The Black Dog Newsletter May 21-27 “Don’t Miss This Edition!”

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As you may have heard we’re having a rather large flash sale at the Cambie store this Sunday (26th)! Tons of great DVDs and Blu-Rays will be on offer. Prices start at $5. Many collector’s items, Box Sets, anime, horror, Something Weird, culty, sexy, Criterion, Ghibli, samurai and Asian cult, a few classics and even some regular Hollywood fare will be on the tables to tickle your collecting bones. Brand new Black Dog T-shirts are in as well! It’s going to be epic! 11am till 3pm, Cambie store. Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell the world!

You can still rent but it’ll be a bit chaotic and all the New Releases will be off the shelves. Oh, and if you pay cash, we’ll cover the tax! Cash is king! Hope to see you there.

New Releases!

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Blaze – Nice music bio-pic about a fella named Blaze Foley who was some sort of legend in the Texas Outlaw Music movement (I imagine that’s a thing).

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Capernaum – Tough, gritty film filled with grit and toughness (also Oscar nominated) from Lebanon about a street kid who sues his parents for giving him life.

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Greta – Isabelle Huppert (love her!) is a lonely widow who takes a creepy, dark, unhealthy interest in Chloe Grace Moretz. Neil Jordan (Butcher Boy) slides back into the director’s chair for this one.

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Lords of Chaos – Dude wants to start a Black Metal band in Norway in 1987. Arson, violence, dead animals, stabbings, hot churches, urination, chess, sex and murder are to follow. Might be true, might not. You decide!

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Police Story/Police Story 2 – Two amazing Jackie Chan films for the price of two! This is JC at his best and they’re on Criterion so you know what to do.

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Replicas – Sci-fi with Canoe Reeves as a scientist (!) out to bring his dead family back to life. Dude, gross!

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They Shall Not Grow Old – Excellent doc about the poor bastards who fought in WWI. And it’s mostly in colour!

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The Upside – Remake of the French film, Intouchables, but with Bryan Cranston as the crusty dude in the wheelchair and Kevin Hart as the short guy who’s hired to take care of him. Hilarity and tears, I presume, ensue.

Coming Soon!

Poison Rose
A Vigilante
Climax
Gloria Bell
The Kid
Man who Killed Don Quixote
Jack Ryan: Season 1
JT Leroy

That’s it for this week folks. Here’s a link to our facebonk page about the big sale! See you on Sunday, if not before!

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The Black Dog Newsletter May 14-20 “Podcasts, Sales, T-Shirts and Movies Edition!”

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Good news! After an uncommonly long delay (I think Dylan was either in a coma or Alberta, hard to tell the difference) we have a new podcast episode ready for your eager ears! It’s a bit of a short one because something happened during the recording (probably something that Alex did) resulting in a shorter episode. But it’s still a good one. You decide!

And don’t forget our big-ass sale happening on the 26th at the Cambie store! Tons of cool items will be up for grabs. You don’t want to miss this! 11am-3pm. Be there or be square!

New Releases!

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Apollo 11 – Some men got in a rocket and got shot to the moon! You won’t believe what happened next! Very good doc about the reported moon landing back in the day. Blu Ray only.

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Charm City – Excellent tough doc about that nice city known as Baltimore. Or as they call it on The Wire, Bodymore, Murderland.

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Cold Pursuit – Every January a new Liam Neeson action movie is released. They should make it a holiday. In this one he’s a grieving snowplow driver (Mr. Plow, that’s my name, that name again is Mr. Plow) who seeks some revenge. Based on the great little Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance.

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Fighting with My Family – A former wrestler and his family make a living doing the small-time wrestling circuit in this comedy/drama starring Mr. Rock and written/directed, for some reason, by Stephen Merchant.

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Happy Death Day 2U – Sequel to the surprisingly good original. Kind of a horror Groundhog Day type of affair.

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Never Grow Old – John (straight to DVD) Cusack stars in this western as an undertaker (or maybe a bad guy, not too sure) whose business thrives in the old west.

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Triple Threat – Martial arts extravaganza starring guys from The Raid, Ong Bak, John Wick, No Surrender and Black Dynamite. Yes please!

