New Releases, 31 October 2006

This week’s listings are brought you by me! That’s right, I’m selling DVDs on eBay this week. There’s a decent selection of discs that nobody has been on yet for less than $5. That includes SAMURAI JACK, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, RUNDOWN, APOLLO 13, and more.

Now onto the DVD releases for this week:

Full release list.

My highlights:

  • Barry Manilow: First and Farewell
  • Bob Dylan: The 1966 World Tour: The Home Movies
  • Paul Mccartney: Space Within Us

Music for all sorts of Baby Boomers.

  • Ellen: The Complete Series Megaset (14-disc set)
  • Six Feet Under: The Complete Series (25-disc set)

Christmas is coming. And what better way to prank the person in your family who repeatedly gives you stale fruit cakes than by giving him or her 14 discs’ worth of ELLEN?

  • Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)

Hey, it’s Halloween. Who am I to judge?

  • George Burns: The TV Specials Collection (4-disc set)

I imagine there’s a lot of cool stuff in there.

  • It’s a Wonderful Life: 60th Anniversary Edition (1946)

This would be my Unnecessary Special Edition of the Week, but I don’t think it’s completely unnecessary. I don’t remember six other previous releases of this timeless classic that I’ve never sat all the way through. So I’ll let it pass.

  • The Kids in the Hall: Season Five

If I don’t mention it here, I’ll be castigated in the comments, I know.

  • The Making of Miss Saigon

I don’t know why this is suddenly being released, but I figure you Broadway fans might be interested.

Mission - Impossible III (Two-Disc Special Collector\'s Edition)

  • Mission: Impossible III: Collector’s Edition (2-disc set) (2006) (Oct. 30)

It’s TOM CRUISE! He’s SO DREAMY! I do admit that I’d like to see this movie, having missed it in the theaters completely.

  • Speed Racer: Vol. 5

This is a text book case of how to stretch out a not-terribly-long run of a TV series into as many boxed sets as possible.

Coming up next week: WORDPLAY: The movie all about crossword puzzles is coming to DVD! So is Pixar’s CARS, the next edition of JAMES BOND movie collections, and the 20th anniversary edition of TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. Christmas is coming, and the DVD industry is starting to pack the shelves.


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8 Responses to “New Releases, 31 October 2006”

  1. tyler
    31. October 2006 at 12:37

    btw – I just noticed whatever you did to your RSS feed isn’t working for NetNewsWire Lite anymore. I thought for awhile maybe you disappeared. I miss your random and fun links!

  2. Augie De Blieck Jr.
    31. October 2006 at 15:16

    Tyler — Crap! If this one isn’t working for you anymore:

    http://www.variousandsundry.com/?feed=rss2

    Try:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/VariousAndSundry

    Let me know if that fixes it for you. I’m having a tough time testing them out myself right now, because Firefox 2.0 redirects both to the Google Feed reader that I have all RSS feeds defaulted to.

    I’d hate to lose anyone over this. I redirected the first feed over to the second one a couple or three weeks ago. Don’t worry — I have no plans to disappear anytime soon.

  3. Paul
    31. October 2006 at 18:31

    That Samurai Jack dvd is worth the money. Sure the pilot is presented as its separate parts in the season 1 set, but here we have a commentary, a documentary, and surround sound for the pilot instead of just stereo.
    Nothing for me this week, … except for maybe M:I3. You see M:I3 is the first of the Mission Impossible movies to actually adapt what the show was about. Here, for the first time, we see in the TEAM in action several times, all of them last till the end of the movie. And while the plot does focus on Cruise’s character, this time he’s not a James Bond wanna be (like he was in M:I2). This is, in my opinion, the best Mission Impossible movie so far (and the first one they have gotten right).
    For next week, TRANSFORMERS BABY! I’m also excited about the news of Sony Music rereleasing the show to dvd. The Rhino season 1 set had many many issues that I would like to see rectified. For the other seasons I might just hold off. Here’s hoping that SM will also rerelease G.I. Joe to dvd (since Rhino didn’t get the chance to finish the series on the last bunch of releases).

  4. BronteJD
    31. October 2006 at 21:43

    The Making of Miss Saigon?? The only reason I can think of is that Boubil and Schonberg have a new musical coming out, “THe Pirate Queen.” Yes, I already have tickets. ;)

    But you’d think they’d focus more on Les Mis or something. Hm.

  5. tyler
    1. November 2006 at 13:15

    feedburner link works fine – thanks!

  6. Augie De Blieck Jr.
    1. November 2006 at 15:39

    Tyler – Glad to hear it. Maybe I’ll make a note of it on the front page then, just in case others are having similar problems.

    Bronte – I thought that would pique your curiosity. Is “The Pirate Queen” the one you’re going to see this month?

    Paul – I’ve still never watched M:I3 just on general principle — shoddy handling of the original team, and the dismissal of the whole team concept. On the other hand, it’s a DePalma film. I need to see it. I’m so torn. I liked the second movie, though, so I would like to see the third.

  7. Juan
    1. November 2006 at 17:36

    Augie, I know you know this, but M:I3 is not a Brian De Palma film. It’s a J.J. Abrams film. De Palma directed the first M:I picture.

  8. Augie De Blieck Jr.
    1. November 2006 at 22:32

    Juan – Yeah, a sentence dropped out of my comment there entirely. I did start talking about the first movie before mentioning De Palma. I don’t have a clue what happened to that line. Weird. Thanks for pointing it out, so I can explain myself. =)