Weekly Digital Disc Picks – January 11, 2011

Title DVD Release(s) Blu-Ray Release(s)
Anime
11 Eyes Complete Collection Amazon.com, rightstuf.com
Satsuki Kakeru is a Japanese High School student who, along with his friend Yuka, are thrown into the bizarre realm of the Red Night. He, along with some of his classmates who have also been thrown into this realm, must fight the malevolent forces which control it.
Black Butler Season 1 Pt. 1 Limited edition: Amazon.com, rightstuf.com. Regular edition: Amazon.com, rightstuf.com
Special edition includes a chipboards slip-case for parts 1 and 2. RightStuf will not ship the regular edition until the special edition has sold out.
Art House
Army of Shadows (Criterion Collection) Amazon.com Amazon.com
Biopic
Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff Amazon.com
The Great Debaters Amazon.com Amazon.com
The Social Network Amazon.com Amazon.com
Blaine: I reviewed this one here.
The Temptations Amazon.com
Classics (Cult)
Piranha (2010) Amazon.com Regular Blu-Ray, 3D Blu-Ray
Classics (Traditional)
Alfred Hitchcock Amazon.com
Blaine: Includes a lot of his early, British works, as well as an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” Specifically, it includes The Skin Game, Blackmail, Easy Virtue, Jamaica Inn, Number Seventeen, The Ring, Murder!, Rich and Strange, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Sabotage, The Farmer’s Wife and The Lodger.
Comedy
All In The Family: Complete Eighth Season Amazon.com
Greek: Chapter Five – The Complete Third Season Amazon.com
Hot in Cleveland: Season One Amazon.com
Rules of Engagement: The Complete Fourth Season Amazon.com
Drama
Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary Edition Amazon.com Amazon.com
The Endless Summer Amazon.com Amazon.com
Now with a Digital Copy.
ER: Complete Fourteenth Season Amazon.com
Great Performances: Macbeth Amazon.com
Royal Shakespere Company’s production of The Scottish Play, with Patrick Stewart in the title role.
Masterpiece Classic: Downtown Abbey Amazon.com
Once Upon a Time in America Amazon.com Amazon.com
Family
Alpha and Omega Amazon.com Amazon.com
Science Fiction
Doctor Who Story 44: The Dominators, Story 111: Meglos
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Criterion Collection) Amazon.com Amazon.com
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season Four, Vol. 2 Amazon.com
Sports
Raging Bull (30th Anniversary Edition) Amazon.com Amazon.com
Suspence / Thriller
Psychosis Amazon.com
Superhero
Green Hornet: 75th Anniversary Original Serials Collector’s Set Amazon.com
The Green Hornet: Movie Edition Amazon.com
Blaine: This appears to be the original series re-edited into two movies.
Green Hornet Strikes Again: 75th Anniversary Edition Amazon.com
The 1940 serial
Kato and Green Hornet 4 Film Set Amazon.com
Blaine: This appears to be a collection of four serials, rather than four films. I suspect the 270 minute listed runtime would be per serial, just as some of their DVD season sets are listed as 30 or 60 minutes.

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I’m going with Black Butler Season 1. This is a nice, interesting little twist on the standard Butler series.” Blaine says, “I’m going with The Social Network. Extremely well made film.”