The last week of 2008 is upon us. What are you spending your gift cards on? (Hint: if you don’t have Blu-Ray, wait a week.)
First, the DVD releases:
- An American Carol
- Area 88 TV, Vol. 1
- Battle For Haditha
- Black Lagoon: Complete Series Box Set (Season One)
- Bloodsuckers from Outer Space
- Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
- Death Note, Vol. 8
- Death Note Vol. 8 With Limited Edition Shidoh Figurine
- Gamera The Brave
- Greek: Chapter Two
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- Kyle XY – The Complete Second Season
- Nip/Tuck – Season 5, Part 1
- Nurse Witch Komugi, Vol. 1
- PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal – Season Three
- The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Season One
- Step Up Love Story: Complete Collection
- Surfer, Dude
- Towelhead
- Victor Borge: 100 Years of Laughter: I saw him perform live once. He was hilarious; highly recommended.
- Welcome to the NHK, Season One, Part One
- Welcome to the NHK, Season One, Part Two
Now, the Blu-Ray releases:
- An American Carol
- Days of Thunder
- Event Horizon
- The Flock
- Ghost
- Last Holiday
- Serenity
- Surfer, Dude
- The Truman Show
- Wedding Crashers
Finally, the pick of the week. If you support Blu-Ray, go for Serenity. If not, hold on to your pennies and pick up Battlestar Galactica Season 4.0 on January 6.
Addendum – Alternative Pick
As I have seen it – I strongly reccomend picking up Season 1 of Black Lagoon. It’s not genre (so I won’t be reviewing it here), but it is very good. It’s up there with Cowboy Bebop (okay, maybe not in the music department, but in the action and characterization department it’s definitely up there).
Oh, and with Area 88 – the old SNES video game and arcade game UN Squadron was based on this show – again, not Genre (so not going to get reviewed here by me) but I have heard good things about it – I haven’t watched it (yet) so I can’t back those up, but I will pass along what I’ve heard. Anyway – Amazon.com is describing it as being a "Complete Collection" – Not sure why the "Volume 1" is there – the collection is 3 disks and the show was 12 episodes long, so the whole show is should be there.
Oh, and as a heads up – "Step Up Love Story" is borderline porn – there’s no actual explicit sex, but that’s basically everything the show is about
Re: Addendum – Alternative Pick
Area 88 has a cool premise which is almost a stright rip off of Count of Monte Cristo *cough* The animation looks like that 70s style anime which was was regurgitated to the North American masses throughout the 80s (Gatchaman, Galaxy Express, etc.). The ending is also pretty crappy.
I don’t recommend it to anyone :/
Serenity
This is great, my gf was looking for something to get me for xmas! (;