This week has notable content from Star Trek, Wallace and Gromit and the Criterion Collection. TV seasons continue to trickle out as well.
First, the DVD picks:
- 30 Rock: Season Three
- Adam Resurrected: Also available on Blu-Ray.
- Battle for Terra
- Brotherhood: The Final Season
- Castle: Complete First Season
- Friday the 13th Season Three: Also the final season
- Ghost Whisperer: The Complete Fourth Season
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: Also available on Blu-Ray.
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Season Ten
- Loose Change 9/11: Alex: Pointed out as a warning – this is a 9/11 Truther Documentary. Be warned if, for some bizarre reason, it ends up in your Netflix reccomendations.
- The Mentalist: Complete First Season
- Nabari No Ou Complete Part 1: Alex: Another ninja anime, but with a more modern, “real world” setting. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to watch it before it was licenced, so I can’t say how good it is.
- Naruto Vol. 16 with or without kitch: Alex: This should wrap up the filler in its entirety, meaning everything after this should be Shippuden.
- Observe and Report: Also available on Blu-Ray.
- Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection: Includes “The Long, Hot Summer,” “Rally ’round the Flag, Boys,” “From the Terrace,” “Exodus,” “The Hustler,” “Adventures of a Young Man,” “What a Way to Go,” “Hombre,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “Towering Inferno,” “Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson,” “Quintet” and “The Verdict.”
- Rage
- Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins: Blaine: Remember when they introduced Scrappy Doo to have a young character to appeal to the younger audience? Now they’ve just deaged the entire cast for this live action prequel. Also available on Blu-Ray.
- Spongebob Squarepants: The First 100 Episodes
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection: Slimpack releases of the first six movies.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Picture Collection: Includes “Generations,” “First Contact,” “Insurrection” and “Nemesis.”
- Sunlight Upon Me
- Taxi: Complete Fourth Season
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles – Season Two: Also available on Blu-Ray.
- TNA Victory Road 2009: Alex: Haven’t watched this yet (don’t have cable), but this has Steven Richards first major match in TNA as part of his feud with Abyss, with Richards (as “Dr. Stevie”) working alongside his valet Daffney and… I can’t believe I’m writing this (and if you know ECW, you understand why), his enforcer/minion, Raven.
- Top Fighters 10 Film Collection: Alex: Collection of various Hong Kong Martial arts films, some overdubbed, some in full screen instead of the original aspect ratio. There is some notable stuff here though, including “Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon” starring Sammo Hung in his second major comedic starring role after “Enter The Fat Dragon” (a parody of various Lee-alike films), and before “Magnificent Butcher”. The rest of it appears to be a mixed bag, with notable people in not-as-notable roles.
- Ugly Betty: Season Three
- Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death
- Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Collection: By “complete,” they mean it includes “A Grand Day Out,” “The Wrong Trousers,” “A Close Shave,” and the new “A Matter of Loaf or Death,” which is also available individually. The set is also out on Blu-Ray at a lower price as it’s produced with fewer discs.
- WWE Summerslam 2009: Alex: I haven’t watched this as I don’t have cable, but this will, most likely, have Jeff Hardy’s last Pay Per View match in his career – his final match was a Loser Leaves The WWE Match on Smackdown against CM Punk, which he lost so Hardy could take a break from wrestling… and then a few days later he was arrested on charges of drug trafficing.
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- Adam Resurrected
- Battle for Terra
- Clive Barker’s Book of Blood
- The Complete Monterey Pop Festival – Criterion Collection: Single Disc Edition
- The Complete Monterey Pop Festival – Criterion Collection
- The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- Gojira
- Hot Fuzz
- Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis Plays Monterey – Criterion Collection
- Observe and Report
- Pierrot Le Fou – Criterion Collection
- Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins: Blaine: Remember when they introduced Scrappy Doo to have a young character to appeal to the younger audience? Now they’ve just deaged the entire cast for this live action prequel.
- Shaun of the Dead
- Star Trek: The Original Series – Season Two: As with the season one Blu-Ray, this includes both unaltered and remastered episodes.
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Trek VIII: First Contact
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection: Includes “Generations,” “First Contact,” “Insurrection,” and “Nemesis.” Alex: While I didn’t do a full feature breakdown, I will mention that there are some new commentaries on here, including a commentary with Director Johnathan Frakes on Insurrection (which wasn’t on it’s Special Edition DVD release).
- Streets of Blood
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles – Complete Second Season: As it turns out, this is also the final season.
- Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Collection: By “complete” they mean the four main short films, and not the crazy contraptions or feature film. The fourth short film is the new one.
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going to go with the Star Trek Next Gen collection. If you didn’t like the Next Gen movies, get Shawn of the Dead and/or Hot Fuzz on Blu-Ray. If you don’t have Blu-Ray, get the new Motion Picture Collection on DVD (IIRC it’s a slim-pack so it will take less space then your old Special Edition DVDs, even if you only had 2, 4, and 6).” Blaine says, “I’m with Alex on the Star Trek Blu-Ray as the first pick, but I’d go with a Wallace and Grommit collection as the second choice.”
Hey, can there be a paragraph break before “Now the blu-ray choices” thing?
There is in the submitted source. WordPress pulled out the </p> for the display here. Even so, the follow up of the <p> tag that follows for the Blu-Ray list is intact. I don’t know why it’s displaying without a gap. The revamped site seems to do this often when a paragraph ends with a list.
After doing some research, it’s because of your CSS properties in the style sheet. Paragraphs starting with the P tag have a top margin/padding of zero but include a bottom margin to create the proper spacing. Lists with the UL tag, however, have a zero margin/padding on both the top and the bottom.
To fix this, go into the style.css file for the WordPress template and add the following to the “.entry ul” rule:
Oops. Here is the correct response:
After doing some research, it’s because of your CSS properties in the style sheet. Paragraphs starting with the P tag have a top margin/padding of zero but include a bottom margin to create the proper spacing. Lists with the UL tag, however, have a zero margin/padding on both the top and the bottom.
To fix this, go into the style.css file for the WordPress template and add the following to the .entry ul rule:
margin-bottom: 8px;
Feel free to email me if you need any help on this.
After even more research, 8px may not be sufficient, since the <P> tag has a custom line height. I would instead suggest 2.5ex. I did a test and this looks pretty good.
I’ll leave the CSS jockey stuff up to Dave. In the meanwhile, I’ll change my template from </p> <p> to </p> <br> <br> <p>
Wow. That did nothing. I’ll leave it up to Dave, then.
I’ve noticed WordPress likes to strip out or ignore extra paragraphs and returns.
CSS FTW!
the fix is in (the stylesheet fix, that is). lemme know if it looks alright now.
Looks fine to me on Firefox.
Looks good.