08.23.10 | Chris Cummins | New Releases This WeekPrint this Post
This week's new DVD and Blu-ray releases are dominated by TV shows. Regardless of what types of programs you like, there's probably something here that you will enjoy. So what are you waiting for? Let's see if any of your Boob tube favorites are dropping this week!
Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season
Well, it's all over. We're you pleased with the way with the way everything turned out? Upset about the magical cave of magical light? Sad about how Ben found redemption? Regardless of your feelings, Lost is over and now you can relive every moment from the final season with this box set that is highlighted by several special features--including the 12-minute epilogue "New Man in Charge" that answers some of the series' lingering mysteries. Is that enough Lost for you? If not perhaps this will cure your fix for the show...
All 117 episodes of the series are featured in this 38-disc set that also includes a disc's worth of all-new bonus features. The above video gives you some insights into what the packaging and special features are like.
So Lost is the biggest show hitting this week, but there's a variety of other series--both recent and classic--that are now available as well, including:
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: The Seventh Season
Mark Harmon will never top his performance in Summer School, will he?
Gossip Girl: The Complete Third Season
It will totally make you LOL and OMG!
The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season
The series continues its slide into irrevelancy with this set that is also available in special "Ralph Wiggum Head" packaging you can get here.
Whither Dylan McKay?
The Patty Duke Show: The Complete Third Season
Patty Duke shined in a dual role in this 1963-66 sitcom, starring as identical cousins Patty and Cathy Lane. Patty is a normal teenage girl from Brooklyn Heights while the sophisticated Cathy has traveled the world with her globe-hopping reporter father. When Cathy comes to live with Patty and her family, the girls find that, while they may look alike, their personalities are as different as night and day. What a crazy pair! With William Schallert, Jean Byron. All 32 episodes from season three--including "A Foggy Day in Brooklyn Heights," "I'll Be Suing You," "The History Paper Caper," "Patty the Diplomat," and "Do a Brother a Favor"--are featured in a six-disc set
Believe it or not, there are actually some films hitting DVD and Blu-ray this week as well:
3 Silent Classics By Josef Von Sternberg
Three key silent films by Austrian-American director Josef von Sternberg are featured in this special three-disc set that boasts an array of new musical scores by Robert Israel and the Alloy Orchestra. Widely regarded as pioneering the gangster film genre, von Sternberg's trip through the "Underworld" (1927) relates the hard-boiled saga of a mobster, his girl, and a has-been attorney. George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent star; scripter Ben Hecht won the Academy Award. Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor Oscar for "The Last Command" (1928), portraying a Russian general forced to flee his motherland, ironically hired on as an extra in a Hollywood film version of the Revolution of 1917. With Brent, William Powell. Finally, Bancroft saves a dance-hall girl (Betty Compson) from suicide, beginning a deep romance played out in and around "The Docks of New York" (1928). With Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook.
George Romero's latest. More zombies, more problems.
For details and availability for more of this week's new releases, click here.
Here's a look at last week's New DVD Releases.
Is the Ellery Queen mysteries DVD closed captioned?
As it turns out, The Ellery Queen Mysteries will be released on 9/28. No word yet on if the DVDs will be closed captioned or not, but keep checking back as I will feature that release prominently in my DVD post for the week of 9/28!
Do you know if "Incendiary Blonde" with Betty Hutton
will ever be released. It was one of my very favorites..........& other Betty Huttons are released. No one seems to be able to tell me.
thanks,
Nancy
Maverick the T.V. western series, will it ever be available on DVD
Have always been a fan of Tom Selleck. I keep looking for an old favorite, "High Road To China" on DVD or BluRay to no avail. Is there some reason it has never been re-released on DVD? It was on VHS and Beta.
Nancy, Ken and Mike-
There's no word yet on the titles you requested. Because of complicated legal issues involving music rights, ownership, etc., some titles take considerably longer than others to reach DVD. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing exactly if and when these issues will be resolved. Your best bet for now is to keep checking this site and http://www.moviesunlimited.com. Thanks for reading!
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Any chance of Uncle Remus "Song of the South" being released as a DVD? or any other way?
There was a movie that has the Song of the South in it. Uncle Remus had a blue bird sitting on his shoulder. If you know of where I can buy the movie, I would like to buy some copys.
"Song of the South" is one of the most widely requested movies that has never made it to DVD and Blu-ray. Rumors abound that it is being kept in the Disney vaults due to the racial controversies surrounding the film. So it doesn't seem like it will be made available anytime soon.