Weekly New Releases – August 20, 2013

15 Alfred Hitchcock Movies
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Comments Blaine: These are public domain movies. Includes The Lady Vanishes, Sabotage, The Manxman, Blackmail, Jamaica Inn, No. 17, The 39 Steps, the 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent, Murder, Juno and the Paycock, Rich and Strange and three more movies that aren’t on the cover and aren’t listed in the description.
15 Classic Horror Movies
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Comments Blaine: Includes Night of the Living Dead, House on Haunted Hill, Carnival of Souls, I Bury the Living, The Undertaker, Dominique, Dementia 13, The Pyx, and 7 more that I can’t identify.
15 Great Cinema Movies
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Comments Blaine: Includes Snows of Kilimanjaro, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, The Jungle Book, The Call of the Wild, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Little Men, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Of Human Bondage, and 4 more I can’t identify.
88 Minutes
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Amour
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iTunes
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The Awful Dr. Orlof
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Being Human: Season Five
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Best of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures: Animated TV Series
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Comments Blaine: The first iteration of the animated series lasted 21 episodes, and the second iteration lasted 8 (including the unaired pilot.) This collection includes 16 out of the 21 episodes from the original run. Don’t ask me why they chose this release pattern, since the first season was 13 episodes and the second was 8. How did they decide which 5 to leave out? Why not just do two season releases, or three discs for a complete series, or even four discs for both series if the rights are available?
Best of the Worst: 12 Shocking Films
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Comments Includes The Ape Man, Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Amazing Transparent Man, Dementia 13, The Incredible Petrified World, Track of the Moon Beast, The Terror, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Unknown World, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Atomic Brain, On the Mesa of Lost Women, and one more title that they don’t list on the cover.
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection Vol. 1
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Comments Blaine: The 12 cartoons in this set are not public doman and are not (legally) available elsewhere. These are from the Fleischer production era.
The Beverly Hillbillies
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Comments It’s a 2 DVD gift box collecting some TV episodes. (The runtime says it’ll be in the 20-24 episode range.)
The Big City (Criterion Collection)
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Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Third Season
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Charulata (Criterion Collection)
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The China Syndrome
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Death Hunt
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Desperate Measures
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Donkey Kong Country
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Epic
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iTunes
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Fairy Tail: Part 6
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Rightstuf
  • DVD: US
Comments Alex: Comes with temporary tatoo.
The Good Wife: Season Four
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High School DxD: The Series
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  • DVD/Blu-Ray (Special Edition): US, CAN
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: The fact that with most shows like this the “x” is silent should be a sufficiently clear hint that this is a fan-service heavy harem comedy. Special Edition includes an artbox.
Killing Season
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iTunes
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Knock on Wood
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Legend of the Legendary Heroes
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: Fairly straightforeward fantasy anime.
Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: I’ve previously reviewed this for the site. The Special Edition comes with a chipboard artbox.
Mike and Molly: Season Three
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
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Rightstuf
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Comments License Rescue by Noizumi Entertainment from the ruins of Bandai Visual’s fall. OVA series set 3 years after the events of Char’s Counterattack.
My Favorite Spy
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NCIS: Los Angeles: Season Four
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NCIS: Season Ten
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New Dominion Tank Police
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: Sequel to the anime based on the works of Masamune Shirow
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan: Set 2
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Rightstuf
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On The Double
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Parenthood: Season Four
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
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Peter Pan: Return to Neverland
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
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Comments This version stars Lance Henriksen and Jeffrey Combs.
Princess Knight, Part 1
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: 1967 Anime TV series created and directed by Osamu Tezuka – this DVD has the US broadcast release.
Revenge: Complete Season Two
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Scary Movie V
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iTunes
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Star Trek Into Darkness
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  • Digital: US, CAN
iTunes
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Comments Physical media versions will be available on September 10.
Star Trek: Enterprise Season Two
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Starzinger: The Movie Collection
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: SF version of “Journey To The West”, directed by Leiji Matsumoto.
Taboo Tales 12 Movie Collection
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Comments Includes The Marijuana Menace, The Wild and Wicked, Mad Youth, Gambling With Souls, Reefer Madness, Test Tube Babies, She Shoulda Said ‘No’!, Delinguent Daughters, Sex Madness, The Terror of Tiny Town, Chained for Life and The Cocaine Fiends.
Tailor of Panama (2001)
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Tsuritama Complete Collection
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Rightstuf
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Comments Alex: Slice of life anime about fishing and alien invasions.
X-Ray / Schizoid
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, ” I’m going with Star Trek: Into Darkness as my pick, with Lupin III: A Woman Called Fujiko Mine as a very close second.” Blaine says, “I second the Star Trek Into Darkness recommendation if you go for the digital versions. If not, pick up the Hitchcock set, or just wait for the inevitable glut of great titles that comes through every September through November season.”