This Week’s Tastiest Morsel
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Season 4
The show continues to get stronger and was unbelievable in the 4th season. The DVD comes with footage from a live version of “The Nightman Cometh” and a blooper reel. This show is worth sleeping outside to get early on Tuesday.
Fresh Catches
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy)
The Blu-ray has a lot of exclusive features which is frustrating, but you can get most of them and a digital copy with the two disc special edition. The single disc is nearly devoid of features as usual.
Easy Virtue
A light week for new releases provides more exposure for this British romantic comedy made more popular by the inclusion of Jessica Biel in fancy dresses. This is based on the Noel Coward play of the same name and has received mostly good word of mouth.
Next Day Air
Next Day Air is a new weed comedy starring Donald Faison from Scrubs with some nice support help from Mos Def and Mike Epps. The movie was annihilated at the box office, but I bet the movie was made to be enjoyed in the privacy of your own home, perhaps with herbal supplements.
The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Second Season
The second season drops with a gag reel and a fun feature on the real life Physicist/College Professor who consults for the show.
My Name Is Earl: Season Four
This is the final season of Earl and sadly it is light on features. Besides some deleted scenes and a gag reel you only get a Fan Mail feature and a trailer for “2 the Max”.
Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Fifth Season
This episode eclipses the 100 episode mark so expect to see this medical drama in reruns for years so you can forever enjoy Katherine Heigl making out with a ghost during this “serious” drama. They celebrate the milestone with the lone featurette besides a gag reel.
Sanctuary: The Complete First Season
The show has big shoes to fill on the Sci-Fi (SyFy) network now that Battlestar Galactica is gone, but the show has a growing fan base and is pushing the special effects limits on TV as it is filmed almost entirely against Green Screens. Check out the 13 episode first season to see if it fills the Battlestar sized hole in your soul.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Clone Commandos (TV Series Season 1, Vol. 2)
Who ever said Lucas’ mining of the Star Wars series was financially motivated just got a big proof here as they release the show in 4 episode blocks to squeeze all the money possible out of you.
CSI Miami: The Complete Seventh Season
Is there any better proof of the stupidity of the American people that this is still on the air after seven seasons? It comes with a feature that compiles all the shots of David Caruso taking off his sunglasses and saying something embarrassingly obvious. OK, I made that up. Actually, I didn’t check the features, it actually might be.
Marvel X-Men Volume Three and Volume Four
The excellent animated X-Men show gets two more collections on DVD at a reasonable price. Each comes with about fifteen episodes, Volume Three includes both the “Savage Lands Saga” and the “Dark Phoenix Saga”, and Volume Four includes the “Proteus” and “Beyond Good and Evil” sagas.
Private Practice: The Complete Second Season
I wonder if it is smart to release this Grey’s Anatomy Spin-Off the same day as a season of the origin show. Perhaps they think their audience can afford to buy two seasons at once. Although it does have more features than its counterpart if you need to choose between them.
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008 Christmas Special)
The 2008 Christmas special has two Doctors activating their twin powers to solve a mystery.
Transformers: Season Two, Volume 1 (25th Anniversary Edition)
This contains the first twenty-eight episodes of season two, which includes the Dinobots episodes on Dinobot Island and “The God Gambit” episode. Reissuing Transformers, G.I.Joe, and the X-Men is really screwing up my budget.
Stella: Live In Boston
These guys (David Wain, Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black) are rather prolific so I recommend checking this out if you enjoyed the Stella show, Michael and Michael Have Issues, The State, or Wet Hot American Summer. The live show is uncensored and they threw a few bonus shorts and gags on the DVD for added value.
Double Dipped DVDs
Fame
I bet the upcoming remake won’t be half as raw and powerful as this movie, which you can enjoy with a bunch of features that I couldn’t find on the internet, but they filled two discs somehow.
Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood (Deluxe Edition) and Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (Deluxe Edition)
They next two special edition releases in this series are released, however you should be done paying attention now that they are up to Jason Takes Manhattan, which is where the series became a joke.
American Werewolf in London – Full Moon Edition
Just before I get a chance to write a “Pitch Session” on how we need a nice special edition of this movie they release a stacked two disc edition to shut me up. This comes with a feature length documentary and a bunch of new features including a cast commentary, a make-up featurette, and an interview with John Landis. Put this on your wishlist.
Army of Darkness – Screwhead Edition
This is a crappier re-issue for a film that has been re-released more than any other movie by far, however this is the first one available on Blu-ray so beggars can’t be choosers.
Varsity Blues
Just in time for football season, which was clearly on their minds because most of the special features are about the football sequences and theory. They even have a Picture in Picture commentary to explain the X’s and O’s of the game John Madden style. You also get Ali Larter’s audition tape which I hope (for her sake) isn’t the whipped cream bikini scene.