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Andre the Giant – Nice, if overly-long, doc about the big man himself. I saw him wrestle back in the 80s. He was a very large human. He’s so big his head sticks out of the box!

Coming Soon!

Blaze
Capernaum
Hagazussa
Lords of Chaos
Police Story/Police Story 2
Replicas
They Shall Not Grow Old
The Upside
Greta

One more thing before I let you get back to your lives – we should have more T-shirts for your fleshy bodies this week! Keep your eyes peeled!

Oh, and thanks to everyone who donated movies and such, Keep them coming! It helps us out immensely!

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The Black Dog Newsletter May 7-13 “We Need Your Help Edition!”

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Everyday I hear, “Wow, a video store!” It makes me feel both happy that I’m still doing this and anxious as I think I may be a fool for keeping this outfit running. Life in the world of video stores, as one might presume, is not easy. As much as we all love being part of the last remaining shop in town, we are also wary of the precarious nature of this business. It’s stressful, maddening, angst-ridden yet still awesome. Please continue reading.

Jot down the 26th of May! Jot it! 11am-3pm at the Cambie shop we will be hosting an amazing pop-up sale event. Thousands of wonderful titles will be up for grabs with prices starting at $5! Lots of cult, anime, horror, box sets, collector’s items and much more!

New Releases!

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Arctic – Mads Mikkelson goes on vacation by himself in the middle of the Arctic (or his plane crashes, not too sure) and must survive the harsh climate. I’ll watch almost anything that Mads does. Love that guy!

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Birds of Passage – Excellent film from Columbia about an indigenous family that gets caught up in the marijuana trade boom.

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Everybody Knows – Penelope Cruz returns to her home-town in Spain for her sister’s wedding. But secrets are revealed, feelings are smashed, things, I presume, happen. Also with Javier Bardem.

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Hole in the Ground – A mysterious sinkhole in the woods, a missing son and some scary shenanigans abound in this cool-looking horror number.

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I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu – (Self) Billed as the most anticipated sequel of all-time, here’s more (2 and ½ hours more!) of your favourite revenge fantasy film.

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Lego Movie 2 – More fun Lego hi-jinks!

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My Scientology Movie – Funny guy Louis Theroux made a film about creepy Scientology. Might be the best horror film out this week!

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The Prodigy – Another spooky kid (what kids aren’t spooky? Am I right?!) horror film to make you wonder why you ever had offspring.

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Unforgotten Season 3 – Season 3 of this fine cold case detective series from across the pond.

Coming Soon!

Apollo 11
Big Brother
Call the Midwife Season 8
Charm City
Cold Pursuit
Fighting with my Family
Happy Death Day 2
Isn’t it Romantic?
How to Train Your Dragon 3
Never Grow Old
Triple Threat
WWE: Andre the Giant

Recommendations (for films) can be found here.

That’s it for this week, folks. Thanks for reading (especially my important little essay) and hope to see y’all sooner than later.

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We Need Your Help!

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Everyday I hear, “Wow a video store!” It makes me feel both happy that I’m still doing this and anxious as I think I may be a fool for keeping this outfit running. Life in the world of video stores, as one might presume, is not easy. As much as we all love being part of the last remaining shop in town, we are also wary of the precarious nature of this business. It’s stressful, maddening, angst-ridden yet still awesome.

But as much as we love bringing you the best in what the world have to offer in cinema and TV, it is increasingly becoming more difficult to do so. As you know, there’s a plethora of choices from where to get your media. And these choices are increasing – for better or for worse. It seems that with more platforms offering this and that the actual content seems to be shrinking. Look at Netflix – they only have around 3,000 movies to offer (most are straight-to-video crap). We have almost 17,000 titles (many of which you can’t find anywhere online). But in the matter of convenience vs quality, convenience always seems to win. Why leave the house to get a copy of the latest Oscar winner when you can watch any number of Adam Sandler movies in your robe? But when you think about it, would you rather give your hard-earned dollars to a billionaire who doesn’t pay taxes or support your local shop that employs folks from the neighborhood and is a part of your vibrant community?

