The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
After years of begging, pleading, and borderline groveling, Warners has finally answered all those pathetic pleas with the long-awaited first volume of Tiny Toon Adventures (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$44.98 SRP). They’re tiny, they’re toony, and they’re finally coming to our TVs with the first 35 episodes, plus a newly-produced retrospective featurette. Volume 2, now!
So, you’ve got a pair of computers and you want to transfer files between them quickly and easily. Sure, you could try and create a network connection, or send things over a instant messenger service in a pinch, but most ISPs are painfully slow on uploads, and you might not even have the option. No, the easiest piece of kit I’ve ever encountered is the Crossbox Data Transfer Device ($39.99), which connects to the 2 systems via USB ports, has built in drivers, and transfers data lightning fast. Brilliant.
It’s not nearly the groundbreaking revelation that was Scorsese and The Band’s The Last Waltz, but The Rolling Stones: Shine A Light (Paramount, Rated PG-13, DVD-$34.99 SRP) is still an incredible document of a defiantly energetic gig by the foursome, with guests Jack White, Christina Aguilera, and Buddy Guy. Bonus features include a quartet of additional performances and a behind-the-scenes featurette. A Blu-Ray edition (featuring the same bonus materials is also available.
The Blu-Ray train has reached Clancy station (yeah, I just typed that – I may need a vacation), and that means we’ve got a quartet of high-definition, stunning looking versions of The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Clear & Present Danger, and The Sum Of All Fears (Paramount, Rated PG/PG-13, Blu-Ray-$29.99 SRP each). The bonus features all carry over from the standard editions, and include cast & crew interviews, an audio commentary on Hunt, commentaries and behind-the-scenes featurettes on Sum, and theatrical trailers.
Spawned from the same animated era that gave us Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Pinky & The Brain, I always thought that Freakazoid! (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$26.98 SRP) was a blast. Granted, I wasn’t a regular viewer, but every episode I ran across was a fun, madcap delight. Judge for yourself with the 2-disc first season set, featuring all 14 episodes, plus a retrospective featurette, launch promos, and a trio of commentaries.
Take the highway to the danger zone in gloriously crisp, high definition Tony Scott vision with the Blu-Ray edition of Top Gun (Paramount, Rated PG, Blu-Ray-$29.99 SRP). In addition to the uber-quality, you get the bonus materials from the recent special edition DVD release, including an audio commentary, making-of documentary, featurettes, galleries, music videos, and more.
Like most effortless surprise cult hits, the sequel to Harold & Kumar Go Two White Castle suffers from trying too hard. That’s not to say that Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (New Line, Not Rated, DVD-$34.99 SRP) – which finds our stoner heroes mistakenly on the wrong side of the law and locked up as terrorists – isn’t an enjoyable comedy. It is. It’s just that it doesn’t quite live up to the goofball charm of the original flick. The 2-disc unrated edition features audio commentaries, a behind-the-scenes featurette, additional scenes, and a PSA.
Has it really been 10 years since Dark City? Before The Matrix, this underrated little gem brought us a fascinating but flawed piece of sci-fi noir, that deserves another look-see. There’s no better way to do that look-see than with the newly remastered Blu-Ray edition (New Line, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$28.99 SRP) featuring both the original theatrical and an extended director’s cut of the film, audio commentaries, documentaries, galleries, and much more.
It may be mired in its mid-80’s time period, but there’s a great ticking clock fun to War Games (MGM/UA, Rated PG, DVD-$14.98 SRP), which now has a 25th (!) Anniversary Edition. Bonus features (in addition to a nicely remastered picture) include a retrospective documentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and the original theatrical trailer. Sadly, no Badham/Broderick commentary.
Fans (and Paul Sabourin) will rejoice in the fact that not only will they get to re-watch the stunning conclusion of the saga, but the fourth and final volume of Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 3 – Fire (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$16.99 SRP) features audio commentaries from the creators, cast, and crew.
Anglophiles wishing to get a wonderful primer on the sceptered isle’s history will want to pick up a copy of Simon Schama’s in-depth A History Of Britain (History Channel, Not Rated, DVD-$39.95 SRP). The 5-disc set features all 15 episodes, charting its earliest beginnings through Roman occupation, the Norman conquest, the rise of empire, and right through the 20th century.
Plunge back into the Fox vaults with a box set devoted to the 30’s George Clooney with the Tyrone Power: Matinee Idol Collection (Fox, Not Rated, DVD-$49.98 SRP). The 5-disc set features Girls’ Dormitory, Love Is News, This Above All, Day-Time Wife, The Luck Of The Irish, Café Metropole, That Wonderful Urge, Second Honeymoon, Johnny Apollo, I’ll Never Forget You. Bonus features include spotlights on Power and his leading ladies, deleted scenes, a poster gallery, and more.
Start refreshing on the original before the new series launches this fall with the complete fifth season of Beverly Hills 90210 (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$59.98 SRP). With Shannon Doherty gone, this was the season that saw the arrival of Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, who practically jetted right from Saved By The Bell. The 8 disc set features all 31 episodes, but not a single bonus features.
If getting the series in separate sets wasn’t appealing to you, you can now get the entirety of Robin Of Sherwood (Acorn Media, Not Rated, DVD-$99.99 SRP) in one easy package. The 10-disc set contains all 26 episodes, plus audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes documentaries, outtakes, and more.
In the annals of great cooking shows, a special place must be reserved for one of my favorites – Britain’s Two Fat Ladies (Acorn Media, Not Rated, DVD-$59.99 SRP), which brought together outsize chefs Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright and sent them traveling the country in a motorcycle and sidecar. It was fun and funny, and the two were engaging hosts. The 4-disc set features all 24 episodes, plus a documentary tribute to Paterson.
With season 7 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Universal, Not Rated, DVD-$59.98 SRP) hitting shelves, we’ve just about caught up with the current season. The 5-disc set contains all 22 episodes. Can I say how much the continued existence of this series delights me just because it keeps Richard Belzer’s Homicide character alive?
Spawned in the desperate post-Buffy bid to launch any kind of female action-hero series the networks could get their hands on, Witchblade (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$69.98 SRP) only lasted a single season. Which I’m perfectly fine with, as it was a lackluster adaptation of a comic book I really didn’t care for. Ah well. The 7-disc box-set features all 24 episodes, plus trivia, casting tapes, featurettes, and more.
Growing up, the name James A. Michener meant incredibly massive TV miniseries based on equally massive books set in some period of America’s past. Such is the Wild West tale Centennial (Universal, Not Rated, DVD-$59.98 SRP), which spanned 26 hours. The 6-disc set features also contains a retrospective documentary.
