They just keep on coming - beginning this Tuesday, the next period of 7 days will see an astonishing 389 new listings to Amazon's ranks of DVDs you can buy. This week, there aren't even dozens of operas masquerading as dead weight to make my life easier - no, it's 389 non-operas! AND! They're ALL listed right down there!
I don't know about you, but hearing that a beloved actor is turning a particular age is CERTAIN to drive me to purchase every one of their movies, so thank God Paramount and Warner were smart enough to stack up the releases! (Who'm I talking about? See below)
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And away we go...
Well, with so many to choose from it still wasn't hard to single out one release as the
PICK OF THE WEEK: Kitchen Confidential - The Complete Series (The W at Amazon) (FOX, 2005) It's criminal that FOX only aired four episodes of this series before yanking it, but now you can get ALL 13 episodes without having to figure out how BitTorrent works! Based on the writings of Tony Bourdain
While I have you here, let's go ahead and start with the rest of the
TV ON DVD!
Airwolf: Season Three (CBS, 1985-6) Bossest copter Jan-Michael Vincent ever flew - last "good" season isn't even as good as the first two
Perry Mason - Season 1, Vol. 2 (CBS, 1958) Final 20 episodes of season 1 (episodes 20-39) - completely restored, meaning the entire scenes they hacked out in favour of more commercials are back!
Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition) (ABC, 1977) I think the entire coutry watched this that week that it aired. I was 6, so I can't remember if I did or not. I DID see it later on videotape for History class, though!
UK TV: Disappeared (She's Gone - made for ITV, 2004) Conviction (BBC, 2004) - not to be confused with the American one - 6 episodes Conviction (2pc) Same as above?
HULK HOGAN MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shadow Warriors (Assault on Devil's Island - TNT, 1997) Hulk Hogan, Carl Weathers, Shannon Tweed, Billy Blanks - thank GOD they properly celebrate the 10th anniversary of this movie with a DVD release, am I right?
WARNER BROS.: Prince of the City (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1981) Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach - directed by Sidney Lumet - I haven't seen this but am guessing that it RULES Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti Straight Time (1978) Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey Steelyard Blues (1973) Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, and lots of other people you'll recognise
MGM: The Wedding Night (1935) Gary Cooper, Anna Sten The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie Ball of Fire (1941) Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck Casanova Brown (1944) Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright Gun the Man Down (1956) James Arness, Angie Dickinson Gun Fight (1961) James Brown (not that one), Joan Staley, Gregg Palmer The Hills Run Red (Un Fiume di Dollari - Italy, 1967) Sabata (Ehi Amico... c' Sabata, Hai Chiuso! - Italy, 1969) Lee van Cleef, William Berger The Return of Sabata ( Tornato Sabata... Hai Chiuso un'altra Volta - Italy/France/West Germany, 1971) Lee van Cleef
UNIVERSAL: No Man of Her Own (1932) Clark Gable, Carole Lombard - probably just coincidence that it's 75 years Scarface (1932) Yes, the one you and I have seen IS a remake of this one So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Sexy nurses Claudette Colbert, Veronica Lake, Paulette Goddard Unconquered (1947) Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard
NOTABLE DIRECT TO DVD RELEASES OF THE WEEK: The Hard Easy (2005) Henry Thomas, David Boreanaz, Vera Farmiga, Bruce Dern, Peter Weller, Nick Lachey, Gary Busey - what For Catherine (2005) The Final Patient (2005) The Mad (Unrated) (Canada/USA, 2007) Answering the question: "Whatever happened to Billy Zane?" Alone With Her Ana Claudia Talancn, Colin Hanks American Pastime (2007) Baseball in the Japanese internment camps - Gary Cole The Apocalypse (2007) More info at The Asylum (theasylum.cc)