Business is tough. Places come and go. It’s part of life. We understand that. And right now, business is tough for us. The future seems cloudy. But you can help! Keep your streaming sites (don’t illegally download!) but also keep us in mind if you want something good. Even if you just pop in once or twice a month, it would go a long way to keeping us open. Buy a 10-movie punch card that will save you over $10 in rentals! Grab a T-shirt (more are on the way!) or buy some films from us (we’re having a big sale at the Cambie shop on the 26th of May) or donate your unwanted DVDS. Anything and everything helps.

We’ve been in your community for a long time – going on 24 years at Cambie and 14 at Commercial – and want to stay here. Even if it’s just for a little while longer. But we can’t do it without you. I hope to see your smiling faces in the shops soon.

Thanks,

Darren and the Black Dog Staff

The Black Dog Newsletter April 29-May 6 “It’s a Date Edition!”

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Mark your calendars, write it on your forearm, shave the date into your dog as May 26th will be the date forever known as The Big DVD Sale Strikes Back! Drop into the Cambie store starting at 11am and running until 3pm (you can still rent after noon but it might be a little more challenging than normal) and feast upon thousands of awesome DVDS and Blu Rays that we’ve recently acquired! Lots of great titles – cult, horror, weird, not-so weird, classics, contemporary, plus tons more – to be had. Prices will be reasonably priced of course as we want these lovely items to find a good home. And as usual, you pay in cash, we pay the tax! More details to follow…

New Releases!

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Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Pretty good, beautifully shot short-story effort from the Coen Brothers. Not all the episodes work but, hey, it’s the Coens! Are you not going to watch this?

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Dragged Across Concrete – Mad Mel Gibson and Very Vince Vaughn are two corrupt cops who delve into the underworld to get what they want. From the fella that made the excellent Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99. Can’t wait!

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Mega Time Squad – Dude steals a magical bracelet that allows him to go back a few minutes in time but doing so creates more versions of the himself. So they form a gang called Mega Time Squad (just like the title!). Sounds like this could be fun!

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Mirai – Nice, Oscar-nominated animated fare about a kid who encounters a magical garden that allows him to travel through time and hang out with his relatives. I dunno, if I had time travel abilities, I’m going to dinosaur times! Or Mad Max times! Or both!

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Project Blue Book Season 1 – X-Filesy sounding show about a guy (Littlefinger from GoT) who investigates UFO encounters. Encounters of the 3rd (and maybe even sexy) kind!

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Serenity – Strange sounding film has Mat McConaughy as a fishing boat captain who has weird, twisty and mysterious things happen to him. Or something. I don’t know.

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Tickled – “A descent into Hell” is how one of my employees describes this odd, disturbing doc about online tickling competitions. But it’s much more than that he assures you.

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What They Had – Nice-looking cast – Hillary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forester – in this nice-looking movie about family matters and such.

Coming Soon!

Arctic
Everybody Knows
Lego Movie 2
Unforgotten Season 3
The Prodigy
What Men Want
My Scientology Movie
Hole in the Ground

That’s it for this week, folks. Stay tuned for more news about the big sale and any upcoming podcast episodes. Movie recommendations can be found here!

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The Black Dog Newsletter April 23-29 “Something Awesome This Way Comes Edition!”

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Remember those cool flash sales we’ve done in the past? The ones with a multitude of amazing DVDs we acquired and made available to you wonderful collectors? Well, it looks like we may be doing again that in the very near future! Stay tuned…

New Releases!

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El Angel – Fun, cool flick from Argentina finds a cute, anglelic-faced kid who does lots of crimes and things.

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Berlin, I Love You – Latest in the “Insert City Name I Love You” series. This one is in Berlin! I’m looking forward Springfield, I Love You or Medicine Hat, I Love You.

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Charmer – Intense Danish nourish piece about an Iranian fellow, with a shady past, who desperately needs to find a woman that can secure his stay in Denmark.

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Destroyer – Cool tough police detective thriller that has Nicole Kidman doing cool tough police detective work.

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Free Solo – Hair-raising, pulse-pounding, potato-boiling documentary that follows a crazy nutter of a dude as he attempts to free climb (no ropes!) something called El Capitan, which, I assume, is a big rock.

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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki – Doc about the great Miyazaki and all those wonderful Studio Ghibli creations he created.

