New Video Releases for the Week of May 18, 2010

It’s a fantastic week to have Netflix Instant Watch; easily the best since I began writing this weekly post. Amongst a bunch of other solid titles, the excellent District 9, the surprisingly great Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and the wonderful Amelie are added on Saturday the 21st. There are a few nice titles being released on DVD/Blu-ray as well, take a look:

New This Week:

Invictus – (DVD & Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #3969
Total Times Ranked: 2987
Percentage of Times Won: 54.55%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 1
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Valentine’s Day – (DVD & Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #6762
Total Times Ranked: 943
Percentage of Times Won: 39.25%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 3
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Extraordinary Measures – (DVD & Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #8590
Total Times Ranked: 255
Percentage of Times Won: 26.72%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 3
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The Messenger – (DVD & Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #5246
Total Times Ranked: 589
Percentage of Times Won: 70.92%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 0

The Spy Next Door – (DVD & Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #9605
Total Times Ranked: 367
Percentage of Times Won: 16.93%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 3

Classics and Re-releases

Walkabout – (Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #3139
Total Times Ranked: 1629
Percentage of Times Won: 46.32%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 2

Gamera: The Giant Monster – (DVD)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #5677
Total Times Ranked: 436
Percentage of Times Won: 36.29%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 1

Outlander – (Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #5497
Total Times Ranked: 586
Percentage of Times Won: 52.07%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 2

Carlito’s Way – (Blu-ray)

Flickchart’s Global Ranking: #762
Total Times Ranked: 49909
Percentage of Times Won: 40.14%
Users Who Have It In Their Top 20: 232

The Navy vs The Night Monsters – (DVD)

Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties – (DVD)

• Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
• Violence at Noon (1966)
• Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
• Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
• Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

Very Limited Theatrical Runs or Direct to Video

• The Girl on the Train – (Catherine Deneuve)
• The Dukes – (Chazz Palminteri)
• The New Daughter – (Kevin Costner)
• Enemies Among Us – (Billy Zane)

Netflix Instant Watch

Thursday May 18:

• The Girl on the Train
• Most Comedy Central Shows, Spongebob, and Beavis & Butthead

Saturday May 21:

• District 9
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Amelie
• The Karate Kid
• Karate Kid Part II
• Karate Kid Part III
• I am Sam
• Bachelor Party
• Tadpole
• Three O’Clock High
• Single White Female
• I’m Not Rappaport
• The Crow: City of Angels

Enjoy your week. Don’t work too hard…