Weekly Digital Disk Picks – October 16th, 2012

The Christmas rush is just starting to build, with a few choice titles.

2016 Obama’s America
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4 Film Favorite: Dangerous Beauties Collection
Amazon
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Comments Includes The Long Kiss Goodnight, Taking Lives, Domino and Point of No Return.
4 Film Favorites: Gene Kelly
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Comments Includes On the Town, For Me and My Gal, Invitation to the Dance and Summer Stock.
4 Film Favorites: Holiday Comedy Collection
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Comments Includes Fred Claus, Just Friends, Unaccompanied Minors and Christmas Vacation 2.
4 Film Favorites: Holidat Family Collection
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Comments Includes Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish, Jack Frost (the Michael Keaton comedy), A Dennis the Menace Christmas and The Nutcracker.
4 Film Favorites: Martin Scorsese Collection
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Comments Includes GoodFellas, The Departed, Mean Streets and The Aviator
4 Film Favorites: Meg Ryan Collection
Amazon
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Comments Includes You’ve Got Mail, Joe versus the Volcano, The Women and Inner Space.
4 Film Favorites: Slasher Film Collection
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Comments Includes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm Street, Amusement and Friday the 13th. Blaine: The description doesn’t specify the specific versions, but the cover art seems to be those of the original movies, not the remakes.
4 Film Favorites: Stanley Kubrick Collection
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Comments Includes The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut.
Alcatraz: The Complete Series
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Alien Dawn
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Avatar
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iTunes
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Awkward: Season Two
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The Beatles 50th Anniversary Celebration
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Bloodstained Memoirs: Special Edition
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Comments Alex: A long awaited documentary about professional wrestling, with a whole bunch of interviews about the business with big names from the Indy circut, WWE and WCW alums, and Japanese wrestlers as well.
Casshan: Robot Hunter Casshern
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: Anime film based on the the 1970s anime TV show.
Chappelle’s Show: Complete Series
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Chernobyl Diaries
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Clockwork Orange: Special Edition
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Columbo: The Complete Series
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Comments Blaine: As far as I’m concerned, the only excuse for not picking this up is that you already bought the individual season releases and, therefore, already own all of the content.
Complete Red Green Show
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Comments Blaine: Canadian sketch comedy. The sketches were very hit and miss. In my opinion, “Handyman’s Corner” was almost invariably fantastic, while “Adventures with Bill” was channel-changingly awful.
Degrassi: Season 11 Part 2
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iTunes
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The Firm: The Complete First Season
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iTunes
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The Forgiveness of Blood (Criterion Collection)
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Full Metal Jacket: Deluxe Edition
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iTunes
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Ga-Rei-Zero: The Complete Series
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Rightstuf
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iTunes
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Comments Alex: Re-release of the horror anime, just in time for Halloween.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy
Amazon
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: The third Galaxy Express 999 film, taking place one year after the first film, with Matael and Tetsuro going forth once again on the 3-9.
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
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Gunsmoke: Season Six, Part Two
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Harry Potter: Year 7
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Comments Both parts of Deathly Hallows in one package
Idolmaster: Xenoglossia: Collection 1
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: So, this is like Idolmaster (the anime about Idol singers), but combined with a mecha anime, and having nothing to do with Macross.
Kong Collection
Amazon
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Comments Includes the original King Kong and Son of Kong.
Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1995-Reserve
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A League of Their Own
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iTunes
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection 2
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Mad Men: Season Five
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iTunes
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
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Moonrise Kingdom
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Mythbusters: Collection 8
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Nova: Forensics on Trial
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Power Rangers Samurai: Christmas Together, Friends Forever
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Psych: Season Six
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Comments Blaine: This is one of the strongest seasons yet. It felt to me like they were drifting a little in seasons four and five, but this season is a return to form.
The Santa Clause
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iTunes
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The Santa Clause 2: 10th Anniversary Edition
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iTunes
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The Santa Clause 3 Movie Collection
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Scooby-Doo: 13 Spooky Tales – Holiday Chills
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Slender Thread
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iTunes
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Someday’s Dreamers II Sora: Complete Collection
Amazon
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: Reverse harem anime series based on a dating sim.
Suddenly
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Super Villains: The Joker’s Last Laugh
Amazon
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Comments A collection of 13 epiodes from multiple animated series.
TCM Greatest Classic Legends: Cary Grant
Amazon
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Comments Includes Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, My Favorite Wife, Night and Day and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.
TCM Greatest Classic Legends: James Stewart
Amazon
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Comments Includes The Shop Around the Corner, The Stratton Story, The FBI Story and The Spirit of St. Louis.
TCM Greatest Classic Legends: Lauren Bacall
Amazon
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Comments Includes Key Largo, Blood Alley, Dark Passage and Designing Women
TCM Greatest Classic Legends: Spencer Tracy
Amazon
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Comments Includes Captain Courageous, Bad Day at Black Rock, Boys Town and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Tenchi Muyo! Universe Box Set
Amazon
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: As seen on Toonami back in the day.
That 70’s Show: Season Two
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That’s My Boy
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Three Secrets
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Touch: The Complete First Season
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iTunes
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WWE: Night of Champions 2012
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WWE: Superstar Collection – Rey Mysterio
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WWE: Superstar Collection – Shawn Michaels
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “this is one of the best years of Psych. Go for it.” Alex says, “I’m going with Tenchi Universe. I had a lot of fun watching that show on Toonami, and I’m glad to finally see it back in print (and I’m looking foreward to upgrading my copy of the OVAs later when the compilation release comes out).”

2 replies on “Weekly Digital Disk Picks – October 16th, 2012”

  1. Comments on the format:

    1) Something has obviously happened to the text size of the DVD titles. Too small now.

    2) Removing the grid lines would be good, but perhaps keeping the one that’s right above the DVD title (and making it stand out more).

    I’m good at HTML and CSS if you need any help with this.

  2. I rather liked some of Red Green‘s “Adventures with Bill,” though they could wear thing. They featured Rick Green, who once hosted the SF/Fantasy news show, Prisoners of Gravity (no Amazon link. The only thing available there are some second-hand VHS tapes of individual episodes).

    Incidentally, eps of Red Green actually found their way into space. Apparently, a show about a half-assed handyman who cobbles everything together with duct tape and whatever he can find proved very popular with NASA.

    I also appear in an episode for about 1 second. I went to a taping and was one of the audience members recruited to be a lodge members in the concluding sketch.

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