting Blu rays
Speaker 6: and then a four K upgrade later, But this is
Speaker 6: the first time they're doing it for a title like this. Huh.
Speaker 7: Interesting. Yeah. I've had some friends see this and we're big,
Speaker 7: pretty big fans. Definitely the performances and the movies. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm curious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this supposed to be great. We've got an audio
Speaker 6: commentary on here with Craig Brewer, the director. We've got
Speaker 6: extended performances on here. There's some featurettes. Overall, this looks
Speaker 6: like a pretty solid studio disc and one where I
Speaker 6: got to see the film at some point. Here Terry
Speaker 6: is shouting out in the comments, check out the Secret
Speaker 6: Agent so out last night. Fantastic movie. I will second
Speaker 6: that it's a great movie. It didn't overall work for
Speaker 6: me as much as it's working for other people. But
Speaker 6: first of all, main character, incredible actor. I really hope
Speaker 6: he gets that Oscar nom next week because he deserves it.
Speaker 6: One movie that did work for me a lot from
Speaker 6: this last year, The History of Sound. This is getting
Speaker 6: a Blu ray and DVD released from movie on March
Speaker 6: twenty fourth. Did you see this one this year?
Speaker 7: I did not. In fact, I totally missed this one completely.
Speaker 7: And it's josh O'Connor, who I like.
Speaker 6: So this is joshua' connor who was in like three
Speaker 6: or four films this year.
Speaker 7: Absolutely he's having a big year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is him and Paul Meskal, which I love
Speaker 6: both of these gentlemen. This movie was great. It looks
Speaker 6: like there are zero extras on this release, which kind
Speaker 6: of hurts, but yeah, check out the history sound. It
Speaker 6: is a very slow movie in the way that it's
Speaker 6: not action packed or anything. But this is one of
Speaker 6: the best character pieces of the entire year. It really
Speaker 6: gives you enough time with each of the characters to
Speaker 6: feel all of the emotions that they're feeling. It's just
Speaker 6: so wonderfully put together film. Nice. Next up, also from
Speaker 6: this last year, The Carpenter Sun, starring Nicholas Cage and
Speaker 6: Fka Twiggs. This is coming on February seventeenth on Blu
Speaker 6: Ray and probably DVD. I did not get to see
Speaker 6: this one. It is one that I've heard is not
Speaker 6: very good, but I do want to see it.
Speaker 7: I like to, you know, I'd love to get to
Speaker 7: like every Nicholas Cage movie ever in my lifetime at
Speaker 7: some point.
Speaker 6: It's a lot.
Speaker 7: I know it's a lot, so I've got a lot
Speaker 7: my work cut out for me. This one I've only
Speaker 7: heard a few things about. I'm not sure if I
Speaker 7: need to see it or not, but I'm curious because
Speaker 7: it's nick I'm curious.
Speaker 6: So taking that idea and running with it. When Elic
Speaker 6: makes his next two movies because his first movie's out.
Speaker 6: We just got a physical media release for it, and
Speaker 6: he gets super famous and he has to take off
Speaker 6: from pure cinema because he's too big. Now, maybe maybe
Speaker 6: you you launch a second show called Just the Cage.
Speaker 6: I like it, you covering every single Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 7: I like it. I think he just hit on something
Speaker 7: really great too.
Speaker 6: Next, God, we got a lot from last year coming
Speaker 6: out right now, February seventeenth, we got a blu ray
Speaker 6: coming from Searchlight also known as Disney of course, of
Speaker 6: Rental Family. This is the Brendan Fraser Japanese film about
Speaker 6: a family that is well a company that pretends to
Speaker 6: be family members when people need them to be. And
Speaker 6: Brendan Fraser is playing the father of this young girl
Speaker 6: and this movie. Did you see this movie last year?
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, it looked.
Speaker 6: Very sappy based on the trailer. But god, dang, did
Speaker 6: I love this movie. I thought this was such a surprise. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I thought this was gonna be so much worse. There
Speaker 6: is a couple things that happened in this movie that
Speaker 6: are just perfectly written, and the way that they end
Speaker 6: up happening in the film, I felt like came together
Speaker 6: very very well.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's cool, got my interest.
Speaker 6: We got a featurette, some deleted extended scenes, solid look
Speaker 6: and release and check it out because it's it's pretty
Speaker 6: well made. We got some other fairly large news to
Speaker 6: talk about this week. This is one of the bigger
Speaker 6: ones media play news. They had the exclusive here that
Speaker 6: Alliance has announced a new exclusive agreement with MGM and
Speaker 6: Amazon to distribute all of the MGM titles. Now, what's
Speaker 6: interesting here is that not only did they call out
Speaker 6: that they're putting out the new season a fallout and
Speaker 6: then mercy to the retail market, they also announced that
Speaker 6: they're going to be handling titles like Rocky James, Bond,
Speaker 6: and Legally Blonde plus The Silence of the Lamps. These
Speaker 6: are giant titles that MGM has never let anybody else handle.
Speaker 6: So the fact that they are not doing the rest
Speaker 6: of the Bond catalog in house and they're signing it
Speaker 6: over to Alliance is a pretty big deal. Not only
Speaker 6: you know, because obviously MGM has changed hands a little
Speaker 6: bit over the last couple of years with the Amazon
Speaker 6: taking over, but this will assuredly show people that they
Speaker 6: are genuinely confident in what Alliance is going to be
Speaker 6: able to do for them. This is genuinely a big
Speaker 6: deal here because Alliance has gotten fairly large. They are
Speaker 6: handling quite a bit of releases across the board. And
Speaker 6: the big thing is that Warner Brothers was handling a
Speaker 6: lot of stuff for places like Paramount and the fact
Speaker 6: that we were spreading this out. Honestly, I think this
Speaker 6: is a overall net positive for physical media as a whole.
Speaker 6: I think that this is going to encourage better like
Speaker 6: replication factories to pop up. I think that this could
Speaker 6: lead to more and more catalog titles coming out because
Speaker 6: lord knows, MGM wasn't doing it all that much. Yeah, overall,
Speaker 6: I think this is a great thing. The only thing
Speaker 6: that I will say, I really hope that the replication
Speaker 6: factories beef up four K discs because last year was
Speaker 6: a big problem with those being a giant bottleneck for
Speaker 6: some of these titles.
Speaker 7: Any thoughts, Brian, I mean, it's exciting. I had not
Speaker 7: heard this news, and I would love it to be
Speaker 7: a boon for the you know, like you say that
Speaker 7: replicators and people doing the media to just help the hobby,
Speaker 7: not the hobby, just help physical media in general. You know, yeah,
Speaker 7: I would love to see that.
Speaker 6: And we've already seen some of this. We've already seen
Speaker 6: some of the MGM titles getting announced last week. We
Speaker 6: just didn't know that it was going to be through allowance,
Speaker 6: not allowance, alliance, that's the word, which one of them
Speaker 6: was never on Blue before. So the fact that that
Speaker 6: is happening, that is pretty exciting in and of itself,
Speaker 6: because that means it's not just gonna be rehashes of
Speaker 6: James Bond releases every three weeks, which, honestly, I know
Speaker 6: a lot of people love Bond, but they've been released
Speaker 6: to death and there's still a lot of titles from
Speaker 6: MGM that have never seen the light of day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I'm with you, man, I'm with you.
Speaker 6: All right. This is a good thing. And moving on,
Speaker 6: Lionsgate Limited announced that on February seventeenth, they were putting
Speaker 6: out this four K steal book of the Doors from
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety one. How do you feel about this art there, Brian.
Speaker 7: I I think it's interesting. I don't know, I guess
Speaker 7: i'd have to see it in person. I can't really
Speaker 7: get a great read on it here. I mean, I'm
Speaker 7: very pro vow. Okay, we thank you for that. I mean,
Speaker 7: maybe not as hot on the crazy Psychedelic Care I
Speaker 7: don't know, but I'm It's another one that I've been
Speaker 7: just a great vow place recently because my girlfriend and
Speaker 7: I both love real Genius and we love Val, and
Speaker 7: I showed her Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang for the first time,
Speaker 7: and so I've just been kind of in that place
Speaker 7: where I'm just watching a lot of Val and I'm
Speaker 7: due for long overdue for a rewatch of The Doors.
Speaker 7: So it's exciting on that level for me. For sure.
Speaker 6: It's a good movie. I don't hate this art necessarily.
Speaker 7: By the way, MGM should put out Darker than Number
Speaker 7: if they control it, because that movie is amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't. I don't hate this. I do want
Speaker 6: to see it in person. I like the fact that
Speaker 6: they're at least being playful with the slipcover, making it
Speaker 6: reveal the crazy Jim Morrison colors. Yes, I will admit
Speaker 6: in the mar marketing this does kind of look terrible.
Speaker 6: Just gonna say it. Okay, they've got a couple of
Speaker 6: exclusive extras on here. We got an Oliver Stone director's intro,
Speaker 6: and then we've got val Oliver and Jim the Making
Speaker 6: of Morrison. It's a good movie. The only thing I'll
Speaker 6: shout out here. Lions Gate has already released this on
Speaker 6: four K way back in twenty nineteen. Oh I really
Speaker 6: wish they focused just on films that have not been
Speaker 6: out on four K, Like, we don't really need a
Speaker 6: rehash of The Doors with a couple of new extras
Speaker 6: at this moment.
Speaker 7: Fair, that's fair.
Speaker 6: There are so many things that lions Gate owns the
Speaker 6: rights to that other people would love to release that
Speaker 6: they're just sitting on. Come on, now, there's a.
Speaker 7: Lot of good stuff. There's a lot of good stuff
Speaker 7: in there, and I do hope that they are going
Speaker 7: to dig into that catalog and getting stuff like Mystery Team.
Speaker 7: Is exciting to me because it's indicative that they're they're
Speaker 7: looking at what they got and going, Okay, this is interesting,
Speaker 7: let's put this out.
Speaker 6: So Yeah, Bruce Holichik wants us to say that the
Speaker 6: artist shit. I will say I don't think it's shit.
Speaker 6: I want to see it in person before I say that,
Speaker 6: but I won't because I'm not. There's no way I'm
Speaker 6: buying this. Hopefully it looks better than that, because I
Speaker 6: at least in the marketing. The colors are terrible. I
Speaker 6: cannot Yeah, all right, another great movie from this Last year,
Speaker 6: we got a four K blu ray and DVD coming
Speaker 6: of Hamnet. This is rumored to be coming in March
Speaker 6: in the UK. It'll likely be the same time for
Speaker 6: the US. We don't have marketing and stuff for all that,
Speaker 6: I'm betting that they're waiting for next week to see
Speaker 6: if it's been nominated for Oscars to throw a couple
Speaker 6: laurels on the front and ride those coattails before they
Speaker 6: actually announce it. But great movie. I thought this was
Speaker 6: really well done. Close you out Another Paul mescal film.
Speaker 6: Jesse Buckley is Jesse Buckley can do No wrong? Did
Speaker 6: you see this one?
Speaker 7: This is another one that I haven't gotten to yet,
Speaker 7: but I've only heard good things, especially about the Jesse
Speaker 7: Buckley performance, and sounds like she's a lock for at
Speaker 7: least a nomination at the very.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she deserves it more than most I think. Other
Speaker 6: than her, the only other one that I really hope
Speaker 6: comes out on top is Amanda Seiphered in the Testament
Speaker 6: of Ann Lee. That was my favorite from last year.
Speaker 7: Roh okay, cool another one I still need to see.
Speaker 7: I'm behind on my new movies. I'm definitely up on
Speaker 7: old movies, not as up on.
Speaker 6: New Yeah, I flipped that myself this year. Usually I'm
Speaker 6: the same way as you. But I got to see
Speaker 6: way more in theaters than I expected for sure. Next
Speaker 6: up one that I'm sure Brian has seen at least
Speaker 6: three or twelve times. March twenty fourth, there is a
Speaker 6: four K and blu ray coming in the US from
Speaker 6: Keno of A Bridge Too Far from nineteen seventy seven?
Speaker 6: Have you seen a Bridge Too Far bright?
Speaker 7: That's a good question. I think so, but it's not
Speaker 7: immediately accessible in my memory, so I do need to rewatch.
Speaker 7: I know that Imprint put out a nice four K
Speaker 7: of this last year, like with an extra disc and everything. So,
Speaker 7: but I like war movies, and this is one of those,
Speaker 7: like all star cast war movies. I mean, this cast
Speaker 7: is insane.
Speaker 6: This is one of the craziest casts of all time.
Speaker 7: Look at that. It's just ridiculous. You know. I want
Speaker 7: to rewatch it. And it's it's directed by Attenborough, so
Speaker 7: that's good.
Speaker 6: That's good news. The first time I saw this poster
Speaker 6: for this, I laughed because I said, you know what,
Speaker 6: this poster on the front looks like the back cover
Speaker 6: of an Indicator release. It's just like a giant block
Speaker 6: of text. We also got a new audio commentary on
Speaker 6: this one by Steve Mitchell and then the author Stephen J. Rubin,
Speaker 6: as well as some other extras, and they did carry
Speaker 6: over a couple of the things, nowhere near what Imprint had.
Speaker 6: Imprint had an entire other disc. That release is just legendary.
