Movies You Might Not Know Are Coming: November DVDs
Well the Halloween season is over and now stores will be prepping up for the holidays (the one’s that haven’t been prepped since August). Black Friday is around the corner and studios are releasing lots of awesome blu-rays for us to get for friends and family (or if you’re me… for yourself).
On November 2nd The Larry Sanders Show and the Bing Crosby Collection will be coming out on DVD. Coming to Blu-ray the award winning Bridge on the River Kwai, infamous musical The Wiz and geek-favorite Highlander. Meanwhile coming to both blu-ray and DVD Musicals Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Sound of Music. But my pick of the week is The Goonies 25th Anniversary including a commentary with the entire cast, a making of documentary, the music video for “the Goonies ‘R Good Enough” (all which appeared on the original DVD) as well as a board game, storyboard reproductions and a 1985 souvenir magazine reprint.
November 9th on blu-ray Highlander 2 comes out (which will go nicely if you purchased last weeks Highlander) and far more importantly the 90’s horror classic film Tremors. But DVD is clearly the winner of the week which the releases of such titles as Doctor Who Season 5 & the Amateur Porn Star Killer Trilogy (huh?). The most bizarre release is Nikkatsu Roman Porno Trailer Collection which is exactly what it sounds like, a collection of porn trailers from Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno Erotic years between 1971 – 1988 (what!?!). Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume XIX comes out in which our favorite robots (and Joel) watching classics like The Robot Monster, Bride of the Monster, Devil Doll and Devil Fish. It comes with an Exclusive Limited Edition Gypsy Figurine, Footage from the MST3K Convergence Panel and Lost Skeleton Director Larry Blamire’s reflections on Robot Monster, but yet it is not my pick of the week. My Pick is Full Moon Pictures “Puppet Master Collection” which contains all 9 puppet master films in a box set for the cheap price of $36.99!
November 16th is without a doubt, my most expensive DVD purchasing week. Blu-ray is giving us Twilight Zone Season 2 (featuring many classic episodes The Invaders, Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up and my personal favorite episode The Eye of the Beholder), Marlon Brando epic Mutiny on the Bounty and the Peanuts Holiday Collection. Coming to both Blu-ray and DVD we have some of the greatest movies in American history ranging from Metropolis and Night of the Hunter as well as releases from the masters of Silent Film Charlie Chaplin (with Modern Times) and Buster Keaton (Sherlock Jr.) but the pick of the week is the long awaited release of Best Worst Movie, the long awaited Troll 2 documentary.
The rest of the month isn’t super exciting on November 23rd Beauty and the Beast will finally get a DVD release and the greatly underappreciated animated series Batman Beyond (the complete series) will get a release. November 30th on blu-ray and DVD gives us Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 but the pick of the week is the documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty.
