It's a rainy afternoon, so I feel like putting on something old and odd. Here are a couple of the titles that got pulled off the shelf just now.
COSMIC SLOP: Remember when HBO used to make weird stuff along the lines of "Absolutely, a Twilight Zone-style anthology show hosted by George Clinton is a winning idea!" and it made an equal amount of sense to put it out on a niche video format?
DELUSION: A bit of a '90s noir classic. I'd had the Barry Adamson soundtrack album for almost thirty years before finally buying this as a birthday present for myself a while back... and it actually lived up to the built-up expectations.
ER: If I ever become king, money will be made available for more live drama on TV. One of the biggest shows around when I was a student doing two takes of an episode, one for broadcast in its Pacific time slot and one for Eastern, was pretty brave stuff and it was cool to see both of them released as a set.
FULL CONTACT: My favourite Ringo Lam movie, picked up for a song when everybody was dumping their laserdiscs to buy DVDs and all kinds of great Hong Kong stuff was suddenly ten bucks a disc. The dance numbers and the homophobia haven't aged well, but it's still a brilliant action movie.
GAMERA: Who doesn't love a giant space turtle, especially when you don't have the most annoying kid's voice ever (in the English dub) to contend with? Mind you, I can't watch it without thinking of Tom Servo's love song to Tibby and it's probably going to be stuck in my head all night now. Hooray.
MEREDITH MONK: Lumivision put out so much cool stuff, from Corman schlock to weird documentaries to '80s video art, and almost all of it has survived the many collection prunings since then. Bought this one in the middle of a big John Zorn kick and it was absolutely worth the crapshoot.