Weekly New Releases – April 22, 2014

Last week we promised that the selection would get better in a few weeks. With one notable exception, this is not that week.

Awesome 80s Teen Comedy 4-Pack
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments Blaine: Includes Hardbodies, Hardbodies 2, Mischief and Spring Break. I’ll let you decide what definition of “Awesome” is being used here.
Bettie Page Reveals All!
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Box of Bikers Collection
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments Includes Chrome Hearts, The Cycle Girls and The Iron Horseman.
Chances Are (25th Anniversary Edition)
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Conspiracy Theory
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Comments Blaine: Probably my favorite movie with Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts or Patrick Stewart. Also my favorite Brian Helgeland movie and my second favorite Richard Donner films.
Doctor Who: Web of Fear
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments One of the two stories recovered and released digitally just in time for the 50th Anniversary. This has been available digitally for a while, with a photomontage for the still-missing episode, but the DVD animates that chapter instead.
Eureka Seven
Amazon
  • Part 1 Blu-Ray Limited Edition: US, CAN
  • Part 1 Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • Part 1 DVD: US, CAN
  • Part 2 Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • Part 2 DVD: US, CAN
  • Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers Blu-Ray/DVD: US, CAN
  • Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers DVD: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Part 1 Blu-Ray Limited Edition: US
  • Part 1 Blu-Ray: US
  • Part 1 DVD: US
  • Part 2 Blu-Ray: US
  • Part 2 DVD: US
  • Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers Blu-Ray/DVD: US
  • Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers DVD: US
Comments Alex: Parts 1 and 2 have a whole bunch of bonus features the original release didn’t have. The limited edition also comes with an art-box for parts 1 & 2. The feature film set is in an alternate timeline from the Eureka Seven TV series.
Evel Knievel: The Last American Daredevil
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Exit Wounds
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Get Carter (1971)
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Get Carter (2000)
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Hidamari Sketch X 365
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Blu-Ray: US
Comments Second season of an anime series about students at an arts high-school.
The House on Sorority Row
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Jack Lemmon Showcase
Amazon
  • Volume 1 DVD: US, CAN
  • Volume 2 DVD: US, CAN
Comments Volume 1 includes Under the Yum Yum Tree, My Sister Eileen, PHFFFT! and Luv. Volume 2 includes Operation Madball, Good Neighbor Sam, Notorious Landlady and Three For Show.
Little Busters, Collection 2
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Blu-Ray: US
  • DVD: US
Master of the House
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray/DVD: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
The Mr. Magoo Theatrical Collection
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments Includes all 53 theatrical shorts and the full length feature.
Movies 4 You: Film Noir/Thriller
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments Includes The Hot Spot, The Visitors, Exposed and Tough Guys Don’t Dance.
Murder, She Wrote
Amazon
  • Season 7 DVD: US, CAN
  • Season 8 DVD: US, CAN
Comments Season 8 is the first of J. Michael Straczynski’s two seasons as producer and showrunner.
Newhart Season 3
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Outrageous Comedies 6 Movie Set
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments Includes Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Brothers Solomon, Just Add Water, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach, Saving Silverman and American Crude.
Riot in Cell Block 11 (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray/DVD: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Seven Warriors
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments A made-in-Hong Kong Wuxia Remake of The Seven Samurai.
Shotgun
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Spectacular Spider-Man: The Complete Series
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Spider-Man Trilogy
Amazon
  • Trilogy Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • Spider-Man 2 4K Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
  • Spider-Man 3 4K Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
Teen Comedies – 6 Movie Set
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments Blaine: Includes Can’t Hardly Wait, High School High, Dancer, Texas, Fired Up, Loster and Excess Baggage. Excess Baggage is both the first movie that gave Alicia Silverstone creative control and the least entertaining movie I’ve ever seen.
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
WWE Presents The Best of Raw After The Show
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN

Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “get Doctor Who: Web of Fear if you missed it digitally. If you have that, take your pick of Blu-Ray upgrades for Conspiracy Theory and/or Spectacular Spider-Man.” Alex says, “I’m going with The Web of Fear as my pick for this week.”

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