Weekly Digital Disk Picks for April 10th, 2012

It’s another light week, but we do get a few specific worthwhile releases, particularly if you are a fan of TV shows becoming movies or vice versa.

Title Available Formats
Action
Anime
Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo: The Complete Series, Part 1
Infinite Stratos Complete Collection
Oh Edo Rocket: Complete Series
Naruto Shippuden Set 10
Sekirei: Complete Series
Squid Girl Season 1 Complete Collection
Art House
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Biopic
Into the Abyss
The Iron Lady
Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Classics (Cult)
Classics (Traditional)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Comedy
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
Donald Glover: Weirdo
Laverne and Shirley: The Fifth Season
Modern Problems
Crime
Adam-12: Season Seven
Documentary
Miss Representation
Drama
Brokedown Palace
Don Juan Demarco
One Tree Hill: The Complete Ninth Season
Family
Ghost Stories: The Complete Series
Fantasy
Night Gallery: Season Three
Horror
Dark Shadows
Blaine: Gee, with this many releases, you’d think they’d turned it into a movie or something… The releases originally started with the introduction of Barnabus, and then they went back and released the earlier episodes as “The Beginning” collections.
Music / Musical
Mystery
Reality
Romance
Bounce
Emma
Kate & Leopold: The Director’s Cut
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Science Fiction
The Darkest Hour
Doctor Who: The Daemons
Story 59, the Jon Pertwee years
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Story 66, Jon Pertwee
Logan’s Run: Complete Series
Starman: The Complete Series
A Trip to the Moon (Restored, Limited Edition)
Seasonal
Sports
WWE Presents Do You Think You Know Me? The Story of Edge
WWE Hell in a Cell Boxed Set
Contains the 3-disk set on DVD along with a bust of The Undertaker
Superhero
Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous
Blaine: This motion comic is based on the second story arc from Joss Whedon’s run. I personally find these “after the fact” motion comics difficult to watch. I really enjoyed the “Avengers vs. X-Men #1 Infinite” digital comic with Nova this week: that’s the direction I hope digital comics take.
Justice League: Doom
Suspense
The Spiral Staircase
War
Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except
An early collaboration between Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell and others
Western
The Gene Autry Show: Seasons Three and Four

Finally, the picks of the week. Blaine says, “I have fond memories of Starman, but haven’t seen it since my youth, so I don’t know how well it has aged.” Alex says, “Aside from the Edge box set, there really isn’t anything that catches my attention this week.”

2 replies on “Weekly Digital Disk Picks for April 10th, 2012”

  1. Some interesting glimpses of television past, but not necessarily stuff that will find as big an audience today. The original Dark Shadows had a tone and pace that might not appeal to today’s fans of supernatural drama, but it was revolutionary in its own time. Adam 12 is a piece of a time and place, and the Doctor Who eps, of course, have a different feel from the current incarnation of the show.

    How does anyone here feel about One Tree Hilll? I never saw it, but it had a huge following.

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