The January doldrums are almost over.
First, the DVD picks:
- 101 Reasons Not To Be A Pro Wrestler
- Action Man Collection: Includes “Action Man,” “Peking Blonde,” “The Big Game” and “The Day of the Wolves.”
- Alone in the Dark II
- Blade of the Immortal Vol. 3
- Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches: Season One
- The Classic Cinema Collection: Includes “Houdini,” “Money from Home” and “Pap’s Delicate Condition.”
- The Cult Horror Collection: Includes “The Skull,” “The Man Who Could Cheat Death” and “The Deadly Bees.”
- Five Elemental Ninjas: Alex: Shaw Brothers Martial arts film
- Give ‘Em Hell, Malone
- Hard Revenge Milly Collection: Alex: A couple of post-apocalyptic martial arts films out of Japan.
- Ikki Tousen Vol. 2
- Man With a Movie Camera and Man With a Movie Camera: Blaine: Two different labels, same actors, same specs, same MSRP. I suspect the tiny little company that was releasing this early documentary changed its name but didn’t pull its catalog from the preorder listings.
- MI-5: Vol. 7
- Michael Jackson: This Is It
- Mickey Rooney: The Long and Short of it
- Naruto Shippuden – Box Set 1: Special Edition
- Naruto Shippuden – Box Set 1: Regular Edition
- Neo Angelique Abyss: Season 1
- Paris, Texas (Criterion Collection)
- Parker Lewis Can’t Lose: The Complete Second Season
- The Real Ghostbusters: Vol. 2
- The Red Green Show: The Infantile Years 1991-1993
- RIFFTRAX: Plan 9 From Outer Space LIVE!
- Rifftrax: Planet of the Dinosaurs
- Rifftrax: Shorts-tacular Shorts-stravaganza
- Rifftrax: Voodoo Man
- Rifftrax: Wide World of Shorts
- Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Criterion Collection): Includes “Rome Open City,” “Paisan” and “Germany Year Zero.”
- Sands of Destruction – The Complete Series: Alex: Spinoff anime based on the RPG from Sega that’s from the Xenogears team. The original title in Japan was “World Destruction”.
- Saw VI
- Sgt. Frog – Season 2 Part 1: Alex: The series about frog-like aliens that are out to conquer the world – if they could only get over their addiction to Gundam models – continues.
- Sherlock Holmes: Not the Robert Downey Jr. version.
- Surrogates
- Tears to Tiara Collection 2
- The Waltons Movie Collection: Includes “A Wedding on Walton’s Mountain,” “Mother’s Day,” “A Day for Thanks,” “A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion,” “Wedding” and “Easter.”
- Whip It: Blaine: The “star Ellen Page” bit is a major selling point, although the “costarring and directed by Drew Barrymore” bit isn’t.
- Wushu: Alex: A more modern wuxia-ish film.
- You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- Atonement
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Fame
- Give ‘Em Hell Malone
- Highlander: The Immortal Edition
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Michael Jackson: This Is It
- Paris, Texas (Criterion Collection)
- Pride and Prejudice
- Saw VI
- Surrogates
- The Toolbox Murders
- Whip It
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you’ve got Blu-Ray, go ahead and pick up the Blu-Ray version of Highlander. Otherwise, I don’t particularly have a standard-def pick of the week. That said, I will be putting some of the Rifftrax DVDs into my Netflix queue.” Blaine says, “this is a lackluster week, but next week sees Doctor Who specials, a slew of impressive library titles on Blu-Ray, the second last season of Murder, She Wrote, new TCM collections and more. I say wait a week.”
Not genre, but The Italian Job (1969) is actually an excellent movie.
I’ll be adding Surrogates near the top of my Blockbuster online queue, and maybe Whip It at the bottom of the queue. Otherwise, a fairly lackluster week.
Side Note, re: Highlander: The Kurgen, (aka Clancy Brown) is on a new lawyer show on ABC called The Deep End. The pilot just aired Thursday, so it’s still too early to tell how it will be long-term. However, he looks considerably older than he did the last time I saw him in something new, which I think was Carnivàle.
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