Trawling Through The Thrift Stores with Joseph Finn

Happy Thursday, everyone!  Back in the thick of the things, I am and wow do I have some good finds this week.

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Wow. this is a great example of "good movie with a good Blu-Ray edition with my god, what a terrible color cover."  Why do they think a movie for  people who love black & white films and love this movie would be attracted to this cover? Weirdly, the Criterion cover is not especially great either.

It's perfectly...OK and isn't colorized.  It's FINE.  Unlike this, and I'll warn you, you don't need to see this, the current blu-ray of The Apartment.  Prepare yourself, because it's just plain bad.

OK, here's a palate cleanser, the wonderful Arrow cover from the UK.

Some Like It Hot is available for purchase at the usual places and is streaming at Hoopla and at Pluto TV with ads.

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Time for a Spike Lee blindspot.  This is a apparently a good take on NCAA recruitment (which is an absolute snake pit of bribery and coercion as schools try and persuade athletes to sign on for giving hem free labor for three or four years).  Starring Ray Allen, who at the time was in his 1st or 2nd year with the Timberwolves, and just going by the trailer he has a fresh face that really works for this.  Denzel plays his father, recruited from prison to help him et recruited by whatever team, and I'm very curious to see what 1998 Spike has to say in this. 

He Got Game is streaming on HBO Max.

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Time for a Most Dangerous Game riff double feature!  The weird things here is that I only know Deliverance by reputation and I should check it out for the great Ned Beatty, but I have seen Surviving The Game three times and hoooooo boy let me sing you the song of its praises.  A movie about a bunch of white guys looking to hunt man who've been recruiting from the homeless of Seattle, who finally choose the absolute wrong guy in Ranger veteran Ice-T.  It's slightly goofy, kind of grisly and has some darn good performances as Ice-T starts using his survival skills to take everyone out.  This is exactly he kind of schlock I love.

Deliverance is not streaming on any package but you can rent it everywhere.

Surviving The Game is not streaming on any package but you can rent it everywhere.

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Farce!  Farce!  And more farce!  Adapted from the extremely fun Michael Flynn stage play about a bunch of minor British stage actors trying to put on a farce comedy as they tour out in the sticks, this isn't the greatest play adaptation forever but I can't recommend it enough for the cast.  One of two plays-into-movies that Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine did together, this is the least gloomy one but it's also just as funny.

Noises Off is available through Hoopla.

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2 dollars

Seriously, I got this for 2 bucks.

9 discs containing all 4 of the Alien movies at the time, with a shitload of special features.  I'm just gonna crow about this for a while.  Obviously the first two movies are the classic, but I will defend Alien 3 in its various incarnations, a movie that I think gets shit on needlessly but is an interesting sidebar in the franchise.  Then there is Alien Resurrection, which is where things get just plain weird.

At the moment, Alien and Aliens are on Amazon Prime while Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are just for rent/purchase.