A generally light week, although there’s a lot of anime. Also, we hope you remembered to change your clocks if your region participates in Daylight Savings Time.
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4 Film Favorites: Ben Stiller |
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Includes Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, The Heartbreak Kid and Envy |
4 Film Favorites: Contemporary Westerns |
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Includes Appaloosa, American Outlaws, Jonah Hex and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. |
4 Film Favorites: John Grisham |
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Includes The Client, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker and A Time to Kill |
4 Film Favorites: John Travolta |
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Includes Domestic Disturbance, Face/Off, The General’s Daughter and Swordfish |
4 Film Favorites: Leslie Nielsen |
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Includes the Naked Gun trilogy and Wrongfully Accused. |
4 Film Favorites: Post-Apocalypse Collection |
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Includes The Omega Man, I Am Legend, Dark City and Logan’s Run, all of which are in the Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament |
4 Film Favorites: Richard Gere |
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Includes Sommersby, Nights in Rodanthe, American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman. |
4 Film Favorites: Robert Redford |
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Includes The Great Gatsby, Indecent Proposal, All the President’s Men and Jeremiah Johnson |
4 Film Favorites: Urban Life |
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Includes ATL, Set It Off, New Jack City and Menace II Society |
Alfred Hitchcock: The Classic Collection |
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Includes Notorious, Rebecca and Spellbound |
All the President’s Men / Three Days of the Condor |
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Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman |
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 |
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Ben-Hur / The Ten Commandments |
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut |
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Part of the Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament. We intend to release podcasts about them all. Before recording a podcast, I go through all bonus features and commentaries and all available edits. Blade Runner is going to take a LOT of prep time… |
Bleach Set 16 |
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The Blob (Criterion Collection) |
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Part of the Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament. It shows up in week 21. |
Brother Bear / Brother Bear 2 |
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Casablanca / African Queen |
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Doctor Who: The Aztecs (Story 6) |
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The William Hartnell years |
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space (Story 76) |
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The Tom Baker years |
Dragon Ball Z Kai Season 4 |
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Father Dowling Mysteries |
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Fraggle Rock: Complete Season One |
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Green Mile / Forrest Gump |
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Hellsing Ultimate Vols. 5-8 |
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Alex: I’m not sure how this differs from the collectors edition that came out earlier. |
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Season Four |
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Hitchcock |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey |
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Blaine: Available in other formats next week. I’m not entirely certain that this is actually coming out early in Amazon’s digital format. No release date is listed here, and I’ve noticed them popping up early here and then reappearing a week later on the next week’s list. |
Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 Movie Collection |
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Jay and Silent Bob Get Irish – The Swearing O’ The Green |
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Law and Order: Criminal Intent: The Final Year |
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Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: Season Two |
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Life of Pi |
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Maria Watches Over Us – Season 4 (Litebox Edition) |
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Ministry of Fear (Criterion Collection) |
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The Mob Doctor: The Complete Series |
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Mulan / Mulan II |
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Penguindrum Collection 2 |
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Queen’s Blade Complete |
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Alex: Though this series is trashy as all hell, for what it’s worth, the releases of this are keeping Media Blasters alive. |
Return of the Beverly Hillbillies |
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Rise of the Guardians |
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Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars (Litebox Edition) |
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Alex: Space opera adventure anime, unfortunately not one that I’ve seen… yet. |
Spiders |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Eighth Season |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation |
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The DVD releases are repackages of the broadcast episodes. If you already own the DVDs, you have everything but the new package already. If you have the Blu-Ray, you have more than this. The other five seasons follow on April 16. |
Superman: Brainiac Attacks |
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TCM Greatest Classic Legends |
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The Judy Garland set includes The Harvey Girls, For Me and My Gal, Summer Stock and In The Good Old Summertime. The Natalie Wood set includes Gypsy, Sex and the Single Girl, Splendor in the Grass and Inside Daisy Clover. The Sidney Poitier sets includes Something of Value, Edge of the City, A Patch of Blue and Blackboard Jungle. |
Trigun: The Complete Series Box Set |
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Alex: Why have I not reviewed this yet? I own the darn thing and I’ve seen it before. Blaine: This is one of the few anime series I own as well, but I haven’t gotten around to watching it. |
Vampire Princess Miyu TV Complete Collection |
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Alex: Anime series about a half-vampire girl who also is a vampire hunter. |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition |
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Willow |
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WWE Presents Wrestlemania |
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Xena: Warrior Princess: The Complete Fourth Season |
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “since I doubt The Hobbit is actually getting an early release based on past experience, I’m going with Alfred Hitchcock: The Classic Collection.” Alex says, ” If you don’t want to wait for the DVD and Blu-Ray releases, well, there’s The Hobbit. Otherwise, I’m putting The Blob firmly in my to-watch list.”
I’m not getting The Hobbit until the boxed set with the entire trilogy in extended director’s cut is available on blu-ray (or whatever we have in 3-4 years).
I’m tempted to do the same. I’m also tempted to get the bare-bones DVD edition or rent via iTunes to rewatch it before the release of part 2, and then do the same again before the release of part 3.
I dunno. I’m pretty good at remembering details, and I’m pretty sure I can remember the 30 minutes of stuff they added that wasn’t even remotely in the books. Plus most the stuff they changed from the books.
My rentals wouldn’t be for remembering details, they’d be for hosting movie nights with friends to watch them all together.
Oh, that’s pretty awesome then (:
Casablanca and African Queen? My two favorite Bogart films on one set. Yes please.