DOCUMENTARIES: American Revolution 2 (1969) Following the Panthers and the Young Patriots after the 1968 Democratic convention (and riots) - from Mike Gray The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) Hampton led the Black Panthers in Illinois - also from Mike Gray The Bolero/In Search of Cezanne (1973) Oscar winning short combined with another short from producer Alan Miller not in the IMDb Mr. Leather (2004) Follows contestants in the "Mr. LA Leather" pageant - oooooh-kay. A Life Without Pain: A Documentary (2005) People who have congenital analgesia Memory (Mem-o-re - Canada/USA, 2005) Billy Zane, Tricia Helfer, Dennis Hopper, Ann-Margret - wait, TWO Billy Zane pictures in one week? I don't believe it, Bill Mixtape Inc.: The Movie "Fight the Power" has a whole new meaning when you're referring to the evil RIAA - www.mixtapeinc.com Mixtape Inc Same movie, different distributor? Cannes: All Access (Bienvenue Cannes - TCM, 2007)
C. THOMAS HOWELL OF THE WEEK: Hitmans Run (1999) Eric Roberts, Esteban Powell, C. Thomas Howell, Farrah Forke
COOLEST TAG OF THE WEEK: Ninja the Protector (Canada/Hong Kong/USA, 1986) Richard Harrison, David Bowles, Jackie Chan - "Only a Ninja can defeat a Ninja." How true that is. How true that is.
DODGY IMPORT RELEASES OF THE WEEK: Night of the Generals (1967) Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif Inner Sanctum (1991) Tanya Roberts, Margaux Hemingway - and they MEAN it this time Woman of Desire (1993) Jeff Fahey, Bo Derek
BAD MOVIE COLLECTIONS: Bad Movie Police Double Feature: Zombie Cop & Maximum Impact Two from director J.R. Bookwalter - (1991) & (1992) (not in IMDb) - supposedly two of the most awful films to have ever been made, so the fact that they're trying to sell them....should come as absolutely no surprise Bad Movie Police: Crimewave! (5-Pack) Above two and Galaxy of the Dinosaurs (1992) , Chickboxer (1992) and Humanoids from Atlantis (1992) - again, they're all directed by J.R. Bookwalter - don't be fooled, these movies aren't ironically bad, they are genuinely, literally quite awful - I mean, worse than "so bad they're good," they're REALLY REALLY BAD. Ye have beene warnede.
"SEXY 70s DOUBLE FEATURE:" Harrad Experiment & Love All Summer (1973) & (Harrad Summer - 1974) - I'm a LITTLE surprised at all the names of real actors I recognise in the cast lists!
STRANGEST COLLECTION OF THE WEEK: Ultimate Summer - Malibu Spring Break (2003) ( trailer (malibuspringbreak.com)), Tan Lines (UK, 2005) and Malibu Eyes (direct to video, 2004)
FURN FILMS:
Jews in Space (Judos en el Espacio o Por Qu Es Differente Esta Noche a las Dems Noches? - Argentina, 2005)
WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT: WWE - WrestleMania 23 "Ultimate Limited Edition" - 3 discs - We usually steer you to the better deal at the WWEShop (shopzone.wwe.com) WWE - WrestleMania 23 Only 2 discs
DVD RELEASES OF MYSTERY: Hell Ride Amazon seems to think this is movie that hasn't even been made yet Art Without Walls More like "DVD without description" After Hours - no idea, supposedly offered by Infinity Resources but their website (infinityresourcesinc.com) looks like some kinda scary boiler room multi level marketing thing King Can't help you with this Lions Gate release
MOST PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE DVD OF THE WEEK: Mechanical & Non-Destructive Testing It's only 26 minutes long!! That's, like, over ten bucks a minute!
AND FINALLY...: Where Is the World Going to, Mr. Stiglitz? Series of ive lectures from the Nobel Prize winning economist will make you a giant know it all about the world economy
WHEW!
Reply now, come back later (Monday) for the edits and Top 24!
