This is a huge week for library titles released for the 100th anniversary of Universal Studios.
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Action | |
Action Adventure Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes The Bourne Identity, The Fast and the Furious, and the 1999 version of The Mummy. | |
Blade of Kings | |
Fan Favorites: Best of MacGyver |
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Jackie Chan 8 Movie Set |
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Blaine: Includes Operation Condor, Operation Condor 2: The Armour of God, Dragon Lord, Twin Dragons, Jackie Chan’s Project A, Jackie Chan’s Project A2, Supercop and The Accidental Spy | |
Anime | |
Grave of the Fireflies | |
Hetalia: Axis Powers – The Complete Series | |
Kimikiss: Pure Rouge Complete Collection | |
Alex: Harem romantic comedy. | |
Sands of Destruction: The Complete Series S.A.V.E. | |
Art House | |
Cinema Paradiso |
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Out of Africa |
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Biopic | |
Frida |
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Classics (Cult) | |
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) |
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Blaine: This is the Roger Corman version with Jack Nicholson’s first on screen role, not the colour musical version. | |
Plan 9 From Outer Space |
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Classics (Traditional) | |
Classic Monsters Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein and Creature From the Black Lagoon. | |
Hollywood Legends Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes Harvey, Spartacus and Touch of Evil | |
Screen Couples Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes Charade, Double Indemnity, Pillow Talk and My Little Chickadee. The first two are great. | |
Comedy | |
’80s Comedies Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Fast Times at Ridgemont High | |
The Blues Brothers | |
Car Wash |
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Carry On Double Feature Vol. 1 |
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Blaine: Includes Don’t Lose Your Head and Carry On Follow That Camel | |
Carry On Double Feature Vol. 2 |
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Blaine: Includes Carry On Doctor and Carry On Up the Khyber | |
Comedy Greats Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes National Lampoon’s Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Jerk and Car Wash. | |
Duck Soup |
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The Egg and I |
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Fan Favorites: The Best of Cheers |
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Fan Favorites: Best of Frasier |
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Fan Favorites: Best of Happy Days |
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Blaine: I find it suspicious that the “fan favorite” episodes from an eleven season run are all from the three seasons that have already been released on DVD. | |
Fan Favorites: Best of Hogan’s Heroes |
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Fan Favorites: The Best of the Honeymooners |
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Fan Favorites: The Best of the Odd Couple |
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Francis the Talking Mule |
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Jack and Jill | |
The Jerk |
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Kevin Smith Triple Feature |
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Blaine: Includes Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks | |
Meet the Parents | |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life |
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My Man Godfrey |
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The Nutty Professor (1996) | |
Parenthood (1989) | |
Robot Chicken Star Wars: 1-3 |
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The Search for One Eye Jimmy |
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Stiff Upper Lips |
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Striptease |
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Blaine: This was based on a hilarious book, but the comedy didn’t seem to translate to the screen very effectively. Speaking as someone who worked at a theatre when it came out, I think it’s safe to say that Demi Moore’s topless scenes are the main draw. | |
Sullivan’s Travels |
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Three Smart Girls |
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Young Adult |
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Documentary | |
Drama | |
9 1/2 Weeks |
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54 |
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Best Picture Winners Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes Out of Africa, A Beautiful Mind, All Quiet on the Western Front and Going My Way | |
Disclosure |
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Forest Warrior |
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Gilmore Girls: The Complete Seasons One and Two |
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Hawthorne: Complete Third Season |
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Inspirational Favorites Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes Apollo 13, Field of Dreams, and Seabiscuit. | |
The Last Temptation of Christ |
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Nip/Tuck: The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 |
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The Skin I Live In | |
Top 21 of 21 Jump Street |
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Vision Quest |
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Family | |
Adventure Time: It Came From the Nightosphere |
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Blaine: I keep hearing great things about this series. | |
