The holiday season is over, and the lists are lengthening as retailers and content providers assume seasonal credit card bills are paid and people are ready to spend again.
3rd Rock From the Sun – Season 5 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | A rerelease, but in a new and far cheaper edition. | ||||||||
3rd Rock From the Sun – Season 6 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | A rerelease, but in a new and far cheaper edition. The final season. | ||||||||
Archer: Season Three | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Best of Naked City | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Collecting 40 of 138 episodes. | ||||||||
Bodacious Space Pirates Collection 1 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Contains episodes 1-13. I’ve previously reviewed the entire series. | ||||||||
Brothers Grimm | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: I saw this when it came out but was on vacation so I didn’t have the opportunity to do a proper review. Enjoyable in a brainless sense. | ||||||||
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Season Two | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Cape Fear (1962) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Dallas: The Complete First Season (2012) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Comments | This is the new series, not the old. | ||||||||
Doctor Who Episode 109: Shada | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: WARNING: This is still incomplete. Only half filmed, written by Douglas Adams and starring Tom Baker, it has never been seen, although there are other versions available in radio and print. This takes the existing footage and tries to cobble it together somehow, and I don’t know how effectively that will work. | ||||||||
Dredd | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Frankenweenie | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Game Change | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Grand Hotel | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Hearts Afire – The Complete Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: I rarely missed this in its original run, but I don’t know if that’s because it was well made or if that’s because I was a teenage boy and this starred Markie Post. | ||||||||
Hit and Run | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Jazz Singer (1927) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Comments | The first live action film with synchronized sound. | ||||||||
Jubei-Chan: The Ninja Girl – Complete Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Midsomer Murders, Set 21 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Mortal Kombat: Legacy | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Mrs. Miniver | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Red Dwarf X | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Spirit of the Beehive (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Return of Darth Maul | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | This edits the last four episodes of season four into a single film. | ||||||||
Stolen | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Tiny Toon Adventures: Crazy Crew Rescues | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Two-Lane Blacktop (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “Shada and the new Red Dwarf X are both very interesting, but I have seen neither.” Alex says, “I strongly recommend everyone check out Bodacious Space Pirates – and if you’re attending WorldCon 2013 at LoneStarCon 3, I’d recommend nominating it for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form for, really, whatever episodes you consider to be your favorite (or even Long Form for the whole series). Otherwise, you should check out Shada.”
I’ve seen some of Red Dwarf X, and I am so far very happy with it. Surprisingly so, in fact.
Takes a while to get used to the fact that everyone’s 25 years older (and somehow the android seems to have gained weight) but it’s still pretty funny.
(and somehow the android seems to have gained weight)
It’s sort of like Data’s “aging program” that TNG referenced in a later-season episode.
I figured that’s why they killed Data off in the last TNG movie.
I’ve actually heard that the death of Data was one of Brent Spiner’s conditions for doing the film, specifically because of the aging problem.
Isn’t that what I said? (;
Going to watch Game Change, if only out of sheer morbid curiosity. Having met (and liked) John McCain in the early 90’s, I found his 2008 campaign frightening with his selection of a running mate to be the scariest thing of all.
RE: Hearts Afire– if you like Markie Post, I’m sure you must have seen the unaired pilot for Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, with Post as a washed-up superhero. Warning: Language.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOitJbSBSg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNe07xVqG2Q
I completely understand why that series wasn’t picked up. Poorly made, and I doubt that fans of the original incarnation would take to this interpretation.
I only recently acquired Buck Rogers Season 1. This show had a super nostalgia value. Did they make more than the 2 seasons? With networks looking for remake material what would a BR show be like after getting the BSG treatment?
It was just the two seasons. Buck Rogers is a concept with legs. I’ve even listened to a fair number of the old radio serials, though those are hard to follow because so many are lost.