Movies You Might Not Know Are Coming: September DVDs
Another month; another four weeks of New DVDs coming out. So what if Letters from Juliet, Glee Season 1, Robin Hood or Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming are coming out this month (well… I care about Stomp the Yard actually)? There’s still plenty of great vintage titles, independent films and TV shows getting the blu-ray/DVD treatment between all of the studio releases.
September 7th
Get that blu-ray player fired up for some sci-fi classics this week. George Lucas’ debut film THX-1138, the under-appreciated Tim Burton comedy Mars Attacks and Forbidden Planet (one of the greatest science fiction films ever made) are all hitting blu-ray this week. Also being released on blu-ray this week is Hatchet, easily one of the top five best horror movies in the last decade. As for me and the few other non-blu-ray owners we have the Critters box set just waiting to have a home on our DVD shelf. ABC’s The Norm Show starring SNL’s most under-used former cast member is also getting a DVD release, but the TV show I care about is The Wonder Years of my generation, Boy Meets World (season 1 through 3).
September 14th
If you are a fan of Broken Lizard (I personally think they’re 1:4) then you’ll want to fire up your DVD player for Brozen Lizard: Stand Up with the group doing a live comedy show. Also on DVD comes the double feature DVD, The Howling/The Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf (or just get The Howling Special Edition from a few years ago) and the Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy Pirates of Penzance (which features one of the greatest songs ever written for the stage “I am the very model of modern major general”) starring Kevin Kline. Blu-Ray will be brining you the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Intense psychological thrillers Se7en & Jacob’s Ladder, independent French classic Delicatessen and my personal favorite zombie movie ever Return of the Living Dead. But I’m most excited for the DVD & Blu-Ray release of Twilight Zone Season 1. While the Rod Sterling show is dated at times, other episodes (like “Time Enough At Last”) are still classic and sometimes chilling.
September 21st
This is not really an exciting week for DVD releases. Pearl Jam is giving us a live DVD called Pearl Jam: Under Review and at long last He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown will be getting it’s long-awaited DVD release. But with the first seasons of both Bored to Death & Community as well as season 5 of How I Met Your Mother getting released this week that’ll probably be where most of my paycheck (and yours too) should be going!
September 28th
The answers we’ve been longing to find out are finally here! No, it has nothing to do with LOST, it has everything to do with the DVD release of Bigfoot is Real: From Sasquatch to the Abominable there’s no way this won’t be a must have! Two Discs and Over Four Hours of Real Bigfoot sighting testimonies it’s almost too much to handle. September 7th showed the blu-ray release of Hatchet, also on blu-ray (and DVD) from writer/director Adam Greene comes Frozen which just further proves that Greene can literally tackle any sub-genre of horror with perfect vision and fun blended together. However the must-have this week is the blu-ray of 1933’s King Kong which is without a doubt one of the most impressive and important films of the golden age of cinema. Any serious DVD collector should be proud to have this movie in their collection, if for no other reason than Willis O’Brien’s incredible stop-motion sequences.