Animal Movies: 12 Family Film Pack |
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Blaine: Includes A Dog’s Tale, Christian the Lion, Finn on the Fly, George!, Lassie the Painted Hills, Poco Little Dog Lost, The Adventures of Gallant Bess, The Big Cat, The Red Fury, White Fang to the Rescue, Wind Dancer, and Wild Fire the Arabian Heart | |
Benji (1974) |
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Despicable Me | |
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest |
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Fraggle Rock: Wembley’s Egg |
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The Lion King 1 1/2 | |
The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride | |
Looney Tunes: Best of Bugs Bunny |
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Blaine: The reviews bash it for only including three cartoons, but the official runtime is 66 minutes. | |
Looney Tunes: Unleashed |
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Blaine: As with the other release, bad reviews indicate three titles but the runtime is 66 minutes. | |
Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales: Complete Collection |
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Timeless Classics – Family Fun 12 Pack |
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Blaine: Includes Alice of Wonderland in Paris, A Dog of Flanders, The Borrowers, Seven Alone, Sounder, Mary White, Toby McTeague, The Over the Hill Gang, Misty, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Heidi, and The Over the Hill Gang Rides Again. | |
Tooth Fairy 2 | |
Transformers Prime: Season One | |
Fantasy | |
Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season | |
Immortals | |
Alex: The sword-and-sandal film from the director of “The Fall”. | |
Horror | |
Masters of Terror Vol. 3 |
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Blaine: Includes The Prophecy, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, The Nameless and Ritual | |
Monster Movie 12 Pack |
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Blaine: includes The Creeping Terror, Gamera the Invincible, The Crater Lake Monster, Attack of the Monsters, Bride of the Gorilla, Horror High, Horror of the Zombies, The Wasp Woman, The Horrors of Spider Island, Kong Island, Land of the Minotaur, and Snowbeast. | |
Music / Musical | |
Elvis Four-Movie Collection, Vol. 2 |
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Blaine: Includes Blue Hawaii, Easy Come, Easy Go, King Creole and Paradise, Hawaiian Style | |
Footloose (2011) | |
Musicals Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes Mamma Mia! The Movie, Jesus Christ Superstar and Flower Drum Song | |
Mystery | |
Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Series 3 | |
MI-5: Volume 10 |
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Reality | |
Romance | |
The Town |
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Science Fiction | |
Seasonal | |
A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas | |
Sports | |
Friday Night Lights | |
Blaine: For some reason, season three is not being rereleased at this point. | |
Superhero | |
Suspense | |
Charade |
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Columbus Circle | |
Dead in the Water |
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Reindeer Games: The Director’s Cut |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | |
To Catch a Thief |
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War | |
The Deer Hunter | |
John Wayne Adventure Three Pack |
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Blaine: Includes Donovan’s Reef, Hatari! and In Harm’s Way | |
Western | |
Cimarron City: The Complete Series |
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Destry Rides Again |
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John Wayne Western Three Pack |
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Blaine: Includes The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Sons of Katie Elder and The Shootist | |
Westerns Spotlight Collection |
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Blaine: Includes High Plains Drifter, Destry Rides Again and Winchester ’73 | |
Wyatt Earp’s Revenge |
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “the combination of Charade and Double Indemnity at that price makes Screen Couples Spotlight Collection my pick of the week.” Alex says, “While I admit I haven’t seen Game of Thrones yet, it’s definitely going into my Netflix queue, as, well, since I don’t have HBO I haven’t had a chance to watch it until this release.”
The Grail, she be temping, but alas, I already own two DVD versions (regular, and the special anniversary edition)… One must wonder if it’s really worth the upgrade.
Ah, the romance of the Grail. The Meaning of Life is also up this week, I see. Yeah, I wonder about any upgrade to Grail, since it used cheapness as an asset.
Some recommendations, sort of:
The original Little Shop of Horrors is worth seeing once; I don’t know if I’d recommend buying it. The Kevin Smith collection has two of his better films, Clerks and Chasing Amy, the Universal Monster collection’s not a bad lot, if you don’t already have their earlier versions, The Deer Hunter is another must-see, and I recommend Fast Times at Ridgemont High to those who might be skeptical of an 80s teen film (and the other two in that package have some interesting depictions of high school nerds)
We also have some interesting curiosities: The Egg and I introduced Ma and Pa Kettle, and Car Wash while hardly a masterpiece, is an interesting bit of 1970sana.
I wonder if the Jackie Chan collection is the ones with the original, horrible and awesome dubbing, or the new ones where Jackie Chan went back and re-recorded the audio with his own voice. Because those are nowhere NEAR as hilarious.
We need to form a Society for the Preservation of Hilariously Bad Dubbing.
Nothing like Jackie Chan walking around and calling people “Old chap” in a perfect English accent.