This week includes new content from old Doctor Who, amongst many others.
2 Broke Girls: Season 3 | |||||||||
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50 Film Miramax Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | I don’t know which 50 Miramax films are included, but for $100, any 50 Miramax films are a good deal. Since it’s being released by Echo Bridge, it’s likely films released before the aquisition by Disney. | ||||||||
Adventure Time: Jake the Dad | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | A documentary about him, not a collection of his films. | ||||||||
Arrow: Season One | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Arrow: Season 2 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: No, it isn’t airing yet. It’s a pre-order option. | ||||||||
Autumn Sonata (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Back in the Game: Season 1 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Bates Motel: Season One | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: The Psycho prequel series. I haven’t watched it yet, but I’m tempted. Has anyone checked it out? | ||||||||
Behind the Candelabra | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Being Human: Season 5 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Big Bang Theory: Season 7 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
The Blacklist: Season One | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
The Bling Ring | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Broadchurch: Season 1 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Comments | The recently reviewed miniseries. | ||||||||
Burn Notice: Season 7 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Chicago Fire: Season 2 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Continuum: Season 2 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
CSI: Crime Scene Investigations | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Day of the Dead (Collector’s Edition) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Devil Bat: Kino Classics Remastered Edition | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: After the 1996 movie failed to spawn a series, an official animated continuation was released, starring “Great Intelligence” Richard E. Grant as the Doctor, and costarring David Tennant as someone who isn’t the Doctor and Derek Jacobi as the Master before he played the role in a live action episode. | ||||||||
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors (Story 39) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | From the Patrick Troughton era, partially animated due to lost episodes. | ||||||||
Dracula (1931) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Dracula: Prince of Darkness | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Frankenstein (1931) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Future Diary – The Complete Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Part 1 came out earlier this month, but it’s getting a limited edition release with an art-box for parts 1 & 2. | ||||||||
Golgo 13: Complete Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | 50 adventures of Duke Togo, aka Golgo 13, the world’s most dangerous assassin. | ||||||||
Grimm: Season Two | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Hollow Crown: Complete Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Homeland: Season Two | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Law and Order: SVU: Season 15 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Leverage: Season 5 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Mentalist: The Complete Fifth Season | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Mentalist: Season Six | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Michiko & Hachin – The Complete Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Hachin, an abused adopted girl in the slums of Brazil ends up rescued by Michiko, a beautiful criminal on a moped. The two set out on a journey to find Hachin’s real father. The limited edition release comes with an art-box to hold parts 1 & 2. | ||||||||
Nashville: Season One | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Parenthood: Season 5 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Parks and Recreation: Season 6 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Revolution | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Slacker (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Supernatural: Season 9 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Tremors Attack Pack | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Wolf Man (1941) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Vampire Diaries: Season 5 | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
World War Z | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
WWE Presents Summerslam 2013 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “of the titles I’ve actually seen, I’d go with Bride of Frankenstein, although these particular Doctor Who stories and the ninth season of Supernatural are very appealing.” Alex says, ” I have not seen Scream of the Shalka, but I read Paul Cornell’s novelization of the story, and I enjoyed it immensely, and I’ve been hoping the story got a DVD release for several years. I’m glad I’ve finally gotten my wish.”
Lots of good TV this week! Though most looks like pre-ordered or season passes for upcoming series.
The Bates Motel series is OK. It’s not without its flaws, but it’s a lot better than I was expecting at first.
Personally, my pick of the week would be Arrow.
Supernatural is great, but the last season wasn’t quite on par with the previous ones. At least it was better than the one before it, though.
Can’t say I thought much of the Bates Motel episodes I saw, and I was lukewarm on Arrow, but I’m going to give it another season because it did a lot of things well.
I’ve already got the classic Universal horror movies. The better ones are worth checking out. They hold up (you have to accept the era’s inherent cheesiness and theatricality), and they certainly cast long shadows on pop culture.
I lost track of SUV awhile ago? Is it still watchable? That whole franchise should get some kind of recognition for staying good as long as it did.
Arrow was surprisingly well done. One of my complaints of the character was that he was Batman with arrows. At least in this version his “ArrowCave” is reasonable, being part of the construction of a night club. All the ArrowXXXXXX equipment guff has been dropped. (It could just be that I hadn’t read a Green Arrow comic for a loooong time.)
My complaint of the series was toooo many people knew his secret identity and it was only the end of season 1.
They are introducing Barry Allen this season as a backdoor pilot to The Flash spinning off to his own show.
The biggest issue I have with “Bates Motel” is they did a killer job casting Vera Farmiga as Norman’s mother and Freddie Highmore as Norman but only did a so-so job casting the rest of the teen actors. Olivia Cooke is good but the rest were obviously hired more for their looks and not their acting ability.
Freddie pretty much does a spot-on young Anthony Perkins impression.