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Touch Me Not – Award-winning film about intimacy and sexuality and other good things.

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Unknown Soldier – Excellent WWII film from Finland about some nasty battles they had with their Soviets oppressors at the outbreak of the war.

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Vikings Season 5 Part 2 – Part 2 of Season 5 of those rascally Vikings.

Coming Soon!

Dragged Across Concrete
Serenity
Mega Time Squad
Miral
Project Blue Book Season 1
What They Had
Ballad of Buster Scruggs

We should have a new episode of our podcast, Black Dog After Dark, up and ready soon. I believe that Dylan is just putting the finishing touches on it. Right, Dylan?

That’s it for this week folks. If you need some recommendations on what to watch, click here!

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The Black Dog Newsletter April 16-22 “Sale into Our Contest Edition!’

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For the upcoming long weekend (Easter or something) we’re going to have a small secret sale at both Black Dog locations. It’s not a big special event sale like we’ve had in the past but just a little something something we cooked up for you guys. Check the Facebook, Twitter or Instagram on Friday for details.

Also we have a little contest a brewing! We have several Blu-Ray/DVD combos of the new Glass film by M. Night Shyamalan to give away. But first you must spend the night on a haunted house! Either that or answer this skill-testing question: What is this movie about? Wrong answers only. Best answers win!

New Releases!

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The Bouncer – JCVD is back and ready to dole out some Van Damage as an old-man nightclub bouncer struggling to raise his 8 year-old daughter.

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Escape at Dannemora – Excellent tough TV show about a prison guard who helps the two cons she’s sleeping with escape!

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Escape Room – It’s escape week here at Black Dog Video! Six strangers find themselves trapped in a deadly escape room. I did an escape room in Romania a few years ago. We didn’t make it out but it was fun nonetheless. Perhaps if I spoke Romanian?

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Glass – The final installment of M. Night Shymalan’s trilogy nobody knew he was making finds Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson from Unbreakable trying to track down James McAvoy from Split. Glass!

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The Kid Who Would be King – Finally a new film from the guy who made the excellent Attack the Block all those years ago! Some sort of Excaliburian quest is at hand for a bunch of kids. Heard it’s pretty good!

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Tito and the Birds – Lovely animated fare from Brazil about a kid and his dad who try to find a cure for some illness one contracts when scared or something like that.

Coming Soon!

Destroyer
Free Solo
Vikings S5 pt2
The Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
Berlin, I Love You
The Charmer
El Angel
Touch Me Not
Unknown Soldier
The World Before Your Feet

Oh, City TV did a little spot on us the other day. And I don’t sound like an idiot (always a fear/chance)!

That’s it for this edition, kids! Have a swell week and hope to see you in the stores soon!

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The Black Dog Video Newsletter April 9-15 “Dropping like Flies Edition!”

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So we’re just a few months into 2019 and we’ve already seen a number of cinema folks pass on (die); Agnes Varda, Larry Cohen, Stanley Donen, Albert Finney, Seymour Cassell, Luke Perry, Katherine Helmond, Peter Tork, Bob Einstein and others we may not know of yet. Drop in and rent some films and TV shows to celebrate their lives. Or something.

New Releases!

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The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot – Might just be the best title ever for a movie. Sam Elliot, fresh off a secret assassination of the dreaded Hitler, is recruited to take down Bigfoot for some reason. I like how they equate the two. Looking forward to this one!

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Next of Kin – Spooky spooktacular spookarama haunted house number from Australia was actually made in 1982 but is just now making it’s fabulous debut on the home videos. Heard very good things!

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Outlander Season 4 – Season 4 of Outlander.

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Thunder Road – Much ballyhooed (won a bunch of awards or something) flick about a cop facing a personal meltdown after a divorce and the death of his mum. Funny, dramatic, sadness. All of the above.

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La Verite (Criterion) – Excellent flick from Henri-Georges Couzot (Wages of Fear, Army of Shadows) starring Bridget Bardot (it’s from 1960) about a woman accused of murder. A murder most foul.

Coming Soon!

