DVDs You Didn’t Know Were Coming: February Edition

Well it’s a February, the month which contains every geek’s least favorite holiday Valentine’s Day. So you can either pretend that you’re going to have a date and then cry yourself to sleep on the 14^th or instead celebrate the fact that being single means that you probably have some extra money to waste on DVDs, so let’s decide what we’re going to buy this month!

February 1^st

We kick off the month with the direct to DVD sequels Mean Girls 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 on blu-ray and DVD. Available on Blu-Ray this week Alice in Wonderland, All About Eve, An Affair to Remember, Boys Don’t Cry and one of my personal favorites Pleasantville. However my pick of the week is the sequel to one of the best horror movies of the last decade Hatchet 2 available on DVD and Blu-Ray

February 8^th

This week we are getting the long awaited blu-ray release of John Hughes classic Uncle Buck as well as Thelma & Louise and Amarcode. Horror fans will be interested in the fact that the remake of I Spit on Your Grave as well as the Wes Craven film My Soul to Take (which none of us probably saw) are being released on DVD and Blu-Ray and may possibly be worth a “curiousity purchase” if cheap enough. For me though, the pick of the week is the ORIGINAL I Spit on Your Grave coming to both Blu-Ray and DVD. It’s brutal, gritty and unapologetic (and admittedly not very good) but I fucking love it.

February 15^th

This is a big week on random blu-ray releases, luckily random also means amazing as each film is among some of the greatest in American cinema. Look for such titles hitting blu-ray as All the President’s Men, Network, Chaplin, Last Tango in Paris as well as Twilight Zone Season 3. However my pick of the week is the MOTORHEAD front men documentary Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch (which has easily the greatest documentary title ever).

February 22^nd

Closing out the month we have a lot of TV releases (Nurse Jackie, Weeds & Tyler Perry’s Houe of Payne), as well as the classic animated film The Last Unicorn on Blu-Ray and DVD, A Clerks-ish film about working in a sub-shop called Ten Inch Hero and a Documentary on comic books called Comic Book Independents. While I’d probably purchase any of those films, my pick of the week is the blu-ray release of one of my all time favorite movies Memento.