And now, we’ll close this week’s shopping guide with something you can’t buy in stores. In fact, the only way you can get it is by collecting 4 of the stickers featured in Hasbro’s line of 12″ Indiana Jones figures and mailing them in for what has to be one of the coolest looking mail-aways ever – a highly-detailed 12″-scale Ark of the Covenant. See for yourself…
So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…
-Ken Plume
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The Brits have a knack for taking the tired old sitcom format, blowing it up, and creating some absolutely brilliant television. Those bastards. Most definitely to be included in their long line of triumphs is Spaced, a show about a pair of twenty-something slackers – Tim & Daisy (Simon Pegg & Jessica Stevenson) – who pose as a professional couple in order to get a North London apartment. Sure, Tim could be a comic book artist if he tried, and Daisy’s quite a good writer, but being successful in either of those careers would mean applying themselves… By, of all things, *working*. Gah! With a gaggle of off-the-wall friends and acquaintances, if you think of it as a twenty-something Seinfeld with a postmodern pop culture twist (there are frequent surreal diversions) you wouldn’t be far off the mark. After much legal wrangling, fans and soon-to-be fans in the US can now pick up 
I have a massive photo and slide archive. Ridiculously large, actually. And like anyone in this modern age, I’d like to digitize it. Unfortunately, digitizing that much material with old-school flatbed scanner adapters or standalone scanners has been a pain ass. Well, get one of these nifty 
If you want a sure sign that an action figure line has gotten traction, a good indicator would be that they’ve been successful enough to begin releasing a second wave. Such is the case with 
Every comic book series seems to be getting the snazzy deluxe treatment nowadays – with some bewildering choices – but certainly deserving of the honor is Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. The clothbound, hardcover 
After months and months of taunting and numerous delayed release dates, finally – FINALLY – we see the release of Comedy Central’s short-lived surreal gem, 
I admit to really loving the deluxe, hardcover, archival editions that Dark Horse has been releasing of titles I never thought would get that kind of treatment – namely the Gold Key runs of both 
Before Family Guy decided to jump on the bandwagon, Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken decided to venture into a galaxy far, far away for a bit of a good-natured puncture. With full cooperation from Lucasfilm, 
There’s no Kurosawa quite like overlooked Kurosawa, and that’s what makes his taut, high-tension 
Set in a dystopian Los Angeles in the not-too-distant future, 
Certainly living up to its name, 
James Caan may have departed, but Tom Selleck more than fills his shoes in the fifth season of 
In what may be the quickest turnaround time from air to release, the complete fifth season of 
There are some things in life that are practical, that make you feel like a genuine cliché of an adult. Like buying a weed-wacker. Then there are things that have no practical purpose other than to make you feel absolutely, unashamedly, giddily childish in their uber-cool appeal to the 10-year-old still kicking around in your brain. Such is the case with the high-resolution 
Largely a neglected novelty in the US, Alan Parker’s wonderfully bizarre 
Back on the road again, actor Robbie Coltrane is exploring the interesting and unique to be found across the breadth of England in 
If the slice of the 60’s presented in AMC’s Mad Men leaves you wanting to sonically explore the period a little more, then by all means pick up 
I always get a kick out of the sheer energy and exuberance – and, frankly, unhinged quality – of talk and variety shows in the UK. Case in point is The Friday Night Project, which is an hour long comedy program presented by Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins, and featuring a different guest host and musical guest each week. Think of it as a funny Saturday Night Live, deriving much of the humor from the unpredictability of Collins and Carr, and the permissibility of UK television. If you’d like a nice sampler of what I’m getting on about, check out 
Anticipation of The Dark Knight is building to a fever pitch, so it makes sense that Warners would quickly shuffle out a 
And you know that, since you’re already in the rip current, you’re going to pick up the score to 
Despite cultural affectations, the bottom line is that funny is funny. Such is the case with 
First of all, let me say that it’s no Meet The Spartans. And I mean that as a compliment, because that was just unwatchable excrement. No, 
They still haven’t found a good vehicle for Raven Symone, but Disney’s 
Finally, what has become an iconic bit of television finally hits DVD with the complete ninth season of 
It’s not a full season set, but at least it’s a solid batch of episodes in the first set collecting 
Dr. Alec Holland’s hulking, green alter-ego returns to DVD with the second volume of 
Everything – and I mean everything – comes to DVD eventually, even when it’s such an embarrassing disappointment as the short-lived 
As a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 from “back in the day”, for years I’d hoped for the return to performing of MST creator Joel Hodgson and writer/performer Trace Beaulieu (Dr. Forrester & Crow T. Robot). Even though we’ll probably never see MST return for various intractable reasons, both Joel and Trace returned – along with fellow alums Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, and Josh Weinstein – to form Cinematic Titanic. For all intents and purposes, it’s pretty much MST – only all 5 members are silhouetted onscreen at the same time, stationed on a tiered series of platforms on either side of the screen and commenting on the flick. Their first flick was the delightfully awful 
William Conrad – now THERE was an outsize TV star that filled the screen in ways today’s stars only wish they could. And I don’t mean that in just the obvious reference to Conrad’s fabled girth – no, he was an old school TV actor who commanded your attention, much like William Shatner still does on Boston Legal. If you don’t believe me, check out the first volumes from the respective first seasons of both 
As anyone who’s seen Wall-E knows, sitting in front of a computer all day (working, in my case) doesn’t exactly lend itself to muscle toning (or avoiding the dread carpal tunnel nightmare). Maybe that’s why everyone who sends their days bathed in the LCD glow should pick up a 
Ah, Peep Show. If you’re a fan of The Office – or just offbeat British comedy in general (you know, the smart people) – you’ll probably dig 
If you’ve ever had the desire to live a Wodehousian existence and be as coddled and pampered as Bertie Wooster – or you just feel like being awakened in the morning by the mellifluous tones of Stephen Fry – then you’ll want to make sure to get your own 
Anticipation of The Dark Knight is building to a fever pitch, so it makes sense that Warners would quickly shuffle out a 
And speaking of the Caped Crusader, I can see what they were going for with 
Did you know that there was a new Mummy movie coming out? No? Well, even I barely knew there was a new Mummy movie coming out. In order to mark the occasion, Universal has cooked up a batch of new special editions related to the franchise, starting out with 2-disc special editions of both 
In the legend that is the emerging grunge scene in the early-90’s, you may not know the name of a band called The Gits. The reason for that omission is the brutal tale of the rape and murder of the band’s lead singer and emotional core, Mia Zapata, after the group returned from a successful European tour. Over a decade later, new evidence would reopen the case, leading to the arrest of a suspect and a tale captured in the documentary 
