The second great consecutive week. Hope you saved up for them.
First, the DVD picks:
- 10th Victim
- All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku: Reprint, I believe of the OVA.
- Angel of Death: This was Ed Brubaker’s online serial.
- The Astonishing Work of Osamu Tezuka: Collection of the director’s favorite short subject films (that are unrelated to his longer running series).
- Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5
- Battlestar Galactica: Complete Series
- Charles in Charge: Season Five
- Charlie’s Angels
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
- Dollhouse: Season One
- The Donna Reed: Complete Second Season
- Dragonball: Evolution
- Early Edition: Season Two
- Fast and Furious: Single Disc Edition
- Fast and Furious: Two Disc Edition
- Fast and Furious: 4 Movie Collection
- The Green Hornet: The classic 1940 serial
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again: The classic 1941 serial
- Green Lantern: First Flight: This was shown at San Diego Comic Con last week. Here’s a quote from this Newsarama review: “The violence on this DVD is on par with the stuff seen in the Wonder Woman project from earlier in the year; there’s a particularly rough scene with…no, I’m going to tell you anymore about the story—other than go out and buy this thing like your life depends on it.”
- Knight Rider: Season One
- Life on Mars: Season 1: The U.K. series
- Maburaho Complete Collection
- MD Geist: Another series rescued from CPM’s demise (the mascot for US Manga Corps was taken from this show). By all accounts this show is insanely violent so be warned.
- The Middleman: Complete Series
- Miss March
- Repulsion: Criterion Collection
- Samurai School: A live action adaptation of the manga “Sakigake!! Otokojuku” – which is basically a parody of Juvenile Deliquent manga from the 70s and 80s, as well as parodying and satirizing Japanese nationalism.
- Spectacular Spider-Man: Complete First Season: This was actually very impressive.
- The Terry Jones Collection: A collection of the various historical documentaries Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame) has done.
- TNA Destination X 2009
- Torchwood: Children of Earth
- Torso: Not the Brian Michael Bendis story
- Voltron: Fleet of Doom
- WWE The Bash 2009: The PPV Formerly Known as “The Great American Bash”
- xxxHolic Complete: Brick of another of the Clamp series.
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- 12 Monkeys
- Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5
- Battlestar Galactica: Complete Series
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
- Dollhouse: Season One
- Dragonball Evolution
- The Fast and the Furious
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- Fast and Furious
- Green Lantern: First Flight
- Inglorious Bastards: The 1977 version
- Miss March
- The Others
- Repulsion – Criterion Collection
- A River Runs Through It
- This is Spinal Tap
- Torchwood: Season Two
- Torchwood: Children of Earth
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Since the general rule of this is to pick something I’ve seen before… I don’t really have much of anything. However, I will be renting This Is Spinal Tap on Blu-Ray, and Green Lantern: First Flight.” Fiziko says, “I’m in a similar position. The only titles this week I’ve seen in totality that I enjoyed are 12 Monkeys, Spectacular Spider-Man and This Is Spinal Tap. However, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Torchwood and Green Lantern: First Flight are all on the must-own list.”
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Season 2 of Doc Martin is also coming out next week. Not in any way shape or form a genre show, but a very funny and entertaining show nonetheless.
I’m glad to see the good Life on Mars come out, too – for people who haven’t seen the UK version, it’s soooooooooo much better than the crappy US knockoff.
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Ahem…. Middleman. The Middleman. Is out.
Run and buy that like your life depended on it, especially if you like the Adam West Batman TV show or Green Hornet which are the closest things I can think of to compare it to.
Nobody saw it and everyone should! So criminally underrated that the critics should be charged!
Agreed, The Middleman is a must-buy.
Every second of it was highly enjoyable, and I was very sad to hear they canceled it. I really, really wanted to see more of it, and perhaps the DVD sales will be so good that they’ll do something else… sort of like Firefly.
Just to add some emphasis: I really don’t have the money to be spending on DVDs right now, but forced to choose between Dollhouse and The Middleman, I’d be buying The Middleman first, even as much as my wife and I love Dollhouse and much of Joss’ work.
Alas, for my budget is even more tight at the moment, but I will be NetFlixing this (and companies do get royalties for NetFlix rentals).