It’s one of the best weeks in some time.
300 Spartans (1962) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Above Suspicion: Set 3 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Adventure Time: The Complete Third Season | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Appleseed XIII: Tartaros & Ouranos | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: A TV CGI adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga Appleseed. | ||||||||
Blue is the Warmest Color (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Breathless (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Bullet | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Di Gi Charat Winter Garden | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Sequel to the gag anime Di Gi Charat, set in the main character’s high school years. | ||||||||
Frozen | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
iTunes | |||||||||
Comments | Available as a physical product on March 18. | ||||||||
Ghost Adventures: Season 5 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Girl Und Panzer OVA Specials | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: A collection of side stories related to the anime series about the High School girls sport of Tankery. | ||||||||
Gravity | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Harry Potter Hogwarts Collection (Amazon Exclusive) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes all 8 movies in a 31 disc set. | ||||||||
Ice Soldiers | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
K – The Complete Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Anime series about a high school student falsely accused of killing a member of a clan of people with super-powers. Special edition comes with a chipboard artbox and an artbook. If ordered from RightStuf, while supplies last, both the DVD and the combo release will come with decals. | ||||||||
King of the Hill (Criterion Collection) (1993) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
L.A. Law: Season One | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Last Stand of the 300 and Other Famous Greek Battles | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Law and Order: The Fourteenth Year | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Legit: Season One | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lily C.a.T | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Another early ’80s science fiction OVA, this time from Hisayuki Toriumi, the director of Gatchaman and the Area 88 OVA. | ||||||||
Love, Election and Chocolate Complete Collection | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Anime series about an elite private high school’s Food Research Club. The problem is that the president of the student council hates chocolate, while the heads of the club love it. | ||||||||
Mama’s Family: The Complete Third Season | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Mamoru Oshii’s Dallos | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: One of Mamoru Oshii’s early OVA series from the early ’80s. | ||||||||
The Middle: Season Four | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Mighty Space Miners | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: Yet another science fiction OVA, this time from 1994, from Umanosuke Iida, the director of Tide-Line Blue, and the second half of the Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team OVA. | ||||||||
Monsters: The Complete Series | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Mr. Nobody | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Nebraska | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Sci-Fi Creature Classics – 4-Movie Set | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes 20 Million Miles to Earth, The Giant Claw, It Came From Beneath the Sea and Mothra. | ||||||||
The Shadow (Collector’s Edition) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Blaine: The subject of a future podcast, many years down the road. | ||||||||
Sword of the Assassin | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Wuxia film. | ||||||||
Tess (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Thor: The Dark World | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Ultimate Horror Classics | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Includes The Ghoul, White Zombie, The Vampire Bat, The Phantom Ship, Dr. Maniac – The Man Who Changed His Mind, King of the Zombies, Chamber of Horrors, The Dead Eyes of London, Crimes at the Dark House, The House on Haunted Hill, The Last Man on Earth, Mania – Flesh and the Fiends, The City of the Dead, Carnival of Souls, Sweeney Todd, The Hounds of Zaroff, Svengali and The Terror, with release dates ranging from 1931 to 1964. | ||||||||
The Waltons: The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
The Wedding Pact | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
WWE Presents The Royal Rumble 2014 | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Alex: C.M. Punk’s last event with the WWE. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “Thor: The Dark World is the best of the titles I’ve seen, but Gravity is high on my must see list.” Alex says, “Thor: The Dark World is my definite pick of the week.”
We’ve reviewed the three strongest entries, Gravity, Thor: the Dark World, and (somewhat unusual for us, but it’s based on a graphic novel and one scene features a “Jane” hat) Blue is the Warmest Color.
Ultimate Horror seems an odd mix of memorable, terrible, and ones which might be either– I haven’t seen’em all.
And, if you’re a fan of family-friendly drama, the two seasons up of The Waltons are their best. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything indicating the tv-movie that became the show’s retroactive pilot (The Homecoming: A Christmas Story) appears with the episodes.
OT: Obligatory Canadian reaction for 2014/02/23:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Thor is a sure thing. I want to rent Gravity eventually but I’m just not so sure about it.
I remember going to see The Shadow during its initial theater run and liking it, but that was many years ago. I have only caught fragments of it on TV ever since. I may eventually pick it up.
In other news probably worthy of its own story/discussion: Heroes is coming back on NBC. Yes, that Heroes. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.