Scream Factory’s Facebook page<\/a>. (See the comments to the June 17th, 2015 post about the disc.)<\/p>\nArrow Video unleashes the 1980 Italian cult horror chiller ‘Contamination<\/strong>‘ and American B-movie specialist Jack Hill’s 1969 car crash extravaganza ‘Pit Stop<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nI’ve always enjoyed the blackly comic movie adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Needful Things<\/strong>‘, even if critics of the day and fans of the author tore it to shreds. (The book is one of King’s unwieldy 1,000-page behemoths, which the movie cut down significantly.) I still think it’s underrated. Note that Kino was only able to license the theatrical cut for the Blu-ray, not the extended miniseries version that played on TV in 1996.<\/p>\nAlso from Kino is the 1977 adaptation of ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau<\/strong>‘, starring Burt Lancaster as the mad scientist. <\/p>\nOlive Films has a lot of junk this week, but perhaps someone will find a guilty pleasure from the likes of Brian “The Boz” Bosworth’s failed star vehicle ‘Stone Cold<\/strong>‘, the rad ’80s skateboarding flick ‘Thrashin’<\/strong>‘, Snoop Dogg’s misbegotten stoner comedy ‘Soul Plane<\/strong>‘, or the embarrassingly ridiculous horror comedy ‘The Thing with Two Heads<\/strong>‘. <\/p>\nIf you’ve been enjoying Disney’s recent spate of Studio Ghibli titles, perhaps you might be interested in an older (pre-Ghibli) Hayao Miyazaki film, ‘Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro<\/strong>‘?<\/p>\nWhen Fox switched over to using the word “Anthology” for the Blu-ray collection of the ‘Alien’ franchise, I hoped that we’d never have to hear the stupid made-up word “quadrilogy” ever again. Sadly, Paramount has resurrected it for the ‘Mission: Impossible Quadrilogy<\/strong>‘, which repackages the franchise’s first four films in time to promote this summer’s fifth entry. As you may recall, Paramount has repeatedly screwed fans of this series over by constantly reissuing old Blu-rays of the first three movies with only lossy Dolby Digital audio even though the same titles were released in Asia with lossless DTS-HD Master Audio. I am not holding my breath that we’ll see that corrected here. (‘M:I-2’ also desperately needs a new video remaster.)<\/p>\nTelevision<\/h2>\n
TV fare this week includes the third season of BBC’s ‘Ripper Street<\/strong>‘ and the fifth season of the comedy ‘Workaholics<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nMy $.02<\/h2>\n
‘The Fisher King’ is the only disc this week I’m actually eager to buy. I will put ‘3-D Rarities’ and ‘Lupin III’ on my wish list for later, and may pick up ‘Needful Things’ at some point down the road if it falls in price sufficiently. Beyond that, this week is kind of a dud. Do you disagree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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