Speaker 6: If you if you love this movie, or you you
Speaker 6: think you will love this movie, that is by far
Speaker 6: the one to go for for sure. Another keynote on
Speaker 6: March seventeen, We've got a Kino Classics release of The
Speaker 6: Thief of Baghdad from nineteen twenty four. This is being
Speaker 6: shown as a brand new four K restoration on this one.
Speaker 6: All of the extras on here are older carried over
Speaker 6: from previous releases. But Douglas Fairbanks Thifa Bagdad, you've seen
Speaker 6: this one.
Speaker 7: You know. I don't think I've seen this version, although
Speaker 7: I do love the I think the next version, the later.
Speaker 6: Version the forties.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that one's great. But I'm excited about a
Speaker 7: restoration from Keno. This looks interesting and it's one that like.
Speaker 7: I like the story a lot, so I definitely would
Speaker 7: be interested in checking this out.
Speaker 6: I think I've seen some of this. I don't know
Speaker 6: if i've seen the whole thing. I know I've at
Speaker 6: least seen major clips. Terry says, Imprint released this one
Speaker 6: as well. Imprint The Gateway to Keino is seemingly what's
Speaker 6: been happening the last couple of years, that's for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they had that whole set dedicated to thiefa Baghdad versions.
Speaker 7: Yeah cool.
Speaker 6: That was a fun release. Next up as Lenny reefinstall
Speaker 6: is The Blue Light from nineteen thirty two, coming on
Speaker 6: March twenty fourth on blu Ray. This has a commentary
Speaker 6: by Anthony Slide. It's reefinch doll. That's there, you go.
Speaker 6: That's that's gonna be the subject of the conversation surrounding
Speaker 6: this one. Then from RaRo, we've got Luccino Visconti's conversation piece.
Speaker 6: This is coming on March thirty first from RaRo. This
Speaker 6: was a restoration that was started in twenty nineteen, finalized
Speaker 6: in its four K master in December of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 6: and this has all kinds of great details on the
Speaker 6: restoration here, everybody check that out. We've got an audio
Speaker 6: commentary by Bill Gabierri. We've got an archival interview with
Speaker 6: the film critic and screenwriter Alessandro ben Clavenni. I'm gonna guess,
Speaker 6: but I've heard this is great. I've not seen this one.
Speaker 6: It's got a Burt Lancaster. You seen this one?
Speaker 7: No, I haven't, But you know, The Leopard is a
Speaker 7: really interesting collaboration between Visconti, I believe, and Lancaster, and
Speaker 7: so this must be post the Leopard, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 7: And Helmet Burgers in this too. He's an interesting character
Speaker 7: actor to have a part of this.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, I'm curious. I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 7: I mean, I want to see it. I don't know
Speaker 7: anything about it.
Speaker 6: Same, exactly the same, let's see. Criterion has started to
Speaker 6: offer replacement discs for their four K release of Carnal Knowledge,
Speaker 6: Just to heads up there. All it was was there
Speaker 6: is a missing fade to White that was supposed to
Speaker 6: be on the disc that they did not have. If
Speaker 6: you got that first printing, you can email them and
Speaker 6: they'll give you a replacement when you send them a
Speaker 6: picture of it and your name and all that stuff.
Speaker 7: I just did this today, So for people who want
Speaker 7: to know, the procedure is thus, you have to take
Speaker 7: a sharpie right on the disc your name and the
Speaker 7: date in the you know, white part of it with
Speaker 7: and then if it's a four K and a blu ray,
Speaker 7: you gotta take a picture of both and then send
Speaker 7: them a picture. They were pretty responsive. I actually literally
Speaker 7: did this this morning and they wrote back right away,
Speaker 7: and they supposedly shipping it relatively soon, even though it
Speaker 7: said one to three weeks, so you know, jump on
Speaker 7: this soon if you bought Carl Louge. Although they didn't
Speaker 7: have the issue with the Indicator released today.
Speaker 6: Apparently they did not.
Speaker 7: Okay, good to know, not surprising.
Speaker 6: They did not. The other thing with Criterion is they
Speaker 6: are also doing I know we never covered this because
Speaker 6: it wasn't like a big public thing, but they are
Speaker 6: doing replacement discs for the Whiz. If you got in
Speaker 6: on that first printing that they had where it was
Speaker 6: missing a couple lines of dialogue, so if you basically
Speaker 6: was if you pre ordered that one, because they took
Speaker 6: that thing down pretty dang quickly. Yeah, check out that.
Speaker 6: They also I didn't post it today because I expected
Speaker 6: to have at least one of the announcements to cover
Speaker 6: and a. Criterion did not post their announcements today, But
Speaker 6: we found out through Variety today that Criterion will be
Speaker 6: releasing three Neon titles on physical media this year. We've
Speaker 6: got Sentimental Value, We've got Jafar Panahi's new title that
Speaker 6: is doing very very well right now, and then the
Speaker 6: third one is Secret Agent, which I was worried about
Speaker 6: that when getting a physical disc so I'm glad that
Speaker 6: it is coming. Yeah, pretty exciting that those are those
Speaker 6: are coming this quickly, and it's it's not unprecedented obviously
Speaker 6: last year and Nora came out in what May, so yeah,
Speaker 6: it's a it's a nice quick turnaround on those.
Speaker 7: So at least one of those should be part of
Speaker 7: the announcements hopefully tomorrow.
Speaker 6: I assumed that might be why they're delaying, because they
Speaker 6: they they had that press release come out today and
Speaker 6: maybe they just wanted the news to sit there and
Speaker 6: have its own time in the sun, and then tomorrow
Speaker 6: we'll probably get all the announcements. That makes sense, all right,
Speaker 6: So check out Criterion tomorrow. Next up, we got a
Speaker 6: couple like lower tier MVD labels coming out with their releases.
Speaker 6: We've got The Box from All Three Media coming out
Speaker 6: of April seventh. This is a documentary mini series that
Speaker 6: played on Paramount Plus getting physical media release about police coruption.
Speaker 6: Its supposed to be pretty good. I've heard some good
Speaker 6: things about this. Then we've got from the brand new
Speaker 6: Anchor Bay Entertainment, which is kind of like a ghost
Speaker 6: of their former selves. We've got the Yellow Bellies from
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen getting a blu ray on April seventh as well.
Speaker 6: On this we've got a making of documentary, roundtable discussions,
Speaker 6: some cast auditions, and other featurettes like that. Yeah. I
Speaker 6: don't know about this one, have not heard much, but
Speaker 6: it is about an all girl band, and I like
Speaker 6: music movies, so I like.
Speaker 7: All girl band music movies. You know tho's gonna be good.
Speaker 6: They can't all be josing the Pussycats.
Speaker 7: Though, yeah, or fabulous Stains.
Speaker 6: Well. I don't want to bring it up because it's
Speaker 6: kind of a sore spot with everybody like dying to
Speaker 6: get their copy in right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I can't talk about anything I know,
Speaker 7: but I know that it's coming and it's the delay
Speaker 7: is legit for what it is.
Speaker 6: Supposedly they should be shipping with them the next like
Speaker 6: seven to ten days. I think, so very eager to
Speaker 6: get that four K.
Speaker 7: Yeah, me too, very excited.
Speaker 6: Speaking of four K, Signature entertainment over in the UK
Speaker 6: is putting out Fall from twenty twenty two on four K.
Speaker 6: Did you ever see this one?
Speaker 7: I did. I was not a huge fan of it personally,
Speaker 7: but I get that a lot of people dug it,
Speaker 7: so I'm going to shut up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I did really like this. I thought it was
Speaker 6: from what I'm hearing, and I know that this was
Speaker 6: a big controversy when it came out. Supposedly this is
Speaker 6: rumored to be the uncut, uncensored version of the UK
Speaker 6: did not get that version, and here you only got
Speaker 6: that version if you got the four K Steel Book,
Speaker 6: which is such an odd rollout strategy. But the whole
Speaker 6: reason that they censored this thing to begin with is
Speaker 6: such a joke to me. If somebody is if somebody
Speaker 6: is literally stuck hundreds of feet in the air, there's
Speaker 6: no way they're not saying fuck. Let's be honest. We
Speaker 6: don't need to blur their mouth make them say silly words.
Speaker 6: Instead of cuss words come up.
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, there's so much swearing happening constantly. If you're
Speaker 7: in this situation, it's just.
Speaker 6: Not absolutely so check it out if that's what you're into.
Speaker 6: Okay movie for for some people, Sorry, no, I understand
Speaker 6: why it's divisive because it was a fairly nonsensical film.
Speaker 6: It was just the anxiety got me. I will say that,
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 7: I get it.
Speaker 6: The movie that premiered today in most of the US
Speaker 6: twenty eight years later, The Bone Temple is coming on
Speaker 6: this four K steel book. We've got a standard four
Speaker 6: K Blu ray DVD all coming. This was listed for
Speaker 6: the UK. You can pre order this now the US.
Speaker 6: You'll likely be able to pre order this early tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: So check that out. Decent looking steel book. Did you
Speaker 6: see twenty eight years later? Last year?
Speaker 7: I didn't. Again, I'm woefully behind on my new stuff.
Speaker 6: I worry.
Speaker 7: No, No, keep asking. It's fine. There's gonna be one
Speaker 7: that I'll have seen. But I'm just showing my lack
Speaker 7: of seeing new stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, this.
Speaker 7: I heard a ton of people love that love the
Speaker 7: new one. You know, I actually mostly heard positive things.
Speaker 6: About It's It's an interesting movie. I can understand why
Speaker 6: some people hate it, but I completely understand, completely, completely
Speaker 6: get it. It is an odd movie to make it
Speaker 6: a zombie movie. Yeah, that's it. Okay. Next up some
Speaker 6: more from Imprint Asia March twenty fifth. They're also releasing
Speaker 6: Riding Alone for thousands of Miles. This is from two
Speaker 6: thousand and five. This is the first time on Blu
Speaker 6: ray anywhere in the world. This is by Jangamao, a
Speaker 6: really great Asian director that got the Collaborations box set
Speaker 6: from Imprint a few years ago, and again brand new,
Speaker 6: first time on Blu ray anywhere. That's pretty damn great.
Speaker 6: There is going to be a making a featurette on
Speaker 6: here and that is it. But I'm dying to see this.
Speaker 6: It's supposed to be pretty damn great. Have you seen
Speaker 6: much from Jangamao?
Speaker 7: Not really. No, there's a couple in that's and I
Speaker 7: can't remember which ones that I had seen, but I yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm blanking right now. But this is I love any
Speaker 7: premiere Blu ray that's always really cool.
Speaker 6: Yep. I mean, anytime that you and I browsed together
Speaker 6: in a movie store, the first thing that you and
Speaker 6: I seem to go for is oh this never made
Speaker 6: it past DVD. I know. I love that stuff always.
Speaker 6: Next up from them is The Way Home. This is
Speaker 6: from two thousand and two. Also coming on March twenty fifth.
Speaker 6: This is going to have a making a featurette a
Speaker 6: trailer and that is it. This one sounds really great,
Speaker 6: it says. The South Korean drama, written and directed by
Speaker 6: Lee Jon King and starring Kimuel Boone and usag Ho,
Speaker 6: was the winner of the Best Film at the Grand
Speaker 6: Bell Awards. This is the story of a seven year
Speaker 6: old boy saying Wu, born and raised in the big city,
Speaker 6: and his mute grandmother who has spent her whole life
Speaker 6: in a small rural village. At the age of seventy eight,
Speaker 6: the star of the film had not only never acted before,
Speaker 6: but also never even seen a movie, discovered by the
Speaker 6: director in a country village. He received critical acclaim and
Speaker 6: was nominated for Best New Actress at the Grand Bell Awards.
Speaker 6: That's just a fun story.
Speaker 7: I like it, yeah, heartwarming.
Speaker 6: All right. Next up some disco tech announcements. These are
Speaker 6: all coming on March thirty. First, all of them are
Speaker 6: on Blu Ray only. This first one is going to
Speaker 6: be Voltus five. This is from nineteen seventy seven and
Speaker 6: seventy eight. There is going to be all of the
Speaker 6: episodes on here three disc release. I don't remember you
Speaker 6: much of an old anime person.
Speaker 7: I like old cartoons anime I'm mixed on just as
Speaker 7: a personal taste kind of thing. So this looks a
Speaker 7: little bit like g Force to me or Voltron, and
Speaker 7: it does. I'm intrigued by both. Yeah, potential things.
Speaker 6: Well, if you're not intrigued by that, how about SARS
Speaker 6: Wars Bangkok Zombie Crisis. What this is from two thousand
Speaker 6: and four when there was never a worry about SARS
Speaker 6: viruses at all? Of course, this looks hilarious. What the
Speaker 6: hell is this?
Speaker 7: That's crazy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, this looks This looks wild. Classic Discotheque. Next up,
Speaker 6: Bangkok Dangerous. You've probably heard that title before.
Speaker 7: Really, not that one, right, the one and.
Speaker 6: Only Nick Cage. This is the original, the one that
Speaker 6: that was a remake of. This is from two thousand.
Speaker 6: Oh cool.
Speaker 7: I didn't even realize that was it. Maybe I did
Speaker 7: realize that was a remake, but totally got pushed out
Speaker 7: of my brain over time.
