What’s new to the Blu-ray and DVD Release Schedule This Week?

Date Night (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best comedies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #4677 Times Ranked: 3420 Win Percentage: 53% How Many Top-20′s: 6 Users

Tina Fey and Steve Carell in a completely by-the-numbers, yet thoroughly enjoyable comedy.

Death at a Funeral (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best black comedies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #7540 Times Ranked: 585 Win Percentage: 40% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users

This flick has one of the best casts you can assemble today with Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan, Martin Lawrence, Danny Glover, Zoe Saldana, Keith David, Luke Wilson and James Marsden

The Joneses (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best comedic dramas of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #11607 Times Ranked: 42 Win Percentage: 42% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users

David Duchovny and Demi Moore, in a movie with a fantastic concept (they play the heads of a fake family put in an upscale neighborhood by advertisers to steathily market their goods) but the execution doesn’t seem to be there.

DVD/Blu-ray Re-releases and Classics:

National Lampoon’s Vacation (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best comedies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #562 Times Ranked: 32357 Win Percentage: 44% How Many Top-20′s: 73 Users (With 1 user considering it to be the best movie of all time)

Classic comedy from the 80′s starring Chevy Chase at the height of his unique powers.

National Lampoon’s European Vacation (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best comedies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #1198 Times Ranked: 311282 Win Percentage: 27% How Many Top-20′s: 8 Users

Another (not quite so) classic comedy from the 80′s starring Chevy Chase.

Crumb (DVD & Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best documentaries of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #3841 Times Ranked: 32631 Win Percentage: 64% How Many Top-20′s: 5 Users

Criterion Collection release of the very well made documentary from director Terry Zwigoff on the life of underground artist Robert Crumb.

Louie Bluie (DVD & Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best documentaries of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #3841 Times Ranked: 32631 Win Percentage: 64% How Many Top-20′s: 5 Users

Criterion Collection release of another well made doc from Terry Zwigoff, this one about an eccentric member of the last known black string band in America.

In the Shadow of the Moon (DVD & Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best documentaries of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #5447 Times Ranked: 673 Win Percentage: 51% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users

What’s Up, Doc? (DVD & Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best screwball comedies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #5277 Times Ranked: 818 Win Percentage: 66% How Many Top-20′s: 1 Users

Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal in the classic ode to the screwball classics of the 30′s and 40′s.

New to Netflix Instant Streaming:

Studio-enforced 28 day rental moratorium opens for:

Greenberg – Starring Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig

New to Netflix Instant Streaming this week:

Monday August 9th:

• Old Dogs (2009) – John Travolta, Robin WIlliams

Friday  August 13th:

• For Queen and Country (1989) – Denzel Washington
• Pocket Money (1972) – Paul Newman, Lee Marvin
• Chariots of Fire (1981) – Ian Holm
• Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994) – Christopher Lee
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) – Kenneth Branagh
• Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) – Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis

Sunday August 15th:

• Objectified (2009) – Doc on product design

DTV and Limited Release Movies on DVD/Blu-ray

• Triage – Colin Farrell, Christopher Lee
• The Good Heart – Paul Dano, Brian Cox
• Helen – Ashley Judd
• La Mission – Benjamin Bratt
• My Name is Kahn – Story of an autistic Muslim trying to clear his name after being wrongfully detained in an airport.
• Letters to God – religious drama with a largely unknown cast
• Under the Mountain – Sam Neill
• The Killing Room – Nick Cannon, Timothy Hutton
• Multiple Sarcasms – Mira Sorvino, Timothy Hutton, Mario Van Peebles