So, despite the DVD releases coming out on Fat Tuesday, the picks this week are rather lean. There are a few gems in there though.
First, the DVD picks:
- Barnaby Jones: The Complete First Season
- Best of the Loretta Young Show – Seasons 3 and 4
- Black Dynamite
- Bleach Uncut Box Set: Season 4, Part 2
- Bob and Margaret: Season One
- Branded! The Complete Series
- Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
- Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
- Cannon: Season Two, Vol. 2
- Case Closed: The Phantom Of Baker Street Movie
- Clint Eastwood: 35 Films in 35 Years at Warner Bros.: Includes “Where Eagles Dare,” “Kelly’s Heroes,” “Dirty Harry,” “Magnum Force,” “The Enforcer,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “The Gauntlet,” “Every Which Way But Loose,” “Bronco Billy,” “Any Which Way You Can,” “Honkytonk Man,” “Firefox,” “Sudden Impact,” “City Heat,” “Tightrope,” “Pale Rider,” “Heartbreak Ridge,” “Bird,” “The Dead Pool,” “Pink Cadillac,” “White Hunter, Black Heart,” “The Rookie,” “Unforgiven,” “A Perfect World,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “Absolute Power,” “Mightnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “True Crime,” “Space Cowboys,” “Blood Work,” “Mystic River,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Gran Torino” and “The Eastwood Factor.”
- Coco Before Chanel
- Dirty Harry Collection: Includes “Dirty Harry,” “Magnum Force,” “The Enforcer,” “Sudden Impact” and “The Dead Pool.”
- Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box Two: Season two of DBZ, remastered.
- Freeway Killer
- Georges Melies Encore: 26 Additional Rare and Original Films by the First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1911): Blaine: If you’ve had any exposure to the history of early film, you know this name. If you have any interest in the subject, check out his work and see just where this medium began.
- Good Hair
- Halo Legends (Single Disc): Halo getting the Batman: Gotham Knight/Animatrix treatment.
- Halo Legends (Two Disc Edition)
- Head Case: The Complete Series
- Hunger (Criterion Collection)
- Kingdom: Series Three
- Lark Rise to Candleford: Complete Season Two
- Law Abiding Citizen
- Lincoln Heights: Season One
- Lola Montes (Criterion Collection)
- Naruto Uncut Box Set: Season Two, Vol. 1
- Ninja Assassins: 4 Film Set: Blaine: Not to be confused with the recent movie co-written by J. Michael Straczynski, directed by James McTeigue, starring Rain and produced by the Wachowski brothers. That comes out on March 16.
- Quads: The Complete First Season
- Remarkable Power
- Revanche (Criterion Collection)
- Shaun the Sheep: A Woolly Good Time
- Small Wonder: The Complete First Season: Blaine: I’m scared that watching this now will ruin the fond memories I have of watching this as a child.
- Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 6
- Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 7
- To-Love Ru Collection 2: Alex: The Urusei Yatsura-clone continues.
- Women in Trouble
- WWE – John Morrison – Rock Star: Alex: No relation whatsoever to Jim Morrison of the Doors (though he did inspire some of John Morrison’s gimmick).
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- Black Dynamite
- Claymore: Complete Series Box Set
- Coco Before Chanel
- Contempt: Blaine: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang star in a movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard. That’s a list of names that’s got my attention.
- Dirty Harry Collection: Includes “Dirty Harry,” “Magnum Force,” “The Enforcer,” “Sudden Impact” and “The Dead Pool.”
- Freeway Killer
- Goodfellas (20th Anniversary)
- Heroic Age: Complete Series
- Halo Legends
- Hunger (Criterion Collection)
- The Lady Killers: The original with Alec Guinness, not the remake
- Law Abiding Citizen
- Lola Montes (Criterion Collection)
- Ran: The Kurosawa flim
- Revanche (Criterion Collection)
- Women in Trouble
Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “You can’t go wrong with Kurosawa. Grab Ran if you have Blu-Ray capabilities.” Alex says, “I agree entirely.”
So agree with you guys… but man the awesomeness of a well drawn anime in blu-ray has me so drawn to Claymore…. argggh… decisions