The Fiz is on vacation, so here’s your list for this week.

First, the DVD releases:

• That 70’s Show: Complete Giftset
• Adventures of Robin Hood: The Complete Second Season
• Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection: Includes “Lifeboat,” “Spellbound,” “Notorious,” “The Paradine Case,” “Sabotage,” “Young and Innocent,” “Rebecca” and “The Lodger.” I find this set a bit frustrating: I’ve been looking for “Paradine Case” for years, and now that it’s finally back in print, it’s only out in an $84 dollar box set filled with seven other movies I already own. I can’t quite justify getting the upgraded copies of “Young and Innocent” and “The Lodger” along with that for the total price. If I didn’t already have the others, I’d grab it without hesitation.
• Alien – Predator Total Destruction Collection: Includes the Alien Quadrilogy, the Predator movies, and the AVP movies.
• America: Stories of War 36 DVD Collection: I’m not listing all 50 movies here, but if you follow the link, you’ll find a user comment that does so.
• Arch of Triumph
• Azumanga Daioh, Vol. 2: Complete Collection
• Back To You – Season One
• Bleach Movie 1: Memories of Nobody
• Capricorn One: From the days when the general public liked O.J.
• Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition): The Robert Downey Jr. movie
• Classic Westerns 3-Film Collection: Includes “The Way West,” “The Bravados” and “Broken Arrow.”
• Claymore, Starter Set (includes Vol. 1)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigations – The Eighth Season
• Degrassi: The Next Generation Ultimate Fan Set
• The Deputy
• Drive-In Cult Classics 3: Includes “The Babysitter,” “Weekend with the Babysitter,” “The Pink Angels,” “Blood Mania,” “Single Room Furnished,” “The Pom Pom Girls,” “Malibu Beach” and “Van Nuys Blvd.”
• Ghost House Underground Eight Film Collection
• Ghost In The Shell: Season One
• Giant 600 Cartoons: Special Collectors Edition
• Halloween: 30th Anniversary Box Set
• Holiday Inn
• Home Alone: The Complete Collection
• Icons of Horror: Hammer Films: Includes “The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb,” “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll,” “Scream of Fear” and “The Gorgon.”
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Single Disc Edition)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Two Disc Special Edition)
• Indiana Jones – The Complete Adventures Collection: Includes all four feature films.
• Itazura Na Kiss 5
• Kanon, Vol. 6
• Karin, Vol. 5 – Ascendance
• Killing of a Chinese Bookie – Criterion Collection
• Lady Chatterley (Extended European Edition): Released by Kino international, which does this type of thing very well.
• Legendary Westerns 3-Film Collection: Includes “Support Your Local Sheriff,” “Support Your Local Gunfighter” and “Hombre.” I’m not a western fan at all, but I enjoyed both of the “Support Your Local …” movies.
• Liberty’s Kids: Complete Series
• Lil’ Bush: Resident of United States – Season Two
• Long Way Down
• Naruto Uncut Box Set: Volume 10
• Nash Bridges – The First Season
• Negima: Spring and Summer OVA
• The New World
• Notorious: One of three great Hitchcock films out this week, originally released through the Criterion Collection.
• Nuku Nuku The Whole Kitten-Kaboodle Collection
• The Partridge Family: The Complete Third Season
• Payback: Not the Mel Gibson movie
• Rebecca: One of three great Hitchcock films out this week, originally released through the Criterion Collection.
• The Rocky Horror Tribute Show
• Rules of Engagement: The Complete Second Season
• The Sarah Silverman Program: Season Two, Vol. One
• School Rumble: Season 2, Part 1
• Scott Baio is 45 and Single: Season One
• Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant: Season Two
• Shogun Assassi: 5 Film Collector’s Set
• Shonen Onmyouji, Vol. 1
• Shonen Onmyouji, Vol. 2
• Shonen Onmyouji, Vol. 3
• Shonen Onmyouji, Starter Set (includes Vol. 1)
• Short Cuts – Criterion Collection
• SilverHawks, Vol. 1
• Slayers Revolution, Vol. 1
• Spellbound: One of three great Hitchcock films out this week, originally released through the Criterion Collection.
• SpongeBob SquarePants – Who Bob What Pants?
• Stuck
• Sweet Sixteen – Director’s Cut: Not even remotely like “Sixteen Candles.”
• Ultraman: The Complete Series
• The Unit – The Complete Third Season
• The Universe – The Complete Season Two
• War, Inc.
• Zombie Jamboree: 25th Anniversary Convention for “Night of the Living Dead”: We’ll finally review “Night of the Living Dead” this Halloween.

Now, the Blu-Ray releases:

• American Gangster
• Casino
• Constantine
• Eastern Promises
• The Gangster Gift Set: Includes “American Gangster,” “Casino” and “Eastern Promises.”
• Great Expectations
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Jewel of the Nile
• Poltergeist
• Romancing The Stone
• Stuck
• The Ultimate Matrix Collection
• War Inc.

Finally, the pick of the week. If you missed the Criterion release, get this week’s MGM release of Notorious, either as a single release or in the box set. It’s a great Hitchcock film, and one of his most influential movies. Highly, highly recommended.