Fun City Editions

[ChunkyLover]

I wonder if it’s because of FCE breaking away from OCN/VS. I’m surprised that they haven’t released another MGM title since then.

[What A Disgrace]

It could be that it's more to do with their MGM relationship coming to an end.

[dwk]

It could be that it's more to do with their MGM relationship coming to an end.

This is most likely. Still, like those Kino UHDs, FCE's MGM deal seemed shorter than normal. Which makes me wonder if this has always been the case with MGM or is it something new due to their acquisition by Amazon.

[rapta]

It's a shame they didn't port the rest of their MGM titles to the UK via Radiance (who still have an active deal with MGM via Park Circus), as I would've snapped up Born to Win, Rancho Deluxe and Smile in a heartbeat (and probably got Alphabet City, The Coca-Cola Kid; and Breathless too if Second Sight's rights have expired). Unfortunately the US discs are region locked, so I didn't bother even when they were recently dirt cheap.

Maybe Radiance might be interested in at least a couple of these if Fun City don't want to continue being one of their 'hosted labels'?

[colinr0380]

I'd second rapta on that hope, especially since the first couple of Fun City titles getting released in the UK actively encouraged me to hold off on importing in the hopes that more would come out here directly.

[domino harvey]

Canadian aerobicsploitation classic Heavenly Bodies (1984) is coming soon! Go into it as blind as possible, and remember to thank me later

I went in blind and enjoyed some of its ridiculous idiosyncrasies (as well as genuinely at face value, as a low-stakes "aerobicsploitation" film, like you say), but didn't come away bowled over by any 'shock' - other than an early moment where we surely witness the first on-screen

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"orgy" conversation between a mother and her son. Also, apparently orgies cannot contain love, but if it's a man and a woman getting together monogomously, it's always love!

Yeah, I have no idea what surprises Heavenly Bodies could possibly have held for anyone, with every plot point (and there aren't many) coded as obviously as possible. I found this a tediously bad movie with absolutely nothing (and I mean nothing) to recommend about it, and I think the deluge of people trying to reclaim this as some sort of cult object need higher standards.