Speaker 6: Well, to be fair, there was also a lot of
Speaker 6: Asian remakes happening in the US around that time. So
Speaker 6: this is about a deaf, mute killer stocking the glittering
Speaker 6: rain slicks streets of Bangkok, guns blazing in total silence.
Speaker 6: One man, no words, zero mercy. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 6: need to get this, that's for sure. Okay, cool, Next up,
Speaker 6: Cutie Honey Tears. This is from twenty sixteen, and it
Speaker 6: says sometimes in the near future, the ones bustling city
Speaker 6: of Tokyo rapidly erodes under the constant downpour of toxic rain.
Speaker 6: While those on the streets struggle to breathe amid the fumes.
Speaker 6: The rich and powerful look down upon them within an
Speaker 6: ivory tower at the city center. With Tokyo under the
Speaker 6: thumb of a merciless Android and her countless assault drones,
Speaker 6: scant few have dared to buck the status quo. That is,
Speaker 6: until a daring reporter comes across some mysterious woman who
Speaker 6: just might hold the way, or just might hold the
Speaker 6: key to the city's salvation. Not the story I expected
Speaker 6: when I read this title the first time, but it
Speaker 6: sounds interesting.
Speaker 7: Sure, yeah, based on that synopsis.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm very curious to check this out. It is
Speaker 6: a good time to push back against fascism, that's for sure.
Speaker 7: Always next up.
Speaker 6: If you are a fan of Loop and the Third,
Speaker 6: you're gonna love these next two titles. We've got Loop
Speaker 6: in the Third versus Kat's Eye from twenty twenty three
Speaker 6: coming on that day, and then not this one. I
Speaker 6: apologize I forgot the order they were in. That'll be
Speaker 6: the next one. We've also got Zona the Enders Perfect
Speaker 6: Collection from two thousand and one. This contains twenty one
Speaker 6: sixty seven idolo and the complete TVC Dolores I or
Speaker 6: Dolores one. But the other Loop in the Third is
Speaker 6: the TV Specials Collection Number one from nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 6: to nineteen ninety three. They are just releasing all kinds
Speaker 6: of stuff over at discothech. If you're in crazy, yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, at least Loop In is something I'm Loop
Speaker 7: in the Third is something I'm aware of.
Speaker 6: I have never seen any of it, but I mean here,
Speaker 6: I've read the title Loop in the Third associated with
Speaker 6: like eight hundred and seven projects. Just a general reminder
Speaker 6: that Shelf Shock Rewinde Awards voting is still going on
Speaker 6: until the end of this month. Please get your votes in.
Speaker 6: It seems like everybody is sleeping early a little bit.
Speaker 6: This year. We are down on our number of votes
Speaker 6: that we usually get, so check that out and vote
Speaker 6: if you have not yet. Link is available pretty much
Speaker 6: everywhere that you can find Disconnected. We're archive somebody that
Speaker 6: is a favorite of both mine and Brian's. They are
Speaker 6: doing some incredible work and some of these are some
Speaker 6: of their more sought after titles for some time. February
Speaker 6: twenty fourth, we are getting a blu ray of Mogambo
Speaker 6: from nineteen fifty three. This has a brand new four
Speaker 6: K scan of the original Technicolor negatives. We've got some
Speaker 6: MGM Tom and Jerry cartoons, just Ducky, and then an
Speaker 6: MGM Fitzpatrick travel talk short Land of the Ugly Duckling
Speaker 6: Love that this is a Clark Gable, Ava Gardner film.
Speaker 6: Have you seen Mogombo?
Speaker 7: I am trying to remember. Is this the one that's
Speaker 7: like it's like another movie. I'm trying to think African Queen.
Speaker 7: Maybe I want to say it's kind of like supposed
Speaker 7: to be like that.
Speaker 6: I believe, so.
Speaker 7: Have I seen it? Goddamn, I'm not one hundred percent
Speaker 7: sure that I have, not one hundred percent sure that
Speaker 7: I have. I want to see it.
Speaker 6: I have not seen it, but man, everybody in the
Speaker 6: comments seemed to be after this title for a long time,
Speaker 6: so I'm glad that people are getting this one. And
Speaker 6: then this is another big one, Stranger on the third Floor.
Speaker 6: It's Peter Lorie twenty fourth on Blu Ray. This is
Speaker 6: also four K scans of the original nitrate camera Negatives.
Speaker 6: Nice big deal. Three episodes of of Peter Laurie starring
Speaker 6: in the classic radio series Mystery of the Air, Beyond
Speaker 6: Good and Evil, Crime and Punishment, and Mask of Medusa.
Speaker 6: I love the archival stuff that Warren Archive puts on
Speaker 6: these discs.
Speaker 7: Me too, especially when it's that radio stuff that's really
Speaker 7: enjoyable stuff. This is another one that I'm like, did
Speaker 7: I see this or not see this? I can't remember.
Speaker 7: But I love Peter louri so I'm maybe surprised when
Speaker 7: I watch it and go, oh, yeah, I have seen it,
Speaker 7: but I'm definitely gonna get it.
Speaker 6: Peter Laurie always great one that I always appreciate. However,
Speaker 6: this is a showing my vulnerability here this era of film.
Speaker 6: I've probably seen many of these, but they blend together
Speaker 6: so much I never truly know. It's rough because so
Speaker 6: many of them are the same story literally, like some
Speaker 6: of them adapted from the same exact script, and it's like, God,
Speaker 6: this is this is tough.
Speaker 7: Sorry, I was just noticing Aaron was commenting about these titles,
Speaker 7: but also he said he got his standard fabulous stains today.
Speaker 6: Yes, Orbit was sending them out, so Orbit got theirs
Speaker 6: in super early.
Speaker 7: Very cool.
Speaker 6: Next, I've been loving the Order Archive animation that they've
Speaker 6: been putting out, specifically this last year. They've been hitting
Speaker 6: them hard. They are putting out the Loopy de Loop
Speaker 6: the complete collection. This covers from nineteen fifty nine to
Speaker 6: nineteen sixty five. I know that I've seen this. I
Speaker 6: am not like in my mind being able to picture
Speaker 6: any scenes from this one though. This is one of
Speaker 6: the earlier Hannah Barbara releases that they've been working on,
Speaker 6: So yeah, this is must for me. All of their
Speaker 6: animated stuff over this last year has been stupendous quality.
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, I love their animated stuff. I mean I
Speaker 7: love just about all of it, honestly, but this is
Speaker 7: one that came out on DVD. I'd not seen it now.
Speaker 7: I want to say this is a series that was
Speaker 7: theatrical shorts and not TV. But maybe they include some
Speaker 7: TV here. I don't know, but that was one thing
Speaker 7: that stood out.
Speaker 6: What does it say, forty eight theatrical animated shorts.
Speaker 7: There we go, So yeah, so this is that's crazy.
Speaker 7: So yeah, a rare case of it not being a
Speaker 7: TV show but actually a theatrical cartoon that you would
Speaker 7: have seen in theaters. I mean, I imagine they ran
Speaker 7: them on TV at some point too, but of course.
Speaker 7: But yeah, that's exciting and it was fun. I remember
Speaker 7: the DVD being a discovery for me and digging it.
Speaker 7: So I'm very much looking forward to this one big time.
Speaker 6: And then their last announcement from this month is Tarzan
Speaker 6: and His Mate from nineteen thirty four. This is a
Speaker 6: big one. I know a lot of people are waiting
Speaker 6: on all of the Tarzan films to come. I'm hoping
Speaker 6: that everybody gets them. It seems like they're they're making
Speaker 6: them at least a bit of a priority. This one
Speaker 6: is going to have MGM shorts, The Spectacle Maker and
Speaker 6: What Price Jazz. This is a brand new four K
Speaker 6: scan of the best Preservation Elements release. Yeah, not much
Speaker 6: to say, this is just a huge deal.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, no, I'm a big Tarzan movie fan, and I
Speaker 7: became so because of the proliferation of Tarzan releases on
Speaker 7: DVD from Warner Brothers. They had the two box sets,
Speaker 7: they had a bunch of one offs from Warner Archive
Speaker 7: on DVD, and they've done a bunch on Blu Ray
Speaker 7: as well. Not a bunch, but a handful. I mean more,
Speaker 7: I would like, I would love to see more. I
Speaker 7: think they're a fascinating series of films. I enjoy Johnny Weismueler,
Speaker 7: but I also enjoy Gordon Scott. I also enjoy a shoot.
Speaker 7: I'm Blincoln, Jock Mahoney. You know a lot of the
Speaker 7: different guys that played Tarzan, I find interesting. This is
Speaker 7: one of the best Tarzan movies in my mind, you know,
Speaker 7: just it's a It's is it?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 7: Thirty four? Yeah, So it's like right on the cusp
Speaker 7: of the code, and it's pretty racy stuff. I mean,
Speaker 7: there's definitely some stuff that's gonna be kind of crazy
Speaker 7: for some folks, and this one in particular is pretty nuts.
Speaker 7: But I think one of the stronger entries in the
Speaker 7: classic film series for sure.
Speaker 6: You heard it here first, Brian sistarzans pretty nuts, all right,
Speaker 6: we've got We've got just a more things to talk about.
Speaker 6: The first one, I wanted to thank everybody for coming
Speaker 6: together a couple of weeks ago or last week actually,
Speaker 6: I talked about a friend of mine that sadly passed
Speaker 6: away at the end of December, and the disconnected community
Speaker 6: came together. We sent almost seven hundred dollars to his family,
Speaker 6: and Robin said thank you and expressed her sincere gratitude.
Speaker 6: If you'd still like to donate, please check out the
Speaker 6: links here or def Crocodile is collecting donations at checkout
Speaker 6: over there over there the entire month of January over
Speaker 6: on their website. But overall, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: This was a big deal and you guys always answer
Speaker 6: and I appreciate that so much.
Speaker 7: Mile very nice.
Speaker 6: And the last thing, well go USA putting out on
Speaker 6: March seventeenth, Ay four K and Blu Ray release of
Speaker 6: Lone Samurai. Dear friend of the show, mister Josh Hurtado,
Speaker 6: who is in the chat, or at least he was earlier,
Speaker 6: is a big fan of this one. He says, a
Speaker 6: thirteenth century samurai finds himself shipwrecked on an island he
Speaker 6: believes to be deserted. As he contemplates his existence, it
Speaker 6: seems like a dignified death that his own hands might
Speaker 6: be his best solution. However, when he is captured by
Speaker 6: the murderous cannibal tribe that calls the island home, his
Speaker 6: survival instinct kicks in. To mix a samurai film with cannibals,
Speaker 6: I am so in. I just hope that this goes there.
Speaker 6: But already that synopsis sounds frickin' great.
Speaker 7: I mean, it is intriguing, I will say, and not
Speaker 7: even a fan of cannibal films myself, but it's intriguing
Speaker 7: that combination for sure.
Speaker 6: Josh, since your commenting, still, does this go there? Is
Speaker 6: there like plenty of blood in this movie? Or is
Speaker 6: it a pretty tame film? I'm very curious how this
Speaker 6: one's kinda play out. I definitely want to say it
Speaker 6: or see it hopefully soon. All Right, that is it
Speaker 6: for the announcements this week. Semi slow week. Everybody's still
Speaker 6: kind of coming back from the holidays, in fact, where
Speaker 6: archives said that they had more planned but they couldn't
Speaker 6: get them done because restorations are lagging behind because the holidays.
Speaker 6: So yeah, that is something that I hope that they
Speaker 6: bounced back from February could be a big month from them.
Speaker 7: Nice, that's cool.
Speaker 6: Josh says that Lone Samurai feature somebody from the Raid
Speaker 6: yayon Rucon, So that's cool all right. Discussion for tonight
Speaker 6: is underrated physical media releases from twenty twenty five. Oh,
Speaker 6: Josh says, it's an existential action film that's interesting.
Speaker 7: Interesting.
Speaker 6: I trust Josh's taste. I will absolutely check it out.
Speaker 6: So underrated physical media releases from twenty twenty five. There
Speaker 6: are I don't know what is the best way to
Speaker 6: say this, so shelf shock rewind to words. This year,
Speaker 6: I felt we're quite varied on the nominations. Like last year,
Speaker 6: I think the Hitcher was nominated for like fourteen different things.
Speaker 6: There is no Hitter this year. There are a couple
Speaker 6: of things that got like five or six. There are
Speaker 6: some that are gonna win at least four or five.
Speaker 6: I'm not I wouldn't be surprised. However, I feel like
Speaker 6: we got quite a bit all across the board. I
Speaker 6: also feel like there are a lot of things from
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five that slipped under the radar overall. So
Speaker 6: how did you feel about the year in physical media
Speaker 6: as a whole.
Speaker 7: I mean I should open by saying, and we did
Speaker 7: this last time too, and I probably said it then.
Speaker 7: But my categorization for underrated it is mostly related to
Speaker 7: the film itself. It's not always related to the extras.
