We’re in October. As always, that means we have considerable amounts of horror and Christmas product mixed in with a summer blockbuster or two.
First, the DVD releases.
- Absolutely Fabulous – White Box
- AC/DC: Plug Me In
- Amityville Collection
- Believers (Unrated Edition)
- Blue Seed Collection, Vol. 3: Mitama Collection
- Casshern
- The Christmas Blessing
- Christmas Do-Over
- Couple or Trouble
- Crazy Love
- Critics Choice Collection: Includes “Thank You For Smoking,” “Sideways,” “Waking Ned Devine” and “Garden State.”
- Deadliest Catch: Season 2
- Displaced
- Eclipse Series 6 – Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy: Includes “Blood Wedding,” “Carmen” and “El Amor Brujo.”
- First Kings of Comedy Collection
- Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo – Complete Set
- Girls Behaving Badly – Vol. Two
- Girls Will Be Girls Collection: Includes “Aquamarine,” “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Just My Luck.”
- Glass Fleet, Vol. 1
- Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror – Extended and Unrated
- Hellsing Ultimate Volume 3 Limited Edition
- The Hoax
- Hollow Man (Director’s Cut)
- The House Without A Christmas Tree
- Icons of Horror – Sam Katzman: Includes “The Giant Claw,” “Creature With The Atom Brain,” “Zombies of Mora Tau” and “The Werewolf.”
- Initial D: Second Stage – The Complete Second Season
- Innocent Venus, Vol. 2: Blood of Betrayal
- The Invisible
- Ironside – Season Two
- The Jazz Singer: This is a three disc deluxe edition of the first movie ever to feature synchronized sound with live action. (Note that Jolson’s songs are synchronized, but much of the non-performance work is still done with intertitles.) This is a major piece of film history.
- Jingle All The Way
- Jonathan Creek – Season Two
- Kings of South Beach
- Macgyver – The Complete Series: This “complete series” package is one of the ones with a bonus disc of material not found in the individual season releases.
- Masters of Horror: The Damned Thing
- Medium – The Third Season
- MGM Best Picture Gift Set: Includes “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Platoon,” “Dances with Wolves” and “Rocky.”
- MGM Holiday Classics Collection: Includes “The Bishop’s Wife” (which is quite good, and the only one of the three I’ve seen), “March of the Wooden Soldiers” and “Pocketful of Miracles.”
- Michael Moore Hates America
- A Mighty Heart
- My Best Friend
- Mythbusters: Collection 2
- The Reaping
- Return to House on Haunted Hill
- Roseanne: The Complete Ninth Season
- Squidbillies, Vol. 1
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – The Complete Series
- That 70s Show – Season 7
- Transformers (Single Disc Edition)
- Transformers (Two Disc Special Edition)
- Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934: I was quite happy with the first two collections, from the perspective of looking at the history of film.
- The Ultimate Heroes Collection: Includes “X-Men,” “Fantastic Four,” “Elektra,” and the Director’s Cut (ie. much superior) edition of “Daredevil.”
- United Artists Best Picture Collection: Includes “Marty,” “West Side Story,” “The Apartment” and “Tom Jones”
- Waking the Dead – The Complete Season Two
- Wanted: Dead or Alive – Season 3
- White Christmas
- Women on Top Collection: Includes “Working Girl,” “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Picture Perfect.”
- The Woods Have Eyes
Next, the Blu-Ray releases.
- Hollow Man (Director’s Cut)
- The Invisible
- Masters of Horror, Season 1, Vol. 1
- Masters of Horror, Season 1, Vol. 2
- The Reaping
- Return to House on Haunted Hill
Now, the HD DVD releases.
- A Mighty Heart
- The Reaping
- Return to House on Haunted Hill
- Transformers: The previously announced Blu-Ray version won’t be coming, as Paramount has since become exclusively HD DVD in the high definition formats.
Studio 60 Cancelled
Why is there no room on television for intelligent writing.
Why God why?
Re: Studio 60 Cancelled
I dunno – I got a vibe from Sorkin’s writing that the show was meant, in part, as a series of jabs at the network people he had issues with on "West Wing". Even some of my friends who are fans of Sorkin’s work found that the show left a way too bitter taste in their mouths.