This week is, well, weak.

First, the DVD picks:

• Ah My Buddha – Vol. 2
• Air – The Complete Series: Series brick of an anime based of an eroge (Porn game – though the anime has all the adult content removed)
• Air – The Motion Picture: Either a compilation film or a spinoff film.
• Before They Were Stars – FIP Alumni: Basically a collection of matches from Florida independant pro wrestling promotion Full Impact Pro of some of the wrestlers from there who have moved on to the big time (Homicide, Samoa Joe, Colt Cabana, CM Punk, etc.)
• The Burrowers
• Caprica: The BSG spinoff/prequel movie. It will also be aired on TV shortly; hopefully someone who gets that channel (author or reader) will be kind enough to send a review our way.
• Dallas: The Complete Eleventh Season: This ran for 14 years. I never watched the show. (It premiered when I was seven months old, after all.) Still, the “who shot J.R.?” phrase is one burned in my mind, as well as the story about Patrick Duffy in the shower wiping out an entire season as though it were a dream.
• Dog Days of Summer
• FBI Files Season 2
• Freakazoid! Season 2
• Great Performances – King Lear: Production for TV by the Royal Shakespeare Company, starring Ian McKellan as Lear and Sylvester McCoy (the 7th Doctor) as The Fool.
• Hawaii Five-O: Season Six
• Hellraiser: Boxed Set
• Into the Blue 2: The Reef: I had no interest in the original, and honestly, the only interest I have in this sequel is in seeing a movie with Laura Vandervoort (“Smallville’s” Supergirl) wearing a bikini for an extended period of time. Think I’ll be able to follow the story if I’ve never seen the first one?
• The Last Word
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 – Stardust Memory Complete Collection: OAV bridging the gap between the original Mobile Suit Gundam series and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. It’s probably closer in tone to Zeta.
• Moonlight Mile – Complete First Season: I don’t have all the details on the plot, but it looks fairly hard SF, on par with Planetes.
• My Own Worst Enemy: Complete Series: This sounds like a story we’ve all heard before: hardly anyone watched the show, but those that did are raving fans. At that price, I just might give it a go.
• Notorious: This single disc edition, and the 3 disc and Blu-Ray editions that follow, are for the recent movie that currently scores 5.9 out of 10 on the IMDB, and not the oen that scores 8.3, putting it at #114 on the current IMDB top 250 movies of all time.
• Notorious: Three disc edition.
• Princess Tutu Complete Collection:Tragic fairy-tale story about a swan who turns into a girl to try and get the boy she loves.
• Puni Puni Poemy/Kekko Kamen Bundle: A bundle of two very fan-service heavy, twisted series. I really don’t know how to describe either of them.
• Rhoda: Season One
• Squidbillies Vol. 2
• Tiny Toon Adventures, Season 1 Vol. 2
• Wolverine and the X-Men: Heroes Return Trilogy: The first three episodes of the series. I’ll hold out for full season releases if I get it at all, thanks.
• The Wrestler
• Wyatt Earp: Complete Season One

Now, the Blu-Ray picks:

• The Arrival: This was a decent little sci-fi flick from an indie distributor. That fact that it’s out on Blu-Ray says a lot for the development of the format. Check it out if you haven’t already; it may not be great, but it’s definitely good.
• Frost/Nixon
• Hellraiser
• Notorious
• Sin City
• The Wages of Fear – Criterion Collection
• The Wrestler
• X-Men: This original feels like the creators flipped through the comics, but didn’t actually read them.
• X2: X-Men United: Easily the best of the three. It’s the only one that feels like the writers read the comics and understood why they sell.
• X-Men 3: The Last Stand: This one feels like the writers have difficulty reading anything more advanced than Archie comics.
• X-Men Trilogy: The live action movies.

Finally, the picks of the week. AceCaseOr says “This one was a toughie. I’m going to go with Stardust Memory. It did a good job of explaining how things got the way they were in Zeta.” Fiziko says “this is a pretty thin selection. Wages of Fear is great, and Caprica has potential. That said, nothing leaps out at me.”