Speaker 7: A lot of it for me is about movies that
Speaker 7: I think are slept on and that I'm excited or
Speaker 7: getting some kind of physical release. So that's going to
Speaker 7: be kind of the focus of my group here, and
Speaker 7: I think that's why a lot of these don't get
Speaker 7: called out. It's because they aren't all always like stack
Speaker 7: disc and overall great packages. I mean they some of
Speaker 7: those do. Some of these do have that. But a
Speaker 7: lot of it for me is just about a movie
Speaker 7: that I really like a lot that I think needs
Speaker 7: more attention and I hope the physical release will get
Speaker 7: it that, you know. So That's where I'm coming from,
Speaker 7: just as a point of view. So but the answer
Speaker 7: your question, I felt pretty good about it. I mean,
Speaker 7: I've got a lot of stuff over here that I
Speaker 7: could talk about, you know, if I if we if
Speaker 7: we go there, so.
Speaker 6: Oh we're going there. Two pretty large stacks here, So
Speaker 6: very happy to talk about it. Okay, all right, let's uh,
Speaker 6: why don't you share your first couple?
Speaker 7: Okay, let just start all right. I'm gonna start with
Speaker 7: with with like basically a group because it's all documentaries.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna start with documentaries because I thought there's a
Speaker 7: lot of great documentaries and I've got two companies in
Speaker 7: particular that I'm gonna highlight, and that is Canadian International
Speaker 7: Pictures and a sill Scope put out a couple of
Speaker 7: my favorites too.
Speaker 6: So the Sorry with Stephanie Crawfords here tonight.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, hello Steph. Oh that's so nice. I'm so
Speaker 7: glad Steph's here. I need to I owe Steph a
Speaker 7: text or two. I want to talk to Steph. I'm
Speaker 7: so glad you're here. All right, So I'll start with CIP.
Speaker 7: Granted you know, full disclosure, Elrick and I are involved
Speaker 7: in one of these releases, but part of the reason
Speaker 7: we're involved is because we love the movie. And so anyway,
Speaker 7: I'll start with Hookers on Davy, which is a really
Speaker 7: great documentary about trans prostitutes in Canada, and it's it's
Speaker 7: both funny and harrowing and just really really Oh thanks Steph.
Speaker 7: It's just a really solid documentary some really interesting folks
Speaker 7: that they talked to, and I was just totally up
Speaker 7: up in it. It's it's truly one of my favorite
Speaker 7: discoveries of the year. On top of which it's to
Speaker 7: me so baller to put out a documentary in four K,
Speaker 7: Like I just I've become friendly with David Marriott, who
Speaker 7: is one of the folks behind c IP, and he
Speaker 7: is such good people. I can't tell you, like, David's
Speaker 7: so one of us, super great guy. I just I
Speaker 7: love David so anyway, but yeah, this has got, you know,
Speaker 7: tons of features. I can't even I can't even get
Speaker 7: into like how much stuff is on this disc. But
Speaker 7: that's that's part for the course. For for CIP, they
Speaker 7: just do great work. But this doc in particular was
Speaker 7: really great. And the other one is one of our
Speaker 7: organized favorite docs and that's Devil at Your Heels and
Speaker 7: we we have a couple features on this one. But
Speaker 7: this is myself for this is always American movie meets evil.
Speaker 7: Canevil is kind of what it is, you know, because
Speaker 7: it's about a guy who's trying to jump a rocket
Speaker 7: car across a river and he's a character his name.
Speaker 7: There's a guy called Kenny Powers in this that is
Speaker 7: fascinating too. Anyway, this is great stuff and the two
Speaker 7: I Love from a Siloscope both two of my favorites. Actually,
Speaker 7: one of the ones I showed my girlfriend is I
Speaker 7: Like Killing Flies, which is absolutely one of my favorite
Speaker 7: documentaries ever, to the point where I finally on the
Speaker 7: very back, you can see that Kenny Shopson is wearing
Speaker 7: a T shirt that says Shopson's General Store. And it's
Speaker 7: a really funny shirt because the way it's printed, if
Speaker 7: you fold it up, it's like a mad magazine and
Speaker 7: it says eat me. It makes it so. But so
Speaker 7: I was watching, I was showing my girlfriend this movie
Speaker 7: and she loved it, her mom loved it, and I
Speaker 7: was like, I gotta get one of them damn shirts.
Speaker 7: So I went to the website and Shopsin's is still
Speaker 7: around and they still sell the shirts. So I finally
Speaker 7: got my off of shops and T shirt. But anyway,
Speaker 7: it's about this little diner in New York. They've moved
Speaker 7: around since this doc came out in like two thousand
Speaker 7: and four, but it is he's such a character such
Speaker 7: he's his own sort of blue collar philosopher. But it's
Speaker 7: also a food doc which I actually kind of love
Speaker 7: I got. I bought his cookbook and his cookbook is
Speaker 7: great too. I just love this And it's got a
Speaker 7: cooking with Kenny short film included. And the other one
Speaker 7: is Bennett Miller's The Cruise with Timothy speed Levitch. This
Speaker 7: is the movie that sort of launched him to show
Speaker 7: up in link later movies like Waking Life and other stuff,
Speaker 7: and it's just Timothy speed Levitch is. At the time,
Speaker 7: he was a tour guide for New York City tour
Speaker 7: buses and he is just again a character the kind
Speaker 7: of guy I love to see in the dock where
Speaker 7: he's incredibly intelligent and it just has all these incredible
Speaker 7: existential theories about the city itself and his relationship to
Speaker 7: the city and the history of the city. He knows
Speaker 7: just everything about it. It's incredible to hear him give
Speaker 7: one of his little tours. So these two are I
Speaker 7: think you can get them from Amazon, but they're also
Speaker 7: available through our cellscope and had been a long time
Speaker 7: coming to Blu Ray like I Like Killing Flies, had
Speaker 7: been out of print on DVD for years and not
Speaker 7: really streamble, whereas the crews you could stream at least
Speaker 7: on d D. Anyway, those are four docks that I
Speaker 7: love and I couldn't. I was so psyched came out
Speaker 7: on this this year.
Speaker 6: Before I share my first two, I pulled out. I
Speaker 6: did have one doc actually, so I will glom onto
Speaker 6: yours real quick. This one's a new one, but I
Speaker 6: feel like people are sleeping on this and did not
Speaker 6: actually check it out. Music Box released Secret Mall Apartment.
Speaker 7: Oh. I want to see this so bad.
Speaker 6: This is about some dudes that literally lived in a
Speaker 6: mall for years, and this documentary is really great. I
Speaker 6: think this release is not being checked out by a
Speaker 6: lot of people, but there's over eighty minutes of extra
Speaker 6: stuff and for a doc that is a modern dock
Speaker 6: that this is like the type of thing that I
Speaker 6: want to live up for if we're releasing modern docks
Speaker 6: on antenna. So yeah, this this deserves a lot of love.
Speaker 6: I'm so glad that this came out. Check it out.
Speaker 6: You can get it on Amazon. Still really fun story
Speaker 6: and nice pairing with Roofman coming out this year, like
Speaker 6: very similar sort of stories. And then I kind of
Speaker 6: my first things that I really want to share that
Speaker 6: wasn't a doc. These are funny because these are going
Speaker 6: to be like very highly rated releases from this year.
Speaker 6: But I think that we're just a little jaded, so
Speaker 6: I want to make sure before I go to like
Speaker 6: the other stuff that's really kind of not going to
Speaker 6: get talked about a lot. These deserve extra attention because
Speaker 6: these are kind of crazy.
Speaker 7: First.
Speaker 6: I know that we've talked about it a lot over
Speaker 6: the last three months, but the Sato releases from Vinegar
Speaker 6: Cindrome's Pink line, this is a huge deal. The fact
Speaker 6: that we're getting these restored, and we're getting a whole
Speaker 6: bunch of Sato films, like we've already gotten three volumes
Speaker 6: and they've already said there's still many more coming from Sauto,
Speaker 6: Like this is stuff that people that are into pink
Speaker 6: films have been watching these in horribly translated bad YouTube
Speaker 6: rips ripped on a couple sites that I won't even name,
Speaker 6: that usually not in sync, usually done in a way
Speaker 6: that you're like, man, I can't really see what the
Speaker 6: scene is portraying. And to see these restored this way,
Speaker 6: these releases are incredible, and the fact that we're getting
Speaker 6: so many and now pink films are suddenly getting popular
Speaker 6: thankfully for all of us that Vinegar Syndrome is doing it,
Speaker 6: even though some other companies has been doing it for years,
Speaker 6: like Synaps through their Impulse line had really been given
Speaker 6: a lot of love to pink films, But now Vinegar
Speaker 6: Syndrome kind of made it, you know, sexy again for
Speaker 6: people to check them out. So, yeah, check out more
Speaker 6: of the SATO releases if you've been worried about it
Speaker 6: or I'm curious how good they are. Even though they're
Speaker 6: getting a lot of praise, they deserve a lot more.
Speaker 6: But the one that I think that is in that
Speaker 6: category that deserves it even more is the releases from
Speaker 6: Hammer Films, The Curse of Frankenstein. This came out and
Speaker 6: I don't even know where to begin with this. This
Speaker 6: release is at a level that should be expected of
Speaker 6: brands that have been around for years for like the
Speaker 6: biggest films of all time, and yeah, Curse of Frankenstein
Speaker 6: it's probably maybe the biggest or the second biggest of
Speaker 6: the Hammer films that they've released through there. But these releases,
Speaker 6: if you've not seen one on the inside, first of all,
Speaker 6: like I can't even show everything that's in here, all
Speaker 6: of the extras, are incredible. The film itself looks amazing,
Speaker 6: the restoration book wise, this is some of the better
Speaker 6: essays from this year. Like this is look at that thing.
Speaker 6: I don't even know how to like start the praise
Speaker 6: on this. And the only reason that this was even
Speaker 6: like I should get this one is because my buddy Brian,
Speaker 6: who he was in the chat earlier, he was talking
Speaker 6: about how good the essays. Oh look there he is.
Speaker 6: Chris Frankenstein from Hammer is my best release of the year.
Speaker 6: It's insane. He is the one that was like, listen,
Speaker 6: you need to go read the essays for this if
Speaker 6: you haven't yet, And I went, okay, and I went
Speaker 6: and checked him out, and these are mind blowingly great
Speaker 6: essays in this release. The extras on every single one
Speaker 6: of the Hammer releases have been insanely good. The archive
Speaker 6: work through Hammer and the UK is so far above
Speaker 6: what we get on stuff from the US, it is insane.
Speaker 6: I just I don't think Hammer is getting enough love
Speaker 6: for what they've done over there. So that's it. I
Speaker 6: wanted to keep a little bit more praise before I
Speaker 6: went into the deeper cuts.
Speaker 7: Well, and I'll just improvising off of yours. I actually
Speaker 7: have a video coming out this Sunday that's sort of
Speaker 7: like more favorites of the year, and one of the
Speaker 7: ones that included in that is the Hammer version of
Speaker 7: Captain Chronos, which is, while not quite on the level
Speaker 7: of that is, is also ridiculous. Captain Cronos, by the way,
Speaker 7: is one of my favorite Hammer films ever. I think
Speaker 7: it's fantastic. Uh And this this set is just I mean,
Speaker 7: you got again, you get the book, You've got two
Speaker 7: books basically cards, and then just tons and tons of discs.
Speaker 7: You have a you have like multiple aspect ratio versions
Speaker 7: in four case, you have this one sixty six UK theatrical,
Speaker 7: one full screen one three seven is film version wide
Speaker 7: screen one A five US theatrical. You know those are
Speaker 7: the uhds, and then you've got all the Blu rays
Speaker 7: and special I mean, it's just incredible. These are I
Speaker 7: don't know, I gotta I gotta pay a little closer
Speaker 7: attention to Hammer after this because I was just floored
Speaker 7: by how good this set is. It's fantasy. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 7: do you know, is the restoration the same as the
Speaker 7: Warner Archive four K that came.
Speaker 6: Out the identical The only thing that is different is
Speaker 6: The UK release has a bonus disc with which some
Speaker 6: some archival like very British extras are on there, and
Speaker 6: that's it. You still get most of the disc extras
Speaker 6: on the archive disc here in the US. But I
Speaker 6: will honestly say this is one of those releases where
Speaker 6: the book that comes with it is likely worth about
Speaker 6: fifteen to twenty dollars by itself. Literally, Wow, damn.
Speaker 7: That's good. Okay, where to go next? There's a lot here. Okay,
Speaker 7: I'll do let's see, I will do. I'll do fun
Speaker 7: City It. Fun City is a tough one because I
Speaker 7: don't know, are they under praised or what's your vibe
Speaker 7: about their releases?
Speaker 6: I feel like since they left OCN, people just forget
Speaker 6: they exist. So I try to bring them up when
Speaker 6: I can. But they're great.
Speaker 7: That's great. Okay, Well then I'll what maybe my favorite
Speaker 7: trailer COMPLI ever made. Welcome to Fun City, I think
Speaker 7: is just spectacular. I mean the way he's set this
Speaker 7: up and organized it by decade and is including and
Speaker 7: I believe all this stuff is newly scanned from thirty
Speaker 7: five elements, so you're not getting just like YouTube rips,
Speaker 7: and in a lot of cases you're getting stuff that
Speaker 7: you've never seen on YouTube, you know. So it's an
Speaker 7: incredible compilation that one, And then I just tried not
Speaker 7: to go too crazy, so I just picked two. Maybe
Speaker 7: It's You, which is maybe my favorite John Sales film,
Speaker 7: pretty close with some a couple others, but and this
Speaker 7: version is a new transfer, and it's got again a
Speaker 7: Bill Ackerman commentary, one of my favorite things to have
Speaker 7: on a disc, and that commentary is great, and new
Speaker 7: interview with Sales, Griffin Done and Amy Robinson, rasona Arquette,
Speaker 7: Vincin Spano, Matthew Modine. It's fantastic and this movie is
Speaker 7: just so so good. So I can't recommend that one enough.