Mission: Impossible - The Complete First TV Season (CBS, 1966-7) Peter Graves - 28 episodes, 7 discs
The Mission Impossible season 1 dvd has been for months, since January or February. It also stars Steven Hill, not Peter Graves.
Graves will be in the new Season 2 DVD, which comes out June 5th.
(yes, I am a IMF nerd. It's my favorite all time show.)
(edited by odessasteps on 19.5.07 1503)
You know, I should have remembered Graves wasn't in Season 1. My only defense was I wasn't alive the first time around.
As for the release date, I will have to guess it's a repress just in time for Season 2 - the release date HAS been changed from 5/22 to its original release in December 2006 when you click through, but the title is still showing up in Amazon's new releases list - for now, anyway. Maybe by Monday it'll be "fixed" there as well?
Originally posted by CRZCANADIAN TV: Instant Star - Season 1 (CTV, 2004-5) Sorry, never heard of it
Cute red head wins an American Idol type contest than must deal with the effects of her victory. Mainly built around her music producer a former boy's band singer trying to deny the fact that he has the hots for his too-young-for-him protege.
Originally posted by CRZSpasm Science Fiction Vol. 1 Canadian - www.spasm.ca - may be only in French - French description can be found here (archambault.ca)
Montreal spin-off of the Fantasia festival focuses on short mainly (almost exclusively) French Quebecois films of horror and science-fiction. They have previously released two horror compilations to great acclaim. (Translated: the directors of the films have large families and many friends.) As far as I can tell from Archambault, all of these films are French and there are no sub-titles.
Originally posted by CRZBUMFIGHTS: The Best of Bumfights, Vol. 2 Seen one, seen 'em all The Best of Bumfights, Vol. 3 Or maybe not, who knows
At one point, when PCP Crazy F'N Manny was still a face, I had proposed a story-line where he got ambushed and disappeared after the beating only to reemerge on a taped Bumfight supposedly shot in Amsterdam. Sadly (mercifully?) it got shot down.
Originally posted by CRZCheech (Canada, 2006)
French Quebecois. Advisory to AVOID. The Quebec film worth tracking down is C.R.A.Z.Y or and this will take a while but Karine Vanasse who is seriously hot but waaaaaay too young for me to think about her the way I do (I detect a theme in this post) made a film in which her father discovers the hard way that his little girl is making PrOn. Ma Fille, Mon Ange I think (My Daughter, My Angel)
CRITERION: #64: The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition) (UK, 1949) New 2 disc release has a few new extras and a fresh remastering of the print - More info at Criterion (criterion.com)
I've heard the Soderbergh commentary is great.
Even though I have the original CRiterion DVD, I will probably end up buying this one soon.
If anyone happens to buy Scrubs Season Five, is it as good as the first four seasons? I don't watch it on TV - only DVD - and I've heard Scrubs is no longer pumping out the quality it once was.
Also, I'm not sure how many Pride FC fans there are around here, but any opinions on these two would be appreciated. I'll likely get Shockwave, as the 2003 event is often mentioned as one of the best events of all-time. Still, it'd be good to hear from anyone who's seen either of these.
Originally posted by chillIf anyone happens to buy Scrubs Season Five, is it as good as the first four seasons? I don't watch it on TV - only DVD - and I've heard Scrubs is no longer pumping out the quality it once was.
I'm not buying the DVD's, but as someone who watched Season 5, the show was still good. (The 100th episode is one of my favourites). The drop in quality didn't happen till season six, and really, it was more of a nosedive than a drop. Season six does have its moments, and will probably be at least worth a rental, but if you decided to write your own ending to the series in response to the season five finale and stopped watching afterwards, I wouldn't blame you for it.
You believe me, don't you? Please believe what I just said...
