We do have a rather large selection of new releases this week - 76 Blu-rays is a recent weekly high, I believe - but you can ignore almost 90 of these 195 new DVDs because they're rehashed Miramaxes and/or part of the Mill Creek budget line. Still, the only way I know how to do this is to include all 271 titles and let you skim past whatever you don't think is important.
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons (Story 55) (BBC, 1971) The Master is back and he's teaming with the Nestene - introducing Jo Grant as the latest assistant to The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) - #2 "TV" DVD, only behind... Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (Story 74) (BBC, 1974) It's the end for Jon Pertwee as The Doctor and Sarah Jane clash with a giant spider over a mysterious blue crystal - this one's a six parter and is currently the top selling "TV" DVD
Home Improvement: 20th Anniv Complete Collection (ABC, 1991-9) 25 discs! "This limited edition set comes in a collectible red toolbox with an exclusive Binford all-in-one tool, plus laugh-out-loud bonus features!"
The Best of the West (Outdoor Channel, 2009) "The Best of the West TV Show brings you the Science of Long Range shooting!" More info on this DVD and trailer at http://www.thebestofthewest.net/" TARGET="_blank"> Green Apple Entertainment (greenapple-ent.com/?p=613[/amazon] or at the [link show's site]http
TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK/GERMAN TV OF THE WEEK Super Storm (Entscheidun in den Wolken - Germany/Austria, made for TV, 2009) also known as "Cloud Chasers" - more info and trailer at the mighty Maverick (maverickentertainment.cc)
(OTHER) BRITISH TV OF THE WEEK The Fortunes & Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (ITV, 1996) Daniel Craig, Alex Kingston - also aired as part of "Masterpiece Theatre" - more info on this DVD and trailer at BFS (bfsent.com)
Krews (2010) Brian Geraghty, Jonathan Cake, Fuane Chambers, Sam Jones III, C. Malik Whitfield - more info and trailer at Osiris Entertainment (osirisent.com)
MOCKBUSTER OF THE WEEK Almighty Thor (direct to video, 2011) Patricia Velasquez, Kevin Nash (yes, Kevin Nash - as Odin, yet), Richard Grieco - yeah, the guy who plays "Thor" isn't even named on the cover - lucky Cody Deal! As always, if you're not down with that, I got two words for ya: The Asylum (theasylum.cc) - better yet, just watch the trailer, get your yuks for free and save yourself about 88.5 minutes (or two hours whenever it airs on Syfy)
OLDEST MOVIE ON DVD OF THE WEEK FA0019: Laila (Norway, silent, 1929) More info on this DVD at Flicker Alley (flickeralley.com) - rescheduled from 4/11, 4/18 and 5/2 (5/16)
NOTABLY NEW TO DVD Sledgehammer (direct to video, 1983) Lost '80s slasher, "notorious as the first shot-on-tape .slasher. thriller for the then-exploding home video market" - more info on the history of this film from the Intervision press release over at Severin (severin-films.com)
RERELEASE OF THE WEEK Boys Town (1938) Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney
"UNIVERSAL CINEMA CLASSICS" ON DVD The Sign of the Cross (1932) Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton - directed by Cecil B. DeMille My Little Chickadee (1940) W.C. Fields, Mae West Christmas in July (1940) Dick Powell, Ellen Drew - written and directed by Preston Sturges Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) Eddie Bracken - also written and directed by Preston Sturges
"WARNER ARCHIVES" DVD OF THE WEEK PT 109 (1963) May be DVD-R?
The Bench (Special Edition) [Blu-ray] The short films of Greg Augustine[/amazon] Includes The Bench (direct to video, 2006) , Intemeprance (direct to video, 2007) and The Knights of Zodiac (direct to video, 2007) along with new documentary "The First 3" (5/11) My Sister's Keeper [Blu-ray] (2009) Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin (rerelease) Valkyrie [Blu-ray] (USA/Germany, 2008) (rerelease)
DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WEEK My Vietnam Your Iraq (2008) Bananas!* (Sweden/Denmark, 2009) Taking on Dole Foods on behalf of Nicaraguan workers sterilized, it is alleged, from use of a banned pesticide Budrus (Israel/Palestine/USA, 2009) Cropsey (2009) What if what you always believed to be an urban legend was true? Bhutto (USA/UK, 2010) Biography of assassinated former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto
Pecados Y Penitencias Tres películas (whose titles were too small for me to make out on the cover photo) Secretos Sangrientos Another three - hey, is that a luchador on the cover?
The Last Chase (1981) Lee Majors, Chris Makepeace, Burgess Meredith - more info on this DVD at Code Red (codereddvd.com) (rescheduled from 4/12) Romper Stomper (Australia, 1992) Russel Crowe, Daniel Pollock The Trench (France/UK, 1999) Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer, Ben Whishaw, Cillian Murphy - more info on this DVD and trailer available at BFS (bfsent.com)
Buckaroo (Buckaroo: The Movie - 2005) Lindsay Wagner, Gary Busey, Adam West - wait, is this for real? Eyes Of The Chameleon (2005) Getting High (5up 2down, 2006) Isaach De Bankole, Paz de la Huerta, Kirk Acevedo - more info and trailer at Screen Media (screenmediafilms.net) Killer Yacht Party (Dead in the Water - 2006)
Blood Oath (direct to video, 2007) Now & Later (2009) Wow, they really want to sell you on all the sex in this movie for some reason Blood Junkie (Rocky Trails - 2010) Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (2010) Demetria McKinney, Kendrick Cross
Lovers & Other Problems (2011?) No info ANYWHERE Payton Collins Serial Rapist Not in IMDb - but sounds like there's a lot of male nudity in it - perhaps not surprising given that I found the listing on TLA Gay (tlavideo.com) Rescheduled from 4/1 and 4/26
COMEDY OF THE WEEK
American Smartass No, they didn't make a movie about me - this is a document of the "Grassroots Comedy Tour" - Jeremy "Jer-Dog" Danley, Josh Alton, and Rob Rivera - more info on this DVD and there MIGHT be a trailer, but it didn't work for me over at Celebrity (cvdistributes.com)
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I think I was wrong. I'm still not sure where Raylan will be employed next year, or if he'll be employed at all, but it won't be on the wrong side of the law. Helen gave him the chance to escape that life, and he could not betray her by killing Dickie.