Speaker 7: And lastly from Them A Lifeguard, which is just a great,
Speaker 7: great character study with Sam Elliott as a lifeguard in
Speaker 7: his probably in his thirties, I guess, but looking at
Speaker 7: sort of an existential life crisis and meeting a woman
Speaker 7: who's kind of like wanting to help him quote unquote
Speaker 7: move on, and he has to decide if he wants
Speaker 7: to move on, you know, or if he wants to
Speaker 7: stay where he's at. And it's a very relatable movie
Speaker 7: in that sense, but an incredible performance from Sam Elliott.
Speaker 7: He's just so good in this great movie. And then
Speaker 7: just a couple from Arrow and then I'll kick it
Speaker 7: over to you. This was huge because it had never
Speaker 7: been on Blu ray or DVD that I know of.
Speaker 7: And that's Enemy Territory. Just a really great siege movie
Speaker 7: with Ray Parker Junior as one of the prominence and
Speaker 7: an early performance from Candy Man. Why can't I think
Speaker 7: of the actor right now? That just passed away.
Speaker 6: Let's just wait. I want to see how long it takes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, chat the second, Tony Todd, I got it, Tony Todd. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but yeah, Jan Michael Vincent's in this. It's basically about
Speaker 7: a guy, an insurance salesman, who has to get a
Speaker 7: deposit for an insurance thank you uh in ten thousand
Speaker 7: dollars in cash in a neighborhood I want to say
Speaker 7: they moved it to they moved to Chicago or was
Speaker 7: it originally in Chicago and now it's New York. Anyway,
Speaker 7: it's a bad neighborhood, a bad apartment building in the
Speaker 7: in the projects, and he basically gets himself in trouble
Speaker 7: with a local gang called the Vampires, led by Tony
Speaker 7: Todd and then they basically are searching, scouring the whole
Speaker 7: building trying to kill him and he ends up pulling
Speaker 7: some bunch of people into it. This has a common
Speaker 7: tear from my friend where is It Dave Wayne, who
Speaker 7: is who runs a video store in the UK that
Speaker 7: is one of the last Sniffs video. Yeah, and definitely
Speaker 7: followed Dave on socials. Dave's great, just really knowledgeable guy
Speaker 7: and does a YouTube show every week called at the
Speaker 7: Video Store, which is fantastic because he literally kind of
Speaker 7: like you in some ways but different, Like he goes
Speaker 7: through all the new releases he's gotten in and like
Speaker 7: I said, just the knowledge base is so solid that
Speaker 7: there we go. Yeah, top ten, Yeah, but yeah, some
Speaker 7: nice features on here and just great to see this.
Speaker 7: Granted this is region B locked, but a movie I
Speaker 7: didn't think we were going to get on any physical
Speaker 7: format outside of the HS, so that's great. And then
Speaker 7: Outland is my other pick from Arrow. I really love Outland,
Speaker 7: a quasi remake of High Noon in Spain with Sean
Speaker 7: Connery playing the Gary Cooper role, and it also has
Speaker 7: Peter Boyle, a very evil Peter Boyle. James Siking Francis Sternhagen,
Speaker 7: written and directed by Higham's looks great on this four K.
Speaker 7: I was really really psyched when this got announced, and
Speaker 7: I think it's a little underappreciated as a movie in general,
Speaker 7: but yeah, it's it's really It's got a Western in
Speaker 7: space kind of vibe and I love it so Outland
Speaker 7: is the other one.
Speaker 6: Something that I shared some love for just a minute ago.
Speaker 6: I wanted to get two of my animation picks from
Speaker 6: this year in and Warner Archive kind of quietly it
Speaker 6: seems like killed it this year. The first one I
Speaker 6: want to shout out is the entire Huckleberry Hound Show.
Speaker 6: This release is massive. First of all, I can't remember
Speaker 6: the number, and I was trying to look a moment ago.
Speaker 6: This has a ridiculous amount of content on here. It's
Speaker 6: like thousands of minutes. Literally. I don't know if they've
Speaker 6: got it listed on each one, but it is like
Speaker 6: each one of these cases. There are eleven discs total
Speaker 6: of just Huckleberry Hound, and they look incredible on these
Speaker 6: blu rays. I am so happy to be able to
Speaker 6: see these all cleaned up. Grew it, grewing, that's not
Speaker 6: a word. Growing up with these Hannah Barbara was such
Speaker 6: a huge deal for me. I mean, all of it
Speaker 6: was something that I every single Saturday, hours and hours
Speaker 6: and hours, and I missed some of these. Some of
Speaker 6: these I watched and I had not seen in literally
Speaker 6: thirty years, and put in some of these discs this
Speaker 6: year went WHOA Like I remember this exact interaction that
Speaker 6: I saw when I was like seven years old, and
Speaker 6: it just burned straight back into my brain again. Loved
Speaker 6: that feeling. Absolutely great collection from them, but their best
Speaker 6: collection this year by far Tom and Jerry the Golden
Speaker 6: Era Anthology. This covers from nineteen forty to nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 6: And the big thing is this has all of the
Speaker 6: all of Tom and Jerry from nineteen forty to nineteen
Speaker 6: fifty eight. It has all of them. Almost all of
Speaker 6: them are like very well restored. The do they get
Speaker 6: the name of it on here? There is uh okay,
Speaker 6: it's not on here. There is a collection of like
Speaker 6: fourteen shorts that were from a very specific section that
Speaker 6: were not restored, and they are they don't look good
Speaker 6: on the disc at all. But other than that, the
Speaker 6: rest of these look incredible and they're like one hundred
Speaker 6: and fourteen or hundred and fifteen total in here, So
Speaker 6: this is absolutely worth it. The fact that we get
Speaker 6: all of them and they're uncensored. Many of these had
Speaker 6: never been released on disc before uncensored, but this release
Speaker 6: is kind of a miracle that it came together. And
Speaker 6: in a year when we're talking about Warner getting bought
Speaker 6: by Netflix and trying to rescue physical media out of
Speaker 6: the hands of the corporate conglomerate like that, it is
Speaker 6: important that we continue to get releases like this until
Speaker 6: we can't. And I'm just glad that they're investing the
Speaker 6: money into this because for many people, I'm curious, like
Speaker 6: how many Huckleberry Hound complete series did they sell this year?
Speaker 6: Was it worth the cost for them to actually restore
Speaker 6: these or are they supplementing income from elsewhere, because I'm
Speaker 6: pretty sure not many people bought the entire Huckleberry Head collection.
Speaker 6: But I will say it's absolutely worth it. If you're
Speaker 6: watching this, if you like animation at all, you should.
Speaker 6: It deserves a watch, it deserves a purchase, it deserves
Speaker 6: to be restored. And I'm so grateful for worder Arcs
Speaker 6: me too.
Speaker 7: And here's what I'd say about them. I think I'd
Speaker 7: like to think that some of their buying base is
Speaker 7: not well represented online, like it's older people that don't.
Speaker 7: That would be my guest, because otherwise I don't think
Speaker 7: that they're you know, so altruistic that they're just like,
Speaker 7: we're gonna do this one for the fans, you know,
Speaker 7: So it has to be something that they've have the
Speaker 7: data that shows they're selling it, you know. But that
Speaker 7: said great, and I had that in my Favorites of
Speaker 7: the Year video. Yeah, glad you brought that in. Just
Speaker 7: jumping off that, I'll do three quick Warner Archive release reviews,
Speaker 7: and then I got so much other stuff. But these
Speaker 7: are all again about the movies. For me, these are
Speaker 7: movies that are rare and interesting in my mind. First
Speaker 7: one is Rafferty and the gold Dust Twins. This is
Speaker 7: a seventies road movie with Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips,
Speaker 7: Alex Rocco, and Harry Dean Stanton. And it's one that
Speaker 7: is I don't know, it just has that seventies feeling. Basically,
Speaker 7: Alan Arkin plays an ex marine who now drinks a
Speaker 7: lot and works for the DMV in Los Angeles and
Speaker 7: one day he's having his lunch, I guess at Griffith
Speaker 7: Park or somewhere, and he more or less gets kidnapped
Speaker 7: by two wayward ladies played by Kellerman and Mackenzie Phillip,
Speaker 7: and they're like, we want you to drive us to
Speaker 7: New Orleans and they have a gun, and so he's like, Okay,
Speaker 7: I guess we're going. And it's one of those like seventies.
Speaker 7: It's very much would be like a good double with
Speaker 7: something like Scarecrow, which is also a great Warner Archive
Speaker 7: Blu Ray. It's in that area. And this is a
Speaker 7: movie I'd seen I think on VHS and then which
Speaker 7: is a travesty because this is a Scope movie and
Speaker 7: so if you're watching on VSS, it's horribly cropped. And
Speaker 7: then there was no HD version of the wide screen forever.
Speaker 7: So it was just really nice to finally see it
Speaker 7: fully scope and look good. I just really dig this
Speaker 7: movie a lot. It's a really interesting one. Next up
Speaker 7: we have we called Gabriel over the White House, Joe
Speaker 7: Dante favorite, a very again appropriate movie for right now.
Speaker 7: I'm just going to read the back as America to spared.
Speaker 7: During the early days of the Depression, Hollywood met the
Speaker 7: challenge hold on Where Is It Here? Walter Houston gives
Speaker 7: a brevera performance, starring as a corrupt us present who
Speaker 7: has a brush with an angel after a near fatal
Speaker 7: car crash and awakens determined to right all of America's
Speaker 7: wrongs now by or by any means possible. So he
Speaker 7: really becomes like this this aggressively you know, I don't
Speaker 7: want to say progressive, but definitely you know, doing the
Speaker 7: right thing kind of president to a fault, like where
Speaker 7: he's almost like dangerous in terms of the way he's
Speaker 7: doing it. But it's really an interesting movie. And I
Speaker 7: was turned onto it by Joe Dante. I remember Joe
Speaker 7: Dante saying years ago when like the DVD came out
Speaker 7: that he was a big fan of this one. And
Speaker 7: it's directed by uh who did this one, Gregory Lacava
Speaker 7: who did My Man Godfrey and some other stuff like that.
Speaker 7: But really great Walter Houston really in Trouble movie. And
Speaker 7: then lastly we Got Seven Women, which is the last
Speaker 7: John Ford movie, John Ford's final movie, and it's about
Speaker 7: a group of women in a mission in the midst
Speaker 7: of in China and they are basically there's a siege
Speaker 7: from bandits and it's intense, it gets intense, and the
Speaker 7: ending is intense, and it's I think it's a pretty
Speaker 7: solid last movie, especially for john Ford, who is a
Speaker 7: very male, heavy filmmaker. Not that he didn't have sympathetic
Speaker 7: and sometimes progressive females in his films, but but this
Speaker 7: cast is really strong because it's like Anne Bancroft's Sue Lyon,
Speaker 7: Margaret Layton, Mildred Dunnoch. You recognize the women you don't
Speaker 7: know the name names of you definitely recognize, and particularly
Speaker 7: Anne Bancroft is spectacular in this. So and this is
Speaker 7: another Scope movie that was not really I mean, you
Speaker 7: could see in an SD version in Scope, but it
Speaker 7: wasn't sixteen by nine enhanced, and so it's great to
Speaker 7: have this in that version. So those are some weren't
Speaker 7: archives that I dug.
Speaker 6: This one is an interesting release because technically neither of
Speaker 6: the films were released this year on physical media for
Speaker 6: the first time. But I got a shout out the
Speaker 6: fact that Terror Vision got the WNUF Halloween Special one
Speaker 6: and two into Walmart this year and it sold so
Speaker 6: well that nobody could pick them up, like they were
Speaker 6: gone pretty much immediately. Everybody was trying to get them online.
Speaker 6: You couldn't buy them online for the biggest time. I
Speaker 6: think this was a very encouraging sign for twenty twenty
Speaker 6: five in physical physical media. The fact that we can
Speaker 6: put out a double feature Blu ray disc in Walmarts
Speaker 6: for less than twenty dollars that was fully loaded with
Speaker 6: all of the bonus features that were on the limited
Speaker 6: edition of each of the films. And that's a lot
Speaker 6: of stuff because these are anthologies that are made very well,
Speaker 6: which got a lot of love, a lot of bonus features,
Speaker 6: and you could get both of those in person in
Speaker 6: a store for less than twenty dollars. Kind of legendary.
Speaker 6: I love that they were able to do that. Next,
Speaker 6: I feel like this is turning into a very very
Speaker 6: consistent label, but not one that gets enough attention for
Speaker 6: getting releases that are not being released by anybody else
Speaker 6: or anywhere in any way. Really, I wanted to shout
Speaker 6: out one of the japan Archy releases from eighty eight films,
Speaker 6: so this is detonation violent writers. A lot of the
Speaker 6: stuff that they're releasing on this line is very good,
Speaker 6: but because they're not a lot of them are not
Speaker 6: cult titles. They're more like small crime films or something
Speaker 6: like that. They get overlooked, I feel like, and most
Speaker 6: of these are really really well made. This one like
Speaker 6: there's new to the other back I can't even show
Speaker 6: that for one. But there's extras on all these discs.
