It’s not a great week, but there are some titles worth checking out.
First, the DVD releases:
- 009-1 Vol. 2 with Box
- American Dragster: Season One
- Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas
- The Big O, Vol. 2: Anime Legends Complete Collection
- Blood In The Face
- Broken English
- Burst Angel – A New Tokyo Vol. 2
- Burst Angel – Death’s Angel Vol. 1
- Childhood’s End
- The Climb
- The Dark Backward
- Dexter – The First Season
- The Ex
- Exorcism
- Galaxy Angel AA, Vol. 2
- Gunslinger Girl – Vol. 1
- Gunslinger Girl – Vol. 2
- House of Games (Criterion Collection)
- House, M.D. – Season Three
- I Pity The Fool – Season One
- Innocent Venus 1: Grave New World
- JAG (Judge Advocate General) – The Complete Fourth Season
- Legend of Zelda: Havoc In Hyrule: This is tempting, but I’m afraid it won’t be as good as I remember, since I haven’t watched it since I was in elementary school.
- Life Begins – Series 1
- The Lives of Others
- Malicious
- The Michael Haneke Collection: Includes “The Piano Teacher,” “Funny Games,” “Code Unknown,” “The Castle,” “Bennys Video,” “The Seventh Continent,” and “71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance.”
- The Milky Way (Criterion Collection)
- Perfect Stranger
- Redline
- Reel Talent: First Films by Legendary Directors: Includes early work by Richard L. Bare, Robert Zemeckis, James Foley Jr., Kevin Reynolds, Steve Sommers, Jon Turtletaub, Shawn Levy, Richard Kelly and some guy named George Lucas. Yes, the original “THX-1138” short is here.
- Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition)
- Serenity (Collector’s Edition): This is the same cut of the film, as Joss Whedon has always maintained that the cut we got was the final director’s cut, but it does have a number of new bonus features.
- She
- South Park – The Complete Tenth Season
- Super Mario Bros: King Koopa Katastrophe
- ‘Til Death – The Complete First Season
- Ugly Betty – The Complete First Season
- The Ultimate Gift
- Working Girls
Now, the Blu-Ray releases:
Finally, the pick of the week. Anyone who’s been reading the site for years will not be at all surprised when I pick Serenity. That’s just a great movie, even for those who aren’t fans of the genre.