Eager to make sure that their second theatrical outing isn’t met by the same slack-jawed confusion of their inaugural go, the folks behind the X-Files (Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz) have selected 8 essential episodes in the 2-disc 
Ireland’s soul singer supreme gets a quintet of special edition catalogue remasters. Now you can snag your own copies of Van Morrison’s 
Another in the long line of Iraq war related films that failed to perform at the box office, 
Ignoring the double negative, Jimmy had it right when he said they don’t dance like Carmen no more – and you can see for yourself with 
If you want to feel the colossal loss of Joe Strummer all over again, by all means check out Julien Temple’s magnificent documentary 
Despite all of those peanuts, it’s nuts to 
Where are you going to take the relationship between Jeannie and her “master”, Tony, in the fifth and final season of 
Six seasons in, 
Even with the arrival of Amanda Tapping’s Colonel Samantha Carter, 
A pair of DC animated series come to an end with the release of their respective fifth seasons – 
Mix The Fast and The Furious with Miami Vice, and you pretty much get the short-lived 
I admit – by the team 
Continuing the tradition begun with Monsters, Inc., we’re gifted with another beautiful collection of production artwork and designs for Pixar’s latest flick with 
Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of sci-fi (or Dick Tracy, or The Venture Bros.) surely must have dreamed of the day that mankind would finally develop the technology needed to realize the video watch. That’s right – the ability to watch incredibly sharp video on your wrist. And view pictures. And listen to MP3s. Well, the dream has been realized with the 
Though my favorite Billy Joel album remains the severely underrated Turnstiles (I spent an entire summer with a friend tooling around in his VW bug listening to “Summer, Highland Falls”), a close runner-up would be the album that saved Joel from being dumped by his label, and cemented him as an artist to be reckoned with – 1977’s The Stranger. In (belated) celebration of the album’s anniversary, we get the fully remastered 2-disc 
And while we’re on the topic of expanded revistings, I must mention the new deluxe editions of both the eponymous 
Just when the summer doldrums were beginning to set in, I found out just why everyone has been fawning over 
While we still can’t the series itself on DVD, at least we can watch the camp glory that is the Adam West 
Even 20 years later, 
Any flick that’s smart enough to cast both Patton Oswalt and Mindy Cohn is – at the very least – worth a viewing. Written and directed by Daniel Waters (the writer of Heathers), 
From the director of the upcoming Pineapple Express comes a smart, gritty little indie flick about an escalating blood feud amongst a group of half brothers in the Arkansas back roads. In 
To be honest with you, the only reason I ever watched 
If you’re in a pinch and need an entirely watchable, inoffensive romantic comedy to fill out a date with, look no further than 
It’s certainly not a comedy classic, but there’s a goofy, almost 80’s quality about 
I’m sure you’re just as shocked as I am that 
If you’ve been missing the true-crime stories with a sly presentation that was City Confidential, then you want to check out the marriages gone sour stories recounted in 
Kyra Sedgwick is back as homicide investigator Brenda Johnson in the 3rd season of 
Karl Malden and Michael Douglas are back on 
The crew of the Planet Express return in the 2nd of the 4 direct-to-DVD adventures that manage the rare feat of resurrecting a show with not only the same level of quality of the original run, but above and beyond it. 
If you were to transplant Grosse Point Blank to Belgium, you’d wind up with 
If I have one disappointment with the soundtrack album to Pixar’s 
I’ve spoken many times of my Anglophilia, and my fascination with the oftimes bizarre and eccentric history of England. With that in mind, it’s understandable that I dug right in to 
The History Channel’s dramatic recreations of classic wartime aerial combat makes their high-flying return with the complete second season of 
I don’t know why exactly it is that it seems the bulk of today’s kiddie flicks compare unfavorably to the classics of yesteryear. Maybe it’s that manufactured sheen that it all seems to have – CGI is a sterile tool, and it adds a cold, uninvolved feeling to modern children’s films. Case in point is 
If I had a time machine, somewhere on “to do” list would be to travel back just a few short years to when people like Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg proclaimed 2-D animation a dead artform and slap them over the head with a copy of the film 
I’m all for goofy, well-written fun in kids shows, and 
Genre-bending shows are always a gamble on network television, as viewers are usually slow on the uptake and executives are quick to lower the axe. Occasionally, one slips through the cracks and is given some legs – such as 
Despite the hokey kitsch value the success of the Broadway musical version has brought it, 
If you were to take that early 90’s HBO staple Dream On and transport it to Showtime and reinvent it as an edgy dramedy about a sex and drug addicted author (David Duchovny), you’d have 
If you were to ask Roland Emmerich to remake Caveman, the result would be 
Ignore that abysmal Roland Emmerich flick, and delve into the real pre-history with 
Though they’ve halved the disc count, beggars can’t be choosers when we get another clutch of classic cartoons, fully restored, with 
Though seen as one of the lesser lights of the classic Disney animated feature firmament, I was always fond of 
Everybody’s doing it, so you might as well bite the bullet, grab a friend or two, and join the podcasting craze that’s sweeping the net like the flu. Getting the right gear can be a nightmare, but you can eliminate all the guesswork by snagging the 
Go under the sea with everyone’s favorite Time Lord in 
All these years later, it’s interesting to look back on 
Here we are in the 9th season of 
If you’ve been holding off any purchasing any of the BBC’s wonderful Walking With… history series, you can get the whole lot in the new 
Largely forgotten by the public, Beach Boy’s Dennis Wilson’s legendary solo album 
I’m usually rather apathetic toward the films of Martin Lawrence, but based on a trailer that actually managed to elicit a laugh or two from me in the theaters a few months back, I decided to give 
Rest assured that even a Disneyland uberfan like Dana Snyder would want a copy of 
If they’re not yet ready for the encroaching adulthood and edgy songwriting of Disney’s Jonas Brothers, then rest assure that today’s kids are watching those fake tweenyboppers, the Naked Brothers Band. For those still-innocent kiddies, the band has a new movie, 
Rudolph may get all the press, but Rankin/Bass made plenty of other stop motion specials – including one called 
It was during the third season of 
If you were essentially to do a remake of Six Days, Seven Nights and replace Harrison Ford and Anne Heche with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, you’ve pretty much got the action romcom 
Neither memorable nor boring, the best thing I can say about the high school enemy body switch comedy 
Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita, Curt Swan, Fred Hembeck… Yes, Fred Hembeck. Destroyer of universes, gentle mocker, ooner of lamps, and master of four-color mirth, our very own Fred Hembeck has been honored with 
Although my interest was certainly piqued, I in no way expected to be as swept up as I became in HBO’s miniseries on the political life of our 2nd president, 
Going in, I had my reservations about 
As far as classic seasons go, I’d have to include the 4th season of 
I’ll never escape a jungle prison with nothing more than bubblegum and a fire ant, but I admit to feeling just a little bit MacGyver-ish when wielding the 