Speaker 6: They're coming with booklets, which for eighty eight films that's
Speaker 6: not always a given. And my big thing and I
Speaker 6: talked about it on here the other day when talking
Speaker 6: about antenna prices. Prices for many of these releases have
Speaker 6: gotten so obnoxious that you can't go buy three films
Speaker 6: from one company without spending one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 6: Sometimes these things are coming out and they're twenty bucks
Speaker 6: on release, brand new with an obi strip, with extras,
Speaker 6: with a booklet. Twenty bucks. That's pretty amazing for a
Speaker 6: great release that you can't get from anybody else. And
Speaker 6: then the last one in this little batch and then
Speaker 6: I'll let you have yours again. This came out early
Speaker 6: early this year, I think or shipped. I think it
Speaker 6: announced in January and came out like April, and now
Speaker 6: I feel like nobody's talking about this at the end
Speaker 6: of the year. But Cauldron, even though they had a
Speaker 6: very delayed box set come out this year. Quietly put
Speaker 6: out some really great titles this year and one of
Speaker 6: the craziest, which any nudity on the front. No, if
Speaker 6: you've not seen this, you absolutely need to check it out.
Speaker 6: Mad Foxes on four K. This film is bonkers. I
Speaker 6: probably cannot show the inside cover. Oh no, it's the same.
Speaker 6: This movie is great. Mad Foxes is one that got
Speaker 6: some some Blu rays overseas with some covers that would
Speaker 6: make your grandmother faint. This movie is insane, really fun
Speaker 6: time and it's a really high quality four K. The
Speaker 6: blue rays for this never looked great. And Cauldron. When
Speaker 6: they finally get something on disc and it's out, you
Speaker 6: will be very happy, very happy that you're getting something
Speaker 6: from them. Mad Fox's is a winner. And because Bravido
Speaker 6: Giallo came out this year, I feel like this is
Speaker 6: getting forgotten because the Houses of Doom and all that
Speaker 6: over the last year and a half has been an
Speaker 6: ordeal for them. These are getting forgotten. But these are
Speaker 6: absolutely absolutely solid releases. And it's a hard slip. I
Speaker 6: know a lot of people are into that. It's a
Speaker 6: hard side loading slip comes with the poster. It's a
Speaker 6: really solid release.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love Cauldron and Jesse's the best, incredibly sweet guy,
Speaker 7: and the Brevedos set was great, including Grave Disturbance is
Speaker 7: like my highlight for that one. That's a movie that
Speaker 7: I really really dig.
Speaker 6: And was really ps liked.
Speaker 7: Just jumping on the TerrorVision train for a second. Grow
Speaker 7: Up Tony Phillips. The Emily Haggins movie may may be
Speaker 7: my favorite of her films. Just a really sweet coming
Speaker 7: of age movie about a kid who doesn't want to
Speaker 7: give up dressing up for Halloween and has taken a
Speaker 7: lot of shit for it. I was lucky enough to
Speaker 7: see this screened as part of Cinematic Void with Emily
Speaker 7: and the cast there, and that was a great screening.
Speaker 7: To see that in the theater with people was wonderful. A. J.
Speaker 7: Bowen's really good in the movie too, But Tony Tony
Speaker 7: Vespie plays the main kid and he's he's really solid.
Speaker 7: But yeah, a great Halloween movie if you want to
Speaker 7: you want something to get you in the vibe of
Speaker 7: fall and Halloween. Truly truly wonderful and I just love
Speaker 7: that Terrovision put this out. It's a really great disc.
Speaker 7: So that's one, and then I got a stack of
Speaker 7: stuff from Shout Factory and Screen Factory, the lesser stuff
Speaker 7: I think for me, Black Sunday really nice looking four K.
Speaker 7: I had an import but this is a new four
Speaker 7: K restoration from the Camera Negative and it looks really nice.
Speaker 7: Just one of my favorite Bava movies. Was really happy
Speaker 7: to get this in four K. Fade to Black in
Speaker 7: four K another one that's a new twenty twenty five restoration,
Speaker 7: and a movie that came out from Vinegar Syndrome years ago,
Speaker 7: so got some attention. But I feel like this four
Speaker 7: K people were maybe not as excited about or not
Speaker 7: talking about as much, and it has I think basically
Speaker 7: all the extras from the Vinegar Syndrome. Maybe not quite everything,
Speaker 7: but I think it's pretty much everything. So this is
Speaker 7: really you gotta get this this movie. Yeah, really great movie.
Speaker 7: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia on four K.
Speaker 7: Nobody's talking about this again. This is another four K
Speaker 7: scan of the original Camera Negative. This movie's had a
Speaker 7: lot of releases. I get it. You know, it's had
Speaker 7: an Arrow, it's had a Kino, it's had a lot,
Speaker 7: and I don't know if this fully brings over all
Speaker 7: the extras that have been including all those releases, but
Speaker 7: it does have quite a few, including a new interview
Speaker 7: with Julie Krugo, formerly of Twilight Time. Nice, and it's
Speaker 7: got the commentary from The Gang, the Sam Pack and
Speaker 7: Paw Gang. But yeah, I think a really solid pack
Speaker 7: upon movie. This came up on our Favorites of the
Speaker 7: Last twenty Years movie draft that we did on Pure Cinema,
Speaker 7: and that's The Gray. I really love The Gray. It's
Speaker 7: probably my favorite Joe Carnahan movie, one of my favorite
Speaker 7: Animal Tax movies. And this is a really beautiful looking
Speaker 7: four K Dolby Vision version of the film. It brings
Speaker 7: over only the commentary, but I don't think you need
Speaker 7: too much more in terms of the extras. It's a
Speaker 7: really solid commentary. But yeah, I love The Gray, absolutely
Speaker 7: love that movie. Eleric does too. And lastly, this one
Speaker 7: came out at the end of the year, so I
Speaker 7: think a lot of people just missed talking about it.
Speaker 7: That's Cloud Atlas. Another divisive film that some people are
Speaker 7: not on board with, and I totally get it. I
Speaker 7: happen to be one of the people that's on board
Speaker 7: with it. I think it's there's something really affirming about
Speaker 7: it that I get hooked into. But what's really neat
Speaker 7: is this includes this is a four K and it's
Speaker 7: a new restoration and again looks really good. But then
Speaker 7: it has a new disc that has what is an
Speaker 7: ocean reconnecting to cast and crew with John Donahue, who
Speaker 7: is definitely on Socials, is a very movie guy and
Speaker 7: who is Tom Hanks's stand in and has been for
Speaker 7: like twenty three years, so he basically orchestrates this and yeah,
Speaker 7: a lot of it is just zoom interviews, but he
Speaker 7: talks to almost everybody, including Tom Hanks, about their recollections
Speaker 7: of the movie. And it's two hours long and it's
Speaker 7: a really nice documentary about the movie. So if you're
Speaker 7: into Cloude Atlas, you're gonna love it. It's just great.
Speaker 7: So I think this one is absolutely not being talked
Speaker 7: about at all. Really great release cloud Ouls.
Speaker 6: It helps the John is a producer at Shout.
Speaker 7: By the way it does, it definitely does all right.
Speaker 6: I am not one to be like ooh upgrades on
Speaker 6: many of these titles, but there's one that I pulled that.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of stuff this year that is getting
Speaker 6: a lot of attention, and those are not underrated. So
Speaker 6: things like Dirty Work, which was an incredible upgrade, not underrated,
Speaker 6: things like Behind the Green Door, which is great, not underrated.
Speaker 6: It's getting a fairly large amount of attention because it
Speaker 6: had a big spotlight on it. One film, and I'm
Speaker 6: gonna talk about two from Keno Lber right now, but
Speaker 6: one film that I pulled that as an upgrade. It's
Speaker 6: the only upgrade here that I don't think people either
Speaker 6: understand that it's a great upgrade or maybe didn't buy
Speaker 6: it because just like you were just talking about with
Speaker 6: one of yours, this had a lot of Blu ray
Speaker 6: releases and most of them looked okay, pretty like fairly okay.
Speaker 6: The four K upgrade on Danger Diabolic is mind blowing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I almost said this in my group.
Speaker 6: Good call for anybody that has not looked at the
Speaker 6: four K release from Keno Lover. This disc is head
Speaker 6: and shoulders way above any of the Blu ray releases
Speaker 6: that came out. And there was a few. There was
Speaker 6: a Shout release, there was a keynot release, there was
Speaker 6: an imprint release, there was there was a few. I
Speaker 6: totally get it, and this was a hard call. I
Speaker 6: think I only got this because it was like a
Speaker 6: target sale, So I got it for like fourteen dollars
Speaker 6: right after it came out or something. Wow, And I
Speaker 6: had heard that it got good reviews and I was like, well,
Speaker 6: we'll see about that. No, it's it is absolutely worth it,
Speaker 6: danger diabolic. If you love this movie, if you love
Speaker 6: Mario Baba, if you love this era of the like
Speaker 6: crime films from Italy, this type of you know, very
Speaker 6: comic focused feeling, this this movie is incredible. It looks
Speaker 6: absolutely remarkable on four K. This is the upgrade that
Speaker 6: we all had hope that it would have been on
Speaker 6: Blu ray. It comes now and it looks better than
Speaker 6: it's ever been. The other thing, which I also know
Speaker 6: that you're a big fan of. I feel like there's
Speaker 6: a lot of people that saw these and let them
Speaker 6: go by without focusing on them too much. But all
Speaker 6: of the Dan Curtis Blu rays.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, good call, dude.
Speaker 6: They deserve so much more attention. All of these have.
Speaker 6: At least I think the one with the least amount
Speaker 6: of things on the release is like four items, and
Speaker 6: even that one has like two great ones and one
Speaker 6: that's still pretty good. So the hit rate on Dan
Speaker 6: Curtis stuff is extremely high. And these look so much
Speaker 6: better than I expected them to look. And not on
Speaker 6: top of that, I mean, when you've got Amanda Rayas
Speaker 6: all over the extras on pretty much all of them,
Speaker 6: it is really crazy that we got so much in
Speaker 6: such a short period of time. And I feel like
Speaker 6: maybe because that happens so quick, people are like, oh,
Speaker 6: Dan Curtis, and then there's eight hundred other releases, and
Speaker 6: who cares Dan Curtis is in the rearview? Check them
Speaker 6: all out. They're all worth it. Late Eye Mysteries might
Speaker 6: be my favorite. I think this is the one that
Speaker 6: I discovered the most on this time. But they're all
Speaker 6: really solid releases.
Speaker 7: That's a great call, dude. I love that they did
Speaker 7: so many Dan Curtis this year. I have a lot
Speaker 7: of keynotes, so I'll be quick through these. But in
Speaker 7: some of these maybe folks are already hip two. But
Speaker 7: I was really psyched to get Vice Squad on four K.
Speaker 7: Even if it's SDR, I still think it looks pretty
Speaker 7: good and it's much better, right, I think so, and
Speaker 7: a ton of extras on this one. Just an incredible
Speaker 7: performance from the one and only wings Hauser and Gary Sherman.
Speaker 7: Rules I adore him, and so this was Yeah, I guess,
Speaker 7: I guess don't feel like people are as excited about
Speaker 7: this four K as I was up so Death Wish three.
Speaker 7: I mean, this is a personal favorite for me. I
Speaker 7: adore these movies. I think this four K looks pretty
Speaker 7: solid and it's my favorite of the whole group. And
Speaker 7: it's ridiculous, but it's a lot of fun. That's great sneakers.
Speaker 7: I feel like people were pretty excited about but maybe
Speaker 7: I don't know. I thought that this looks really nice
Speaker 7: and it's definitely a movie that people love, so I
Speaker 7: don't know, it feels like it should be more celebrated.
Speaker 7: The Ninja Trilogy collection. I was literally talking to somebody
Speaker 7: for a podcast today about how exciting it is that
Speaker 7: we have Ninja three The Domination in four K. Now
Speaker 7: because of this set, I don't love Anent of the Ninja.
Speaker 7: That's the weak link in this one for me. But
Speaker 7: Revenge of the Ninja is pretty great, and you know,
Speaker 7: these are fun canon Ninja movies, you know. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's just it's a nice set. I think another set
Speaker 7: very opposite of that is the the Alec Ginnis Masterpiece Collection.
Speaker 7: There's some really good stuff in here. I had not
Speaker 7: seen Lavender Hill Mob and I highly recommend that it's
Speaker 7: an absolute blast. But these are all great. Lavender Hill
Speaker 7: Mob and and the White Suit Kine Hearts and Coronets
Speaker 7: where he plays like eight roles is one of the
Speaker 7: all time great classic films, and The Lady Killers is
Speaker 7: obviously the basis for the Coen Brothers remake, which I'm
Speaker 7: a defender of, but I know I'm like in a
Speaker 7: room by myself in terms of that nobody else likes
Speaker 7: that movie. But yeah, these look great and they're just
Speaker 7: wonderful Studio Canal Restorations. They just really really nice set
Speaker 7: from them. And then Career Opportunities on four K is
Speaker 7: just a personal favorite that I loved getting good stuff.
