Phil described the movie<\/a> as “a pretentious concoction of half-baked ideas from a filmmaker who should know better.” Ouch.<\/p>\n‘#Horror<\/strong>‘ \u2013 A cheapie fright flick in which a group of overprivileged ‘tween girls are stalked by someone they’d cyberbullied online. #straighttothebargainbin<\/p>\nCatalog Titles<\/h2>\n
Arrow Video is in a giallo kind of mood this week. The label has three (really four) Italian horror thrillers on tap: Lucio Fulci’s 1981 ‘The Black Cat<\/strong>‘, Sergio Martino’s bizarrely-titled 1972 ‘Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key<\/strong>‘, and a two-fer by Luciano Ercoli called ‘Death Walks Twice<\/strong>‘ (a double feature of 1971’s ‘Death Walks on High Heels’ and 1972’s ‘Death Walks at Midnight’).<\/p>\nBeyond that, the only other catalog title that jumps out at me is ‘Prefontaine<\/strong>‘, the bio-pic about Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine that was the first non-documentary film from director Steve James (‘Hoop Dreams’). I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard the movie is pretty good.<\/p>\nTelevision<\/h2>\n
If you’re looking for a space drama that’s a little more science fiction and a little less fantasy than ‘Star Wars’, the Syfy network’s excellent ‘The Expanse<\/strong>‘ was one of the best new TV series of 2015.<\/p>\nAlso available are the third season of Cinemax’s ‘Banshee<\/strong>‘ and the complete ninth season of ‘Doctor Who<\/strong>‘ (which was previously divided between two smaller box sets).<\/p>\nMy $.02<\/h2>\n
I have no doubt at all which title will lead the voting in this week’s poll. Perhaps a better question is how many of our readers are not<\/em> planning to buy ‘Star Wars’ this week.<\/p>\nI have the ‘Force Awakens’ SteelBook on preorder at Best Buy and will try to watch that as soon as I can. Nothing else calls out to me. (As much as I like ‘The Expanse’, I’ve cut way back on collecting box sets of TV shows I already watched on broadcast.)<\/p>\n
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