Not realizing just want kind of legs the series would wind up having, Fox originally released the first season of 24 as a borderline bare-bones DVD set. Eager to rectify that mistake (and get fans to purchase a second version), we’ve now got 
Rest assured that not only is Steve McGarrett back in the fourth season of 
After losing themselves in the wilderness of HD-DVD for a year, Paramount has come in from the cold with a full embrace of the high-def victor, Blu-Ray, with a clutch of releases to get up to speed. They all sport the same bonus features as the standard definition discs (save for Bee Movie, which does have some exclusive materials), but fancy-pants cinephiles can now pick up 
There’s always something mildly off-putting about reunion movies featuring the aged cast of beloved TV shows. Maybe that’s because they’re usually frozen in our memories looking and acting like they did when we last saw them, regardless of how time has since treated the actors. Such is the case with the pair of flicks contained on the 
If you made up the story of Raymond Burr’s life, you would call it a an outrageous soap opera fabrication – but the truth is just as outrageous as fiction, as you’ll discover in the biography 
Since everyone and their brother seems to be releasing westerns from their catalogues these past few months, it makes sense that Lionsgate would want to revisit 
I think I’m going to coin a new term for 
If you never got around to picking up either 
Not one, but two more actresses get the featured collection treatment – Sophia Loren and Catherine Deneuve. The 
The one-armed man is still on the loose in the first volume of 
When a TV show is successful, there’s always the a certain amount of curiosity as to whether the characters would transfer to the big screen. Sadly, Don Adams’s Maxwell Smart did not do too well in the transition, which meant the sublime genius that was Get Smart became the tepid disappointment of 
It’s a bit of a grab bag, but 
All good things must come to an end, and so must things that lived a few years beyond their shelf life – the eighth and final season of 
Having long ago given up on watching it since being disappointed when after its first few outings on Adult Swim and the first season DVD, I was curious to see if my opinion would be changed by the second season of 
Even though they’ve done just about everything possible (including throwing the kitchen sink at it) to tear down the beloved characters and stories of their relaunch, time and unfortunate editorial machinations have only made the Keith Giffen/J.M. DeMatteis/Kevin Maguire run of Justice League International look all the more enjoyable by comparison. Ignore all of that Uber Final Infinite Crisis of Something Or Another business and pick up the first volume of 
Ah, but I will say this – thank jebus for the relaunched Booster Gold. Slowly but surely, the series has been fixing the bastardizations wreaked in the past few years within the DC universe, and reintroducing some of the FUN and ENJOYMENT that’s been missing in comics today. Let me say, unequivocally, grab the first collection, 
Even though I think there were diminishing returns following the spectacular, pre-franchise outing and its first sequel, it’s still welcome to have brand new, deluxe special editions of the five films featuring Detective Harry Callahan – aka “Dirty Harry”. 
You know a major feature film is fast-approaching when the studio starts releasing the classic material to DVD, and such is the case with the rapid fire release of both the 
If it had an arc like the plant its characters peddle, than season 3 of 
If Indiana Jones has made you interested in finding out what real archeology is all about, I can recommend no more enjoyable series than Time Team – the Brit show which performs digs across the UK, and is hosted by Blackadder‘s Tony Robinson. A perfect introduction to the series is 
This weekend, the space nerd in me will be delighting in reading 
It’s always a pleasant surprise when a series whose release has been pleaded for by fans gets put out on DVD, and it’s even more exciting when there are actually a decent amount of bonus materials as well. Such is the case with the complete first season of 
Hopefully, you’ve already picked up all four volumes of the Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus, as they should be required reading for any comic fan. If you’ve already wisely purchased those, you’ll also want to get 
You know, few shows are feature characters as relentlessly flawed as 
Although it never lit up audiences, you can at least say that the TV series based on Stephen King’s 
Although it quickly disappeared from screens when it hit in the mid-90’s, the attempted re-launch of 
Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt’s 
It’s goofy and good-natured and well within his safe zone, but there’s something undeniably tired about Will Ferrell’s latest loveable boob pic 
Continuing their spotlights on great British actresses (having already dedicated sets to Judi Dench and Helen Mirren), we now get 
Give it enough time and even the most marginal of films enters into the realm of classic, and it’s with that in mind that we’ve now got a special collector’s edition of 
The least effective officers of the California Highway Patrol are back on their bikes in the second season of 
The latest release from The Weinstein Company’s high-falutin’ “Miriam Collection” is the tragic tale of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, 
With a powerhouse producing team – including Ridley and Tony Scott – I expected quite a bit from the new mini-series based on Michael Crichton’s 
I tried – jebus how I tried – to find something funny in 
It’s a pleasant surprise to find just how much I look forward to each new installment of 
Based on the lackluster American iteration, I’ve largely avoided the show Trigger Happy TV. That proved to be foolish, as I just should have sought out the infinitely more intelligent – and dada funny – British original created by Dom Joly. It’s like an absurdist Candid Camera, and Joly is a compelling social observer. Drop everything you’re doing and pick up the 
It seems there’ve been a dozen collections over the past few years, but 
As with any potentially long-running DVD release, I feared that the first volume of the chronological Three Stooges might very well be a one-off. Thankfully, my fears have been allayed with the arrival of 
Nothing makes a weekend pass faster than having your own private Modern Marvels marathon, and you can certainly do that with 
Even though I thought the flick was abysmal, I enjoyed reading through the massive 
Unfortunately, much like the film itself, there’s not much to get excited by with John Williams’s score to 
It’s a damn shame that he’s still largely unknown in the US, but I’d recommend you rectify that by picking up 
Long before V or The X-Files, producer Quinn Martin gave us 
Slowly but surely, the DVD releases are catching up with the current episodes. The 2-disc 
The subjects of their quests are still as mythical as they ever were, but 
As someone who was not particularly ever a fan of the original Rambo films, Stallone’s resurrection of the Reagan-era icon in 
While everyone remembers the sinking of the Titanic, my enduring interest in early 20th century shipwrecks extends to the sinking of Cunard liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in 1915, and was one of the pivotal, galvanizing moments in the first World War. The Discovery Channel special 
Get in a martial arts mode (just in time for the release of Kung Fu Panda) with a new pair of releases from the “Dragon Dynasty” label – 
Ride ’em in! Get a view of classic Clint Eastwood with the first volume of 
Meanwhile, Marshall Matt Dillon continues to keep the crooked in line in the second volume of 