Speaker 7: But then in terms of oh, and then one more
Speaker 7: just a reissue that I love is That's I'madman. This
Speaker 7: was on State Tax Free and I fucking love this movie.
Speaker 7: It's one of my favorite, like underseen eighties horror movies
Speaker 7: with the wonderful Jenny Wright and Clayton Rohner, one of
Speaker 7: my dudes, you know, from the director of the Gate
Speaker 7: and has some cool you know stop motion effects, you know,
Speaker 7: horror book character come to life is killing people, you know,
Speaker 7: kind of noir ish, but anyway, it's it's great, good stuff.
Speaker 7: And then some Blu Ray debuts that I'm excited about.
Speaker 7: This was a discovery for me. This one's called Fade In.
Speaker 7: This has Burt Reynolds and the wonderful Barbara Loden, who
Speaker 7: would go on to be a filmmaker in her own right.
Speaker 7: And it's just a really sweet, bittersweet story of a
Speaker 7: small town in Utah where Burt Reynolds and his buddies
Speaker 7: hang out and they come and they're shooting. Hollywood is
Speaker 7: shooting a movie there, and he and his buddy sign
Speaker 7: up to be drivers for the cast and crew, and
Speaker 7: Barbara Loden is the assistant editor on the movie, and
Speaker 7: Bert and her kind of hit it off and have
Speaker 7: sort of a fling, and it's really sweet and it's
Speaker 7: just a really tender and interesting performance from Burt. One
Speaker 7: of my favorite things I discovered all year. I really
Speaker 7: really love this movie a lot. Then Russeller's Rhapsody is
Speaker 7: a really great boof Western from the director of The
Speaker 7: Police Academy, and it's not nearly as broad as that,
Speaker 7: and it's definitely a movie that you watch it and
Speaker 7: go oh. He cashed in his ticket for because he
Speaker 7: loved old serial western singing cowboy westerns and was like,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna make one with Tom Behringer. That's totally self
Speaker 7: aware and bizarre. And I can't even really explain this
Speaker 7: movie to you, but it's super fun and it has
Speaker 7: a commentary including Max Allen Collins and a friend of
Speaker 7: both our shows. I think Heath Holland is on commentary
Speaker 7: is great. And then the last blue read of you
Speaker 7: I'm really excited about from them is Hot Pursuit, which
Speaker 7: is a John Cusack movie from the director of Tron,
Speaker 7: Stephen Wisberger, and it is an action comedy in the
Speaker 7: in a very action comedy way, meaning like you know,
Speaker 7: it's John Cusack trying to catch up with his girlfriend
Speaker 7: and her family who've gone on vacation in like the Caribbean,
Speaker 7: and he gets caught up in some sort of intrigue
Speaker 7: with some bad people played by the Stillers Ben Stiller
Speaker 7: and Jerry Stiller. And it has Robert Loja in it
Speaker 7: again bringing back to Cold Blooded. It's so much fun.
Speaker 7: It's this new four K scan and it's got a
Speaker 7: commentary from a film historian I just I'm a big
Speaker 7: fan of this one. I feel like it's totally slept on,
Speaker 7: and if you're a Cuzak fan, I just think, you know,
Speaker 7: is it better off dead? No, it's not, but it's
Speaker 7: I think it's interesting and I think people to check
Speaker 7: it out. So it was really excited to get Hot
Speaker 7: Pursuit on Blu Ray this year.
Speaker 6: I still have not seen that one. I need to.
Speaker 7: It's fun.
Speaker 6: So I only have a total of five left. I've
Speaker 6: got three. Well, actually, I think many of these are
Speaker 6: Blu Ray debuts, so that was exciting for me. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna breeze through a couple of the because I want
Speaker 6: to give a couple of moments to some other ones.
Speaker 6: Hying in the Safe from Celluloid Dreams is getting some
Speaker 6: attention at the end of the year here from places
Speaker 6: like Mondo Digital, but I think a lot of buyers
Speaker 6: just did not check this out yet. And I get it.
Speaker 6: You know, the Cellular Dreams came out swinging with some
Speaker 6: really beautiful four k's and then this kind of unheard
Speaker 6: of small film came out. It's really great. This movie
Speaker 6: looks very good. It is absolutely worthy to be part
Speaker 6: of their release slate. This is only I think their
Speaker 6: third title is it a Spined Yeah, number three. Check
Speaker 6: it out. It is a very good movie. That they're Italian.
Speaker 6: The titles that they're rescuing are really great. Cannot wait
Speaker 6: for Black Belly. The Taranceeula is supposed to be coming
Speaker 6: here in twenty twenty six. We'll see. Yeah. Another very
Speaker 6: new label, New Wave out of Australia put out a
Speaker 6: couple of titles and Rubber's Lover got all kinds of
Speaker 6: attention from a lot of people, but Strange Circus might
Speaker 6: be my favorite of their first two titles. This is
Speaker 6: a title from Sean Sono, which is a controversial figure
Speaker 6: for many people. But they seem to have more coming
Speaker 6: from Sono, so you should absolutely be shocking out Strained Circus.
Speaker 6: This movie is unique, well made, looks beautiful, fun release,
Speaker 6: really great and strong. Like second Spine to put out
Speaker 6: in their in their slate and then Criterion. They got
Speaker 6: a lot of praise this year and normally I've been
Speaker 6: one of the last four or five years to kind
Speaker 6: of throw some shaded Criterion a little bit, and I
Speaker 6: still do you know that they're not perfect at all.
Speaker 6: One of the biggest things is they don't really put
Speaker 6: a lot into extras anymore. Some titles they'll they'll do
Speaker 6: what they can and they'll throw some supplements in there
Speaker 6: that they can get some big names on. But if
Speaker 6: it's a smaller film, they usually don't care all that much.
Speaker 6: But a big discovery for me very recently actually four
Speaker 6: K disc of a film that had not got a
Speaker 6: Blu ray that was English friendly anywhere in the world.
Speaker 6: It did get a French Blu ray, but we got
Speaker 6: a four K of Hell's Angels. This is from nineteen
Speaker 6: and this movie is stupendous. The four K of this
Speaker 6: looks ridiculously good. Anybody that has not got Hell's Angels,
Speaker 6: I would highly recommend this. I think this is one
Speaker 6: of the better releases from this last year for them,
Speaker 6: which is crazy because they have released so many great
Speaker 6: titles this year. A lot of them did not get
Speaker 6: a ton of love as far as supplements. But Hell's
Speaker 6: Angels is something that deserves to be on your shelf.
Speaker 7: Damn it, I need it, don't have it yet, Gotta
Speaker 7: get it.
Speaker 6: Last two things. This first one is getting a lot
Speaker 6: of love because it's radiance and everybody's paying attention to them.
Speaker 6: But again I don't think it's getting enough love. I
Speaker 6: just did a video with Jason over at Force five
Speaker 6: of favorite releases of the year, and so many people
Speaker 6: are not talking about Radical Japan from Radiance. This is
Speaker 6: a stacked freaking box set. There are nine films in
Speaker 6: this box set, and when you're talking about Radiance, you
Speaker 6: know that there are always going to be mostly like
Speaker 6: great films, stuff that you've never seen or never heard of,
Speaker 6: or like absolute stone cold classics. But the big thing
Speaker 6: again kind of like Curse of Frankenstein, that is a
Speaker 6: box up with nine films. Look at this book. This
Speaker 6: is the size of the book that came in a
Speaker 6: Radiance release.
Speaker 7: Damn.
Speaker 6: I mean there was enough time there to fan through
Speaker 6: like three or four page This is almost one hundred
Speaker 6: and sixty pages long. This release is mind blowing. On
Speaker 6: top of that, it is such a timely release. There
Speaker 6: is so much, so much like complexity as far as
Speaker 6: like politics and modern day sensibilities in these films. Checkouts
Speaker 6: Radical Japan legendary release and the last thing that I
Speaker 6: really wanted to talk about now, this was hyped up
Speaker 6: a lot by the label that did this. It had
Speaker 6: a lot to live up to and I feel like
Speaker 6: a lot of people got kind of scared to buy
Speaker 6: this release, but I'm highly recommending everybody check out Norbert
Speaker 6: Foffenbickler's two five five to one trilogy from Deaf Crocodile.
Speaker 6: This is a four disc film set. All three of
Speaker 6: the films here are newer films, like I think the
Speaker 6: first one is twenty twenty twenty twenty one, so we
Speaker 6: got twenty twenty one, twenty twenty three, and twenty twenty five,
Speaker 6: all brand new. They are three films. The first one
Speaker 6: is the shortest, is that sixty three minutes. The other
Speaker 6: two are feature length eighty three eighty five minutes. This
Speaker 6: is subversive, transgressive, experimental cinema. The first film has like
Speaker 6: an eight minute strobe light sequence that you're just not
Speaker 6: ready for. There are visuals in these films that I've
Speaker 6: never seen anything like this in film. There are sex
Speaker 6: acts that they claim are simulated and hear that I
Speaker 6: swear are not simulated. Def Crocodile had an had to
Speaker 6: institute a date clicker on their website to make sure
Speaker 6: that people are eighteen to purchase this. This is a
Speaker 6: crazy release. Four discs, solid, solid supplements. Some of the
Speaker 6: films on here. Obviously it's only three, but the second
Speaker 6: and the third one specifically, and really it's the second
Speaker 6: film that we'll go there for you. They are some
Speaker 6: of the craziest movies I have ever seen. And when
Speaker 6: I saw that they were putting them out, and when
Speaker 6: I saw what the films were, I knew that it
Speaker 6: was gonna be great. But I think that they turned
Speaker 6: into one of the more special packages of the year,
Speaker 6: legendary type of release. Everybody needs to see it. It
Speaker 6: is so good. Two five five on Trilogy. The deluxe
Speaker 6: edition is still available. Check it out.
Speaker 7: Nice, very nice. I probably got about a half dozen more.
Speaker 7: I'll zip through these real quick. I only picked two
Speaker 7: from Criterion, both our Blu ray debuts for me. The
Speaker 7: first one is Midnight, which is a wonderful screwball comedy
Speaker 7: from Mitchell Lyisen, but it's a script by Billy Wilder
Speaker 7: and Charles Brackett. Just an adorable film with Claude Colbert
Speaker 7: and Dona Michi as a cab driver chasing her all
Speaker 7: around Paris, and and I just love this movie. This
Speaker 7: is truly one of my favorite screwballs that was relegated
Speaker 7: to DVD on Forever and just really happy to have
Speaker 7: it on Blu Ray. Finally, Crossing Delancey is wonderful romantic
Speaker 7: comedy from Johan micklan Silver, who did chili scenes of
Speaker 7: Winter and oh man, what's her newspaper movie that I'm
Speaker 7: blanking on right now. I'll think of it in a second.
Speaker 7: I love Joan mcklan silver, and this is one of
Speaker 7: her studio movies. And it's another Peter Regert movie where
Speaker 7: Amy Irving works at a bookstore and she has set
Speaker 7: up by her nana's matchmaker to date this guy who
Speaker 7: runs a pickle pickle store. I guess it's a family
Speaker 7: business and she kind of thinks she's above him, but
Speaker 7: he's actually really self assured and interesting. And I absolutely
Speaker 7: love Peter Rigert in this, and it's sort of like
Speaker 7: will she won't she? Kind of romantic comedy. But love
Speaker 7: this movie, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 6: And then between the lines was the one you were
Speaker 6: trying to think, thank.
Speaker 7: You so much. Yes, that is great, and that got
Speaker 7: a release from Buddy con Media. I think, three really
Speaker 7: quick ones from an Indicator who always do great work.
Speaker 7: I still don't have their latest uh Noir box set.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure that will end up being on my list,
Speaker 7: but I don't have it yet. I prefer their release
Speaker 7: of Cardinal Knowledge to the Criterion myself. They're both great,
Speaker 7: but this is the movie that I just like that
Speaker 7: is getting got a double release this year because I
Speaker 7: feel like it's been not talked about for a little
Speaker 7: while and harder to see in terms of Mike Nichols's catalog.
Speaker 7: It's a dark movie.
Speaker 6: Really.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the cast is ridiculous, but you haven't seen Nicholson
Speaker 7: like this exactly, and I think he doesn't amaze and
Speaker 7: our Garfunkl's great, Candy Bergen's great, and Margaret's great. It's
Speaker 7: it's wonderful, a couple of classics for me, Like I
Speaker 7: think both of these actually got releases from Keino, but
Speaker 7: I'm gonna give props to UH Indicator because that's how
Speaker 7: I finally watched them, and they're both Henry Hathaway movies.
Speaker 7: Interestingly enough, pre and Alongworth did a great series last
Speaker 7: year called The Old Man Is Still Alive as part
Speaker 7: of You Must Remember This talking about old Hollywood directors
Speaker 7: like John Ford, Henry Hathawhite Way, Howard Hawks. Go check
Speaker 7: that out. I think she talked about Peter Ibotson in
Speaker 7: that this is really great, almost a fantasy romance that
Speaker 7: has some great dream sequences in it. Really really dig
Speaker 7: this one a lot. An Harding, I think is one
Speaker 7: of Quentin Tarantino's favorite actors, like really loves her and
Speaker 7: she's really really good in this. If you don't know her,
Speaker 7: it's a great showcase for her. And the other one
Speaker 7: is called Spawn of the North, which is George Raft
Speaker 7: Henry Fonda. It's kind of like Dueling. It's about fishermen
Speaker 7: in Alaska, which doesn't sound exciting, but it's way better
Speaker 7: than it should be and it feels like a Howard
Speaker 7: Hawks movie from that period. It's really really fun, real
Speaker 7: quickly this adventure collection from Imprint for me, it's number six.