Originally posted by CRZToo Young to Die? (True Stories Collection TV Movie) (NBC?, 1990) Michael Tucker, Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt - probably the only time you'll see Michael Tucker billed first when those three are in a picture - not that it would ever happen again
This movie is SO GREAT. Sleazy redneck Brad Pitt forces awkward teenager Juliette Lewis into a life of awkward stripping, awkward drug use and awkward prostitution. Michael O'Keefe tries to save her with decidedly un-sexy results! It's kind of bizarre, sometimes funny and really rather disturbing and depressing. The director (Robert Markowitz) went on to do the Starkweater/Fugate TV movie Murder in the Heartland with Tim Roth and Fairuza Balk that caused a little uproar at the time for being kind of bizarre, sometimes funny and really rather disturbing and depressing and ABC was like "Oh God, we can never show this again." Highly recommended!
Originally posted by CRZRomo Et Juliette (Canada, 2006)
This is pretty damn bad, but it suffered from some of the most damn nonsensical criticism as the Quebecois French press started wringing their hands over the fact that the film had two suicides in it and was that appropriate given the alarming rate of Quebec teen suicide.
IDIOTS.
Originally posted by CRZOne Night at the Metropolis Jesse Cook (import)
Jesse Cook is a very very very very damn awesome guitarist.
I will go out on a limb on this and guess that the Metropolis in question is the downtown Montreal night-club.
Originally posted by CRZRELEASE DATE CORRECTED TO PREVIOUS DATE: Mission: Impossible - The Complete First TV Season (12/5/06)
I love the irony that Steven Hill was a member of two very succesful TV series decades apart, both of which were successful despite having revolving door casts. Mission Impossible was always intended to have a revolving door cast, because the point was that the Mission Impossible team leader would pick from a roster of agents, but in practice the cast was pretty stable within the context of a season, but between seasons, things changed in a hurry, starting with Hill leaving because the long shooting schedule interfered with his strict observance of Judaism.
But he was the most stable member of the Law and Order cast, in fact with the exception of the pilot, the only stable member of the cast until he left after what a decade? slightly more? wiki says 1990-2000 so that would be 11 seasons? I guess S. Epatha Merkeson and Sam Waterson have done more episodes than him since he left though.
I guess the only thing that I watched from this week was Fay Grim. Over in the movie thread, Excalibur says:
I've never seen the prequel Henry Fool, but I don't think you necessarily need to, they do a pretty good job of going over the pertinant points during the course of the film.
I'd disagree, but mostly because I think Fay Grim is mostly interesting as a companion piece to Henry Fool, rather than as a movie in itself. Henry Fool is a better film (and watching it again, I was reminded that it has one of my favorite closing shots ever -- although the ambiguity of that ending is erased by the sequel). Fay Grim is like a "What If?" take on those characters -- "What if Henry Fool was an international agent?" -- but, like the Marvel "What If?" comics, I'm not sure how interesting it would be without prior knowledge of those characters.
It's not a bad movie, really. The first 2/3rds has a real charm to it. Parker Posey is good and the character interactions are a bit unrealistic, but funny. While it's a "spy thriller that doesn't take itself seriously" it's a really fun movie. Then the last 1/3rd decides to take itself super seriously and the whole thing goes to hell.
And yet we came to much the same conclusion. The plot is impossible to follow -- similar to, say, Syriana -- and while it's being breezy and spoofy it doesn't much matter, but then by the third act, you're like, "wait -- I was supposed to be following all that?"
Originally posted by CerebusHal Hartley says this is the most 'Preston Sturges like' film he's done to date
Huh. That...may be, but I would not call it "Sturges-esque" by any stretch.
--K
Last 5 movies seen: Fay Grim *** - Henry Fool n/a - Hot Fuzz **** - Zouzou **1/2 - Linda Linda Linda ***1/2 - The Painted Veil ***
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I don't think we're seeing the Rick becoming the Governor. Yet. But it does bolster Michonne's new assertiveness to lead the group. He's not turning heel, but his head is swimming with the potential to have stability and security for this family.
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