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Out This Week: Babylon 5, Mavka, Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse, Junk Head and More

August 15, 2023 ,


Welcome back to another edition of Out This Week. New this week is the first animated film based on cult 90's sci-fi Babylon 5, The Road Home.  Also new is the Ukraninan CGI animated feature Mavka: The Forest Song, Japanese stop-motion sci-fi Junk Head and making its disc debut Hotel Translyvania: Transformania. Two of the biggest animated films of the year are now available to buy on digital in the form of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and Elemental.



UK Releases For August 14, 2023




Babylon 5: The Road Home (Warner Bros., 12) "Return to Babylon 5 as the epic interstellar saga continues with THE ROAD HOME. Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe."
FORMATS: 4K+Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray+Digital




The Devil Is A Part-Timer! Season 2 (Crunchyroll LLC, 12)"MgRonald’s best demon lord worker is back, climbing the corporate ladder to become ruler of Earth. But Maou’s plans of domination might need to be put on hold when a small girl claims to be his and Emi’s child"
FORMATS Blu-Ray




Junk Head (Anime Ltd., 12) alltheanime.com exclusive until Sept 18." In a distant future world, humans have received longevity but lost their fertility, and are nearly extinct by population decline. The protagonist, a cyborg explorer, enters an underground world where artificially created species live. His mission is intended to research for their secrets of reproductivity. As the story goes on, it becomes gradually clear that the underground world is a kind of dystopia where dangerous monsters roam or ambush, and that the artificially created intelligent species developed a unique society.
FORMATS: Blu-Ray


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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse [Digital Premiere] (Sony, PG) HOME PREMIERE. Contains bonus videos, photo galleries, trivia, and more accessible in Prime Video's X-Ray on web, mobile, & select FireTV devices. Bonus Video available in English only. In a Multiverse of Spider-People, Miles Morales must redefine what it means to be a hero.
FORMATS: Digital to Buy











US Releases For August 15, 2023
Babylon 5: The Road Home (Warner Bros., PG-13) "Return to Babylon 5 as the epic interstellar saga continues with THE ROAD HOME. Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe."
FORMATS: 4K+Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray+Digital







Elemental: [Digital Premiere] (Disney, PG) "Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is an original feature film set in Element City where Fire, Water, Earth and Air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in."
FORMATS: DIGITAL TO BUY





Gunpla Builders: Beginning G (Right Stuf, NR) "The young Haru Irei has a fateful encounter with an extremely rare Gunpla, the Beginning Gundam. After building this Beginning Gundam, Haru learns about and participates in the Gunpla Battle game. As he meets Kouji and other powerful rivals, Haru grows up..."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray







Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (Sony, PG)" When Van Helsing's mysterious invention, the "Monsterfication Ray", goes haywire, Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnny becomes a monster. In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it's too late, and before they drive each other crazy. With help from Mavis and the hilariously human Drac Pack, the heat is on to find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray+Digital, DVD




Junk Head (Synergetic, NR) "In a distant future world, humans have received longevity but lost their fertility, and are nearly extinct by population decline. The protagonist, a cyborg explorer, enters an underground world where artificially created species live. His mission is intended to research for their secrets of reproductivity. As the story goes on, it becomes gradually clear that the underground world is a kind of dystopia where dangerous monsters roam or ambush, and that the artificially created intelligent species developed a unique society."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray




The Life of Budori Gusuko (Sentai Filmworks, TV-14)"The fairy tale follows a young man named Guskou in the Tohoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s. After an onslaught of droughts and natural disasters, Guskou is forced to leave his home and search for a better life elsewhere. Guskou joins a group of scientists at the Ihatov Volcano Department, which deals with the same natural disasters that drove Guskou from his home. Based on a classic story by Miyazawa Kenji."
FORMATS; Blu-Ray




Mavka, The Forest Song (Shout Studios, NR) "Mavka — a Soul of the Forest and its Warden — faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human — the talented young musician Lukas."
FORMATS: DVD







Mirage Queen Prefers Circus (Sentai Filmworks, TV-14) "No one knows the real identity, age or even gender of the Master Thief known as the Queen, but once they set their desires upon a target, it's as good as taken. Until the Queen's plans for the spectacular gem known as the Rose of Linden are thrown by a rogues' gallery of circus performers stealing the jewel first! A thief with their own private Airship is used to changing plans on the fly, however. Will hypnotists be dazzled, and acrobats fall? And will the last laugh be upon a criminal clown? The greatest show on Earth is about to unfold."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray



Mobile Suit Gundam San (Right Stuf, NR) "The "Red Comet" has some more skin to show, and the pilot of the "White Mobile Suit" is right in the middle of puberty!? Just what happened to the One Year War and the Newtype reformation? Can the Gundam world contain this mess? Let's see the mistakes they've made because of foolishness!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray



Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS Remain of the Red (RightStuf, NR)"Late U.C. 0096. Regarding the existence of the psycho-frame as a threat, the Earth Federation sends a special forces team to investigate the shattered asteroid Axis. The survey team includes the civilians Arlette Almage and Danton Highleg, who formerly worked with the Zeon and Neo Zeon forces. While investigating Axis, the team is attacked by a new Gundam that belongs to a private militia called Birnam. And as the fighting escalates, Arlette pursues a secret agenda of her own..."





Parallel World Pharmacy: The Complete Season (Crunchyroll LLC, TV-14)"When pharmacologist Kanji Yakutani dies, he’s bewildered to be reincarnated as a boy apprentice in a medieval world. But with mind-blowing new powers, a noble family, and modern medical knowledge, his dream of reforming healthcare might finally come true!"






Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse [Digital Premiere] (Sony, PG) HOME PREMIERE. Contains bonus videos, photo galleries, trivia, and more accessible in Prime Video's X-Ray on web, mobile, & select FireTV devices. Bonus Video available in English only. In a Multiverse of Spider-People, Miles Morales must redefine what it means to be a hero.
FORMATS: Digital to Buy










Also Released


  • Hentai Girfriend (DVD) [Adult title]
  • Hotel Transylvania 4 Pack (DVD)






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