These are some of the releases coming out on
September 21.
Some of you may be wondering what we do with what
little we make off our referrals to Amazon.com and
Amazon.ca. Well, we spend it on material that helps
us add to the content of the site. The first
Amazon.ca referal cheque covered a copy of
Stargate SG-1 Season Four for hitch’s
review. The second one covers a very large
portion of the Star
Wars Episodes 4-6 DVD set I’ll be picking up
Tuesday, with plans to review a movie a night from
Tuesday to Thursday. Thank you to everyone who
bought stuff through our referrals! Of course, the
down side to a release expected to be this big is
that there are only two other kinds of titles
released in the same week. There will be absolute
garbage in the same genre, intended to cash in on
browsers, and there will be high quality stuff that
appeals to a completely different demographic.
First, the genre releases of the week:
- The
Invisible Ghost / The Corpse Vanishes: A Bela
Lugosi double feature. - 20,000
Leagues Under The Sea: The Jules Verne classic - Flash
Gordon: Marooned on Mongo: This one is animated. - The
Terror / Scared to Death: Another “classic
thriller” double feature. The Terror stars
Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff. We’ve got plans
for that one. Keep your eyes on the site for the
next few weeks and you’ll see what I’m talking about. - Night
of the Living Dead: Yet another zombie movie. - To
The Galaxy and Beyond: The fact that this Mark
Hamill hosted documentary is being released the same
day as the Star Wars trilogy is probably not
an accident.
Now, the non-genre releases of the week:
- MADtv:
The Complete First Season: I actually found this
stuff funny, as opposed to some other popular sketch
comedy shows. - Felicity:
Season Three: I never did watch this show. - Five
Films by John Cassavetes: Another Criterion
release. - La
Dolce Vite: Another classic - Mean
Girls: This didn’t appeal to me at all, but it’s
one of the biggest releases of the week. - Popular:
Complete First Season: Yet another show I heard
good things about but never got around to watching.
Flash Gordon
Yuck, the Xtreme Tenn with rocket skate-surf-board edition.
Also features one of my sci-fi fantasy pet peeves: sexy lizard women with
breasts. Jeez, don’t these people know where the word “mammal”
comes from? I
guess its hard to draw a sexy, flat-chested chick. Sigh…
Star Wars Audio Problems
You might wanna check the review at The Digital Bits before rushing out to buy Star Wars, apparently there are some sound problems on “A New Hope”, the big one being that the score is flipped on the rear channels… Lucasfilm mysteriously disagrees…