Speaker 7: It has a couple things in here that are interesting.
Speaker 7: King Rat I still need to check out. But the
Speaker 7: one that's a Blu Ray debut that I love is
Speaker 7: this movie called Abandoned Ship and it's got Tyrone Power
Speaker 7: and it's really one of my favorite sinking boat movies.
Speaker 7: It's akin to something like Lifeboat because it opens the
Speaker 7: movie opens literally on the debris field of a sunken
Speaker 7: ship and people are just swimming for their lives, trying
Speaker 7: to grab onto debris, and Tyrone power ends up kind
Speaker 7: of being in charge of this group of survivors and
Speaker 7: shit gets really intense in terms of what they're dealing with,
Speaker 7: and so it's a stark and kind of kind of
Speaker 7: gnarly movie for eighteen fifty seven. Like it's just it's dark.
Speaker 7: The shit they have to deal with is pretty dark
Speaker 7: in terms of the decisions they have to make as
Speaker 7: a group. But I really like this movie a lot,
Speaker 7: and it would never it never had gotten even a DVD.
Speaker 7: I don't think. Maybe maybe it had a maybe it
Speaker 7: had a one of those studio DVD made on demand.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure about that. But nice to see it
Speaker 7: get a Blu Ray. So that's that set is worth
Speaker 7: it for me for that alone. And then lastly, well
Speaker 7: actually got two more things and I'll shut up. Sorry. Frailty,
Speaker 7: I guess is probably rightfully praised, But I think the
Speaker 7: Lionsgate four K of Frailty is a pretty wonderful set,
Speaker 7: and I just want to call it out as a
Speaker 7: movie that I think is fascinating and a really interesting
Speaker 7: I think it was his directorial debut. Paxton, maybe not
Speaker 7: maybe I'm wrong about that.
Speaker 6: I feel like it was.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's a great directing and acting performance. Just
Speaker 7: a really one of my favorite Lionsgate Limited releases of
Speaker 7: the year. And then lastly, this one's kind of because
Speaker 7: I think and also is it underrated because it's sold out,
Speaker 7: But I just couldn't be more excited that we got
Speaker 7: the movie Orgy from ag for this year, a movie
Speaker 7: that rightfully, never ever did I think we would get
Speaker 7: a whole video release of it. I mean, for those
Speaker 7: who don't know, it's like basically the first video mixtape
Speaker 7: mashup that Joe Dante and John Davison did in the
Speaker 7: late sixties where they took, you know, their sixteen millimeter
Speaker 7: print collections and basically put together this crazy stream of
Speaker 7: consciousness assembly of clips and commercials and other little bits. Basically,
Speaker 7: if you watch this movie and then you watched Amazon
Speaker 7: Women on the Moon, you'd kind of get a sense
Speaker 7: of like, this is the beginnings of that idea. I
Speaker 7: like Amazon Women on the Moon a lot, but it's
Speaker 7: a movie that's it's not even a movie, it's an experience.
Speaker 7: And I know Joe Dante was not even that psyched
Speaker 7: about putting it on home video, because I know he'd
Speaker 7: like it to be more or of a crowd movie,
Speaker 7: like you go see it with a crowd and you
Speaker 7: can like the way it's set up. It's four and
Speaker 7: a half hours long in this cut, and you can
Speaker 7: walk in and out if you saw it in a theater.
Speaker 7: And they toured college campuses in the late sixties. I
Speaker 7: think Schlitz beer sponsored them and they would just play
Speaker 7: it for free and sell beer, and I guess, you know,
Speaker 7: AGFO was able to figure out fair use wise how
Speaker 7: to release it, but it was such a hot seller
Speaker 7: that I don't know if they're going to do reprint.
Speaker 7: I know they sold like five thousand copies of it
Speaker 7: within like a few days, able for I hope, So okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: so definitely pick up the standard. It's like I I've
Speaker 7: only watched like two hours of it, but it was
Speaker 7: absolutely mesmerizing. And it's put together in such a way
Speaker 7: that like it's edited where one clip is talking to
Speaker 7: the next clip, and that's not always the case, but
Speaker 7: sometimes they're just so well put together, and it's it's
Speaker 7: sourced from the originality exteen millimeter elements that Joe Dante
Speaker 7: had and has a little intro from Joe and has
Speaker 7: a wonderful booklet with some essays and interviews. This is
Speaker 7: truly one of my favorite favorite physical media releases of
Speaker 7: the year. I think it's such a neat thing that
Speaker 7: the movie Orgy's out. I can't tell you so I
Speaker 7: want to throw that one at the end.
Speaker 6: It is a legendary type of release. It is crazy
Speaker 6: that we got it. I also just want to say
Speaker 6: it's been a year of legendary releases. I feel like
Speaker 6: the last year and a half has been at least
Speaker 6: once a month there's announcement that happens and we're all
Speaker 6: just like, how we're getting this? We never saw that coming,
Speaker 6: And I just hope that we keep that energy coming.
Speaker 6: Twenty twenty six has already got a lot of stuff
Speaker 6: rumored to be coming, and physical media doing quite well
Speaker 6: at the moment, and seemingly with streaming in a rough
Speaker 6: spot with prices and with politics right now, and all
Speaker 6: of this kind of come into a head. I genuinely
Speaker 6: feel like we are in a period where people are
Speaker 6: going to make the change should come back to discs.
Speaker 6: I've seen people that have never asked me questions about
Speaker 6: any of this to go Hey, what's a good DVD
Speaker 6: player to get. I'm like, well, let's talk about something
Speaker 6: different first. Let me introduce you to my friend Blu Ray.
Speaker 6: But people that people that have never thought to care
Speaker 6: about this at all are suddenly like, oh, I'm noticing
Speaker 6: I can't watch half of these movies I want to
Speaker 6: see anywhere, and I'm still paying like eighty five dollars
Speaker 6: a month. I could be doing so much better.
Speaker 7: So yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 6: That's exciting. Brian. Anything fun coming up that you want
Speaker 6: to tell people about on Peer Cinema or just the
Speaker 6: disc or anything.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Actually, we have a new series on Pure
Speaker 7: Cinema that is exclusive to our Patreon. It's something I
Speaker 7: don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but
Speaker 7: you know, we love film discoveries. We love to talk
Speaker 7: about that sort of thing, so that this is a
Speaker 7: Patreon exclusive show for our five dollars tier and it's
Speaker 7: just called Film Discoveries, And so it's me or Alric
Speaker 7: at some point talking to people that are friends of
Speaker 7: the show that we want to just sit down with
Speaker 7: and get like five movies, older films they've come to
Speaker 7: in the last year or so. And I've got two episodes, well,
Speaker 7: three episodes out already. One is with Bill Ackerman. That's
Speaker 7: the first episode. Fantastic Bill. Of course, he brought way
Speaker 7: more than five. He brought like thirty movies in that
Speaker 7: first episode, and they're all great. I talked to Chris
Speaker 7: Ryan from the Ringer for the second episode. Then I
Speaker 7: did one myself. That's just me rambling about like forty
Speaker 7: movies that I've never talked about on the show before
Speaker 7: that I just couldn't fit into an episode. That's sort
Speaker 7: of a bonus. But it's gonna be at least a
Speaker 7: monthly show, and it'll be in an addition to our
Speaker 7: Blu Ray episodes and our bi monthly hangouts. And so
Speaker 7: we're really trying to emphasize bonus content on the Patreon
Speaker 7: this year and hoping to get more people involved there.
Speaker 7: I know, you know, it's a tough time financially for people,
Speaker 7: but we're hoping that five bucks a month is something
Speaker 7: that is sustainable for people, and we're trying to make
Speaker 7: it worth their while. And I would like to think
Speaker 7: that the film Discovery series alone will make it worth it,
Speaker 7: because there's a lot of stuff that people are pulling
Speaker 7: out that has either never been covered on the show
Speaker 7: or hasn't been talked about in a while, and I'm
Speaker 7: just having a lot of fun doing it already. So
Speaker 7: definitely look for film discoveries on the Pure Cinema Patreon
Speaker 7: if that's something you be inclined to check out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And honestly, I never do a good enough job
Speaker 6: promoting stuff on my own, but I really just a
Speaker 6: kind of overall general thing to say, if you can,
Speaker 6: there are a lot of people struggling right now that
Speaker 6: are working hard to bring things to the world, and
Speaker 6: if you can find it in yourself to support creators,
Speaker 6: it's a good time. You know. Patreon is something that
Speaker 6: is kind of a must for some people just to
Speaker 6: keep things going. You know, a lot of the stuff
Speaker 6: that we do takes money to be able to create
Speaker 6: for people. So for mine, if you sign up at
Speaker 6: the seven dollars, you get into the discord, which I
Speaker 6: think is the most welcoming film community on the internet.
Speaker 6: Perhaps I'm so proud of the environment that has become.
Speaker 6: Twelve buck will get you the background on the label
Speaker 6: that is happening right now in tenor release. I'm giving
Speaker 6: kind of some clues and stuff that we're doing behind
Speaker 6: the scenes. That will be coming out more and more
Speaker 6: regularly now that it's a public entity. Starting next week,
Speaker 6: that will be a thing. But also the magazine. You
Speaker 6: can subscribe and get a copy of the physical Media
Speaker 6: Advocate straight through the Patreon. I'll send that to you
Speaker 6: every single month. Nice and lots of other people of patreons.
Speaker 6: Check out lots of people. The Sin Syndicate is one
Speaker 6: of my favorite patreons. They've been doing some great stuff.
Speaker 6: Just find somebody that you love, throw them a couple
Speaker 6: of shekels. They'll appreciate you more than you know.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, man. I couldn't agree more with that.
Speaker 6: All right, Brian, Well this is great. I'm glad that
Speaker 6: we could get you back on instead of waiting another
Speaker 6: three and a half years like the first time.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'd like to do this a little more regularly
Speaker 7: in the future, and I should be able to amazing
Speaker 7: at this point. But it's an honor to be back
Speaker 7: and it's always a pleasure. Love chatting with you, sir,
Speaker 7: and it's been nice. For those that don't know. We
Speaker 7: had some chats outside of this show earlier this week
Speaker 7: that'll rear their heads later in the next month or so.
Speaker 7: But that was lovely as well. And again, huge congrats
Speaker 7: on antenna. I'm so excited, just such a lovely venture.
Speaker 7: That just sounds great to me.
Speaker 6: Thank you. I hope it is something that everybody else
Speaker 6: is looking forward to, because man, it's taking up a
Speaker 6: lot of time. I will say that all right, everybody,
Speaker 6: thanks for hanging out this week. Next week, first time
Speaker 6: guest on the show, Michael Byers from The Shameless Picture
Speaker 6: Show will be here from the Cinepux Networks, So come
Speaker 6: check it out. It's gonna be a great time. Until
Speaker 6: next time, Brian, we appreciate you and we'll see you
Speaker 6: next time.
Speaker 7: Thanks so much, Bye, everybody.
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Speaker 6: of horror cinema.
Speaker 8: Every episode we explore a different facet of the genre,
Speaker 8: from survival horror to home invasions, from zombies to birds.
Speaker 8: We tickle the tropes, analyze the angles, and sharpen our
Speaker 8: own access.
Speaker 5: Along the way, we'll introduce you to the classics that
Speaker 5: shape the genre.
Speaker 9: Than the modern masterpieces that are pushing the boundaries of terror.
Speaker 4: Fitting in the dark as your guide to navigating the terrifying.
Speaker 2: Thrilling, and sometimes hilariously bad.
Speaker 6: World of horror movies, we'll help you understand why we
Speaker 6: love to be scared, and.
Speaker 8: Maybe even convert you into a horror fan yourself. So
Speaker 8: turn off the lights, close the basement door.
Speaker 2: And joina.
Speaker 9: Hey, movie lovers, I'm Pete Wright and I'm Andy Nelson.
Speaker 9: We are the hosts of the Next Real Film Podcast.
Speaker 9: If you're passionate about films like we are, you'll love
Speaker 9: our show. Each week, we dive deep into a movie,
Speaker 9: discussing everything from the story and performances, to the cinematography
Speaker 9: and score, not to mention budgets and awards. We have
Speaker 9: covered iconic series like Francis hercoppol As the Godfather trilogy,
Speaker 9: examining themes of power, family, and the dark side of
Speaker 9: the American dream.
Speaker 5: We've explored the works of groundbreaking directors like Catherine Bigelow,
Speaker 5: discussing her mastery of tension.
Speaker 9: We've looked at heist, film's great car chases, great years
Speaker 9: in film, couples on the Run.
Speaker 6: And more.
Speaker 5: Our discussions go beyond the surface, examining what makes each
Speaker 5: film tick. We believe that when the movie ends, the
Speaker 5: conversation begins, and we'd love for you to join that conversation.
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