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New Releases – DVD, Blu-ray, and Netflix Instant: August 24, 2010
24 Aug2010
by Dan
What’s new to the Blu-ray and DVD Release Schedule This Week?
The Square (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best crime movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #8949 Times Ranked: 93 Win Percentage: 68% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users |
Extremely well-received Australian mystery movie with a lot of film nior-ish touches.
Survival of the Dead (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best horror movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #6807 Times Ranked: 310 Win Percentage: 48% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users |
The latest Zombie movie from genre legend George A. Romero.
Titanic 2 (DVD)
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How would you rank it amongst the best disaster movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: Just Added Times Ranked: - Win Percentage: -% How Many Top-20′s: - Users |
Yes, it’s real. I was going to group this with all the other DTV movies below but it deserves to be highlighted. Watch the trailer below as “History repeats itself:”
The Back-Up Plan (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best romantic comedies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #11595 Times Ranked: 267 Win Percentage: 27% How Many Top-20′s: 1 Users |
With Jennifer Lopez and Eric Christian Olsen.
Dorian Gray (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best romantic dramas of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #8066 Times Ranked: 259 Win Percentage: 36% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users |
Prince Caspian from the second Narnia movie (which for some reason I absolutely loved, even though I strongly diliked the first one) and Colin Firth in a maligned remake of the 1945 classic The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Classics and Re-releases on DVD and Blu-ray:
Time Bandits (Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best fantasy movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #913 Times Ranked: 20359 Win Percentage: 37% How Many Top-20′s: 27 Users |
Director Terry Gilliam is an absolutely magical filmmaker, and this is one of his best.
Shogun Assassin (Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best action movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #4425 Times Ranked: 650 Win Percentage: 68% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users |
Machine Gun McCain (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best crime movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: Just Added Times Ranked: - Win Percentage: -% How Many Top-20′s: - |
One of the best titles imaginable; and it stars the great Peter Falk, Britt Ekland and John Cassavetes.
None but the Lonely Heart (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best romance movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: Just Added Times Ranked: - Win Percentage: -% How Many Top-20′s: - |
I’ve been ignoring the Warner Brothers Archive (which this movie is available exclusively through) a bit too much lately but they’ve been putting out some great stuff. This flick is one of only two that Cary Grant was nominated for an Oscar in.
Mona Lisa (Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best crime movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #3612 Times Ranked: 41024 Win Percentage: 40% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users |
Netflix Instant Watch New Releases and Updates
Studio-enforced 28 day rental moratorium opens for:
- Repo Men – Jude Law, Forrest Whitaker
- Batman: Under the Red Hood – Neil Patrick Harris
New to Netflix Instant Streaming this week:
*Stay tuned for next week. The new agreement between Netflix and the Premium cable channel EPIX begins and at least 600 new movies will be available on September 1st – at least half of them are legitimately good/interesting too.*
Streaming Pick of the Week:
Cruising (1980) – Al Pacino goes undercover in 1980 New York’s gay underground to catch a serial killer. There is definitely some stuff in here that could be considered “stereotyping” and “offensive” but it’s one hell of an interesting flick. It’s an amazing time capsule of how gays were viewed at the time. It makes a great double feature with The Detective (which is also on Netflix Instant Streaming), another movie about a cop and crimes that take place in the gay subculture of the the past. The Detective also gets bonus points for starring Frank Sinatra and being based on the book that introduced us to the character who would eventually be renamed “John McClain” for the Die Hard movies.
Tuesday August 24th:
- La Mission (2009) – Benjamin Bratt
- I Think We’re Alone Now (2008) – Documentary about two people obsessed with 1980′s pop star Tiffany
Friday August 27th:
- The Sweet Hereafter (1997) – Ian Holm, Atom Egoyan (dir.)
- The Left-Handed Gun (1958) – Paul Newman
- The Pick-Up Artist (1987) – Robert Downey Jr, Molly Ringwald
Saturday August 28th:
- Zero Effect (1998) – Ben Stiller, Bill Pullman
DTV and Miscellany DVDs and Blu-rays
Abandoned – Brittany Murphy
2:22 – Val Kilmer
$5 a Day – Christopher Walken, Sharon Stone
City Island – Andy Garcia
Bad Mother’s Handbook – Robert Pattinson
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- Tags: $5 a Day, 2:22, Abandoned, Batman: Under the Red Hood, City Island, Cruising, Die Hard, Dorian Gray, I Think We'reAlone Now, LaMission, Machine Gun McCain, Mona Lisa, None bu the Lonely Heart, Repo Men, Shogun Assassin, Survival of the Dead, The Back-up Plan, The Bad Mother's Handbook, The Detective, The Left-Handed Gun, The Pick-UP Artist, The Square, The Sweet Hereafter, Time Bandits, Titanic 2, Zero Effect
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