This week sees the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and a lot of Warner and Universal archive titles from the 1940s, with very little in between.
Title | DVD Release(s) | Blu-Ray Release(s) |
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Action | ||
Adventure Inc. Complete Series | Amazon.com | |
Anime | ||
Antique Bakery | Amazon.com | |
Alex: RightStuf got this last week, Amazon is getting it now. | ||
Ga Rei Zero: The Complete Series | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | Amazon.com (DVD/Blu-Ray), rightstuf.com (DVD/Blu-Ray), rightstuf.com (DVD/Blu-Ray Special Edition) |
Alex: Prequel to the manga Ga-Rei (which has been licensed for release in French and Italian in those countries, but not for a North American release). The Special Edition includes an artbox. | ||
Needless: Collection 2 | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com | Amazon.com, rightstuf.com |
Alex: The hot-blooded and fanservice-heavy action series continues. | ||
Art House | ||
The Red Circle (Criterion Collection) | Amazon.com | |
White Material (Criterion Collection) | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Classics (Cult) | ||
Classics (Traditional) | ||
Confidential Agent | Amazon.com | |
Devotion | Amazon.com | |
Keeper of the Flame | Amazon.com | |
The Sea of Grass | Amazon.com | |
Tracy and Hepburn: The Definitive Collection | Amazon.com | |
Includes Woman of the Year, Without Love, State of the Union, Adam’s Rib, Pat and Mike, Desk Set and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner. | ||
Two Mrs. Carrolls | Amazon.com | |
The Wagons Roll At Night | Amazon.com | |
Comedy | ||
The Bob Hope Collection Volume 2 | Amazon.com | |
Includes The Great Lover, Paris Holiday, The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell, How To Commit Marriage, Son of Paleface and Cancel My Reservation. | ||
Car 54: Where Are You? Season One | Amazon.com | |
Blaine: I promise, the original series is better than the movie from the late 1990s. | ||
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood | Amazon.com | |
Dorf | Amazon.com | |
All eight Dorf films. | ||
Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1988 and 1989 | Amazon.com | |
Documentary | ||
Drama | ||
Country Strong | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Dallas: The Movie Collection | Amazon.com | |
Dragnet 1970: Season Four | Amazon.com | |
Family | ||
100 Cartoon Classics | Amazon.com | |
These appear to be mainly olf Fleischer titles, including Popeye, Superman and Betty Boop. | ||
Cars | DVD/Blu-Ray combo in DVD packaging | DVD/Blu-Ray combo in Blu-Ray packaging |
Blaine: One of the better Pixar movies, and that’s saying a lot. | ||
Gordy | Amazon.com | |
Blaine: Babe was the pig movie nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. Gordy was the pig movie rushed into production when the studio heard that Babe was going to be good, so this pig movie could ride its coattails and come out first. One can dislike Babe due to overexposure, but one can hate Gordy upon its first viewing. | ||
H.R. Pufnstuf: Complete Collection | Regular Edition, Collector’s Edition | |
Redwall: The Next Adventure | Amazon.com | |
Fantasy | ||
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One | Amazon.com, DVD with Dobby Bookend | Three disc DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital Copy combo, Single Blu-Ray |
Harry Potter Years 1-7 Part 1 Gift Set | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
The Secret of Dorian Gray | Amazon.com | |
Horror | ||
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice | Amazon.com | |
Alex: They made several more sequels after this film. | ||
Dracula 2000 | Amazon.com | |
Dracula II: Ascension / Dracula III: Legacy | Amazon.com | |
Sequels to Dracula 2000 | ||
Music / Musical | ||
A-Ha: Ending on a High Note: The Final Concert | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
Alex: Region-free import, so I assume it’s PAL. Anyway, while I haven’t listened to an entire A-Ha album, the songs I’ve heard weren’t bad. | ||
Jimi Hendrix and The Band of Gypsies: Live at the Fillmore East | Amazon.com | |
Alex: Two things no longer with us that are on the DVD – Jimi Hendrix, and the Fillmore East. | ||
Kepler | Amazon.com | |
Alex: Opera about astronomer Johannes Kepler by Phillip Glass (Koyyannisquatsi, and the soundtrack to the film verison of Stephen Hawkings’ A Brief History of Time). | ||
Mystery | ||
Sherlock Holmes – Greatest Mysteries | Amazon.com | |
Reality | ||
Man vs. Wild Season Five | Amazon.com | |
Romance | ||
My Boss’s Daughter | Amazon.com | |
Science Fiction | ||
Doctor Who: Kinda (Story 119, Peter Davison) | Amazon.com | |
Doctor Who: Snakedance (Story 125, Peter Davison) | Amazon.com | |
K9 Series 1 Vol 2 | Amazon.com | |
Note that, although this is a region free release, it’s also a PAL format release. European viewers can watch it on practically any of their devices, but North American viewers will have a hard time with anything but their computers. | ||
Sports | ||
Superhero | ||
The Crow 2: City of Angels | Amazon.com | |
The Crow: Wicked Prayer | Amazon.com | |
Starring Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Edward Furlong and Dennis Hopper. | ||
Incredibles | Four disc Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo | |
Blaine: The world’s best Fantastic Four movie. | ||
Suspense | ||
War | ||
Sharpe’s Collector’s Set | Amazon.com | |
Blaine: Contains the complete run from 1993-1998. | ||
Western |
Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “Harry Potter 7 is the hands down winner. Splitting the book into two movies was definitely the right move.” Alex says, “I haven’t seen Harry Potter 7 yet. However, I have seen Sharpe – which is my pick of the week.”
Please note: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One actually comes out Friday, April 15, rather than Tuesday, April 12.
Second on Sharpe’s… especially since I think it close to the only thing Sean Bean doesn’t die in…. :)
Harry Potter is never a winner (;
Also how dumb do you have to be to get the gift set? Yay, I got the Complete Happy Potter movie collection! Except the one that isn’t out yet!
The only reason I can think of to buy an intermediate gift set (as I did with the 1-5 box) is that you’ve upgraded to Blu-Ray and want to watch the previous movies in the new format before the new one comes out.