Yes, this column is going up REALLY early this week. I’ll be heading out of province for the weekend, so it’s either coming up early or late, so I’m going with early. That’ll give everyone the extra time they need to sift through an unusually long list, anyway.
First, the DVD releases:
- 8 Simple Rules – The Complete First Season
- After The Thin Man
- Air Gear 4: Wings Reborn
- Airplane! / Top Secret!: A Double Feature pack.
- America’s Funniest Comics 3
- American Beauty / The Virgin Suicides: Two great art films from 1999.
- Another Thin Man
- Are We Done Yet?
- Be Yourself
- Bad Supaman
- Blue Hawaii: One of a whole heck of a lot of Elvis releases this week. I’m betting that someone out there is a big enough Elvis fan (or a person with a few minutes to hit Google or Wikipedia) to find out why this week is special for Elvis.
- Brigitte Bardot Collection: Includes “Naughty Girl,” “Love On A Pillow,” “The Vixen,” “Come Dance With Me” and “Two Weeks In September.”
- Bubba Ho-Tep (Hail To The King Edition): Easily my favourite “Elvis” release this week.
- Charro
- The Climb
- Crime Story
- Daniel Boone: Season 5
- Darkman Trilogy
- Darkwing Duck – Volume 2: Really, really tempting, but I haven’t even picked up volume 1 yet.
- Dawn of the Living Dead
- Death Wish / Escape From Alcatraz / Uncommon Valor: A Triple Feature this time.
- The Dick Tracy Show Vol. 1
- The Dick Tracy Show Vol. 2
- Disturbia
- The Dog Problem
- Double Trouble: More Elvis.
- The Dresden Files – The Complete First Season
- Election / You Can Count On Me
- Elvis – That’s The Way It Is
- Elvis – The Hollywood Collection: Includes “Charro,” “Girl Happy,” “Kissin’ Cousins,” “Live a Little, Love a Little,” “Stay Away, Joe” and “Tickle Me.”
- Enemy At The Gates / Uncommon Valor
- The Film Crew: Killers From Space
- Flash Gordon (Saviour Of The Universe Edition): As I write this, I’m listening to Queen on K-Rock‘s live feed. What are the odds?
- The Fly Collector Set: Includes both of the recent versions, starring Jeff Goldblum and Eric Stoltz.
- Footloose / Flashdance
- French Connection Boxset: Includes both of the movies and a bonus disc. It’s a rerelease of a set I’ve owned for about six years, but they’re good movies.
- Friday the 13th / Friday the 13th Part 2
- Full House – The Complete Seventh Season
- G.I. Blues: More Elvis.
- Gakuen Heaven, Vol. 3: Secret Summers
- Girl Happy: Elvis lives again!
- Girls Rule Pack: Includes “Mean Girls,” “Clueless” and “She’s The Man.”
- Godzilla Original Animated Series Vol. 3
- GTO: Semester 1 Box Set
- .Hack//Roots, Vol. 3
- Happy Tree Friends – Season One, Vol. 3
- Hardball / The Bad News Bears: That’s the original “Bad News Bears,” not the 1976 version.
- Harum Scarum: I’m rapidly running out of Elvis-related comments, and there are so many more to do…
- The Hills – The Complete Second Season
- Home Improvement – The Complete Seventh Season
- Hopalong Cassidy – The Complete Collection
- I Think I Love My Wife
- It Happened At The World’s Fair: Yet more Elvis.
- The Italian Job / Primal Fear / The Score: A Triple Feature. That’s the new “Italian Job.”
- Jailhouse Rock
- Jasmine Women
- Kannazuki No Miko: Box Set
- King Creole: Elvis. Again.
- King Kong Animated Series Vol. 3
- Kiss The Girls / The Gift
- Kissin’ Cousins
- The Last Castle / The Peacemaker
- Life Support
- Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection: Includes “Blue Hawaii,” “Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Fun In Acapulco,” “G.I. Blues,” “King Creole,” “Roustabout,” “Paradise Hawaiian Style” and “Girls! Girls! Girls!”
- Live a Little, Love a Little: Elvis.
- The Lottery Bride
- Luis Bunuel Box Set: Includes “Gran Casin” and “The Young One.”
- Man Stroke Woman: The Complete First Season
- Memories of the King: Yes, the King in question is Elvis.
- The Muppet Show – Season Two: It’s time to put on makeup, it’s time to light the lights.
- My Hero – Season Two
- My Wife and My Dead Wife
- Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection: Includes “Manhattan Melodrama,” “Evelyn Prentice,” “Double Wedding,” “I Love You Again,” “Love Crazy.”
- The Naked Gun Triple Feature
- Naruto Uncut Boxed Set, Volume 4 (Special Edition)
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style: More Elvis.
- Ray Bradbury: An American Icon
- Rome: The Complete Second Season
- Romeo and Juliet / Love Story / Falling In Love
- Rosario Tijeras
- Roseanne – Season Eight
- Roustabout: How many movies did Elvis make?
- Rumbling Hearts: Box Set
- Saved By The Bell – Hawaiian Style / Saved By The Bell – Wedding In Las Vegas
- Serpico / Internal Affairs / NARC
- Shadow Of The Thin Man
- The Simpsons – The Complete Tenth Season: Regular packaging.
- The Simpsons – The Complete Tenth Season: Bart head packaging.
- Song Of The Thin Man
- Soul Food – The Second Season
- Speedway: Elvis.
- Spinout: Even more Elvis.
- Stay Away, Joe: What can I say about Elvis that hasn’t already been said?
- The Suite Life of Zack and Cody – Sweet Suite Victory
- Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show – The Complete Series: This was yet another iteration of the Super Friends.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Original Series (Season 5)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward – The Day of Awakening, V. 2
- That Girl: Season Three
- The Thin Man Goes Home
- This Is Elvis: Need I even say it?
- The Tick vs. Season Two
- Tickle Me: Yes, it’s Elvis.
- TMNT
- Tommy Boy / Black Sheep
- The Trouble With Girls: Elvis had trouble with girls? News to me…
- Up In Smoke / Still Smokin
- Viva Las Vegas: Great Ceasar’s Ghost! This is fianlly the last of the Elvis releases this week!
- Voltron: Defender of the Universe – Revelations
- The War Of The Worlds / When Worlds Collide
Now, the Blu-Ray releases:
- Are We Done Yet?
- Arlington Road: This was actually pretty good. The lighting cues could have been more subtle, but it works.
- Disturbia
- Final Fantasy – The Spirits Within
- TMNT
Here are the HD DVD releases:
Finally, the pick of the week. I’ve got to go with the underrated and underappreciated Bubba Ho-Tep. If you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself to change that.
Bubba Ho-Tep
So what is Bubba Ho-Tep about, anyway? I’ve heard it’s a really good movie, but that’s pretty much all I know.
(Yeah, I could look it up, but I’m interested in what the people here have to say. And I’m lazy. ;)
Re: Bubba Ho-Tep
Timeshredder summed it up pretty well in his review.
Re: Bubba Ho-Tep
You were right, Fiz. I could’ve given that at least one more point for originality.
Reason for the Elvis overload
As the son of an Elvis fan I know that Elvis died 30 years ago this month on August 16, 1977.
This is what we call
The Muppet Show! And I’ve been waiting for S2 for a long time.
Lets see what The Simpsons had for S10. Oh my. Some of my least favourite episodes. In fact, there’s only one that I’d REALLY like to have ("Thirty Minutes over Tokyo") and I’m not getting the whole set for that, I’m afraid. Then again, I also said I wouldn’t be getting S9, and I did. So we’ll see.