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To quote one of my heroes, Wheeeeeeee! Futurama returns in Bender’s Big Score, the first of a series of four DTV movies (which in turn will each be broken up into four episodes and eventually play on the Cartoon Network). Life is good.
This week’s sparse TV items include Happy Days S3; Judy Garland Christmas Show; Laverne & Shirley S3; Mork & Mindy S3; The OC: The Complete Series. Better sets from last week include the third seasons of both Wild Wild West and Mission ImpossibeBluebeard For those who missed the earlier release, here’s a new bargain edition of Richard Burton’s astounding campfest, as reviewed here. Required viewing, really.
Day X Finally! An apocalyptic zombie movie!
KEN’S PICK!! Drunken Angel Six words: Criterion Collection, Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune. ‘Nuff said!!
Hot Fuzz 3-Disc Collector’s Edition Bought the previous 2-disc edition? You’re screwed! If not, all’s good.
I Know Who Killed Me And Chris Magyar wakes up in a sweaty panic, wondering how he got into this fix.
Martial Arts Essentials: The Films Of Yuen Wo Ping Six of the renowned martial arts director’s Chinese films, including Dance Of The Drunk Mantis, Invincible Armour, Taoism Drunkard, Awaken Punch, Kung Fu Massacre and Born Invincible. Even a Kung Fu Master can’t beat that price!
Midnight Movie Collection II Four old-school grindhouse ‘classics’, mostly by Ray Dennis Steckler. Body Fever, Las Vegas Serial Killer, Hollywood Strangler and the slasher flick Blood Shack. Don’t miss the earlier Collection, featuring four other ‘Cash Flagg’ (aka Steckler) works, the more essential Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters, Adventures of Rat Pfink and Boo Boo, and the actually sort of harrowing The Thrill Killers.
Winter Kills Classic example of ’70s political paranoia thrillers, starring a huge, all-star cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, Elizabeth Taylor, Eli Wallach, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Boone, Sterling Hayden and John Huston.
And a couple I missed last week while on vacation:
KEN’s PICK!! The fine folks at Kino have put out a new, remastered 2-disc edition of Nosferatu that people are raving over. Any cinema buff worth his salt will want this on his shelf. Certainly of the seminal horror films.
KEN’S PICK!! The folks at Classic Media have been doing awesome work on their Godzilla releases, giving fans just about everything they could hope for, including both American and Japanese cuts of the various films. This inclusive Godzilla Collection set collects five previous releases, including the two-disc set that includes the Japanese and more familiar American re-edit of the first Gojira/Godzilla movie, and two new movies, which I sincerely hope will get separate releases soon, All Monster Attack (aka Godzilla’s Revenge) and Terror of Mechagodzilla. Also includes Godzilla Raids Again, the original Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, and Monster Zero. If by some chance you haven’t picked up any of these before, THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL BUY. Definitely something to put on your Christmas wish lists.
The Lady Vanishes Spiffy new Criterion edition of the early Hitchcock suspense flick.
The original Joe Don Baker classic Walking Tall finally gets its due with a revamped, widescreen release.
Morella’s Blood Flood includes three schlockers, including the pretty decent Big Bill Smith flick Grave of the Vampire, and the rather less essential House of Evil (one of those Mexican flicks Karloff did right before he died) and Andy Milligan’s Guru the Mad Monk, which came out earlier in a presumably superior stand-alone edition. Still, three movies, one at least good, for one cheap price.
Killing Kind Classic example of ’70s drive-in sleaze with John Saxon and Cindy Williams (!!). Directed by the recently deceased Curtis Harrington.
Velvet Vampire, another ’70s classic, and an early example of vampire sexploitation.
