Someone (*hint, hint*) has a special, once-a-year day coming up next month. So, now would be a great time to place your orders and smother that special someone with loads of DVDs from here in the States or from Overseas!
DVD
One Great. One So-So.
Holy Mother of God …you must see “Audition!” This movie seriously messed my shit up. Not quite a horror film in the traditional sense, it has enough horror elements to ensure that you will have your eyes covered for the final 15 minutes. Genius!
Jonesy loaned me the first season of “Heroes” and I finished watching it this past weekend. Pretty good show until they hit the season finale. I thought it was a really anti-climatic end after the 22 episode build up.
I ♥ Best Buy
Hot damn. This past weekend, Best Buy had the 2-Disc Special Edition of “I ♥ Huckabees” on sale for $9.99 and now it’s mine, mine, mine! Does life get any sweeter than that?
I Heart Kubrick
Coming October 23rd is the “Director’s Series: Stanley Kubrick” DVD set from Warner Home Video. It looks totally hot!
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – 2 Disc Special Edition
· Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
· Theatrical trailer
· Channel 4 documentary: 2001: The Making of a Myth
· Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
· Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
· 2001: A Space Odyssey – A Look Behind the Future
· 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork
· Look: Stanley Kubrick!
· Audio-only interview with Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – 2 Disc Special Edition
· Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman
· Theatrical trailer
· Channel 4 documentary: Still Tickin’: The Return of Clockwork Orange
· New featurette: Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making A Clockwork Orange
· Career profile: O Lucky Malcolm!
The Shining (1980) – 2 Disc Special Edition
· Commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter
· Theatrical trailer
· Documentary The Making of the Shining, with optional commentary by Vivian Kubrick
· Three new featurettes: View from The Overlook: Crafting the Shining, The Visions of Stanley Kubrick, and Wendy Carlos, Composer
Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Deluxe Edition
· Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Jay Cocks
· New Featurette: Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
· Theatrical trailer
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) – 2 Disc Special Edition
· Rated and Unrated Versions of the Movie
· Scene specific commentary by Sydney Pollack and historian Peter Loewenberg
· Theatrical trailer and TV spots
· Channel 4 documentary: The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut
· Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
· Kubrick’s 1998 DGA D.W Griffith Award acceptance speech
· Interview gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Steven Spielberg
Stanley Kubrick – A Life in Pictures
Doctor Who!
“Doctor Who: The Complete Third Series” will romp into your part of the universe on November 6th at the heafty suggested retail price of $99.98.
Series Three Episosdes:
“The Runaway Bride”
“Smith and Jones”
“The Shakespeare Code”
“Gridlock”
“Daleks in Manhattan”
“Evolution of the Daleks”
“The Lazarus Experiment”
“42”
“Human Nature”
“Blink”
“Utopia”
“The Sound of Drums”
“Last of the Time Lords”
In Stores Tomorrow
And here’s just a friendly reminder that “The Simpsons: The Complete Tenth Season” drops into stores tomorrow.
“The Simpsons: The Complete Tenth Season” (23 Episodes)
“Lard of the Dance”
“The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace”
“Bart the Mother”
“Treehouse of Horror IX”
“When You Dish Upon a Star”
“D’oh-in in the Wind”
“Lisa Gets an “A””
“Homer Simpson in: “Kidney Trouble””
“Mayored to the Mob”
“Viva Ned Flanders”
“Wild Barts Can’t Be Broken”
“Sunday, Cruddy Sunday”
“Homer to the Max”
“I’m With Cupid”
“Marge Simpson in: “Screaming Yellow Honkers””
“Make Room for Lisa”
“Maximum Homerdrive”
“Simpsons Bible Stories”
“Mom and Pop Art”
“The Old Man and The “C” Student”
“Monty Can’t Buy Me Love”
“They Saved Lisa’s Brain”
“Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo”
MGM Scream Legends
Also on September 11th, MGM will be releasing the “Vincent Price: MGM Scream Legends Collection.”
It’s a five disc set and features:
01: “Abominable Dr. Phibes” & “Dr. Phibes Rises Again”
02: “Tales of Terror & “Twice Told Tales”
03: “Theater of Blood” & “Madhouse”
04: “Witchfinder General” – First time on DVD!
05: Bonus Disc with Documentary and Two Featurettes
Hopefully this will be the first of many Vincent Price sets from MGM ’cause it doesn’t get much better than Vincent Price. And, yeah … this set is also pretty boner inducing.
More Classic Sci-Fi!!!
Hot diggity damn! Best Buy has teamed up again this year with Universal to release another Best Buy exclusive on September 11th. “The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: Volume 2” will feature five more golden age sci-fi films … including one of my favorite big bug movies, “The Deadly Mantis.” This news gives me such a huge boner that it ain’t even funny.
