There are a couple of nice releases this week, picking up around Valentine’s day. We’ll see a bit of a dip once again before they start picking up again in late March.
First, AceCaseOR’s picks:
- Case Closed: Season 4: Season four of the anime adaptation of the manga Detective Conan – I haven’t seen the anime, but I have read the manga… and the manga does cheat a little, not quite Agatha Christie level, but it does cheat.
- Maazel’s 1984: This is an opera adaptation of George Orwell’s novel 1984. This probably makes for one of the few operas that are Genre not because they’re fantasy, but because they’re SF.
- Mahromatic: Collection 2: I described the premise on a previous update – robot maid, power cell slowly failing, semi-fanservice series with a side of memento mori.
- Nerima Daikon Brothers: From Nabeshin, the director of Excel Saga (which is one of the more bizarre anime I’ve seen) comes this series. I don’t know how to best describe the premise… it’s like Field of Dreams except instead of farming corn it’s daikon radishes and instead of a baseball stadium it’s a venue for putting on rock concerts (of the enormous dome variety), and substitute the parts relating to Shoeless Joe Jackson and Kevin Costner’s character’s father with insanely wacky hijinks.
- Nighthead Genesis Vol. 3
- Ragnarock: Complete Box Set: Basically, this is the anime series based off of the semi-free (sort of-but-not-quite) Korean MMORPG Ragnarock Online. Being that World of Warcraft has Board Games, Comic Books, Paper & Pencil RPGs, etc, I’m wondering why they haven’t licensed an anime yet – but I digress.
- Real Adventures of Johnny Quest: Season 1, Volume 1: I watched this show when it first came on the air, and I kind of liked it, it did some things that I was surprised they got away with on an animated series aimed for kids. I haven’t seen it in a while so I don’t know how well it’s aged.
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis: This is the live-action adaptation of the four-episode OVA Doomed Megalopolis.
- Tweeny Witches: The Adventure: Don’t know what this is about, but it’s the companion OVA to the Tweeny Witches TV series
Now, the DVD releases:
- Alien Raiders
- Beverly Hillbillies – The Official Third Season
- Body of Lies
- Body of Lies (Two Disc Special Edition)
- Changeling: The shooting script for this was J. Michael Straczynski’s first draft, and the movie cleaned house at the BAFTA awards.
- Dead Like Me: Life After Death: This is just the new movie.
- Dead Like Me: Complete Collection: Both of the previously released seasons and the new made for TV movie.
- The f Word – Series One
- Faces – Criterion Collection
- Flash Genius
- The Helen Morgan Story
- High School Musical: Senior Year
- High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Extended Edition)
- Hobson’s Choice – Criterion Collection
- Hounddog
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit – The Eighth Year
- Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Ninth Season: This is one of the seasons J. Michael Straczynski worked on.
- The Outrage
- Quarantine
- Religious
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The Fifth Season
- Screamers: The Hunting
- The Silver Chalice
- Still Waiting…
- When Time Ran Out
Now, the Blu-Ray releases:
- 15 Minutes
- 21 Grams
- Body of Lies
- Butterfly Effect
- Changeling
- Cold Mountain
- Constant Gardener
- C.R.A.Z.Y.
- Dead or Alive
- Freddy vs. Jason
- Gandhi
- Good Will Hunting
- High School Musical: Remix
- High School Musical 3: Extended Edition
- Hostage
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Over Her Dead Body
- Passion of the Christ
- Quarantine
- Seed of Chucky
Finally, the pick of the week. AceCaseOR says “For my pick of the week… the only thing that made me go “Ooh, I need to see that” is Maazel’s 1984 – but then again, I like Opera.” Fiziko says the “Dead Like Me” collection is well worth the price. It’s a very unique and entertaining series.
Religulous
That’s Bill Maher’s Religulous, btw.
Damien
yikes
Is that a direct to DVD sequel of screamers?
Not starring the original actors?