Once again, I’ve culled the list of future releases,
and have pulled out the titles that interest me the
most.
First, the genre releases:
- 3rd
Rock From
The Sun – Season One: I still laugh every time I
think of the
Physics charades, or Harry’s job at the video
store. - Star
Trek
Enterprise – Season Two: For some reason, the
“Star Trek” portion
of the title crept back in for the DVD releases.
Perhaps it’s there
to remind people why they’re paying so much for this
stuff. - Steamboy
–
Director’s Cut (Widescreen Edition): Contains 5.1
audio tracks in
English and Japanese. (Personally, I like my foreign
films subtitled,
as the dubbing rarely has the same emotional overtones
in the voices.)
Now, the non-genre releases:
- There is a huge list of A & E biography
releases, including
Adam and Eve, Alexander Graham Bell, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Bob Dylan,
Bruce Lee, Bugsy Siegel, Carol Burnett, Christopher
Columbus,
Condoleeza Rice, Davy Crockett, Frida Kahlo, Genghis
Khan, Irving
Berlin, James Dean, Jesus, Jimmy Hoffa, John and
Abigail Adams, John
Wilkes Booth, Johnny Cash, Julia Child, Katharine
Hepburn, Kind David,
Laura Bush, Louis B. Mayer (the second M in “MGM,” who
predicted that
he’d have the largest funeral attendence in Hollywood
history because
so many people would want to make sure he was dead),
Mata Hari, Mike
Tyson, Oscar Wilde, and Susan B. Anthony. You can get
to all of them
through this
link, which also includes Biography releases from
the past waves. - Gilligan’s
Island – Season Three: This will complete the
series. - The
Jerk (26th
Anniversary Edition): This was Steve Martin’s
first big hit. I’ve
seen it, and I don’t understand its success. - The
Mary Tyler
Moore Show – The Complete Second Season: Those who
picked up
season one when it first came out can finally stop
waiting for season
two.
Finally, the pick of the week. Remington
Steele –
Season One: This introduced the world to Pierce
Brosnan, who did
better work here than as James Bond. This show should
have lasted
longer; if memory serves, we never did find out who
the guy really
was. For those who don’t know the premise, a female
private
investigator finds that nobody wants to hire a woman,
so she made up a
name, claimed this fictional person was her boss, and
got the work
because people thought they were hiring a man and his
assistant. Then
Pierce Brosnan’s character showed up out of nowhere,
introduced
himself to one of her clients as Remington Steele, and
just took on
the role. He knew next to nothing about detective
work, though he’d
seen just about every movie ever made. Highly amusing
series, with a
distinctly original premise.
The Jerk
It was one of those movies that was so bad it was funny. This is one of the times where they actually tried to be bad, and it worked (unlike ALL Troma Films).
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