Those with Blu-Ray will be much more impressed with this week’s offerings than those still running on DVD.
First, the DVD picks:
- Alexander Korda’s Private Lives: Released through Criterion’s Eclipse series.
- The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series: Includes “City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Trouble With Tribbles,” “Balance of Terror” and “Amok Time.” Good selections, if you don’t already own them in individual season sets.
- The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Includes “The Best of Both Worlds” (both parts), “Yesterday’s Enterprise” and “The Measure of a Man.”
- Bleach – Vol. 16: Re-Release, covering the start of Season 4 – the uncut versions of these episodes are up on Hulu.
- Case Closed – Season 5
- The Dana Carvey Show: I really enjoyed this one. Carvey’s intent was to make a sketch comedy series he could watch with or without his kids, and I think he succeeded. It was cancelled quickly, but I found it quite funny.
- Darko 2 Pack: Includes “Donnie Darko” and “S. Darko.”
- Galaxy Quest (Deluxe Edition): Very enjoyable, though the listings don’t explain what makes this edition deluxe.
- Gilgamesh – The Complete Series: At first glance, no relation to the Epic of Gilgamesh – but I haven’t watched this, so I don’t know how much (or how little) it comes up later on.
- The Grudge 3
- Heroic Age – The Complete Series – Part 1
- Kingdom
- Man With the Screaming Brain / Alien Apocalypse 2 pack
- Murder Princess – The Complete Series
- Nighthead Genesis – Vol. 5
- Ninja Resurrection/Blood Reign Bundle
- Passengers
- Penn and Teller: Bullsh*t! Season Six
- Red Green is Special: Collecting specials previously released individually.
- S. Darko – A Donnie Darko Tale: Single disc edition
- Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
- Shin-Chan – Season 2, Part 2
- Speed Racer: The Next Generation: Comet Run
- Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy: Includes movies 2-4. Also available on Blu-Ray.
- Taken (Extended Cut)
- Taken (Two Disc Extended Cut)
- Taking Chance
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: This had the same screenwriters as “Terminator: Salvation.”
- Two and a Half Men: The Complete Fifth Season
- Ultimate Sci-Fi Collection: Includes “Escape From New York,” “Mad Max,” “Rollerball” (though I don’t know which edition,) “The Abyss,” “Alien,” “Aliens,” “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” “Fantastic Voyage,” “The Fly” (again, ambiguous edition), “Independence Day,” “Journey to the Centre of the Earth,” “The Neptune Factor,” “Planet of the Apes” (definitely the 1968 version) and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.”
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- Underworld Trilogy: All three of the flicks.
- Wise Blood – Criterion Collection: John Huston directs Ned Beatty and Brad Dourif? I’m there!
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- Big
- Black Sheep
- C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigations – Season One:
- Fargo
- The Fog: The 1980 version
- Force 10 from Navarone
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Grudge
- Licence to Kill: I have no idea why this Bond isn’t in a box set like the last few Blu-Ray releases.
- Major League
- The Man With the Golden Gun: Again, why only two titles instead of the regular three disk box set?
- Passengers
- The Pianist
- S. Darko
- Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
- Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy: Includes movies 2-4
- Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection: Includes the first six movies, covering those with the complete original cast. It also includes “The Captain’s Summit” bonus disk, with a round table discussion featuring two actors who played captains (William Shatner and Patrick Stewart) as well as three others (Leonard Nimoy, Jonathan Frakes and Whoopi Goldberg) in a round table. When I heard it was a five actor round table called the “Captain’s Summit,” I was expecting Shatner, Stewart, Avery Brooks, Scott Bakula and Kate Mulgrew. This is different, but should still be interesting.
- Taken
- There’s Something About Mary
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- Underworld Trilogy
- Wayne’s World
- Wayne’s World 2
- Without a Paddle
Finally, the picks of the week. AceCaseOR and Fiziko both agree on the six movie Star Trek Blu-Ray collection for this week’s most appealing title.
I suspect the round table thing in the Star Trek box set is not all five Captains because only two of them have Captained a ship in a film. Mulgrew just had a cameo in Nemesis, and Brooks and Bakula haven’t been in any films at all.
Which is kind of a shame, I always wanted them to make a DS9 film – but at the time, they’d have just mucked it up anyway.
Only in the theater of my mind.
:::sigh:::
Will you be reviewing S. Darko?