Weekly DVD Picks – Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Between the Christmas releases and the Halloween
horrors, this week is getting mighty full of releases.
The good news is, many of them are high quality.

First, the genre releases:

Now, the non-genre releases:

Finally, the pick of the week. In a week with
Hitchcock, several
Criterion Collection movies, The Wizard of
Oz
, and The
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 3
, we’ve got
some great
choices in this category to pick from. So, why did
American
Gothic
get chosen? Well, frankly, this is the
television series
I’ve ever seen. (Remember, when I reviewed Firefly,
I gave it 41 out
of 42.) This was the first series I saw that had
incredible
writing, dramatic tension, and real horror strung out
every hour. It
was also the first series I got addicted to that was
cancelled before
the first season finished. Later on, I managed to
catch all the
episodes on Space:
The Imagination
Station
, and I couldn’t believe the quality of the
episodes we
were denied. Great writing, great acting, and an
incredible series
cliffhanger ending (that, strangely, works as a form
of closure, much
like the series ender to Angel) set this
apart in so many
ways. I am completely baffled by the cancellation of
shows like this,
Profit and Firefly while certain
other shows remain
on the air year after year. Do yourself a favour and
pick this up.

2 replies on “Weekly DVD Picks – Tuesday, October 25, 2005”

  1. Wow, that’s a lot of movies and stuff
    Is there anything special/new added to Amazon’s version of Cowboy Bebop? From the picture at least, it looks like the same DVDs that have been available for years, just bundled together to save you a few bucks.

    Oh, hey, time to start cyberstalking. I just realized that I went to high school with one of the recent additions to the cast of MADtv. (Hi, Crista :D )

    • Re: Wow, that’s a lot of movies and stuff

      Is there anything special/new added to Amazon’s version of
      Cowboy Bebop? From the picture at least, it looks like the
      same DVDs that have been available for years, just bundled
      together to save you a few bucks.

      That’s what it looks like. There are similar packages
      coming of Fox materials next week, and on November 22,
      there’s a frickin’
      huge
      set through the Warner Bros. label. (I’ve found
      someone to split that set with, so expect a glut of reviews
      when I start getting some time off.) I would like to know
      how they call this unprecendented when Criterion had a
      similar set not long ago, but still, this is incredible.
      It’ll probably take a day just to sort through them all.

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