The column is finally done. Amazon.com no longer allows me to sort upcoming releases alphabetically, so I’ve got to manually sort them afterwards. Also, when sorted by “Bestselling,” they keep changing the order of the low and moderately selling items, so I saw a few titles listed twice and might have completely missed others. I think next week I’m going to try sorting by price instead, just to prevent the order from changing, though I’ll still have to manually sort the rest.
First, the DVD releases:
- +/-: I haven’t got a clue what this is about, but I’m too much of a math geek to leave it unmentioned.
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Antibodies
- The Beautiful Washing Machine
- Bells of Innocence / Judas Project: An odd double feature to say the least.
- Beyond Belief: Season One
- Blades of Glory
- Carlito’s Way – Crime Saga Collection: Includes “Carlito’s Way” and “Carlito’s Way: Rise To Power.”
- The Lon Chaney Jr. Collection
- Classic Game Room – The Rise and Fall of the Internet’s Greatest Video Game Review Show
- Roger Corman Collection
- Cracker: A New Terror
- Dane Cook – The Lost Pilots
- Danger Mouse: The Complete Series
- Dark Shadows: The Beginning Collection 1
- Deadly Dames Film Noir Collector’s Set: Includes “The Naked Kiss,” “Slightly Scarlet” and “Blonde Ice.”
- Differential Equations: I didn’t realize the Standard Deviants went this far into the college level. By the way, I’ve been looking for a partial differential equations textbook that uses theory and derivations to justify steps instead of examples and compelling arguments. (ie. the kind that would be used in an honours math class, not an engineering class.) If you know of one, please let me know.
- Dr. T and the Women
- Dumb Luck
- The Essential Ozzie and Harriet Collection
- Family Favorite Treasures: Includes “The Cat In The Hat,” “Babe,” and “Beethoven.”
- Friday Night lights – The First Season
- Gideon’s Trumpet
- Growing Up Creepie: Creepie Creatures Vol. 1
- Heroes – Season One
- Horrors of Malformed Men
- The Boris Karloff Collection
- Kickin’ It Old Skool: I see Jamie Kennedy is still riding high on the success of “Son of the Mask.”
- Christopher Lee Signature Collection: I notice that St. Clair keeps telling Amazon.com these are called “Signature Collections,” but the word “Signature” does not appear anywhere on the package. Could they be trying to horn in on the success of Warner Bros. line by that title?
- Legion of Super Heroes Volume 1: Would it kill them to release the season sets?
- LOL
- Masters of Horror: Season One Box Set
- Modify
- The Naked Kiss
- NASA: Ultimate Collection
- A Night At The Roxbury (Special Collector’s Edition): I met Chris Kattan briefly back in May. He’s much funnier off camera than I’ve ever seen him on camera. He did a great job boosting morale on set. (The movie was running far behind schedule.)
- Nobody’s Perfect
- Nothing To Declare
- The Odd Couple – The Second Season
- Offside
- The Outer Limits (Original Series) – Season 1, Volume 2
- Vincent Price Signature Collection
- Return to Halloweentown (Ultimate Secret Edition): This Disney direct-to-video flick doesn’t seem to have any connection to The Nightmare Before Christmas. At least, if there is, I didn’t find it, though I didn’t look all that hard.
- Rick and Steve – The Complete First Season: This is one of those cases where packaging that looks like it’s for children really isn’t.
- Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right: I’ve enjoyed his improv that I’ve seen. He’s actually much funnier than the writers of “Full House” would lead you to believe.
- Samurai Jack – Season 4
- Samurai Masters: Ultimate Collection
- Sci-Fi 100 Movie Pack
- Ski School
- Sold Separately: Classic Kids Commercials
- Story of Saiunkoku 1: Includes Collector Box
- Teachers
- Tomb of Terror 50 Movie Pack
- TV Noir
- Two’s Company – The Complete Series
- The Ultimate Horror Collection
- Year of the Dog
No Blu-Ray releases this week.
Here are the HD DVD releases:
Finally, the pick of the week. Was there any doubt? It’s got to be the first season of Heroes in the highest definition format your home system supports.
Best selling?
How can you sort upcoming releases by best-selling?
Re: Best selling?
Preorders.
Alternate source for disc release information
comingsoon.net has all the DVD, BD, and (usually) HD-DVD releases with links to their Amazon page in alphabetical order by date. Might make your life easier:
http://www.comingsoon.net/dvd/aug07.php
http://www.comingsoon.net/dvd/bdaug07.php
Re: Alternate source for disc release information
It might, but I like to go through the complete list. This week, I sifted through 893 titles. When someone presorts them for me, as with those links, they may skip over something I’d choose to include.
Of court it would hurt them…
Of course it would. Warner knows that they can get all the little kids to beg their parents for whatever is on the shelf right now. Once they’ve hosed those parents and kids for a year or two selling partial seasons, then they can get the geeks with the full-season sets.
Fortunately for me, I found the episodes of LOSH I’ve seen to be "meh" so I won’t be one of the adult geeks to get caught by this net. I pity the ones who actually love the show.
What I wouldn’t give for another season or three of Justice League. Those I’d probably buy in whatever form released…
60s genre television
I suspect most people hereabouts know the original Outer Limits, but I also note a Dark Shadows release. That was part of the pop-culture landscape in my early childhood. How well-known is it today?