Ever since seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark as a wee child, Indy’s iconic headwear has held a special fascination for me. Even going back 15 years, I contemplated trying to get a fedora of my own – but the price was quite prohibitive (or, at least, relative to my finances today). Still, the dream persisted, and on a trip to Disneyland a few years back I picked up one of their $35 officially licensed fedoras – and I was happy. It looked close enough to the real thing for me to feel like I finally got what I’d always wanted. Ah, but then 
We’ve now officially reached – and passed – the middle of 
With all that attention being paid to the man with the hat, let’s turn our eye towards the original Lucasian franchise that was driven into the ground with an unfortunate return, Star Wars. Before the release of the prequels – even before the release of the special editions – there was an incredible behind-the-scenes tome that was released. Though out of print for years, it was brought back into print a few years back, and it’s celebration of an unsullied Star Wars universe warms my frosted heart. Packed with hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos and detailed information, get your own copy of 
Although still largely unknown in the US, I’m quite the fan of mentalist/magician/illusionist/creepy guy Derren Brown. I heartily recommend you pick up the DVD documenting his live tour 
It’s been so long since their airing that I barely remember the episodes features in the 5th season set of 
Although his smarmy, opportunistic, and ultimately destructive behavior became cartoonish in his last years as prime minister, it’s a film like writer Peter Morgan and director Stephen Frears’ 
Long before her turn as Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker was teamed with Amy Linker in the 80’s prototype for My So-Called Life, 
Longtime readers of this column will know I’m a sucker for historical documentaries, so keep that in mind when I say I watched 
If you’re an armchair adventurer, you might want to pick up a copy of 
If you’ve not yet seen 
Often – and unfairly – overshadowed by the much showier Platoon, 
After four seasons of Jim Nabors bumbling around as the titular 
You’ve got to love BBC period dramas – and I do. They’re lush, they’re dependable, and they’re usually packed with top-flight actors. Such is the case with 
I was an avid Saturday morning cartoon watcher during the 70’s and 80’s, and even I don’t remember that there was such a beast as the 
Not one to let the dead rest even a moment, George Romero returns with another installment in his seemingly never-ending zombie saga, 
If watching war flicks over the labor day weekend seems kind of old hat, you might want to try taking a look at the veritable wagonload of westerns making their way out of the vaults. First out the gate is Fox, which has dropped 
For sheer volume, though, MGM has opened up the floodgates with 
If you’re in the mood for a great drama that features Eddie Izzard (and really, who isn’t?), try the Region 2 release 
Surely I can’t be the only one that had zero interest in National Treasure, and even less interest in its sequel, 
Take Party Animal, mix in The Hills, and add a bit of the envelope pushing of Queer As Folk – oh, and set it all in the UK – and you’ve got the basic formula for 
The be-uniformed crusaders of the Judge Advocate General’s office return in the sixth season of 
I still believe the film is an unwanted return to a franchise whose potential was dashed upon the rocks of a mediocre first outing, but there is something to be said for Harry Gregson-Williams’ score to 
Hoping to fill the void left by Jeff Foxworthy’s departure from the sitcom scene, redneck compatriot Bill Engvall received the eponymous 
Broadway-philes can give a spin to the new revival cast recording from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 
First and foremost, take a moment to celebrate the glorious demise of the ill-conceived American version of Spaced with the news that this July brings the release with the original Britcom that put Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, and Edgar Wright on the geek map. Loaded with bonus features from not only the UK release, but also exclusive to the US edition, this is a must-have set. Keep an eye out at your favorite online retailer or DVD emporium.
By the third season of 
For years now, I’ve been reiterating that you should buy, post-haste, the comedic sci-fi novels of Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder. Every one so far has been a gem, and he’s managed to keep the plate spinning with his latest tale of slow-witted detective Frank Burly, 
With a new Indy flick in the offing, it was a foregone conclusion that we’d see some form of re-release on the original trilogy – and so we have with the 
Cinema geeks rejoice! Universal has seen fit to collect 10 of their catalogue’s most genre-tastic titles into one box set – 
As much as I liked the “official” history found in the deluxe tome To Infinity And Beyond, it’s nice to have a complementary, unauthorized book about the early days and rise of Pixar to balance out the picture, and David Price’s 
The movie’s not yet in theaters, but everything I’ve seen of Kung Fu Panda has made me keen to do so. It’s taken awhile for rival studios that the way to fight Pixar is not to make knock-off Pixar flicks, but to realize the same thing that Warners did in their heyday – leave the heart to Disney and focus on the comedy instead. If you want to whet your appetite for this flick, look no further than 
I wasn’t alive to experience firsthand growing up in the 50’s, but I’m certainly aware of the shows and celebrities that made up the pop culture diet of that generation. If you’re as interested as I am in that period, you’ve got to get yourself a copy of 
It’s been 10 years since the passing of the Chairman of the Board, and Warners has seen fit to celebrate his passing with a quartet of box sets celebrating Frank Sinatra’s cinematic legacy – 
Everyone’s favorite sleuthing antiquities dealer returns in the complete third season of 
It’s not like I would have paid to see it in the theater, but 
The fourth season of 
Just when my nephews have nearly burned out the previous release, along comes 
One of my nephews is fast approaching the one-year mark, and getting him to sleep is quite a feat with all that teething going on. We’ve found that a big help in the seemingly never-ending battle is Nickelodeon’s 
The off-color puppets are back with 
Have you ever picked up a book and thought “This is an idea that was a long-time coming…”? I thought that very thing when I thumbed through 
You’ll weep, you’ll awww, you’ll get plenty of points from your significant other if you pick her up a copy of the new 
Like According To Jim, 
Surprisingly enough, Sean Combs acquitted himself quite well in last year’s TV adaptation of 
One of those programs that will always grab my attention if insomnia or boredom has me scanning channels at 4 in the morning is anything with forensic examiner Dr. Michael Baden. An all-new edition of 
While it’s wonderful that – long after the original Image-licensed DVD release of the film went out-of-print – we finally get a new, anamorphic edition of 
What better way to celebrate Jack “King” Kirby’s 50-year comic book career than with the 50th issue of the massive and magnificent Jack Kirby Collector, 
This week, I’m dedicating this mention of 
Honestly, it’s through my friendship with the intellectually and artistically intimidating Doc Hammer that I’ve taken an interest in painting – more specifically, the artists behind the paintings. With that in mind, an absolutely fascinating series that I’ve become addicted to is 
Most Oscar years, I’ve seen maybe one or two of the various animated and live action short subjects that come up for nomination. That’s why the enormously titled 
Does anyone remember that 
Certainly the concept of 
Just imagine the social satire and female empowerment you’d get out of rather graphic tale of a young woman who discovers she has the vagina dentata. Yes, you read that right. That film would be 
