First, the DVD picks:
- Azumanga Daioh Complete: Re-release
- The Closer: Complete Season Four
- Designing Women: Complete First Season
- Edward II: Royal Shakespeare Company’s performance of the play by Christopher Marlowe.
- Falling Down (Deluxe Edition)
- Gad Guard Complete
- Gunsmoke: Season Three, Volume 2
- Harlan Ellison – Dreams With Sharp Teeth: A collection of segments of various pieces of video footage of Harlan Ellison.
- Ikki Tousen: The Complete Series
- Jeeves & Wooster – The Complete Series
- Land of the Lost: Complete Limited Edition Gift Set: This comes in “lunchbox” packaging. The series ran three seasons, the first of which was reviewed here back in 2004. The Will Farrell remake movie comes out shortly.
- Land of the Lost: Complete Series: This is the “non-limited, non-lunchbox” edition.
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit – Season Nine
- The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk: Dragon Dynasty release of the Jet Li film previously released as “The Legend”.
- M. Butterfly
- Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus: You can watch the trailer here.
- The Mod Squad, Season 2, Volume 2
- The Moody Blues – Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970
- Naruto Uncut set 14
- New In Town
- Powder Blue
- Das Rhinegold:From the cover art, this performance of Wagner’s opera uses the Patrice Chéreau interpretation (with the scene with the Rhine Maidens at the beginning of the first act being set at a hydro-electric dam, for example). Also available on Blu-Ray.
- Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s, Volume One: Hanna-Barbera samples from the 1960s.
- Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s, Volume One: Same deal, different decade.
- The Sky Crawlers: The new anime from Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Jin-Roh), this one being about fighter pilots. Also available on Blu-Ray.
- Ten Tigers from Kwangtung: Shaw Brother Martial Arts film.
- UFO Hunters: Season Two
- This Ugly Yet Beautiful World Complete Collection
- The Universe – Season 3: I watched all of Season 1 and was rather impressed by it, though I haven’t seen season 2 or 3 yet (it doesn’t help that I don’t have cable).
- We’re Back: Shortly after Spielberg took flack for scaring the crap out of a lot of kids who never should have been brought to see “Jurassic Park” in the first place, he produced this direct to video cartoon filled with nice, happy dinosaurs.
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- Children of Men
- Cinderella Man
- Falling Down
- Field of Dreams
- New In Town
- Powder Blue
- Das Rhinegold
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Seabuscuit
- The Sky Crawlers
- Spy Game
- True Romance
Finally, the picks of the week. AceCaseOR says “Spy Game – it’s the closest you could probably get to a “fun” movie in the spirit of a Forsythe (sp) novel (at least until they adapt The Atrocity Archive).” Fiziko recommends “Jeeves and Wooster: The Complete Series.”
I really enjoyed “Falling Down”. The actual movie was quite different from what the previews presented. There was a lot of fun stuff, but the overriding theme was the frustration of a man who had done all the “right” things but still had a miserable, unfulfilled life.
I can’t be the only one intrigued by “Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus,” with the theatrical stylings both of Lorenzo Lamas AND Debbie (excuse me, Deborah) Gibson.
It has a CGI shark attempting to eat the Golden Gate Bridge.
Really what more do you need to know?