This is a pretty lean week, but there are a few specific items of interest, particularly for Doctor Who fans.

First, AceCaseOR’s picks:

• Ashes of Time Redux: Blu-Ray only, and it appears to be an import, but an all-region import (so it will work on your Blu-Ray player basically no matter what region you’re in). It’s a wuxia film from Wong Kar-Wai (In The Mood For Love, Chungking Express, lots of other stuff.)
• Clannad Complete: The series is a romance anime (I don’t know how much comedy is in there) based on an H-Game (though all of the H elements have been removed).
• Five Star Stories: Science Fiction space opera anime based on the manga by Nagano Mamoru. This appears to be a re-release.
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket Complete Collection: Very depressing side story to the core Gundam series about a Gundam test facility on a neutral colony, one of the kids who lives there, the Zeon pilot who comes to destroy the prototype who befriends the kid, and the old friend of the kid who has come to pilot the prototype during testing.
• Steam Detectives Complete Collection
• Wadanba Syle Complete Collection

Then, Fiziko’s DVD picks:

• 7th Heaven – Complete Eighth Season
• Ace Ventura Jr. Pet Detective: As far as I can tell, Jim Carrey has nothing to do with this one.
• Air Bud (Special Edition)
• Australia
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• Doctor Who: The Key To Time (Special Collector’s Edition): A seven disk set, made up of this week’s six individual releases.
• Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
• Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
• Doctor Who: Pirate Planet
• Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
• Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
• Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
• East of Eden
• ER – The Complete Tenth Season
• Exit Speed
• The Hills: Complete Fourth Season
• Hotel Babylon: Season 3
• In The Electric Mist
• The Inauguration of Barack Obama
• My Two Dads: Season One
• Nash Bridges: Second Season
• The Return of Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar Collection: It’s a 6 disk set from Image Entertainment, so this’ll be her small studio stuff. They don’t list specific titles or show a cover scan.
• Scarlett Johansson Collection: Includes “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” “A Good Woman” and “An American Rhapsody.”
• Stargate: Ark fo Truth/Continuum two pack
• Stiletto
• Treasures IV – American Avant Garde 1947-1986: The “Treasures” collections have all been enjoyable so far, if you’re interested in the history of film. Avant Garde is an aquired taste; if you don’t already know you like it, start with a smaller, cheaper collection, as this will feel really long if you’re in the large segment of the population that doesn’t care for Avant Garde.
• Village Barbershop
• Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic: This taps into my main fear about the film translation. This takes the entire comic story, adding voice actors and limited animation, and ends up with a five and a half hour runtime. This is double the runtime of the feature film adaptation; it makes me wonder how they’ll go about compressing it into the 2:37 feature film or the eventual 3:10 home video release.
• Wildfire: Season 3
• Wonder Woman: Single disk edition
• Wonder Woman: The two disk special edition

Now, Fiziko’s Blu-Ray releases:

• Australia
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• In The Electric Mist
• NFL Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers Champions
• Silence of the Lambs
• Stargate: Ark of Truth / Continuum
• Watchmen: Complete Motion Comic
• Wonder Woman

Finally, the picks of the week. AceCaseOR says “Not a lot this week. My pick is going to be, going by stuff I’ve seen already, War In The Pocket. It’s depressing, but very good.” Fiziko says “I haven’t seen a lot coming out this week. If I were to pick something out on spec, I’d go with the Wong Kar Wai “Ashes of Time.”