It’s not one of the shows on my must-watch list, but I’m sure that some people will care that the inaugural season of 
It seems like forever and a day since the release of the last season of 
While Warners Golden and Hanna-Barbera Collections and Disney’s Treasures get all the publicity, kudos must be given to Universal for their treatment of the Walter Lantz library in the second of their 
Proving that their premium collector’s imprint – The Miriam Collection – wasn’t just a one-off fluke, the next collector’s edition has been released, featuring a restored presentation of 
Though they had the chance to do a nice restoration of both Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros (one of my favorite films), Disney instead opted to do just a quickie dump job on the new single-disc 
The decade-spanning adventures of 
The city of London is endlessly fascinating to me, so a book like 
It’s by no means a great film, but 
There was a very good film to be made from the first book Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, 
Twomorrows’ excellent Modern Masters series reaches its 16th volume with the release of their spotlight on 
To see the early 20th century in color is an odd, odd thing. It somehow seems less real than the common black and white footage of the era – almost as if we’re viewing a reenactment instead of the genuine people of the period. Well, there’s plenty of rare, disconcerting, and ultimately fascinating footage to be found in 
Light and frothy and entirely harmless, 
Some may consider them WC tomes, but I enjoy the trivia found in the books 
Not only am I a sucker for historical documentaries, I’m also a sucker for a good contemporary documentary, and this week’s recommendation in that category is 
I still won’t forgive him for providing the foundation upon which George Lucas has built and incredibly infuriating ego, but there’s still some interesting insights to be found in 
The seventh season of 
Put the news of the upcoming remake out of your mind with the complete fourth season of 
If HBO’s recent biopic miniseries chronicling the political life of John Adams has made you curious about the Adams clan through American history, then you might want to check out the DVD release of the 1976 PBS miniseries 
Watching the over-hyped, over-buzzed 
Daniel Radcliffe leaves Harry Potter far behind in his portrayal of Rudyard Kipling’s son in 
It’s been dragged across the coals as an underwhelming parody, but I think I dug 
Thank goodness for DVD, which will hopefully give a second life to 
It takes a lot for a flick to come along and actually get me to enjoy it (I know, I’m so jaded), but I enjoyed 
I really wanted to love 
Much more than Happy Days, I can still watch 
Following on the heels wonderful (if flawed) release of classic Match Game episodes, we get a pair of game show releases that are a whole hell of a lot of fun to pop in and kick back with. First out of the gate was 
At the very least – and in my most charitable mode – I can say that 
The very epitome of the singer-songwriter explosion of the early 70’s was the massive success of Carole King’s 
Both Warners and Fox have been steadily mining their vaults for heretofore unreleased vintage flicks, and Universal has finally gotten into the act with their “Cinema Classics” line. The first quartet of titles to be get the remastered treatment are 
Perpetually on the bubble, celebrate the renewal of 
I know they’re the beloved wards of Bob Odenkirk, and I’ve tried to understand them, but I’ve yet to laugh at Adult Swim’s overhyped comedy duo Tim & Eric. In particular, I’m left cold by their 
I was a fan of the 
Make the wait for the next Spongebob season set a little easier to bear (and believe me, my nephew devours Spongebob like it’s air, so it’s not an easy wait) with the new 
Other artists have gotten a catalogue review, but I’m glad that the latest addition is 
Courtesy of a pair of new documentaries, not only can you learn 
It’s not Lawrence or Kwai, but David Lean’s 
It’s hard to believe it’s taken this long for there to be a career-spanning box set celebrating the prodigious half-century output of Willie Nelson, but it’s not until the release of 
While you’re at it, you can also pick up a copy of 
Three seasons in and I still can find nothing to like about 
It’s taken 20 years, but Terry Gilliam’s 
While Punch Drunk Love went a little ways toward erasing the memory of the incredibly pretentious filmmaker that followed up the likeable Boogie Nights with Magnolia, it took 
Although it’s not the version that aired on Bravo a few years back, I can still heartily recommend the new DVD of the 
Not until you get hold of Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan’s 
Before he was House, Hugh Laurie starred in the Britcom 
The end of their long original run is coming to a close by the time we reach the 6th season of 
It’s a shame that the final season of Buffy was such crap, because it taints the first collection of comics in what is ostensibly the show’s 8th season, 
I still think half of what he does in his crusading efforts to save sharks is insane and dangerous, but at least filmmaker Rob Stewart’s documentary about his efforts, 
Still folksy after all of these years, Andy Griffith returned to TV screens with his instantly loveable lawyer 
You know things are ramping up towards the release of the new Indiana Jones flick when something like the 
Much like King Of Kong and its focus on the battle for Donkey Kong score supremacy, I never thought I’d be interested in the story about how the last pinball machine manufacturer tried to save a dying industry back in 1999, but 
Frank Darabont has always been one of the few filmmaker’s able to do right by Stephen King (see The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, so I wasn’t surprised that he did a pretty darn good job on 
If you want a clear example of how positive the advent and entrenchment of DVD has been to the release of catalogue titles, look no further than the 3rd volume of Warner’s 
Speaking of Perry Mason, the 
I guess it should be no surprise that Cartoon Network is continuing their mad march toward showing more and more live action (Jurassic Park 3, people? Really?). Of the recent efforts, at least 
Produced & narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, 
It’s hard to hate 
By its 6th season, 
Though I still think of him as the 5th Doctor, Peter Davison returns as Detective Constable “Dangerous” Davies in the 4th series of 
It’s not exactly star-studded, but the new BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s 
Unless you’re a comedy insider, you probably don’t know the name Del Close. However, if you’ve seen Saturday Night Live, or SCTV, or Upright Citizens Brigade, or Mr. Show, or The Colbert Report – any show, really, that’s pulled from the ranks of the improv scene – then you’ve felt the importance of the man who made the teaching of improvisation an artform. He was also a mercurial genius who could alienate and ingratiate at the same time, and whose life was more mythic than average. Author Kim “Howard” Johnson has done a wonderful job of capturing lightning in a bottle with 
I’ve waited years for 
It’s no easy task to try and bring Stephen Sondheim’s 
I certainly hope you’ve been picking up DC’s deluxe hardcover collections of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World run in the appropriately titled 
If the live action scatological modernization of Alvin, Simon, & Theodore aren’t your cup of tea, you can rock it old school with the new re-release of their first big screen outing, 
Another staple of my 80’s Nick At Nite viewing has hit DVD in the form of 
It’s never easy for an iconic TV star to find another vehicle after a long-running success, and it looked like Ted Danson would be lost down that rabbit hole. Then came 
Celebrate Bette Davis’s 100th birthday with the 3rd volume of Warner Bros.’ 