“The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: Volume 2”
– “Dr. Cyclops” (1940)
– “Cult of the Cobra” (1955)
– “Land of the Unknown” (1957)
– “The Deadly Mantis” (1957)
– “The Leech Woman” (1960)
In Two Weeks
David Lynch’s three hour mind-fuck, house of mirrors epic “INLAND EMPIRE” drops into stores in a 2-Disc Limited Edition format with a host of special features. Mine is already pre-ordered. Rock!
Be a Good Consumer
It’s a great time to have money … ’cause there’s so much out there to buy right now.
1. “Absolute Garbage” DVD (Music Videos and Documentary)
2. “Absolute Garbage” 2-CD Limited Edition (with Remixes!)
3. “The Monster Squad” 2-Disc 20th Anniversary Edition DVD
4. “The Host” 2-Disc Collector’s Edition DVD
5. “Zodiac” DVD (Bare Bones Release … 2-Disc in 2008)
6. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” Book
So, go and buy, buy, buy!!!
Humpity, Hump Day
Oooooooooh. If only it were.
Yeah. I was gonna go on about how desperately I need a shag right now … but that’s probably the Irvine Welsh book talking.
Nothing new really.
I have a stack of books that I am slowly working my way through. I am almost finished with “The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs.” I have the first of the Southern Vampire Mysteries, “Dead Until Dark.” I am resisting the urge to buy “Rant,” the new Chuck Palahniuk novel … and, of course, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” drops into stores next week.
Dr. Phibes and I are pumped up for this fall … ’cause another Best Buy “Sci-Fi Collection” Exclusive will see “The Deadly Mantis” finally making its way to dvd. AND … MGM will be releasing a “Vincent Price: MGM Scream Legends Collection” (Volume One of Many? … Please, Oh, Please, Oh, Please!) on September 11th!!! I am sure that I will be talking/linking more about both these sets as their release dates draw closer.
Too much going on the rest of the week/weekend to really be able to keep up with my dvd viewing … though I am really looking forward to seeing “Vengeance is Mine.”
That is all.
Bonus Features Info
I was wondering when this would happen (and it may have happened already and I just didn’t notice).
The Region 1 releases of “Hot Fuzz” will be a regular DVD and an HD-DVD. Sad thing is that the HD-DVD is gonna contain about a bazillion more special features than the regular DVD release will. And, in my opinion that sucks. Check it …
DVD Bonus Features:
01. Outtakes
02. Deleted Scenes with Filmmaker Commentary
03. The Man Who Would Be Fuzz: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost act out a hilarious Hot Fuzz scene as Sean Connery and Michael Caine!
04. Fuzz-O-Meter: Select this feature and the trivia meter will run as you watch the film.
05. The Fuzzball Rally U.S.: Tour Piece- Join Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright on their outrageous nationwide press tour.
06. Audio Commentary with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
07. And Many More Hilarious Features!
HD DVD Bonus Features includes all features listed above, plus:
01. Audio Commentaries
– The Sandford Police Service: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kevin Eldon and Olivia Colman
– The Sandford Village People – Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Paul Freeman and Edward Woodward
– The Real Fuzz: Andy Leafe and Nick Eckland
02. We Made Hot Fuzz – “Making Of” Documentary
03. Speculative Video Blogs – 13 video blogs
04. Forensic: 8 Featurettes
05. Hearsay: Plot Holes and Comparisons
06. Special Effects: Before and After
07. Photographic Galleries
08. Falsified: “Dead Right”
– “Dead Right”: Edgar Wright’s First Cop Movie with Filmmaker Commentaries
– Am Blam: Making Dead Right
Crafty way to try and get the fan boys to upgrade to the HD-DVD format … right?
But, if you happen to have a Region Free player (like I do), you can purchase the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD from Region 2 and have all the special features that will be available on the DVD and HD-DVD releases here in the States.
Sheesh. I hope this doesn’t become the standard for Region 1 dvds.
Here They Come …
The Next 20 from Netflix:
01. “A Dirty Shame”
02. “The Motorcycle Diaries”
02. “Thief”
04. “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon”
05. “Following”
06. “Enigma”
07. “Gorky Park”
08. “Die! Die! My Darling!”
09. “The Stendhal Syndrome”
10. “Fear No Evil”
11. “East of Eden”
12. “The Three Faces of Eve”
13. “Days of Wine and Roses”
14. “Mephisto”
15. “Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet”
16. “Maria Full of Grace”
17. “The Straight Story”
18. “3 Women”
19. “Images”
20. “Z”