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Week of December 1st, 2008

 

Assault on Precinct 13 [Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 2005) Image Entertainment

Austin Powers Collection: Shagadelic Edition Loaded With Extra Mojo [Blu-ray] - New Line Home Video

Casablanca [Blu-ray] 2-disc - Ultimate Collector's Edition (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Warner

Children of Men [Blu-ray] (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) 101 Distribution

Complete InuYasha Series (Naoya Aoki, Yasunao Aoki, 2000) - Amazon Exclusive VIZ Video

The Day the Earth Stood Still - Special Edition (Robert Wise, 1951) Fox Home Entertainment

The Day the Earth Stood Still [Blu-ray] - Special Edition (Robert Wise, 1951) Fox Home Entertainment

Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer (5-disc) - His Picture In The Papers (1916), Mystery Of The Leaping Fish (1916), Flirting With Fate (1916), And The Matrimaniac (1916); A Modern Musketeer (1917) and more - Flicker Alley

La Femme Nikita [Blu-ray] (Luc Besson, 1990) Sony Pictures

Life Gamble [Blu-ray] (Cheh Chang, 1979) Navarre

Opium and the Kung Fu [Blu-ray] (Chia Tang, 1984) Navarre

Perry Mason - The Third Season - Vol. 2 - Paramount

The Shawshank Redemption [Blu-ray] (Frank Darabont, 1994) Warner

Stranger Than Fiction [Blu-ray] (Marc Forster, 2006) Sony Pictures

Wanted [Blu-ray] (Timur Bekmambetov, 2008) Universal

White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1982) Criterion

The X-Files - Fight the Future [Blu-ray] (Rob Bowman, 1998) 20th Century Fox

The X-Files Movie 2-Pack (I Want to Believe / Fight the Future) [Blu-ray] 20th Century Fox

Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) R2 FR Warner Home Video

 

 

Week of December 8th, 2008

 

Ahlaam (Mohamed Al Daradji, 2005) Pathfinder

The Dardenne Brothers Collection R2 UK Artificial Eye

The Dark Knight (single-disc) (Christopher Nolan, 2008) Warner
The Dark Knight (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Christopher Nolan, 2008) Warner
The Dark Knight [
Blu-ray] (Christopher Nolan, 2008) Warner

Diebuster [Blu-ray] (Kazuya Tsurumaki, 2004) Bandai

Europa (Lars von Trier, 1991 ) Criterion

Jet Li's Fearless [Blu-ray] (Ronny Yu, 2006) Universal Studios

From Dusk Till Dawn [Blu-ray] (Robert Rodriguez, 1996) 101 Distribution

Get Smart - The Complete Series Gift Set - HBO

Great Directors: Volume 1 (Dersu Uzala / The Mirror / Les Bonnes Femmes / Il Grido / Circle of Deceit) Kino

Horton Hears a Who! (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) (Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
2008) Fox Home Video
Horton Hears a Who! [
Blu-ray] (Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino 2008) Fox Home Video

Irma Vep (Essential Edition) (Olivier Assayas, 1996) Zeitgeist

It Happened One Night (Remastered) (Frank Capra, 1934) Sony

The Mask [Blu-ray] (Chuck Russell, 1994) Warner Home Video

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Special Edition (Frank Capra, 1936) Sony
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Special Edition (Frank Capra, 1939) Sony

Murnau, Borzage, & Fox Boxset (12-disc) - Sunrise (1927), City Girl (1930), Borzage films: Lazybones (1925), Seventh Heaven (1928), Street Angel (1928), Lucky Star (1929), They Had to See Paris (1929), Liliom (1930), Song O' My Heart (1930), Bad Girl (1931), After Tomorrow (1932) and Young America (1932) - Fox Home Entertainment