Continue your celebrations with Fox’s own 
Relive the good ol’ days of fun comic books with 
By the time the eight season of 
By the time we get to the 8th season of 
Always the cream of the crop, the 2-disc 
If that isn’t enough nature to ensure a packed viewing schedule for your personal Earth Day celebration, then be sure to pick up 
Eventually, we’ll have every TV appearance ever made by a Beatle available on DVD. Mark my words. The latest release is 
And speaking of The Beatles, also worth checking out is 
I could care a tinker’s whit for sports, but 
Meloni and Hargitay are on the case in the 6th season of 
You can’t help but thinking – as you watch David Milch’s truncated, cancelled, and boring 
Every once in a awhile, a nicely quirky romantic flick will come down the pike and reassure me that there’s still some life in cinema, and my cynical outlook is only 99.9% correct. The latest movie to keep things from redlining is 
A rather beautiful tale about a pair of young boys, Amir and Hussan, in pre-Soviet Afghanistan whose friendship is torn apart, leading the now-adult Amir to try and set things right, 
I’ve been waiting a long time for a proper remastered special edition of 
In some ways, age has not been kind to Ang Lee’s 
Unexpectedly, an extended cut of 
Spend some quality time with the seedier side of the law with the third volume of Warners’ 
US Secret Service Agents James West and Artemus Gordon face off for the last time with the evil Dr. Loveless in the fourth season of 
I think it’s a sign of how little good sci-fi comes down the cinematic pike nowadays that there is a fondness for the decent – tho far from exceptional – 
For years, it seemed like the 3 available seasons of 
Fox releases a trio of new noir flicks from deep in the vaults – 
Birds are in the air and the green is coming back to the trees, which means it’s time for Baseball-themed films to make their way to DVD. A pair of classic Baseball flicks – one old school and one modern – have gotten new special editions just in time for spring fever. 
Okay, I’ve watched it twice now, and I still don’t know what the hell Richard Kelly is trying to say with his future-LA-after-the-fall ensemble piece that plays like Stanley Kubrick channeling Robert Altman. I dug Donnie Darko something fierce when I first saw it, but 
Robert Stack returns as G-Man Eliot Ness in the first volume of 
By the time it reached its third season, the 
Have a Yul Brynner-thon with a trio of catalogue releases – one of which actually finds him with hair – with 
Leave it to the wonderful documentary 
I’m endlessly fascinated by the Beatles, which is why a documentary like 
You know, Will Smith’s 
I really don’t get the attraction of 
Though the recent remake starring author Woody Allen and Michael J. Fox has long been available on DVD, the original adaptation of the cold war farce 
Nothing cries out “prestige Oscar picture” like 
Essentially blendered fairy tales, the Jim Henson company’s Unstable Fables should be a winning concept, as it allows for a fun reimagining of classic stories. In execution, though, the first installment – 
Not only had the franchise jumped the shark, but it was doing cartwheels by the time the Flintstones had evolved into the Saturday morning 
The third (and penultimate) season of 
After his last few abysmal flicks, I admit to being a bit leery of taking in Guy Ritchie’s latest, 
Sadly, they should have let the accident take the 
It’s so awkward when a show tries so hard to be like one of your favorite shows, but ends up failing miserably. You just feel bad for the poor mooks. Such is the case with the first season of the ABC Family show 
Things are winding down by the time we get to the eight season of 
Although I’m sure the full season set will be out by the fall featuring the episodes, I can still recommend the 
Forced to choose sides in the great Oscar battle between There Will Be Blood and 
Michael Palin continues his globe-spanning journeys with a trip a little closer to home – and yet worlds away – in 
I so very much wanted to like the remake of the manly tete a tete 
Based on Steve Purcell’s underground comic – and inspiration for a fantastic series of video games – 
It’s not Pixar, but Jerry Seinfeld’s 
If you’re hoping to regain sight and sanity after the recent “reinvention” of the Jay Ward nostalgia-classic 
After the abomination that was Evan Almighty, it would take a film to rejuvenate my view of Steve Carrell’s once-promising film career. Thankfully, he made a nice little flick like 
It’s like a watched pot, but ever so slowly we’re getting more seasons of the Britcom classic One Foot In The Grave with the release of seasons 
Get your Al Pacino catalogue fix with a pair of from the vaults releases – 
Reading through the best-of collection for the legendary comics fanzine 
Dora and Boots have brought together a toe-tapping collection sure to be on constant repeat in the CD and mp3 players of anyone with kids, 
Not content to let Dora venture out alone this weekend, there’s also a brand new Diego release – 
Stargate fans still smarting over the show’s cancellation can wrap up the Ori saga with the direct-to-DVD 
Clearly a reaction to her Oscar win last year, the 
Watching the episodes on the second volume of 
I’d say anime fans probably already have their copies of 
Get your Tom Baker Doctor fix with a pair of new classic Doctor Who releases – 
It’s always a disappointing exercise to watch the recently produced cartoons featured in the fourth volume of 
Completely inoffensive and largely forgettable, the big screen 
Those trippy teens Linc, Pete, and Julie return for the rest of their inaugural season with 
It’s been years since the limited edition release of 
As if further proof of the arbitrary uselessness of the Oscars was needed, let’s look at the case of 
I’m glad that, in recent years, the largely lackluster early-80’s period of Saturday Night Live has been allowed to come in from the cold and at least have its existence, on an official level, be acknowledged. Just a few years ago, I don’t think we would have gotten a documentary examining the totality of that decade like the wonderful 
Its release was delayed a few months due to printing issues, but the newest issue of 
There is a threshold over which a director with a unique vision becomes a director with annoying affectations. With 
Straight from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld comes the tale of the 
Ah, pre-Code Hollywood – an era in the 30’s when cinema wasn’t restrained by content restrictions and was free to put any vice they wanted onscreen, which wouldn’t happen again until filmmakers the 70’s broke down the walls of the industry’s puritan Production Code. The second 
If you want a quick and easy way to add a quartet of must-have comedy classics from a legendary filmmaker to your collection, snap up a copy of the 
It seems like you can’t take a step nowadays without hitting a new sketch comedy group. One of the better newcomers is 
A powerful flick with a still-stellar cast gets a much-deserved revisiting with the special edition of 
Often overlooked in favor of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, 
Richard Kimble is still on the run in the second volume of 
