Got these today. An unusual order as it came from the USA, complete with heartbreak tax (aka shipping that reduces you to tears). Still cheaper than Gr€€dBay.

I have the trilogy on Blu Ray, but it's Angel III and it's great! Need to find the rest now.




Heroic Trio. One that seems to command wild prices across a wild range and more expensive on DVD for some reason.




Mind's Eye. I think this now completes the set for me. I have Gate and Odyssey. I think I have Beyond, not sure.




American Boyfriends. A blind buy. Looks interesting and seems to be an odd one to find/buy on DVD.

I do this a lot too.

Ted you are always getting discs that pique my interest!

"LADY SNOWBLOOD" & "LADY SNOWBLOOD II : A LOVE SONG FOR VENGEANCE"
circa 1972 vintage Samurai genre by Anim Eigo collection releases.
Only the best Samurai offerings from anim eigo ! ! !

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The Razor
SWORD OF DOOM
Baby Cart series
Zatoichi
And more.......

Cheers

Received this today with two unusual things about it. One, I rarely buy a new, sealed Laserdisc. I hope it plays.

Two, I paid heartbreak tax on it as it only seems to be available in the USA.

The Heroic Trio is absolutely fantastic. The photography, the music, the action, tremendous.

Twilight of the Cockroaches is better on this LD than the streaming I've seen.
The image is very dark to begin with, I have seen the Japanese LD for sale but unknown if its widescreen and has no English subs.
So if you ask me this is the best version to own if they can ever find the source material to make a new master.

Pleased to have Twilight of the Cockroaches, it's thanks to this forum I became aware that the LD is probably the best version that will ever be available. It's a bit of a pig though isn't it? What's up with the aspect ratio? The bottom black bar is so big it spans 9 time zones.

Happy to report that the sealed disc I purchased plays absolutely fine. The audio is rather nice on it, but that image transfer really is mediocre.

Some discs they pushed up for the subs so they wouldn't be in the picture.
They did this with early star wars and some other stuff, people could watch films in the theaters with subtitles but when at home they
don't want them messing up their image.

“Mangarama”

Space truckers and gunhed

I was able to secure these titles for my collection just a few days ago, from a really friendly fellow Canuck. He was selling them on eBay at a very fair price. It hasn't been too often than I found such reasonable prices on eBay. He didn't even charge more shipping for sending me three discs.







I hadn't seen Point Of No Return since I recorded it onto VHS way back in the mid-90s (I no longer have the VHS tape). But I remembered it as a not too bad spy/assassin movie. I enjoyed watching it again after all of these years.

The Bounty is the next on my watchlist.
Have mentioned before but the story was taught at school here in history class so looking forward to watching especially with young gibs and hops

TIL The Assassin was called Point Of No Return in Canada. In Germany it was called Codename: Nina apparently.

It was good. I don't know how historically accurate the movie was, but I had the impression that Bligh was more of a tyrant than depicted in the movie.

I wasn't aware of that. Very interesting.

That's kind of what's supposed to be a big deal about the 1980s Bounty; this was very much the case with past films about the story and it created this impression in the mind of the public, but none of them addressed the fact that in reality, Bligh and Christian had actually been good friends in the past, something the 1984 movie explores.

Also speaking of weird international alternate titles, guess what The Silent Running is called in Italy? https://media-cache.cinematerial.com/p/ ... 1456507996

Did not know that one.... love that stuff - thanks.

Disc on the left is one I've wanted for months, I wanted it in time for christmas with the intent of hauling my whole player to my folks to see how it'd look like on the old CRT widescreen telly they still have, and I wanted something appropriate to watch for the holidays too...unfortunately I'm still waiting for the replacement loading belts to arrive and I'm not sure they're gonna make it here on time.

Disc on the right I bid on ebay while drunk. I hope it's good at least???

The Snowman! Utter classic.

Death Machine sounds absolutely epic. I think I've seen it hovering around on a German blu release though I think it might be an Australian film? Apologies if that's incorrect. I hope it's as good as the title suggests!

From what I remember the Death Machine was the only way to get it widescreen or uncut but I think its been released on Bluray by now as such.

Fun film from when I saw it years ago, had ideas of owning at one time but never did.