This is a good week for filling in gaps in your collection.
| 4 Film Favorites: John Travolta | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Grease, Hairspray, Saturday Night Fever, and Staying Alive. | ||||||||
| 4 Film Favorites: Modern Romances Collection | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The Notebook, Crazy Stupid Love, He’s Just Not That Into You, and Life As We Know It. | ||||||||
| 4 Film Favorites: Movies That Rock | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Rock of Ages, School of Rock, Detroit Rock City, and Empire Records. | ||||||||
| The Alvin Show | |||||||||
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| Annie (2014) | |||||||||
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| Blade trilogy | |||||||||
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| The Breakfast Club: 30th Anniversary Edition | |||||||||
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| Challenge of the Gobots, Volume Two | |||||||||
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| Clash of the Titans (2010) / Clash of the Titans (1981) / Wrath of the Titans | |||||||||
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| Despicable Me 2: 3 Mini-Movie Collection | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: Note that this is not the movie Despicable Me 2, but a collection of three related short films with a combined listed runtime of 14 minutes. | ||||||||
| Don’t Go In The Woods | |||||||||
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| Fairy Tail: Part 15 | |||||||||
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| The Familiar of Zero: Knight of the Twin Moons (Season 2) | |||||||||
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| The Fan (1982) | |||||||||
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| Fireball XL5: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Firepower | |||||||||
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| The Flintstones and WWE Stone Age Smackdown | |||||||||
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| Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| James Dean 3 Film Collection | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant. | ||||||||
| John Hughes Yearbook | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science. | ||||||||
| Matlock’s Greatest Cases | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The Judge, The Sisters, The Power Brokers (both parts), The Lemon, The Talk Show, The Brothers, The Marriage Counselor, The Big Payoff, The Debt, The Last Laugh, and The Dare. | ||||||||
| Night at the Museum 3: the Secret of the Tomb | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: There appear to be two versions of each edition in the Amazon directory at the time of this writing. I see no difference between them, so I labelled them according to where they are in Amazon’s sales rankings. | ||||||||
| Pee Wee’s Playhouse: Seasons 3, 4, 5 | |||||||||
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| Petticoat Junction: Family Favorite Episodes | |||||||||
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| Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| The Prowler | |||||||||
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| Quincy, M.E.: The Final Season | |||||||||
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| The Red Skelton Show | |||||||||
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| The Red Tent | |||||||||
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| Shane: The Complete Series | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: I haven’t seen this, and don’t know if it’s a sequel to the movie or not. If it is, that’s a neat trick, considering the way the film ended. It could work as a prequel, but if it’s a retelling, then it misses the point. | ||||||||
| Sound of Music: 50th Annivsary Edition | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: As with Night at the Museum, there are multiple editions listed. In this case, the higher selling version is only labelled in English, while the lower selling version is English/French bilingual, although both appear to have the same subtitle and dubbing options. | ||||||||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Retreat! | |||||||||
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| Tom Hanks Triple Feature | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Road to Perdition. | ||||||||
| Unbroken | |||||||||
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| The World God Only Knows: Goddesses (Season 3) | |||||||||
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| WWE Presents The Road Is Jericho: Epic Stories & Rare Matches from Y2J | |||||||||
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| Vampyr (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Zorro Cliffhanger Collection (1937-1944) | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “I’d go with the John Hughes, Tom Hanks, or Matlock collections, according to your tastes and existing collection.” Alex says, “If you don’t own The Sound Of Music already, and the more feature-rich releases are out of your price range, then this might be worth picking up. Otherwise, skip this week.”
“The Flintstones and WWE Stone Age Smackdown,” seriously?! I saw a preview for it on “Throne of Atlantis” this weekend (fun film, BTW). My mouth just hung open at the sheer stupidity and pandering of it all.
Unrelated: I did not know that The Red Tent had gotten a film adaptation. My wife will be thrilled.