If you were to strip away all of the subversive energy and surreal delights of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and transplant the dull, lifeless corpse into a garishly colorful toy store run by the titular eccentric of 
Time and again, my theory that everything will get a feature-laden DVD re-release is proven. This time, it’s a new 2-disc edition of 
All good things must come to an end, and 2- years after the show’s end, so do the DVD releases of 
Fans of Cartoon Network’s 
If you find yourself craving something exciting and new, then you’re out of luck, because the episodes featured in the Season One: Volume One of that nautical soap bubble 
Young Marla Olmstead was hailed as a child prodigy, with paintings compared to Jackson Pollock which began to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, it all came crashing down when accusations were levied that her amateur artist father was really the one doing the painting. All of this is explored in the fascinating documentary 
Though a rather nice Criterion edition of the flick has been on shelves for quite awhile, the new 
A few years back, I reviewed the incredible limited edition release of Star Wars: Dressing A Galaxy, which featured a supplemental DVD, fabric swatches from the iconic costumes, and much more. Truly, I was impressed. Well, as much as that blew me away, I was gobsmacked by the limited edition of 
The first “important” film I ever saw, 
It’s not often that lightning strikes twice, but it certainly did for Bob Newhart. While the 70’s had him anchoring the legendary Bob Newhart Show, the 80’s found him with another hit on his hands, starring as the owner of a small Vermont Inn staffed by characters only slightly less eccentric than the local townspeople in 
Oh, Robert Zemeckis… When did your ego become so goddamn infuriating? I know you’re desperate to prove… something or another… about your motion capture animation technique, and about how it allows you to, I dunno, achieve things you never could with live action. Well, if 
One of the more iconic filmmakers to ever ply his trade gets a nice set of his flicks courtesy of the 
I feel so bad for Frank Oz. Here he is, one of the finest comedy directors of our age (I’m ignoring Stepford Wives as the work of a pod-Oz), and his latest – 
I still bear a great deal of resentment towards all of these new DC animated projects, since the insipid Sander Schwartz cancelled the wonderful Justice League Unlimited – slapping Bruce Timm across the face in the process – and brought these projects forward. The latest is 
Every bit as comprehensive as you’d hope it would be, the 14-disc 
Yes, I’ll admit to being one of those children of the late 70’s who spend the early 80’s watching 
As the aging criminal Des – who does no intend to go quietly into that good night – Sir David Jason is a still-spry, still funny guy in 
I remember seeing 
I’m usually not a fan of pop star forays into classical music, but I did find myself enjoying Paul McCartney’s 
It’s been a long while, but 
Long an importer of our trashy prime time soaps, the Brits have been growing their own in recent years, and 
On the shortlist of my absolute favorite Britcoms – alongside such luminaries as Fawlty Towers and Blackadder – I must include Father Ted. In fact, I love it so much that I re-watched the entire run of the caustically hilarious misadventures of the trio of daft priests living on a backwater island in Ireland, contained in their entirety in 
We’re finally into Oscar DVD season, when the previous year’s more high profile “important” films arrive in stores, and I’d certainly include 
Best known as bumbling Baldrick in Black Adder – and also as the presenter of the BBC’s Time Team and Worst Jobs In History – Tony Robinson did a one man show last year detailing his life and career, 
Why has it taken so damn long to finally get a DVD release featuring classic material from the 20-year history of the US Comic Relief? It’s ridiculous, really, but at least we have the 2-disc 
Just when I was about to write off Nicole Kidman after a string of abysmal flicks (Hello, Invasion!), she goes and turns in a stellar performance in 
I always love tales of subcultures that are enormously full of their own self-importance. It’s even more delightful when that subculture involves Donkey Kong, and the quest for high scores. 
Writer/Director Paul Haggis’s 
The year is flying by, and I’ve decide to mark its quick passage with Warner’s remastered re-releases of the animated Peanuts catalogue. With the Valentine’s releases already passed, we’re now up to 
That 
After 20 seasons of bad boys, what’cha gonna do? Put out a 2-disc 
One of the many US policy based dramas to hit screens last year, 
Always ready to learn more about the Fab Four, I was interested in giving a spin to 
Theater nerds will surely snap up their own copy of the 
Very quickly after the release of the 10th Mystery Science Theater 3000 collection, the box set was pulled due to a rights tangle over the inclusion of the film Godzilla vs. Megalon. It’s been over a year since the set was pulled from circulation, but a corrected edition is now available – one which swaps out Godzilla for the previously unavailable Giant Gila Monster in the appropriately retitled 
Just in time for Oscar season, Warners has delivered the awkwardly titled 
As much as the writing and direction, what made the Chuck Jones cartoons at Warner Bros. so memorable – including classics like What’s Opera, Doc?, Rabbit Seasoning, Duck Dodgers, Duck Amuck, and dozens more – are the incredible backgrounds created by designer Maurice Noble. Finally getting the appreciative tome he so richly deserves, 
If leaving behind his acting career means we’ll get more flicks in the vein of his fine freshman effort 
If you’re still jonesing for more Harvey Birdman, your only – and best – option is to get yourself a Wii and a copy of 
One of the nice things about the dumping of massive amounts of shows on DVD is that I’m able to re-watch – sometimes 20 years later – shows that I dug during their original network runs, but haven’t seen since. I’ve been looking forward to the release of each additional season of 
With only one viewing under my belt, I think I feel the same way about writer/director John Tuturro’s 
Criminy, has it already been a quarter of a century since Michael Jackson’s 
I admit it – I was a fan of 
Round out the first season of 
If you take the whole rat angle out of Ratatouille and focus on the love between two chefs (Catherine Zeta-Jones & Aaron Eckhart) and throw in a kid (Abigail Breslin), you’ve basically got 
One of the more well-made shows of the 80’s is finally arriving on DVD, starring Edward Woodward as private detective Robert McCall – aka The 
The eighth season of 
As much as they’d like it to be, HBO’s 
The second volume of the 
If for nothing else, 
Imagine a schlockier Roger Corman, and you have a pretty good bead on the producorial career of Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller). After decades of producing fare such as Twelve Angry Men And A Baby and The Heart Is A Strong Muscle, Morty’s in the financial tank, and it’s up to his daughter to try and help him raise the money to make his latest flick – Ms. Kevorkian. 
Want a great soundtrack to pick up? Get yourself a copy of 
All these years later,