Title | DVD Release(s) | Blu-Ray Release(s) |
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Action | ||
The Man From Nowhere | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Anime | ||
Akane Iro Ni Somaru Saka Complete Collection | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | |
Romantic comedy series about a “Bancho” (Head juvenile delinquent tough-guy) getting in an arranged marrage with the most beautiful girl in his school. | ||
Black Butler Season 1, Part 2 | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | |
The second half of the first season. | ||
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Part 4 | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com |
The “All Killer, No Filler” version of DBZ continues with the conclusion of the Freiza saga. | ||
El Cazador De La Bruja: Complete Series | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | |
Western-Fantasy series about a female bounty-hunter helping an amnesiac girl. | ||
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | |
Alex: I’ve previously reviewed this. | ||
Speed Grapher – SAVE Edition | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | |
Series about a photographer who ends up with a camera which makes things explode when he tries to take pictures of them, and which had “Girls on Film” by Duran Duran as the opening credits song in the Japanese version. | ||
Tales from Earthsea | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | |
The first film from Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro, adapting (loosely), the series by Ursula K. LeGuin. | ||
Art House | ||
Classics (Cult) | ||
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Vol. XX | Amazon.com | |
Includes “Project Moonbase,” “Master Ninja I,” “Master Ninja II” and “The Magic Voyage of Sinbad.” | ||
Classics (Traditional) | ||
Off Limits | Amazon.com | |
On The Double | Amazon.com | |
Comedy | ||
Colin (Mochrie) and Brad (Sherwood): Two Man Group | Amazon.com | |
Blaine: These two were always great on the American version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Mochrie also appeared in the British version, if memory serves. | ||
Every Day | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Morning Glory | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Documentary | ||
Exit Through the Gift Shop | Amazon.com | |
Acadamy Award Nominated documentary by street-artist Banksy about the commercialization of Street art. | ||
Inside Job | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman | Amazon.com | |
Science documentary TV series from the Science channel, hosted by Morgan Freeman | ||
Drama | ||
Brenda Starr, Reporter | Amazon.com | |
Blaine: One of the classic serials. | ||
Family | ||
The Reef | Amazon.com | |
Fantasy | ||
Excalibur | Amazon.com | |
Horror | ||
Walking Dead: Season One | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Music / Musical | ||
Mystery | ||
Reality | ||
Romance | ||
Science Fiction | ||
Doctor Who (Classic) | The Ark (Story 23, William Hartnell years) and The Seeds of Doom (Story 85, Tom Baker) rightstuf.com | |
Sports | ||
Jackass 3 | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Blaine: It’s really tough to classify this in a genre. If there were fatalities involved, we could file it under “evolution in action,” but there weren’t any that I’m aware of. | ||
Superhero | ||
Suspense | ||
The Next Three Days | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
War | ||
Western |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My pick of this rather slow week is Nausicca, for reasons enumerated in the review.” Blaine says, “Nausicca has been on my must-see list for a while now, but I haven’t actually seen any of the titles getting released this week.”