The Bouncer
Escape at Dannemora
Escape Room
Glass
Kid Who Would be King
Tito and the Birds
Free Solo
Destroyer

That’s it for this week, kids. Stay tuned for some info on an upcoming sale special for the next holiday weekend! Til next week…

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The Black Dog Video Newsletter April 2-8 “So, You Like Movies? Edition!”

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Had a guy come into the store the other day and, as he’s perusing our cool films we have for sale, he says to me, “So you like movies?” I just stared blankly at him and told him to get out. Just kidding. But speaking of things for sale, we just added a huge pile of awesome titles over at Commercial (Cambie has lots as well)! Drop in to scoop up some neat box sets and films for very good prices!

Oh! There’s a brand new hilarious episode of our podcast ready for your ears. April Fool’s Day special!

New Releases!

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Bumblebee – Another Transformers entry into this dreadful talking machines from outer space series. But…I hear that this one is actually quite good. Michael Bay was not involved. Can someone please stop letting that guy make movies.

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Dog’s Way Home – Who’s a good boy?! Oh yes you are, you’re a good boy! Hoosyboosey!

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Holmes and Watson – Will Farrell and John C. Reilly muck about as the famous detectives in this terrible “comedy”. Sorry.

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On the Basis of Sex – Bio-pic of Ruth Bader Ginsberg (RBG!) that looks at her early life fighting for women’s rights and getting on the supreme court and other fun stuff. Bader is a weird name.

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My Brilliant Friend – Excellent HBO series about an elderly woman recounting her times growing up in post war Naples with her friend. Her brilliant friend.

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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase – Teen detective hijinks.

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Ray Donovan Season 6 – Season 6 of tough guy series, Ray Donovan.

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Vice – Christian Bale magically transforms into human lizard toad, Dick Cheney, in this entertaining political comedy romp.

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Welcome to Marwen – Based on the vastly superior documentary, Marwencol, Steve Carell plays a guy who gets beat up, spends some time in a coma and then turns into a weird artist.

Coming Soon!

Free Solo
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then Bigfoot
Next of Kin
The Bouncer
Escape at Dannemora
Glass
Kid Who Would be King
Destroyer
Escape Room
Outlander Season 4
Vikings Season 5

The rains are a coming so might be time to hunker down with some fine film selections! Need some help? Check out here and here.

Till next week, my lovelies.

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The Black Dog Newsletter “I’m Melting Edition!”

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Wow. Seems spring has sprung with the intention of melting our faces off! It’s too warm too soon, in my opinion, (end of days I tells ya!) but it is good for sitting on the patio!

There won’t be a newsletter next week as I’m taking a bit of a much-needed vacation. Yap at ya in two weeks.

New Releases!

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Aquaman – Jason Momoa play a fish-man named Art who can talk to the fishes and make them do his bidding. Has practical applications I suppose. (Should be on the shelves this Friday)

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If Beale St Could Talk – Heavy drama from the fella that made Moonlight about a family struggling to survive after the husband is set up by a racist cop. Lousy coppers.

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King of Thieves – Michael Caine and Michael Gambon star, with others, in this true tale of some old coots who pull off one last heist. (Should be on the shelves this Friday)

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Mary Poppins Returns – How can you miss me if I won’t go away? Emily Blunt is the new singing magic nanny.

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MFKZ – Cool-looking French animated number about a guy living in Dark Meat City (Yum!) who starts to see monsters prowling around the neighborhood. (Should be on the shelves this Friday)

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse – Everyone loves this wonderful new Spider-man animated movie. And you will too! (Winner best animated film)

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Stan and Ollie – Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly play Laurel and Hardy as they try to recapture their mad magic on a farewell tour of post-war Britain. I was a huge fan as a kid so I hope that this is good! (Should be on the shelves this Friday)

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The Quake – Oslo, Norway gets punished by a big earthquake. First it was The Wave and now The Quake, what’s next, The Bees? The Trees? The Sneeze?

Coming Soon!

Free Solo
Bumblebee
The House that Jack Built
Vice
The Mule
My Brilliant Friend
Unknown Soldier
Blaze
My Scientology Movie
Le Verite

Don’t forget to check out our podcast – Black Dog After Dark! We aim to put a smile on your face!

That’s it for this week, folks! Enjoy the sunshine, wear sunscreen, stay hydrated and remember, keep watching!

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