I’ll be out of town this weekend, so the column is
going up early.
First, the genre releases:
and
Robin – The Complete 1949 Movie Serial Collection:
The oldest
available appearance of Batman on the big screen.
It’s on my “must
own” list, but I’m not buying new DVDs until I finish
moving into my
new house and deal with those costs.
Flintstones – Season Three: The third season of
the series is now
on DVD. This one turned the series into the one most
people
remember.
Man Called
Flintstone: A theatrical release that came out in
1966.
Pretender
- Season One: Now, this is a stable
childhood.
Wars –
Clone Wars, Vol. 1: A highly requested title for
review,
collecting the animated shorts that fit between
episodes 2 and 3 on
the big screen. It’s on the same “must buy” list as
the Batman
and Robin Serial Collection.
Now, the non-genre releases:
Jones
- The Edge of Reason: The original was worth a
rental on a date.
I don’t know about the sequel.
Howser,
M.D. – Season One: Before Neil Patrick Harris was
the voice of
Spider-Man, he was a very yound doctor.
Neverland: The story behind Peter Pan.
Hardy
Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries – Season One: Starring
the co-creator of
American Gothic.
- Season
One: Following up on the Columbo
releases, no doubt.
and Guildenstern are Dead: Tim Roth, Gary Oldman,
and Richard
Dreyfuss star in an alternative version of
Hamlet.
Fox is also releasing a series of “starter sets” this
week, with a
handful of the first few episodes of several shows.
The sets are
cheap enough to sample a show that you are not yet
collecting, and
include a coupon to get a discount worth the price of
this set on any
complete season set of the same show. This week, sets
are available
for
the Vampire
Slayer,
Tyler Moore, and
Pretender.
Finally, the pick of the week.
By Me – Deluxe
Edition is a new release of the second best
Stephen King
adaptation thus far. It’s notable also for starring
two actors who
would later become visible in the genre, with Wil
Wheaton playing
Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next
Generation, and Jerry
O’Connell playing leading roles in My Secret
Identity,
Sliders, and Joe’s Apartment. It’s
a coming of age
story that works very well, and hardly feels like a
Stephen King work
at all.
Clone Wars
Is this DVD the entire micro series? If so, I may buy it.
Re: Clone Wars
It looks like it’s all the five minute episodes so far, though I hear some more episodes are in the works. Maybe post Ep. III or something?
Re: Clone Wars
I think there are ten more for twenty total. I just saw a Star Wars magazine today that listed an air date of March 21 – 25 for the next ten episodes.
Re: Clone Wars
There are five new episodes. They are each 12 minutes long (as opposed to the first volume which had 3-minute episodes). They will be airing March 21-25. Details can be found at this link.
Re: Clone Wars
I want to know if we can be spared the “logos and credits” dance every five minutes that they had on TV. There was about as much presentation around the cartoon as there was cartoon content! That greatly reduced the enjoyability of the whole thing for me. So if the same cartoons on DVDs are better packaged, it would be interresting. Jedi action, can never get enough of that, can we?
Re: Clone Wars
Ah, the 1949 Batman serial. A friend of mine has this on VHS.
Y’know how most old serials weren’t all that good? Y’know how most critics say this one is godawful, even for the genre?
The critics are being kind.
Re: Clone Wars
Izzat the one where he’s fighting an evil japanese scientist and his evil japanese nuclear cannon?
I always thought that was a WWII era serial… what with the racial paranoia and all…