The four or five week flood of TV on DVD product starts now.

First, the DVD picks:

• The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1-5
• The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 6-10
• Ah! My Buddah Vol. 3
• The Beast: Season One: Blaine: This is what Patrick Swayze’s been up to since Christmas in Wonderland. I haven’t seen this, but it has to be an improvement.
• Big Windup Part 1: Baseball Anime
• Bleach Vol. 19: The Bount arc continues.
• Brave Archer and his Mate: Release of another Shaw Brothers film featuring a few of the stars from Five Deadly Venoms.
• The Bridge to Nowhere
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Season 2 in both limited and standard editions: Alex: Not sure what the Limited Editon’s special is, probably soundtrack CD or a pencil board or something, and anyway, if you pre-order it’s actually less expensive – at this writing – than the Standard Edition.
• Cracker: Complete Series
• Death Note 3: L, Change The World: The Spin-off of the live action Death Note movies, focusing on L taking on group of terrorists.
• Dexter: The Complete Third Season
• Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete and Final Second Season
• Donald in Mathmagic Land: A mathematics educational video.
• Eli Stone: The Complete Second Season
• Everybody Hates Chris: The Final Season
• Everybody Hates Chris: The Complete Series
• Final Destination Collection
• Five Deadly Venoms: Dragon Dynasty release of the classic Shaw Brothers martial arts film.
• Ghost Adventures: Season One
• Glory Days of Wrestling: Alex: Various matches from the territiorial era, featuring Killer Kowalski (who trained, among others, Triple H), “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers (who inspired Ric Flair’s gimmick), and others.
• Golden Boys
• Gossip Girl: Season Two
• Greek: Chapter Three
• Gunslinger Girl Season 2: Il Tetrino The Complete Season
• .hack//GU Trilogy: Alex: The anime based on the sequel to the game series set within an MMO. I haven’t played any of the games, but I have watched the first anime, read a few Let’s Plays based on the first few games, and I’m reading the novels based on the games (but telling them from a different perspective) right now.
• Hannah Montana: The Movie: Two disc edition
• Hannah Montana: The Movie: Single Disc Edition
• iCarly, Season 2, Volume 1
• Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection: Includes “The H-Man,” “Battle in Outer Space,” and “Mothra.”
• Last House on the Left
• The Last Starfighter: 25th Anniversary Collection:
• Pete’s Dragon
• The Shinjuku Incident: A drama film starring Jackie Chan about Chinese illegal immigrants in Japan. this film has absolutely no martial arts in it whatsoever. Also available on Blu-Ray.
• Simon & Simon: Season Three
• The Simpsons: The Complete Season Twelve: Comic Book Guy shaped packaging.
• The Simpsons: The Complete Season Twelve: Comic Book Guy rectangular prism shaped packaging.
• The Smurfs: Smurfy Tales: Blaine: If I don’t intervene, my four year old niece will grow up thinking “The Smurfs” was a good show. I’ve already introduced her to “Galaxy High,” “Hero High” and “My Pet Monster.” Next up: “Astroboy” and “Teddy Ruxpin.”
• Sons of Anarchy: Season One
• Swan Princess: Blaine: A decent movie. Watch closely and you might spot a few frames that were photographed while the animator’s fingers were still visible.
• Swan Princess: Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure: Blaine: I haven’t seen this direct-to-video sequel.
• Swan Princess: Secret of the Castle: Blaine: I haven’t seen this direct-to-video sequel either.
• Total Drama Island: Complete Series
• True Tears Complete: Something of a shojo anime.
• Tyson

Now, the Blu-Ray picks:

• Dexter: Season Three
• Go
• Hannah Montana: The Movie
• House on the Left
• Kagemusha – Criterion Collection: Blaine: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. ‘Nuff said. Alex: Criterion Collection release of the Kurosawa film about Takada Shingen’s body double, during the Sengoku period.
• The Last Starfighter: 25th Anniversary Edition
• The Mist
• Playtime – Criterion Collection: Directed by Jacques Tati.
• The Shinjuku Incident
• Sons of Anarchy: Season One
• Tyson

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Well, I’m supposed to pick something I’ve seen already, so as much as I’d like to choose Five Deadly Venoms, it would be bad of me to do so. So, if you’ve got Blu-Ray, I’d reccomend Kagemusha instead. The Criterion Collection does an excellent job on just about everything, and this should be no exception. Besides, this is the movie that got me interested in Kurosawa and the Sengoku period of Japanese history. Not Seven Samurai. Not Yojimbo. Not Sanjuro. Kagemusha. Though, I’m hoping that we those other Kurosawa movies join Kagemusha on Blu-Ray.” Blaine says, “I haven’t seen either of this week’s Criterion releases yet, so I’m going with The Last Starfighter. It’s not great, but it’s entertaining and a good summer flick. The alternative is to save up for the flood of TV titles coming, the bulk of which hit August 25 and September 1.”